1 Changes with Apache 2.1.3
3 [Remove entries to the current 2.0 section below, when backported]
5 *) core: Add support for APR_TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT to defer accepting
6 of a connection until data is available.
9 *) conf: Remove AddDefaultCharset from the default configuration because
10 setting a site-wide default does more harm than good. PR 23421.
13 Changes with Apache 2.1.2
15 *) mod_proxy: Respect errors reported by pre_connection hooks.
18 *) worker MPM: Fix a problem which could cause httpd processes to
19 remain active after shutdown. [Jeff Trawick]
21 *) core: Error out on sections that are missing an argument instead of
22 silently consuming the section. PR 25460.
23 [Geoffrey Young, Paul Querna]
25 *) mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Move out of experimental.
27 *) Upgraded PCRE to version 5.0. [Brian Pane]
29 *) mod_cgid: Catch configuration problem where two web server instances
30 share same ServerRoot but admin forgot to use ScriptSock.
33 *) mod_cgi: Ensure that all stderr is logged for a script which returns
34 a Location header to generate a non-local redirect. PR 20111.
37 *) Added the Event MPM to more efficiently handle clients during a
39 [Paul Querna, Greg Ames]
41 Changes with Apache 2.1.1
43 *) mod_proxy_http: Stream content better - always flush buffered data to
44 the client before blocking waiting for new data. PR 19954.
47 *) mod_ssl: Add support for command-line option "-t -DDUMP_CERTS" which
48 will dump the filenames of all configured SSL certificates to stdout.
51 *) mod_disk_cache: Remove a bunch of non-implemented garbage collection
52 and cache size directives that are now available through htcacheclean.
55 *) Add htcacheclean to support/ for assistance with mod_disk_cache.
58 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Added the directive "Requires ldap-filter" that
59 allows the module to authorize a user based on a complex LDAP
60 search filter. [Brad Nicholes]
62 *) mod_usertrack: Run the fixups hook before other modules.
63 PR 29755. [Paul Querna]
65 *) Allow mod_authnz_ldap authorization functionality to be used
66 without requiring the user to also be authenticated through
67 mod_authnz_ldap. This allows other authentication modules to
68 take advantage of LDAP authorization only [PR 28253]
69 [Jari Ahonen jah progress.com, Brad Nicholes]
71 *) Log the client IP address when an error occurs disabling nagle on a
72 connection, but log at a severity of debug since this error
73 generally means that the connection was dropped before data was
74 sent. Log the client IP address when reporting errors in the core
75 output filter. [Jeff Trawick]
77 *) Add ap_log_cerror() for logging messages associated with particular
78 client connections. [Jeff Trawick]
80 *) core: Add a warning message if the request line read fails.
83 *) mod_cache: Add CacheIgnoreHeaders directive. PR 30399.
84 [Rüiger Plü <r.pluem t-online.de>]
86 *) mod_rewrite: Removed the MaxRedirects option in favor of the
87 core LimitInternalRecursion directive. [André Malo]
89 *) mod_auth_ldap: Handle the inconsistent way in which the MS LDAP
90 library handles special characters. PR 24437 [Jess Holle]
92 *) Unix MPMs: Shut down the server more quickly when child processes are
93 slow to exit. [Joe Orton, Jeff Trawick]
95 *) mod_info: Added listing of the Request Hooks and added more build
96 information like 'httpd -V' contains. Changed output to XHTML.
99 *) mod_info: Rewrote config tree walk using a recursive function.
100 Added ?config option. Added printout of config filename and line numbers.
101 [Rici Lake <rici ricilake.net>, Paul Querna]
103 *) mod_proxy: Fix type error that prevents proxy-sendchunks from working.
106 *) mod_proxy: Fix data corruption by properly setting aside buckets.
109 *) mod_proxy: If a request has a blank body and has a 0 Content-Length
110 headers, pass that to the proxy. [Justin Erenkrantz]
112 *) Recognize QSA flag in mod_rewrite again.
113 [Jan Kratochvil <rcpt-dev.AT.httpd.apache.org jankratochvil.net>]
115 *) Restructured mod_auth_ldap to fit the new authentication model.
116 The module is now called authnz_ldap and has been moved out of
117 the modules/experimental area and into modules/aaa with the other
118 auth modules. Both the authn_ldap provider and the authz_ldap
119 handler are contained within the authnz_ldap module. The
120 authz_ldap handler introduces 3 new "requires" values for handling
121 authorization. These handlers are ldap-user, ldap-group and
122 ldap-dn. [Brad Nicholes]
124 *) Fix some compiler warnings in proxy
125 [Geoffrey Young <geoff@modperlcookbook.org>]
127 *) mod_ssl: Add SSL_CLIENT_V_REMAIN variable, representing the
128 number of days until the client cert expires. [Joe Orton]
130 *) Add test_config hook, run only if httpd is invoked using -t.
133 *) Improve error handling for corrupted pid files. [Jeff Trawick]
135 *) mod_proxy.c and proxy_util.c: Enable compiling on 2.0-HEAD
136 (for backwards compatibility):
137 Avoids mod_ssl.h (not included in 2.0-HEAD) and
138 use apr_socket_create_ex for 0.9.x
141 *) Added proxy_ajp.c module for proxy support to ajp:// backends.
142 [Jean Frederic Clere]
144 *) Fixes the build of proxy on Windows. Since the proxy_module is declared
145 as extern using AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA that expands to dllexport, there
146 is a LNK2001 error when building proxy_http. [Mladen Turk]
148 *) Remove LDAP toolkit specific code from util_ldap and mod_auth_ldap.
151 *) Remove deprecated/removed APR_STATUS_IS_SUCCESS(). [Justin Erenkrantz]
153 *) perchild MPM: Fix thread safety problem in the use of longjmp().
154 [Tsuyoshi SASAMOTO <nazonazo super.win.ne.jp>]
156 *) Add load balancer support to the scoreboard in preparation for
157 load balancing support in mod_proxy. [Mladen Turk]
159 *) mod_nw_ssl: Added the directive NWSSLUpgradeable to mod_nw_ssl to
160 allow a non-secure connection to be upgraded to secure connections
163 *) core: Add Options= syntax to AllowOverride to specify which options
164 may be overridden in .htaccess files. PR 29310.
165 [Tom Alsberg <alsbergt cs.huji.ac.il>, Paul Querna]
167 *) ab: Handle long URLs with an error instead of an buffer overflow.
168 PR 28204. [Erik Weide <erik.weidel mplus-technologies.de>, Paul Querna]
170 *) mod_so, core: Add new command line options to print all loaded
171 modules. '-t -D DUMP_MODULES' and '-M' will show all static
172 and shared modules as loaded from the configuration file.
175 *) mod_autoindex: Add ShowForbidden to IndexOptions to list files
176 that are not shown because the subrequest returned 401 or 403.
177 PR 10575. [Paul Querna]
179 *) mod_headers: implement "Early" processing option in post_read_request
180 to enable Header and RequestHeader directives to be used to set up
181 testcases for pre-fixups request phases [Nick Kew]
183 *) mod_proxy: multiple bugfixes, principally support cookies in
184 ProxyPassReverse, and don't canonicalise URL passed to backend.
185 Documentation correspondingly updated. [Nick Kew <nick webthing.com>]
187 *) mod_deflate: support gzip flags in inflate_out_filter
188 [Nick Kew <nick webthing.com>]
190 *) Drop the ErrorHeader directive which turned out to be a misnomer.
191 Instead there's a new optional flag for the Header directive
192 ('always'), which keeps the former ErrorHeader functionality.
195 *) mod_deflate: Don't deflate responses with zero length
196 e.g. proxied 304's [Allan Edwards]
198 *) <IfModule> now recognizes the module identifier in addition to the
199 file name. PR 29003. [Edward Rudd <eddie omegaware.com>, André Malo]
201 *) mod_ssl: Add "SSLHonorCipherOrder" directive to enable the
202 OpenSSL 0.9.7 flag which uses the server's cipher order rather
203 than the client's. PR 28665.
204 [Jim Schneider <jschneid netilla.com>]
206 *) mod_ssl: Drop support for the CompatEnvVars argument to
207 SSLOptions, which was never actually implemented in 2.0.
210 *) Fix bug in mod_deflate that unconditionally sent deflate'd output
211 even when Accept-Encoding is not present. [Justin Erenkrantz]
213 *) Pass environment variables through to piped loggers and start
214 them via the shell, resolving regressions since 1.3. PR 28815
215 [Ken Coar, Jeff Trawick]
217 *) External rewrite map responses are no longer limited to 2048
220 *) Proxy server was deleting cookies that Apache had already
221 assigned if the origin server had set any cookies. PR 27023.
224 *) Removed old and unmaintained ap_add_named_module API and changed
225 the following APIs to return an error instead of hard exiting:
226 ap_add_module, ap_add_loaded_module, ap_setup_prelinked_modules,
227 and ap_process_resource_config. [André Malo]
229 *) mod_headers: Allow %% in header values to represent a literal %.
232 *) mod_headers: Allow env clauses also for 'echo' and 'unset' actions.
235 *) mod_headers: Allow 'echo' also for ErrorHeaders. [André Malo]
237 *) mod_deflate: New option for DEFLATE output file (force-gzip),
238 new output filter 'INFLATE' for uncompressing responses.
239 [Nick Kew <Nick at WebThing dot com>, Ian Holsman]
241 *) Added new module mod_version, which provides version dependent
242 configuration containers. [André Malo]
244 *) mod_log_config now logs all Set-Cookie headers if the %{Set-Cookie}o
245 format is used. PR 27787. [André Malo]
247 *) Allow Digest providers to return AUTH_DENIED to propagate a 401
248 status and terminate the provider chain prior to checking the password.
251 *) mod_cgid: Don't allow Scriptsock to be specified inside VirtualHost;
252 Don't place script socket inside default server root instead of
253 actual server root. PR 27886. [Jeff Trawick]
255 *) mod_proxy: Fix handling of non-200 success status codes when
256 "ProxyErrorOverride On" is configured. PR 20183.
257 [Marcus Janson <marcus.janson tre.se>, Joe Orton]
259 *) Threaded MPMs for Unix and Win32: Add support for ThreadStackSize
260 directive (previously NetWare-only) to override default thread
261 stack size for threads which handle client connections. Required
262 for some third-party modules on platforms with small default
263 thread stack size. [Jeff Trawick]
265 *) minor mod_auth_basic and mod_auth_digest sync. mod_auth_basic
266 now populates r->user with the (possibly unauthenticated) user,
267 and mod_auth_digest returns 500 when a provider returns
271 *) The whole codebase was relicensed and is now available under
272 the Apache License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses).
273 [Apache Software Foundation]
275 *) Delete some make-generated files in the server directory during
276 "make clean" processing. PR 26552. [Jeff Trawick]
278 *) Add core version query function (ap_get_server_revision) and
279 accompanying ap_version_t structure (minor MMN bump).
282 *) mod_rewrite: EOLs sent by external rewritemaps are now consumed
283 as whole. That way, on systems with more than one EOL character
284 rewritemap programs no longer need to switch stdout to binary
285 mode. PR 25635. [André Malo]
287 *) mod_rewrite: Introduce the ability to force a content handler via
288 the [handler=...] flag. [André Malo]
290 *) mod_rewrite: Introduce the RewriteCond -x check, which returns
291 true if the pattern is a file with execution permissions.
294 *) mod_rewrite: Allow proxying and RewriteRules in directory context
295 for subrequests. PR 14648, 15114. [André Malo]
297 *) mod_rewrite: Allow setting of any valid HTTP response code.
298 PR 25917. [André Malo]
300 *) mod_rewrite: Cookie creation now works locale independent.
303 *) mod_ssl: Add support for distributed session cache using 'distcache'.
304 [Geoff Thorpe <geoff geoffthorpe.net>]
306 *) mod_dav: Disallow requests with an unescaped hash character in
307 the Request-URI. PR 21779. [Amit Athavale <amit_athavale lycos.com>]
309 *) mod_proxy with ProxyErrorOverride On in a reverse-proxy configuration
310 attaches a body to the 302 response and a wrong Content-Length header.
311 PR: 22951 [Ermanno Scaglione scaglione ..at.. starnetone.de]
313 *) Bring ErrorHeader concept forward from 1.3, so that response
314 header fields can be set for return even on errors or external
315 redirects. [Ken Coar]
317 *) Fix <Limit> and <LimitExcept> parsing to require a closing '>'
318 in the initial container. PR 25414.
319 [Geoffrey Young <geoff apache.org>]
321 *) Clean up httpd -V output: Instead of displaying the MPM source
322 directory, display the MPM name and some MPM properties.
323 [Geoffrey Young <geoff apache.org>]
325 *) mod_ssl/mod_status: Re-enable support for output of SSL session
326 cache information in server-status page. [Joe Orton]
328 *) mod_ssl: Remove the shmht session cache, shmcb should be used
331 *) mod_logio: Account for some bytes handed to the network layer prior to
332 dropped connections. [Jeff Trawick]
334 *) mod_autoindex: new directive IndexStyleSheet
335 [Tyler Riddle <triddle_1999 yahoo.com>, Paul Querna <chip force-elite.com>]
337 *) Fix uninitialized gprof directory name in prefork MPM. PR 24450.
338 [Chris Knight <Christopher.D.Knight nasa.gov>]
340 *) Log an error when requests for URIs which fail to map to a valid
341 filesystem name are rejected with 403. [Jeff Trawick]
343 *) Switch to APR 1.0 API.
345 *) Major overhaul of mod_include's filter parser. The new parser code
346 is expected to be more robust and should catch all of the edge cases
347 that were not handled by the previous one. This includes a binary
348 incompatible change of mod_include's external API. [André Malo]
350 *) mod_rewrite: Allow forced mimetypes [T=...] to get expanded.
351 PR 14223. [André Malo]
353 *) mod_rewrite: Fix LA-U and LA-F lookups in directory context. Previously
354 the current rewrite state was just used as lookup path, which lead to
355 strange and often useless results. Related to PR 8493. [André Malo]
357 *) Change Listen directive to bind to all addresses when a hostname is
358 not specified. [Justin Erenkrantz]
360 *) Correct failure with Listen directives on machines with IPv6 enabled.
361 [Colm MacCárthaigh <colm stdlib.net>, Justin Erenkrantz]
363 *) Fix a link failure in mod_ssl when the OpenSSL libraries contain
364 the ENGINE functions but the engine header files are missing.
367 *) mod_rewrite: RewriteRules in server context using the force
368 type feature [T=...] no longer disable MultiViews. [André Malo]
370 *) mod_rewrite: Allow piped rewrite logs to be relative to ServerRoot.
373 *) mod_authz_groupfile: Strip trailing spaces of group names. This
374 hopefully saves some hours of searching for typos. PR 12863.
377 *) mod_actions: Propagate the handler name to the action script via
378 the REDIRECT_HANDLER environment variable. [André Malo]
380 *) mod_actions: Introduce the "virtual" modifier to the Action directive,
381 which allows the use of handlers for virtual locations. PR 8431.
384 *) mod_speling: Recognize AcceptPathInfo setting for the particular
385 location. Default is to reject path information. PR 21059.
388 *) mod_ext_filter: Add the ability to filter request bodies.
389 [Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner linbit.com>]
391 *) Fix some broken log messages in WinNT MPM.
392 [Juan Rivera <Juan.Rivera citrix.com>]
394 *) prefork MPM: Use the right permissions for the directory created
395 for gprof support. [Jim Carlson <jcarlson jnous.com>]
397 *) Fix a compile failure with recent OpenSSL and picky compilers
398 (e.g., OpenSSL 0.9.7a and xlc_r on AIX). [Jeff Trawick]
400 *) OpenSSL headers should be included as "openssl/ssl.h", and not rely on
401 the INCLUDE path to be defined properly.
402 PR 11310. [Geoff Thorpe <geoff geoffthorpe.net>]
404 *) Modify APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT to detect SSL-C. [Madhusudan Mathihalli]
406 *) Replace the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT method with a cleaner one, using
407 autoconf tools (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_LIB etc).
408 [Geoff Thorpe <geoff geoffthorpe.net>]
410 *) change directive name from 'compressionlevel' to 'deflatecompressionlevel'
411 [Ian Holsman, André Malo]
413 *) mod_negotiation: quality values are now parsed independent from
414 the current locale. level values are now really parsed as integers.
415 PR 17564. [André Malo]
417 *) Extend mod_negotiation to evaluate the environment variables
418 no-gzip and gzip-only-text/html the same way as mod_deflate does.
421 *) mod_rewrite: Fix some problems reporting errors with mapping
422 programs (RewriteMap prg:/something). [Jeff Trawick]
424 *) Return 413 if chunk-ext-header is too long rather than reading from
425 the truncated line. PR 15857. [Justin Erenkrantz]
427 *) Allow restart of httpd to occur even with syntax errors in the config
428 file. PR 16813. [Justin Erenkrantz]
430 *) Use APR_LAYOUT instead of APACHE_LAYOUT in configure. PR 15679.
433 *) Remove files on 'make distclean' that should be. PR 15592.
436 *) Allow apachectl to perform status with links and elinks as well.
439 *) mod_log_config change optional hook to return previous handler
442 *) Forward port of mod_actions' ability to handle arbitrary methods
443 with the Script directive. [André Malo]
445 *) Let suexec send a message to stderr, if it failed or its policy
446 was violated. This message appears in the error log and allows
447 for easier debugging. PR 5381, 7638, 8255, 10773. [André Malo]
449 *) Modify buildconf to copy all required files into httpd's tree.
450 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
452 *) Allow mod_dav to do weak entity comparison functions.
455 *) Move RFC 1413 ident requests from core to new module mod_ident.
458 *) Add mod_authz_owner - a forward port of "Require file-owner"
459 and "Require file-group", which was already present in version
462 *) Add mod_dav_lock - a generic subset of the DAV locking implementation.
465 *) Replace some of the mutex locking in the worker MPM with
466 atomic operations for higher concurrency. [Brian Pane]
468 *) Allow 'make depend' to work with non-GCC compilers.
471 *) If an httpd.conf has commented out AddModule directives,
472 apxs -i -a will add an un-commented AddModule directive for
473 the new module, which breaks the config.
474 PR: 11212 [Joe Orton]
476 *) Fix mod_proxy handling of filtered input bodies. [Justin Erenkrantz]
478 *) Move the check of the Expect request header field after the hook
479 for ap_post_read_request, since that is the only opportunity for
480 modules to handle Expect extensions. [Justin Erenkrantz]
482 *) Rewrite of aaa modules to an authn/authz model.
483 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Justin Erenkrantz]
486 [Apache 2.1.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
487 Apache 2.0.xx tree as documented, and except as noted, below.]
489 Changes with Apache 2.0.53
491 *) Util_ldap: Implemented the util_ldap_cache_getuserdn() API so that
492 ldap authorization only modules have access to the util_ldap
493 user cache without having to require ldap authentication as well.
494 [PR 31898] [Jari Ahonen jah progress.com, Brad Nicholes]
496 *) mod_auth_ldap: Added the directive "Requires ldap-attribute" that
497 allows the module to only authorize a user if the attribute value
498 specified matches the value of the user object. PR 31913
499 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan pobox.com>]
501 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0942 (cve.mitre.org)
502 Fix for memory consumption DoS in handling of MIME folded request
505 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0885 (cve.mitre.org)
506 mod_ssl: Fix a bug which allowed an SSLCipherSuite setting to be
507 bypassed during an SSL renegotiation. PR 31505.
508 [Hartmut Keil <Hartmut.Keil adnovum.ch>, Joe Orton]
510 *) mod_ssl: Fail at startup rather than segfault at runtime if a
511 client cert is configured with an encrypted private key.
512 PR 24030. [Joe Orton]
514 *) apxs: fix handling of -Wc/-Wl and "-o mod_foo.so". PR 31448
517 *) mod_ldap: Fix format strings to use %APR_PID_T_FMT instead of %d.
520 *) mod_cache: CacheDisable will only disable the URLs it was meant to
521 disable, not all caching. PR 31128.
522 [Edward Rudd <eddie omegaware.com>, Paul Querna]
524 *) mod_cache: Try to correctly follow RFC 2616 13.3 on validating stale
525 cache responses. [Justin Erenkrantz]
527 *) mod_rewrite: Handle per-location rules when r->filename is unset.
528 Previously this would segfault or simply not match as expected,
529 depending on the platform. [Jeff Trawick]
531 *) mod_rewrite: Fix query string handling for proxied URLs. PR 14518.
532 [michael teitler <michael.teitler cetelem.fr>,
533 Jan Kratochvil <rcpt-dev.AT.httpd.apache.org jankratochvil.net>]
535 *) mod_rewrite: Fix 0 bytes write into random memory position.
536 PR 31036. [André Malo]
538 *) mod_disk_cache: Do not store aborted content. PR 21492.
539 [Rüiger Plü <r.pluem t-online.de>]
541 *) mod_disk_cache: Correctly store cached content type. PR 30278.
542 [Rüiger Plü <r.pluem t-online.de>]
544 *) mod_ldap: prevent the possiblity of an infinite loop in the LDAP
545 statistics display. PR 29216 [Graham Leggett]
547 *) mod_ldap: fix a bogus error message to tell the user which file
548 is causing a potential problem with the LDAP shared memory cache.
549 PR 31431 [Graham Leggett]
551 *) mod_disk_cache: Do not store hop-by-hop headers. [Justin Erenkrantz]
553 *) Fix the re-linking issue when purging elements from the LDAP cache
554 PR 24801 [Jess Holle <jessh ptc.com>]
556 *) mod_disk_cache: Fix races in saving responses. [Justin Erenkrantz]
558 *) Fix Expires handling in mod_cache. [Justin Erenkrantz]
560 *) Alter mod_expires to run at a different filter priority to allow
561 proper Expires storage by mod_cache. [Justin Erenkrantz]
563 Changes with Apache 2.0.52
565 *) Use HTML 2.0 <hr> for error pages. PR 30732 [André Malo]
567 *) Fix the global mutex crash when the global mutex is never allocated
568 due to disabled/empty caches. [Jess Holle <jessh ptc.com>]
570 *) Fix a segfault in the LDAP cache when it is configured switched
571 off. [Jess Holle <jessh ptc.com>]
573 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0811 (cve.mitre.org)
574 Fix merging of the Satisfy directive, which was applied to
575 the surrounding context and could allow access despite configured
576 authentication. PR 31315. [Rici Lake <rici ricilake.net>]
578 *) Fix the handling of URIs containing %2F when AllowEncodedSlashes
579 is enabled. Previously, such urls would still be rejected.
580 [Jeff Trawick, Bill Stoddard]
582 *) mod_mem_cache: Fixed race condition causing segfault because of memory being
583 freed twice, or reused after being freed.
584 [J. Clar, W. Stoddard, G. Ames]
586 *) Add -l option to rotatelogs to let it use local time rather than
587 UTC. PR 24417. [Ken Coar, Uli Zappe <uli ritual.org>]
589 *) mod_log_config: Fix a bug which prevented request completion time
590 from being logged for I_INSIST_ON_EXTRA_CYCLES_FOR_CLF_COMPLIANCE
591 processing. PR 29696. [Alois Treindl <alois astro.ch>]
593 Changes with Apache 2.0.51
595 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0786 (cve.mitre.org)
596 Fix an input validation issue in apr-util which could be
597 triggered by malformed IPv6 literal addresses. [Joe Orton]
599 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0747 (cve.mitre.org)
600 Fix buffer overflow in expansion of environment variables in
601 configuration file parsing. [André Malo]
603 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0809 (cve.mitre.org)
604 mod_dav_fs: Fix a segfault in the handling of an indirect lock
605 refresh. PR 31183. [Joe Orton]
607 *) mod_include no longer checks for recursion, because that's done
608 in the core. This allows for careful usage of recursive SSI.
611 *) Fix memory leak in the cache handling of mod_rewrite. PR 27862.
612 [chunyan sheng <shengperson yahoo.com>, André Malo]
614 *) Include directives no longer refuse to process symlinks on
615 directories. Instead there's now a maximum nesting level
616 of included directories (128 as distributed). This is configurable
617 at compile time using the -DAP_MAX_INCLUDE_DIR_DEPTH switch.
618 PR 28492. [André Malo]
620 *) Win32: apache -k start|restart|install|config can leave stranded
621 piped logger processes (eg, rotatelogs.exe) due to improper
622 server shutdown on these code paths.
625 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0751 (cve.mitre.org)
626 mod_ssl: Fix a segfault in the SSL input filter which could be
627 triggered if using "speculative" mode, for instance by a
628 proxy request to an SSL server. PR 30134. [Joe Orton]
630 *) mod_rewrite: Add %{SSL:...} and %{HTTPS} variable lookups.
631 PR 30464. [Joe Orton, Madhusudan Mathihalli]
633 *) mod_ssl: Add new 'ssl_is_https' optional function. [Joe Orton]
635 *) Prevent CGI script output which includes a Content-Range header
636 from being passed through the byterange filter. [Joe Orton]
638 *) Satisfy directives now can be influenced by a surrounding <Limit>
639 container. PR 14726. [André Malo]
641 *) mod_rewrite now officially supports RewriteRules in <Proxy> sections.
642 PR 27985. [André Malo]
644 *) mod_disk_cache: Implement binary format for on-disk header files.
645 [Brian Akins <bakins web.turner.com>, Justin Erenkrantz]
647 *) mod_disk_cache: Optimize network performance of disk cache subsystem by
648 allowing zero-copy (sendfile) writes and other miscellaneous fixes.
651 *) mod_cache, mod_disk_cache, mod_mem_cache: Refactor cache modules, and
652 switch to the provider API instead of hooks. [Justin Erenkrantz]
654 *) mod_autoindex: Don't truncate the directory listing if a stat()
655 call fails (for instance on a >2Gb file). PR 17357.
658 *) Makefile fix: httpd is linked against LIBS given to the
659 'make' invocation. PR 7882. [Joe Orton]
661 *) WinNT MPM: Fix a broken log message at termination. PR 28063.
662 [Eider Oliveira <eider bol.com.br>]
664 *) Prevent Win32 pool corruption at startup [Allan Edwards]
666 *) mod_ssl: Add "SSLUserName" directive to set r->user based on a
667 chosen SSL environment variable. PR 20957.
668 [Martin v. Loewis <martin v.loewis.de>]
670 *) suexec: Pass the SERVER_SIGNATURE envvar through to CGIs.
671 [Zvi Har'El <rl math.technion.ac.il>]
673 *) apachectl: Fix a problem finding envvars if sbindir != bindir.
674 PR 30723. [Friedrich Haubensak <hsk imb-jena.de>]
676 *) mod_ssl: Build on RHEL 3. PR 18989. [Justin Erenkrantz]
678 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0748 (cve.mitre.org)
679 mod_ssl: Fix a potential infinite loop. PR 29964. [Joe Orton]
681 *) mod_ssl: Avoid startup failure after unclean shutdown if using shmcb.
682 PR 18989. [Joe Orton]
684 *) mod_userdir: Ensure that the userdir identity is used for
685 suexec userdir access in a virtual host which has suexec configured.
686 PR 18156. [Joshua Slive]
688 *) mod_rewrite no longer confuses the RewriteMap caches if
689 different maps defined in different virtual hosts use the
690 same map name. PR 26462. [André Malo]
692 *) mod_setenvif: Remove "support" for Remote_User variable which
693 never worked at all. PR 25725. [André Malo]
695 *) Backport from 2.1 / Regression from 1.3: mod_headers now knows
696 again the functionality of the ErrorHeader directive. But instead
697 using this misnomer additional flags to the Header directive were
698 introduced ("always" and "onsuccess", defaulting to the latter).
699 PR 28657. [André Malo]
701 *) Use the higher performing 'httpready' Accept Filter on all platforms
702 except FreeBSD < 4.1.1. [Paul Querna]
704 *) mod_usertrack: Escape the cookie name before pasting into the
707 *) Extend the SetEnvIf directive to capture subexpressions of the
708 matched value. [André Malo]
710 *) Recursive Include directives no longer crash. The server stops
711 including configuration files after a certain nesting level (128
712 as distributed). This is configurable at compile time using the
713 -DAP_MAX_INCLUDE_DEPTH switch. PR 28370. [André Malo]
715 *) mod_dir: the trailing-slash behaviour is now configurable using the
716 DirectorySlash directive. [André Malo]
718 *) Allow proxying of resources that are invoked via DirectoryIndex.
719 PR 14648, 15112, 29961. [André Malo]
721 *) util_ldap: Switched the lock types on the shared memory cache
722 from thread reader/writer locks to global mutexes in order to
723 provide cross process cache protection. [Brad Nicholes]
725 *) util_ldap: Reworked the cache locking scheme to eliminate duplicate
726 cache entries in the credentials cache due to race conditions.
729 *) util_ldap: Enhanced the util_ldap cache-info display to show more
730 detail about the contents and current state of the cache.
733 *) Enable the option to support anonymous shared memory in mod_ldap.
734 This makes the cache work on Linux again. [Graham Leggett]
736 *) Enable special ErrorDocument value 'default' which restores the
737 canned server response for the scope of the directive.
738 [Geoffrey Young, André Malo]
740 *) work around MSIE Digest auth bug - if AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack
741 is set in r->subprocess_env allow mismatched query strings to pass.
742 PR 27758. [Paul Querna, Geoffrey Young]
744 *) Accept URLs for the ServerAdmin directive. If the supplied
745 argument is not recognized as an URL, assume it's a mail address.
746 PR 28174. [André Malo, Paul Querna]
748 *) initialize server arrays prior to calling ap_setup_prelinked_modules
749 so that static modules can push Defines values when registering
750 hooks just like DSO modules can ["Philippe M. Chiasson" <gozer cpan.org>]
752 *) Small fix to allow reverse proxying to an ftp server. Previously
753 an attempt to do this would try and connect to 0.0.0.0, regardless
754 of the server specified. PR 24922
755 [Pascal Terjan <pterjan@linuxfr.org>]
757 *) Add the NOTICE file to the rpm spec file in compliance with the
758 Apache v2.0 license. [Graham Leggett]
760 *) RPM spec file changes: changed default dependancy to link to db4
761 instead of db3. Fixed complaints about unpackaged files.
764 Changes with Apache 2.0.50
766 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0493 (cve.mitre.org)
767 Close a denial of service vulnerability identified by Georgi
768 Guninski which could lead to memory exhaustion with certain
769 input data. [Jeff Trawick]
771 *) mod_cgi: Handle output on stderr during script execution on Unix
772 platforms; preventing deadlock when stderr output fills pipe buffer.
773 Also fixes case where stderr from nph- scripts could be lost.
774 PR 22030, 18348. [Joe Orton, Jeff Trawick]
776 *) mod_alias now emits a warning if it detects overlapping *Alias*
777 directives. [André Malo]
779 *) mod_rewrite no longer turns forward proxy requests into reverse proxy
780 requests. PR 28125 [ast domdv.de, André Malo]
782 *) ap_set_sub_req_protocol and ap_finalize_sub_req_protocol are now
783 exported on Win32 and Netware as well (minor MMN bump). PR 28523.
784 [Edward Rudd <eddie omegaware.com>, André Malo]
786 *) Restore the ability to disable the use of AcceptEx on Win9x systems
787 automatically (broken in 2.0.49). PR 28529. [André Malo]
789 *) <VirtualHost myhost> now applies to all IP addresses for myhost
790 instead of just the first one reported by the resolver. This
791 corrects a regression since 1.3. [Jeff Trawick]
793 *) util_ldap: allow relative paths for LDAPTrustedCA to be resolved
794 against ServerRoot PR#26602 [Brad Nicholes]
796 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0488 (cve.mitre.org)
797 mod_ssl: Fix a buffer overflow in the FakeBasicAuth code for a
798 (trusted) client certificate subject DN which exceeds 6K in length.
801 *) mod_dav_fs: Fix MKCOL response for missing parent collections, which
802 caused issues for the Eclipse WebDAV extension.
803 PR 29034. [Joe Orton]
805 *) mod_deflate: Fix memory consumption (which was proportional to the
806 response size). PR 29318. [Joe Orton]
808 *) mod_ssl: Log the errors returned on failure to load or initialize
809 a crypto accelerator engine. [Joe Orton]
811 *) Allow RequestHeader directives to be conditional. PR 27951.
812 [Vincent Deffontaines <vincent gryzor.com>, André Malo]
814 *) Allow LimitRequestBody to be reset to unlimited. PR 29106
817 *) Fix a bunch of cases where the return code of the regex compiler
818 was not checked properly. This affects: mod_setenvif, mod_usertrack,
819 mod_proxy, mod_proxy_ftp and core. PR 28218. [André Malo]
821 *) mod_ssl: Fix a potential segfault in the 'shmcb' session cache for
822 small cache sizes. PR 27751. [Geoff Thorpe <geoff geoffthorpe.net>]
824 *) Remove 2Gb log file size restriction on some 32-bit platforms.
825 PR 13511. [Joe Orton]
827 *) mod_logio no longer removes the EOS bucket. PR 27928.
828 [Bojan Smojver <bojan rexursive.com>]
830 *) htpasswd no longer refuses to process files that contain empty
833 *) Regression from 1.3: At startup, suexec now will be checked for
834 availability, the setuid bit and user root. The works only if
835 httpd is compiled with the shipped APR version (0.9.5).
836 PR 28287. [André Malo]
838 *) Unix MPMs: Stop dropping connections when the file descriptor
839 is at least FD_SETSIZE. [Jeff Trawick]
841 *) Fix handling of IPv6 numeric strings in mod_proxy. [Jeff Trawick]
843 *) mod_isapi: send_response_header() failed to copy status string's
844 last character. PR 20619. [Jesse Pelton <jsp pkc.com>]
846 *) Fix a segfault when requests for shared memory fails and returns
847 NULL. Fix a segfault caused by a lack of bounds checking on the
848 cache. PR 24801. [Graham Leggett]
850 *) Throw an error message if an attempt is made to use the LDAPTrustedCA
851 or LDAPTrustedCAType directives in a VirtualHost. PR 26390
854 *) Fix a potential segfault if the bind password in the LDAP cache
855 is NULL. PR 28250. [Jari Ahonen <jah progress.com>]
857 *) Quotes cannot be used around require group and require dn
858 directives, update the documentation to reflect this. Also add
859 quotes around the dn and group within debug messages, to make it
860 more obvious why authentication is failing if quotes are used in
861 error. PR 19304. [Graham Leggett]
863 *) The Microsoft LDAP SDK escapes filters for us, stop util_ldap
864 from escaping filters twice when the backslash character is used.
865 PR 24437. [Jess Holle <jessh ptc.com>]
867 *) Overhaul handling of LDAP error conditions, so that the util_ldap_*
868 functions leave the connections in a sane state after errors have
869 occurred. PR 27748, 17274, 17599, 18661, 21787, 24595, 24683, 27134,
870 27271 [Graham Leggett]
872 *) mod_ldap calls ldap_simple_bind_s() to validate the user
873 credentials. If the bind fails, the connection is left
874 in an unbound state. Make sure that the ldap connection
875 record is updated to show that the connection is no longer
876 bound. [Brad Nicholes]
878 *) Ensure that lines in the request which are too long are
879 properly terminated before logging.
880 [Tsurutani Naoki <turutani scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]
882 *) Update the bind credentials for the cached LDAP connection to
883 reflect the last bind. This prevents util_ldap from creating
884 unnecessary connections rather than reusing cached connections.
887 *) mod_isapi: GetServerVariable returned improperly terminated header
888 fields given "ALL_HTTP" or "ALL_RAW". PR 20656.
889 [Jesse Pelton <jsp pkc.com>]
891 *) mod_isapi: GetServerVariable("ALL_RAW") returned the wrong buffer
892 size. PR 20617. [Jesse Pelton <jsp pkc.com>]
894 *) mod_dav: Fix a problem that could cause crashes when manipulating
895 locks on some platforms. [Jeff Trawick]
897 *) mod_headers no longer crashes if an empty header value should
898 be added. [André Malo]
900 *) Fix segfault in mod_expires, which occured under certain
901 circumstances. PR 28047. [André Malo]
903 *) htpasswd: use apr_temp_dir_get() and general cleanup
904 [Guenter Knauf <eflash gmx.net>, Thom May]
906 *) mod_ssl: Fix memory leak in session cache handling. PR 26562
907 [Madhusudan Mathihalli]
909 *) mod_ssl: Fix potential segfaults when performing SSL shutdown from
910 a pool cleanup. PR 27945. [Joe Orton]
912 *) Add forensic logging module (mod_log_forensic).
915 *) logresolve: Allow size of log line buffer to be overridden at
916 build time (MAXLINE). PR 27793. [Jeff Trawick]
918 *) Fix the comment delimiter in htdbm so that it correctly parses the
919 username comment. Also add a terminate function to allow NetWare
920 to pause the output before the screen is destroyed.
921 [Guenter Knauf <eflash gmx.net>, Brad Nicholes]
923 *) Fix crash when Apache was started with no Listen directives.
924 [Michael Corcoran <mcorcoran warpsolutions.com>]
926 *) core_output_filter: Fix bug that could result in sending
927 garbage over the network when module handlers construct
928 bucket brigades containing multiple file buckets all referencing
929 the same open file descriptor. [Bojan Smojver]
931 *) Fix memory corruption problem with ap_custom_response() function.
932 The core per-dir config would later point to request pool data
933 that would be reused for different purposes on different requests.
934 [Jeff Trawick, based on an old 1.3 patch submitted by Will Lowe]
936 *) Win32: Tweak worker thread accounting routines to eliminate
937 server hang when number of Listen directives in httpd.conf
938 is greater than or equal to the setting of ThreadsPerChild.
941 Changes with Apache 2.0.49
943 *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0174 (cve.mitre.org)
944 Fix starvation issue on listening sockets where a short-lived
945 connection on a rarely-accessed listening socket will cause a
946 child to hold the accept mutex and block out new connections until
947 another connection arrives on that rarely-accessed listening socket.
948 With Apache 2.x there is no performance concern about enabling the
949 logic for platforms which don't need it, so it is enabled everywhere
950 except for Win32. [Jeff Trawick]
952 *) mod_cgid: Fix storage corruption caused by use of incorrect pool.
955 *) Win32: find_read_listeners was not correctly handling multiple
956 listeners on the Win32DisableAcceptEx path. [Bill Stoddard]
958 *) Fix bug in mod_usertrack when no CookieName is set. PR 24483.
959 [Manni Wood <manniwood planet-save.com>]
961 *) Fix some piped log problems: bogus "piped log program '(null)'
962 failed" messages during restart and problem with the logger
963 respawning again after Apache is stopped. PR 21648, PR 24805.
966 *) Fixed file extensions for real media files and removed rpm extension
967 from mime.types. PR 26079. [Allan Sandfeld <kde carewolf.com>]
969 *) Remove compile-time length limit on request strings. Length is
970 now enforced solely with the LimitRequestLine config directive.
973 *) mod_ssl: Send the Close Alert message to the peer before closing
974 the SSL session. PR 27428. [Madhusudan Mathihalli, Joe Orton]
976 *) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0113 (cve.mitre.org)
977 mod_ssl: Fix a memory leak in plain-HTTP-on-SSL-port handling.
978 PR 27106. [Joe Orton]
980 *) mod_ssl: Fix bug in passphrase handling which could cause spurious
981 failures in SSL functions later. PR 21160. [Joe Orton]
983 *) mod_log_config: Fix corruption of buffered logs with threaded
984 MPMs. PR 25520. [Jeff Trawick]
986 *) Fix mod_include's expression parser to recognize strings correctly
987 even if they start with an escaped token. [André Malo]
989 *) Add fatal exception hook for use by diagnostic modules. The hook
990 is only available if the --enable-exception-hook configure parm
991 is used and the EnableExceptionHook directive has been set to
994 *) Allow mod_auth_digest to work with sub-requests with different
995 methods than the original request. PR 25040.
996 [Josh Dady <jpd indecisive.com>]
998 *) fix "Expected </Foo>> but saw </Foo>" errors in nested,
999 argumentless containers.
1000 ["Philippe M. Chiasson" <gozer cpan.org>]
1002 *) mod_auth_ldap: Fix some segfaults in the cache logic. PR 18756.
1003 [Matthieu Estrade <apache moresecurity.org>, Brad Nicholes]
1005 *) mod_cgid: Restart the cgid daemon if it crashes. PR 19849
1006 [Glenn Nielsen <glenn apache.org>]
1008 *) The whole codebase was relicensed and is now available under
1009 the Apache License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses).
1010 [Apache Software Foundation]
1012 *) Fixed cache-removal order in mod_mem_cache.
1013 [Jean-Jacques Clar, Cliff Woolley]
1015 *) mod_setenvif: Fix the regex optimizer, which under circumstances
1016 treated the supplied regex as literal string. PR 24219.
1019 *) ap_mpm.h: Fix include guard of ap_mpm.h to reference mpm
1020 instead of mmn. [André Malo]
1022 *) mod_rewrite: Catch an edge case, where strange subsequent RewriteRules
1023 could lead to a 400 (Bad Request) response. [André Malo]
1025 *) Keep focus of ITERATE and ITERATE2 on the current module when
1026 the module chooses to return DECLINE_CMD for the directive.
1027 PR 22299. [Geoffrey Young <geoff apache.org>]
1029 *) Add support for IMT minor-type wildcards (e.g., text/*) to
1030 ExpiresByType. PR#7991 [Ken Coar]
1032 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache cache_insert() due to cache size
1033 becoming negative. PR: 21285, 21287
1034 [Bill Stoddard, Massimo Torquati, Jean-Jacques Clar]
1036 *) core.c: If large file support is enabled, allow any file that is
1037 greater than AP_MAX_SENDFILE to be split into multiple buckets.
1038 This allows Apache to send files that are greater than 2gig.
1039 Otherwise we run into 32/64 bit type mismatches in the file size.
1042 *) proxy_http fix: mod_proxy hangs when both KeepAlive and
1043 ProxyErrorOverride are enabled, and a non-200 response without a
1044 body is generated by the backend server. (e.g.: a client makes a
1045 request containing the "If-Modified-Since" and "If-None-Match"
1046 headers, to which the backend server respond with status 304.)
1047 [Graham Wiseman <gwiseman fscinternet.com>, Richard Reiner]
1049 *) mod_dav: Reject requests which include an unescaped fragment in the
1050 Request-URI. PR 21779. [Amit Athavale <amit_athavale lycos.com>]
1052 *) Build array of allowed methods with proper dimensions, fixing
1053 possible memory corruption. [Jeff Trawick]
1055 *) mod_ssl: Fix potential segfault on lookup of SSL_SESSION_ID.
1056 PR 15057. [Otmar Lendl <lendl nic.at>]
1058 *) mod_ssl: Fix streaming output from an nph- CGI script. PR 21944
1061 *) mod_usertrack no longer inspects the Cookie2 header for
1062 the cookie name. PR 11475. [Chris Darrochi <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
1064 *) mod_usertrack no longer overwrites other cookies.
1065 PR 26002. [Scott Moore <apache nopdesign.com>]
1067 *) worker MPM: fix stack overlay bug that could cause the parent
1068 process to crash. [Jeff Trawick]
1070 *) Win32: Add Win32DisableAcceptEx directive. This Windows
1071 NT/2000/CP directive is useful to work around bugs in some
1072 third party layered service providers like virus scanners,
1073 VPN and firewall products, that do not properly handle
1074 WinSock 2 APIs. Use this directive if your server is issuing
1075 AcceptEx failed messages.
1076 [Allan Edwards, Bill Rowe, Bill Stoddard, Jeff Trawick]
1078 *) Make REMOTE_PORT variable available in mod_rewrite.
1079 PR 25772. [André Malo]
1081 *) Fix a long delay with CGI requests and keepalive connections on
1084 *) mod_autoindex: Add 'XHTML' option in order to allow switching between
1085 HTML 3.2 and XHTML 1.0 output. PR 23747. [André Malo]
1087 *) Add XHTML Document Type Definitions to httpd.h (minor MMN bump).
1090 *) mod_ssl: Advertise SSL library version as determined at run-time rather
1091 than at compile-time. PR 23956. [Eric Seidel <seidel apple.com>]
1093 *) mod_ssl: Fix segfault on a non-SSL request if the 'c' log
1094 format code is used. PR 22741. [Gary E. Miller <gem rellim.com>]
1096 *) Fix build with parallel make. PR 24643. [Joe Orton]
1098 *) mod_rewrite: In external rewrite maps lookup keys containing
1099 a newline now cause a lookup failure. PR 14453.
1100 [Cedric Gavage <cedric.gavage unixtech.be>, André Malo]
1102 *) Backport major overhaul of mod_include's filter parser from 2.1.
1103 The new parser code is expected to be more robust and should
1104 catch all of the edge cases that were not handled by the previous one.
1105 The 2.1 external API changes were hidden by a wrapper which is
1106 expected to keep the API backwards compatible. [André Malo]
1108 *) Add a hook (insert_error_filter) to allow filters to re-insert
1109 themselves during processing of error responses. Enable mod_expires
1110 to use the new hook to include Expires headers in valid error
1111 responses. This addresses an RFC violation. It fixes PRs 19794,
1112 24884, and 25123. [Paul J. Reder]
1114 *) Add Polish translation of error messages. PR 25101.
1115 [Tomasz Kepczynski <tomek jot23.org>]
1117 *) Add AP_MPMQ_MPM_STATE function code for ap_mpm_query. (Not yet
1118 supported for BeOS or OS/2 MPMs.) [Jeff Trawick, Brad Nicholes,
1121 *) Add mod_status hook to allow modules to add to the mod_status
1124 *) Fix htdbm to generate comment fields in DBM files correctly.
1127 *) mod_dav: Use bucket brigades when reading PUT data. This avoids
1128 problems if the data stream is modified by an input filter. PR 22104.
1129 [Tim Robbins <tim robbins.dropbear.id.au>, André Malo]
1131 *) Fix RewriteBase directive to not add double slashes. [André Malo]
1133 *) Improve 'configure --help' output for some modules. [Astrid Keßler]
1135 *) Correct UseCanonicalName Off to properly check incoming port number.
1138 *) Fix slow graceful restarts with prefork MPM. [Joe Orton]
1140 *) Fix a problem with namespace mappings being dropped in mod_dav_fs;
1141 if any property values were set which defined namespaces these
1142 came out mangled in the PROPFIND response. PR 11637.
1143 [Amit Athavale <amit_athavale persistent.co.in>]
1145 *) mod_dav: Return a WWW-auth header for MOVE/COPY requests where
1146 the destination resource gives a 401. PR 15571. [Joe Orton]
1148 *) SECURITY: CVE-2003-0020 (cve.mitre.org)
1149 Escape arbitrary data before writing into the errorlog. Unescaped
1150 errorlogs are still possible using the compile time switch
1151 "-DAP_UNSAFE_ERROR_LOG_UNESCAPED". [Geoffrey Young, André Malo]
1153 *) mod_autoindex / core: Don't fail to show filenames containing
1154 special characters like '%'. PR 13598. [André Malo]
1156 *) mod_status: Report total CPU time accurately when using a threaded
1157 MPM. PR 23795. [Jeff Trawick]
1159 *) Fix memory leak in handling of request bodies during reverse
1160 proxy operations. PR 24991. [Larry Toppi <larry.toppi citrix.com>]
1162 *) Win32 MPM: Implement MaxMemFree to enable setting an upper
1163 limit on the amount of storage used by the bucket brigades
1164 in each server thread. [Bill Stoddard]
1166 *) Modified the cache code to be header-location agnostic. Also
1167 fixed a number of other cache code bugs related to PR 15852.
1168 Includes a patch submitted by Sushma Rai <rsushma novell.com>.
1169 This fixes mod_mem_cache but not mod_disk_cache yet so I'm not
1170 closing the PR since that is what they are using. [Paul J. Reder]
1172 *) complain via error_log when mod_include's INCLUDES filter is
1173 enabled, but the relevant Options flag allowing the filter to run
1174 for the specific resource wasn't set, so that the filter won't
1175 silently get skipped. next remove itself, so the warning will be
1176 logged only once [Stas Bekman, Jeff Trawick, Bill Rowe]
1178 *) mod_info: HTML escape configuration information so it displays
1179 correctly. PR 24232. [Thom May]
1181 *) Restore the ability to add a description for directories that
1182 don't contain an index file. (Broken in 2.0.48) [André Malo]
1184 *) Fix a problem with the display of empty variables ("SetEnv foo") in
1185 mod_include. PR 24734 [Markus Julen <mj zermatt.net>]
1187 *) mod_log_config: Log the minutes component of the timezone correctly.
1188 PR 23642. [Hong-Gunn Chew <hgbug gunnet.org>]
1190 *) mod_proxy: Fix cases where an invalid status-line could be sent
1191 to the client. PR 23998. [Joe Orton]
1193 *) mod_ssl: Fix segfaults at startup if other modules which use OpenSSL
1194 are also loaded. [Joe Orton]
1196 *) mod_ssl: Use human-readable OpenSSL error strings in logs; use
1197 thread-safe interface for retrieving error strings. [Joe Orton]
1199 *) mod_expires: Initialize ExpiresDefault to NULL instead of "" to
1200 avoid reporting an Internal Server error if it is used without
1201 having been set in the httpd.conf file. PR: 23748, 24459
1202 [Andre Malo, Liam Quinn <liam htmlhelp.com>]
1204 *) mod_autoindex: Don't omit the <tr> start tag if the SuppressIcon
1205 option is set. PR 21668. [Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <highos highos.com>]
1207 *) mod_include no longer allows an ETag header on 304 responses.
1208 PR 19355. [Geoffrey Young <geoff apache.org>, André Malo]
1210 *) EBCDIC: Convert header fields to ASCII before sending (broken
1211 since 2.0.44). [Martin Kraemer]
1213 *) Fix the inability to log errors like exec failure in
1214 mod_ext_filter/mod_cgi script children. This was broken after
1215 such children stopped inheriting the error log handle.
1218 *) Fix mod_info to use the real config file name, not the default
1219 config file name. [Aryeh Katz <aryeh secured-services.com>]
1221 *) Set the scoreboard state to indicate logging prior to running
1222 logging hooks so that server-status will show 'L' for hung loggers
1223 instead of 'W'. [Jeff Trawick]
1225 Changes with Apache 2.0.48
1227 *) SECURITY: CAN-2003-0789 (cve.mitre.org)
1228 mod_cgid: Resolve some mishandling of the AF_UNIX socket used to
1229 communicate with the cgid daemon and the CGI script.
1232 *) SECURITY: CAN-2003-0542 (cve.mitre.org)
1233 Fix buffer overflows in mod_alias and mod_rewrite which occurred
1234 if one configured a regular expression with more than 9 captures.
1237 *) mod_include: fix segfault which occured if the filename was not
1238 set, for example, when processing some error conditions.
1239 PR 23836. [Brian Akins <bakins web.turner.com>, André Malo]
1241 *) fix the config parser to support <Foo>..</Foo> containers (no
1242 arguments in the opening tag) supported by httpd 1.3. Without
1243 this change mod_perl 2.0's <Perl> sections are broken.
1244 ["Philippe M. Chiasson" <gozer cpan.org>]
1246 *) mod_cgid: fix a hash table corruption problem which could
1247 result in the wrong script being cleaned up at the end of a
1248 request. [Jeff Trawick]
1250 *) Update httpd-*.conf to be clearer in describing the connection
1251 between AddType and AddEncoding for defining the meaning of
1252 compressed file extensions. [Roy Fielding]
1254 *) mod_rewrite: Don't die silently when failing to open RewriteLogs.
1255 PR 23416. [André Malo]
1257 *) mod_rewrite: Fix mod_rewrite's support of the [P] option to send
1258 rewritten request using "proxy:". The code was adding multiple "proxy:"
1259 fields in the rewritten URI. PR: 13946.
1260 [Eider Oliveira <eider bol.com.br>]
1262 *) cache_util: Fix ap_check_cache_freshness to check max_age, smax_age, and
1263 expires as directed in RFC 2616. [Thomas Castelle <tcastelle generali.fr>]
1265 *) Ensure that ssl-std.conf is generated at configure time, and switch
1266 to using the expanded config variables to work the same as
1267 httpd-std.conf PR: 19611
1270 *) mod_ssl: Fix segfaults after renegotiation failure. PR 21370
1271 [Hartmut Keil <Hartmut.Keil adnovum.ch>]
1273 *) mod_autoindex: If a directory contains a file listed in the
1274 DirectoryIndex directive, the folder icon is no longer replaced
1275 by the icon of that file. PR 9587.
1276 [David Shane Holden <dpejesh yahoo.com>]
1278 *) Fixed mod_usertrack to not get false positive matches on the
1279 user-tracking cookie's name. PR 16661.
1280 [Manni Wood <manniwood planet-save.com>]
1282 *) mod_cache: Fix the cache code so that responses can be cached
1283 if they have an Expires header but no Etag or Last-Modified
1285 [<bjorn exoweb.net>]
1287 *) mod_log_config: Fix %b log format to write really "-" when 0 bytes
1288 were sent (e.g. with 304 or 204 response codes). [Astrid Keßler]
1290 *) Modify ap_get_client_block() to note if it has seen EOS.
1293 *) Fix a bug, where mod_deflate sometimes unconditionally compressed the
1294 content if the Accept-Encoding header contained only other tokens than
1295 "gzip" (such as "deflate"). PR 21523. [Joe Orton, André Malo]
1297 *) Avoid an infinite recursion, which occured if the name of an included
1298 config file or directory contained a wildcard character. PR 22194.
1301 *) mod_ssl: Fix a problem setting variables that represent the
1302 client certificate chain. PR 21371 [Jeff Trawick]
1304 *) Unix: Handle permissions settings for flock-based mutexes in
1305 unixd_set_global|proc_mutex_perms(). Allow the functions to be
1306 called for any type of mutex. PR 20312 [Jeff Trawick]
1308 *) ab: Work over non-loopback on Unix again. PR 21495. [Jeff Trawick]
1310 *) Fix a misleading message from the some of the threaded MPMs when
1311 MaxClients has to be lowered due to the setting of ServerLimit.
1314 *) Lower the severity of the "listener thread didn't exit" message
1315 to debug, as it is of interest only to developers. PR 9011
1318 *) MPMs: The bucket brigades subsystem now honors the MaxMemFree setting.
1319 [Cliff Woolley, Jean-Jacques Clar]
1321 *) Install config.nice into the build/ directory to make
1322 minor version upgrades easier. [Joshua Slive]
1324 *) Fix mod_deflate so that it does not call deflate() without checking
1325 first whether it has something to deflate. (Currently this causes
1326 deflate to generate a fatal error according to the zlib spec.)
1327 PR 22259. [Stas Bekman]
1329 *) mod_ssl: Fix FakeBasicAuth for subrequest. Log an error when an
1330 identity spoof is encountered.
1333 *) mod_rewrite: Ignore RewriteRules in .htaccess files if the directory
1334 containing the .htaccess file is requested without a trailing slash.
1335 PR 20195. [André Malo]
1337 *) ab: Overlong credentials given via command line no longer clobber
1338 the buffer. [André Malo]
1340 *) mod_deflate: Don't attempt to hold all of the response until we're
1341 done. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1343 *) Assure that we block properly when reading input bodies with SSL.
1344 PR 19242. [David Deaves <David.Deaves dd.id.au>, William Rowe]
1346 *) Update mime.types to include latest IANA and W3C types. [Roy Fielding]
1348 *) mod_ext_filter: Set additional environment variables for use by
1349 the external filter. PR 20944. [Andrew Ho, Jeff Trawick]
1351 *) Fix buildconf errors when libtool version changes. [Jeff Trawick]
1353 *) Remember an authenticated user during internal redirects if the
1354 redirection target is not access protected and pass it
1355 to scripts using the REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER environment variable.
1356 PR 10678, 11602. [André Malo]
1358 *) mod_include: Fix a trio of bugs that would cause various unusual
1359 sequences of parsed bytes to omit portions of the output stream.
1360 PR 21095. [Ron Park <ronald.park cnet.com>, André Malo, Cliff Woolley]
1362 *) Update the header token parsing code to allow LWS between the
1363 token word and the ':' seperator. [PR 16520]
1364 [Kris Verbeeck <kris.verbeeck advalvas.be>, Nicel KM <mnicel yahoo.com>]
1366 *) Eliminate creation of a temporary table in ap_get_mime_headers_core()
1367 [Joe Schaefer <joe+gmane sunstarsys.com>]
1369 *) Added FreeBSD directory layout. PR 21100.
1370 [Sander Holthaus <info orangexl.com>, André Malo]
1372 *) Fix NULL-pointer issue in ab when parsing an incomplete or non-HTTP
1373 response. PR 21085. [Glenn Nielsen <glenn apache.org>, André Malo]
1375 *) mod_rewrite: Perform child initialization on the rewrite log lock.
1376 This fixes a log corruption issue when flock-based serialization
1377 is used (e.g., FreeBSD). [Jeff Trawick]
1379 *) Don't respect the Server header field as set by modules and CGIs.
1380 As with 1.3, for proxy requests any such field is from the origin
1381 server; otherwise it will have our server info as controlled by
1382 the ServerTokens directive. [Jeff Trawick]
1384 Changes with Apache 2.0.47
1386 *) SECURITY: CAN-2003-0192 (cve.mitre.org)
1387 Fixed a bug whereby certain sequences of per-directory
1388 renegotiations and the SSLCipherSuite directive being used to
1389 upgrade from a weak ciphersuite to a strong one could result in
1390 the weak ciphersuite being used in place of the strong one.
1393 *) SECURITY: CAN-2003-0253 (cve.mitre.org)
1394 Fixed a bug in prefork MPM causing temporary denial of service
1395 when accept() on a rarely accessed port returns certain errors.
1396 Reported by Saheed Akhtar <S.Akhtar talis.com>. [Jeff Trawick]
1398 *) SECURITY: CAN-2003-0254 (cve.mitre.org)
1399 Fixed a bug in ftp proxy causing denial of service when target
1400 host is IPv6 but proxy server can't create IPv6 socket. Fixed by
1401 the reporter. [Yoshioka Tsuneo <tsuneo.yoshioka f-secure.com>]
1403 *) SECURITY [VU#379828] Prevent the server from crashing when entering
1404 infinite loops. The new LimitInternalRecursion directive configures
1405 limits of subsequent internal redirects and nested subrequests, after
1406 which the request will be aborted. PR 19753 (and probably others).
1407 [William Rowe, Jeff Trawick, André Malo]
1409 *) core_output_filter: don't split the brigade after a FLUSH bucket if
1410 it's the last bucket. This prevents creating unneccessary empty
1411 brigades which may not be destroyed until the end of a keepalive
1413 [Juan Rivera <Juan.Rivera citrix.com>]
1415 *) Add support for "streamy" PROPFIND responses.
1416 [Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman collab.net>]
1418 *) mod_cgid: Eliminate a double-close of a socket. This resolves
1419 various operational problems in a threaded MPM, since on the
1420 second attempt to close the socket, the same descriptor was
1421 often already in use by another thread for another purpose.
1424 *) mod_negotiation: Introduce "prefer-language" environment variable,
1425 which allows to influence the negotiation process on request basis
1426 to prefer a certain language. [André Malo]
1428 *) Make mod_expires' ExpiresByType work properly, including for
1429 dynamically-generated documents. [Ken Coar, Bill Stoddard]
1431 Changes with Apache 2.0.46
1433 *) SECURITY: CAN-2003-0245 (cve.mitre.org)
1434 Fixed a bug causing apr_pvsprintf() to crash by sending an overly
1435 long string. This can be triggered remotely through mod_dav,
1436 mod_ssl, and other mechanisms.
1437 Reported by David Endler <DEndler iDefense.com>. [Joe Orton]
1439 *) SECURITY: CAN-2003-0189 (cve.mitre.org)
1440 Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting basic
1441 authentication on Unix platforms related to thread-safety in
1442 apr_password_validate().
1443 Reported by John Hughes <john.hughes entegrity.com>.
1445 *) Fix for mod_dav. Call the 'can_be_activity' callback, if provided,
1446 when a MKACTIVITY request comes in.
1447 [Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman collab.net>]
1449 *) Perform run-time query in apxs for apr and apr-util's includes.
1452 *) run libtool from the apr install directory (in case that is different
1453 from the apache install directory) [Jeff Trawick]
1455 *) configure.in: Play nice with libtool-1.5. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
1457 *) If mod_mime_magic does not know the content-type, do not attempt to
1458 guess. PR 16908. [Andrew Gapon <agapon telcordia.com>]
1460 *) ssl session caching(shmht) : Fix a SEGV problem with SHMHT session
1462 [Andreas Leimbacher <andreasl67 yahoo.de>, Madhusudan Mathihalli]
1464 *) Add a delete flag to htpasswd.
1467 *) Fix mod_rewrite's handling of absolute URIs. The escaping routines
1468 now work scheme dependent and the query string will only be
1469 appended if supported by the particular scheme. [André Malo]
1471 *) Add another check for already compressed content in mod_deflate.
1472 PR 19913. [Tsuyoshi SASAMOTO <nazonazo super.win.ne.jp>]
1474 *) Fixes for VPATH builds; copying special.mk and any future .mk files
1475 from the source tree as well as the build tree (now creates a usable
1476 configuration for apxs), and eliminated redundant -I'nclude paths.
1479 *) Code fixes, constness corrections and ssl_toolkit_compat.h updates
1480 for SSLC and OpenSSL toolkit compatibility. Still work remains to
1481 be done to cripple features based on the limitations of RSA's binary
1482 distribution of their SSL-C toolkit.
1483 [William Rowe, Madhusudan Mathihalli, Jeff Trawick]
1485 *) Linux 2.4+: If Apache is started as root and you code
1486 CoreDumpDirectory, coredumps are enabled via the prctl() syscall.
1489 *) ap_get_mime_headers_core: allocate space for the trailing null
1490 when folding is in effect.
1491 PR 18170 [Peter Mayne <PeterMayne SPAM_SUX.ap.spherion.com>]
1493 *) Fix --enable-mods-shared=most and other variants. [Aaron Bannert]
1495 *) mod_log_config: Add the ability to log the id of the thread
1496 processing the request via new %P formats. [Jeff Trawick]
1498 *) Use appropriate language codes for Czech (cs) and Traditional Chinese
1499 (zh-tw) in default config files. PR 9427. [André Malo]
1501 *) mod_auth_ldap: Use generic whitespace character class when parsing
1502 "require" directives, instead of literal spaces only. PR 17135.
1505 *) Hook mod_rewrite's type checker before mod_mime's one. That way the
1506 RewriteRule [T=...] Flag should work as expected now. PR 19626.
1509 *) htpasswd: Check the processed file on validity. If a line is not empty
1510 and not a comment, it must contain at least one colon. Otherwise exit
1511 with error code 7. [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck ubizen.com>, Thom May]
1513 *) Fix a problem that caused httpd to be linked with incorrect flags
1514 on some platforms when mod_so was enabled by default, breaking
1515 DSOs on AIX. PR 19012 [Jeff Trawick]
1517 *) By default, use the same CC and CPP with which APR was built.
1518 The user can override with CC and CPP environment variables.
1521 *) Fix ap_construct_url() so that it surrounds IPv6 literal address
1522 strings with []. This fixes certain types of redirection.
1523 PR 19207. [Jeff Trawick]
1525 *) forward port of buffer overflow fixes for htdigest. [Thom May]
1527 *) Added AllowEncodedSlashes directive to permit control of whether
1528 the server will accept encoded slashes ('%2f') in the URI path.
1529 Default condition is off (the historical behaviour). This permits
1530 environments in which the path-info needs to contain encoded
1531 slashes. PR 543, 2389, 3581, 3589, 5687, 7066, 7865, 14639. [Ken Coar]
1533 *) When using Redirect in directory context, append requested query
1534 string if there's no one supplied by configuration. PR 10961.
1537 *) Unescape the supplied wildcard pattern in mod_autoindex. Otherwise
1538 the pattern will not always match as desired. PR 12596.
1541 *) mod_autoindex now emits and accepts modern query string parameter
1542 delimiters (;). Thus column headers no longer contain unescaped
1543 ampersands. PR 10880 [André Malo]
1545 *) Enable ap_sock_disable_nagle for Windows. This along with the
1546 addition of APR_TCP_NODELAY_INHERITED to apr.hw will cause Nagle
1547 to be disabled for Windows. [Allan Edwards]
1549 *) Correct a mis-correlation between mpm_common.c and mpm_common.h;
1550 This patch reverts us to pre-2.0.46 behavior, using the
1551 ap_sock_disable_nagle noop macro, because ap_sock_disable_nagle
1552 was never compiled on Win32. [Allan Edwards, William Rowe]
1554 *) Fix a build problem with passing unsupported --enable-layout
1555 args to apr and apr-util. This broke binbuild.sh as well as
1556 user-specified layout parameters. PR 18649 [Justin Erenkrantz,
1559 *) If a Date response header was already set in the headers array,
1560 this value was ignored in favour of the current time. This meant
1561 that Date headers on proxied requests where rewritten when they
1562 should not have been. PR: 14376 [Graham Leggett]
1564 *) Add code to buildconf that produces an httpd.spec file from
1565 httpd.spec.in, using build/get-version.sh from APR.
1568 *) Fixed a segfault when multiple ProxyBlock directives were used.
1569 PR: 19023 [Sami Tikka <sami.tikka f-secure.com>]
1571 *) SECURITY: CAN-2003-0134 (cve.mitre.org)
1572 OS2: Fix a Denial of Service vulnerability identified and
1573 reported by Robert Howard <rihoward rawbw.com> that where device
1574 names faulted the running OS2 worker process. The fix is
1575 actually in APR 0.9.4. [Brian Havard]
1577 *) Forward port: Escape special characters (especially control
1578 characters) in mod_log_config to make a clear distinction between
1579 client-supplied strings (with special characters) and server-side
1580 strings. This was already introduced in version 1.3.25.
1583 *) mod_deflate: Check also err_headers_out for an already set
1584 Content-Encoding: gzip header. This prevents gzip compressed content
1585 from a CGI script from being compressed once more. PR 17797.
1588 Changes with Apache 2.0.45
1590 *) Fix possible segfaults under obscure error conditions within the
1591 cgid daemon. [Jeff Trawick, William Rowe]
1593 *) SECURITY: CAN-2003-0132 (cve.mitre.org)
1594 Close a Denial of Service vulnerability identified by David
1595 Endler <DEndler iDefense.com> on all platforms. An unlimited
1596 stream of newlines were acceptable between requests where each
1597 <lf> would allocate an 80 byte buffer, leading very quickly to
1598 memory exahustion. [Brian Pane]
1600 *) Added an rpm build script.
1601 [Graham Leggett, Joe Orton <jorton redhat.com>]
1603 *) Simpler, faster code path for request header scanning [Brian Pane]
1605 *) SECURITY: Eliminated leaks of several file descriptors to child
1606 processes, such as CGI scripts. This fix depends on the APR library
1607 release 0.9.2 or later (0.9.3 was distributed with the httpd
1608 source tarball for Apache 2.0.45.) PR 17206
1609 [Christian Kratzer <ck cksoft.de>, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz zabbadoz.net>]
1611 *) Fix path handling of mod_rewrite, especially on non-unix systems.
1612 There was some confusion between local paths and URL paths.
1613 PR 12902. [André Malo]
1615 *) Prevent endless loops of internal redirects in mod_rewrite by
1616 aborting after exceeding a limit of internal redirects. The
1617 limit defaults to 10 and can be changed using the RewriteOptions
1618 directive. PR 17462. [André Malo]
1620 *) Win32: Avoid busy wait (consuming all the CPU idle cycles) when
1621 all worker threads are busy.
1622 [Igor Nazarenko <igor_nazarenko hotmail.com>]
1624 *) Keep the subrequest filter in place when a subrequest is
1625 redirected. PR 15423. [Jeff Trawick]
1627 *) you can now specify the compression level for mod_deflate.
1628 [Ian Holsman, Stephen Pierzchala <stephen pierzchala.com>,
1629 Michael Schroepl <Michael.Schroepl telekurs.de>]
1631 *) mod_deflate: Extend the DeflateFilterNote directive to
1632 allow accurate logging of the filter's in- and outstream.
1635 *) Allow SSLMutex to select/use the full range of APR locking
1636 mechanisms available to it. Also, fix the bug that SSLMutex uses
1637 APR_LOCK_DEFAULT no matter what. PR 8122 [Jim Jagielski,
1638 Martin Kutschker <martin.t.kutschker blackbox.net>]
1640 *) Restore the ability of htdigest.exe to create files that contain
1641 more than one user. PR 12910. [André Malo]
1643 *) Improve binary compatibility of the core between debug (aka
1644 maintainer-mode) and a non-debug compile.
1647 *) mod_usertrack: don't set the cookie in subrequests. This works
1648 around the problem that cookies were set twice during fast internal
1649 redirects. PR 13211. [André Malo]
1651 *) mod_autoindex no longer forgets output format and enabled version
1652 sort in linked column headers. [André Malo]
1654 *) Use .sv instead of .se as extension for Swedish documents in the
1655 default configuration. PR 12877. [André Malo]
1657 *) Updated mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap to support the Novell LDAP SDK SSL
1658 and standardized the LDAP SSL support across the various LDAP SDKs.
1659 Isolated the SSL functionality to mod_ldap rather than speading it
1660 across mod_auth_ldap and mod_ldap. Also added LDAPTrustedCA
1661 and LDAPTrustedCAType directives to mod_ldap to allow for a more
1662 common method of specifying the SSL certificate.
1663 [Dave Ward, Brad Nicholes]
1665 *) Fixed mod_ssl's SSLCertificateChain initialization to no longer
1666 skip the first cert of the chain by default. This misbehavior
1667 was introduced in 2.0.34. PR 14560 [Madhusudan Mathihalli]
1669 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid, mod_ext_filter: Log errors when scripts cannot
1670 be started on Unix because of such problems as bad permissions,
1671 bad shebang line, etc. [Jeff Trawick]
1673 *) Fix 64-bit problem in mod_ssl input logic.
1674 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>]
1676 *) Fix potential memory leaks in mod_deflate on malformed data. PR 16046.
1679 *) Rewrite ap_xml_parse_input to use bucket brigades. PR 16134.
1682 *) Fix segfault which occurred when a section in an included
1683 configuration file was not closed. PR 17093. [André Malo]
1685 *) Enhance the behavior of mod_isapi's WriteClient() callback to
1686 provide better emulation for isapi modules that presume that the
1687 first WriteClient() call may send status and headers. An example
1688 of WriteClient() abuse is the foxisapi module, which relies on
1689 that assumpion and now works. [William Rowe, Milan Kosina]
1691 *) Check the return value of ap_run_pre_connection(). So if the
1692 pre_connection phase fails (without setting c->aborted)
1693 ap_run_process_connection is not executed. [Stas Bekman]
1695 *) Fixed a problem with mod_ldap which caused it to fault when caching
1696 was disabled. Needed to make sure that the code did not
1697 attempt to use the cache if it didn't exist. Also fixed some memory
1698 leaks which were due to not releasing LDAP resources on error
1699 conditions. [Brad Nicholes]
1701 *) Hook mod_proxy's fixup before mod_rewrite's fixup, so that by
1702 mod_rewrite proxied URLs will not be escaped accidentally by
1703 mod_proxy's fixup. PR 16368 [André Malo]
1705 *) While processing filters on internal redirects, remember seen EOS
1706 buckets also in the request structure of the redirect issuer(s). This
1707 prevents filters (such as mod_deflate) from adding garbage to the
1708 response. PR 14451. [André Malo]
1710 *) suexec: Be more pedantic when cleaning environment. Clean it
1711 immediately after startup. PR 2790, 10449.
1712 [Jeff Stewart <jws purdue.edu>, André Malo]
1714 *) Fix apxs to insert LoadModule directives only outside of sections.
1715 PR 8712, 9012. [André Malo]
1717 *) Fix suexec compile error under SUNOS4, where strerror() doesn't
1718 exist. PR 5913, 9977.
1719 [Jonathan W Miner <Jonathan.W.Miner lmco.com>]
1721 *) Fix If header parsing when a non-mod_dav lock token is passed to it.
1722 PR 16452. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1724 *) mod_auth_digest no longer tries to guess AuthDigestDomain, if it's
1725 not specified. Now it assumes "/" as already documented. PR 16937.
1728 *) Try to log an error if a piped log program fails. Try to
1729 restart a piped log program in more failure situations. Fix an
1730 existing problem with error handling in piped_log_spawn(). Use
1731 new APR apr_proc_create() features to prevent Apache from starting
1732 on Unix* in most cases where a piped log program can be started,
1733 and add log messages for the other situations. *Other platforms
1734 already failed Apache initialization if a piped log program
1735 couldn't be started. PR 15761 [Jeff Trawick]
1737 *) Fix mod_cern_meta to not create empty metafiles when the
1738 metafile searched for does not exist. PR 12353
1739 [Owen Rees <owen_rees hp.com>]
1741 *) Introduce debugging symbols for Win32 release builds, both .pdb
1742 and .dbg files (older debuggers and Dr. Watson-type utilities
1743 on WinNT or Win9x don't support the newer .pdb flavor.)
1744 [Allen Edwards, William Rowe]
1746 *) Fix bug where 'Satisfy Any' without an AuthType lost all MIME
1747 information (and more). Related to PR 9076. [André Malo]
1749 *) mod_file_cache: fix segfault serving mmaped cached files.
1752 *) mod_file_cache: fixed a segfault when multiple MMapFile directives
1753 were used. PR 16313. [Cliff Woolley]
1755 *) Fix a nasty segfault in mmap_bucket_setaside() caused by passing
1756 an incompatible pointer type to mmap_bucket_destroy(void*).
1757 [Gerard Eviston <geviston bigpond.net.au>]
1759 *) Enable the -n name parameter on NetWare to allow the
1760 administrator to rename the Apache console screen
1763 *) Fixed piped access logs on Win32 by disabling OTHER_CHILD
1764 support by default in APR. More development is required
1765 to deploy OTHER_CHILD on Win32. [William Rowe]
1767 *) Use saner default config values for suexec. PR 15713.
1768 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
1770 *) mod_rewrite: Allow "RewriteEngine Off" even if no "Options FollowSymlinks"
1771 (or SymlinksIfOwnermatch) is set. PR 12395. [André Malo]
1773 *) apxs: Include any special APR ld flags when linking the DSO.
1774 This resolves problems on AIX when building a DSO with apxs+gcc.
1777 *) Added character set support to mod_auth_LDAP to allow it to
1778 convert extended characters used in the user ID to UTF-8
1779 before authenticating against the LDAP directory. The new
1780 directive AuthLDAPCharsetConfig is used to specify the config
1781 file that contains the character set conversion table.
1784 *) Don't remove the Content-Length from responses in mod_proxy
1785 PR: 8677 [Brian Pane]
1787 *) Ensure LDAP version is set to v3 on every bind. PR 14235.
1788 [Sergey A. Lipnevich <sergeyli pisem.net>]
1790 *) Fix mod_ldap to open an existing shared memory file should one
1791 already exist. PR 12757. [Scooter Morris <scooter gene.com>,
1794 *) Fix the ulimit command used by apachectl on Tru64. PR 13609.
1795 [Joseph Senulis <Joseph.Senulis dnr.state.wi.us>, Jeff Trawick]
1797 *) Change the ulimit command used by apachectl on AIX so that it
1798 works in all locales. [Jeff Trawick]
1800 *) mod_ext_filter: Fix a problem building argument lists which
1801 occasionally caused exec to fail. PR 15491. [Jeff Trawick]
1803 Changes with Apache 2.0.44
1805 *) mod_autoindex: Bring forward the IndexOptions IgnoreCase option
1806 from Apache 1.3. PR 14276
1807 [David Shane Holden <dpejesh yahoo.com>, William Rowe]
1809 *) mod_mime: Workaround to prevent a segfault if r->filename=NULL
1812 *) Reorder the definitions for mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap within
1813 config.m4 to make sure the parent mod_ldap is defined first.
1814 This ensures that mod_ldap comes before mod_auth_ldap in the
1815 httpd.conf file, which is necessary for mod_auth_ldap to load.
1816 PR 14256 [Graham Leggett]
1818 *) Fix the building of cgi command lines when the query string
1819 contains '='. PR 13914 [Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta iki.fi>,
1822 *) Rename CacheMaxStreamingBuffer to MCacheMaxStreamingBuffer. Move
1823 implementation of MCacheMaxStreamingBuffer from mod_cache to
1824 mod_mem_cache. MCacheMaxStreamingBuffer now defaults to the
1825 lesser of 100,000 bytes or MCacheMaxCacheObjectSize. This should
1826 eliminate the need for explicitly coding MCacheMaxStreamingBuffer
1827 in most configurations. [Bill Stoddard]
1829 *) mod_cache: Fix PR 15113, a core dump in cache_in_filter when
1830 a redirect occurs. The code was passing a format string and
1831 integer to apr_pstrcat. Changed to apr_psprintf.
1834 *) Replace APU_HAS_LDAPSSL_CLIENT_INIT with APU_HAS_LDAP_NETSCAPE_SSL
1835 as set by apr-util in util_ldap.c. This should allow mod_ldap
1836 to work with the Netscape/Mozilla LDAP library. [Øyvin Sømme
1837 <somme oslo.westerngeco.slb.com>, Graham Leggett]
1839 *) Fix critical bug in new --enable-v4-mapped configure option
1840 implementation which broke IPv4 listening sockets on some
1841 systems. [hiroyuki hanai <hanai imgsrc.co.jp>]
1843 *) mod_setenvif: Fix BrowserMatchNoCase support for non-regex
1844 patterns [André Malo <nd perlig.de>]
1846 *) Add version string to provider API. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1848 *) build: './configure && make' now works without an in-tree
1849 apr and apr-util. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
1851 *) mod_negotiation: Set the appropriate mime response headers
1852 (Content-Type, charset, Content-Language and Content-Encoding)
1853 for negotated type-map "Body:" responses (such as the error
1854 pages.) [André Malo <nd perlig.de>]
1856 *) mod_log_config: Allow '%%' escaping in CustomLog format
1857 strings to insert a literal, single '%'.
1858 [André Malo <nd perlig.de>]
1860 *) mod_autoindex: AddDescription directives for directories
1861 now work as in Apache 1.3, where no trailing '/' is
1862 specified on the directory name. Previously, the trailing
1863 '/' *had* to be specified, which was incompatible with
1864 Apache 1.3. PR 7990 [Jeff Trawick]
1866 *) Fix for PR 14556. The expiry calculations in mod_cache were
1867 trying to perform "now + ((date - lastmod) * factor)" where
1868 date == lastmod resulting in "now + 0". The code now follows
1869 the else path (using the default expiration) if date is
1870 equal to lastmod. [Sergey <rx armstrike.com>, Paul J. Reder]
1872 *) Use AP_DECLARE in the debug versions of ap_strXXX in case the
1873 default calling convention is not the same as the one used by
1874 AP_DECLARE. [Juan Rivera <Juan.Rivera citrix.com>]
1876 *) mod_cache: Don't cache response header fields designated
1877 as hop-by-hop headers in HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2616 Section 13.5.1).
1878 [Estrade Matthieu <estrade-m ifrance.com>, Brian Pane]
1880 *) mod_cgid: Handle environment variables containing newlines.
1881 PR 14550 [Piotr Czejkowski <apache czarny.eu.org>, Jeff
1884 *) Move mod_ext_filter out of experimental and into filters.
1887 *) Fixed a memory leak in mod_deflate with dynamic content.
1888 PR 14321 [Ken Franken <kfranken decisionmark.com>]
1890 *) Add --[enable|disable]-v4-mapped configure option to control
1891 whether or not Apache expects to handle IPv4 connections
1892 on IPv6 listening sockets. Either setting will work on
1893 systems with the IPV6_V6ONLY socket option. --enable-v4-mapped
1894 must be used on systems that always allow IPv4 connections on
1895 IPv6 listening sockets. PR 14037 (Bugzilla), PR 7492 (Gnats)
1898 *) This fixes a problem where the underlying cache code
1899 indicated that there was one more element on the cache
1900 than there actually was. This happened since element 0
1901 exists but is not used. This code allocates the correct
1902 number of useable elements and reports the number of
1903 actually used elements. The previous code only allowed
1904 MCacheMaxObjectCount-1 objects to be stored in the
1905 cache. [Paul J. Reder]
1907 *) mod_setenvif: Add SERVER_ADDR special keyword to allow
1908 envariable setting according to the server IP address
1909 which received the request. [Ken Coar]
1911 *) mod_cgid: Terminate CGI scripts when the client connection
1912 drops. PR 8388 [Jeff Trawick]
1914 *) Rearrange OpenSSL engine initialization to support RAND
1915 redirection on crypto accelerator.
1916 [Frederic DONNAT <frederic.donnat zencod.com>]
1918 *) Always emit Vary header if mod_deflate is involved in the
1919 request. [Andre Malo <nd perlig.de>]
1921 *) mod_isapi: Stop unsetting the 'empty' query string result with
1922 a NULL argument in ecb->lpszQueryString, eliminating segfaults
1923 for some ISAPI modules. PR 14399
1924 [Detlev Vendt <detlev.vendt brillit.de>]
1926 *) mod_isapi: Fix an issue where the HSE_REQ_DONE_WITH_SESSION
1927 notification is received before the HttpExtensionProc() returns
1928 HSE_STATUS_PENDING. This only affected isapi .dll's configured
1929 with the ISAPIFakeAsync on directive. PR 11918
1930 [John DeSetto <jdesetto radiantsystems.com>, William Rowe]
1932 *) mod_isapi: Fix the issue where all results from mod_isapi would
1933 run through the core die handler resulting in invalid responses
1934 or access log entries. PR 10216 [William Rowe]
1936 *) Improves the user friendliness of the CacheRoot processing
1937 over my last pass. This version avoids the pool allocations
1938 but doesn't avoid all of the runtime checks. It no longer
1939 terminates during post-config processing. An error is logged
1940 once per worker, indicating that the CacheRoot needs to be set.
1943 *) Fix a bug where we keep files open until the end of a
1944 keepalive connection, which can result in:
1945 (24)Too many open files: file permissions deny server access
1946 especially on threaded servers. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1948 *) Fix a bug in which mod_proxy sent an invalid Content-Length
1949 when a proxied URL was invoked as a server-side include within
1950 a page generated in response to a form POST. [Brian Pane]
1952 *) Added code to process min and max file size directives and to
1953 init the expirychk flag in mod_disk_cache. Added a clarifying
1954 comment to cache_util. [Paul J. Reder]
1956 *) The value emitted by ServerSignature now mimics the Server HTTP
1957 header as controlled by ServerTokens. [Francis Daly <deva daoine.org>]
1959 *) Gracefully handly retry situations in the SSL input filter,
1960 by following the SSL libraries' retry semantics.
1963 *) Terminate CGI scripts when the client connection drops. This
1964 fix only applies to some normal paths in mod_cgi. mod_cgid
1965 is still busted. PR 8388 [Jeff Trawick]
1967 *) Fix a bug where 416 "Range not satisfiable" was being
1968 returned for content that should have been redirected.
1971 *) Fix memory leak in mod_ssl from internal SSL library allocations
1972 within SSL_get_peer_certificate and X509_get_pubkey.
1973 [Zvi Har'El <rl math.technion.ac.il>
1974 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>].
1976 *) mod_ssl uses free() inappropriately in several places, to free
1977 memory which has been previously allocated inside OpenSSL.
1978 Such memory should be freed with OPENSSL_free(), not with free().
1979 [Nadav Har'El <nyh math.technion.ac.il>,
1980 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>].
1982 *) Emit a message to the error log when we return 404 because
1983 the URI contained '%2f'. (This was previously nastily silent
1984 and difficult to debug.) [Ken Coar]
1986 *) Fix streaming output from an nph- CGI script. CGI:IRC now
1987 works. PR 8482 [Jeff Trawick]
1989 *) More accurate logging of bytes sent in mod_logio when
1990 the client terminates the connection before the response
1991 is completely sent [Bojan Smojver <bojan rexursive.com>]
1993 *) Fix some problems in the perchild MPM.
1994 [Jonas Eriksson <jonas webkonsulterna.com>]
1996 *) Change the CacheRoot processing to check for a required
1997 value at config time. This saves a lot of wasted processing
1998 if the mod_disk_cache module is loaded but no CacheRoot
1999 was provided. This fix also adds code to log an error
2000 and avoid useless pallocs and procesing when the computed
2001 cache file name cannot be opened. This also updates the
2002 docs accordingly. [Paul J. Reder]
2004 *) Introduce the EnableSendfile directive, allowing users of NFS
2005 shares to disable sendfile mechanics when they either fail
2006 outright or provide intermitantly corrupted data. PR
2009 *) Resolve the error "An operation was attempted on something
2010 that is not a socket. : winnt_accept: AcceptEx failed.
2011 Attempting to recover." for users of various firewall and
2012 anti-virus software on Windows. PR 8325 [William Rowe]
2014 *) Add the ProxyBadHeader directive, which gives the admin some
2015 control on how mod_proxy should handle bogus HTTP headers from
2016 proxied servers. This allows 2.0 to "emulate" 1.3's behavior if
2017 desired. [Jim Jagielski]
2019 *) Change the LDAP modules to export their symbols correctly
2020 during a Windows build. Add dsp files for Windows. Update
2021 README.ldap file for Windows build instructions.
2022 [Andre Schild <A.Schild aarboard.ch>]
2024 *) Performance improvements for the code that generates HTTP
2025 response headers [Brian Pane]
2027 *) Add -S as a synonym for -t -DDUMP_VHOSTS.
2028 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
2030 *) Fix a bug with dbm rewrite maps which caused the wrong value to
2031 be used when the key was not found in the dbm. PR 13204
2034 *) Fix a problem with streaming script output and mod_cgid.
2037 *) Add ap_register_provider/ap_lookup_provider API.
2038 [John K. Sterling <john sterls.com>, Justin Erenkrantz]
2040 Changes with Apache 2.0.43
2042 *) SECURITY: CVE-2002-0840 (cve.mitre.org)
2043 HTML-escape the address produced by ap_server_signature() against
2044 this cross-site scripting vulnerability exposed by the directive
2045 'UseCanonicalName Off'. Also HTML-escape the SERVER_NAME
2046 environment variable for CGI and SSI requests. It's safe to
2047 escape as only the '<', '>', and '&' characters are affected,
2048 which won't appear in a valid hostname. Reported by Matthew
2049 Murphy <mattmurphy kc.rr.com>. [Brian Pane]
2051 *) Fix a core dump in mod_cache when it attemtped to store uncopyable
2052 buckets. This happened, for instance, when a file to be cached
2053 contained SSI tags to execute a CGI script (passed as a pipe
2054 bucket). [Paul J. Reder]
2056 *) Ensure that output already available is flushed to the network
2057 when the content-length filter realizes that no new output will
2058 be available for a while. This helps some streaming CGIs as
2059 well as some other dynamically-generated content. [Jeff Trawick]
2061 *) Fix a mutex problem in mod_ssl session cache support which
2062 could lead to an infinite loop. PR 12705
2063 [Amund Elstad <amund.elstad ergo.no>, Jeff Trawick]
2065 *) SECURITY: CVE-2002-1156 (cve.mitre.org)
2066 Fix the exposure of CGI source when a POST request is sent to
2067 a location where both DAV and CGI are enabled. [Ryan Bloom]
2069 *) Allow the UserDir directive to accept a list of directories.
2070 This matches what Apache 1.3 does. Also add documentation for
2071 this feature. [Jay Ball <jay veggiespam.com>]
2073 *) New Module: mod_logio. adds the ability to log bytes sent and
2074 received. [Bojan Smojver <bojan rexursive.com>]
2076 *) SuExec needs to use the same default directory as the rest of
2077 server, namely /usr/local/apache2.
2078 [SangBeom han <sbhan os.korea.ac.kr>]
2080 *) Get mod_auth_ldap to retry connections on LDAP_SERVER_DOWN.
2081 [Thomas Bennett <thomas.bennett eds.com>, Graham Leggett]
2083 *) Make sure the contents of the WWW-Authenticate header is
2084 passed on a 4xx error by proxy. Previously all headers
2085 were dropped, resulting in the browser being unable to
2086 authenticate. [Dr Richard Reiner <rreiner fscinternet.com>,
2087 Richard Danielli <rdanielli fscinternet.com>, Graham Wiseman
2088 <gwiseman fscinternet.com>, David Henderson
2089 <dhenderson fscinternet.com>]
2091 *) Make mod_cache's CacheMaxStreamingBuffer directive work
2092 properly for virtual hosts that override server-wide mod_cache
2093 setttings. [Matthieu Estrade <estrade-m ifrance.com>]
2095 *) Add -p option to apxs to allow programs to be compiled with apxs.
2098 Changes with Apache 2.0.42
2100 *) mod_dav: Check for versioning hooks before using them.
2103 Changes with Apache 2.0.41
2105 *) The protocol version (eg: HTTP/1.1) in the request line parsing
2106 is now case insensitive. [Jim Jagielski]
2108 *) Allow AddOutputFilterByType to add multiple filters per directive.
2111 *) Remove warnings with Sun's Forte compiler. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2113 *) Fixed mod_disk_cache's generation of 304s
2114 [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck ubizen.com>]
2116 *) Add support for using fnmatch patterns in the final path
2117 segment of an Include statement (eg.. include /foo/bar/*.conf).
2118 and remove the noise on stderr during config dir processing.
2119 [Joe Orton <jorton redhat.com>]
2121 *) mod_cache: cache_storage.c. Add the hostname and any request
2122 args to the key generated for caching. This provides a unique
2123 key for each virtual host and for each request with unique
2124 args. [Paul J. Reder, args code provided by Kris Verbeeck]
2126 *) mod_cache: Do not cache responses to GET requests with query
2127 URLs if the origin server does not explicitly provide an
2128 Expires header on the response (RFC 2616 Section 13.9)
2129 [Kris Verbeeck <krisv be.ubizen.com>]
2131 *) Fix memory leak in core_output_filter. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2133 *) Update OpenSSL detection to work on Darwin.
2134 [Sander Temme <sctemme covalent.net>]
2136 *) Update the xslt and css to give the documentation a more
2138 [André Malo <nd perlig.de>, Gernot Winkler <greh o3media.de>]
2140 *) Fix some bucket memory leaks in the chunking code
2141 [Joe Schaefer <joe+apache sunstarsys.com>]
2143 *) Add ModMimeUsePathInfo directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2145 *) mod_cache: added support for caching streamed responses (proxy,
2146 CGI, etc) with optional CacheMaxStreamingBuffer setting [Brian Pane]
2148 *) Add image/x-icon to httpd.conf PR 10993.
2149 [Ian Holsman, Peter Bieringer <pb bieringer.de>]
2151 *) Fix FileETags none operation. PR 12207.
2152 [Justin Erenkrantz, Andrew Ho <andrew tellme.com>]
2154 *) Restored the experimental leader/followers MPM to working
2155 condition and converted its thread synchronization from
2156 mutexes to atomic CAS. [Brian Pane]
2158 *) Fix Logic on non-html file removal in mod_deflate
2159 [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck ubizen.com>]
2161 *) Fix "ab -g"'s truncated year: the last digit was cut off.
2162 [Leon Brocard <acme astray.com>]
2164 *) mod_rewrite can now sets cookies in err_headers, uses the correct
2165 expiry date, and can now set the path as well
2166 PR 12132,12181,12172.
2167 [Ian Holsman / Rob Cromwell <apachechangelog robcromwell.com>]
2169 *) The content-length filter no longer tries to buffer up
2170 the entire output of a long-running request before sending
2171 anything to the client. [Brian Pane]
2173 *) Win32: Lower the default stack size from 1MB to 256K. This will
2174 allow around 8000 threads to be started per child process.
2175 'EDITBIN /STACK:size apache.exe' can be used to change this
2176 value directly in the apache.exe executable.
2179 *) Win32: Implement ThreadLimit directive in the Windows MPM.
2182 *) Remove CacheOn config directive since it is set but never checked.
2183 No sense wasting cycles on unused code. Besides, the only truly
2184 bug free code is deleted code. :) [Paul J. Reder]
2186 *) BufferLogs are now run-time enabled, and the log_config now has 2 new
2187 callbacks to allow a 3rd party module to actually do the writing of the
2188 log file [Ian Holsman]
2190 *) Correct ISAPIReadAheadBuffer to default to 49152, per mod_isapi docs.
2191 [André Malo, Astrid Keßler <kess kess-net.de>]
2193 *) Fix Segfault in mod_cache. [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck ubizen.com>]
2195 *) Fix a null pointer dereference in the merge_env_dir_configs
2196 function of the mod_env module. PR 11791
2199 *) New option to ServerTokens 'maj[or]'. Only show the major version
2200 Also Surfaced this directive in the standard config (default FULL)
2203 *) Change mod_rewrite to use apr-util's dbm support for dbm rewrite
2204 maps. The dbm type (e.g., ndbm, gdbm) can be specified on the
2205 RewriteMap directive. PR 10644 [Jeff Trawick]
2207 *) Fixed mod_rewrite's RewriteMap prg: support so that request/response
2208 pairs will no longer get out of sync with each other. PR 9534
2211 *) Fixes required to get quoted and escaped command args working in
2212 mod_ext_filter. PR 11793 [Paul J. Reder]
2214 *) mod-proxy: handle proxied responses with no status lines
2215 [JD Silvester <jsilves uwo.ca>, Brett Huttley <brett huttley.net>]
2217 *) Fix bug where environment or command line arguments containing
2218 non-ASCII-7 characters would cause the Win32 child process creation
2219 to fail. PR 11854 [William Rowe]
2221 *) Bug #11213.. make module loading error messages more informative
2222 [Ian Darwin <Ian779 darwinsys.com>]
2224 *) thread safety & proxy-ftp [Alexey Panchenko <alexey liwest.ru>, Ian Holsman]
2226 *) mod_disk_cache works much better. This module should still
2227 be considered experimental. [Eric Prud'hommeaux]
2229 *) Performance improvement for keepalive requests: when setting
2230 aside a small file for potential concatenation with the next
2231 response on the connection, set aside the file descriptor rather
2232 than copying the file into the heap. [Brian Pane]
2234 *) Modified version check on openssl so that it finds the executable
2235 first and then performs a check of the version, only warning the
2236 user if they chose, or we selected, an old version of OpenSSL.
2237 This change also allows the code to work for non-openssl libraries
2238 selected via the --with-ssl=dir option, which can override the
2239 automated library check in any case. [Roy Fielding]
2241 Changes with Apache 2.0.40
2243 *) SECURITY: CAN-2002-0661 (cve.mitre.org)
2244 Close a very significant security hole that
2245 applies only to the Win32, OS2 and Netware platforms. Unix was not
2246 affected, Cygwin may be affected. Certain URIs will bypass security
2247 and allow users to invoke or access any file depending on the system
2248 configuration. Without upgrading, a single .conf change will close
2249 the vulnerability. Add the following directive in the global server
2250 httpd.conf context before any other Alias or Redirect directives;
2251 RedirectMatch 400 "\\\.\."
2252 Reported by Auriemma Luigi <bugtest sitoverde.com>.
2255 *) SECURITY: CAN-2002-0654 (cve.mitre.org)
2256 Close a path-revealing exposure in multiview type
2257 map negotiation (such as the default error documents) where the
2258 module would report the full path of the typemapped .var file when
2259 multiple documents or no documents could be served based on the mime
2260 negotiation. Reported by Auriemma Luigi <bugtest sitoverde.com>.
2263 *) SECURITY: CAN-2002-0654 (cve.mitre.org)
2264 Close a path-revealing exposure in cgi/cgid when we
2265 fail to invoke a script. The modules would report "couldn't create
2266 child process /path-to-script/script.pl" revealing the full path
2267 of the script. Reported by Jim Race <jrace qualys.com>.
2270 *) Set aside the apr-iconv and apr_xlate() features for the Win32
2271 build of 2.0.40 so development can be completed. A patch, from
2272 <http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_2.0.40/>
2273 will be available for those that wish to work with apr-iconv.
2276 *) Fix proxy so that it is possible to access ftp: URLs via a proxy
2277 chain. [Peter Van Biesen <peter.vanbiesen vlafo.be>]
2279 *) mod-deflate now checks to make sure that 'gzip-only-text/html' is
2280 set to 1, so we can exclude things from the general case with
2281 browsermatch. [Ian Holsman, Andre Schild <A.Schild aarboard.ch>]
2283 *) Accept multiple leading /'s for requests within the DocumentRoot.
2284 PR 10946 [William Rowe, David Shane Holden <dpejesh yahoo.com>]
2286 *) Solved the reports of .pdf byterange failures on Win32 alone.
2287 APR's sendfile for the win32 platform collapses header and trailer
2288 buffers into a single buffer. However, we destroyed the pointers
2289 to the header buffer if a trailer buffer was present. PR 10781
2292 *) mod_ext_filter: Add the ability to enable or disable a filter via
2293 an environment variable. Add the ability to register a filter of
2294 type other than AP_FTYPE_RESOURCE. [Jeff Trawick]
2296 *) Restore the ability to specify host names on Listen directives.
2297 PR 11030. [Jeff Trawick, David Shane Holden <dpejesh yahoo.com>]
2299 *) When deciding on the default address family for listening sockets,
2300 make sure we can actually bind to an AF_INET6 socket before
2301 deciding that we should default to AF_INET6. This fixes a startup
2302 problem on certain levels of OpenUNIX. PR 10235. [Jeff Trawick]
2304 *) Replace usage of atol() to parse strings when we might want a
2305 larger-than-long value with apr_atoll(), which returns long long.
2306 This allows HTTPD to deal with larger files correctly.
2307 [Shantonu Sen <ssen apple.com>]
2309 *) mod_ext_filter: Ignore any content-type parameters when checking if
2310 the response should be filtered. Previously, "intype=text/html"
2311 wouldn't match something like "text/html;charset=8859_1".
2314 *) mod_ext_filter: Set up environment variables for external programs.
2315 [Craig Sebenik <craig netapp.com>]
2317 *) Modified the HTTP_IN filter to immediately append the EOS (end of
2318 stream) bucket for C-L POST bodies, saving a roundtrip and allowing
2319 the caller to determine that no content remains without prefetching
2320 additional POST body. [William Rowe]
2322 *) Get proxy ftp to work over IPv6. [Shoichi Sakane <sakane kame.net>]
2324 *) Look for OpenSSL libraries in /usr/lib64. [Peter Poeml <poeml suse.de>]
2326 *) Update SuSE layout. [Peter Poeml <poeml suse.de>]
2328 *) Changes to the internationalized error documents:
2329 Comment them out in the default config file to make the default
2330 install as simple as possible; Correct the english 500 error to
2331 be more understandable; Add a Swedish translation.
2332 [Thomas Sjogren <thomas northernsecurity.net>,
2333 Erik Abele <erik codefaktor.de>, Rich Bowen, Joshua Slive]
2335 *) Increase the limit on file descriptors per process in apachectl.
2338 *) Fix a dependency error when building ApacheMonitor, so that Win32
2339 and MSVC now trust that the project is current (when it is).
2340 [James Cox <imajes php.net>]
2342 *) mod_ext_filter: don't segfault if content-type is not set. PR 10617.
2343 [Arthur P. Smith <apsmith aps.org>, Jeff Trawick]
2345 *) APR-Util Renames pending have been completed [Thom May]
2347 *) Performance improvements for the code that reads request
2348 headers (ap_rgetline_core() and related functions) [Brian Pane]
2350 *) Add a new directive: MaxMemFree. MaxMemFree makes it possible
2351 to configure the maximum amount of memory the allocators will
2352 hold on to for reuse. Anything over the MaxMemFree threshold
2353 will be free()d. This directive is useful when uncommon large
2354 peaks occur in memory usage. It should _not_ be used to mask
2355 defective modules' memory use. [Sander Striker]
2357 *) Fixed the Content-Length filter so that HTTP/1.0 requests to CGI
2358 scripts would not result in a truncated response.
2359 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Cliff Woolley]
2361 *) Add a filter_init parameter to the filter registration functions
2362 so that a filter can execute arbitrary code before the handlers
2363 are invoked. This resolves a problem where mod_include requests
2364 would incorrectly return a 304. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2366 *) Fix a long-standing bug in 2.0, CGI scripts were being called
2367 with relative paths instead of absolute paths. Apache 1.3 used
2368 absolute paths for everything except for SuExec, this brings back
2369 that standard. [Ryan Bloom]
2371 *) Fix infinite loop due to two HTTP_IN filters being present for
2372 internally redirected requests. PR 10146. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2374 *) Switch conn_rec->keepalive to an enumeration rather than a bitfield.
2377 *) Fix mod_ext_filter to look in the main server for filter definitions
2378 when running in a vhost if the filter definition is not found in
2379 the vhost. PR 10147 [Jeff Trawick]
2381 *) Support WinNT CGI invocation through ScriptInterpreterSource
2382 'registry' for script interpreter paths and names with non-ascii
2383 characters in the executable filepath. [William Rowe]
2385 *) Support the -w flag on to keep the Win32 console open on error.
2388 *) Normalize the hostname value in the request_rec to all-lowercase
2389 [Perry Harrington <pedward webcom.com>]
2391 *) Fix WinNT cgi 500 errors when QUERY_ARGS or other strings include
2392 extended characters (non US-ASCII) in non-utf8 format. This brings
2393 Win32 back into CGI/1.1 compliance, and leaves charset decoding up
2394 to the cgi application itself. [William Rowe]
2396 *) Major overhaul of mod_dav, mod_dav_fs and the experimental/cache
2397 modules to bring them up to the current apr/apr-util APIs.
2400 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache most frequently observed when
2401 serving the same file to multiple clients on an MP machine.
2404 *) mod_rewrite can now set cookies (RewriteRule (.*) - [CO=name:$1:.domain])
2405 [Brian Degenhardt <bmd mp3.com>, Ian Holsman]
2407 *) Fix perchild to work with apachectl by adding -k support to perchild.
2408 PR 10074 [Jeff Trawick]
2410 *) Fix a silly htpasswd.c logic error that incorrectly reported that
2411 both -c and -n had been used. PR 9989 [Cliff Woolley]
2413 *) Fixed a mod_include error case in which no HTTP response was sent
2414 to the client if an shtml document contained an unterminated SSI
2415 directive [Brian Pane]
2417 *) Improve ap_get_client_block implementation by using APR-util brigade
2418 helper functions and relying on current filter assumptions.
2421 Changes with Apache 2.0.39
2423 *) Fixed a build problem in htpasswd.c on Win32.
2424 [Guenter Knauf <eflash gmx.net>, Cliff Woolley]
2426 Changes with Apache 2.0.38
2428 *) Rewrite htpasswd to use APR. The removes the annoying warning about
2429 tmpnam being unsafe. [Ryan Bloom]
2431 *) We must set the MIME-type for .shtml files to text/html if we want them
2432 to be parsed for SSI tags. Add the config for that to the default
2433 config file so that it is easier to enable .shtml parsing.
2434 [Dave Dyer <ddyer real-me.net>]
2436 *) Fixed a problem with 'make install' on ReliantUnix.
2437 [Jean-frederic Clere <jfrederic.clere fujitsu-siemens.com>]
2439 *) Make the default_handler catch all requests that aren't served by
2440 another handler. This also gets us to return a 404 if a directory
2441 is requested, there is no DirectoryIndex, and mod_autoindex isn't
2442 loaded. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2444 *) Fixed the handling of nested if-statements in shtml files.
2445 PR 9866 [Brian Pane]
2447 *) Allow 'make install DESTDIR=/path'. This allows packagers to install
2448 into a directory different from the one that was configured. This
2449 also mirrors the root= feature from 1.3. We cannot use prefix=,
2450 because both APR and APR-util resolve their installation paths at
2451 configuration time. This means that there is no variable prefix
2452 to replace. [Andreas Hasenack <andreas netbank.com.br>]
2454 *) AIX 4.3.2 and above: Define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
2455 These levels of AIX don't have a thundering herd problem with
2456 accept(). [Jeff Trawick]
2458 *) prefork MPM: Ignore mutex errors during graceful restart. For
2459 certain types of mutexes (particularly SysV semaphores), we
2460 should expect to occasionally fail to obtain or release the
2461 mutex during restart processing. [Jeff Trawick]
2463 *) Fix install-bindist.sh so that it finds any perl instead of just
2464 early perl 5.x versions. This is consistent with a build/install
2465 from source, and it allows the perl scripts installed by a bindist
2466 to work on systems with perl 5.6. [Jeff Trawick]
2468 *) Fix apxs so that the makefile created by "apxs -g" works on AIX and
2469 Tru64 (and probably some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
2471 *) Allow CGI scripts to return their Content-Length. This also fixes a
2472 hang on HEAD requests seen on certain platforms (such as FreeBSD).
2475 *) Added log rotation based on file size to the RotateLog support
2476 utility. [Brad Nicholes]
2478 *) Fix some casting in mod_rewrite which broke random maps.
2479 PR 9770 [Allan Edwards, Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2481 Changes with Apache 2.0.37
2483 *) allow POST method over SSL when per-directory client cert
2484 authentication is used with 'SSLOptions +OptRenegotiate' enabled
2485 and a client cert was found in the ssl session cache.
2487 *) 'SSLOptions +OptRengotiate' will use client cert in from the ssl
2488 session cache when there is no cert chain in the cache. prior to
2489 the fix this situation would result in a FORBIDDEN response and
2490 error message "Cannot find peer certificate chain"
2493 *) ap_finalize_sub_req_protocol() shouldn't send an EOS bucket if
2494 one was already sent. PR 9644 [Jeff Trawick]
2496 *) Fix the display of the default name for the mime types config
2497 file. PR 9729 [Matthew Brecknell <mbrecknell orchestream.com>]
2499 *) Fix the working directory *for WinNT/2K/XP services only* to
2500 change to the Apache directory (one level above the location
2501 of Apache.exe, in the case that Apache.exe resides in bin/.)
2502 Solves the case of ServerRoot /foo paths where /foo was not
2503 on the same drive as /winnt/system32. [William Rowe]
2505 *) Make 2.0's "AcceptMutex" startup message now "completely"
2506 match how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
2508 *) Implement a fixed size memory cache using a priority queue
2511 *) Fix apxs to allow "apxs -q installbuilddir" and to allow
2512 querying certain other variables from config_vars.mk. PR 9316
2515 *) Added the "detached" attribute to the cgi_exec_info_t internals
2516 so that Win32 and Netware won't create a new window or console
2517 for each CGI invoked. PR 8387
2518 [Brad Nicholes, William Rowe]
2520 *) Consolidated the command line parameters and attributes that are
2521 manipulated by the optional function ap_cgi_build_command() in
2522 mod_cgi into a single structure.
2525 *) Get rid of uninitialized value errors with "apxs -q" on certain
2526 variables. [Stas Bekman <stas stason.org>]
2528 *) Fix apxs to allow it to work when the build directory is somewhere
2529 besides server-root/build. PR 8453
2530 [Jeff Trawick and a host of others]
2532 *) Allow ap_discard_request_body to be called multiple times in the
2533 same request. Essentially, ap_http_filter keeps track of whether
2534 it has sent an EOS bucket up the stack, if so, it will only ever
2535 send an EOS bucket for this request.
2536 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein]
2538 *) Remove all special mod_ssl URIs. This also fixes the bug where
2539 redirecting (.*) will allow an SSL protected page to be viewed
2540 without SSL. [Ryan Bloom]
2542 *) Fix the binary build install script so that the build logic
2543 created by "apxs -g" will work when the user has a binary
2544 build. [Jeff Trawick]
2546 *) Allow instdso.sh to work with full paths to the shared module.
2549 *) NetWare: Enabled CGI functionality and added mod_cgi as a built
2550 in module for NetWare [Brad Nicholes]
2552 *) Changed cgi and piped log behavior to accept 65536 characters
2553 on Win32 (matching Linux) before deadlocking between outputing
2554 client stdin, slurping the output from stdout and then the stderr
2555 stream. PR 8179 [William Rowe]
2557 *) Fixed Win32 wintty.exe support to assure the window title is valid.
2558 Elimiates possible gpfault or garbage title without the -t option.
2561 *) Rewrite mod_cgi, mod_cgid, and mod_proxy input handling to use
2562 brigades and input filters. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2564 *) Allow ap_http_filter (HTTP_IN) to return EOS when there is no request
2565 body. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2567 *) NetWare: Piping log entries through RotateLogs using the
2568 CustomLogs directive is finally supported now that we have
2569 the pipes and spawning functionality working.
2572 *) SECURITY: CVE-2002-0392 (cve.mitre.org) [CERT VU#944335]
2573 Detect overflow when reading the hex bytes forming a chunk line.
2576 *) Allow RewriteMap prg:'s to take command-line arguments. PR 8464.
2577 [James Tait <JTait wyrddreams.demon.co.uk>]
2579 *) Correctly return 413 when an invalid chunk size is given on
2580 input. Also modify ap_discard_request_body to not do anything
2581 on sub-requests or when the connection will be dropped.
2584 *) Fix the TIME_* SSL var lookups to be threadsafe. PR 9469.
2587 *) Ensure that apr_brigade_write() flushes in all of the cases that
2588 it should to avoid conditions in some modules that could cause
2589 large amounts of data to be buffered. [Cliff Woolley]
2591 *) Fix problem where mod_cache/mod_disk_cache was incorrectly
2592 stripping the content_type from cached responses.
2595 *) apachectl passes through any httpd options. Note: apachectl
2596 should be used in preference to httpd since it ensures that any
2597 appropriate environment variables have been set up.
2600 *) Fix the combination of mod_cgid, mod_setuexec, and mod_userdir.
2601 PR 7810 [Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc redbrick.dcu.ie>]
2603 *) Fix suexec execution of CGI scripts from mod_include.
2604 PR 7791, 8291 [Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc redbrick.dcu.ie>]
2606 *) Fix segfaults at startup on some platforms when mod_auth_digest,
2607 mod_suexec, or mod_ssl were used as DSO's due to the way they
2608 were tracking the current init phase since DSO's get completely
2609 unloaded and reloaded between phases. PR 9413.
2610 [Tsuyoshi Sasamoto <nazonazo super.win.ne.jp>, Brad Nicholes]
2612 *) Fix mod_include's handling of regular expressions in
2613 "<!--#if" directives [Julius Gawlas <julius_gawlas hp.com>]
2615 *) Fix the worker MPM deadlock problem [Brian Pane]
2617 *) Modify the module documentation to allow for translations.
2618 [Yoshiki Hayashi, Joshua Slive]
2620 *) Fix a file permissions problem which prevented mod_disk_cache
2621 from working on Unix. [Jeff Trawick]
2623 *) Add "-k start|restart|graceful|stop" support to httpd for the Unix
2624 MPMs. These have semantics very similar to the old apachectl
2625 commands of the same name. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
2627 *) Make sure that the runtime dir is created by make install.
2628 PR 9233. [Jeff Trawick]
2630 *) Fix an unusual set of ./configure arguments that could cause
2631 mod_http to be built as a DSO, which it currently doesn't
2633 [Cliff Woolley, Robin Johnson <robbat2 orbis-terrarum.net>]
2635 *) Win32: Fix bug in apr_sendfile() that caused incorrect operation
2636 of the %X, %b and %B logformat options. PR 8253, 8996.
2639 *) If content-encoding is already present, do not run deflate (PR 9222)
2640 [Kazuhisa ASADA <kaz asada.sytes.net>]
2642 *) The APLOG_NOERRNO flag to ap_log_[r]error() is now deprecated.
2643 It is currently ignored and it will be removed in a future release
2644 of Apache. [Jeff Trawick]
2646 *) Removed documentation references to the no-longer-supported
2647 "make certificate" feature of mod_ssl for Apache 1.3.x. Test
2648 certificates, if truly desired, can be generated using openssl
2649 commands. PR 8724. [Cliff Woolley]
2651 *) Remove SSLLog and SSLLogLevel directives in favor of having
2652 mod_ssl use the standard ErrorLog directives. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2654 *) OS/390: LIBPATH no longer has to be manually uncommented in
2655 envvars to get apachectl to set up httpd properly. [Jeff Trawick]
2657 *) mod_isapi: All mod_isapi directives, excluding ISAPICacheFile,
2658 may now be specified to the <File/Directory > container, rather
2659 than by vhost. [William Rowe]
2661 *) mod_isapi: Experimental support for faux async support for ISAPI
2662 modules. [William Rowe]
2664 *) mod_isapi: Major refactoring of the code to rely on apr internals
2665 rather than MS APIs (using our own mod_isapi.h headers for ISAPI
2666 symbol definitions.) [William Rowe]
2668 *) mod_isapi: Fixed the return string length from GetServerVariable
2669 callback, it was not including the trailing null in the consumed
2670 buffer size. This was particularly bad for Delphi 6.0 users.
2671 PR 8934 [Sebastian Hantsch <sebastian.hantsch gmx.de>]
2673 *) Fixed Win32 builds for Microsoft VisualStudio 7.0 (.net).
2676 *) Make apxs look in the correct directory for envvars. It was
2677 broken when sbindir != bindir. PR 8869
2678 [Andreas Sundström <sunkan zappa.cx>]
2680 *) Fix mod_deflate corruption when using multiple buckets. PR 9014.
2681 [Asada Kazuhisa <kaz asada.sytes.net>]
2683 *) Performance enhancements for access logger when using
2684 default timestamp formatting [Brian Pane]
2686 *) Added EnableMMAP config directive to enable the server
2687 administrator to disable memory-mapping of delivered files
2688 on a per-directory basis. [Brian Pane]
2690 *) Performance enhancements for mod_setenvif [Brian Pane]
2692 *) Fix a mod_ssl build problem on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick]
2694 *) Fixed If-Modified-Since on Win32, which would give false positives
2695 because of the sub-second resolution of file timestamps on that
2696 platform. [Cliff Woolley]
2698 *) Reverse the hook ordering for mod_userdir and mod_alias so
2699 that Alias/ScriptAlias will override Userdir. PR 8841
2702 *) Move mod_deflate out of experimental and into filters.
2705 *) Get proxy CONNECT basically working. [Jeff Trawick]
2707 *) Fix mod_rewrite hang when APR uses SysV Semaphores and
2708 RewriteLogLevel is set to anything other than 0. PR: 8143
2709 [Aaron Bannert, Cliff Woolley]
2711 *) Fix byterange requests from returning 416 when using dynamic data
2712 (such as filters like mod_include). [Justin Erenkrantz]
2714 *) Allow mod_rewrite's set of "int:" internal RewriteMap functions
2715 to be extended by third-party modules via an optional function.
2716 [Tahiry Ramanamampanoharana <nomentsoa hotmail.com>, Cliff Woolley]
2718 *) Fix mod_include expression parser's handling of unquoted strings
2719 followed immediately by a closing paren. PR 8462. [Brian Pane]
2721 *) Remove autom4te.cache in 'make distclean'.
2722 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
2724 *) Fix generated httpd.conf to respect layout for LoadModule lines.
2725 PR 8170. [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
2727 *) Win32: During a graceful restart, threads in the new process
2728 were accessing scoreboard slots still in use by active threads in
2729 the old process. [Bill Stoddard]
2731 Changes with Apache 2.0.36
2733 *) Fix some minor formatting issues with ab. Part of this is
2734 in reference to PR 8544, the rest I noticed while testing
2735 the PR fix. [Paul J. Reder]
2737 *) Fix a case where an invalid pass phrase is entered and an
2738 error message is given, but the prompt is not shown again.
2739 This left the user in an ambiguous state. PR 8320 [Paul J. Reder]
2741 *) Close sockets on worker MPM when doing a graceless restart.
2744 *) Reverted a minor optimization in mod_ssl.c that used the vhost ID
2745 as the session id context rather that a MD5 hash of that vhost ID,
2746 because it caused very long vhost id's to be unusable with mod_ssl.
2747 PR 8572. [Cliff Woolley]
2749 *) Fix the link to the description of the CoredumpDirectory
2750 directive in the server-wide document. PR 8643. [Jeff Trawick]
2752 *) Fixed SHMCB session caching. [Aaron Bannert, Cliff Woolley]
2754 *) Synced with remaining changes from mod_ssl 2.8.8-1.3.24:
2755 - Avoid SIGBUS on sparc machines with SHMCB session caches
2756 - Allow whitespace between the pipe and the name of the
2757 program in SSLLog "| /path/to/program". [Cliff Woolley]
2759 *) Introduce mod_ext_filter and mod_deflate experimental modules
2760 to the Win32 build (zlib sources must be in srclib\zlib.)
2763 *) Changes to the worker MPM's queue management and thread
2764 synchronization code to reduce mutex contention [Brian Pane]
2766 *) Don't install *.in configuration files since we already install
2767 *-std.conf files. [Aaron Bannert]
2769 *) Many improvements to the threadpool MPM. [Aaron Bannert]
2771 *) Fix subreqs that are promoted via fast_redirect from having invalid
2772 frec->r structures. This would cause subtle errors later on in
2773 request processing such as seen in PR 7966. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2775 *) More efficient pool recycling logic for the worker MPM [Brian Pane]
2777 *) Modify the worker MPM to not accept() new connections until
2778 there is an available worker thread. This prevents queued
2779 connections from starving for processing time while long-running
2780 connections were hogging all the available threads. [Aaron Bannert]
2782 *) Convert the worker MPM's fdqueue from a LIFO back into a FIFO.
2785 *) Get basic HTTP proxy working on EBCDIC machines. [Jeff Trawick]
2787 *) Allow mod_unique_id to work on systems with no IPv4 address
2788 corresponding to their host name. [Jeff Trawick]
2790 *) Fix suexec behavior with user directories. PR 7810.
2791 [Colm <colmmacc redbrick.dcu.ie>]
2793 *) Reject a blank UserDir directive since it is ambiguous. PR 8472.
2796 *) Make mod_mime use case-insensitive matching when examining
2797 extensions on all platforms. PR 8223. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2799 *) Add an intelligent error message should no proxy submodules be
2800 valid to handle a request. PR 8407 [Graham Leggett]
2802 *) Major improvements in concurrent processing for AB by enabling
2803 non-blocking connect()s and preventing APR from doing blocking
2804 read()s. Also implement fatal error checking for apr_recv().
2807 *) Fix Win32 NTFS Junctions (symlinks). PR 8014 [William Rowe]
2809 *) Fix Win32 'short name' aliases in httpd.conf directives.
2810 PR 8009 [William Rowe]
2812 *) Fix generation of default httpd.conf when the layout paths are
2813 disjoint. PR 7979, 8227. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2815 *) Swap downgrade-1.0 and force-response-1.0 conditional checks so
2816 that downgraded responses can have force-response. PR 8357.
2819 *) Fix perchild MPM so that it can be configured with the move to the
2820 experimental directory. [Scott Lamb <slamb slamb.org>]
2822 *) Fix perchild MPM so that it uses ap_gname2id for groups instead of
2823 ap_uname2id. [Scott Lamb <slamb slamb.org>]
2825 *) Fix AcceptPathInfo. PR 8234 [Cliff Woolley]
2827 *) SECURITY: Added the APLOG_TOCLIENT flag to ap_log_rerror() to
2828 explicitly tell the server that warning messages should be sent
2829 to the client in addition to being recorded in the error log.
2830 Prior to this change, ap_log_rerror() always sent warning
2831 messages to the client. In one case, a faulty CGI script caused
2832 the server to send a warning message to the client that contained
2833 the full path to the CGI script. This could be considered a
2834 minor security exposure. [Bill Stoddard]
2836 *) mod_autoindex output when SuppressRules was specified would
2837 omit the first carriage return so the first item in the list
2838 would appear to the right of the column headings instead of
2839 underneath them. PR 8016 [David Shane Holden <dpejesh yahoo.com>]
2841 *) Moved the call to apr_mmap_dup outside the error branch so
2842 that it would actually get called. This fixes a core dump
2843 at init everytime you use the MMapFile directive. PR 8314
2846 *) Trigger an error when a LoadModule directive attempts to
2847 load a module which is built-in. This is a common error when
2848 switching from a DSO build to a static build. [Jeff Trawick]
2850 *) Change instdso.sh to use libtool --install everywhere and then
2851 clean up some stray files and symlinks that libtool leaves around
2852 on some platforms. This gets subversion building properly since
2853 it needed a re-link to be performed by libtool at install time,
2854 and the old instdso.sh logic to simply cp the DSO didn't handle
2855 that requirement. [Sander Striker]
2857 *) Allow VPATH builds to succeed when configured from an empty
2858 directory. [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
2860 *) Fix 'control reaches end of non-void function' warning in
2861 server/log.c. [Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman collab.net>]
2863 *) Perchild MPM is now correctly deemed as experimental and is now
2864 located in server/mpm/experimental. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2866 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache when garabge collecting an expired
2867 cache entry. [Bill Stoddard]
2869 *) Introduced -E startup_logfile_name option to httpd to allow admins
2870 to begin logging errors immediately. This provides Win32 users
2871 an alternative to sending startup errors to the event viewer, and
2872 allows other daemon tool authors an alternative to logging to stderr.
2875 *) Fix subreqs with non-defined Content-Types being served improperly.
2878 *) Merge in latest GNU config.guess and config.sub files. PR 7818.
2881 *) Move 100 - Continue support to the HTTP_IN filter so that filters
2882 are guaranteed to support 100 - Continue logic without any
2883 intervention. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2885 *) Add HTTP chunked input trailer support. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2887 *) Rename and export get_mime_headers as ap_get_mime_headers.
2890 *) Allow empty Host: header arguments. PR 7441. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2892 *) Properly substitute sbindir as httpd's location in apachectl. PR 7840.
2893 [Andreas Hasenack <andreas netbank.com.br>]
2895 *) Allow Win32 shebang scripts to follow the path (or omit the .exe
2896 suffix from the shebang command), and allow ScriptInterpreterSource
2897 Registry or RegistryStrict to override shebang lines, as 1.3 did.
2898 PR 8004 [William Rowe]
2900 *) worker MPM: Fix a situation where a child exited without releasing
2901 the accept mutex. Depending on the OS and mutex mechanism this
2902 could result in a hang. [Jeff Trawick]
2904 *) Update the instructions for how to get started with mod_example.
2907 *) Fix PidFile to default to rel_runtimedir instead of
2908 rel_logfiledir. PR 7841. [Andreas Hasenack <andreas netbank.com.br>]
2910 *) Win32: Fix problem that caused rapid performance degradation
2911 when number of connecting clients exceeded ThreadsPerChild.
2914 *) Fixed a segfault parsing large SSIs on non-mmap systems.
2917 *) Proxy was bombing out every second keepalive request, caused by a
2918 stray CRLF before the second response's status line. Proxy now
2919 tries to read one more line if it encounters a CRLF where it
2920 expected a status. PR 10010 [Graham Leggett]
2922 *) Deprecated the apr_lock.h API. Please see the following files
2923 for the improved thread and process locking and signaling:
2924 apr_proc_mutex.h, apr_thread_mutex.h, apr_thread_rwlock.h,
2925 apr_thread_cond.h, and apr_global_mutex.h. [Aaron Bannert]
2927 *) Change mod_status to use scoreboard accessor functions so it can
2928 be used in any MPM without having to be recompiled.
2929 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
2931 *) Fix parsing of some AP_DECLARE_DATA declarations so that the filter
2932 handle declarations are recognized. This fixes problems loading
2933 mod_autoindex on some platforms. [Brian Havard]
2935 *) add optional fixup hook to proxy [Daniel Lopez <daniel covalent.net>]
2937 *) Remind the admin about the User and Group directives when we are
2938 unable to set permissions on a semaphore. PR 7812 [Jeff Trawick]
2940 *) fix possible compilation problem in ssl_engine_kernel.c. PR 7802
2943 *) fix possible infinite loop in mod_ssl triggered by certain
2944 netscape clients [Doug MacEachern]
2946 *) fix ProxyPass when frontend is https and backend is http
2949 *) Add DASL support to mod_dav
2950 [Sung Kim <hunkim cse.ucsc.edu>]
2952 Changes with Apache 2.0.35
2954 *) mod_rewrite: updated to use the new APR global mutex type.
2957 *) Fixes for mod_include errors on boundary conditions in which
2958 "<!--#" occurs at the very end of a bucket
2959 [Paul Reder, Brian Pane]
2961 *) worker, prefork, perchild, beos MPMs: Add -DFOREGROUND switch to
2962 cause the Apache parent process to run in the foreground (similar to
2963 -DNO_DETACH except that it doesn't switch session ids).
2966 *) Added support for Posix semaphore mutex locking (AcceptMutex posixsem)
2967 for those platforms that support it. If using the default
2968 implementation, this is between pthread and sysvsem in priority.
2969 This implies it's the new default for Darwin. [Jim Jagielski]
2971 *) AIX: Fix the syntax for setting the LDR_CNTRL and AIXTHREAD_SCOPE
2972 environment variables in the envvars file. [Jeff Trawick]
2974 *) worker MPM: Don't create a listener thread until we have a worker
2975 thread. Otherwise, in situations where we'll have to wait a while
2976 to take over scoreboard slots from a previous generation, we'll be
2977 accepting connections we can't process yet. [Jeff Trawick]
2979 *) Allow worker MPM to build on systems without pthread_kill().
2980 [Pier Fumagalli, Jeff Trawick]
2982 *) Prevent ap_add_output_filters_by_type from being called in
2983 ap_set_content_type if the content-type hasn't changed.
2986 *) Performance: implemented the bucket allocator made possible by the
2987 API change in 2.0.34. [Cliff Woolley]
2989 *) Don't allow initialization to succeed if we can't get a socket
2990 corresponding to one of the Listen statements. [Jeff Trawick]
2992 Changes with Apache 2.0.34
2994 *) Allow all Perchild directives to accept either numerical UID/GID
2995 or logical user/group names. [Scott Lamb <slamb slamb.org>]
2997 *) Make Perchild compile cleanly and serve pages again. [Ryan Bloom]
2999 *) implement ssl proxy to support ProxyPass / https:// and the
3000 SSLProxy* directives [Doug MacEachern]
3002 *) Update mod_cgid to not do single-byte socket reads for CGI headers
3005 *) Made AB's use of the Host: header rfc2616 compliant
3006 by Taisuke Yamada <tai iij.ad.jp> [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
3008 *) The old, legacy (and unused) code in which the scoreboard was totally
3009 and completely contained in a file (SCOREBOARD_FILE) has been
3010 removed. This does not affect scoreboards which are *mapped* to
3011 files using named-shared-memory. [Jim Jagielski]
3013 *) Change bucket brigades API to allow a "bucket allocator" to be
3014 passed in at certain points. This allows us to implement freelists
3015 so that we can stop using malloc/free so frequently.
3016 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
3018 *) Add support for macro expansion within the variable names in
3019 <!--#echo--> and <!--#set--> directives [Brian Pane]
3021 *) Fix some mod_include segfaults [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane, Brad Nicholes]
3023 *) Update the "RedHat" Layout to match Red Hat Linux version 7. PR BZ-7422
3026 *) add compat layer to support RSA SSLC 1.x and 2.x in mod_ssl
3027 [Jon Travis, John Barbee, William Rowe, Ryan Bloom, Doug MacEachern]
3029 *) Add a new parameter to the quick_handler hook to instruct
3030 quick handlers to optionally do a lookup rather than actually
3031 serve content. This is the first of several changes required fix
3032 several problems with how quick handlers work with subrequests.
3035 *) worker MPM: Get MaxRequestsPerChild to work again. [Jeff Trawick]
3037 *) [APR-related] The ordering of the default accept mutex method has
3038 been changed to better match what's done in Apache 1.3. The ordering
3039 is now (highest to lowest): pthread -> sysvsem -> fcntl -> flock.
3042 *) Ensure that the build/ directory is created when using VPATH.
3045 *) Add some popular types to the mime magic file. PR 7730.
3046 [Linus Walleij <triad df.lth.se>, Justin Erenkrantz]
3048 *) Remove the single-byte socket reads for CGI headers [Brian Pane]
3050 *) When a proxied site was being served, Apache was replacing
3051 the original site Server header with it's own, which is not
3052 allowed by RFC2616. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
3054 *) Fix a mod_cgid problem that left daemon processes stranded
3055 in some server restart scenarios. [Jeff Trawick]
3057 *) Added exp_foo and rel_foo variables to config_vars.mk for
3058 all Apache and Autoconf path variables (like --sysconfdir,
3059 --sbindir, etc). exp_foo is the "expanded" version, which means
3060 that all internal variable references have been interpolated.
3061 rel_foo is the same as $exp_foo, only relative to $prefix if they
3062 share a common path. [Aaron Bannert]
3064 *) Fix some restart/terminate problems in the worker MPM. Don't
3065 drop connections during graceful restart. [Jeff Trawick]
3067 *) Change the header merging behaviour in proxy, as some headers
3068 (like Set-Cookie) cannot be unmerged due to stray commas in
3069 dates. [Graham Leggett]
3071 *) Be more vocal about what AcceptMutex values we allow, to make
3072 us closer to how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
3074 *) Get nph- CGI scripts working again. PRs 8902, 8907, 9983
3077 *) Upgraded PCRE library to latest version 3.9 [Brian Pane]
3079 *) Add accessor function to set r->content_type. From now on,
3080 ap_rset_content_type() should be used to set r->content_type.
3081 This change is required to properly implement the
3082 AddOutputFilterByType configuration directive.
3083 [Bill Stoddard, Sander Striker, Ryan Bloom]
3085 *) Add new M_FOO symbols for the WebDAV/DeltaV methods specified by
3086 RFC 3253. Improved the method name/number mapping functions.
3089 *) remove sock_enable_linger from connection.c [Ian Holsman]
3091 *) Fix for virtual host processing where the requested hostname
3092 has a '.' at the end (PR 9187) [Ryan Cruse <ryan estara.com>]
3094 *) mod_dav's APIs for REPORT response handling was changed so that
3095 providers can generate the content directly into the output filter
3096 stack, rather than buffering the response into memory. [Greg Stein]
3098 *) Fix a hang condition with graceful restart and prefork MPM
3099 in the situation where MaxClients is very high but
3100 much fewer servers are actually started at the time of the
3101 restart. [Jeff Trawick]
3103 *) Small performance fixes for mod_include [Brian Pane]
3105 *) Performance improvement for the error logger [Brian Pane]
3107 *) Change configure so that Solaris 8 and above have
3108 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT defined by default.
3109 according to sun people solaris 8+ doesn't have a thundering
3110 herd problem [Ian Holsman]
3112 *) Allow URIs specifying CGI scripts to include '/' at the end
3113 (e.g., /cgi-bin/printenv/) on AIX and Solaris (and other OSs
3114 which ignore '/' at the end of the names of non-directories).
3115 PR 10138 [Jeff Trawick]
3117 *) implement SSLSessionCache shmht and shmcb based on apr_rmm and
3118 apr_shm. [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>]
3120 *) Fix apxs -g handling. Move config_vars.mk from the top build
3121 directory to the build directory. PR 10163 [Jeff Trawick]
3123 *) Fix some mod_include problems which broke evaluation of some
3124 expressions. PR 10108 [Jeff Trawick]
3126 *) Fix the calculation of request time in mod_status. [Stas Bekman]
3128 *) Fix the calculation of thread_num in the worker score structure.
3131 *) Use apr_atomic operations in managing the mod_mem_cache
3132 cache_objects for SMP scalability. (see USE_ATOMICS
3133 preprocessor directive in mod_file_cache)
3136 *) Add filehandle caching to mod_mem_cache. (see CACHE_FD
3137 preprocessor directive in mod_file_cache)
3140 *) Implement prototype mod_disk_cache for use with mod_cache.
3143 *) Add a missing manualdir entry in the Debian config.layout.
3144 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
3146 *) Stop installing libtool for APR and tell APR where it should place
3147 its copy of libtool (via our installbuildpath layout variable).
3150 *) New directive ProxyIOBufferSize. Sets the size of the buffer used
3151 when reading from a remote HTTP server in proxy. [Graham Leggett]
3153 *) Modify receive/send loop in proxy_http and proxy_ftp so that
3154 should it be necessary, the remote server socket is closed before
3155 transmitting the last buffer (set by ProxyIOBufferSize) to the
3156 client. This prevents the backend server from being forced to hang
3157 around while the last few bytes are transmitted to a slow client.
3158 Fix the case where no error checking was performed on the final
3159 brigade in the loop. [Graham Leggett]
3161 *) Scrap CacheMaxExpireMin and CacheDefaultExpireMin. Change
3162 CacheMaxExpire and CacheDefaultExpire to use seconds rather than
3163 hours. [Graham Leggett, Bill Stoddard]
3165 *) New Directive SSIUndefinedEcho. to change the '(none)' echoed
3166 for a undefined variable. [Ian Holsman]
3168 *) Proxy HTTP and CONNECT: Keep trying other addresses from the DNS
3169 when we can't get a socket in the specified address family. We may
3170 have gotten back an IPv6 address first and yet our system is not
3171 configured to allow IPv6 sockets. [Jeff Trawick]
3173 *) Be more careful about recursively removing CVS directories. Make
3174 sure that we aren't cd'ing to their home directory first. PR: 9993
3175 [Aaron Bannert, James LewisMoss <dres lewismoss.net>]
3177 *) Add a missing errordir entry in the Debian config.layout. PR: 10067
3178 [Dirk-Jan Faber <dirk-jan selwerd.nl>, Aaron Bannert,
3179 Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
3181 *) Rename the filter ordering priorities. The recent filtering fixes
3182 have showcased problems with their usage. Therefore, we need to
3183 rename them to increase the clarity. (CONTENT->RESOURCE,
3184 HTTP_HEADER->CONTENT_SET/PROTOCOL) [Justin Erenkrantz]
3186 Changes with Apache 2.0.33
3188 *) Fix a problem in the new --enable-layout functionality where
3189 it wouldn't allow overrides from variables like --prefix,
3190 --bindir, etc. [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
3192 *) Fix a bug in the core input filter for AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE. It
3193 no longer hangs around waiting for the socket to close before
3194 returning exhaustive data. [Aaron Bannert]
3196 *) rename apr_exploded_time_t to apr_time_exp_t (as per renames pending)
3197 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
3199 *) Change mod_ssl to always do a full startup/teardown on restarts.
3200 this allows mod_ssl to be added to a server that is already
3201 running and makes it possible to add/change certs/keys after the
3202 server has been started. [Doug MacEachern]
3204 *) Introduce PassPhraseDialog "|/path/to/pipe" mechanism to mod_ssl.
3205 This pipe must be a bidirectional 'console' style relay, which
3206 mod_ssl prints all prompts to the pipe's stdin, and reads the
3207 passphrases from the pipe's stdout. [William Rowe]
3209 *) Fix bug where --sysconfdir and --localstatedir were being
3210 ignored. [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>, Aaron Bannert]
3213 *) Fix --enable-layout to work again. Caution: When specifying
3214 --enable-layout, common arguments like --prefix, --exec-prefix,
3215 etc. will be ignored and the settings from the layout will be
3216 used instead. [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>, Aaron Bannert]
3219 *) New Directive for mod_proxy: ProxyRemoteMatch. This provides
3220 regex pattern matching for the determination of which requests
3221 to use the remote proxy for. [Jim Jagielski]
3223 *) Fix CustomLog bytes-sent with HTTP 0.9. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3225 *) Prevent Apache from ignoring SIGHUP due to some lingering 1.3
3226 cruft in piped logs and rewritemap child processes.
3229 *) All instances of apr_lock_t have been removed and converted
3230 to one of the following new lock APIs: apr_thread_mutex.h,
3231 apr_proc_mutex.h, or apr_global_mutex.h. No new code should
3232 use the apr_lock.h API, as the old API will soon be deprecated.
3235 *) Merged in changes to mod_ssl up through 2.8.7-1.3.23.
3236 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Cliff Woolley]
3238 *) mod-include: make it handle flush'es and fix the 'false-alarm'
3239 [Justin Erenkrantz, Brian Pane, Ian Holsman]
3241 *) ap_get_*_filter_handle() functions to allow 3rd party modules
3242 to lookup filter handles so they can bypass the filter name
3243 lookup when adding filters to a request (via ap_add_*_filter_handle())
3244 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
3246 *) Fix for multiple file buckets on Win32, where the first file
3247 bucket would cause the immediate closure of the socket on any
3248 non-keepalive requests. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
3250 *) Correct Win32 failure of mmap of a segment beyond start of the
3251 file; fixes large SSL and similar transfers. [William Rowe]
3254 *) Implement apr_proc_detach changes and allow -DNO_DETACH in the
3255 multi-process mode to not "daemonize" while detaching from the
3256 controlling terminal. This is necessary for Apache to work with
3257 process-management tools like AIX's "System Resource Controller"
3258 as well as Dan Bernstein's "daemontools".
3259 [Jos Backus <josb cncdsl.com>, Aaron Bannert]
3261 *) Convert mod_auth_digest to use the new apr_global_mutex_t
3262 type. [Aaron Bannert]
3264 *) fix bug in mod-include where it wouldn't send a unmatched
3265 part if it was at the end of a bucket [Ian Holsman]
3267 *) worker MPM: Improve logging of errors with the interface between
3268 the listener thread and worker threads. [Jeff Trawick]
3270 *) Some browsers ignore cookies that have been merged into a
3271 single Set-Cookie header. Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2 headers
3272 are now unmerged in the http proxy before being sent to the
3273 client. [Graham Leggett]
3275 *) Fix a problem with proxy where each entry of a duplicated
3276 header such as Set-Cookie would overwrite and obliterate the
3277 previous value of the header, resulting in multiple header
3278 values (like cookies) going missing.
3279 [Graham Leggett, Joshua Slive]
3281 *) Add the server-limit and thread-limit values to the scoreboard
3282 for the sake of third-party applications.
3283 [Adam Sussman <myddryn vishnu.vidya.com>]
3285 *) Fix segfault when proxy recieves an invalid HTTP response [Ian Holsman]
3287 *) OS/390: Get make install to properly copy DSO modules.
3290 *) Win32: Fix bug in mod_status with displaying "Restart Time"
3291 and "Server uptime".
3294 *) Fix IPv6 name-based virtual hosts. [Jeff Trawick]
3296 *) Introduce AddOutputFilterByType directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3298 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI support in mod_cgi. PR 9670, 9671.
3299 [David MacKenzie <djm pix.net>]
3301 *) Fix incorrect check for script_in in mod_cgi. PR 9669.
3302 [David MacKenzie <djm pix.net>]
3304 *) Fix segfault and display error when SSLMutex file can not be
3305 created. [Adam Sussman <myddryn vishnu.vidya.com>]
3307 *) Add reference counting to mod_mem_cache cache objects to
3308 better manage removing objects from the cache.
3311 *) Change the verbage on the ScoreBoardFile in our default configs.
3312 Also change the default to be commented out (unspecified) so we
3313 get anonymous shared memory by default. [Aaron Bannert]
3315 *) Implement new ScoreBoardFile directive logic. This affects how
3316 we create the scoreboard's shared memory segment. If the directive
3317 is present, a name-based segment is created. If the directive is
3318 not present, first an anonymous segment is created, and if that
3319 fails, a name-based segment is created from a file of the name
3320 DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD. This gives third-party applications the
3321 ability to access our scoreboard. [Aaron Bannert]
3323 *) Allow mod_deflate to work with non-GET requests and properly send
3324 Content-Lengths. [Sander Striker <striker apache.org>]
3326 *) Fix ap_directory_merge() to correctly merge configs when there is
3327 no <Directory /> block. [Justin Erenkrantz, William Rowe]
3329 *) Remove spurious debug messsages that are normal under HTTP
3330 keep-alive logic. [Jeff Trawick, Justin Erenkrantz]
3332 *) Fix a bug in mod_cgid that would prevent proper shutdown death
3333 of the cgid process. [Aaron Bannert]
3335 *) Add signal handling back in to the worker MPM for the one_process
3336 (-X, -DDEBUG, -DONE_PROCESS) case. [Aaron Bannert]
3338 *) Performance: Reuse per-connection transaction pools in the
3339 worker MPM, rather than destroying and recreating them. [Brian Pane]
3341 *) Remove all signals from the worker MPM's child process. Instead,
3342 the parent uses the Pipe of Death for all communication with the
3343 child processes. [Ryan Bloom]
3345 Changes with Apache 2.0.32
3347 *) mod_negotiation: ForceLanguagePriority now uses 'Prefer' as the
3348 default if the directive is not specified. This mirrors older
3349 behavior without changes to the httpd.conf. [William Rowe]
3351 *) Win32: solve the win32 service problems in 2.0.31-alpha, by fixing
3352 the service, mpm and logging code, and bugs in apr_file_open_stderr
3353 and apr_file_dup2 functions. Win2K/XP services have no handles
3354 associated for stdin/out/err, which caused unpredictable behavior
3355 in the prior release. [William Rowe, Bill Stoddard]
3357 *) Win32: simplify the Application Event Log messages, since there isn't
3358 likely to be 'more information in the error log' before an error log
3359 has been opened. [William Rowe]
3361 *) Win32: substantial cleanup to the mpm_winnt code for legibility and
3362 to follow the program flow of other MPMs. [Ryan Bloom, William Rowe]
3364 *) Win32: apache -k shutdown now behaves like apache -k stop.
3367 *) Fix prefork to not kill the parent if a child hits a resource shortage
3368 on accept(). [Greg Ames]
3370 *) Fix seg faults that occur when what should be the httpd request line
3371 starts with \r\n followed by garbage. [Greg Ames]
3373 *) Allow statically linked support binaries with the new
3374 --enable-static-support flag, and enable this behavior in
3375 the binbuild script. Also add a new --enable-static-htdbm
3376 flag. [Aaron Bannert]
3378 *) Allow mod_autoindex to serve symlinks if permitted and attempt to
3379 do only one stat() call when generating the directory listings.
3382 *) Fix resolve_symlink to save the original symlink name if known.
3385 *) Be a bit more sane with regard to CanonicalNames. If the user has
3386 specified they want to use the CanonicalName, but they have not
3387 configured a port with the ServerName, then use the same port that
3388 the original request used. [Ryan Bloom and Ken Coar]
3390 *) In core_input_filter, check for an empty brigade after
3391 APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE(). Otherwise, we can get segfaults if a
3392 client says it will post some data but we get FIN before any
3393 data arrives. [Jeff Trawick]
3395 *) Not being able to bind to the socket is a fatal error. We should
3396 print an error to the console, and return a non-zero status code.
3397 With these changes, all of the Unix MPMs do that correctly.
3400 *) suexec: Allow HTTPS and SSL_* environment variables to be passed
3401 through to CGI scripts. PR 9163
3402 [Brian Reid <breid customlogic.com>,
3403 Zvi Har'El <rl math.technion.ac.il>]
3405 *) binbuild.sh: Make sure that we use the expat from our source
3406 tree so that there aren't any surprises on the target machine.
3409 *) mod_cgid: Add retry logic for when the daemon can't fork fast
3410 enough to keep up with new requests. Start using
3411 HTTP_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE instead of HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
3412 when we can't talk to the daemon. [Jeff Trawick]
3414 *) apxs: LTFLAGS envvar can override default libtool options. Try
3415 "LTFLAGS=' ' apxs -c mod_foo.c" to see what libtool does under
3416 the covers. [Jeff Trawick]
3418 *) The Location: response header field, used for external
3419 redirect, *must* be an absoluteURI. The Redirect directive
3420 tested for that, but RedirectMatch didn't -- it would allow
3421 almost anything through. Now it will try to turn an abs_path
3422 into an absoluteURI, but it will correctly varf like Redirect
3423 if the final redirection target isn't an absoluteURI. [Ken Coar]
3425 Changes with Apache 2.0.31
3427 *) Create the scoreboard (in the parent) in a global pool context,
3428 so it survives graceful restarts. This fixes a SEGV during
3429 graceful restarts. [Aaron Bannert]
3431 *) Add a timeout option to the proxy code 'ProxyTimeout'
3434 *) FTP directory listings are now always retrieved in ASCII mode.
3435 The FTP proxy properly escapes URI's and HTML in the generated
3436 listing, and escapes the path components when talking to the FTP
3437 server. It is now possible to browse the root directory by using
3438 a url like: ftp://user@host/%2f/ (ported from apache_1.3.24)
3439 Also, the last path component may contain wildcard characters
3440 '*' and '?', and if they do, a directory listing is created instead
3441 of a file retrieval. Example: ftp://user@host/httpd/server/*.c
3444 *) Added single-listener unserialized accept support to the
3445 worker MPM [Brian Pane]
3447 *) New Directive for mod_proxy: 'ProxyPreserveHost'. This passes
3448 the incoming host header through to the proxied server
3449 [Geoff <g.russell ieee.org>]
3451 *) New Directive Option for ProxyPass. It now can block a location
3452 from being proxied [Jukka Pihl <jukka.pihl entirem.com>]
3454 *) Don't let the default handler try to serve a raw directory. At
3455 best you get gibberish. Much worse things can happen depending
3456 on the OS. [Jeff Trawick]
3458 *) Change the pre_config hook to return a value. Modules can now emit
3459 an error message and then cause the server to quit gracefully during
3460 startup. This required a bump to the MMN. [Aaron Bannert]
3462 *) Fix some unix socket descriptor leaks in the handler side of
3463 mod_cgid (the part that runs in the server process). Whack a
3464 silly "close(-1)" in the handler too. [Jeff Trawick]
3466 *) Change the pre_mpm hook to return a value, so that scoreboard
3467 init errors percolate up to code that knows how to exit
3468 cleanly. This required a bump to the MMN. [Jeff Trawick]
3470 *) Add the socket back to the conn_rec and remove the create_connection
3471 hook. The create_connection hook had a design flaw that did not
3472 allow creating connections based on vhost info. [Bill Stoddard]
3474 *) Fixed PATH_INFO and QUERY_STRING from mod_negotiation results.
3475 Resolves the common case of using negotation to resolve the request
3476 /script/foo for /script.cgi/foo. [William Rowe]
3478 *) Added new functions ap_add_(input|output)_filter_handle to
3479 allow modules to bypass the usual filter name lookup when
3480 adding hard-coded filters to a request [Brian Pane]
3482 *) caching should now work on subrequests (still very experimental)
3485 *) The Win32 mpm_winnt now has a shared scoreboard. [William Rowe]
3487 *) Change ap_get_brigade prototype to use apr_off_t instead of apr_off_t*.
3490 *) Refactor ap_rgetline so that it does not use an internal brigade.
3491 Change ap_rgetline's prototype to return errors. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3493 *) Remove mod_auth_db. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3495 *) Do not install unnecessary pcre headers like config.h and internal.h.
3496 [Joe Orton <joe manyfish.co.uk>]
3498 *) Change in quick_hanlder behavior for subrequests. it now passes DONE
3499 (as it does for a normal request). quick_handled sub-requests now work
3500 in mod-include [Ian Holsman]
3502 *) Change SUBREQ_CORE so that it is a 'HTTP_HEADER' filter instead of
3503 'CONTENT' one, as it needs to run AFTER all content headers
3505 *) Rename BeOS MPM directive RequestsPerThread to MaxRequestsPerThread.
3508 *) Split out blocking from the mode in the input filters.
3511 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
3513 *) Cause Win32 to capture all child-worker process errors in
3514 Apache to the main server error log, until the child can
3515 open its own error logs. [William Rowe]
3517 *) HPUX 11.*: Do not kill the child process when accept()
3518 returns ENOBUFS on HPUX 11.*. (ported from th 1.3 patch)
3519 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>, Bill Stoddard]
3521 *) Fix a problem in the parsing of the <Proxy foo> directive.
3524 *) rewrite of mod_ssl input filter for better performance and less
3525 memory usage [Doug MacEachern]
3527 *) allow quick_handler to be run on subrequests. [Ian Holsman]
3529 *) mod_dav now asks its provider to place content directly into the
3530 filter stack when handling a GET request. The mod_dav/provider
3531 API has changed, so providers need to be updated. [Greg Stein]
3533 *) Clear the output socket descriptor in unixd_accept() to make sure
3534 we don't supply a bogus socket to the caller if the accept fails.
3535 This caused problems with the worker MPM, which tried to process
3536 the returned socket if it was non-NULL. [Brian Pane]
3538 *) Move a check for an empty brigade to the start of core input filter
3539 to avoid segfaults. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
3541 *) Add FileETag directive to allow configurable control of what
3542 data are used to form ETag values for file-based URIs. MMN
3543 bumped to 20020111 because of fields added to the end of
3544 the core_dir_config structure. [Ken Coar]
3546 *) Fix a segfault in mod_rewrite's logging code caused by passing the
3547 wrong config to ap_get_remote_host(). [Jeff Trawick]
3549 *) Allow mod_cgid to work from a binary distribution install by
3550 using 755 for the permissions on the log directory instead of
3553 *) Fixed a segfault that happened during graceful shutdown (or when
3554 the httpd ran out of file descriptors) with the worker MPM [Brian Pane]
3556 *) Split all Win32 modules [excluding the core components mod_core,
3557 mod_so, mod_win32 and the winnt mpm] into individual loadable
3558 modules, so the administrator may individually disable the former
3559 compiled-in modules by simply commenting out their LoadModule
3560 directives. [William Rowe]
3562 *) Saved Win32 module authors and porters many future headaches, by
3563 duplicating the appropriate .h files such as os.h into the include
3564 directory, including in the build tree. [William Rowe]
3566 *) mod_ssl adjustments to help with using toolkits other than OpenSSL:
3567 Use SSL functions/macros instead of directly dereferencing SSL
3568 structures wherever possible.
3569 Add type-casts for the cases where functions return a generic pointer.
3570 Add $SSL/include to configure search path.
3571 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>]
3573 *) Moved several pointers out of the shared Scoreboard so it is
3574 more portable, and will present the vhost name across server
3575 generation restarts. [William Rowe]
3577 *) Fix SSLPassPhraseDialog exec: and SSLRandomSeed exec:
3580 Changes with Apache 2.0.30
3582 *) Fix the main bug for FreeBSD and threaded MPM's. There are
3583 still issues (see STATUS) but at least the server will now
3584 run without crashing the machine.
3585 [David Reid, Aaron Bannert, Justin Erenkrantz]
3587 *) Fix a typo in mod_deflate's m4 config section.
3588 [albert chin <china thewrittenword.com>]
3590 *) Fix a couple of mod_proxy problems forwarding HTTP connections
3591 and handling CONNECT:
3592 (1) PR #9190 Proxy failed to connect to IPv6 hosts.
3593 (2) Proxy failed to connect when the first IP address returned by
3594 the resolver was unreachable but a secondary IP address was.
3597 *) Fix the module identifer as shown in the docs for various core
3598 modules (e.g., the identifer for mod_log_config was previously
3599 listed as config_log_module). PR #9338
3600 [James Watson <ap2bug sowega.org>]
3602 *) Fix LimitRequestBody directive by placing it in the HTTP
3603 filter. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3605 *) Fix mod_proxy seg fault when the proxied server returns
3606 an HTTP/0.9 response or a bogus status line.
3609 *) Prevent mod_proxy from truncating one character off the
3610 end of the status line returned from the proxied server.
3611 [Adam Sussman, Bill Stoddard]
3613 *) Eliminate loop in ap_proxy_string_read().
3614 [Adam Sussman, Bill Stoddard]
3616 *) Provide $0..$9 results from mod_include regex parsing.
3619 *) Allow mod-include to look for alternate start & end tags [Ian Holsman]
3621 *) Introduced the ForceLanguagePriority directive, to prevent
3622 returning MULTIPLE_CHOICES or NONE_ACCEPTABLE in some cases,
3623 when using Multiviews. [William Rowe]
3625 *) Fix a problem which prevented mod_cgid and suexec from working
3626 together reliably [Greg Ames]
3628 *) Remove the call to exit() from within mod_auth_digest's post_config
3629 phase. [Aaron Bannert]
3631 *) Fix a problem in mod_auth_digest that could potentially cause
3632 problems with initialized static data on a system that uses DSOs.
3635 *) Fix a segfault in the worker MPM that could happen during
3636 child process exits. [Brian Pane, Aaron Bannert]
3638 *) Allow mod_auth_dbm to handle multiple DBM types [Ian Holsman]
3640 *) Fix matching of vhosts by ip address so we find IPv4
3641 vhost address when target address is v4-mapped form of
3642 that address. [Jeff Trawick]
3644 *) More performance tweaks to the BNDM string-search algorithm
3645 used to find "<!--#" tokens in mod_include [Brian Pane]
3647 *) Miscellaneous small performance fixes: optimized away various
3648 string copy operations and removed large temp buffers from
3649 the stack [Brian Pane]
3651 *) Fixed startup segfault that occurred when a VirtualHost
3652 directive had a port but no address [Brian Pane]
3654 *) Allow htdbm to work with multiple DBM types [Ian Holsman]
3656 *) Win32: Made change to apr_sendfile() to return APR_ENOTIMPL
3657 if oslevel < WINNT. This should fix several problems reported
3658 Against 2.0.28 on Windows 98 [Bill Stoddard]
3660 *) Win32: Fix bug that could cause CGI scripts with QUERY_STRINGS
3661 to fail. [Bill Stoddard]
3663 *) Change core code to allow an MPM to set hard thread/server
3664 limits at startup. prefork, worker, and perchild MPMs now have
3665 directives to set these limits. [Jeff Trawick]
3667 *) Win32: The async AcceptEx() event should be autoreset upon
3668 successful completion of a wait (WaitForSingleObject). This
3669 eliminates a number of spurious
3670 setsockopt(SO_UPDATE_ACCEPT_CONTEXT) failed." messages.
3673 *) Move any load library path environment variables out of
3674 apachectl and into a separate environment variable file which
3675 can be more easily tailored by the admin. The environment
3676 variable file as built by Apache may have additional system-
3677 specific settings. For example, on OS/390 we tailor the heap
3678 settings to allow lots of threads. [Jeff Trawick]
3680 *) Use the new APR pool code to reduce pool-related lock
3681 contention in the worker MPM. [Sander Striker]
3683 *) The POD no longer assumes the child is listening on 127.0.0.1
3684 and now pulls the first hostname in the list of listeners to
3685 perform the dummy connect on. This fixes a bug when the user
3686 had configured the Listen directive for an IP other than
3687 127.0.0.1. This would result in undead children and error
3688 messages such as "Connection refused: connect to listener".
3691 *) The worker MPM now respects the LockFile setting, needed to
3692 avoid locking problems with NFS. [Jeff Trawick]
3694 *) Fix segfault when worker MPM receives SIGHUP.
3695 [Ian Holsman, Aaron Bannert, Justin Erenkrantz]
3697 *) Fix bug that could potentially prevent the perchild MPM from
3698 working with more than one vhost/uid. [Aaron Bannert]
3700 *) Change make install and apxs -i processing of DSO modules to
3701 perform special handling on platforms where libtool doesn't install
3702 mod_foo.so. This fixes some wonkiness on HP-UX, Tru64, and AIX
3703 which prevented standard LoadModule statements from working.
3706 *) Whenever mod_so is enabled (not just when there are DSOs for
3707 our modules), do whatever special magic is required for compiling/
3708 loading third-party modules. This allows third-party DSOs to
3709 be used on an AIX build when there were no built-in modules
3710 built as DSOs. (This should help on OS/390 and BeOS as well.)
3713 *) Allow apxs to be used to build DSOs on AIX without requiring the
3714 user to hard-code the list of import files. (This should help
3715 on OS/390 and BeOS as well.) [Jeff Trawick]
3717 *) Resolved segfault in mod_isapi when configuring with ISAPICacheFile.
3718 PR 8563, 8919 [William Rowe]
3720 *) Get binary builds working when libapr and libaprutil are built
3723 *) Get shared builds of libapr and libaprutil, as well as Apache DSOs,
3724 working on AIX. [Aaron Bannert, Dick Dunbar <RLDunbar pacbell.net>,
3725 Gary Hook <ghook us.ibm.com>, Victor Orlikowski, Jeff Trawick]
3727 *) Fix the handling of SSI directives in which the ">" of the
3728 terminating "-->" is the last byte in a file [Brian Pane]
3730 *) Add back in the "suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /path/to/suexec)"
3731 message that we had back in apache-1.3 and still have scattered
3732 throughout our docs. [Aaron Bannert]
3734 *) Prevent the Win32 port from continuing after encountering an
3735 error in the command line args to apache. [William Rowe]
3737 *) On a error in the proxy, make it write a line to the error log
3740 *) Various mod_ssl performance improvements [Doug MacEachern]
3742 Changes with Apache 2.0.29
3744 *) Add buffering in core_output_filter to ensure that long
3745 lists of small buckets don't cause small packet writes.
3746 [Brian Pane, Ryan Bloom]
3748 *) Fix the installation target to make sure that the manual is
3749 installed in the correct location.
3750 [Yoshifumi Hiramatsu <hiramatu boreas.dti.ne.jp> and
3751 Gomez Henri <hgomez slib.fr>]
3753 *) Fix the cmd command for mod_include. When we are processing
3754 a cmd command, we do not want to use the r->filename to set
3755 the command name. The command comes from the SSI tag. To do this,
3756 I added a variable to the function that builds the command line
3757 in mod_cgi. This allows the include_cmd function to specify
3758 the command line itself. [Ryan Bloom]
3760 *) Change open_logs hook to return a value, allowing you
3761 to flag a error while opening logs
3762 [Ian Holsman, Doug MacEachern]
3764 *) Change post_config hook to return a value, allowing you
3765 to flag a error post config
3766 [Ian Holsman, Jeff Trawick]
3768 *) Allow SUEXEC_BIN (the path to the suexec binary that is
3769 hard-coded into the server) to be specified to the configure
3770 script by the --with-suexec-bin parameter. [Aaron Bannert]
3772 *) Fix segv in worker MPM following accept on pipe-of-death
3775 *) Add mod_deflate to experimental.
3776 [Ian Holsman, Justin Erenkrantz]
3778 *) Bail out at configure time if an invalid MPM was specified.
3779 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere fujitsu-siemens.com>]
3781 *) Prevent segv in ap_note_basic_auth_failure() when no AuthName is
3782 configured [John Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
3784 *) Fix apxs to use sbindir. [Henri Gomez <hgomez slib.fr>]
3786 *) Fix a problem with IPv6 vhosts. PR #8118 [Jeff Trawick]
3788 *) Optimization for the BNDM string-search function in
3789 mod_include. [Brian Pane]
3791 *) Fixed the behavior of the XBitHack directive.
3792 [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>, Cliff Woolley] PR#8804
3794 *) The threaded MPM for Unix has been removed. Use the worker
3795 MPM instead. [various]
3797 *) APR-ize the resolver logic in mod_unique_id. This fixes a bug
3798 in logging the error from a failed DNS lookup. [Jeff Trawick]
3800 *) Added the missing macros AP_INIT_TAKE13 and AP_INIT_TAKE123.
3803 *) Get mod_cgid killed when a MPM exits due to a fatal error.
3806 *) Fix a file descriptor leak in mod_include. When we include a
3807 file, we use a sub-request, but we didn't destroy the sub-request
3808 immediately, instead we waited until the original request was
3809 done. This patch closes the sub-request as soon as the data is
3810 done being generated. [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3812 *) Allow modules that add sockets to the ap_listeners list to
3813 define the function that should be used to accept on that
3814 socket. Each MPM can define their own function to use for
3815 the accept function with the MPM_ACCEPT_FUNC macro. This
3816 also abstracts out all of the Unix accept error handling
3817 logic, which has become out of synch across Unix MPMs.
3820 *) Fix a bug which would cause the response headers to be omitted
3821 when sending a negotiated ErrorDocument because the required
3822 filters were attached to the wrong request_rec.
3823 [John Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
3825 *) Remove commas from the end of the macros that define
3826 directives that are used by MPMs. Prior to this patch,
3827 you would use these macros without commas, which was unlike
3828 the macros for any other directives. Now, the caller provides
3829 the comma rather than the macro providing it. This makes
3830 the macros look more like the rest of the directives.
3831 [Ryan Bloom and Cliff Woolley]
3833 *) Add 'redirect-carefully' environment option to disable sending
3834 redirects under special circumstances. This is helpful for
3835 Microsoft's WebFolders when accessing a directory resource via
3836 DAV methods. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3838 *) Begin to abstract out the underlying transport layer.
3839 The first step is to remove the socket from the conn_rec,
3840 the server now lives in a context that is passed to the
3841 core's input and output filters. This forces us to be very
3842 careful when adding calls that use the socket directly,
3843 because the socket isn't available in most locations.
3846 *) Really reset the MaxClients value in worker and threaded
3847 when the configured value is not a multiple of the number
3848 of threads per child. We said we did previously but we
3849 forgot to. [Jeff Trawick]
3851 *) Add Debian layout. [Daniel Stone <daniel sfarc.net>]
3853 *) If shared modules are requested and mod_so is not available,
3854 produce a fatal config-time error. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3856 *) Improve http2env's performance by cutting the work it has to
3857 do. [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3859 *) use new 'apr_hash_merge' function in mod_mime (performance fix)
3860 [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3862 Changes with Apache 2.0.28
3864 *) Fix infinite loop in mod_cgid.c.
3865 [Dale Ghent <daleg elemental.org>, Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3867 *) When no port is given in a "ServerName host" directive, the
3868 server_rec->port is now set to zero, not 80. That allows for
3869 run-time deduction of the correct server port (depending on
3870 SSL/plain, and depending also on the current setting of
3871 UseCanonicalName). This change makes redirections
3872 work, even with https:// connections. As in Apache-1.3, the
3873 connection's actual port number is never used, only the ServerName
3874 setting or the client's Host: setting. Documentation updated
3875 to reflect the change. [Martin Kraemer]
3877 *) Add a '%{note-name}e' argument to mod-headers, which works in
3878 the same way as mod_log_confg. [Ian Holsman]
3880 *) Fix the spelling of the AP_MPMQ_MIN_SPARE_DAEMONS and
3881 AP_MPMQ_MAX_REQUESTS_DAEMON macros in ap_mpm.h and all standard
3882 MPMs. [Cliff Woolley]
3884 *) Introduce htdbm, a user management utility for db/dbm authorization
3885 databases. [Mladen Turk <mturk mappingsoft.com>]
3887 *) Optimize usage of strlen and strcat in ap_directory_walk.
3888 [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3890 Changes with Apache 2.0.27
3892 *) Introduce an Apache mod_ssl initial configuration template
3893 (ssl.conf, generated from ssl-std.conf). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3895 *) Fixed a memory leak in the getline parsing code that could
3896 be triggered by arbitrarily large header lines. Requests
3897 from the core input filter for single lines are now limited
3898 to HUGE_STRING_LEN (8192 bytes). [Aaron Bannert]
3900 *) Fix a truncation bug in how we print the port on the Via: header.
3901 The routine that prints the Via: header now takes a length for
3902 the port string. [Zvi Har'El <rl math.technion.ac.il>]
3904 *) Some syntax errors in mod_mime_magic's magic file can result
3905 in a 500 error, which previously was unlogged. Now we log the
3906 error. [Jeff Trawick]
3908 *) Add the support/checkgid helper app, which checks the run-time
3909 validity of group identifiers usable in the Group directive.
3912 *) Various --enable-so options have been fixed: --enable-so is
3913 treated as "static"; explicit --enable-so=shared issues an error;
3914 and explicit --enable-so fails with error on systems without
3915 APR_HAS_DSO. [Aaron Bannert]
3917 *) Fix a segfault in the core input filter when the client socket
3918 gets disconnected unexpectedly. [Cliff Woolley]
3920 *) Fix the reporting for child processes that die. This removes
3921 all of the non-portable W* macros from Apache.
3922 [Jeff Trawick and Ryan Bloom]
3924 *) Win32: Track and display "Parent Server Generation:" in
3925 mod_status output. The generation will be bumped at
3926 server graceful restart, when the child process exits
3927 by hitting MaxRequestsPerChild or if the child
3928 process exits abnormally. [Bill Stoddard]
3930 *) Win32: Fix problem where MaxRequestsPerChild directive was
3931 not being picked up in favor of the default. Enable
3932 the parent to start up a new child process immediately upon
3933 the old child starting shutdown.
3936 *) Fix some bungling of the remote port in rfc1413.c so that
3937 IdentityCheck retrieves the proper user id instead of failing
3938 and thus always returning "nobody."
3939 [Dick Streefland <Dick.Streefland xs4all.nl>]
3941 *) Introduced thread saftey for mod_rewrite's internal cache.
3942 [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3944 *) Simplified mod_env's directives to behave as most directives are
3945 expected, in that UnsetEnv will not unset a SetEnv and PassEnv
3946 directive following that UnsetEnv within the same container.
3947 Also provides a runtime startup warning if a PassEnv configured
3948 environment value is undefined. [William Rowe]
3950 *) The worker MPM is now completely ported to APR's new lock API. It
3951 uses native APR types for thread mutexes, cross-process mutexes,
3952 and condition variables. [Aaron Bannert]
3954 *) Sync up documentation to remove all references to the now deprecated
3955 Port directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3957 *) Moved all ldap modules from the core to httpd-ldap sub-project
3960 *) Exit when we can't listen on any of the configured ports. This
3961 is the same behavior as 1.3, and it avoids having the MPMs to
3962 deal with bogus ap_listen_rec structures. [Jeff Trawick]
3964 *) Cleanup the proxy code that creates a request to the origin
3965 server. This change adds an optional hook, which allows modules
3966 to gain control while the request is created if the proxy module
3967 is loaded. The purpose of this hook is to allow modules to add
3968 input and/or output filters to the request to the origin. While
3969 I was at it, I made the core use this hook, so that proxy request
3970 creation uses some of the code from the core. This can still be
3971 greatly improved, but this is a good start. [Ryan Bloom]
3973 Changes with Apache 2.0.26
3975 *) Port the MaxClients changes from the worker MPM to the threaded
3978 *) Fix mod_proxy so that it handles chunked transfer-encoding and works
3979 with the new input filtering system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3981 *) Introduce the MultiviewsMatch directive, to allow the operator
3982 to be flexible in recognizing Handlers and Filters filename
3983 extensions as part of the Multiviews matching logic, strict with
3984 MultiviewsMatch NegotiatedOnly to accept only filename extentions
3985 that designate negotiated parameters, (content type, charset, etc.)
3986 or MultiviewsAll for the 1.3 behavior of matching any files, even
3987 if they have unregistered extensions. [William Rowe]
3989 *) Fixed the configure script to add a LoadModule directive to
3990 the default httpd.conf for any module that was compiled
3991 as a DSO. [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3993 *) rewrite mod_ssl input filtering to work with the new input filtering
3994 system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3996 *) prefork: Don't segfault when we are able to listen on some but
3997 not all of the configured ports. [Jeff Trawick]
3999 *) Build mod_so even if no core modules are built shared.
4000 [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
4002 *) Introduce ap_directory_walk rewrite (with further optimizations
4003 required) to adapt to the ap_process_request_internal() changes.
4004 Optimized so subrequests and redirects now reuse previous section
4005 merges, until we mismatch with the original directory_walk, and
4006 precomputed r->finfo results will cause directory_walk to skip
4007 the most expensive phases of the function. [William Rowe]
4009 *) Allow ApacheMonitor to connect to and control Apache on other
4010 WinNT/2K machines. [Mladen Turk <mturk mappingsoft.com>]
4012 *) Remove the Port directive. In it's place, the Listen directive
4013 is now a required directive, which tells Apache what port to
4014 listen on. The ServerName directive has also been extended
4015 to accept an optional port. If the port is specified to the
4016 ServerName, the server will report that port whenever it
4017 reports the port that it is listening on. This change was
4018 made to ease configuration errors that stem from having a Port
4019 directive, and a Listen directive. In that situation, the server
4020 would only listen to the port specified by the Listen command,
4021 which caused a lot of confusion to users. [Ryan Bloom]
4023 *) Added mod_mime_magic, mod_unique_id and mod_vhost_alias to the Win32
4024 build, as loadable modules. [William Rowe]
4026 *) Fix --enable-mods-shared processing. If most is specified,
4027 then all modules that can be compiled as shared modules are.
4028 [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
4030 *) Update the mime.types file to map video/vnd.mpegurl to mxu
4031 and add commonly used audio/x-mpegurl for m3u extensions.
4032 [Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106 uni-bonn.de>, Lars Eilebrecht]
4034 *) Eliminate the depreciated r->content_language, in favor of the array
4035 r->content_languages introduced many years ago. Module authors must
4036 substantially overhaul their modules, so this needs to be upgraded
4037 if the module still relied on backwards-brokeness. [William Rowe]
4039 *) Allow configure help strings to work with autoconf 2.50+ and 2.13.
4042 *) Rewrite the input filtering mechanisms to consolidate and reorganize
4043 code. In short, core_input_filter does something now and
4044 ap_http_filter is now only concerned with HTTP. [Justin Erenkrantz]
4046 *) Update the Win32 build to re-absorb mod_proxy and family.
4049 *) Resolved the build failure on Win32 using MSVC 5.0 (without the
4050 current SDK.) [William Rowe]
4052 *) Some style changes to the code that does ProxyErrorOverride. Fixed
4053 config merge behaviour. [Graham Leggett]
4055 *) Allow support programs to be compiled against a static version
4056 of libapr. This allows the smaller support programs to be
4057 relocated. [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
4059 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
4060 of 2001-09-25, and add mapping for xsl extension [Mark Cox]
4062 *) Fix MaxClients in the Worker MPM, so that it specifies the maximum
4063 number of clients that can connect at the same time, instead of
4064 specifying the maximum number of child processes.
4065 [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
4067 *) Switch proc_pthread AcceptMutex configuration directive to pthread to
4068 be consistent with 1.3. [Justin Erenkrantz]
4070 *) Cache apr_explode_localtime() value for 15 seconds.
4071 [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
4073 *) Fix mod_include to not return ETag or Last-Modified headers.
4074 [Ian Holsman <ianh cnet.com>]
4076 *) Fix worker MPM's scoreboard logic. [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
4078 *) Eliminate the wasteful run-time conversion of method names from strings
4079 to numbers in places where the methods are known at compile time.
4080 [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
4082 *) Turn the worker MPM's queue into a LIFO. This may
4083 improve cache-hit performance under some conditions.
4084 [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
4086 *) Switch back to SIGUSR1 for graceful restarts on all platforms that
4087 support it. [Justin Erenkrantz]
4089 *) Cleanup the worker MPM. We no longer re-use transaction
4090 pools. This incurs less overhead than shuffling the pools
4091 around so that they can be re-used. Remove one of the
4092 queue's condition variables. We just redefined the API to
4093 state that you can't try to add more stuff than you allocated
4094 segments for. [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
4096 *) Fix SSL VPATH builds [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net>]
4098 *) Fixed persistent connections when a request contains a body.
4101 *) mod_dav uses a new API to speak to the backend provider for dead
4102 property management. [Greg Stein]
4104 *) Remove the Win32 script-processing exception from mod_cgi, and
4105 roll build_command_line/build_argv_list into a unified, overrideable
4106 ap_cgi_build_command optional function. [William Rowe]
4108 *) Rewrite find_start_sequence to use a better search algorithm
4109 to find the start tag. [Justin Erenkrantz]
4111 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_include. When we are generating an
4112 internal redirect, we must set r->uri to "", not a bogus
4113 string, and not NULL. [Ryan Bloom]
4115 *) Optimized location_walk, so subrequests, redirects and second passes
4116 now reuse previous section merges on a <Location > by <Location >
4117 basis, until we mismatch with the original location_walk.
4120 *) Back out the 1.45 change to util_script.c. This change made
4121 us set the environment variable REQUEST_URI to the redirected
4122 URI, instead of the originally requested URI.
4123 [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
4125 *) Make mod_include do lazy evaluation of potentially expensive to
4126 compute variables. [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
4128 *) Fix logging of bytes sent for HEAD requests. %b and %B should
4129 log either - or 0, before this patch, they were both logging
4130 the file size. [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
4132 *) Make mod_include check for BYTE_CHECK_THRESHOLD per bucket rather
4133 than per character. [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
4135 *) Normalize the primary request, redirects and sub-requests to
4136 run the same ap_process_request_internal for consistency in
4137 robustness, behavior and security. [William Rowe]
4139 *) Fix a segfault with mod_include when r->path_info is not set
4140 (which is the case with mod_proxy). [Ian Holsman <ianh cnet.com>]
4142 *) Add -X functionality back. This indicates to all MPMs and any other
4143 part of Apache that it should run in "debug" mode. [Justin Erenkrantz]
4145 *) Some initial support for the cygwin platform [prefork only].
4146 This is not to be confused with support for the WinNT/Win32
4147 platform, which is the recommended configuration for native
4148 Win32 users. The cygwin platform support is recommended for
4149 cygwin platform users. [Stipe Tolj <tolj wapme-systems.de>]
4151 *) Changed syntax of Set{Input|Output}Filter. The list of filters
4152 must be semicolon delimited (if more than one filter is given.)
4153 The Set{Input|Output}Filter directive now overrides a parent
4154 container's directive (e.g. SetInputFilter in <Directory /web/foo>
4155 will override any SetInputFilter directive in <Directory /web>.)
4156 This new syntax is more consistent with Add{Input|Output}Filter
4157 directives defined in mod_mime. Also cures a bug in prior releases
4158 where the Set{Input|Output}Filter directive would corrupt the
4159 global configuration if the multiple directives were nested.
4162 *) Cured what's ailed mime for quite some time. If an AddSomething
4163 was given in the configuration (Language, Charset, Handler or
4164 Encoding) Apache would set the content type as given by AddType,
4165 but refused to check the mime.types file if AddType wasn't given
4166 for that specific extension. Setting the AddHandler for .html
4167 without setting the AddType text/html html would cause Apache to
4168 use the default content type. [William Rowe]
4170 *) Added some bulletproofing to memory allocation in the LDAP cache
4171 code. [Graham Leggett]
4173 Changes with Apache 2.0.25
4175 *) Move the installed /manual directory out of the /htdocs/ tree, so
4176 that it can be kept more independently from the remaining document
4177 root. The "Alias /manual ..." already allowed for easy projection
4178 into existing private document trees. [Martin Kraemer]
4180 *) Add specified user attributes to the environment when using
4181 mod_auth_ldap. This allows you to use mod_include to embed specified
4182 user attributes in a page like so:
4183 Hello <!--#echo var="AUTHENTICATE_CN"-->, how are you?
4186 *) Fix a performance problem with the worker MPM. We now create
4187 transaction pools once, and re-use them for each connection.
4188 [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
4190 *) Modfied mod_mime to prevent mod_negotation from serving a multiview
4191 of a 'handler' or 'filter', so that any filename extension that does
4192 not contribute to the negotiated metadata can't be served without
4193 an explicit request. E.g., if the .Z extension is associated with
4194 an unzip filter, the user request somefile.Z.html, mod_negotiation
4195 won't serve it. It can serve somefile.Z.html when somefile.Z is
4196 requested, since the .Z extension is explictly requested, if the
4197 .html extension is associated with ContentType text/html.
4200 *) Introduce the AddInputFilter filter[;filter...] ext [ext...]
4201 and corresponding AddOutputFilter syntax, to insert one or more
4202 filters by mod_mime filename extension processing.
4205 *) Fix a growing connection pool in core_output_filter() for
4206 keepalive requests. [Jeff Trawick]
4208 *) Moved split_and_pass_pretag_buckets back to being a
4209 macro at Ryans's request. Removed the return from it
4210 by setting and returning a return code instead. Updated
4211 the code to check the return code from the macro and
4212 do the right thing. [Paul J. Reder]
4214 *) Fix a segfault when a numeric value was received for Host:.
4217 *) Add a function ap_remove_input_filter. This is to match
4218 up with ap_remove_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
4220 *) Clean up location_walk, so that this step performs a minimum
4221 amount of redundant effort (it must be run twice, but it will no
4222 longer reparse all <Location > blocks when the request uri
4223 hadn't changed.) [William Rowe]
4225 *) Eliminate proxy: (and all other 'special') processing from the
4226 ap_directory_walk() phase. Modules that want to use special
4227 walk logic should refer to the mod_proxy map_to_location example,
4228 with it's proxy_walk and proxysection implementation. This makes
4229 either directory_walk flavor much more legible, since that phase
4230 only runs against real <Directory > blocks.
4233 *) SECURITY: Fix a security problem in mod_include which would allow
4234 an SSI document to be passed to the client unparsed.
4235 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
4237 *) Introduce the map_to_storage hook, which allows modules to bypass
4238 the directory_walk and file_walk for non-file requests. TRACE
4239 shortcut moved to http_protocol.c as APR_HOOK_MIDDLE, and the
4240 directory_walk/file_walk happen as APR_HOOK_VERY_LAST in core.c.
4243 *) Add the ability for mod_include to add the INCLUDES filter
4244 if the file is configured for the server-parsed handler.
4245 This makes the configuration for .shtml files much easier
4246 to understand, and allows mod_include to honor Apache 1.3
4247 config files. Based on Doug MacEachern's patch to PHP
4248 to do the same thing. [Ryan Bloom]
4250 *) force OpenSSL to ignore process local-caching and to always
4251 get/set/delete sessions using mod_ssl's callbacks
4252 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>,
4253 Geoff Thorpe <geoff geoffthorpe.net>]
4255 *) Make the worker MPM shutdown and restart cleanly. This also
4256 cleans up some race conditions, and gets the worker using
4257 pools more cleanly. [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
4259 *) Implement CRYPTO_set_locking_callback() in terms of apr_lock
4261 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>]
4263 *) Fix for mod_include. Ryan's patch to check error
4264 codes put a return in the wrong place. Also, the
4265 include handler return code wasn't being checked.
4266 I don't like macros with returns, so I converted
4267 SPLIT_AND_PASS_PRETAG_BUCKETS into a function.
4268 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
4270 *) fix segv in mod_mime if no AddTypes are configured
4271 [John Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
4273 *) Enable ssl client authentication at SSL_accept time
4274 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>]
4276 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include when the original request has no
4277 associated filename (e.g., we're filtering the error document for
4278 a bad URI). [Jeff Trawick]
4280 *) Fix a storage leak (a strdup() call) in mod_mime_magic. [Jeff Trawick]
4282 *) The prefork and OS/2 MPMs are overwriting the pid file when a second copy
4283 of httpd is started and shuts down due to socket conflict. Moving the
4284 call to ap_log_pid solves the problem.
4286 *) Changed the late-1.3 log_config substitution %c to %X, to log the
4287 status of the closed connection, as it conflicts with the far more
4288 common, historical ssl logging directive %...{var}c. [William Rowe]
4290 *) Added the common error/ tree to the build/install targets
4291 (similar to the common icons/ tree) for the multi-language error
4292 messages that Lars committed earlier. [William Rowe]
4294 *) Added a multi process, multi threaded OS/2 MPM mpmt_os2. [Brian Havard]
4296 *) Added a default commented-out mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap
4297 configuration to httpd-std.conf and httpd-win.conf
4300 *) Added documentation for mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap.
4303 *) Enabled negative caching on attribute comparisons in the LDAP cache.
4304 Fixed a problem where the default cache TTL was set in milliseconds
4305 not microseconds causing the cache to time out almost immediately.
4308 *) Fixed all the #if APR_HAS_SHARED_MEMORY checks within the LDAP
4309 module code to follow APR. [Graham Leggett]
4311 *) Fixed LDAP cleanup on graceful restarts. LDAP connections are now
4312 cleaned up when the connection pool pool is cleaned up.
4315 *) Fix a minor issue with Jeff Trawick's mod_include
4316 patch. Without this patch, the code will just allocate
4317 more bytes in get_combined_directive than are needed.
4320 *) Added the LDAP authentication module mod_auth_ldap.
4321 [Dave Carrigan <dave rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
4323 *) Added the LDAP cache and connection pooling module mod_ldap.
4324 [Dave Carrigan <dave rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
4326 *) Fix --enable-modules=all breakage with mod_auth_db and mod_auth_digest
4327 by allowing a module to disable itself if its prerequisites are not
4328 met. [Justin Erenkrantz]
4330 Changes with Apache 2.0.24
4332 *) Fix a couple of issues in mod_include when the tag appeared at
4333 offsets near 8192 in the file being parsed. [Jeff Trawick]
4335 *) Fix an assertion failure in mod_ssl when the keepalive timeout is
4336 reached. [Jeff Trawick]
4338 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 build system. Introduced command line
4339 builds without requiring .mak files for MSVC 6.0 and later versions.
4340 Improved .dsp file compatibility for both Visual Studio 5.0 and 6.0 users.
4343 *) Assorted corrections and improvements to the winnt_mpm startup code. Better
4344 reporting of uninstalled services and other error conditions, and changed the
4345 default service name to Apache2. [William Rowe]
4347 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 ApacheMonitor utility, including winnt_mpm
4348 compatibility with existing Apache 1.3 Win32 Apache management utilites.
4349 [Mladen Turk <mturk mappingsoft.com>, William Rowe]
4351 *) Fixed the segfaults in mod_mime introduced by hash tables in 2.0.20.
4352 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
4354 *) Rounded out the mod_mime Add/Remove pairs by adding RemoveLanguage
4355 and RemoveCharset directives. [William Rowe]
4357 *) The Unix MPMs other than perchild now allow child server
4358 processes to use the accept mutex when starting as root and
4359 using SysV sems for the accept mutex. Previously, this
4360 combination would lead to fatal errors in the child server
4361 processes. perchild can't use SysV sems because of security
4362 issues. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
4364 *) Added Win32 revision stamp resources to all http binaries
4365 (including modules/ and support/ tools.) PR7322 [William Rowe]
4367 *) Fix ap_rvprintf to support more than 4K of data at one time.
4368 [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net>]
4370 *) We have always used the obsolete/deprecated Netscape syntax
4371 for our tracking cookies; now the CookieStyle directive
4372 allows the Webmaster to choose the Netscape, RFC2109, or
4373 RFC2965 format. The new CookieDomain directive allows the
4374 setting of the cookie's Domain= attribute, too. PR #s 5006,
4375 5023, 5920, 6140 [Ken Coar]
4377 *) Tweak server/Makefile so that the rules for generating exports.c
4378 are compatible with make utilities which don't expand wildcards
4379 in a dependency list (e.g., OS/390 make, certain levels of GNU
4380 make). [Jeff Trawick]
4382 *) Install the SSL headers. [John Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
4384 *) Begin to sanitize the MPM configuration directives. Now, all
4385 MPMs use the same functions for all common MPM directives. This
4386 should make it easier to catch all bugs in these directives once.
4387 [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net>]
4389 *) Close a major resource leak. Every time we had issued a
4390 graceful restart, we leaked a socket descriptor.
4393 *) Fix a problem with the new method code. We need to cast
4394 the 1 to an apr_int64_t or it will be treated as a 32-bit
4395 integer, and it will wrap after being shifted 32 times.
4396 [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net> and Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
4398 *) Fix a bug in mod_expires. Previous to this patch, if you
4399 told mod_expires to add 604800 seconds to the last-modified
4400 time, it actually added 604800 usec's to the last-modified time,
4401 so that when looking at the response it looked like nothing
4402 had been done. The root of the problem was that we always compute
4403 time in usec's, but we ask users to input sec's. This means we
4404 need to convert to usec's before using those values.
4407 *) The worker MPM now handles shutdown and restart requests. It
4408 definitely isn't perfect, but we do stop the servers correctly.
4409 The biggest problem right now is that SIGHUP causes the server to
4410 just die. [Ryan Bloom]
4412 Changes with Apache 2.0.23
4414 *) Use the prefork MPM by default on Unix. [various]
4416 *) Added a systray icon monitor application for Win32.
4417 [Mladen Turk <mturk mappingsoft.com>]
4419 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the line ending on some non-Unix systems for
4420 messages written to the rewrite log.
4421 [Richard Labennett <rlabenn us.ibm.com>]
4423 *) All mod_autoindex query parsing is now quietly quashed with the
4424 IndexOption IgnoreClient. The IndexOption SuppressColumnSorting
4425 still drops the column sort <a href>'s for the column headers, but
4426 IgnoreClient is required to ignore these Query options entirely.
4429 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex query argument parsing for F=[0|1|2]
4430 to allow the client to select plain, FancyIndexing or HTMLTable
4431 formatting, V=[0|1] to inhibit or enable version sorting, and
4432 P=pattern to return only specific files. The old Query Arguments
4433 were reorganized as C=f for sorting column 'f' (same N, D, S, or M
4434 as before), and O=A|D for ordering ascending or descending.
4437 *) Fixed an error in mod_include's directive parsing routines which
4438 caused #if, #elif, and #else expressions containing backslashes
4439 to be improperly evaluated. [Cliff Woolley]
4441 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex IndexOptions flags: SuppressIcon to
4442 drop the icon column, SuppressRules to drop the <hr> elements,
4443 and HTMLTable to create rudimentary HTML table listings (implies
4444 FancyIndexing). [William Rowe]
4446 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag TrackModified
4447 from Apache 1.3.15. This is needed for two reasons, first, given
4448 multiple machines within a server farm, ETags and Last-Modified
4449 stamps won't correspond from machine to machine, and second, many
4450 Unixes don't capture changes to the date or time stamp of existing
4451 files, since these don't modify the dirent itself. [William Rowe]
4453 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag FoldersFirst
4454 and DirectoryWidth options from Apache 1.3.10.
4455 [William Rowe, Ken Coar]
4457 *) Eliminated FancyIndexing directive, deprecated early in Apache
4458 1.3 by the IndexOptions FancyIndexing syntax. [William Rowe]
4460 *) mod_autoindex now excludes any file names that would result in
4461 an error, other than a success or redirect. Also optimized
4462 the parent directory, always included except in the URI '/'.
4465 *) Refactored mod_negotiation and mod_mime to help mod_dir accept
4466 negotiated index pages, and prevent the server from defaulting
4467 to an autoindex of the directory. mod_negotiation will now die
4468 with a 500 Internal Error if it could match some filenames
4469 (e.g. for mod_dir) but none can be served. mod_negotation now
4470 refuses to serve any file with an extention that mod_mime doesn't
4471 recognize, and wasn't part of the request. [William Rowe]
4473 *) Eliminate mod_cgi's handling of .exe files without the .exe file
4474 extension. This is already handled by multiviews, if the admin
4475 wishes to AddHandler .exe or define a content type handler and
4476 associate .exe files with that content type. Multiviews must be
4477 enabled to allow these to be served. [William Rowe]
4479 *) Speed up the server's response to a spike in incoming workload
4480 or restarts by assigning empty scoreboard slots to new processes
4481 when they are available. [Greg Ames]
4483 *) Add a handler to mod_includes.c. This handler is designed to
4484 implement the XbitHack directive. This can't be done with a
4485 fixup, because we need to check the content-type, which is
4486 only available in the handler phase. [Ryan Bloom]
4488 *) Make the includes filter check return codes from filters lower in
4489 the filter chain. If a lower level filter returns an error, then
4490 the request needs to stop immediately. This allows mod_include to
4491 stop parsing data once a lower filter recognizes an error.
4494 *) Add the ability to extend the methods that Apache understands
4495 and have those methods <limit>able in the httpd.conf. It uses
4496 the same bit mask/shifted offset as the original HTTP methods
4497 such as M_GET or M_POST, but expands the total bits from an int to
4498 an ap_int64_t to handle more bits for new request methods than
4499 an int provides. [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net>]
4501 *) Fix broken mod_mime behavior in merging its arguments. Possible
4502 cause of unexplicable crashes introduced in 2.0.20. [William Rowe]
4504 *) Solve many mod_ssl porting issues (too many to detail) with
4505 help from the whole team, but most notably [Ralf S. Engelschall,
4506 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>,
4507 Doug MacEachern, William Rowe, Cliff Woolley]
4509 *) More stall fixes for the threaded & worker mpm's.
4510 Make mod_status output more accurate. Don't
4511 count workers in processes which aren't actively
4512 serving requests. [Greg Ames]
4514 *) Win32: Get SSI exec cgi tag working. [Bill Stoddard]
4516 *) Add a single listener/multiple worker MPM. This MPM is
4517 definately not fully correct, but it allows us to solve many
4518 of the problems that exist in the threaded MPM. This is a
4519 modified version of the threaded MPM. [Ryan Bloom]
4521 *) Improve content generation throughout Apache, providing closer
4522 compliance with HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0
4523 Transitional specifications. [William Rowe]
4525 Changes with Apache 2.0.22
4527 *) Fix a problem where the threaded MPM stalls after restarts or
4528 segfaults. Also prevent multiple active processes from using
4529 the same scoreboard slot. [Greg Ames]
4531 *) Apache/Win32 now fills in the service description with Apache's
4532 server version string, including loaded and advertised modules.
4535 *) Improved support for the Win32 build, to recover gracefully from
4536 missing apr or apr-util directories or the awk interpreter,
4537 create the proper cgi-bin examples, including a test-cgi.bat, and
4538 fix the perl shebang line for printenv.pl, when installing from
4539 the build environment. [William Rowe]
4541 *) Fix a segfault in threaded.c caused by passing uninitialized
4542 apr_thread_t * to apr_thread_join(). [Jeff Trawick]
4544 *) Use new APR number conversion functions to reduce CPU consumption
4545 when setting the content length, and in mod_log_config.
4548 *) Fix problem reported by Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>
4549 where HEAD response headers were being repeated twice for
4550 files greater than 32K bytes (4*AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE). This
4551 problem in the http_header filter was exposed by the recent rewrite
4552 of the content_length filter. [Taketo Kabe, Bill Stoddard]
4554 *) Fix seg faults in mod_status with ExtendedStatus enabled, after
4555 restarts. A garbage pointer to a vhost's server_rec from the
4556 previous generation was being left around under certain
4557 conditions. [Greg Ames]
4559 *) Fix a cosmetic problem with mod_include. Non-existant SSI vars
4560 used to appear as '(none', without the closing paren.
4561 [Günter Knauf <eflash gmx.net>]
4563 *) Improve the exports generating awk script. In the past, we had
4564 work around problems in the awk script by avoiding some #if and
4565 #ifdefs. This has bitten us many times in generating the exports.c
4566 file. This improvement allows corrects the header file parsing.
4567 [Sander Striker <striker apache.org>]
4569 Changes with Apache 2.0.21
4571 *) Resolve the Win32 htpasswd bug, where a file that existed would be
4572 overwritten, regardless of the -c flag.
4573 [William Rowe, Mladen Turk <mladen.turk mail.inet.hr>]
4575 *) Introduce connection sub-pools into ab. Truncating the lifetime
4576 of these allocations means that ab no longer perpetually grows
4577 its working set, running out of memory on large request attempts.
4580 *) Make scoreboard creation a hook. This allows management
4581 modules to have access to the scoreboard at the time that it is
4582 created, and at every restart request.
4583 [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net>]
4585 *) Changed AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS to refer to MaxClients and
4586 added an AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMON_USED to refer to the highest
4587 daemon index actually used in the scoreboard. I also
4588 updated the pertinent calls. [Paul J. Reder]
4590 *) Win32: Prevent listening sockets from being inherited by
4591 the Apache child process, CGI scripts, rotatelog process
4592 etc. If the Apache child process segfaults, any processes
4593 that the child started are not reaped. Prior to this fix,
4594 these processes inherited the listening sockets which sometimes
4595 prevented the restarted Apache child process from accepting
4596 connections (ie, the server would hang).
4599 *) Provide vhost and request strings when ExtendedStatus is on.
4602 *) Fix some issues with the pod and prefork: check the pod *after*
4603 processing a connection so that a server processing a time-
4604 consuming request bails out as soon as practical; when the
4605 parent process wakes up a server process via connect(), use an
4606 APR timeout on the connect() so that we don't hang for a long
4607 time if there aren't server processes around to do accept().
4608 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
4610 *) Performance improvement to mod_mime.c. find_ct() in mod_mime,
4611 spends a lot of time in apr_table_get calls. Using the default
4612 httpd.conf, the tables for languages and charsets are somewhat
4613 large, so the time spent scanning them on each request is
4614 significant. Replacing the tables with hash tables provides
4615 a nice speedup. [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
4617 *) Add two functions to allow modules to access random parts of the
4618 scoreboard. This allows modules compiled for one MPM to access the
4619 scoreboard, even if it the server was compiled for another MPM.
4620 [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie covalent.net>]
4622 Changes with Apache 2.0.20
4624 *) Fix problem in content-length filter where the filter would
4625 buffer all the output from a CGI before sending any bytes
4626 down the filter stack to the network. This problem would cause
4627 significant memory consumption if the CGIs generated
4628 lots of bytes. [Bill Stoddard]
4630 *) Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working with the bucket brigades.
4633 *) Fix seg fault on Windows when serving files cached with mod_file_cache.
4636 *) Fix a bug in the threaded MPM that would cause it to kill off all
4637 workers immediately after starting if the number of workers started
4638 was above a certain threshold. [Ryan Bloom, Bill Stoddard]
4640 Changes with Apache 2.0.19
4642 *) Fix problem with threaded MPM. The problem was that if each child
4643 process was busy serving a single long-lived request and the server
4644 was sent a graceful restart signal, the server would stop serving
4645 requests. This would happen because each child process would wait to
4646 die until the last thread was done, and the parent wouldn't spawn any
4647 new children until a process died. Now, the parent looks at the fact
4648 that the children are dying gracefully, and starts new children.
4649 Those new children only start enough threads to compliment the number
4650 of threads in the other child process that shares the same spot in
4651 the scoreboard. In this way, we make sure to never go over
4652 MaxClients. [Ryan Bloom]
4654 *) modified mod_negotiation and mod_autoindex to speed up by almost a
4655 factor of two on apr_dir_read()-enhanced platforms, such as Win32
4656 and OS2, by calling ap_sub_request_lookup_dirent() with the results
4657 already provided by apr_dir_read(). [William Rowe]
4659 *) mod_file_cache is now more robust to filtering and serves requests
4660 slightly more efficiently. [Cliff Woolley]
4662 *) Fix problem handling FLUSH bucket in the chunked encoding filter.
4663 Module was calling ap_rwrite() followed by ap_rflush() but the
4664 served content was not being displayed in the browser. Inspection
4665 of the output stream revealed that the first data chunk was
4666 missing the trailing CRLF required by the RFC. [Bill Stoddard]
4668 *) apxs no longer generates ap_send_http_header() in the example handler
4670 *) Fix an ab problem which could cause a divide-by-zero exception
4671 with certain invocations (e.g., ab -k -c 6 -n 100 localhost/).
4672 [Ian Holsman <ianh cnet.com>]
4674 *) Solve case-insensitive platforms' confusion about negotiated
4675 filenames, allowing files of differnt case to match in choosing
4676 the document to serve. [William Rowe]
4678 *) Fix brokenness when ThreadsPerChild is higher than the built-in
4679 limit. We left ap_threads_per_child at the higher value which
4680 led to segfaults when doing certain scoreboard operations.
4683 *) Fix seg faults and/or missing output from mod_include. The
4684 default_handler was using the subrequest pool for files and
4685 MMAPs, even though the associated APR structures typically
4686 live longer than the subrequest. [Greg Ames]
4688 *) Extend mod_setenvif to support specifying regular expressions
4689 on the SetEnvIf (and SetEnvIfNoCase) directive attribute field.
4690 Example: SetEnvIf ^TS* [a-z].* HAVE_TS
4691 will cause HAVE_TS to be set if any of the request headers begins
4692 with "TS" and has a value that begins with any character in the
4693 set [a-z]. [Bill Stoddard]
4695 *) httpd children now re-bind themselves to a random CPU on
4696 multiprocessor systems on AIX via bindprocessor() in 2.0.
4697 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4699 *) Fix htdigest. It would go into a loop in getline when adding
4700 a second user. [Bill Stoddard]
4702 *) Win32 platforms now fully support mod_userdir options. [Will Rowe]
4704 *) Automatically generate httpd.exp for AIX.
4705 DSOs now work again on AIX in 2.0
4706 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4708 *) Add a new request hook, error_log. This phase allows modules
4709 to act on the error log string _after_ it has been written
4710 to the error log. The goal for this hook is to allow monitoring
4711 modules to send the error string to the monitoring agent.
4714 *) Modify mod_echo to make it use filters for input and output.
4715 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
4717 *) Extend mod_headers to support conditional driven Header
4718 add, append and set. Use SetEnvIf to set an envar and conditionally
4719 add/append/set headers based on this envar thusly:
4721 SetEnvIf TSMyHeader value HAVE_TSMyHeader
4722 Header add MyHeader "%t %D" env=HAVE_TSMyHeader
4724 If the request contains header "TSMyHeader: value" then header
4725 MyHeader: "t=xxxxxxxxxx D=yyyy" will be sent on the response.
4728 *) Extend mod_headers to support using format specifiers on Header
4729 add, append and set header values. Two format specifiers are supported:
4731 %t - reports, in UTC microseconds since the epoch, when the
4732 request was received.
4734 %D - reports the time, in microseconds, between when the request was
4735 received and the response sent.
4738 Header add MyHeader "This request served in %D microseconds. %t"
4740 results in a header being added to the response that looks like this:
4742 MyHeader: This request served in D=5438 microseconds. t=991424704447256
4746 *) Fix reset_filter(). We need to be careful how we remove filters.
4747 If we set r->output_filters to NULL, we also have to reset the
4748 connection's filters. [John Sterling]
4750 *) Optimise reset_filter() in http_protocol.c. [Greg Stein]
4752 *) Add a check to ap_die() to make sure the filter stack is sane and
4753 contains the correct basic filters when an error occurs. This fixes
4754 a problem where headers are not being sent on error. [John Sterling]
4756 *) New Header directive 'echo' option. "Header echo regex" will
4757 cause any headers received on the request that match regex to be
4758 echoed to (included in) the response headers.
4761 *) include/ap_compat.h tested and set APR_COMPAT_H instead of AP_COMPAT_H.
4762 This prevented the inclusion of apr_compat.h. PR #7773
4763 [Oleg Broytmann <phd phd.pp.ru>]
4765 *) Moved util_uri to the apr-util library. This required a bunch of
4766 apr_name changes for the uri utility functions. [Justin Erenkrantz]
4768 *) Move the addition of default AP_HTTP_HTTP_HEADER filters to the
4769 insert_filter phase so that other filters are not bypassed by default.
4772 *) Reimplement mod_headers as an output filter. mod_headers can now
4773 add custom headers to inbound requests using the RequestHeader directive
4774 and to responses using the same old Header directive. [Graham Leggett]
4776 Changes with Apache 2.0.18
4778 *) Fix command-line processing so that if a bad argument is specified
4779 Apache will exit. [Jeff Trawick]
4781 *) Change the make targets and rules to be consistent in all of the
4782 Apache-owned source trees. [Roy Fielding]
4784 *) Fix processing of the TRACE method. Previously we passed bogus
4785 parms to form_header_field() and it overlaid some vhost structures,
4786 resulting in a segfault in check_hostalias().
4787 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
4789 *) Win32: Add support for reliable piped logs. If the logging process
4790 goes down, Apache will automatically restart it. This function has
4791 been part of Apache on Unix/Linux/BSD since the early v1.3 releases.
4794 *) Do not start piped log processes during the config file
4795 preflight. This change also circumvents a problem on
4796 Windows where the rotatelog processes created during preflight
4797 was not getting cleaned up properly.
4800 *) add "Request Phase Participation" info to mod_info
4803 *) Make first phase changes to the scoreboard data structures in
4804 preparation for the rewriting of the scoreboard per my posted
4805 design notes. [Paul J. Reder]
4807 *) Fix httpd's definition of LTFLAGS to be consistent with that of apr
4808 and apr-util, allow it to be overridden by the configure command-line
4809 (default="--silent") and introduce LT_LDFLAGS to replace what we were
4810 formerly abusing as LTFLAGS. [Roy Fielding]
4812 *) Clean up the reporting of incorrect closing container tags.
4813 [Barrie Slaymaker <barries slaysys.com>]
4815 *) Simplify the configure process by moving all libtool stuff to APR
4816 and moving hints.m4 inline. [Roy Fielding]
4818 *) Add the AP_DECLARE()/AP_CORE_DECLARE macros on the return types
4819 of functions used by mod_proxy for export in the DLL
4820 [Ian Holsman <IanH cnet.com>]
4822 *) Prevent a hang when a cgi handled by mod_cgid tries to read a
4823 request body from its stdin but no reqest body is being written to
4824 the cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
4826 *) mod_log_config: %c connection status incorrectly logged
4827 as "-" (non-keepalive) when MaxKeepAliveRequests is set to 0.
4830 *) Get mod_cern_meta working under Windows
4833 *) Create Files, and thus MMAPs, out of the request pool, not the
4834 connection pool. This solves a small resource leak that had us
4835 not closing files until a connection was closed. In order to do
4836 this, at the end of the core_output_filter, we loop through the
4837 brigade and convert any data we have into a single HEAP bucket
4838 that we know will survive clearing the request_rec.
4839 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz ebuilt.com>,
4842 *) Completely revamp configure so that it preserves the standard make
4843 variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LIBS by moving
4844 the configure additions to EXTRA_* variables. Also, allow the user
4845 to specify NOTEST_* values for all of the above, which eliminates the
4846 need for THREAD_CPPFLAGS, THREAD_CFLAGS, and OPTIM. Fix the setting
4847 of INCLUDES and EXTRA_INCLUDES. Check flags as they are added to
4848 avoid pointless duplications. Fix the order in which flags are given
4849 on the compile and link lines. Remove obsolete macros APR_DOEXTRA,
4850 AC_ADD_LIBRARY, AC_CHECK_DEFINE, APACHE_PASSTHRU, and APACHE_ONCE.
4851 Added APR_SAVE_THE_ENVIRONMENT and APR_RESTORE_THE_ENVIRONMENT macros.
4852 Renamed AC_TYPE_RLIM_T macro to APACHE_TYPE_RLIM_T. [Roy Fielding]
4854 *) Get mod_tls to compile/work better on Windows. PR #7612
4855 [Bernhard Schrenk <b.schrenk improx.com>]
4857 *) Fix shutdown/restart hangs in the threaded MPM.
4858 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom]
4860 *) Removed the keptalive boolean from conn_rec because it is now only
4861 used by a single routine and can be replaced by a local variable.
4862 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom, Roy Fielding]
4864 *) Patch prefork to put enough of the signal processing back in so that
4865 signals are all handled properly now. The previous patch fixed the
4866 deadlock race condition, but broke the user directed signal handling.
4867 This fixes it to work the way it did before my previous prefork patch
4868 (primarily, SIGTERM is now working).
4870 *) Change how input filters decide how much data is returned to the
4871 higher filter. We used to use a field in the conn_rec, with this
4872 change, we use an argument to ap_get_brigade to determine how much
4873 data is retrieved. [Ryan Bloom]
4875 *) Fix seg fault at start-up introduced by Ryan's change to enable
4876 modules to specify their own logging tags. mod_log_config
4877 registers an optional function, ap_register_log_handler().
4878 ap_register_log_handler() was being called by http_core before
4879 the directive hash table was created. This patch creates the
4880 directive hash table before ap_register_log_handler() is
4881 registered as an optional function.
4882 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere fujitsu-siemens.com>]
4884 *) Add ap_set_int_slot() function
4885 [John K. Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
4887 *) Under certain circumstances, Apache did not supply the
4888 right response headers when requiring authentication.
4889 [Gertjan van Wingerde <Gertjan.van.Wingerde cmg.nl>] PR#7114
4890 (This is a port of the change that went into Apache 1.3.19.)
4892 *) Allow modules to specify their own logging tags. This basically
4893 allows a module to tell mod_log_config that when %x is encountered
4894 a specific function should be called. Currently, x can be any single
4895 character. It may be more useful to make this a string at some point.
4898 Changes with Apache 2.0.17
4900 *) If a higher-level filter handles the byterange aspects of a
4901 request, then the byterange filter should not try to redo the
4902 work. The most common case of this happening, is a byterange
4903 request going through the proxy, and the origin server handles
4904 the byterange request. The proxy should ignore it.
4905 [Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp.fm>]
4907 *) Changed the threaded mpm to have child_main join to each of the
4908 worker threads to make sure the kids are all gone before child_main
4909 exits after a signal (cleanup from perform_idle_server_maintenance).
4910 This is an extension of Ryans recent commit to make the child_main
4913 *) Add more options to the ap_mpm_query function. This also allows MPMs to
4914 report if their threads are dynamic or static. Finally, this also
4915 implements a new API, ap_show_mpm, which returns the MPM that was
4916 required into the core. [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie covalent.net>]
4918 *) Do not install the binaries from the support directory twice.
4919 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun iijlab.net>]
4921 *) The ap_f* functions should flush data to the filter that is passed
4922 in, not the filter after the one passed in.
4923 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
4925 *) Make ab work again by changing its native types to apr types and formats.
4926 [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz ebuilt.com>]
4928 *) Move the byterange filter and all of the supporting functions back
4929 to the HTTP module. The byterange filter turned out to be very
4930 HTTP specific, and it belongs in the HTTP module. [Greg Stein]
4932 *) Make clean, distclean, and extraclean consistently according to the
4933 Gnu makefile guidelines. [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz ebuilt.com>]
4935 *) Fix errors in the renaming of the apr_threadattr_detach_xxx functions.
4936 This may have been causing problems stopping processes in the threaded
4939 *) Fix content-length in mod_negotiation to a long int representation.
4942 *) Remove BindAddress from the default config file.
4943 [<giles nemeton.com.au>]
4945 *) Allow module authors to add a module to their Apache build using
4946 --with-module, without re-running buildconf. The syntax is:
4947 --with-module=module_type:/path/to/module.c
4948 The configure script will copy the module.c file to
4949 modules/module_type, and it will be added to the relevant Makefiles.
4950 currently, this only works for static modules. [Ryan Bloom]
4952 *) Changes required to make prefork clean up idle children properly.
4953 There was a window during which a starting worker deadlocks when
4954 an idle cleanup arrives before it completes init. Apache then keeps
4955 trying to cleanup the same deadlocked worker forever (until higher
4956 pids come along, but it still will never reduce below the deadlocked
4957 pid). Thus the number of children would not reduce to the correct
4958 idle level. [Paul J. Reder]
4960 Changes with Apache 2.0.16
4962 *) Change the default installation directory to /usr/local/apache2,
4963 as now defined by the "Apache" layout in config.layout. [Marc Slemko]
4965 *) OS/2: Added support for building loadable modules as OS/2 DLLs.
4968 *) Get MaxRequestsPerChild working with the Windows MPM.
4971 *) Make generic hooks to work, with mod_generic_hook_import/export
4972 experimental modules. [Ben Laurie, Will Rowe]
4974 *) Fix segfaults for configuration file syntax errors such as
4975 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directory" and
4976 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directoryz>". [Jeff Trawick]
4978 *) Cleanup the --enable-layout option of configure. This makes
4979 us use a consistent location for the config.layout file, and it
4980 makes configure more portable.
4981 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun iijlab.net>]
4983 *) Changes to 'ab'; fixed int overrun's, added statistics, output in
4984 csv/gnuplot format, rudimentary ssl support and various other tweaks
4985 to make results more true to what is measured. The upshot of this it
4986 turns out that 'ab' has often underreported the true performance of
4987 apache. Often by a order of magnitude :-) See talk/paper of Sander
4988 Temme at April ApacheCon 2001 for details.
4989 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
4991 *) Clean up mod_cgid's temporary request pool. Besides fixing a
4992 storage leak this ensures that some unnecessary pipes are closed.
4995 *) Performance: Add quick_handler hook. This hook is called at the
4996 very beginning of the request processing before location_walk,
4997 translate_name, etc. This hook is useful for URI keyed content
4998 caches like Mike Abbott's Quick Shortcut Cache.
5001 *) top_module global variable renamed to ap_top_module [Perl]
5003 *) Move ap_set_last_modified to the core. This is a potentially
5004 controversial change, because this is kind of HTTP specific. However
5005 many protocols should be able to take advantage of this kind of
5006 information. I expect that headers will need one more layer of
5007 indirection for multi-protocol work, but this is a small step in
5008 the right direction. [Ryan Bloom]
5010 *) Enable mod_status by default. This matches what Apache 1.3 does.
5013 *) Add a ScriptSock directive to the default config file. This is
5014 only enabled when mod_cgid is used.
5015 [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
5017 Changes with Apache 2.0.15
5019 *) Untangled the buildconf script and eliminated the need for build's
5020 aclocal.m4, generated_lists, build.mk, build2.mk, and a host of other
5021 libtool muck that is now under srclib/apr/build. [Roy Fielding]
5023 *) Win32: Don't accept more connections than we have worker threads
5027 *) Fix bug in the Unix threaded.c MPM that allowed child processes
5028 to fork() new child processes.
5031 *) SECURITY: Fix a major security problem with double-reverse lookup
5032 checking. Previously, a client connecting over IPv4 would not be
5033 matched properly when the server had an IPv6 listening socket.
5034 PR #7407 [Taketo Kabe <kiabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
5036 *) Change the way the beos MPM handles polling to allow it to stop and
5037 restart. Problem was the sockets being polled were being reset by
5038 the select call, so once it had accepted a connection it was no
5039 longer listening on the UDP socket we use for shutdown instructions.
5040 APR needs to be altered, patch on it's way. [David Reid]
5042 *) Empty out the brigade shared by ap_getline()/ap_get_client_block()
5043 on error exit from ap_getline(). Some other code got upset because
5044 the wrong data was in the brigade. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
5046 *) Handle ap_discard_request_body() being called more than once.
5047 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
5049 *) Get rid of an inadvertent close of file descriptor 2 in
5050 mod_mime_magic. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
5052 *) Add a hook, create_request. This hook allows modules to modify
5053 a request while it is being created. This hook is called for all
5054 request_rec's, main request, sub request, and internal redirect.
5055 When this hook is called, the r->main, r->prev, r->next
5056 pointers have been set, so modules can determine what kind of
5057 request this is. [Ryan Bloom]
5059 *) Cleanup the build process a bit more. The Apache configure
5060 script no longer creates its own helper scripts, it just
5062 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere fujitsu-siemens.com>]
5064 *) Stop the forced downgrade of the connection to HTTP/1.0 for
5065 proxy requests. [Graham Leggett]
5067 *) Avoid using sscanf to determine the HTTP protocol number in
5068 the common case because sscanf is a performance hog. From
5069 Mike Abbot's Accelerating Apache patch number 6.
5070 [Mike Abbot <mja trudge.engr.sgi.com>, Bill Stoddard]
5072 *) SECURITY: Fix a security exposure in mod_access. Previously when
5073 IPv6 listening sockets were used, allow/deny-from-IPv4-address rules
5074 were not evaluated properly (PR #7407). Also, add the ability to
5075 specify IPv6 address strings with optional prefix length on Allow
5076 and Deny. [Jeff Trawick]
5078 *) Enhance rotatelogs so that a UTC offset can be specified, and
5079 the logfile name can be formatted using strftime(3). (Brought
5080 forward from 1.3.) [Ken Coar]
5082 *) Reimplement the Windows MPM (mpm_winnt.c) to eliminate calling
5083 DuplicateHandle on an IOCompletionPort (a practice which
5084 MS "discourages"). The new model does not rely on associating
5085 the completion port with the listening sockets, thus the
5086 completion port can be completely managed within the child
5087 process. A dedicated thread accepts connections off the network,
5088 then calls PostQueuedCompletionStatus() to wake up worker
5089 threads blocked on the completion port.
5092 *) Bring forward the --suexec-umask option which allows the
5093 builder to preset the umask for suexec processes. [Ken Coar]
5095 *) Add a -V flag to suexec, which causes it to display the
5096 compile-time settings with which it was built. (Only
5097 usable by root or the AP_HTTPD_USER username.) [Ken Coar]
5099 *) Mod_include should always unset the content-length if the file is
5100 going to be passed through send_parsed_content. There is no to
5101 determine if the content will change before actually scanning the
5102 entire content. It is far safer to just remove the C-L as long
5103 as we are scanning it. [Ryan Bloom]
5105 *) Make sure Apache sends WWW-Authenticate during a reverse proxy
5106 request and not Proxy-Authenticate.
5107 [Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp.fm>]
5109 Changes with Apache 2.0.14
5111 *) Fix content-length computation. We ONLY compute a content-length if
5112 We are not in a 1.1 request and we cannot chunk, and this is a keepalive
5113 or we already have all the data. [Ryan Bloom]
5115 *) Report unbounded containers in the config file. Previously, a typo
5116 in the </container> directive could result in the rest of the config
5117 file being silently ignored, with undesired defaults used.
5120 *) Make the old_write filter use the ap_f* functions for the buffering.
5123 *) Move more code from the http module into the core server. This
5124 is core code, basically the default handler, the default input
5125 and output filters, and all of the core configuration directives.
5126 All of this code is required in order for the server to work, with or
5127 without HTTP. The server is closer to working without the HTTP
5128 module, although there is still more to do. [Ryan Bloom]
5130 *) Fix a number of SGI compile warnings throughout the server. Fix some
5131 bad parameters to apr_bucket_read(). Fix a bad statement in
5132 ap_method_in_list(). For the mod_rewrite cache use apr_time_t
5133 consistently; we were mixing apr_time_t and time_t in invalid ways
5134 before. In load_file(), call apr_dso_error() instead of
5135 apr_strerror() so that we get a more specific string on some platforms.
5136 PR #6980 [Jeff Trawick]
5138 *) Allow modules to query the MPM about it's execution profile. This
5139 query API can and should be extended in the future, but for now,
5140 max_daemons, and threading or forking is a very good start.
5141 [Jon Travis <jtravis covalent.net>]
5143 *) Modify mod_include to send blocks of data no larger than 9k.
5144 Without this, mod_include will wait until the whole file is parsed,
5145 or the first tag is found to send any data to the client.
5146 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
5148 *) Fix mod_info, so that <Directory> and <Location> directives are
5149 not displayed twice when displaying the current configuration.
5150 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
5152 *) Add config directives to override DEFAULT_ERROR_MSG and
5153 DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT. This was sent in as PR 6193.
5154 [Dan Rench <drench xnet.com>]
5156 *) Get mod_info building and loading on Win32. [William Rowe]
5158 *) Begin to move protocol independant functions out of mod_http. The goal
5159 is to have only functions that are HTTP specific in the http directory.
5162 Changes with Apache 2.0.13
5164 *) Don't assume that there will always be multiple calls to the byterange
5165 filter. It is possible that we will need to do byteranges with only
5166 one call to the filter. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
5168 *) Move the error_bucket definition from the http module to the
5169 core server. Every protocol will need this ability, not just
5172 Changes with Apache 2.0.12
5174 *) Modify mod_file_cache to save pre-formatted strings for
5175 content-length and last-modified headers for performance.
5176 [Mike Abbot <mja trudge.engr.sgi.com>]
5178 *) Namespace protect IOBUFSIZ since it is exposed in the API.
5179 [Jon Travis <jtravis covalent.net>]
5181 *) Use "Basic" authentication instead of "basic" in ab, as the spec
5182 says we should. [Andre Breiler <andre.breiler rd.bbc.co.uk>]
5184 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_userdir.c. We used to use the pw structure
5185 without ever filling it out. This fixes PR 7271.
5186 [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp> and
5187 Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley yahoo.com>]
5189 *) Add a couple of GCC attribute tags to printf style functions.
5190 [Jon Travis <jtravis covalent.net>]
5192 *) Add the correct language tag for interoperation with the Taiwanese
5193 versions of MSIE and Netscape. [Clive Lin <clive CirX.ORG>] PR#7142
5195 *) Migrate the perchild MPM to use the new apr signal child, and
5196 APR thread functions. [Ryan Bloom]
5198 *) Close one copy of the CGI's stdout before creating the new process.
5199 The CGI will still have stdout, because we have already dup'ed it.
5200 This keeps Apache from waiting forever to send the results of a CGI
5201 process that has forked a long-lived child process.
5202 [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
5204 *) Remove the rest of the pthreads functions from the threaded MPM.
5205 This requires the APR support for a signal thread that was just
5208 *) Make mod_dir use a fixup for sending a redirect to the browser.
5209 Before this, we were using a handler, which doesn't make much
5210 sense, because the handler wasn't generating any data, it would
5211 either return a redirect error code, or DECLINED. This fits the
5212 current hooks better. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
5214 *) Make the threaded MPM use APR threads instead of pthreads.
5217 *) Get mod_tls to the point where it actually appears to work in all cases.
5220 *) implement --enable-modules and --enable-mods-shared for "all" and
5221 "most". [Greg Stein]
5223 *) Move the threaded MPM to use APR locks instead of pthread locks.
5226 *) Rename mpmt_pthread to threaded. This is more in line with the
5227 fact that mpmt_pthread shouldn't be using pthreads directly, and
5228 it is a smaller name that doesn't tie into anything.
5231 *) Rename the module structures so that the exported symbol matches
5232 the file name, and it is easier to automate the installation
5233 process (generating LoadModule directives from the module filenames).
5236 *) Remove the coalesce filter. With the ap_f* functions, this filter
5237 is no longer needed. [Ryan Bloom]
5239 Changes with Apache 2.0.11
5241 *) Remove the dexter MPM. Perchild is the same basic idea, but it has the
5242 added feature of allowing a uid/gid per child process. If no
5243 uid/gid is specified, then Perchild behaves exactly like dexter.
5246 *) Get perchild building again. [Ryan Bloom]
5248 *) Don't disable threads just because we are using the prefork MPM.
5249 If somebody wants to compile without threads, they must now add
5250 --disable-threads to the configure command line. [Ryan Bloom]
5252 *) Begin to move the calls to update_child_status into common code, so
5253 that each individual MPM does not need to update the scoreboard itself.
5256 *) Allow mod_tls to compile under Unix boxes where openssl has been
5257 installed to the system include files.
5258 [Gomez Henri <new-httpd slib.fr>]
5260 *) Cleanup the mod_tls configure process. This should remove any need
5261 to hand-edit any files. We require OpenSSL 0.9.6 or later, but
5262 configure doesn't check that yet. [Ryan Bloom]
5264 *) Add a very early prototype of SSL support (in mod_tls.c). It is
5265 vital that you read modules/tls/README before attempting to build
5268 *) Fix a potential seg fault on all platforms. David Reid fixed this
5269 on BEOS, but the problem could happen anywhere, so we don't want
5270 to #ifdef it. [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley yahoo.com>]
5272 *) Add new LogFormat directive, %D, to log time it takes to serve a
5273 request in microseconds. [Bill Stoddard]
5275 *) Change AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter to SetInputFilter and
5276 SetOutputFilter. This corresponds nicely with the other Set
5277 directives, which operate on containers while the Add* directives
5278 tend to work directly on extensions. [Ryan Bloom]
5280 *) Cleanup the header handling a bit. This uses the apr_brigade_*
5281 functions for the buffering so that we don't need to compute
5282 the length of the headers before we actually create the header
5283 buffer. [Ryan Bloom]
5285 *) Allow filters to buffer data using the ap_f* functions. These have
5286 become macros that resolve directly to apr_brigade_*.
5289 *) Get the Unix MPM's to do a graceful restart again. If we are going
5290 to register a cleanup with ap_cleanup_scoreboard, then we have to
5291 kill the cleanup with the same function, and that function can't be
5292 static. [Ryan Bloom]
5294 *) Install all required header files. Without these, it was not
5295 possible to compile some modules outside of the server.
5298 *) Fix the AliasMatch directive in Apache 2.0. When we brought a patch
5299 forward from 1.3 to 2.0, we missed a single line, which broke regex
5300 aliases. [Ryan Bloom]
5302 *) We have a poor abstraction in the protocol. This is a temporary
5303 hack to fix the bug, but it will need to be fixed for real. If
5304 we find an error while sending out a custom error response, we back
5305 up to the first non-OK request and send the data. Then, when we send
5306 the EOS from finalize_request_protocol, we go to the last request,
5307 to ensure that we aren't sending an EOS to a request that has already
5308 received one. Because the data is sent on a different request than
5309 the EOS, the error text never gets sent down the filter stack. This
5310 fixes the problem by finding the last request, and sending the data
5311 with that request. [Ryan Bloom]
5313 *) Make the server status page show the correct restart time, and
5314 thus the proper uptime. [Ryan Bloom]
5316 *) Move the CGI creation logic from mod_include to mod_cgi(d). This
5317 should reduce the amount of duplicate code that is required to
5318 create CGI processes.
5319 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
5321 *) ap_new_connection() closes the socket and returns NULL if a socket
5322 call fails. Usually this is due to a connection which has been
5323 reset. [Jeff Trawick]
5325 *) Move the Apache version information out of httpd.h and into release.h.
5326 This is in preparation for the first tag with the new tag and release
5327 system. [Ryan Bloom]
5329 *) Begin restructuring scoreboard code to enable adding back in
5330 the ability to use IPC other than shared memory.
5331 Get mod_status working on Windows again. [Bill Stoddard]
5333 *) Make mod_status work with 2.0. This will work for prefork,
5334 mpmt_pthread, and dexter. [Ryan Bloom]
5336 *) Correct a typo in httpd.conf.
5337 [Kunihiro Tanaka <tanaka apache.or.jp>] PR#7154
5339 *) Really fix mod_rewrite map lookups this time. [Tony Finch]
5341 *) Get the correct IP address if ServerName isn't set and we can't
5342 find a fully-qualified domain name at startup.
5343 PR#7170 [Danek Duvall <dduvall eng.sun.com>]
5345 *) Make mod_cgid work with SuExec. [Ryan Bloom]
5347 *) Adopt apr user/group name features for mod_rewrite. Eliminates some
5348 'extra' stat's for user/group since they should never occur, and now
5349 resolves the SCRIPT_USER and SCRIPT_GROUP, including on WinNT NTFS
5350 volumes. [William Rowe]
5352 *) Adopt apr features to simplify mod_includes. This changes the
5353 behavior of the USER_NAME variable, unknown uid's are now reported
5354 as USER_NAME="<unknown>" rather than the old user#000 result.
5355 WinNT now resolves USER_NAME on NTFS volumes. [William Rowe]
5357 *) Adopt apr features for simplifing mod_userdir, and accept the new
5358 Win32/OS2 exceptions without hiccuping. [William Rowe]
5360 *) Replace configure --with-optim option by using and saving the
5361 environment variable OPTIM instead. This is needed because configure
5362 options do not support multiple flags separated by spaces.
5365 *) Fix some byterange handling. If we get a byte range that looks like
5366 "-999999" where that is past the end of the file, we should return
5367 a PARTIAL CONTENT status code, and return the whole file as one big
5368 byterange. This matches the 1.3 handling now. [Ryan Bloom]
5370 *) Make the error bucket a real meta-data bucket. This means that the
5371 bucket length is 0, and a read returns NULL data. If one of these
5372 buckets is passed down after the headers are sent, this data will
5373 just be ignored. [Greg Stein]
5375 *) The prefork MPM wasn't killing child processes correctly if a restart
5376 signal was received while the process was serving a request. The child
5377 process would become the equivalent of a second parent process. If
5378 we break out of the accept loop, then we need to do die after cleaning
5379 up after ourselves. [Ryan Bloom]
5381 *) Change the Prefork MPM to use SIGWINCH instead of SIGUSR1 for graceful
5382 restarts. [Ryan Bloom]
5384 *) Modify the apr_stat/lstat/getfileinfo calls within apache to use
5385 the most optimal APR_FINFO_wanted bits. This spares Win32 from
5386 performing very expensive owner, group and permission lookups
5387 and allows the server to function until these apr_finfo_t fields
5388 are implemented under Win32. [William Rowe]
5390 *) Support for typedsafe optional functions - that is functions exported by
5391 optional modules, which, therefore, may or may not be present, depending
5392 on configuration. See the experimental modules mod_optional_fn_{ex,im}port
5393 for sample code. [Ben Laurie]
5395 *) filters can now report an HTTP error to the server. This is done
5396 by sending a brigade where the first bucket is an error_bucket.
5397 This bucket is a simple bucket that stores an HTTP error and
5398 a string. Currently the string is not used, but it may be needed
5399 to output an error log. The http_header_filter will find this
5400 bucket, and output the error text, and then return
5401 AP_FILTER_ERROR, which informs the server that the error web page
5402 has already been sent. [Ryan Bloom]
5404 *) If we get an error, then we should remove all filters except for
5405 those critical to serving a web page. This fixes a bug, where
5406 error pages were going through the byterange filter, even though
5407 that made no sense. [Ryan Bloom]
5409 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
5410 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
5412 *) Cleanup the byterange filter to use the apr_brigade_partition
5413 and apr_bucket_copy functions. This removes a lot of very messy
5414 code, and hopefully makes this filter more stable.
5417 *) Remove AddModule and ClearModuleList directives. Both of these
5418 directives were used to ensure that modules could be enabled
5419 in the correct order. That requirement is now gone, because
5420 we use hooks to ensure that modules are in the correct order.
5423 *) When SuExec is specified, we need to add it to the list of
5424 targets to be built. If we don't, then any changes to the
5425 configuration won't affect SuExec, unless 'make suexec' is
5426 specifically run. [Ryan Bloom]
5428 *) Cleaned out open_file from mod_file_cache, as apr now accepts
5429 the APR_XTHREAD argument to open a file for consumption by
5430 parallel threads on win32. [William Rowe]
5432 *) Correct a bug in determining when we follow symlinks. The code
5433 expected a stat -1 result, not an apr_status_t positive error.
5434 Also check if the APR_FINFO_USER fields are valid before we
5435 follow the link. [William Rowe]
5437 *) Move initgroupgs, ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id from util.c to
5438 mpm_common.c. These functions are only valid on some platforms,
5439 so they should not be in the main-line code. [Ryan Bloom]
5441 *) Remove ap_chdir_file(). This function is not thread-safe,
5442 and nobody is currently using it. [Ryan Bloom]
5444 *) Do not try to run make depend if there are no .c files in the
5445 current directory, doing so makes `make depend` fail.
5448 *) Update highperformance.conf to work with either prefork or
5449 pthreads mpms. [Greg Ames]
5451 *) Stop checking to see if this is a pipelined request if we know
5452 for a fact that it isn't. Basically, if r->connection->keepalive == 0.
5453 This keeps us from making an extra read call when serving a 1.0
5454 request. [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
5456 *) Fix the handling of variable expansion look-ahead in mod_rewrite,
5457 i.e. syntax like %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}, and also fix the parsing of
5458 more complicated nested RewriteMap lookups. PR#7087 [Tony Finch]
5460 *) Fix the RFC number mentioned when complaining about a missing
5461 Host: header. PR#7079 [Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt wam.umd.edu>]
5463 *) Fix an endless loop in ab which occurred when ab was posting
5464 and the server dropped the connection unexpectedly.
5467 *) Fix a segfault while handling request bodies in ap_http_filter().
5468 This problem has been seen with mod_dav usage as well as with
5469 requests where the body was just being discarded. [Jeff Trawick]
5471 *) Some adjustment on the handling and automatic setting (via
5472 hints.m4) of various compilation flags (eg: CFLAGS). Also,
5473 add the capability to specify flags (NOTEST_CFLAGS and
5474 NOTEST_LDFLAGS) which are used to compile Apache, but
5475 not used during the configuration process. Useful for
5476 flags like "-Werror". [Jim Jagielski]
5478 *) Stop using environment variables to force debug mode or
5479 no detach. We now use the -D command line argument to
5480 specify the correct mode. -DONE_PROCESS and -DNO_DETACH.
5481 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom]
5483 *) Change handlers to use hooks. [Ben Laurie]
5485 *) Stop returning copies of filenames from both apr_file_t and
5486 apr_dir_t. We pstrdup the filenames that we store in the
5487 actual structures, so we don't need to pstrdup the strings again.
5490 *) mod_cgi: Fix some problems where the wrong error value was being
5491 traced. [Jeff Trawick]
5493 *) EBCDIC: Fix some missing ASCII conversion on some protocol data.
5496 *) Add generic hooks. [Ben Laurie]
5498 *) Use a real pool to dup the error log descriptor. [Ryan Bloom]
5500 *) Fix a segfault caused by mod_ext_filter when the external filter
5501 program does not exist. [Jeff Trawick]
5503 *) Fix an output truncation error when on an HTTP >= 1.0 request an
5504 object of size between DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE and AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE
5505 was served through mod_charset_lite (or anything else that would
5506 create a transient bucket in this size range). ap_bucket_make_heap()
5507 silently failed (fixed), transient_setaside() discovered it, but
5508 ap_save_brigade() ignored it (fixed). [Jeff Trawick]
5510 *) Ignore \r\n or \n when using PEEK mode for input filters. The problem
5511 is that some browsers send extra lines at the end of POST requests, and
5512 we don't want to delay sending data back to the user just because the
5513 browser isn't well behaved. [Ryan Bloom]
5515 *) Get SuEXEC working again. We can't send absolute paths to suExec
5516 because it refuses to execute those programs. SuEXEC also wasn't
5517 always recognizing configuration changes made using the autoconf
5520 *) Allow the buildconf process to find the config.m4 files in the correct
5521 order. Basically, we can now name config.m4 files as config\d\d.m4,
5522 and we will sort them correctly when inserting them into the build
5523 process. [Ryan Bloom]
5525 *) Get mod_cgid to use apr calls for creating the actual CGI process.
5526 This also allows mod_cgid to use ap_os_create_priviledged_process,
5527 thus allowing for SuExec execution from mod_cgid. Currently, we do
5528 not support everything that standard SuExec supports, but at least
5529 it works minimally now. [Ryan Bloom]
5531 *) Allow SuExec to be configured from the ./configure command line.
5534 *) Update some of the docs in README and INSTALL to reflect some of
5535 the changes in Apache 2.0 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley yahoo.com>]
5537 *) If we get EAGAIN returned from the call to apr_sendfile, then we
5538 need to call sendfile again. This gets us serving large files
5539 such as apache_2.0a9.tar.gz on FreeBSD again. [Ryan Bloom]
5541 *) Get the support programs building cleanly again.
5542 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley yahoo.com>]
5544 *) The Apache/Win32 Apache.exe and dll's now live in bin. The
5545 current directory logic now backs up over bin/ to determine the
5546 server root from the Apache.exe path.
5548 *) Apache/Win32 now follows the standard conventions of mod_foo.so
5549 loadable modules, dynamic libs are all named libfoo.dll, and the
5550 makefile.win populates the include, lib and libexec directories.
5552 *) Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6,
5553 Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the
5554 Listen, NameVirtualHost, and <VirtualHost> directives support IPv6
5555 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
5558 *) Modify the install directory layout. Modules are now installed in
5559 modules/. Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but
5560 we don't have any of those on Unix yet. All install directories
5561 are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom]
5563 *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom]
5565 *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of
5566 which modules linked into the server. This uses the same hack
5567 for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the
5568 necessary functions are linked. As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC
5569 was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make
5570 the scripts a bit easier.
5573 *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout
5574 on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies. [Jeff Trawick]
5576 *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and
5577 be loadable into the server. Our new build/install mechanism expects
5578 that all modules will have a common name format. The auth modules
5579 didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly.
5582 *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer
5583 available. Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead. [Jeff Trawick]
5585 *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
5587 *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts
5588 after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]
5590 *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a
5591 content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to
5592 have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we
5593 can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.
5596 *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.
5599 *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way
5600 they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been
5601 called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when
5602 the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.
5605 Changes with Apache 2.0a9
5607 *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users
5608 to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@
5609 and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories.
5612 *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with
5613 functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily.
5614 The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function
5615 combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include
5616 parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a
5617 hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes
5618 all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then
5619 responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back
5620 to mod_include for further processing.
5621 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
5623 *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has
5624 fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed
5625 from the parameter list because all required information is available
5626 via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick]
5628 *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a
5629 normal source distribution with external install targets.
5632 *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create
5633 two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation.
5634 the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required
5635 for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one
5636 variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations,
5637 so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based
5638 on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment.
5639 It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two
5640 shmem memory blocks.
5643 *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of
5644 functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure
5645 time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file.
5646 Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those
5647 functions that are valid on the platform we are building on.
5650 *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config
5651 [Sander van Zoest <sander covalent.net>]
5653 *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration.
5656 *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not
5657 specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR).
5658 The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM
5659 files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases.
5662 *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that
5663 uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly.
5664 [Paul Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
5666 *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when
5667 making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the
5668 output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore
5669 skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
5671 *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the
5672 format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in
5673 the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be
5674 used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with
5675 the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format
5676 of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick]
5678 *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the
5679 rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this
5680 condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
5682 *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter.
5685 Changes with Apache 2.0a8
5687 *) Add a directive to mod_mime so that filters can be associated with
5691 *) Get multi-views working again. We were setting the path_info
5692 field incorrectly if we couldn't find the specified file.
5695 *) Fix 304 processing. The core should never try to send the headers
5696 down the filter stack. Always, just setup the table in the request
5697 record, and let the header filter convert it to data that is ready
5701 *) More fixes for the proxy. There are still bugs in the proxy code,
5702 but this has now proxied www.yahoo.com and www.ntrnet.net (my ISP)
5706 *) Fix params for apr_getaddrinfo() call in connect proxy handler.
5709 *) APR: Add new apr_getopt_long function to handle long options.
5710 [B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz red-bean.com>]
5712 *) APR: Change apr_connect() to take apr_sockaddr_t instead of hostname.
5713 Add generic apr_create_socket(). Add apr_getaddrinfo() for doing
5714 hostname resolution/address string parsing and building
5715 apr_sockaddr_t. Add apr_get_sockaddr() for getting the address
5716 of one of the apr_sockaddr_t structures for a socket. Change
5717 apr_bind() to take apr_sockaddr_t. [David Reid and Jeff Trawick]
5719 *) Remove the BUFF from the HTTP proxy. This is still a bit ugly, but
5720 I have proxied pages with it, cleanup will commence soon.
5723 *) Make the proxy work with filters. This isn't perfect, because we
5724 aren't dealing with the headers properly. [Ryan Bloom]
5726 *) Do not send a content-length iff the C-L is 0 and this is a head
5727 request. [Ryan Bloom]
5729 *) Make cgi-bin work as a regular directory when using mod_vhost_alias
5730 with no VirtualScriptAlias directives. PR#6829 [Tony Finch]
5732 *) Remove BUFF from the PROXY connect handling. [Ryan Bloom]
5734 *) Get the default_handler to stop trying to deal with HEAD requests.
5735 The idea is to let the content-length filter compute the C-L before
5736 we try to send the data. If we can get the C-L correctly, then we
5737 should send it in the HEAD response.
5740 *) The Header filter can now determine if a body should be sent based
5741 on r->header_only. The general idea of this is that if we delay
5742 deciding to send the body, then we might be able to compute the
5743 content-length correctly, which will help caching proxies to cache
5744 our data better. Any handler that doesn't want to try to compute
5745 the content-length can just send an EOS bucket without data and
5746 everything will just work.
5749 *) Add the referer to the error log if one is available.
5750 [Markus Gyger <mgyger itr.ch>]
5752 *) Mod_info.c has now been ported to Apache 2.0. As a part of this
5753 change, the root of the configuration tree has been exposed to modules
5755 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
5757 *) Get the core_output_filter to use the bucket interface directly.
5758 This keeps us from calling the content-length filter multiple times
5759 for a simple static request.
5762 *) We are sending the content-type correctly now.
5763 [Ryan Bloom and Will Rowe]
5765 *) APR on FreeBSD: Fix a bug in apr_sendfile() which caused us to report
5766 a bogus bytes-sent value when the only thing being sent was trailers
5767 and writev() returned an error (or EAGAIN). [Jeff Trawick]
5769 *) Get SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT working again. This uses the
5770 hints file to determine which platforms define
5771 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
5774 *) APR: add apr_get_home_directory() [Jeff Trawick]
5776 *) Initial import of 1.3-current mod_proxy. [Chuck Murcko]
5778 *) Not all platforms have INADDR_NONE defined by default. Apache
5779 used to make this check and define INADDR_NONE if appropriate,
5780 but APR needs the check too, and I suspect other applications will
5781 as well. APR now defines APR_INADDR_NONE, which is always a valid
5782 value on all platforms.
5783 [Branko Èibej <brane xbc.nu>]
5785 *) Destroy the pthread mutex in lock_intra_cleanup() for PR#6824.
5786 [Shuichi Kitaguchi <ki hh.iij4u.or.jp>]
5788 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
5789 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
5791 *) When reading from file buckets we convert to an MMAP if it makes
5792 sense. This also simplifies the default handler because the
5793 default handler no longer needs to try to create MMAPs.
5796 *) BUFF has been removed from the main server. The BUFF code will remain
5797 in the code until it has been purged from the proxy module as well.
5800 *) Byteranges have been completely re-written to be a filter. This
5801 has been tested, and I believe it is working correctly, but it could
5802 doesn't work for the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The output almost matches
5803 the output from 1.3, the only difference being that 1.3 includes
5804 a content-length in the response, and this does not.
5807 *) APR read/write functions and bucket read functions now operate
5808 on unsigned integers, instead of signed ones. It doesn't make
5809 any sense to use signed ints, because we return the error codes,
5810 so if we have an error we should report 0 bytes read or written.
5813 *) Always compute the content length, whether it is sent or not.
5814 The reason for this, is that it allows us to correctly report
5815 the bytes_sent when logging the request. This also simplifies
5816 content-length filter a bit, and fixes the actual byte-reporing
5817 code in mod_log_config.c
5820 *) Remove AP_END_OF_BRIGADE definition. This does not signify what
5821 it says, because it was only used by EOS and FLUSH buckets. Since
5822 neither of those are required at the end of a brigade, this was
5823 really signifying FLUSH_THE_DATA, but that can be determined better
5824 by checking AP_BUCKET_IS_EOS() or AP_BUCKET_IS_FLUSH. EOS and FLUSH
5825 buckets now return a length of 0, which is actually the amount of data
5826 read, so they make more sense.
5829 *) Allow the core_output_filter to save some data past the end of a
5830 request. If we get an EOS bucket, we only send the data if it
5831 makes sense to send it. This allows us to pipeline request
5832 responses. As a part of this, we also need to allocate mmap
5833 buckets out of the connection pool, not the request pool. This
5834 allows the mmap to outlive the request.
5837 *) Make blocking and non-blocking bucket reads work correctly for
5838 sockets and pipes. These are the only bucket types that should
5839 have non-blocking reads, because the other bucket types should
5840 ALWAYS be able to return something immediately.
5843 *) In the Apache/Win32 console window, accept Ctrl+C to stop the
5844 server, but use Ctrl+Break to initiate a graceful restart
5845 instead of duplicating behavior. [John Sterling]
5847 *) Patch mod_autoindex to set the Last-Modified header based on
5848 the directory's mtime, and add the ETag header. [William Rowe]
5850 *) Merge the 1.3 patch to add support for logging query string in
5851 such a way that "%m %U%q %H" is the same as "%r".
5854 *) Port three log methods from mod_log_config 1.3 to 2.0:
5855 CLF compliant '-' byte count, method and protocol.
5858 *) Add a new LogFormat directive, %c, that will log connection
5859 status at the end of the response as follows:
5860 'X' - connection aborted before the response completed.
5861 '+' - connection may be kept-alive by the server.
5862 '-' - connection will be closed by the server.
5865 *) Expand APR for WinNT to fully accept and return utf-8 encoded
5866 Unicode file names and paths for Win32, and tag the Content-Type
5867 from mod_autoindex to reflect that charset if the feature
5868 macro APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS is true. [William Rowe]
5870 *) Compute the content length (and add appropriate header field) for
5871 the response when no content length is available and we can't use
5872 chunked encoding. [Jeff Trawick]
5874 *) Changed ap_discard_request_body() to use REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK,
5875 so that content input filters get dechunked data when using
5876 the default handler. Also removed REQUEST_CHUNKED_PASS.
5879 *) Add mod_ext_filter as an experimental module. This module allows
5880 the administrator to use external programs as filters. Currently,
5881 only filtering of output is supported. [Jeff Trawick]
5883 *) Most Apache functions work on EBCDIC machines again, as protocol
5884 data is now translated (again). [Jeff Trawick]
5886 *) Introduce ap_xlate_proto_{to|from}_ascii() to clean up some of
5887 the EBCDIC support. They are noops on ASCII machines, so this
5888 type of translation doesn't have to be surrounded by #ifdef
5889 CHARSET_EBCDIC. [Jeff Trawick]
5891 *) Fix mod_include. tag commands work again, and the server will
5892 send the FAQ again. This also allows mod_include to set aside
5893 buckets that include partial buckets.
5894 [Ryan Bloom and David Reid]
5896 *) Add suexec support back. [Manoj Kasichainula]
5898 *) Lingering close now uses the socket directly instead of using
5899 BUFF. This has been tested, but since all we can tell is that it
5900 doesn't fail, this needs to be really hacked on.
5903 *) Allow filters to modify headers and have those headers be sent to
5904 the client. The idea is that we have an http_header filter that
5905 actually sends the headers to the network. This removes the need
5906 for the BUFF to send headers.
5909 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles translation of
5910 request bodies. Get rid of the xlate version of ap_md5_digest()
5911 since we don't compute digests of filtered (e.g., translated)
5912 response bodies this way anymore. (Note that we don't do it at
5913 all at the present; somebody needs to write a filter to do so.)
5916 *) Input filters and ap_get_brigade() now have a input mode parameter
5917 (blocking, non-blocking, peek) instead of a length parameter.
5920 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
5921 of 2000-10-19. PR#6613 [Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp home.net>,
5924 *) Namespace protect some macros declared in ap_config.h
5927 *) Support HTTP header line folding with input filtering.
5930 *) Mod_include works again. This should still be re-written, but at
5931 least now we can serve an SHTML page again.
5934 *) Begin to remove BUFF from the core. Currently, we keep a pointer
5935 to both the BUFF and the socket in the conn_rec. Functions that
5936 want to use the BUFF can, functions that want to use the socket,
5937 can. They point to the same place.
5940 *) apr_psprintf doesn't understand %lld as a format. Make it %ld.
5941 [Tomas "Ögren" <stric ing.umu.se>]
5943 *) APR pipes on Unix and Win32 are now cleaned up automatically when the
5944 associated pool goes away. (APR pipes on OS/2 were already had this
5945 logic.) This resolvs a fatal file descriptor leak with CGIs.
5948 *) The final line of the config file was not being read if there was
5949 no \n at the end of it. This was caused by apr_fgets returning
5950 APR_EOF even though we had read valid data. This is solved by
5951 making cfg_getline check the buff that was returned from apr_fgets.
5952 If apr_fgets return APR_EOF, but there was data in the buf, then we
5953 return the buf, otherwise we return NULL.
5956 *) Piped logs work again in the 2.0 series.
5959 *) Restore functionality broken by the mod_rewrite security fix:
5960 rewrite map lookup keys and default values are now expanded
5961 so that the lookup can depend on the requested URI etc.
5962 PR #6671 [Tony Finch]
5964 *) SECURITY: Tighten up the syntax checking of Host: headers to fix a
5965 security bug in some mass virtual hosting configurations
5966 that can allow a remote attacker to retrieve some files
5967 on the system that should be inaccessible. [Tony Finch]
5969 *) Add a pool bucket type. This bucket is used for data allocated out
5970 of a pool. If the pool is cleaned before the bucket is destroyed, then
5971 the data is converted to a heap bucket, allowing it to survive the
5975 *) Add a flush bucket. This allows modules to signal that the filters
5976 should all flush whatever data they currently have. There is no way
5977 to actually force them to do this, so if a filter ignores this bucket,
5978 that's life, but at least we can try with this.
5981 *) Add an output filter for sub-requests. This filter just strips the
5982 EOS bucket so that we don't confuse the main request's core output
5983 filter by sending multiple EOS buckets. This change also makes sub
5984 requests start to send EOS buckets when they are finished.
5987 *) Make ap_bucket_(read|destroy|split|setaside) into macros. Also
5988 makes ap_bucket_destroy a return void, which is okay because it
5989 used to always return APR_SUCCESS, and nobody ever checked its
5990 return value anyway.
5991 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley yahoo.com>]
5993 *) Remove the index into the bucket-type table from the buckets
5994 structure. This has now been replaced with a pointer to the
5995 bucket_type. Also add some macros to test the bucket-type.
5998 *) Renamed all MODULE_EXPORT symbols to AP_MODULE_DECLARE and all symbols
5999 for CORE_EXPORT to AP_CORE_DECLARE (namespace protecting the wrapper)
6000 and retitled API_EXPORT as AP_DECLARE and APR_EXPORT as APR_DECLARE.
6001 All _VAR_ flavors changes to _DATA to be absolutely clear.
6004 *) Add support for /, //, //servername and //server/sharename
6005 parsing of <Directory> blocks under Win32 and OS2.
6006 [Tim Costello, William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
6008 *) Remove the function pointers from the ap_bucket type. They have been
6009 replaced with a global table. Modules are allowed to register bucket
6010 types and use then use those buckets.
6013 *) mod_cgid: In the handler, shut down the Unix socket (only for write)
6014 once we finish writing the request body to the cgi child process;
6015 otherwise, the client doesn't hit EOF on stdin. Small request bodies
6016 worked without this change (for reasons I don't understand), but large
6017 ones didn't. [Jeff Trawick]
6019 *) Remove file bucket specific information from the ap_bucket type.
6020 This has been moved to a file_bucket specific type that hangs off
6021 the data pointer in the ap_bucket type.
6024 *) Input filtering now has a third argument. This is the amount of data
6025 to read from lower filters. This argument can be -1, 0, or a positive
6026 number. -1 means give me all the data you have, I'll deal with it and
6027 let you know if I need more. 0 means give me one line and one line
6028 only. A positive number means I want no more than this much data.
6030 Currently, only 0 and a positive number are implemented. This allows
6031 us to remove the remaining field from the conn_rec structure, which
6035 *) Big cleanup of the input filtering. The goal is that http_filter
6036 understands two conditions, headers and body. It knows where it is
6037 based on c->remaining. If c->remaining is 0, then we are in headers,
6038 and http_filter returns a line at a time. If it is not 0, then we are
6039 in body, and http_filter returns raw data, but only up to c->remaining
6040 bytes. It can return less, but never more.
6041 [Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick]
6043 *) mod_cgi: Write all of the request body to the child, not just what
6044 the kernel would accept on the first write. [Jeff Trawick]
6046 *) Back out the change that moved the brigade from the core_output_filters
6047 ctx to the conn_rec. Since all requests over a given connection
6048 go through the same core_output_filter, the ctx pointer has the
6052 *) Fix another bug in the send_the_file() read/write loop. A partial
6053 send by apr_send would cause unsent data in the read buffer to
6054 get clobbered. Complete making send_the_file handle partial
6055 writes to the network.
6058 *) Fix a couple of type fixes to allow compilation on AIX again
6059 [Victor J. Orlikowski <v.j.orlikowski gte.net>]
6061 *) Fix bug in send_the_file() which causes offset to be ignored
6062 if there are no headers to send.
6065 *) Handle APR_ENOTIMPL returned from apr_sendfile in the core
6066 filter. Useful for supporting Windows 9* with a binary
6067 compiled on Windows NT.
6070 Changes with Apache 2.0a7
6072 *) Reimplement core_output_filter to buffer/save bucket brigades
6073 across multiple calls to the core_filter. The brigade will be
6074 sent when either MIN_BYTES_TO_SEND or MAX_IOVEC_TO_WRITE
6075 thresholds are hit or the EOS bucket is received.
6078 *) Create experimental filter (buffer_filter) that coalesces bytes
6079 into one large buffer before invoking the next filter in the
6080 chain. This filter is particularly useful with the current
6081 implementation of mod_autoindex when it inserted above the
6082 chunk_filter. mod_autoindex generates a lot of brigades that
6083 containing buckets holding just a few bytes each. The
6084 buffer_filter coalesces these buckets into a single large bucket.
6087 *) Add apr_sendfile() support into the core_output_filter.
6090 *) Add apr_sendv() support into the core_output_filter.
6093 *) Fix mod_log_config so that it compiles cleanly with BUFFERED_LOGS
6094 [Mike Abbott <mja sgi.com>]
6096 *) Remove ap_send_fb. This is no longer used in Apache, and it doesn't
6097 make much sense, because Apache uses buckets instead of BUFFs now.
6100 *) send_the_file now falls back to a read/write loop on platforms that
6101 do not have sendfile.
6102 [Ryan Bloom and Brian Havard]
6104 *) Install apachectl correctly, and substitute the proper values so
6105 that it works again. [Ryan Bloom]
6107 *) Better(??) handle platforms that lack sendfile().
6110 *) APR now has UUID generation/formatting/parsing support.
6113 *) Begin the http_filter. This is an input filter that understands
6114 the absolute basic amount required to parse an HTTP Request. The
6115 goal is to be able to split headers from request body before passing
6116 the data back to the other filters.
6119 *) Bring forward from 1.3.13 the config directory implementation
6122 *) install apxs if it is created
6125 *) Added APR_IS_STATUS_condition test macros to eliminate canonical error
6126 conversions. [William Rowe]
6128 *) Now that we have ap_add_input_filter(), rename ap_add_filter() to
6129 ap_add_output_filter(). [Jeff Trawick]
6131 *) Multiple build and configuration fixes
6134 -add datadir and localstatedir substitutions
6136 -fix logfilename misspelling
6137 -fix evaluation of installation dir variables and
6138 -replace $foobar by $(foobar) to be usefull in the makefile
6142 -add rules for cross-compiling in rules.mk. Okay, rule to check for
6143 $CC_FOR_BUILD is still missing
6144 -use CHECK_TOOL instead of CHECK_PROG for ranlib
6145 -add missing "AR=@AR@" to severaly Makefile.in's
6146 -cache result for "struct rlimit"
6147 -compile all helper programs with native and cross compiler
6148 and use the native version to generate header file
6149 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu gmx.de>]
6151 *) Prepare our autoconf setup for autoconf 2.14a and for cross-
6153 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu gmx.de>]
6155 *) Fix a bug where a client which only sends \n to delimit header
6156 lines (netcat) gets a strange looking HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
6157 message. Start working on ebcdic co-existance with input
6159 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
6161 *) If mod_so is enabled in the server always create libexec, even
6162 if there are no modules installed in this directory. This is a
6163 requirement for APXS to work correctly.
6166 *) Connection oriented output filters are now stored in the
6167 conn_rec instead of the request_rec. This allows us to add the
6168 output filter in the pre-connection phase instead of the
6169 post_read_request phase, which keeps us from trying to write an
6170 error page before we have a filter to write to the network.
6171 [Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick, and Greg Ames]
6173 *) Cleaning up an mmap bucket no longer deletes the mmap. An
6174 mmap can be used across multiple buckets (default_handler with
6175 byte ranges, mod_file_cache, mod_mmap_static), so cleanup of
6176 the mmap itself can't be associated with the bucket.
6179 *) Add .dll caching directive ISAPICacheFile to mod_isapi.
6182 *) Radical surgery to improve mod_isapi support under Win32.
6183 Includes a number of newer ServerSupportFunction calls, support
6184 for ReadClient (in order to retrieve POSTs greater than 48KB),
6185 and general bug fixes to more reliably load ISAPI .dll's and
6186 prevent leaking handle resources. Note: There are still
6187 discrepancies between IIS's and Apache's ServerVariables, and
6188 async calls are still not supported. Additional warnings are
6189 logged to facilitate debugging of unsupported ISAPI calls.
6192 *) Add input filtering to Apache. The basic idea for the input
6193 filters is the same as the ideas for output filters. The biggest
6194 difference is that instead of calling ap_pass_brigade, ap_get_brigade
6195 should be called, and the order of execution for the filter itself is
6196 different. When writing an output filter, a brigade is passed in,
6197 and filters operate directly on that brigade, when done, they call
6198 ap_pass_brigade. Input filters are the exact opposite. Because input
6199 is not a push operation, filters first call ap_get_brigade. When this
6200 function returns, the input filter will be left with a valid brigade.
6201 The input filter should then operate on the brigade, and return.
6204 *) Fix building on BSD/OS using its native make. The build system
6205 falls back to the BSD .include directive on that host platform.
6208 *) Expand dbmmanage to allow -d -m -s -p options for Crypt, MD5,
6209 SHA1 and plaintext password encodings. Make feature tests a
6210 bit more flexible. [William Rowe]
6212 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles output content
6213 translation in a filter. mod_charset_lite no longer ignores
6214 subrequests. A bunch of cruft related to BUFF's support for
6215 translating request and response bodies was removed.
6218 *) Move the addition of the CORE filter to the post_read_request
6219 hook in http_core.c. This removes the need to add the filter in
6220 multiple places and allows for an SSL module to be added much
6221 simpler. [Ryan Bloom]
6223 *) SECURITY: CVE-2000-0913 (cve.mitre.org)
6224 Fix a security problem that affects certain configurations of
6225 mod_rewrite. If the result of a RewriteRule is a filename that
6226 contains expansion specifiers, especially regexp backreferences
6227 $0..$9 and %0..%9, then it may be possible for an attacker to
6228 access any file on the web server. [Tony Finch]
6230 *) Fix a bug where errors that are detected during early request parsing
6231 don't produce visible HTTP error messages at the browser, because
6232 the core_filter wasn't present. [Greg Ames]
6234 *) Provide apr_socklen_t as a portability aid.
6235 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
6237 *) Overhaul of dbmmanage to allow a groups arg (as in Apache 1.2)
6238 as well as a comment arg to the add, adduser and update cmds.
6239 update allows the user to clear or preserve pw/groups/comment.
6240 Fixed a bug in dbmmanage that prevented the check option from
6241 parsing a password followed by :group... text. Corrected the
6242 seed calcualation for Win32 systems, and added -lsdbm support.
6245 *) Configured mod_auth_dbm to compile with sdbmlib under Win32.
6248 *) Avoid a segfault when parsing .htaccess files. An
6249 uninitialized tree pointer was passed to ap_build_config().
6252 *) Change the way that inet_addr & inet_network are checked for
6253 in APR's configure process to allow BeOS BONE to correctly
6254 find them. With this change BeOS BONE now builds from source
6255 with no problems. [David Reid]
6257 *) Fix a bug in apr_create_process() for Unix. The NULL signifying
6258 the end of the parameters to execve() was stored in the wrong
6259 location, overlaying the storage beyond the newargs[] array and
6260 also passing uninitialized storage to execve(), which would
6261 sometimes fail with EFAULT. [Jeff Trawick]
6263 *) Fix a bug parsing configuration file containers. With a sequence
6264 like this in the config file
6266 <IfModule mod_kilroy.c>
6269 <IfModule mod_lovejoy.c>
6274 the second container would be terminated at the blank line due to
6275 sediment in the buffer from reading the prior </IfModule> and an
6276 error message would be generated for the real </IfModule> for the
6277 second container. Also due to this problem, any two characters
6278 could be used for "</" in the close of a container.
6281 *) ap_add_filter prototype changed to remove the ctx pointer. The
6282 pointer still remains in the filter structure, but it can not be
6283 a part of the ap_add_filter prototype. The reason is that when
6284 the core uses AddFilter to add a filter to the stack it doesn't
6285 know how to allocate the ctx pointer, or even how much memory should
6286 be allocated. The filters will have to be responsible for allocating
6287 the ctx memory when they need it.
6290 *) Add an AddFilter directive. This directive takes a list of filters
6291 that should be activated for the requested resource.
6294 *) apr_snprintf(): Get quad format strings working on OS/390 (and perhaps
6295 some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
6297 *) Modify mod_include to be a filter. Currently, it has only been tested
6298 on actual files, but it should work for CGI scripts too.
6301 *) apr_putc(), apr_puts() for Unix: handle buffered files and interrupted
6302 writes. apr_flush() for Unix: handle interrupted writes.
6305 *) NameVirtualHost can now take "*" as an argument instead of
6306 an IP address. This allows you to create a purely name-based
6307 virtual hosting server that does not have any IP addresses in
6308 the configuration file and which ignores the local address
6309 of any connections. PR #5595, PR #4455 [Tony Finch]
6311 *) Fix some compile warnings in mod_mmap_static.c
6312 [Mike Abbott <mja sgi.com>]
6314 *) Fix chunking problem with CGI scripts. The general problem was that
6315 the CGI modules were adding an EOS bucket and then the core added an
6316 EOS bucket. The chunking filter finalizes the chunked response when it
6317 encounters an EOS bucket. Because two EOS buckets were sent, we
6318 finalized the response twice. The fix is to make sure we only send one
6319 EOS, by utilizing a flag in the request_rec.
6322 *) apr_put_os_file() now sets up the unget byte appropriately on Unix
6323 and Win32. Previously, the first read from an apr_file_t set up via
6324 apr_put_os_file() would return a '\0'. [Jeff Trawick]
6326 *) Mod_cgid now creates a single element bucket brigade, with a pipe
6327 bucket, instead of using BUFF's and ap_r*.
6330 *) APRVARS.in no longer overwrites the EXTRA_LIBS variable.
6331 [Mike Abbott <mja sgi.com>]
6333 *) Remove ap_bopenf from buff code. This required modifying the file_cache
6334 code to use APR file's directly instead of going through BUFFs.
6337 *) Fix compile break on some platforms for mod_mime_magic.c
6338 [John K. Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
6340 *) Fix merging of AddDefaultCharset directive.
6341 PR #5872 (1.3) [Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama imgsrc.co.jp>]
6343 *) Minor revamp of the rlimit sections of code. We now test
6344 explicitly for setrlimit and getrlimit. Also, unixd_set_rlimit()
6345 is now "available" even if the platform doesn't support
6346 the rlimit family (it's just a noop though). [Jim Jagielski]
6348 *) Migrate the pre-selection of which MPM to use for specific
6349 platforms to hints.m4, which contains (or should contain)
6350 all platform specific "hints". [Jim Jagielski]
6352 *) Remove IOLs from Apache. With filtering, IOLs are no longer necessary
6355 *) Add tables with non-string/binary values to APR.
6358 *) Fix some bad calls to ap_log_rerror() in mod_rewrite.
6361 *) Update PCRE to version 3.2. [Ryan Bloom]
6363 *) Change the way buckets' destroy functions are called so that
6364 they can be more directly used when changing the type of a
6365 bucket in place. [Tony Finch]
6367 *) Add generic support for reference-counting the resources used by
6368 buckets, and alter the HEAP and MMAP buckets to use it. Change
6369 the way buckets are initialised to support changing the type of
6370 buckets in place, and use it when setting aside TRANSIENT buckets.
6371 Change the implementation of TRANSIENT buckets so that it can be
6372 mostly shared with IMMORTAL buckets, which are now implemented.
6375 Changes with Apache 2.0a6
6377 *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames]
6379 *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer
6380 to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom]
6382 *) ap_add_filter now adds filters in a LIFO fashion. The first filter
6383 added to the stack is the last filter to be called. [Ryan Bloom]
6385 *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The
6386 docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom]
6388 *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades,
6389 Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that
6390 should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the
6391 core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group]
6393 *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't
6394 built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick]
6396 *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's
6397 no layout definition file. [Ken Coar]
6399 *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar]
6401 *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header
6402 field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the
6403 list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar]
6405 *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file().
6406 [Rob Simonson <simo us.ibm.com>]
6408 *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke
6409 APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick]
6411 *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the
6412 configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container,
6413 only the last statement in the container would be retained.
6416 Changes with Apache 2.0a5
6418 *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child
6419 processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I
6420 have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had
6421 different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses.
6422 This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket.
6425 *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages.
6426 It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we
6427 are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix
6428 Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom]
6430 *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix.
6431 #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat
6434 *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always
6435 return the right information on the local socket address.
6436 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls level8.com>]
6438 *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error.
6439 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls level8.com>]
6441 *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without
6442 going into single process mode. This allows for much easier
6443 debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom]
6445 *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function.
6448 *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the
6449 scoreboard on graceful restarts.
6452 *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c.
6453 An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process().
6456 *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still
6457 never called, but this is a step in the right direction.
6458 [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
6460 *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is
6461 killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets
6462 SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the
6463 process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and
6464 mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
6466 *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time
6467 in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format.
6468 Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time
6469 uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP
6470 spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes
6471 the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom]
6473 *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error
6474 code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls level8.com>]
6476 *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet]
6478 *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in
6479 logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles
6480 not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe]
6482 *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create
6483 apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom]
6485 *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure
6486 to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a
6487 related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using
6488 fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock()
6489 implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock()
6490 was essentially a no-op because all children were using different
6491 locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick]
6493 *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into
6494 a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on
6495 end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar]
6497 *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This
6498 adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional
6499 XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein]
6501 *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes
6504 *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from
6505 the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein]
6507 *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR
6508 configure.in. [Dave Hill <ddhill zk3.dec.com>]
6510 *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for
6511 machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile.
6512 [Dave Hill <ddhill zk3.dec.com>]
6514 *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
6516 *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the
6517 desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving
6518 ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
6520 *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate
6521 with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without
6522 timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to
6523 a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with
6524 Unix non-blocking pipes.
6527 *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to
6528 cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables
6529 Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at
6530 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps
6531 and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system).
6534 *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache
6535 supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as
6536 mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive
6537 to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems
6538 that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today
6539 on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix.
6542 *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the
6543 configuration process automatically:
6544 inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing
6545 APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl
6547 Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid,
6548 based on the threading model
6550 Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's
6551 configuration processing, allowing for more information flow
6556 *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK
6557 with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and
6558 OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick]
6560 *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write
6561 operations work a whole lot better on buffered files.
6564 *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change
6565 compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads).
6568 *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps
6569 reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is
6570 now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated.
6571 ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick]
6573 *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack
6574 can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified
6575 domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to
6576 the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the
6577 ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe]
6579 *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault
6580 at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to
6581 be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick]
6583 *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding]
6585 *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX
6586 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
6588 *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h,
6589 apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h.
6590 [Tyler J. Brooks <tylerjbrooks home.com>, Jeff Trawick]
6592 *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working
6593 state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on
6596 *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in
6597 maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise
6598 unions. [Ben Laurie]
6600 *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to
6601 repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered
6602 ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick]
6604 *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly
6605 in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker.
6608 *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error:
6609 "</container> without matching <container> section", where
6610 container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever.
6613 *) SECURITY: CAN-2000-1204 (cve.mitre.org)
6614 Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when
6615 using mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root
6616 and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi
6617 as reported in <news:960999105.344321 ernani.logica.co.uk>
6620 *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE)
6623 *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the
6624 final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles
6625 incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick]
6627 *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure
6628 that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and
6629 such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet]
6631 *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting
6632 up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket.
6635 *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches
6636 to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes)
6637 instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick]
6639 *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex.
6640 It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now
6641 displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the
6642 symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick]
6644 *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence.
6645 The previous check required features not used by Apache.
6648 *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were
6649 sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not
6650 initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed
6651 accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call
6652 if the len was negative. Use <sys/un.h> for struct sockaddr_un
6653 instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem
6654 on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick]
6656 *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
6658 *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
6660 *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames]
6662 *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at
6663 initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom
6664 otherwise. [Jeff Trawick]
6666 *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash
6667 doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does.
6668 Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator =="
6671 *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM.
6672 All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is
6673 now wrapped within the WinNT MPM.
6676 *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some
6677 getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls.
6678 CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick]
6680 *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change
6681 to allow just the product name in the server string using
6685 Changes with Apache 2.0a4
6687 *) EBCDIC: Rearrange calls to ap_checkconv() so that most handlers
6688 won't need to call it. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
6690 *) Move pre_config hook call to between configuration read and config
6691 tree walk. This allows all modules to implement pre_config hooks
6692 and know that they will be called at an appropriate time.
6695 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Make ScriptLog directive work again.
6698 *) Add pre-config hooks back to all modules.
6701 *) Fix a SIGSEGV in ap_md5digest(), which is used when you have
6702 ContentDigest enabled and we can't/don't mmap the file.
6705 *) We now report the correct line number for syntax errors in config
6706 files. [Ryan Bloom, Greg Stein, Jeff Trawick]
6708 *) Brought mod_auth_digest up to synch with 1.3, fixed ap_time_t-
6709 related bugs, and changed shmem/locking to use apr API. Shared-mem
6710 is currently disabled, however, because of problems with graceful
6711 restarts. [Ronald Tschalär]
6713 *) Fix corruption of IFS variable in --with-module= handling.
6714 Depending on the user's shell or customization thereof, there
6715 would be errors generating ap_config_auto.h later in the configure
6716 procedure. [Jeff Trawick]
6718 *) mod_cgi: Restore logging of stderr from child process when ScriptLog
6719 isn't used (as in 1.3), except that on Unix it is now logged via
6720 ap_log_rerror() instead of by the child having STDERR_FILENO refer
6721 to the error log. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
6723 *) Add '-D' argument processing for run time configuration defines.
6726 *) Organize http_main.c as independent code, such that no code or
6727 global data is exported from it. WIN32 will dynamically link it
6728 to the server core, so this will prevent mutual dependency.
6731 *) Add separate dynamic linkage tags APR_EXPORT(), APR_EXPORT_NONSTD()
6732 and APR_VAR_EXPORT to correctly resolve apr functions and globals.
6735 *) Add Win9x service execution and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break/Shutdown handlers.
6736 [William Rowe, Jan Just Keijser <KEIJSERJJ logica.com>]
6738 *) Add mod_charset_lite for configuring character set translation.
6741 *) Add '-n' option to htpasswd to make it print its user:pw record
6742 on stdout rather than having to frob a text file. [Ken Coar]
6744 *) Fix saferead. Basically, we flush the output buffer if a read on the
6748 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_get_sb() so that an app can find out whether or not
6749 a conversion is single-byte only. [Jeff Trawick]
6751 *) BEOS: ap_shutdown should return APR_SUCCESS or errno. Note that
6752 the BeOS 5.0 documentation says that shutdown doesn't work yet.
6755 *) Fix some minor errors where pid was being manipulated as an int
6756 instead of the portable pid_t. [Roy Fielding]
6758 *) Fix some error log prints that were printing the pointer to a
6759 structure rather than the pid within the structure.
6760 [Jeff Trawick, Roy Fielding]
6762 *) ab: Fix a command-line processing bug; track bad headers in
6763 err_response; support reading headers up to 2K.
6764 [Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask valueclick.com>]
6766 *) Fix ap_resolve_env() so that it handles new function added in a prior
6767 alpha (see "Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
6768 config file.") as well as the constructs used by mod_rewrite.
6769 [Paul Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
6771 *) Apache 2.0 builds and runs on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
6773 *) Change the EBCDIC support in functions for MD5, SHA1, and base 64 to use
6774 APR to perform translation, instead of accessing the hard-coded tables
6775 in 1.3's ebcdic.c. [Jeff Trawick]
6777 *) Fix some bugs (mostly lost 1.3 code) in ab's command-line processing.
6780 *) Add the ability to hook into the config file reading phase. Basically
6781 if a directive is specified EXEC_ON_READ, then when that directive is
6782 read from the config file, the assocaited function is executed. This
6783 should only be used for those directives that must muck with HOW the
6784 server INTERPRETS the config. This should not be used for directives
6785 that re-order or replace items in the config tree. Those changes should
6786 be made in the pre-config step.
6789 *) Add mod_example to the build system.
6792 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_conv_byte() to convert one char between single-
6793 byte character sets. [Jeff Trawick]
6795 *) Pick up various EBCDIC fixes from 1.3 (from Martin
6796 Kraemer and Oliver Reh originally according to the change log).
6799 *) Fix a couple of problems in RFC1413 support (controlled by the
6800 IdentityCheck directive). Apache did not build the request string
6801 properly and more importantly Apache would loop forever if the
6802 would-be ident server dropped the connection before sending a
6803 properly terminated response. [Jeff Trawick]
6805 *) apxs works in 2.0.
6808 *) Reliable piped logs work in 2.0.
6811 *) Introduce a hash table implementation into APR to be used for
6812 replacing tables and other random data structures in Apache.
6815 *) Add some more error reporting to htpasswd in the case of problems
6816 generating or accessing the temporary file. Also, pass in a
6817 buffer if the implementation knows how to use it (i.e., if L_tmpnam
6818 is defined). [Ken Coar]
6820 *) Configure creates config.nice now containing your configure
6821 options. Syntax: ./config.nice [--more-options]
6824 *) Fix various return code problems in APR on Win32. For most of
6825 these, APR was returning APR_EEXIST instead of GetLastError()/
6826 WSAGetLastError(). [Jeff Trawick]
6828 *) Make piped logs work again in version 2.0
6831 *) Add VPATH support to UNIX build system of Apache and APR.
6834 *) Fix ap_tokenize_to_argv to respect the const arguments that are
6838 *) Fix mm's memcpy/memset macros, pointer arithmetic was broken.
6839 Patch submitted to author.
6842 *) Fix mm configuration on Solaris 8 x86 and OS/390. Don't require
6843 /sbin in PATH on FreeBSD (all submitted to rse previously)
6846 *) Fix building Pthread-based MPMs on OpenBSD
6847 [Sascha Schumann] PR#26
6849 *) Fix ap_readdir() problem on systems where d_name[] field in
6850 struct dirent is declared with only one byte. (This problem only
6851 affected multithreaded builds.) This caused a segfault during
6852 pool cleanup with mod_autoindex on Solaris (Solaris 8 x86, at
6853 least). [Jeff Trawick]
6855 *) Fix some make-portability problems on at least Tru64, Irix
6857 [Sascha Schumann] PR#18, PR#39
6859 *) Add ap_sigwait() to support old-style sigwait() on systems
6860 like OS/390 and UnixWare.
6863 *) Add POSIX-thread flags for more platforms.
6866 *) Fix some minor bugs in ap_strerror(). Teach ap_strerror()
6867 (on Unix, at least) to handle resolver errors. Fix a bug in
6868 the definition of APR_ENOMEM so that ap_strerror() can spit
6869 out the correct error message for it.
6872 Changes with Apache 2.0a3
6874 *) mod_so reports ap_os_dso_error() if ap_dso_load() fails
6877 *) API: *HOOK* macros now have an AP_ prefix
6880 *) Win32: Eliminate redundant calls to initialize winsock.
6881 [Tim Costello <timcostello ozemail.com.au>]
6883 *) Fix bugs initializing ungetchar for pipes.
6884 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao CirX.ORG>]
6886 *) The ab program in the src/support directory is now portable using
6890 *) Support directory is being compiled when the server is built
6893 *) The configure option --with-program-name has been added to allow
6894 developers to rename the executable at configure time. This also
6895 changes the name of the config files to match the executable's name.
6898 *) mod_autoindex: Add `IndexOptions +VersionSort', to nicely sort filenames
6899 containing version numbers. [Martin Pool]
6901 *) ap_open(..,APR_OS_DEFAULT,..) uses perms 0666 instead of 0777 on
6902 Unix; access_log and error_log now created with these perms; non-
6903 Unix is unaffected [Jeff Trawick]
6905 *) Finished move of ap_md5 routines to apr_md5. Removed ap_md5.h.
6906 Replaced more magic numbers with MD5_DIGESTSIZE.
6907 [William Rowe, Roy Fielding]
6909 *) Win32: Get mod_auth_digest compiling and added to the Windows
6910 build environment. Not tested and I'd be suprised if it
6911 actually works. [Bill Stoddard]
6913 *) Revamp the Win32 make environment. Makefiles have been removed and
6914 Apache.dsw created to bring together all the pieces. Create new file
6915 os/win32/BaseAddr.ref to define module base addresses (to prevent
6916 dll relocation at start-up).
6917 [William Rowe, Greg Marr, Tim Costello, Bill Stoddard]
6919 *) [EBCDIC] Port Paul Gilmartin's CRLF patch from 1.3. This replaces most
6920 of the \015, \012, and \015\012 constants with macros.
6923 *) Add ap_xlate_open() et al for translation of text between different
6924 character sets. The initial implementation requires iconv().
6927 *) More FAQs and answers from comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.
6928 [Joshua Slive <slive finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
6930 *) CGI output is being timed out now.
6933 *) Fix the problem with dieing quietly. dupfile now takes a pool which
6934 is used by the new apr file. There is no reason to create a new file
6935 with the same lifetime as the original file.
6938 *) Win32: Attempt to eliminate dll relocation at start-up by specifying
6939 module base addresses. This will help shooting seg faults
6940 in the field. [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6942 *) Update Apache on Windows documentation. Add new document
6943 describing how to compile Apache on Windows.
6944 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6946 *) ap_set_pipe_timeout(), ap_poll(), and APR_SO_TIMEOUT now take
6947 microseconds instead of seconds. Some storage leaks and other
6948 minor bugs in related code were fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
6950 *) Win32: First cut at getting mod_isapi working under 2.0
6951 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6953 *) First stab at getting mod_auth_digest working under 2.0
6954 quick change summary:
6955 - moved the random byte generation (ap_generate_random_bytes) into APR
6956 - now uses ap_time_t
6957 - compiles and runs on linux
6959 [Brian Martin <bmartin penguincomputing.com>]
6961 *) Win32: Move the space stripping of physical service names
6962 fix up from Apache 1.3. #include'ing "ap_mpm.h" fixes up an
6963 unresolved symbol. Add dependency checking to the
6964 CreateService call to ensure TCPIP and AFP (winsock) is started
6966 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6968 *) Win32: Add code to perform latebinding on functions that may
6969 not exist on all levels of Windows where Apache runs. This
6970 is needed to allow Apache to start-up on Win95/98. All calls
6971 to non portable functions should be protected with
6972 ap_oslevel checks to prevent runtime segfaults.
6973 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6975 *) Fix fallback default values for SHM_R and SHM_W [Martin Kraemer]
6977 *) Get lingering_close() working again. [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Trawick]
6979 *) Win32: Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working under Windows NT.
6980 This addresses PR 1623. Still need to address timing out runaway
6981 CGI scripts. [Bill Stoddard]
6983 *) Win32: Make ap_stat Windows 95/98 friendly
6984 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6986 *) Win32: Fix a bug in ap_get_oslevel which causes GetVersionEx() to
6987 always fail. Need to initialise the dwOSVersionInfoSize member of the
6988 OSVERSIONINFO struct before calling GetVersionEx, so GetVersionEx
6991 The patch also enhances ap_get_oslevel (and the associated enum) to
6992 handle selected service packs for NT4, and adds recognition for
6993 Windows 2000. This is useful, eg. if we can recognise NT4 SP2 then
6994 we can use ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather in readwrite.c.
6995 [Tim Costello <Tim.Costello BTFinancialgroup.com>]
6997 *) Get mod_rewrite building and running, and mod_status building for Win NT
6998 [Allan Edwards <ake raleigh.ibm.com>]
7000 *) Patch to port mod_auth_db to the 2.0 api and also to support
7001 Berlekey DB 3.0. It works for me with both Berkeley DB 3.0.55 and
7002 2.7.7. It should work with version 1 as well but I haven't tested it.
7003 [Brian Martin <bmartin penguincomputing.com>]
7005 *) Get APR DSO code working under Windows. Includes cross platform
7007 [<Tim.Costello BTFinancialgroup.com>]
7009 *) Fix some of the Windows APR time functions.
7012 *) FAQ changes related to tidying up historical documents on the web site.
7013 [Joshua Slive <slive finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
7015 *) Move Windows DSO code into APR.
7018 *) Eliminate apr_win.h and apr_winconfig.h (and the ugly #ifdefs they cause).
7019 Now, apr.h and apr_config.h are generated from apr.hw and apr_config.hw
7020 at build time. At this point, the server will not compile on Windows because
7021 of the recent DSO commits. Fixing those next.
7022 [Bill Rowe & Bill Stoddard]
7024 *) Added error checking for file I/O APR routines.
7025 [Jon Travis <jtravis covalent.net>]
7027 *) APR: Don't use the values of resolver error codes for the
7028 corresponding APR error codes. On Unix and Win32, return the
7029 proper APR error code after a resolver error. [Jeff Trawick]
7031 Changes with Apache 2.0a2
7033 *) Renamed the executable back to httpd on all platforms other
7037 *) Allow BeOS to survive restarts, log properly and a few
7038 small things it had problems with due to the way it setup
7039 users and groups. [David Reid]
7041 *) Get mod_rewrite working with APR locks
7042 [Paul Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
7044 *) Actually remove the sempahore when the lock cleanup routine
7045 is called on BeOS. [David Reid]
7047 *) Clear hook registrations between reads of the config file.
7048 When DSOs are unloaded and re-loaded the old hook pointers may
7049 no longer be valid. This fix eliminates potential segfaults.
7050 [Allan Edwards <ake raleigh.ibm.com>]
7052 *) Fix a problem with Sigfunc not being defined or bypassed
7053 if sigaction() wasn't found. [Jim Jagielski]
7055 *) Fix the locking mechanism on BSD variants. They now use fcntl
7056 locks. This allows the server to start and serve pages.
7059 *) First cut at getting the Win32 installer to work
7060 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
7062 *) Get htpasswd compiling under Windows
7063 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
7065 *) Change the log message for a bind() failure to show the
7066 interface and port number. [Jeff Trawick]
7068 *) Import the documentation from 1.3.12 and bring parts of it
7069 up-to-date with respect to the changes that have occurred
7073 *) BeOS MPM updated. CGI bug on BeOS fixed. IP addresses
7074 now logged correctly on BeOS.
7077 *) Create one makefile for all Win32 distributions (NT/2000/95/98).
7078 Makefile.win includes the same user interface as the old
7080 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>, Jeff Trawick <trawick us.ibm.com>]
7082 *) Win32 exec now uses COMSPEC environment string for command
7083 shell path resolution.
7084 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>] PR#3715
7086 *) Win32: ap_connect() was not returning correct error condition
7088 [Allen Prescott <allen clanprescott.com>]
7090 *) Win32: ap_open() was broken on Win9x because an NT-specific
7091 flag was passed to CreateFile. ap_puts() added an unnecessary
7093 [Jeff Trawick <trawick us.ibm.com>]
7095 *) Put in Korean and Norwegian index.html pages (2.0 and 1.3)
7096 which where donated by Lee Kuk Hyun and Lorant Czaran. 'Fixed'
7097 confusing ee/et name and made all extensions language/dialect
7098 rather than country reflecting. Changed example files to
7099 explicit reflect the ISO charset and added a few common
7100 ones to the example config [dirkx]
7102 *) Extend external module capability. To use this, you call
7103 configure with --with-module=path/to/mod1,path/to/mod2,etc.
7106 *) Backported the various "default charset" fixes from 1.3.12,
7107 including the AddDefaultCharset directive. [Jim Jagielski]
7109 *) Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
7110 config file. E.g. 'ServerAdmin ${POSTMASTER}'. As commited
7111 it does this on a line by line basis; i.e. if the envvar
7112 expands to something with spaces you have to protect it
7113 by adding quotes around it (Unless of course you expect it
7114 to contains more than one argument. Alternatively you
7115 can compile it on a per token basis; which is what people
7116 usually expect by setting RESOLVE_ENV_PER_TOKEN. But this
7117 hampers fancier hacks.
7118 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
7120 *) Changed the 'ErrorDocument' syntax in that it NO longer
7121 supports the asymetric
7123 ErrorDocument 301 "Some message
7125 Note the opening " quote, without a closing quote. It now
7126 has either the following syntaxes
7128 ErrorDocument XXX /local/uri
7129 ErrorDocument XXX http://valid/url
7130 ErrorDocument XXX "Some Message"
7132 The recognition heuristic is: if it has a space it
7133 is a message. If it has no spaces and starts with a /
7134 or is a valid URL then treat it that way. Otherwise it
7135 is assumed to be a message.
7137 This breaks backward compatibility but makes live a hell
7138 of a lot easier for GUI's and config file parsers.
7139 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
7141 *) Changed 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' from its present/not-present
7142 syntax into a 'on' or 'off' syntax. As it currently is the
7143 only non nesting token which uses NO_ARGS and thus is an
7144 absolute pain for any config interface automation. This
7145 breaks backward compatibility. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
7147 *) Add ability to add external modules to the build process. This is
7148 done with --with-module=/path/to/module. Modules can only be added
7149 as static modules at this point.
7152 Changes with Apache 2.0a1
7154 *) Fix FreeBSD 3.3 core dump.
7155 Basically, ap_initialize() needs to get called before
7156 create_process(), since create_process() passes op_on structure
7157 to semop() to get a lock, but op_on isn't initialized until
7158 ap_initialize() calls setup_lock(). Here is a slight
7159 rearrangement to main() which calls ap_initialize() earlier...
7160 [Jeff Trawick <trawick us.ibm.com>]
7162 *) Enable Apache to use sendfile/TransmitFile API
7163 [Bill Stoddard, David Reid, Paul Reder]
7165 *) Re-Implement Win32 APR network I/O APIs and most of the file I/O
7169 *) Make file I/O and network I/O writev/sendv APIs consistent.
7170 Eliminate use of ap_iovec_t and use Posix struct iovec.
7171 Use seperate variable on ap_writev to set the number of iovecs
7172 passed in and number of bytes written.
7175 *) Adapt file iol to use APR functions. Replaced ap_open_file()
7176 with ap_create_file_iol(). ap_create_file_iol() requires that
7177 the file be opened prior to the call using ap_open().
7180 *) Port mod_include and mod_cgi to 2.0
7181 [Paul Reder, Bill Stoddard]
7183 *) ap_send{,v}, ap_recv, ap_sendfile API clarification --
7184 bytes_read/bytes_written is always valid (never -1). Plus
7185 some fixes to buff.c to correct problems introduced by the
7186 errno => ap_status_t changes a while back. Plus a fix to
7187 chunked encoding introduced right at the beginning of 2.0.
7190 *) Revamped UNIX build system to use autoconf and libtool.
7191 [Manoj Kasichainula, Sascha Schumann]
7193 *) port mod_rewrite to 2.0. [Paul J. Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
7195 *) SECURITY: More rigorous checking of Host: headers to fix security
7196 problems with mass name-based virtual hosting (whether using mod_rewrite
7197 or mod_vhost_alias).
7198 [Ben Hyde, Tony Finch]
7200 *) Add back support for UseCanonicalName in <Directory> containers.
7201 [Manoj Kasichainula]
7203 *) Added APLOG_STARTUP log type. This allows us to write an error
7204 message without any of the date and time information. As a part
7205 of this change, I also removed all of the calls to fprintf(stderr
7206 and replaced them with calls to ap_log_error using APLOG_STARTUP
7207 writing to stderr is no longer portable, because we don't direct
7208 stderr to the error log on all platforms.
7211 *) Convert error logging functions to take errno as an argument.
7212 This makes our error logs more portable, because some Windows API's
7213 don't set errno. This change allows us to still output a valid
7214 message on all of our platforms.
7217 *) mod_mime_magic runs in 2.0-dev now.
7218 [Paul Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
7220 *) sendfile has been added to APR.
7221 [John Zedlewski <zedlwski Princeton.EDU>]
7223 *) buff.c has been converted to no longer use errno.
7224 [Manoj Kasichainula]
7226 *) mod_speling runs in 2.0-dev now: a bug in readdir_r handling and
7227 interface adaption to APR functions did it. [Martin Kraemer]
7229 *) Support DSOs properly on 32-bit HP-UX 11.0
7230 [Dilip Khandekar <dilip cup.hp.com>]
7232 *) Updated MM in APR source tree from version 1.0.8 to 1.0.11
7233 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7235 *) Cleaned APR build environment integration and bootstrap APR
7236 automatically for developers from src/Configure.
7237 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7239 *) Fixed building of src/support/htpasswd.c
7240 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7242 *) When generating the Location: header, mod_speling forgot
7243 to escape the spelling-fixed uri. (Forw-Port from 1.3)
7246 *) Moved mod_auth_digest.c from experimental to standard. [Roy Fielding]
7248 *) Change all pools to APR contexts. This is the first step to
7249 incorporating APR into Apache. [Ryan Bloom]
7251 *) Move "handler not found" warning message to below the check
7252 for a wildcard handler. [Dirk <dirkm teleport.com>, Roy Fielding]
7253 PR#2584, PR#2751, PR#3349, PR#3436, PR#3548, PR#4384, PR#4795, PR#4807
7255 *) Support line-continuation feature in config.option file and
7256 allow the loading of multiple option sections at once via
7257 ``--with-option=<section1>,<section2>,...''
7258 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7260 *) Rebuilt CVS repository with Apache 1.3.9 as basis. [Roy Fielding]
7262 Changes with Apache MPM
7264 *) Use asynchronous AcceptEx() and a completion port to accept and
7265 dispatch connections to threads in Windows NT/2000.
7268 *) Implement WINNT Win32 MPM from original Win32 code in http_main.c
7271 *) Implement the APACI --with-option facility
7272 (per default used the config.option file).
7273 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7275 *) MPM BEOS port. [David Reid <abb37 dial.pipex.com>]
7277 *) Start to implement module-defined hooks that are a) fast and b) typesafe.
7278 Replace pre_connection module call with a register_hook call and
7279 implement pre_connection as a hook. The intent is that these hooks will
7280 be extended to allow Apache to be multi-protocol, and also to allow the
7281 calling order to be specified on a per-hook/per-module basis.
7284 *) Implement mpm_* methods as "modules". Each method gets its own
7285 subdir in src/modules (eg: src/modules/prefork). Selection
7286 of method uses Rule MPM_METHOD. [Jim Jagielski]
7288 *) Port the hybrid server from the apache-apr repository as
7289 mpm_mpmt_pthread. [Manoj Kasichainula]
7291 *) os/unix/unixd.[ch]: detach, setuid, setgid, stuff which will be common
7292 amongst the unix MPMs.
7294 *) mpm_prefork: throw away all the alarm/timeout crud; and clean up the
7295 signal handling for the new world order. [Dean Gaudet]
7297 *) Crude ap_thread_mutex abstraction so that we get the pthread stuff out
7298 of alloc.c for now. [Dean Gaudet]
7300 *) Handle partial large writes correctly. [Ben Laurie]
7302 *) Eliminate conn_rec's pointer to server. All it knows is the base server
7303 based on IP/port. [Ben Laurie]
7305 *) Port a bunch of modules to the new module structure.
7306 ["Michael H. Voase" <mvoase midcoast.com.au>]
7308 *) I/O layering and BUFF revamp. See docs/buff.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
7310 *) Basic restructuring to introduce the MPM concept; includes various
7311 changes to the module API... better described by
7312 docs/initial_blurb.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
7314 Changes with Apache pthreads
7316 *) New buff option added: BO_TIMEOUT. It describes the timeout for
7317 buff operations (generally over a network).
7318 [Dean Gaudet, Ryan Bloom, Manoj Kasichainula]
7320 *) Created http_accept abstraction. Added 4 new functions (not exported):
7321 init_accept(), begin_accepting_requests(), get_request(),
7322 stop_accepting_requests() [Bill Stoddard]
7324 *) Fix to ap_rprintf call that allows mod_info to work properly.
7325 [James Morris <jmorris intercode.com.au>]
7327 *) user and ap_auth_type fields were moved from connection_rec to
7328 request_rec. [Ryan Bloom]
7330 *) Removed the ap_block_alarms and ap_unblock_alarm calls. These aren't
7331 needed in a threaded server.
7333 *) Initial pthread implementation from from Dean's apache-nspr code.
7334 [Bill Stoddard, Ryan Bloom]
7337 Changes with Apache 1.3.9
7339 *) Remove bogus error message when a redirect doesn't set Location.
7340 Instead, use an empty string to avoid coredump if the error message
7341 was supposed to include a location. [Roy Fielding]
7343 *) Don't allow configure to include mod_auth_digest unless it is
7344 explicitly requested, even if the user asked for all modules.
7347 *) Translate module names to dll names for OS/2 so that they are no more
7348 than 8 characters long and have an extension of "dll" instead of "so".
7351 *) Print out pointer to Rule DEV_RANDOM when truerand lib not found.
7352 Fix test-compile check to check for randbyte instead of trand32.
7353 Use ap_base64encode_binary/decode instead of copy in mod_auth_digest.c
7354 and tweak to make Amaya happier. [Ronald Tschalär]
7356 *) Ensure that the installed expat include files are world readable,
7357 just like the other header files. [Martin Kraemer]
7359 *) Fixed generated AddModule adjustments in APACI's `configure' script
7360 in order to allow (new) modules like mod_vhost_alias to be handled
7361 correctly (which was touched by the adjustments for mod_alias).
7362 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7364 *) For binary builds, add -R flag to apachectl to work around the lack of
7365 an absolute path to the ./libexec directory where the libhttp.ep file
7366 is needed for SHARED_CORE architectures. [Randy Terbush]
7368 *) WIN32: Create the CGI script process as DETACHED. This may solve the
7369 problem observed by some Win95/98 users where they get CGI script
7370 output sent to the console. [Bill Stoddard]
7372 *) Fix (re)naming in the uuencode/decode section. The ap/ap_
7373 routines are now called ap_base64* and are 'plain' (i.e., no
7374 pool access or anything clever). Inside util.c the routines acting
7375 like pstrdup are called ap_pbase64encode() and ap_pbase64decode().
7376 The oddly named ap_uuencode(), ap_uudecode() are kept around for
7377 now but deprecated. [dirkx]
7379 *) Clean up the base64 and SHA1 additions and make sure they are
7380 represented in the ApacheCore.def, ApacheCoreOS2.def, and httpd.exp
7381 files. [Roy Fielding]
7383 *) WIN32: Migrate to InstallShield 5.5 and provide a bit more error
7384 checking. Allow compiling on VS 6.0. [Randy Terbush]
7386 *) Fixed assumption of absolute paths in binbuild.sh. [Tony Finch]
7388 *) Use TestCompile to search for the truerand library (rather than blindly
7389 assuming its existence). If it is not found, complain (but do not
7390 exit - yet). [Martin Kraemer]
7392 *) We forgot to add the new exported function names to
7393 src/support/httpd.exp. [Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush]
7395 *) Add description of -T command-line option to usage().
7396 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7398 *) For "some" platforms (notably, EBCDIC based ones), libos needs to be
7399 searched only AFTER libap has been searched, because libap needs
7400 some symbols from libos. [Martin Kraemer]
7402 *) Fix conflict with original mod_digest related to the symbol of the
7403 module dispatch list (which has to be unique for DSO and follow the
7404 usual conventions for the installation procedure).
7405 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7407 *) Add a dbm-library check for the "usual places" (-ldbm, -lndbm, -ldb)
7408 for other platforms as well. [Martin Kraemer]
7410 *) Make ap_sha1.c compile for EBCDIC platforms: replace remaining LONG
7411 types by AP_LONG and replace reference to renamed variable 'ubuf'
7412 by 'buffer'. [Martin Kraemer]
7414 Changes with Apache 1.3.8 [not released]
7416 *) Flush the output buffer immediately after sending an error or redirect
7417 response, since the result may be needed by the client to abort a
7418 long data transfer or restart a series of pipelined requests.
7419 [Tom Vaughan <tvaughan aventail.com>, Roy Fielding]
7421 *) PORT: Improved compilation and DSO support on Sequent DYNIX/ptx.
7422 [Ian Turner <iant sequent.com>] PR#4735
7424 *) Local struct mmap in http_core.c conflicted with system structure
7425 name on DYNIX -- changed to mmap_rec. [Roy Fielding] PR#4735
7427 *) Added updated mod_digest as modules/experimental/mod_auth_digest.
7428 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald innovation.ch>]
7430 *) Fix a memory leak where the module counts were getting messed
7431 up across restarts. [David Harris <dharris drh.net>]
7433 *) CIDR addresses such as a.b.c.d/24 where d != 0 weren't handled
7434 properly in mod_access.
7435 ["Paul J. Reder" <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#4770
7437 *) RewriteLock/RewriteMap didn't work properly with virtual hosts.
7438 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima bog.msu.su>] PR#3874
7440 *) PORT: Support for compaq/tandem/com.
7441 [Michael Ottati <michael.ottati compaq.com>, dirkx]
7443 *) Added SHA1 password encryption support to easy migration from
7444 Netscape servers. See support/SHA1 for more information.
7445 Caused the separation of ap_md5.c into md5, sha1 and a general
7446 ap_checkpass.c with just a validate_passwd routine. Added a
7447 couple of flags to support/htpasswd. Some reuse of the to64()
7448 function; hence renamed to ap_to64().
7449 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Clinton Wong <clintdw netcom.com>]
7451 *) Change for EBCDIC platforms (TPF and BS2000) to correctly deal
7452 with ASCII/EBCDIC conversions in "ident" query.
7453 [David McCreedy <McCreedy us.ibm.com>]
7455 *) Get rid of redefinition warning on MAC_OS_X_SERVER platform.
7456 Change "Power Macintosh" to Power* so if uname prints "Power Book"
7457 we're still happy on Rhapsody platforms. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
7459 *) Fix SIGSEGV on some systems because the Vary fix below included
7460 a call to table_do with a variable argument list that was not
7461 NULL terminated. Replaced with better implementation. [Roy Fielding]
7463 Changes with Apache 1.3.7 [not released]
7465 *) The "Vary" response header field is now sanitised right before
7466 the header is sent back to the client. Multiple "Vary" fields
7467 are combined, and duplicate tokens (e.g., "Vary: host, host" or
7468 "Vary: host, negotiate, host, accept-language") are reduced to
7469 single instances. This is a better solution than the force-no-vary
7470 one (which is still valid for clients that can't cope with Vary
7471 at all). PR#3118 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
7473 *) Portability changes for BeOS. [David Reid <abb37 dial.pipex.com>]
7475 *) Link DSO's with "gcc -shared" instead of "ld -Bshareable" at
7476 least on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
7479 *) Win32: More apache -k restart work. Restarts are now honored
7480 immediately and connections in the listen queue are -not- lost.
7481 This is made possible by the use of the WSADuplicateSocket()
7482 call. The listeners are opened in the parent, duplicated, then
7483 the duplicates are passed to the child. The original listen sockets
7484 are not closed by the parent across a restart, thus the listen queue
7486 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
7488 *) Fix handling of case when a client has sent "Expect: 100-continue"
7489 and we are going to respond with an error, but get stuck waiting to
7490 discard the body in the pointless hope of preserving the connection.
7491 [Roy Fielding, Joe Orton <jeo101 york.ac.uk>] PR#4499, PR#3806
7493 *) Fix 'configure' to work correctly with SysV-based versions of
7494 'tr' (consistent with Configure's use as well). [Jim Jagielski]
7496 *) apxs: Add "-S var=val" option which allows for override of CFG_*
7497 built-in values. Add "-e" option which works like -i but doesn't
7498 install the DSO; useful for editing httpd.conf with apxs. Fix
7499 editing code so that multiple invocations of apxs -a will not
7500 create duplicate LoadModule/AddModule entries; apxs can now be
7501 used to re- enable/disable a module. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
7503 *) Win32: Update the server to use Winsock 2. Specifically, link with
7504 ws2_32.lib rather than wsock32.lib. This gives us access to
7505 WSADuplcateSocket() in addition to some other enhanced comm APIs.
7506 Win 95 users may need to update their TCP/IP stack to pick up
7507 Winsock 2. (See http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/)
7508 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
7510 *) Win32: Redirect CGI script stderr (script debug info) into the
7511 error.log when CGI scripts fail. This makes Apache on Win32
7512 behave more like Unix.
7513 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
7515 *) Fixed `httpd' usage display: -D was missing.
7516 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4614
7518 *) Fix `make r' test procedure in src/regex/: ap_isprint was not found.
7519 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4561, PR#4562
7521 *) OS/2: Fix problem with accept lock semaphores where server would die with
7522 "OS2SEM: Error 105 getting accept lock. Exiting!"
7523 [Brian Havard] PR#4505
7525 *) Add DSO support for DGUX 4.x using gcc. Tested on x86 platforms.
7526 [Randy Terbush <randy covalent.net>]
7528 *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
7529 used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch <fanf demon.net>]
7531 *) Better GCC detection for DSO flags under Solaris 2 where the `cc'
7532 command potentially _is_ GCC. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7534 *) Fix apxs build issues on AIX
7535 [Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus raleigh.ibm.com>]
7537 *) DocumentRoot Checking: Under previous versions, when Apache
7538 first started up, it used to do a stat of each DocumentRoot to
7539 see if it existed and was a directory. If not, then an error
7540 message was printed. THIS HAS BEEN DISABLED. If DocumentRoot
7541 does not exist, you will get error messages in error_log. If
7542 the '-t' command line option is used (to check the configuration)
7543 the check of DocumentRoot IS performed. An additional command
7544 line option, '-T', has been added if you want to avoid the
7545 DocumentRoot check even when checking the configuration.
7548 *) Win32: The query switch "apache -S" didn't exit after showing the
7549 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
7550 [Bill Stoddard - Fixed by Martin on Unix in 1.3.4]
7552 *) Win32: Changed behaviour of apache -k restart.
7553 Previously, the server would drain all connections in the stack's
7554 listen queue before honoring the restart. On a busy server, this
7555 could take hours. Now, a restart is honored almost immediately.
7556 All connections in Apache's queues are handled but connections in
7557 the stack's listen queue are discarded. Restart triggered by
7558 MaxRequestPerChild is unchanged.
7559 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
7561 *) Win32: Eliminated unnecessary call to wait_for_multiple_objects in
7562 the accept loop. Good for a 5% performance boost. Cleaned up
7563 parent/child process management code.
7564 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
7566 *) Added ceiling on file size for memory mapped files.
7567 [John Giannandrea <jg meer.net>] PR#4122
7569 *) Fix ndbm.h include problems with brain-dead glibc >= 2.1 which
7570 has ndbm.h in a non-standard db1/ subdir. PR#4431, PR#4528
7571 [Henri Gomez <gomez slib.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7573 *) Determine AP_BYTE_ORDER for ap_config_auto.h and already
7574 use this at least for Expat. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7576 *) Allow .module files to specify libraries with Lib:.
7579 *) Allow SetEnvIf[NoCase] to test environment variables as well
7580 as header fields and request attributes. [Ken Coar]
7582 *) Fix mod_autoindex's handling of ScanHTMLTitles when file
7583 content-types are "text/html;parameters". PR#4524 [Ken Coar]
7585 *) Remove "mxb" support from mod_negotiation -- it was a draft feature
7586 never accepted into any standard, and it opens up certain DoS
7587 attacks. [Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman cern.ch>]
7589 *) TestCompile updated. We can now run programs and output the
7590 results during the Configure process. [ Jim Jagielski]
7592 *) The source is now quad (long long) aware as needed. Specifically,
7593 the Configure process determines the correct size of off_t and
7594 *void. When the OS/platform/compiler supports quads, ap_snprintf()
7595 provides for the 'q' format qualifier (if quads are not available,
7596 'q' is silently "demoted" to long). [Jim Jagielski]
7598 *) When the username or password fed to htpasswd is too long, include the
7599 size limit in the error message. Also report illegal characters
7600 (currently only ':') in the username. Add the size restrictions
7601 to the man page. [Ken Coar]
7603 *) Fixed the configure --without-support option so it doesn't result in
7604 an infinite loop. [Marc Slemko]
7606 *) Piped error logs could cause a segfault if an error occured
7607 during configuration after a restart.
7608 [Aidan Cully <aidan panix.com>] PR#4456
7610 *) If a "Location" field was stored in r->err_headers_out rather
7611 than r->headers_out, redirect processing wouldn't find it and
7612 the server would core dump on ap_escape_html(NULL). Check both
7613 tables and raise HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with a log message
7614 if Location isn't set. [Doug MacEachern, Ken Coar]
7616 *) Add RULE_EXPAT, the src/lib/ directory structure, and a modified copy
7617 of the Expat 1.0.2 distribution. [Greg Stein]
7619 *) Replace regexec() calls with calls to a new API stub function
7620 ap_regexec(). This solves problems with DSO modules which use the regex
7621 library. [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum helios.de>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7623 *) Add 'Request_Protocol' special keyword to mod_setenvif so that
7624 environment variables can be set according to the protocol version
7625 (e.g., HTTP/0.9 or HTTP/1.1) of the request. [Ken Coar]
7627 *) Add DSO support for OpenStep (Mach 4.2) platform.
7628 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Rex Dieter <rdieter math.unl.edu>] PR#3997
7630 *) Fix sed regex for generating ap_config_auto.h in src/Configure.
7631 [Jan Gallo <gallo pvt.sk>] PR#3690, PR#4373
7633 *) Switch to /bin/sh5 in APACI on Ultrix and friends to avoid problems with
7634 their brain-dead /bin/sh. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4372
7636 *) Better DSO flags recognition on NetBSD platforms using ELF.
7637 [Todd Vierling <tv pobox.com>] PR#4310
7639 *) Always log months in english format for %t in mod_log_config.
7640 [Petr Lampa <lampa fee.vutbr.cz>] PR#4366, 679
7642 *) Support for server-parsed and multiview-determined ReadmeName and
7643 HeaderName files in mod_autoindex. Removed the restriction on
7644 "/"s in ReadmeName and HeaderName directives since the *sub_req*
7645 routines will deal with the access issues. (It's now possible to
7646 have {site|group|project|customer|...} wide readmes and headers.)
7647 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx rsbx.net>, Ken Coar] PR#1574, 3026, 3529,
7650 *) When stat() fails, don't assume anything about the contents of
7651 the struct stat. [Ed Korthof <ed bitmechanic.com>]
7653 *) It's OK for a semop to return EINTR, just loop around and try
7654 again. [Dean Gaudet]
7656 *) Fix configuration engine re-entrant hangups, which solve a
7657 handful of problems seen with mod_perl <Perl> configuration sections
7658 [Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog msg.com.mx>]
7660 *) Mac OS and Mac OS X Server now use the appropriate custom layout
7661 by default when building with APACI; allow for platform-specific
7662 variable defaults in configure. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
7664 *) Do setgid() before initgroups() in http_main; some platforms
7665 zap the grouplist when setgid() is called. This was fixed in
7666 suexec earlier, but the main httpd code missed the change.
7667 [Rob Saccoccio <robs InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2579
7669 *) Add recognition of .tgz as a gzipped tarchive.
7670 [Bertrand de Singly <bertrand.de-singly polytechnique.fr>] PR#2364
7672 *) mod_include's fsize/flastmod should allow only relative paths, just
7673 like "include file". [Jaroslav Benkovsky <benkovsk pha.pvt.cz>]
7675 *) OS/2: Add support for building loadable modules using DLLs.
7678 *) Add iconsdir, htdocsdir, and cgidir to config.layout.
7681 *) Fix minor but annoying bug with the test for Configuration.tmpl
7682 being newer than Configuration so that it is less likely to fail
7683 when using APACI and shadow sources. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
7685 *) PORT: Add initial support for Mac OS (versions 10.0 and
7686 greater). Use Mac OS X Server layout for now. Clean up dyld code
7687 in unix/os.c, and don't install the dyld error handlers, which
7688 are no longer needed in Mac OS. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
7690 *) Rename Rhapsody layout to "Mac OS X Server". Change install
7691 locations to appropriate ones for user-built (as opposed to
7692 system) installs. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
7694 *) Modify mod_autoindex's handling of AddDescription so that the
7695 behaviour matches the documentation. [Ken Coar] PR#1898, 3072.
7697 *) Add functionality to the install-bindist.sh script created by
7698 binbuild.sh to use tar when copying distribution files to the
7699 serverroot. This allows upgrading an existing installation
7700 without nesting the new distribution in the old.
7702 install-bindist.sh now detects the local perl5 path to install
7703 apxs and dbmmanage with proper path to perl interpreter.
7705 Add an install-binsupport target which copies the source files
7706 for apxs and dbmmanage to bindist to allow these scripts to
7707 be properly installed relative to the destination serverroot.
7708 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies, <randy covalent.net>]
7710 *) Fix intermittent SEGV in ap_proxy_cache_error() in
7711 src/modules/proxy_util.c where a NULL filepointer and
7712 temporary filename were closed and unlinked.
7713 [Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp.fm>,
7714 Tim Costello <tjcostel socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#3178
7716 *) Fix inconsistent error messages reported by mod_proxy.
7717 [Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp.fm>]
7719 *) OS/2: Fix terminating CGIs that aren't compiled by EMX GCC when a
7720 connection is aborted. [Brian Havard]
7722 *) Force the LANG envariable to the known state of "C" so that we
7723 have assurance about how string manipulators (e.g., tr) will
7724 function. [Ken Coar] PR#1630
7726 *) Add a directive to allow customising of the tracking cookie name.
7727 [Ken Coar] PR#2921, 4303
7729 *) Add "force-no-vary" envariable to allow servers to work around
7730 clients that choke on "Vary" fields in the response header.
7731 [Ken Coar, Dmitry Khrustalev <dima zippy.machaon.ru>] PR#4118
7733 *) Fixed a bug in mod_dir that causes a child process will infinitely
7734 recurse when it attemps to handle a request for a directory wnd the
7735 value of the DirectoryIndex directive is a single dot. Also likely
7736 to happen for anyother values of DirectoryIndex that will map back
7737 to the same directory. The handler now only considers regular files
7738 as being index candidates. No PR#s found.
7739 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx rsbx.net>]
7741 *) Ease configuration debugging by making TestCompile fall back to
7742 using "make" if the $MAKE variable is unset [Martin Kraemer]
7744 *) Fixed the ServerSignature directive to work as documented.
7745 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx rsbx.net>] PR#4248
7747 *) Add "opt" (SysV-style) layout to config.layout. [Raymond S Brand
7750 *) Add APACI --without-execstrip option which can be used to disable the
7751 stripping of executables on installation. This is very important for DSO
7752 and debugging situations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7754 *) Add support for OS/2 (case insenstive filesystem, .exe suffix, etc)
7755 to APACI files and related scripts.
7756 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna efn.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4269
7758 *) Add support for standalone mode in TPF
7759 [Joe Moenich <moenich us.ibm.com>]
7761 *) Fix number of bytes copied by read_connection() in src/support/ab.c
7762 [Jim Cox <jc superlink.net>] PR#4271
7764 *) Fix special RewriteCond "-s" pattern matching.
7765 [Bob Finch <bob nas.com>]
7767 *) Fix value quoting in src/Configure script for ap_config_auto.h
7768 [Paul Sutton <paul awe.com>]
7770 *) Make sure RewriteLock can be used only in the global context, (i.e.
7771 outside of any <VirtualHost> sections) because it's a global facility of
7772 the rewrite engine. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7774 *) Fix the ownership delegation for proxy directory under `make install'.
7775 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7777 *) APACI would not correctly build suexec. [Maria Verina
7778 <mariav icgeb.trieste.it>] PR#4260
7780 *) mod_mime_magic passed only the first 4k of a file to
7781 uncompress/gzip, but those tools sometimes do not produce
7782 any output unless a sufficient portion of the compressed
7783 file is input. Change to pass the entire file -- but
7784 only read 4k of output.
7785 [Marcin Cieslak <saper system.pl>] PR#4097
7787 *) "IndexOptions None" generated extra spaces at the end of each
7788 line. [<inkling firstnethou.com>] PR#3770
7790 *) The "100 Continue" response wasn't being sent after internal
7791 redirects. [Jose KAHAN <kahan w3.org>] PR#3910, 3806, 3575
7793 *) When padding the name with spaces for display, mod_autoindex would
7794 count &, <, and > in their escaped width, messing up the display.
7795 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4075, 3758
7797 *) PORT: fixed a compilation problem on NEXT.
7798 [Jacques Distler <distler golem.ph.utexas.edu>] PR#4130
7800 *) r->request_time wasn't being set properly in certain error conditions.
7801 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4156
7803 *) PORT: deal with UTS compiler error in http_protocol.c
7804 [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>] PR#4189
7806 *) Add ap_vrprintf() function. [John Tobey <jtobey banta-im.com>] PR#4246
7808 *) Fix the mod_mime hash table to work properly with locales other
7809 than C. [Dean Gaudet] PR#3427
7811 *) Fix a memory leak which is exacerbated by certain configurations.
7812 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4225
7814 *) Prevent clobbering saved IFS values in APACI. [Jim Jagielski]
7816 *) Fix buffer overflows in ap_uuencode and ap_uudecode pointed out
7817 by "Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter altberg.nu>" and PR#3422
7818 [Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter altberg.nu>, Ronald Tschalär]
7820 *) Make {Set,Unset,Pass}Env per-directory instead of per-server.
7823 *) Correct an apparent typo: on the Windows and MPE platforms, the
7824 htpasswd utility was limiting passwords to only 8 characters.
7827 *) EBCDIC platforms: David submitted patches for two bugs in the
7828 MD5 digest port for EBCDIC machines:
7829 a) the htdigest utility overwrote the old contents of the digest file
7830 b) the Content-MD5 header value (ContentDigest directive) was wrong
7831 when the returned file was not converted from EBCDIC, but was a
7832 binary (e.g., image file) in the first place.
7833 [David McCreedy <mccreedy us.ibm.com>]
7835 *) support/htpasswd now permits the password to be specified on the
7836 command line with the '-b' switch. This is useful when passwords
7837 need to be maintained by scripts -- particularly in the Win32
7838 environment. [Ken Coar]
7840 *) Win32: Win32 multiple services patch. Added capability to install and
7841 run multiple copies of apache as individual services.
7844 apache -n apache1 -i -f c:/httpd.conf
7845 Installs apache as service 'apache1' and associates c:/httpd.conf
7848 Starts apache1 service.
7850 Stops apache1 service
7853 apache -n apache2 -i
7854 Installs apache as service 'apache2'. httpd.conf is located under
7855 the default server root (/apache/conf/httpd.conf).
7857 Starts apache2 service.
7860 apache -n apache3 -i -d c:/program files/apache
7861 Install apache as service 'apache3' and sets server root to
7862 c:/program files/apache.
7865 apache -n apache2 -k restart
7866 Restart apache2 service
7868 [Keith Wannamaker, Ken Parzygnat, Bill Stoddard]
7870 *) Correct the signed/unsigned character handling for the MD5 routines;
7871 mismatches were causing compilation problems with gcc -pedantic and
7872 in the TPF cross-compilation. [Ken Coar]
7874 *) OS/2: Rework CGI handling to use spawn*() instead of fork/exec, achieving
7875 a roughly 5 fold speed up. [Brian Havard]
7877 *) proxy ftp: instead of using the hardwired string "text/plain" as
7878 a fallback type for files served by the ftp proxy, use the
7879 ap_default_type() function to determine the configured type.
7880 This allows for special configurations like
7881 <Directory proxy:ftp://some.host>
7882 DefaultType gargle/blurb
7884 Additionally, add the Content-Encoding: header to FTP proxy replies
7885 when the encoding is defined (by the AddEncoding directive).
7886 Because it was missing, it was almost impossible to browse compressed
7887 files using the FTP proxy (works now perfectly in Communicator).
7888 The ftp proxy now also returns the Date: and Server: header lines (if not
7889 much else... This code is "somewhat" broken) like normal requests do.
7892 *) Be more smart in APACI's configure script when determining the UID/GID
7893 for User/Group directives and use the determined UID/GID to initialize
7894 the permissions on the proxycachedir.
7895 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7897 *) Changed the forking-prior-to-cleanup in the proxy module to first
7898 check wether it actually needs to collect garbage. This reduces
7899 the number of fork()s from one/request to just the odd one an hour.
7900 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
7902 *) Added proxy, auth and header support to src/support/ab.c. Added a
7903 README file to src/support/
7904 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
7906 *) Don't hard-code the path to AWK in --shadow bootstrapping Makefile.
7907 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4050
7909 *) Add support for DSO module compilation on BSD/OS 3.x.
7910 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies]
7912 *) Fix sed-substitutions in `make install': path elements like `httpd/conf'
7913 (for instance from an APACI configure --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf
7914 option) were substituted with $(TARGET).conf, etc. Same for other strings
7915 with dots where the dot wasn't matched as plain text.
7916 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7918 *) PORT: Add support for FreeBSD 4.x [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7920 *) Fix verbose output of APACI configure (option -v)
7921 [Martin Kraemer, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7923 Changes with Apache 1.3.6
7925 *) Removed new PassAllEnv code due to DSO problems. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7927 Changes with Apache 1.3.5 [not released]
7929 *) M_INVALID needed a value within the scope of METHODS so that unknown
7930 methods can be access controlled. [Roy Fielding] PR#3821
7932 *) Added PassAllEnv; makes server's entire environment available
7933 to CGIs and SSIs executed within directive's scope. [Ken Coar]
7935 *) ap_uuencode() always added two trailing '='s and encoding of
7936 8 bit characters on a machine with signed char may produced
7937 incorrect results. Additionally ap_uuencode() should now
7938 work correctly on EBCDIC platforms.
7939 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald innovation.ch>] PR#3411
7941 *) WIN32: Binary installer now runs the configuration DLL before
7942 the reboot prompt (which is only given if MSVCRT.DLL system
7943 DLL is new or updated). This should avoid the configuration
7944 directory being empty after installation. [Paul Sutton]
7945 PR#3767, 3800, 3827, 3850, 3900, 3953, 3988
7947 *) WIN32: Binary installer now creates Start menu options to start
7948 and stop Apache as a console application and to uninstall
7949 the Apache service on NT. [Paul Sutton] PR#3741
7951 *) WIN32: Apache.exe now contains an icon. [Paul Sutton]
7953 *) PORT: Switch back to using fcntl() locking on Linux -- instabilities
7954 have been reported with flock() locking (probably related to kernel
7955 version). [Dean Gaudet] PR#2723, 3531
7957 *) Using APACI, the main config file (usually httpd.conf) was
7958 not being adjusted as $(TARGET).conf. [Wilfredo Sanchez
7959 <wsanchez apple.com>]
7961 *) PORT: AIX does not require the SHARED_CODE "hack"
7962 [Ryan Bloom <rbb raleigh.ibm.com>]
7964 *) Set-Cookie headers were being doubled up for some CGIs by the O(n^2)
7965 avoidance code added in 1.3.3.
7966 [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Lewis <lewis stanford.edu>] PR#3872
7968 *) ap_isxdigit was somehow neglected when adding the ap_isfoo() macros
7969 for 8-bit safeness. [Dean Gaudet]
7971 *) PORT: Use -fPIC instead of -fpic on Solaris and SunOS for compiling DSOs
7972 because SPARCs have a small machine-specific maximum size for the Global
7973 Offset Table which is often exceeded when compiling one of the larger
7974 third-party modules with Apache. [Peter Urban <Peter.Urban epfl.ch>] PR#3977
7976 *) Move the directive `ExtendedStatus' in httpd.conf-dist-win _after_ the
7977 DSO/DLL section because it's a directive from mod_status and isn't
7978 available before the DLL of mod_status is loaded.
7979 [Martin POESCHL <mpoeschl gmx.net>] PR#3936
7981 *) SECURITY: Fix a bug in the calculation of the buffer size for the line
7982 continuation facility in Apache's configuration files which could
7983 lead to a buffer overflow situation.
7984 [Thomas Devanneaux <Thomas.Devanneaux enst.fr>] PR#3617
7986 *) Make documentation and error messages of APACI's --activate-module=FILE
7987 option more clear. [Jan Wolter <janc wwnet.net>] PR#3995
7989 *) Fix the gcc version check (for enabling the `inline' facility) to
7990 really support all future gcc versions >= 2.7 until we know more.
7991 [John Tobey <jtobey banta-im.com>] PR#3983
7993 *) Let APACI's configure script correctly complain for unknown --enable-XXX
7994 and --disable-XXX options. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3958
7996 *) Link the shared core bootstrap program (``Rule SHARED_CORE=yes'') also
7997 against libap.a and use its ap_snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid
7998 possible buffer overflows. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8000 *) Remove no longer used non-API function ap_single_module_init().
8001 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8003 *) Add Apple's Mac OS X Server Layout "Rhapsody" to config.layout.
8006 *) Add cgidir, htdocsdir, iconsdir variables to Makefile.tmpl in order
8007 to make platform installations easier. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
8009 *) In configure, do not append the target name to the directory path if
8010 the path already contains "apache". [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8012 *) SIGPIPE is now ignored by the server core. The request write routines
8013 (ap_rputc, ap_rputs, ap_rvputs, ap_rwrite, ap_rprintf, ap_rflush) now
8014 correctly check for output errors and mark the connection as aborted.
8015 Replaced many direct (unchecked) calls to ap_b* routines with the
8016 analogous ap_r* calls. [Roy Fielding]
8018 *) Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text and
8019 DBM format mapfiles now uses a 4-way hash table with LRU functionality.
8020 Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
8021 Additionally "txt" maps are now parsed with simple string functions
8022 instead of using ap_pregcomp(). As a side effect a bug that prevented
8023 the usage of keys containing the "," character was fixed.
8024 The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite maps
8026 [Michael van Elst <mlelstv serpens.swb.de>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3160
8028 *) Added ap_sub_req_method_uri() for doing a subrequest with a method
8029 other than GET, and const'd the definition of method in request_rec.
8032 *) Use proper pid_t type for saving PIDs in alloc.c. [John Bley]
8034 *) Replaced use of WIN32 define with HAVE_DRIVE_LETTERS to indicate
8035 when the OS allows a DOS drive letter within pathnames. [Brian Havard]
8037 *) Add %V to mod_log_config, this logs the hostname according to the
8038 UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of
8039 %v). Useful for mass vhosting. [Tony Finch <dot dotat.at>]
8041 *) Add support for \n and \t to mod_log_config, can be used to produce
8042 more reliable logs with multiline entries. [Tony Finch <dot dotat.at>]
8044 *) Fixed a few compiler nits. [John Bley <jbb6 acpub.duke.edu>]
8046 *) Added informative error messages for failed munmap() and fseek() calls
8047 in http_core.c. [John Bley, Roy Fielding]
8049 *) Added some informative error messages for some failed malloc()
8050 calls. [John Bley <jbb6 acpub.duke.edu>, Jim Jagielski]
8052 *) OS/2 ap_os_canonical_filename()'s behaviour is improved: ap_assert()
8053 is removed. This allows <Directory proxy:*> directives to work and
8054 prevents invalid requests from killing the process.
8055 [Brian Havard <brianh kheldar.apana.org.au>]
8057 *) Reorganised FAQ document.
8058 [Joshua Slive <slive finance.commerce.ubc.ca>] PR#2497
8060 *) src/support/: The ApacheBench benchmark program was overhauled by
8061 David N. Welton: you can now have it generate an HTML TABLE, presumably
8062 for integration into other HTML sources. David updated the ab man page
8063 as well and added some missing descriptions. Thanks!
8064 [David N. Welton <davidw prosa.it>]
8066 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows filenames containing
8067 characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (for example accented characters).
8068 [Paul Sutton] PR#3890
8070 *) Added conditional logging based upon environment variables to
8071 mod_log_config. mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent
8072 are now deprecated. [Ken Coar]
8074 *) Allow apache acting as a proxy server to relay the real
8075 reason of a failure to a client rather than the "internal
8076 server error" it does currently. The general exposure mechanism
8077 can be triggered by any module by setting the "verbose-error-to"
8078 note to "*"; this allows more than just proxy errors to be exposed.
8079 [Cliff Skolnick, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455, 4086
8081 *) Moved man pages for ab and apachectrl to section 8.
8082 [Wilfredo Sanchez, Roy Fielding]
8084 *) Added -S option to install.sh so that options can be passed to
8085 strip on some platforms. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez]
8087 *) Tweak modules Makefile generated by Configure so that it handles
8088 the test case of no modules being selected. [<chaz reliant.com>]
8090 *) Added a <LimitExcept method ...> sectioning directive that allows
8091 the user to assign authentication control to any HTTP method that
8092 is *not* given in the argument list; i.e., the logical negation
8093 of the <Limit> directive. This is particularly useful for controlling
8094 access on methods unknown to the Apache core, but perhaps known by
8095 some module or CGI script. [Roy Fielding, Tony Finch]
8097 *) Prevent apachectl from complaining if the PIDFILE exists but
8098 does not contain a process id, as might occur if the server is
8099 being rapidly restarted. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
8101 *) Win32: Add global symbols missing from ApacheCore.def. [Carl Olsen]
8103 *) Entity tag comparisons for If-Match and If-None-Match were not being
8104 performed correctly -- weak tags might cause false positives. Also,
8105 strong comparison wasn't properly enforced in all cases.
8106 [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet] PR#2065, 3657
8108 *) OS/2: Supply OS/2 error code instead of errno on semaphore errors.
8111 *) Work around a bug in Lynx regarding its sending "Negotiate: trans"
8112 even though it doesn't understand TCN. [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding]
8114 *) Added ap_size_list_item(), ap_get_list_item(), and ap_find_list_item()
8115 to util.c for parsing an HTTP header field value to extract the next
8116 list item, taking into account the possible presence of nested comments,
8117 quoted-pairs, and quoted-strings. ap_get_list_item() also removes
8118 insignificant whitespace and lowercases non-quoted tokens.
8119 [Roy Fielding] PR#2065
8121 *) proxy: The various calls to ap_proxyerror() can return HTTP/1.1 status
8122 code different from 500. This allows the proxy to, e.g., return
8123 "403 Forbidden" for ProxyBlock'ed URL's. [Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455
8125 *) Fix ordering of language variants for the case where the traditional
8126 negotiation algorithm is being used with multiple language variants
8127 and no Accept-Language. [James Treacy <treacy debian.org>] PR#3299, 3688
8129 *) Do not round the TCN quality calculation to 5 decimal places,
8130 unlike RFC 2296, because the calculation might need 12 decimal places
8131 to get the right result. [Roy Fielding]
8133 *) Remove unused code to disable transparent negotiation when
8134 negotiating on encoding only, as we now handle encoding too
8135 (though this is nonstandard for TCN), remove charset=ISO-8859-1
8136 fiddle from the fiddle-averse RVSA comparison, and fix bugs in
8137 some debugging statements within mod_negotiation. [Koen Holtman]
8139 *) Fixed a rare memory corruption possibility in mod_dir if the index
8140 file is negotiable and no acceptable variant can be found.
8141 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer]
8143 *) Win32: Add new config directive, ScriptInterpreterSource, to enable
8144 searching the Win32 registry for script interpreters.
8147 *) Win32: The compiled-in default filename for the error log is now
8148 error.log, which matches the default in the distributed httpd.conf.
8151 *) Win32: Any error messages from -i or -u command line options are now
8152 displayed on the console output rather than sent to the error log.
8153 Also the "Running Apache..." message is not output unless Apache is
8154 going to serve requests. [Paul Sutton]
8156 *) Rework the MD5 authentication scheme to use FreeBSD's algorithm,
8157 and use a private significator ('$apr1$') to mark passwords as
8158 being smashed with our own algorithm. Also abstract the password
8159 checking into a new ap_validate_password() routine. [Ken Coar]
8161 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows "COM" but refuses
8162 access to "COM1" through "COM4". This allows filenames such
8163 as "com.name" to be served. [Paul Sutton] PR#3769.
8165 *) BS2000: Adapt to the new ufork() system call interface which will
8166 make subtasking easier on the OSD/POSIX mainframe environment.
8169 *) Add a compatibility define for escape_uri() -> ap_escape_uri() to
8170 ap_compat.h. [David White <david persimmon.com>] PR#3725
8172 *) Make NDBM file suffix determination for mod_rewrite more accurate, i.e.
8173 use `.db' instead of `.pag' not only for FreeBSD, but also when
8174 the NDBM library looks like Berkeley-DB based.
8175 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3773
8177 *) Add ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
8178 [Ryan Bloom <rbb Raleigh.IBM.Com>]
8180 *) Fix O(n^2) memory consumption in mod_speling. [Dean Gaudet]
8182 *) SECURITY: Avoid some buffer overflow problems when escaping
8183 quoted strings. (This overflow was on the heap and we believe
8184 impossible to exploit.) [Rick Perry <perry ece.vill.edu>]
8186 *) Let src/Configure be aware of CFLAGS options starting with plus
8187 signs as it's the case for the HP/UX compiler.
8188 [Doug Yatcilla <yatcilda umdnj.edu>] PR#3681
8190 *) Remove the hard-wire of TAR=tar (we now check for gtar and gnutar first)
8191 and check to see if the tar we wind up with supports '-h'.
8192 [Jim Jagielski] PR#3671
8194 *) A consistent and conservative style for all shell scripts has been
8195 implemented. Basically, all shell string tests use the traditional
8196 hack of 'if [ "x$var" != "x" ]' or 'if [ "x$var" = "xstring" ]'
8197 to protect against bare null variable strings (ie: wrapping both
8198 sides with double quotes and prepending 'x'). 'x' was chosen
8199 because it's more universal and hopefully easier for old shell
8200 prgrammers, as well as being easier to search for in 'vi' (/x\$) :)
8203 *) The status module now prints out both the main server generation as
8204 well as the generation of each process. Also, the vhost info is
8205 printed with '?notable'. [Jim Jagielski]
8207 *) Move src/main/md5c.c to src/ap/ap_md5c.c; it's httpd-neutral
8208 and this makes its functions available to things in src/support.
8211 Changes with Apache 1.3.4
8213 *) Renamed macros status_drops_connection to ap_status_drops_connection
8214 and vestigial scan_script_header to ap_scan_script_header_err,
8215 mostly for aesthetic reasons. [Roy Fielding]
8217 *) The query switch "httpd -S" didn't exit after showing the
8218 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
8221 *) Moved the MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE from before the versions and
8222 filename to the end of the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF. Its
8223 presence at the beginning prevented reporting of the filename
8224 for modules compiled before 1 January 1999. [Ken Coar]
8226 *) SECURITY: ap_os_is_filename_valid() has been added to Win32
8227 to detect and prevent access to special DOS device file names.
8228 [Paul Sutton, Ken Parzygnat]
8230 *) WIN32: Created new makefiles Makefile_win32.txt (normal build)
8231 and Makefile_win32_debug.txt (debug build) that work on Win95.
8232 Run each of the following from the src directory:
8233 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt # compiles normal build
8234 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt install # compiles and installs
8235 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt clean # removes compiled junk
8236 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt # compiles debug build
8237 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt install
8238 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt clean
8241 *) Added binbuild.sh and findprg.sh helpers to make it easier for us
8242 to build binary distributions. [Lars Eilebrecht]
8244 *) IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting only turned off making
8245 the column headers anchors; you could still change the display
8246 order by manually adding a '?N=A' or similar query string to the
8247 URL. Now SuppressColumnSorting locks in the sort order so
8248 it can't be overridden this way. [Ken Coar]
8250 *) Added IndexOrderDefault directive to supply a default sort order
8251 for FancyIndexed directory listings. [Ken Coar] PR#1699
8253 *) Change the ap_assert macro to a variant that works on all platforms.
8254 [Richard Prinz <richard.prinz cso.net>] PR#2575
8256 *) Make sure under ELF-based NetBSD (now) and OpenBSD (future) we don't
8257 search for an underscore on dlsym() (as it's already the case
8258 for FreeBSD 3.0). [Todd Vierling <tv pobox.com>] PR#2462
8260 *) Small fix for mod_env.html: The module was documented as to be _not_
8261 compiled into Apache per default, although it _IS_ compiled into
8262 Apache per default. [Sim Harbert <sim mindspring.com>] PR#3572
8264 *) Instead of fixing a bug in the generation procedure for config.status (a
8265 backslash was missing) we remove the bug together with it's complete
8266 context because the special cases of the past can now no longer occur
8267 because of the recent magic for the --with-layout default.
8268 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3590
8270 *) Make top-level Makefile aware of a parallel build procedures (make -j) by
8271 making sure the src/support/ tools are _forced_ to be build last (they
8272 depend on other libraries).
8273 [Markus Theissinger <markus.theissinger gmx.de>]
8275 *) Fix installation procedure: Now that os-inline.c is actually used (a
8276 recently fixed bug prevented this) we need to also install os-include.c
8277 in addition to os.h into the PREFIX/include/ location or building of
8278 module DSOs with APXS fails. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3527
8280 *) Added MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE as the first field in a module structure to
8281 allow us to distinguish between a garbled DSO (or even a file which isn't
8282 an Apache module DSO at all) and a DSO which doesn't match the current
8283 Apache API. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3152
8285 *) Two minor enhancements to mod_rewrite: First RewriteRule now also
8286 supports the ``nocase|NC'' flag (as RewriteCond already does for ages) to
8287 match case insensitive (this especially avoids nasty patterns like
8288 `[tT][eE][sS][tT]'). Second two additional internal map functions
8289 `escape' and `unescape' were added which can be used to escape/unescape
8290 to/from hex-encodings in URLs parts (this is especially useful in
8291 combination with map lookups).
8292 [Magnus Bodin, Ian Kallen, Ralf S. Engelschall]
8294 *) Renamed the macro escape_uri() to ap_escape_uri() which was
8295 forgotten (because it was a macro) in the symbol renaming process.
8296 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8298 *) Fix some inconsistencies related to the scopes of directives. The only
8299 user visible change is that the directives `UseCanonicalName' and
8300 `ContentDigest' now use the (more correct) `Options' scope instead of
8301 (less correct) `AuthConfig' scope. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8303 *) Using DSO, the Server token was being mangled. Specifically, the
8304 module's token was being added first before the Apache token. This
8305 has been fixed. [Jim Jagielski]
8307 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 2.
8308 - properly handle "identity" within Accept-Encoding.
8309 - allow encoded variants in RVSA negotiation and let them appear in
8310 the Alternates field using the non-standard "encoding" tag-list.
8311 - fixed both negotiation algorithms so that an explicitly accepted
8312 encoding is preferred over no encoding if "identity" is not
8313 included within Accept-Encoding.
8314 - added ap_array_pstrcat() to alloc.c for efficient concatenation
8315 of large substring sequences.
8316 - replaced O(n^2) memory hogs in mod_negotiation with ap_array_pstrcat.
8319 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 1.
8320 - cleanups to mod_negotiation comments and code structure
8321 - made compliant with HTTP/1.1 proposed standard (rfc2068) and added
8322 support for everything in the upcoming HTTP/1.1
8323 revision (draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt).
8324 - language tag matching also handles tags with more than 2
8326 - empty Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Charset headers are
8327 processed correctly; previously an empty header would make all
8328 values acceptable instead of unacceptable.
8329 - allowed for q values in Accept-Encoding
8330 - added support for transparent content negotiation (rfc2295 and
8331 rfc2296) (though we do not implement all features in these drafts,
8332 e.g. no feature negotiation). Removed old experimental version.
8333 - implemented 'structured entity tags' for better cache correctness
8334 (structured entity tags ensure that caches which can deal with Vary
8335 will (eventually) be updated if the set of variants on the server
8337 - this involved adding a vlist_validator element to request_rec
8338 - this involved adding the ap_make_etag() function to the global API
8339 - modified guessing of charsets used by Apache negotiation algorithm
8340 to guess 'no charset' if the variant is not a text/* type
8341 - added code to sort multiviews variants into a canonical order so that
8342 negotiation results are consistent across backup/restores and mirrors
8343 - removed possibility of a type map file resolving to another type map
8344 file as its best variant
8345 [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3451, 3299, 1987
8347 *) RFC2396 allows the syntax http://host:/path (with no port number)
8348 but the proxy disallowed it (ap_proxy_canon_netloc()).
8349 [David Kristol <dmk bell-labs.com>] PR#3530
8351 *) When modules update/modify the file name in the configfile_t structure,
8352 syntax errors will report the updated name, not the original one.
8353 [Fabien Coelho <coelho cri.ensmp.fr>] PR#3573
8355 *) Correct some filename case assumptions from WIN32 to
8356 CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM. [Brian Havard <brianh kheldar.apana.org.au>]
8358 *) For %v log ServerName regardless of the UseCanonicalName
8359 setting (similarly for %p). [Dean Gaudet]
8361 *) Configure was initializing the variables $OSDIR, $INCDIR and $SHELL
8362 rather late (too late for some invocations of TestCompile).
8363 This improves the make environment available to TestCompile and
8364 the *.module scripts. [Martin Kraemer]
8366 *) The hashbang emulation code in ap_execve.c would interpret
8367 #!/hashbang/scripts correctly, but failed to fall back to a
8368 standard shell for scripts which did NOT start with #!
8369 Now SHELL_PATH is started in these cases. [Martin Kraemer]
8371 *) PORT: Added the Cyberguard V2 port [Richard Stagg <stagg lentil.org>]
8374 *) Update APXS manual page: some -q option arguments were missing
8375 and another was incorrect. [Mark Anderson <mda discerning.com>] PR#3553
8377 *) Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show
8378 the usage list but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid
8379 command. OTOH a lot of users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and
8380 instead are annoyed for ages by our huge unreadable list of directives.
8381 So we now changed the command line options this way:
8383 Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
8384 very similar to the popular linker option.
8386 Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
8387 large list of directives implemented by these modules. This is also
8388 consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).
8390 Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)
8391 The manual page was adjusted accordingly.
8392 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2714
8394 *) Fixed problem of fclose() on an unopened file in suexec if LOG_EXEC
8395 wasn't defined. [Rick Franchuk <rickf transpect.net>]
8397 *) Removed recently introduced bugs and disfigurements in APACI:
8398 o fixed argument line processing: using $args was broken: It was not
8399 initialized and using args="$args $apc_option" and even args="$args
8400 \"$apc_option\"" fails in the second processing round for any arguments
8401 containing whitespaces. The only correct way is to use the construct
8402 "$@" (but not possible here) or iterate _both_ times over the implicit
8403 argument line (no argument to for-loop) which is what we now use.
8404 o make --with-layout=Apache the default without creating
8405 redundancy (copying the --with-layout block in the argument parsing
8406 loop). We achieve this by using the "$@" construct together with the
8407 `set' command to prepend --with-layout=Apache to the command line in
8408 case --with-layout is not used.
8409 o fixed auto-suffix handling now that config.layout exists.
8410 Paths which are auto-suffixed are marked with a trailing plus sign in
8411 config.layout and every path now can be marked this way (not only the
8412 four paths for which we do it currently). Additionally the suffix is
8413 no longer a static one. Instead it's now `/<target>' where <target> is
8414 the argument of the --target option or per default `httpd'.
8415 o allow also tabs (and only spaces) where we match whitespaces
8416 o various fixes and cleanups related to used shell coding style
8417 o made Jim happy by replacing `Written by' with `Initially written by' ;-)
8418 o trimmed output of --help to fit into 80 columns
8419 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8421 *) Added two new core API functions, ap_single_module_configure() and
8422 ap_single_module_init(), which are now used by mod_so to configure a module
8423 after loading. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8425 *) PORT: Add defines for USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
8426 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to NetBSD/OpenBSD section
8427 of ap_config.h to allow serialized accept for multiport listens.
8428 [Roy Fielding, Curt Sampson] PR#3120
8430 *) PORT: Fixed a misplaced #endif for NetBSD/OpenBSD section
8431 of ap_config.h that would skip several defines if DEFAULT_GROUP
8432 was overridden. [Roy Fielding]
8434 *) PORT: The I86 version of DGUX has support for strncasecmp and
8435 strcasecmp, so allow it in ap_config.h. [Amiel Lee Yee] PR#3247
8437 *) Fix ordering of definitions in ap_config.h so that ap_inline is
8438 defined before it might be used. [Victor Khimenko]
8440 *) PORT: Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for BSDI (v4.0).
8441 [Tom Serkowski <tks bsdi.com>] PR#3453
8443 *) Make generation of src/Configuration.apaci more robust: It failed to
8444 differenciate between modules when one module name was a postfix of
8445 another (e.g. cgi vs. fastcgi). We now check for mod_XXX, libXXX and even
8446 just XXX (think about totally non-standard names like "apache_ssl", too).
8447 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3380
8449 *) In src/Configure remove the SERVER_SUBVERSION support (already deprecated
8450 since 1.3b7) and make whitespace handling more robust (it failed horrible
8451 when whitespaces were present in the arguments of -D options).
8452 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3240
8454 *) Add APACI --shadow=DIR variant (in addition to --shadow). This now first
8455 creates an external package shadow tree in DIR before the local build
8456 shadow tree is generated under DIR. This way one can have the extracted
8457 Apache distribution tree read-only on NFS or CDROM and still build Apache
8458 from these sources. An automatically triggered VPATH-like mechanism is
8459 provided through the TOP variable, too.
8460 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez apple.com>]
8462 *) Fix negotiation so that a Vary response header is correctly
8463 generated when, for a particular dimension, variants only vary
8464 in having or not having a value for that dimension. [Paul Sutton]
8466 *) Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an
8467 unencoded variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can
8468 accept that encoding. Previously we always preferred the unencoded
8470 [Paul Ausbeck <paula alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>, Paul Sutton] PR#3447
8472 *) Fix APXS tool: query variables LIBS_SHLIB and TARGET were not recognized
8473 and the usage page was inconsistent with the functionality and manpage.
8474 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8476 *) Allow special options -Wc,xxx and -Wl,xxx on APXS compile/link command.
8477 They can occur multiple times and their arguments (`xxx') are passed AS
8478 IS to the compiler/linker command. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8480 *) Fixed possible (but harmless in practice) bug in the DBM lookup
8481 procedure of mod_rewrite: very long keys were truncated.
8482 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8484 *) Added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. ID here is a layout
8485 identifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file
8486 config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the
8487 argument where the layout ID is taken from FILE.
8489 The config.layout file consists of <Layout ID>..</Layout> sections
8490 where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be
8491 specified. These lines are converted to path_variable='path_value'.
8493 *) Add a DefaultLanguage directive so that files missing a language
8494 extension (e.g., .fr, .de) can be labelled as being some other
8495 default language. DefaultLanguage can appear in <Directory> and
8496 <Files> containers as well as .htaccess files. [Paul Sutton]
8499 *) Fix TARGET configuration when configuring and installing using
8500 APACI configure. TARGET now defines the basename of the configuration
8501 file, startup script, manual page, etc. log_error_core() now reports
8502 the server binary name given by argv[0]. TARGET can now also be defined
8503 with --target=TARGET parameter passed to APACI configure.
8504 [Ralf Engelschall, Randy Terbush]
8506 *) mod_include.c:handle_perl() now properly tests for OPT_INCNOEXEC
8507 rather than OPT_INCLUDES [Rainer Schoepf <schoepf uni-mainz.de>]
8509 *) ap_md5_binary() was using sprintf() rather than a table lookup
8510 to convert binary bytes to hex digits.
8511 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald innovation.ch>] PR#3409
8513 *) Fix SEGV in TCN negotiation if no variants are acceptable.
8514 [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi karlin.mff.cuni.cz>] PR#1987
8516 *) API: ap_exists_config_define() function is now "public" [Doug MacEachern]
8518 *) Fix documentation of `Action' directive: It can activate a CGI script
8519 when either a handler or a MIME content type is triggered by the request.
8520 [Andrew Pimlott <pimlott math.harvard.edu>] PR#3340
8522 *) Document the `add' command of `dbmmanage' in `dbmmanage.1' manpage.
8523 [David MacKenzie <djm uu.net>] PR#3394
8525 *) Ignore a "ErrorDocument 401" directive with a full URL and write a
8526 notice to the error log. It is not possible to send a 401 response
8527 and a redirect at the same time. [Lars Eilebrecht]
8529 *) Fallback to native compilers for IRIX-32 platform. It seems that
8530 a gcc 2.8.1 compiled apache is logging client addresses with all
8531 bits set (255.255.255.255). This is the second such problem caused
8532 by gcc 2.8.1 compiler. The first being broken semaphore locking.
8535 *) Updated mime.types to reflect current Internet media types
8536 and include a URL to the registry.
8537 [Manoj Kasichainula, Roy Fielding] PR#2380, 2286, 2246
8539 *) SECURITY: Do a more complete check in mod_include to avoid
8540 an infinite loop of recursive SSI includes. [Marc Slemko] PR#3323
8542 *) Add APACI --suexec-docroot and --suexec-logfile options which can be
8543 used to set the document root directory (DOC_ROOT) and the suexec
8544 logfile (LOG_EXEC), respectively. Additionally the --layout option
8545 was changed to show more information about the suEXEC setup.
8546 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3316, 3357, 3361
8548 *) Added the last two WebDAV status codes of 424 (Failed Dependency)
8549 and 507 (Insufficient Storage) for use by third-party modules.
8552 *) Enabled all of the WebDAV method names for use by third-party
8553 modules, Limit, and Script directives. That includes PATCH,
8554 PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
8555 Improved mod_actions.c so that it can use any of the methods
8556 defined in httpd.h. Added ap_method_number_of(method) for
8557 getting the internal method number. [Roy Fielding]
8559 *) PORT: Add a port to the TPF OS. [Joe Moenich <moenich us.ibm.com> and
8562 *) Fix problems with handling of UNC names (e.g., \\host\path)
8563 on Win32. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz us.ibm.com>]
8565 *) Rework os_canonical_*() on Win32 so it's simpler, more
8566 robust, and works. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz us.ibm.com>]
8567 PR#2555, 2915, 3064, 3232
8569 *) Work around incomplete implementation of strftime on Win32.
8570 [Manoj Kasichainula, Ken Parzygnat <kparz us.ibm.com>]
8572 *) Move a typedef to fix compile problems on Linux with 1.x kernels.
8573 [Manoj Kasichainula] PR#3177
8575 *) PORT: Add a port to the Concurrent PowerMAX OS. [Tom Horsley
8576 <Tom.Horsley mail.ccur.com>]
8578 *) WIN32: Log more explicit error messages if spawning an interpreted
8579 script failed, including the command line used to attempt to execute
8580 the interpreter and the Win32 error code returned. [Marc Slemko]
8582 *) Disable sending of error-notes on a 500 (Internal Server Error) response
8583 since it often includes file path info. Enable sending of error-notes
8584 on a 501 (Method Not Implemented). [Roy Fielding] PR#3173
8586 *) http_config.c would respond with 501 (Method Not Implemented) if a
8587 content type handler was specified but could not be found, which
8588 should have been a 500 response. Likewise, mod_proxy.c would responsd
8589 with a 501 if the URI scheme is unrecognized instead of the correct
8590 response of 403 (Forbidden). [Roy Fielding]
8592 *) SECURITY: Eliminate DoS attack when a bad URI path contains what
8593 looks like a printf format escape. [Marc Slemko, Studenten Net Twente]
8595 *) Fix in mod_autoindex: for files where the last modified time stamp was
8596 unavailable, an empty string was printed which was 2 bytes short.
8597 The size and description columns were therefore not aligned correctly.
8598 [Martin Kraemer] (no PR#)
8600 *) Update BS2000 OS code to work with recent versions. Starting with
8601 release A17, the child fork() must be replaced by a _rfork().
8602 (BS2000 only) [Martin Kraemer]
8604 *) Add the actual server_rec structure of the specific Vhost to the
8605 scoreboard file and avoid a string copy (as well as allow some
8606 further future enhancements). [Harrie Hazewinkel
8607 <harrie.hazewinkel jrc.it>]
8609 *) Add APACI --permute-module=foo:bar option which can be used to
8610 on-the-fly/batch permute the order of two modules (mod_foo and mod_bar)
8611 in the Configuration[.apaci] file. Two special and important variants are
8612 supported for the option argument: first BEGIN:foo which permutes module
8613 mod_foo with the begin of the module list, i.e. it `moves' the module to
8614 the begin of the list (gives it lowest priority). And second foo:END
8615 which permutes mod_foo with the end of the module list, i.e. it `moves'
8616 the module to the end of the list (gives it highest priority).
8617 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8619 *) Fix problem with 'apache -k shutdown' and startup event
8620 synchronisation (Win32). [Ken Parzygnat <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>]
8623 *) The config parser wasn't correctly noticing a missing '>'
8624 on container start lines (e.g., it wouldn't spot
8625 "<Directory /" as a syntax error). [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom us.ibm.com>]
8628 *) Add a 'RemoveHandler' directive which will selectively remove
8629 all handler associations for the specified file extensions.
8630 [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom us.ibm.com>] PR#1799.
8632 *) Properly handle & allow "nul" and ".*/null" in AccessConfig and
8633 ResourceConfig directives on Win32. Also add a note to the effect
8634 of 'useless User directive ignored on Win32' to the errorlog if
8635 a User directive is encountered on Win32.
8636 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2078, 2303.
8638 *) Fix multiple whitespace handling in imagemaps for mod_imap which was
8639 broken since Apache 1.3.1 where we took out compressing of multiple
8640 spaces in ap_cfg_getline().
8641 [Ivan Richwalski <ivan seppuku.net>] PR#3249
8643 *) Fix Berkeley-DB/2.x support in mod_auth_db: The data structures were not
8644 initialized correctly and the db_open() call used an invalid mode
8645 parameter. [Ron Klatchko <ron ckm.ucsf.edu>] PR#3171
8647 *) PORT: DSO support for UnixWare 7
8648 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Ron Record <rr sco.com>]
8650 *) Merge the contents of the {srm,access}.conf-dist* files into the
8651 httpd.conf-dist* files. The srm and access files now contain
8652 only comments, and httpd.conf has all the combined contents in
8653 a rational order. [Ken Coar]
8655 *) PORT: DSO/ELF support for FreeBSD 3.0.
8656 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dirk Froemberg <ibex physik.TU-Berlin.DE>]
8658 *) Add a "default-handler" handler that calls the default_hander()
8659 function which is normally called for static content. This allows
8660 you to override a specific handler. [Marc Slemko]
8662 *) Further simplify checking for absolute paths by replacing an
8663 hard-coded syntax check with a call to a routine we already created to
8664 do this. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
8666 *) Log an error if we encounter a malformed "require" directive
8667 in mod_auth if we know that we know that no other module can
8668 deal with it. [Marc Slemko]
8670 *) Remove ap_private_extern method of hiding conflicting symbols
8671 on the NEXT platform because it is not correct for all versions,
8672 and the versions for which it is correct are unknown.
8673 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez apple.com>]
8675 *) Fix inheritance of IndexOptions NameWidth and remove unintended
8676 restriction on +NameWidth, +IconHeight, and +IconWidth. [Ken Coar]
8678 *) Fix per-directory config merging for cases in which a 500 error
8679 is encountered in an .htaccess file somewhere down the tree.
8682 *) Minor performance improvement to ap_escape_html(). [Roy Fielding]
8684 *) Fixed a segmentation violation in mod_proxy when a response is
8685 non-cachable. [Roy Fielding, traced by Doug Bloebaum]. PR#2950, 3056
8687 Changes with Apache 1.3.3
8689 *) Added a complete implementation of the Expect header field as
8690 specified in rev-05 of HTTP/1.1. Disabled the 100 Continue
8691 response when we already know the final status, which is mighty
8692 useful for PUT responses that result in 302 or 401. [Roy Fielding]
8694 *) Remove extra trailing whitespace from the getline results as part
8695 of the protocol processing, which is extra nice because it works
8696 between continuation lines, is almost no cost in the normal case
8697 of no extra whitespace, and saves memory. [Roy Fielding]
8699 *) Added new HTTP status codes and default response bodies from the
8700 revised HTTP/1.1 (307, 416, 417), WebDAV (102, 207, 422, 423), and
8701 HTTP Extension Framework (510) specifications. Did not add the
8702 WebDAV 424 and 425 codes because they are bogus. We don't use any
8703 of these codes yet, but they are now available to 3rd-party modules.
8706 *) Fix a possible race condition between timed-out requests and the
8707 ap_bhalfduplex select that might result in an infinite loop on
8708 platforms that do not validate the descriptor. [Roy Fielding]
8710 *) WIN32: Add "-k shutdown" and "-k restart" options to signal a
8711 running Apache server [Paul Sutton]
8713 *) Fix mod_autoindex bug where directories got a size of "0k" instead
8714 of "-". [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Marc Slemko]
8717 *) PORT: DRS 6000 machine. [Paul Debleecker <pdebleecker jetair.be>]
8719 *) Add the server signature text (from the core ServerSignature directive)
8720 to the list of envariables available to scripts, SSI, and the like.
8723 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for SCO 3.x platform.
8724 [M. Laak <maert proinv.ee>] PR#3108
8726 *) Fallback from sysconf-based to plain HZ-based `ticks per second'
8727 calculation in mod_status for all systems which don't have POSIX
8728 sysconf() (like UTS 2.1) and not only for the NEXT platform.
8729 [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>] PR#3055
8731 *) Fix `require ...' directive parsing in mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm and
8732 mod_auth_db by using ap_getword_white() (which uses ap_isspace())
8733 instead of ap_getword(..., ' ') (which parses only according to spaces
8734 but not tabs). [James Morris <jmorris intercode.com.au>,
8735 Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3105
8737 *) Fix the SERVER_NAME variable under sub-request situations (where
8738 `UseCanonicalName off' is used) like CGI's called from SSI pages or
8739 RewriteCond variables by adopting r->hostname to sub-requests.
8740 [James Grinter <jrg blodwen.demon.co.uk>] PR#3111
8742 *) Fix stderr redirection under syslog-based error logging situation.
8743 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3095
8745 *) Document `ErrorLog syslog:facility' variant of error logging.
8746 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3096
8748 *) Fix http://localhost/ hints in top-level INSTALL document.
8749 [Rob Jenson <robjen spotch.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3088
8751 *) Quote paths in default configuration files. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
8753 *) PORT: Remove extra HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H define for RHAPSODY since
8754 it is now taken care of properly by the header file tests.
8755 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez apple.com>]
8757 *) Fix problem with scripts and filehandle inheritance on Win32.
8758 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2884, 2910
8760 *) Win32 name canonicalisation could end up using the server's
8761 working directory to fill in some blanks. [Ken Parzygnat
8762 <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#3001
8764 *) Correct invalid assumption by ap_sub_req_lookup_file() that all
8765 absolute paths begin with "/" -- because they don't on Win32.
8766 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
8768 *) Add [REDIRECT_]VARIANTS environment variable to mod_speling
8769 so that ErrorDocument 300 processors can reformat the list
8770 if desired. [Ken Coar] PR#2859
8772 *) Add +/- incremental prefixes to IndexOptions keywords, and
8773 enable merging of multiple IndexOptions directives. [Ken Coar]
8775 *) PORT: Allow GuessOS to recognize Unixware 7.0.1 [Steve Cameron
8776 <steve.cameron compaq.com>]
8778 *) Reconstructed the loop through multiple htaccess file names so
8779 that missing files are not confused with unreadable files.
8782 *) The ap_pfopen and ap_pfdopen routines were failing to protect the
8783 errno on an error, which leads to one error being mistaken for
8784 another when reading non-existent .htaccess files.
8787 *) OS/2: The new header tests get things right, need to update
8788 ap_config.h. [Brian Havard]
8790 *) The Perl %ENV hash will now be setup by default when using the
8791 mod_include `perl' command [Doug MacEachern]
8793 *) PORT: Add Pyramid DC/OSx support to configuration mechanism.
8794 [Earle Ake <akee wpdiss1.wpafb.af.mil>]
8796 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for Amdahl's UTS 2.1
8797 [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>] PR#3054
8799 *) Correct comment in mod_log_config.c about its internals.
8800 [Elf Sternberg <elf halcyon.com>]
8802 *) Avoid possible line overflow in Configure: Use an awkfile to
8803 handle the creation of modules.c [Jim Jagielski]
8805 Changes with Apache 1.3.2
8807 *) Fix bug in ap_remove_module(), which caused problems for dso's
8808 who were the top_module. [Doug MacEachern]
8810 *) Add support for Berkeley-DB/2.x (in addition to Berkeley-DB/1.x) to
8811 mod_auth_db to both be friendly to users who wants to use this version
8812 and to avoid problems under platforms where only version 2.x is present.
8813 [Dan Jacobowitz <drow false.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
8815 *) When using ap_log_rerror(), make the error message available to the
8816 *ERROR_NOTES envariables by default. [Ken Coar]
8818 *) BS2000 platform only: get rid of the nasty BS2000AuthFile.
8819 You now must define a BS2000Account name for the server User.
8820 This has fewer security implications than the old approach.
8823 *) Fix SHARED_CORE feature for HPUX platform: We now use extension `.sl'
8824 instead of `.so' and `SHLIB_PATH' instead of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on this
8825 platform to make the braindead HPUX linker happy. Notice, for the module
8826 DSOs we don't have to use this, because these are loaded manually (and
8827 not via HPUX' dld). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2905, PR#2968
8829 *) Remove 64 thread limit on Win32.
8830 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
8832 *) Remove redundant substitutions in top-level Makefile.tmpl.
8833 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8835 *) Fix APACI's `Group' configuration adjustment - especially for Linux
8836 platforms where `nogroup' exists in /etc/group. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8838 *) Make PrintPath work generically instead of having one version
8839 strictly for OS/2. [Jim Jagielski, Brian Havard]
8841 *) Fix the recently introduced C header file checking: We now use the C
8842 pre-processor pass only (and no longer the complete compiler pass) to
8843 determine whether a C header file exists or not. Because only this way
8844 we're safe against inter-header dependencies (which caused horrible
8845 portability problems). The only drawback is that we now have a CPP
8846 configuration variable which has to be determined first (we do a similar
8847 approach as GNU Autoconf does here). When all fails the user still has
8848 the possibility to override it manually via APACI or src/Configuration.
8849 As a fallback for the header check itself we can directly check the
8850 existance of the file under /usr/include, too.
8851 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2777
8853 *) PORT: Added RHAPSODY (Mac OS X Server) support. MAP_TMPFILE defined
8854 as an alternate mechanism for mmap'd shared memory for RHAPSODY.
8855 ap_private_extern defined to hide symbols that conflict with loaded
8856 dynamic libraries on the NEXT and RHAPSODY platforms.
8857 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez apple.com>]
8859 *) Delete PID file on clean shutdowns.
8860 [Charles Randall <crandall matchlogic.com>] PR#2947
8862 *) Fix mod_auth_*.html documents: NSCA -> NCSA
8863 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2991
8865 *) Fix INSTALL document: www.gnu.ai.mit.edu -> www.gnu.org
8866 [Karl Berry <karl gnu.org>] PR#2994
8868 *) Fix dbmmanage.1 manual page.
8869 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2992
8871 *) Fix possible buffer overflow situation in suexec.c.
8872 [Jeff Stewart <jws purdue.edu>] PR#2790
8874 *) Add some more LIBS for the SCO5 platform which are needed for the already
8875 used -lprot. It's actually a bug in SCO5, of course.
8876 [Ronald Record <rr sco.com>] PR#2533
8878 *) Fix documentation of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse according to the
8879 trailing slash problem. [Jon Drukman <jsd gamespot.com>] PR#2933
8881 *) Remove `-msym' option from LDFLAGS_SHLIB for the Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
8882 platform, because it's only supported under version 4.0 and higher. But
8883 because our GuessOS is still unaware of Digital UNIX versions and the
8884 -msym is just to optimize the DSO statup time a little bit it's safe and
8885 best when we leave it out now. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2969
8887 *) Fix the ap_log_error_old(), ap_log_unixerr() and ap_log_printf()
8888 functions: First all three functions no longer fail on strings containing
8889 "%" chars and second ap_log_printf() no longer does a double-formatting
8890 (instead it directly passes through the message to be formatted to the
8891 real internal formatting function). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2941
8893 *) Allow "Include" directives anywhere in the server config
8894 files (but not .htaccess files). [Ken Coar] PR#2727
8896 *) The proxy was refusing to serve CONNECT requests except to
8897 port 443 (https://) and 563 (snews://). The new AllowCONNECT
8898 directive allows the configuration of the ports to which a
8899 CONNECT is allowed. [Sameer Parekh, Martin Kraemer]
8901 *) mod_expires will now act on content that is not sent from a file
8902 on disk. Previously it would never add an Expires: header to
8903 any response that did not come from a file on disk; the only
8904 case where it still doesn't (and can't) add one for that type of
8905 content is if you are using a modification date based setting.
8906 [Marc Slemko, Paul Phillips <paulp go2net.com>]
8908 *) Problems encountered during .htaccess parsing or CGI execution
8909 that lead to a "500 Server Error" condition now provide explanatory
8910 text (in the *ERROR_NOTES envariable) to ErrorDocument 500 scripts.
8913 *) Add NameWidth keyword to IndexOptions directive so that the
8914 width of the filename column is customisable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
8917 *) Recognize lowercase _and_ uppercase `uname' results under
8918 SCO OpenServer. [David Coelho <drc ppt.com>]
8920 *) As duplicate "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines within the header seem to be
8921 a common problem of (mis-administrated?) IIS servers, make the apache
8922 proxy immune to these errors (and ignore the duplicates, but log
8923 the fact to error_log). [Martin Kraemer], after the proposal in PR#2914
8925 *) The <IfModule and <IfDefine block starting directives now only
8926 allow exactly one argument. Previously, the optional negation
8927 character '!' could be separated by whitespace without a syntax
8928 error being reported, albeit defeating the IfModule functionality
8929 (enclosed directives would ALWAYS be executed). By using the
8930 stricter syntax, these hard-to-track errors can be avoided.
8933 *) Simplify handling of IndexOptions in mod_autoindex -- and BTW
8934 cause the standalone FancyIndexing directive to logically OR
8935 into any existing IndexOptions settings rather than wiping
8936 them out. [Ken Coar]
8938 *) Changes in ftp proxy: make URL parsing simpler by using the
8940 + Add display of the "current directory" in cases where it's
8941 different from the supplied path (e.g., ftp://user@host/ lives
8942 in /home/user, not in /, therefore clicking on "../" in the
8943 starting directory might send us to /home/).
8944 + When ftp login fails, (esp. when a user name was part of the
8945 URL already), we now return [401 Unauthorized ] to allow the
8946 browser to pop up an authorization dialog. This makes passwords
8947 slightly less visible (they don't appear in the regular log files)
8948 and implements a functionality that other www proxy servers
8952 *) Triggered by the recent "Via:" header changes, the proxy module would
8953 dump core for replies with invalid headers (e.g., duplicate
8954 "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines). These errors are now logged and the
8955 core dump is avoided. Also, broken replies are not cached.
8956 [Martin Kraemer] PR#2914
8958 *) new `GprofDir' directive when compiled with -DGPROF, where gprof can
8959 plop gmon.out profile data for each child [Doug MacEachern]
8961 *) Use the construct ``"$@"'' instead of ``$*'' in the generated
8962 config.status script to be immune against arguments with whitespaces.
8963 [Yves Arrouye <yves apple.com>] PR#2866
8965 *) Replace the inlined information grabbing stuff for the configuration
8966 adjustment feature (no --without-confadjust) with calls to a new helper
8967 script `buildinfo.sh' which is both more flexible and already proofed to
8968 be more robust against platform differences. This mainly fixes the
8969 recently occured ``sed: command garbled: ...'' problems.
8970 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2776, PR#2848
8972 *) Make ab.c again pass ``gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
8973 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline''
8974 without complains after we recently added the POST feature.
8975 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8977 *) Renamed is_HTTP_xxx() macros to ap_is_HTTP_xxx() name. They are used inside
8978 modules as API functions and we forgot them at the big symbol renaming.
8979 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8981 *) Remove bad reference to non-existing SERVER_VERSION in mod_rewrite.html
8982 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.ORG>] PR#2895
8984 *) Dynamically size the filename column of mod_autoindex output.
8987 *) Add the ability to do POST requests to the ab benchmarking tool.
8988 [Kurt Sussman <kls best.com>] PR#2871
8990 *) Bump up MAX_ENV_FLAGS in mod_rewrite.h from the too conservatice limit of
8991 5 to 10 because there are some users out there who always have 5 to 8
8992 variables in one RewriteRule and had to patch mod_rewrite.h for every
8993 release. So 15 should be now more than enough, even for them. (I never
8994 needed more than 4 in my RewriteRules ;-)
8995 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8997 *) Make the proxy generate and understand Via: headers
9000 *) Change the proxy to use tables instead of array_headers for
9001 the header lines. [Martin Kraemer]
9003 *) Make sure the config.status file is not overridden when just
9004 ``configure --help'' is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2844
9006 *) Split MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER into _MAJOR/_MINOR numbers. This should
9007 provide a way to trace API changes that add functionality but do
9008 not create a compatibility issue for precompiled modules, etc.
9009 See include/ap_mmn.h for more details. [Randy Terbush]
9011 *) Fix suexec installation under `make install root=xxx' situation.
9012 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9014 *) Extend the output of the -V switch to include the paths of all
9015 compiled-in configuration files, if they were overridden at
9016 compile time, for least astonishment of the user.
9019 *) When READing a request in ExtendedStatus mode, the "old"
9020 vhost, request and client information is not displayed.
9023 *) STATUS is no longer available. Full status information now
9024 run-time configurable using the ExtendedStatus directive.
9027 *) SECURITY: CVE-1999-1199 (cve.mitre.org)
9028 Eliminate O(n^2) space DoS attacks (and other O(n^2)
9029 cpu time attacks) in header parsing. Add ap_overlap_tables(),
9030 a function which can be used to perform bulk update operations
9031 on tables in a more efficient manner. [Dean Gaudet]
9033 *) SECURITY: Added compile-time and configurable limits for
9034 various aspects of reading a client request to avoid some simple
9035 denial of service attacks, including limits on maximum request-line
9036 size (LimitRequestLine), number of header fields (LimitRequestFields),
9037 and size of any one header field (LimitRequestFieldsize). Also added
9038 a configurable directive LimitRequestBody for limiting the size of the
9039 request message body. [Roy Fielding]
9041 *) Make status module aware of DNS and logging states, even if
9042 STATUS not defined. [Jim Jagielski]
9044 *) Fix a problem with the new OS/2 mutexes. [Brian Havard]
9046 *) Enhance mod_speling so that CheckSpelling can be used in
9047 <Directory> containers and .htaccess files. [Ken Coar]
9049 *) API: new ap_custom_response() function for hooking into the
9050 ErrorDocument mechanism at runtime [Doug MacEachern]
9052 *) API: new ap_uuencode() function [Doug MacEachern]
9054 *) API: scan_script_header_err_core() now "public" and renamed
9055 ap_scan_script_header_err_core() [Doug MacEachern]
9057 *) The 'status' module will now show the process pid's and their
9058 state even without full STATUS accounting. [Jim Jagielski]
9060 *) Restore the client IP address to the error log messages, this
9061 was lost during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. Add a new
9062 function ap_log_rerror() which takes a request_rec * and
9063 formats it appropriately. [Dean Gaudet] PR#2661
9065 *) Cure ap_cfg_getline() of its nasty habit of compressing internal
9066 whitespace in input lines -- including within quoted strings.
9068 but leading and trailing whitespace should continue to be
9069 stripped [Martin Kraemer]
9071 *) Cleanup of the PrintPath/PrintPathOS2 helper functions. Avoid
9072 the ugly use of an env. variable and use command-line args for
9073 alternate $PATH. Make more like advanced 'type's as well.
9076 *) The IRIXN32 Rule was being ignored. Configure now correctly adds
9077 -n32 only if IRIXN32 says to. [Jim Jagielski, Alain St-Denis
9078 <alain.st-denis ec.gc.ca>] PR#2736
9080 *) Clean up a warning in mod_proxy. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9082 *) Renamed __EMX__ (internal define of the gcc port under OS/2) to OS2
9083 following the same idea as "MSVC vs WIN32". Additionally the src/os/emx/
9084 directory was renamed to src/os/os2/ for consistency.
9085 [Brian Havard, Ralf S. Engelschall]
9087 *) Add new Rule SHARED_CHAIN which can be used to enable linking of DSO
9088 files (here modules) against other DSO files (here shared libraries).
9089 This is done by determining a subset of LIBS which can be safely used for
9090 linking the DSOs, i.e. PIC libs and shared libs. Currently the rule is
9091 disabled for all platforms to avoid problems with this (experimental)
9092 rule. But we provide it now for those people how ran into problems and
9093 want to came out by forcing linking against DSOs.
9094 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2587
9096 *) Fix suEXEC start message: Has to be of `notice' level to really get
9097 printed together with the standard startup message because the `notice'
9098 level is handled special inside ap_log_error() for startup messages.
9099 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2761 PR#2761 PR#2765
9101 *) Add correct `model' MIME types from RFC2077 to mime.types file.
9102 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2732
9104 *) Fixed examples in mod_rewrite.html document.
9105 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2756
9107 *) Allow ap_read_request errors to propagate through the normal request
9108 handling loop so that the connection can be properly closed with
9109 lingering_close, thus avoiding a potential TCP reset that would
9110 cause the client to miss the HTTP error response. [Roy Fielding]
9112 *) One more portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk
9113 and sed in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some
9114 platforms (for instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the
9115 non-newline-termined output of Awk. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2729
9117 *) PORT: NEC EWS4800 support.
9118 [MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>]
9120 *) Fix a segfault in the proxy on OS/2. [Brian Havard]
9122 *) Fix Win32 part of ap_spawn_child() by providing a reasonable child_info
9123 structure instead of just NULL. This fixes at least the RewriteMap
9124 programs under Win32. [Marco De Michele <mdemichele tin.it>] PR#2483
9126 *) Add workaround to top-level `configure' script for brain dead
9127 `echo' commands which interpet escape sequences per default.
9128 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2654
9130 *) Make sure that the path to the Perl interpreter is correctly
9131 adjusted under `make install' also for the printenv CGI script.
9132 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2595
9134 *) Update the mod_rewrite.html document to correctly reflect the situation
9135 of the `proxy' (`[P]') feature. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2679
9137 *) Fix `install-includes' sub-target of `install' target in top-level
9138 Makefile.tmpl: The umask+cp approach didn't work as expected (especially
9139 for users which extracted the distribution under 'umask 077'), so replace
9140 it by an explicit cp+chmod approach.
9141 [Richard Lloyd, Curt Sampson, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2656 PR#2626
9143 *) Fix `distclean' and `clean' targets in src/Makefile.tmpl to have same
9144 behavior and to cleanup correctly even under enabled SHARED_CORE rule.
9145 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9147 *) Use a more straight forward and thus less problematic Sed command in
9148 src/helper/mkdir.sh script. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9150 *) Make sure the `configure' scripts doesn't fail when trying to guess the
9151 domainname of the machine and there are multiple `domainname' and
9152 `search' entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
9153 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2710
9155 *) Add note about the SHARED_CORE requirement on some platforms also to the
9156 INSTALL file because a lot of users don't read htdocs/manual/dso.html
9157 first. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2701
9159 *) Fix document "hyperlink" for dso.html in src/Configuration.tmpl
9160 [Knut A.Syed <Knut.Syed nhh.no>] PR#2674
9162 *) Modify mod_rewrite to update the Vary response field if the URL rewriting
9163 engine does any manipulations or decisions based upon request fields.
9166 *) Document the special APACI behavior for installation paths where
9167 ``/apache'' is appended to paths under some (well defined, of course)
9168 situations to prevent pollution of system locations with Apache files.
9169 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2660
9171 *) Fixed problem with buffered response message not being sent for
9172 the read_request error conditions of URI-too-long (414) and
9173 malformed header fields (400). [Roy Fielding] PR#2646
9175 *) Add support for the Max-Forwards: header line required by RFC2068 for
9176 the TRACE method. This allows apache to TRACE along a chain of proxies
9177 up to a predetermined depth. [Martin Kraemer]
9179 *) Fix SHARED_CORE rule: The CFLAGS_SHLIB variable is no longer doubled
9180 (compilers complained) and the .so.V.R.P filename extension was adjusted
9181 to correctly reflect the 1.3.2 version.
9182 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2644
9184 *) SECURITY: Plug "..." and other canonicalization holes under OS/2.
9187 *) PORT: implement serialized accepts for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
9189 *) mod_include had problems with the fsize and flastmod directives
9190 under WIN32. Fix also avoids the minor security hole of using
9191 ".." paths for fsize and flastmod.
9192 [Manoj Kasichainula <manojk raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2355
9194 *) Fixed some Makefile dependency problems. [Dean Gaudet]
9196 Changes with Apache 1.3.1
9198 *) Disable the incorrect entry for application/msword in the
9199 mod_mime_magic "magic" file because it also matches other Office
9200 documents. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2608
9202 *) Fix broken RANLIB handling in src/Configure (the entry from
9203 src/Configuration.tmpl was ignored) and additionally force RANLIB to
9204 /bin/true under HP/UX where ranlib exists but is deprecated.
9205 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2627
9207 *) 'apachectl status' failed on some systems.
9208 [Steve VanDevender <stevev darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#2613
9210 *) Add new flags for ap_unparse_uri_components() to make it generate
9211 the scheme://sitepart string only, or to omit the query string.
9214 *) WIN32: Canonicalize ServerRoot before checking to see if it
9215 is a valid directory. The failure to do this caused certain
9216 ServerRoot settings (eg. "ServerRoot /apache") to be improperly
9217 rejected. [Marc Slemko]
9219 *) Global renaming of C header files to both get rid of conflicts with third
9220 party packages and to again reach consistency:
9221 1. conf.h -> ap_config.h
9222 2. conf_auto.h -> ap_config_auto.h \ these are now merged
9223 3. ap_config.h -> ap_config_auto.h / in the config process
9224 4. compat.h -> ap_compat.h
9225 5. apctype.h -> ap_ctype.h
9226 Backward compatibility files for conf.h and compat.h were created.
9228 *) mod_mmap_static will no longer take action on requests unless at
9229 least one "mmapfile" directive is present in the configuration.
9230 This experimental module has to do some black magic to operate
9231 inside the current API and thus creates side-effects for other
9232 modules under some circumstances.
9233 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9235 *) Add conservative ticks around more egrep arguments in top-level configure
9236 to avoid problems under brain-dead platforms like Digital UNIX (OSF1).
9237 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2596
9239 *) mod_rewrite created RewriteLock files under the UID of the parent
9240 process, thus the child processes had no write access to the files.
9241 Now a chown() is done on the file to the uid of the children,
9242 if applicable. [Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2341
9244 *) Autogenerate some HAVE_XXXXX_H defines in conf_auto.h (determined via
9245 TestCompile) instead of defining them manually in conf.h based on less
9246 accurate platform definitions. This way we no longer have to fiddle with
9247 OS-type and/or OS-version identifiers to discover whether a system header
9248 file exists or not. Instead we now directly check for the existence of
9249 those esoteric ones.
9250 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2093, PR#2361, PR#2377, PR#2434,
9251 PR#2524, PR#2525, PR#2533, PR#2569
9253 *) mod_setenvif (BrowserMatch* and friends) will now match a missing
9254 field with "^$". [Ken Coar]
9256 *) Set the RTLD_GLOBAL dlopen mode parameter to allow dynamically loaded
9257 modules to load their own modules dynamically. This improves mod_perl
9258 and mod_php3 when these modules are loaded dynamically into Apache.
9261 *) Cache a proxied request in the event that the client cancels the
9262 transfer, provided that the configured percentage of the file has
9263 already been transfered. It works for HTTP transfers only. The
9264 new configuration directive is called CacheForceCompletion.
9265 [Glen Parker <glenebob nwlink.com>] PR#2277
9267 *) Add the "<!DOCTYPE HTML" magic cookie used by modern documents (and
9268 required by HTML 3.2 and later) to mod_mime_magic's conf/magic.
9269 [Anna Shergold <anna inext.co.uk>]
9271 *) Fix yet another signal-based race condition involving nested timers.
9272 Signals suck. [Dean Gaudet]
9274 *) suexec's error messages have been clarified a little bit. [Ken Coar]
9276 *) Clean up some, but perhaps not all, 8-bit character set problems
9277 with config file parsing, and URL parsing. We now define
9278 ap_isdigit(), ap_isupper(), ... which cast to an (unsigned char).
9279 This should work on most modern unixes.
9280 [Dean Gaudet] PR#800, 2282, 2553 (and others)
9282 *) The "handler not found" error was issued in cases where the handler
9283 really did exist, but was just declining to serve the request.
9284 [John Van Essen <jve gamers.org>] PR#2529
9286 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for SCO5 (OpenServer 5.0.x).
9287 [Ronald Record <rr sco.com>] PR#2533
9289 *) The APACI libexecdir was not extended with an "apache/" subdir
9290 if the installation prefix didn't already contain "apache", but
9291 it should be because the DSO files are Apache-specific. Now
9292 libexecdir is treated the same way sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir
9293 and includedir are already treated.
9294 [Charles Levert <charles comm.polymtl.ca>] PR#2551
9296 *) The <Limit> parsing routine was incorrectly treating methods as
9297 case-insensitive. [Ken Coar]
9299 *) The ap_bprintf() code neglected to test if there was an error on
9300 the connection. ap_bflush() misdiagnosed a failure as a success.
9303 *) add support for #perl arg interpolation in mod_include
9306 *) API: Name changes of table_elts to ap_table_elts, is_table_empty
9307 to ap_is_table_empty and bgetflag to ap_bgetflag. [Ben Laurie]
9309 *) PORT: Add UnixWare 7 support
9310 [Vadim Kostoglodoff <vadim olly.ru>] PR#2463
9312 *) Fix the Guess-DSO-flags-from-Perl stuff in src/Configure: "perl" was
9313 used instead of "$PERL" which contains the correctly determined Perl
9314 interpreter (important for instance on systems where "perl" and "perl5"
9315 exists, like BSDI or FreeBSD, etc).
9316 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2505
9318 *) Move the initial suEXEC-related startup message from plain
9319 fprintf()/stderr to a delayed ap_log_error()-based one to avoid problems
9320 when Apache is started from inetd (instead of standalone). Under this
9321 situation startup messages on stderr lead to problems (the line is sent
9322 to the client in front of the requested document).
9323 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#871, PR#1318
9325 *) Add a flag so ap_fnmatch() can be used for case-blind pattern matching.
9326 [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
9328 *) WIN32: Don't collapse multiple slashes in PATH_INFO.
9329 [Ben Laurie, Bill Stoddard <wgstodda us.ibm.com>] PR#2274
9331 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate trailing "."s in path components. These are
9332 ignored by the Windows filesystem, and so can be used to bypass security.
9333 [Ben Laurie, Alexei Kosut].
9335 *) We now attempt to dump core when we get SIGILL. [Jim Jagielski]
9337 *) PORT: remove broken test for MAP_FILE in http_main.c.
9338 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez apple.com>]
9340 *) PORT: Change support/apachectl to use "kill -0 $pid" to test if the
9341 httpd is running. This should be more portable than figuring out
9342 which of three dozen different versions of "ps" are installed.
9345 *) WIN32: If we can't figure out how to execute a file in a script
9346 directory, bail out of the request with an error message. [W G Stoddard]
9348 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate directories consisting of three or more dots;
9349 these are treated by Win32 as if they are ".." but are not detected by
9350 other machinery within Apache. This is something of a kludge but
9351 eliminates a security hole. [Manoj Kasichainula, Ben Laurie]
9353 *) Move ap_escape_quotes() from src/ap to src/main/util.c; it uses
9354 pools and thus pollutes libap (until the pool stuff is moved there).
9357 *) IndexIgnore should be case-blind on Win32 (and any other case-aware
9358 but case-insensitive platforms). New #define for this added to conf.h
9359 (CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM). [Ken Coar] PR#2455
9361 *) Enable DSO support for OpenBSD in general, not only for 2.x, because it
9362 also works for OpenBSD 1.x. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9364 *) PORT: Fix compilation problem on ARM Linux.
9365 [Sam Kington <sam illuminated.co.uk>] PR#2443
9367 *) Let APACI's configure script determine some configuration parameters
9368 (Group, Port, ServerAdmin, ServerName) via some intelligent tests to
9369 remove some of the classical hurdles for new users when setting up
9370 Apache. This is done per default because it is useful for the average
9371 user. Package authors can use the --without-confadjust option to disable
9372 these configuration adjustments.
9373 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9375 *) Added an EXTRA_DEPS configuration parameter which can be used
9376 to add an extra Makefile dependency for the httpd target, for instance
9377 to external third-party libraries, etc.
9378 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9380 *) Add <IfDefine>..</IfDefine> sections to the core module (with same spirit
9381 as <IfModule>..</IfModule> sections) which can be used to skip or process
9382 contained commands dependend of ``-D PARAMETER'' options on the command
9383 line. This can be used to achieve logical conditions like <IfDefine
9384 ReverseProxy> instead of physically ones (e.g. <IfModule mod_proxy.c>)
9385 and thus especially can be used for conditionally loading DSO-based
9386 modules via LoadModule, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9388 *) PORT: clean up a warning in mod_status for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
9390 *) Make table elements const. This may prevent obscure errors. [Ben Laurie]
9392 *) Fix parsing of FTP `SIZE' responses in proxy module: The newline was not
9393 truncated which forced following HTTP headers to be data in the HTTP
9394 reponse. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Charles Fu <ccwf bacchus.com>]
9397 *) Portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk and sed
9398 in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some platforms (for
9399 instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the non-newline-termined
9400 output of Awk. [Bill Houle <bhoule sandiegoca.ncr.com>] PR#2435
9402 *) Improve performance of directory listings (mod_autoindex) by comparing
9403 integer keys (last-modified and size) as integers rather than converting
9404 them to strings first. Also use a set of explicit byte tests rather
9405 than strcmp() to check for parent directory-ness of an entry. Oh, and
9406 make sure the parent directory (if displayed) is *always* listed first
9407 regardless of the sort key. Overall performance winnage should be good
9408 in CPU time, instruction cache, and memory usage, particularly for large
9409 directories. [Ken Coar]
9411 *) Add a tiny but useful goody to APACI's configure script: The generation
9412 of a config.status script (as GNU Autoconf does) which remembers the used
9413 configure command and hence can be used to restore the configuration by
9414 just re-running this script or for remembering the configuration between
9416 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9418 *) Add httpd -t (test) option for running configuration syntax tests only.
9419 If something is broken it complains and exits with a return code
9420 non-equal to 0. This can be used manually by the user to check the Apache
9421 configuration after editing and is also automatically used by apachectl
9422 on (graceful) restart command to make sure Apache doesn't die on restarts
9423 because of a configuration which is now broken since the last (re)start.
9424 This way `apachectl restart' can be used inside cronjobs without having
9425 to expect Apache to be falling down. Additionally the httpd -t can be run
9426 via `apachectl configtest'.
9427 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2393
9429 *) Minor display fix for "install" target of top-level Makefile:
9430 the displayed installation command was incorrect although the
9431 executed command was correct. Now they are in sync.
9432 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2402
9434 *) Correct initialization of variable `allowed_globals' in http_main.c
9435 [Justin Bradford <justin ukans.edu>] PR#2400
9437 *) Apache would incorrectly downcase the entire Content-Type passed from
9438 CGIs. This affected server-push scripts and such which use
9439 multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=ThisRandomString.
9440 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2394
9442 *) PORT: QNX update to properly guess 32-bit systems.
9443 [Sean Boudreau <seanb qnx.com>] PR#2390
9445 *) Make sure the DSO emulation code for HPUX finds the proprietary shl_xxx()
9446 functions which are in libdld under HPUX 9/10.
9447 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2378
9449 *) Make sure the "install" target of the top-level Makefile doesn't break
9450 because of a return code of 1 from an "if" (for instance under braindead
9451 Ultrix the result code of an "if" construct is 1 if the "then" clause
9452 didn't match). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9454 *) Add an additional "dummy" target to the "$(LIB)" target in generated
9455 modules/xxx/Makefile's to avoid problems with SVR4 Make under "full-DSO"
9456 situation (no libxxx.a built, only mod_xxx.so's) where LIB and OBJS are
9457 empty. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
9459 *) Replace two bad sprintf() calls with ap_snprintf() variants in
9460 mod_rewrite. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9462 *) Fix missing usage description for MetaFiles directive.
9463 [David MacKenzie <djm va.pubnix.com>] PR#2384
9465 *) mod_log_config wouldn't let vhosts use log formats defined in the
9466 main server. [Christof Damian <damian mediaconsult.com>] PR#2090
9468 *) mod_usertrack was corrupting the client hostname. As part of the
9469 fix, the cookie values were slightly extended to include the
9470 fully qualified hostname of the client.
9471 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2190, 2229, 2366
9473 *) Fix a typo in pool debugging code. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
9475 *) mod_unique_id did not work on alpha linux (in general on any
9476 architecture that has 64-bit time_t).
9477 [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
9479 *) PORT: Make SCO 5 (and probably 3) compile again. [Ben Laurie]
9481 *) PORT: NCR MPRAS systems have the same bug with SIGHUP restart that
9482 Solaris systems experience. So define WORKAROUND_SOLARIS_BUG.
9483 [Klaus Weber <kweber chephren.germany.ncr.com>] PR#1973
9485 *) Change "Options None" to "Options FollowSymLinks" in the
9486 <Directory /> section of the default access.conf-dist
9487 (and -win even though it doesn't matter there). This has better
9488 performance, and more intuitive semantics. [Dean Gaudet]
9490 *) PORT: Updated support for UTS 2.1.2.
9491 [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>] PR#2320
9493 *) Fix symbol export list (src/support/httpd.exp) after recent
9494 API changes in the child spawning area.
9495 [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum helios.de>]
9497 *) Workaround for configure script and old `test' commands which do not
9498 support the -x flag (for instance under platforms like Ultrix). This is
9499 solved by another helper script findprg.sh which searches for Perl and
9500 Awk like PrintPath but _via different names_.
9501 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9503 *) Remove the system() call from htpasswd.c, which eliminates a system
9504 dependancy. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc netcom.com>] PR#2332
9506 *) PORT: Fix compilation failures on NEXTSTEP.
9507 [Rex Dieter <rdieter math.unl.edu>] PR#2293, 2316
9509 *) PORT: F_NDELAY is a typo, should have been FNDELAY. There's also
9510 O_NDELAY on various systems. [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>] PR#2313
9512 *) PORT: helpers/GuessOS updates for various versions for NCR SVR4.
9513 [juerg schreiner <j.schreiner zh.ch>,
9514 Bill Houle <Bill.Houle SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>] PR#2310
9516 *) Fix recently introduced Win32 child spawning code in mod_rewrite.c which
9517 was broken because of invalid ap_pstrcat() -> strcat() transformation.
9518 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9520 *) Proxy Cache Fixes: account for directory sizes, fork off garbage collection
9521 to continue in background, use predefined types (off_t, size_t, time_t),
9522 log the current cache usage percentage at LogLevel debug
9523 [Martin Kraemer, based on discussion between Dean Gaudet & Dirk vanGulik]
9525 Changes with Apache 1.3.0
9527 *) Using a type map file as a custom error document was not possible.
9528 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#1031
9530 *) Avoid problems with braindead Awks by additionally searching for gawk
9531 and nawk in APACI's configure script.
9532 [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2319
9534 *) Rename md5.h to ap_md5.h to avoid conflicts with native MD5 on
9535 some systems. [Randy Terbush]
9537 *) Change usage of perror()+fprintf(stderr,...) in mod_rewrite to
9538 more proper ap_log_error() variants.
9539 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9541 *) Make sure the argument for the --add-module option to APACI's configure
9542 script is of type [path/to/]mod_xxx.c because all calculations inside
9543 configure and src/Configure depend on this.
9544 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2307
9546 *) Changes usage of perror/fprintf to stderr to more proper ap_log_error
9547 in mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and mod_log_config.
9550 *) Various OS/2 cleanups ["Brian Havard" <brianh kheldar.apana.org.au>]
9552 *) PORT: QNX needed a #include <sys/mman.h>; and now it uses flock
9553 serialized accept to handle multiple sockets.
9554 [Rob Saccoccio <robs InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2295, 2296
9556 *) Have NT properly set the directory for CGI scripts
9557 (& other spawned children)
9558 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda us.ibm.com>]
9560 *) Propagate environment to CGI scripts correctly in Win32.
9561 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda us.ibm.com>] PR#2294
9563 *) Some symbol renaming:
9564 ap_spawn_child_err became ap_spawn_child
9565 ap_spawn_child_err_buff became ap_bspawn_child
9566 spawn_child was obsoleted and moved to compat.h
9569 *) Upgrade the child spawning code in mod_rewrite for the RewriteMap
9570 programs: ap_spawn_child_err() is used and the Win32 case now uses
9571 CreateProcess() instead of a low-level execl() (which caused problems in
9572 the past under Win32).
9573 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9575 *) A few cosmetics and trivial enhancements to APXS to make the
9576 generated Makefile more user friendly. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9578 *) Proxy Fix: The proxy special failure routine ap_proxyerror()
9579 was updated to use the normal apache error processing, thereby allowing
9580 proxy errors to be treated by ErrorDocument's as well. For this
9581 purpose, a new module-to-core communication variable "error-notes"
9582 was introduced; the proxy (and possibly other modules) communicates
9583 its error text using this variable. Its content is copied to a new
9584 cgi-env-var REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES for use by ErrorDocuments.
9585 The old proxy special error routine ap_proxy_log_uerror()
9586 was replaced by regular ap_log_error() calls, many messages were made
9588 [Martin Kraemer] PR#494, 1259
9590 *) SECURITY: A possible buffer overflow in the ftp proxy was fixed.
9593 *) Transform the configure message "You need root privileges for suEXEC"
9594 from a fatal error into a (more friendly) warning because the building
9595 ("make") of Apache we can allow, of course. Root privileges are needed
9596 only for the installation step ("make install"). So make sure the
9597 user is aware of this fact but let him proceed as long as he can.
9598 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2288
9600 *) Renamed three more functions to common ap_ prefix which we missed at the
9601 Big Symbol Renaming because they're #defines and not real C functions:
9602 is_default_port(), default_port(), http_method().
9603 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9605 *) A zero-length name after a $ in an SSI document should cause
9606 just the $ to be in the expansion. This was broken during the
9607 security fixes in 1.2.5. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1921, 2249
9609 *) Call ap_destroy_sub_req() in ap_add_cgi_vars() to reclaim some
9610 memory. [Rob Saccoccio <robs InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2252
9612 *) Fix src/support/httpd.exp (DSO export file which is currently only
9613 used under AIX) because of recent changes to function names.
9614 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9616 Changes with Apache 1.3b7
9618 *) Make sure a MIME-type can be forced via a RewriteRule even when no
9619 substitution takes place, for instance via the following rule:
9620 ``RewriteRule ^myscript$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]'' This was often
9621 requested by users in the past to force a single script without a .cgi
9622 extension and outside any cgi-bin dirs to be executed as a CGI program.
9623 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2254
9625 *) A fix for protocol issues surrounding 400, 408, and
9626 414 responses. [Ed Korthof]
9628 *) Ignore MaxRequestsPerChild on WIN32. [Brian Behlendorf]
9630 *) Fix discrepancy in proxy_ftp.c which was causing failures when
9631 trying to connect to certain ftpd's, such as anonftpd.
9632 [Rick Ohnemus <rick ecompcon.com>]
9634 *) Make mod_rewrite use ap_open_piped_log() for RewriteLog directive's
9635 logfile instead of fiddling around itself with child spawning stuff.
9636 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9638 *) Made RefererIgnore case-insensitive.
9640 *) Mod_log_agent, mod_log_referer now use ap_open_piped_log for piped logs.
9643 *) Replace use of spawn_child with ap_spawn_child_err_buff, to make everything
9644 "safe" under Win32. In: mod_include.c, mod_mime_magic.c
9647 *) Improve RFC1413 support. [Bob Beck <beck bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca>]
9649 *) Fix support script `dbmmanage': It was unable to handle some sort
9650 of passwords, especially passwords with "0" chars.
9651 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2242
9653 *) WIN32: Clicking on "Last Modified" in a fancy index caused a crash. Fixed.
9654 [Ben Laurie] PR#2238
9656 *) WIN32: CGIs could cause a hang (because of a deadlock in the standard C
9657 library), so CGI handling has been changed to use Win32 native handles
9658 instead of C file descriptors.
9659 [Ben Laurie and Bill Stoddard <wgstodda us.ibm.com>] PR#1129, 1607
9661 *) The proxy cache would store an incorrect content-length in the cached
9662 file copy after a cache update. That resulted in repeated fetching
9663 of the original copy instead of using the cached copy.
9664 [Ernst Kloppenburg <kloppen isr.uni-stuttgart.de>] PR#2094
9666 *) The Makefiles assumed that DSO files are build via $(LD). This
9667 is broken for two reasons: First we never defined at least LD=ld
9668 somewhere to make sure this works (it was silently assumed that most Make
9669 provide a built-in LD definition - ARGL!) and second using the generic LD
9670 variable is not the truth. Instead a special variable named LD_SHLIB is
9671 reasonable because although "ld" is usually the default, the command for
9672 building DSO files can be "libtool" or even "cc" on some systems.
9673 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9675 *) Replace the AddVersionPlatform directive with ServerTokens which
9676 provides for more control over the format of the Server:
9677 header line. SERVER_SUBVERSION is no longer supported;
9678 all module should use the ap_add_version_component()
9679 API function instead. [Jim Jagielski]
9681 *) Support for the NCR MP/RAS 3.0
9682 [John Withers <withers semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov>]
9684 *) The LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT variable of src/Configuration[.tmpl] was
9685 not retrieved in src/Configure and thus was not useable.
9686 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9688 *) Various Makefile consistency cleanups:
9689 - make OSDIR also automatically be relative to src/ like INCDIR
9690 - SUBDIRS is now generated in src/Makefile only and not in
9691 Makefile.config because it is a local define for this location.
9692 - remove BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS because is it no longer used inside
9693 any Makefile but make sure that at least the "-K inline" is kept in
9695 - update the "depend" targets in Makefile.tmpl files to use $(OSDIR), too.
9696 - updated the dependencies theirself
9697 - removed not existing SHLIB variable from "clean" targets
9698 - replaced SHLIB_OBJS/SHLIBS_OBJ consistently with OBJS_PIC because OBJS
9699 already exists and OBJS_PIC are also just plain objects and have not
9700 directly to do with "shared" things. The only difference is that they
9701 contain PIC. So OBJS_PIC is the more canonical name.
9702 - Updated the Makefile-dependency lines for OBJS_PIC
9703 - Removed the Makefile-dependency line in Configure to avoid double
9705 - replaced ugly xx-so.o/xx.so-o hack with a clean and consistent usage
9706 of xxx.lo as GNU libtool does with its PIC objects
9707 - reduce local complexity in modules Makefile.tmpl by moving the last
9708 existing target "depend" to the generation section in Configure, too.
9709 - removed the historical $(SPACER) which was used in the past together
9710 with BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS to avoid zig-zags in the build process. This
9711 is no longer needed.
9712 - force the build and run of the gen_xxx programs under main/ as the
9713 first step before building the objects because it looks cleaner
9714 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9716 *) WIN32: Make Win32 work again after the /dev/null DoS fix.
9719 *) WIN32: Check for buffer overflows in ap_os_canonical_filename.
9722 *) WIN32: Don't force ISAPI headers to finish with \n.
9723 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson Cognos.COM>, Ben Laurie] PR#2060
9725 *) When opening "configuration" files (like httpd.conf, htaccess
9726 and htpasswd), Apache will not allow them to be non-/dev/null
9727 device files. This closes a DoS hole. At the same time,
9728 we use ap_pfopen to open these files to handle timeouts.
9729 [Jim Jagielski, Martin Kraemer]
9731 *) Apache will now log the reason its httpd children exit if they exit
9732 due to an unexpected signal. (It requires a new porting define,
9733 SYS_SIGLIST, which if defined should point to a list of text
9734 descriptions of the signals available. See PORTING.) [Dean Gaudet]
9736 *) WIN32: chdir() doesn't make sense in a multithreaded environment
9737 like WIN32. Before, Win32 CGI's could have had sporadic failures
9738 if a chdir call from one thread was made between another chdir call
9739 and a spawn in another thread. So, for now don't chdir for CGI scripts
9740 in WIN32. The current CGI "spec" is unclear as to whether it's
9741 necessary. Long-term fix is to either serialize the chdir/spawn combo
9742 or use WIN32 native calls to spawn a process. This temp fix was
9743 necessary to remove this as a showstopper for 1.3's release.
9746 *) Cleanup the suEXEC support in APACI and make it more safe:
9747 1. Add big fat hint in INSTALL about risks and to read the
9748 htdocs/manual/suexec.html document before using the suexec-related
9750 2. Make sure the user has at least provided one --suexec-xxxx option
9751 (specifies suEXEC parameters) in addition to --enable-suexec option.
9752 If only --enable-suexec is given APACI stops with a hint to INSTALL
9753 and htdocs/manual/suexec.html documents.
9754 3. Provide two additional --suexec-xxxx options to make the suEXEC
9755 configuration complete (especially for package maintainers who else
9756 had to patch the source tree) by providing ways to configure minimal
9757 UID/GID and safe PATH, too.
9758 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9760 *) Cleanup of the `configure --shadow' process:
9761 - make sure the configure script creates its temporary files in the
9762 shadow tree to avoid conflicts with parallel configure runs
9763 - removed unnecessary option "-r" from "rm" call for Makefiles
9764 - make sure the configure scripts creates the shadow-wrapper Makefile
9765 only when no shadow trees already exists
9766 - make sure "make distclean" removes the shadow-wrapper Makefile but only
9767 when no more shadow trees exists
9768 - overhauled mkshadow.sh script: now its more IFS-safe and approx. twice
9769 as fast (in the past it needed 70sec, now it runs just 38sec)
9770 - make sure CVS does not complain about the created files
9771 Makefille.<gnutriple> and directories src.<gnutriple>
9772 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9774 *) Added the ap_add_version_component() API routine and the
9775 AddVersionPlatform core directive. The first allows modules to
9776 declare themselves in the Server response header field value,
9777 augmenting the SERVER_SUBVERSION define in the Configuration file
9778 with run-time settings (more useful in a loadable-module environment).
9779 AddVersionPlatform inserts a comment such as "(UNIX)" or "(Win32)"
9780 into the server version string. [Ken Coar] PR#2056
9782 *) Minor stability tweaks to avoid core dumps in ap_snprintf.
9785 *) Emit the "Accept-Range" header for the default handler.
9786 [Brian Behlendorf] PR#1464
9788 *) Add a note to httpd.conf-dist that apache will on some systems fail
9789 to start when the Group # is set to a negative or large positive value.
9792 *) Make sure the module execution order is correct even when some modules
9793 are loaded under runtime (`LoadModule') via the DSO mechanism:
9794 1. The list of loaded modules is now a dynamically allocated one
9795 and not the original statically list from modules.c
9796 2. The loaded modules are now correctly setup by LoadModule for
9797 later use by the AddModule command.
9798 3. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used APACI's `install'
9799 target now enables all created `LoadModule' lines per default because
9800 this is both already expected by the user _and_ needed to avoid
9801 confusion with the next point and reduces the Makefile.tmpl complexity
9802 4. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used, APACI's `install'
9803 target now additionally makes sure the module list is reconstructed
9804 via a complete `ClearModuleList+AddModule...' entry.
9805 5. The support tool `apxs' now also makes sure an AddModule command
9806 is added in addition to the LoadModule command.
9807 6. The modules.c generation was extended to now contain two
9808 comments to make sure no one is confused by the confusing terminology
9809 of loading/linking (we use load=link+load & link=activate instead of
9810 the obvious load=activate & link=link :-( )
9811 This way now there is no longer a difference under execution time between
9812 statically and dynamically linked modules.
9813 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9815 *) Fix the generated mod_xxx.c from "apxs -g -f xxx" after the
9816 Big Symbol Renaming. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9818 *) Add a comment to mod_example.c showing the format of a FLAG command
9821 *) Standardized the time format in mod_status to match that of other
9822 places in the code (e.g. DATE_GMT). PR#1551
9824 *) Fix handling of %Z in timefmt strings for those platforms with no time
9825 zone information in their tm struct. [Paul Eggert <eggert twinsun.com>]
9828 *) Makes mod_rewrite, mod_log_config, mod_status and the ServerSignature
9829 feature compatible with 'UseCanonicalName off' by changing
9830 r->server->server_hostname to ap_get_server_name(). And I changed some
9831 functions which use r->server->port to use ap_get_server_port() instead,
9832 because if there's no Port directive in the config r->server->port is 0.
9835 *) get/set_module_config are trivial enough to be better off inline. Worth
9836 1.5% performance boost. [Dean Gaudet]
9838 *) Fix off-by-one error in ap_proxy_date_canon() in proxy_util.c
9839 when ensuring 'x' is at least 30-chars big. [Jim Jagielski,
9842 *) [BS2000 security] BS2000 needs an extra authentication to initialize
9843 the task environment to the unprivileged User id. Otherwise CGI scripts
9844 would have a way to gain super user access. [Martin Kraemer]
9846 *) Fix debug log messages for BS2000/OSD: instead of logging the whole
9847 absolute path, only log base name of logging source as is done
9848 in unix. [Martin Kraemer]
9850 *) Ronald Tschalaer's Accept-Encoding patch - preserve the "x-" in
9851 the encoding type from the Accept-Encoding header (if it's there)
9852 and use it in the response, as that's probably what it'll be expecting.
9853 [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>]
9855 *) Fix to mod_alias: translate_alias_redir is dealing with
9856 a URI, not a filename, so the check for drive letters for win32
9857 and emx is not necessary. [Dean Gaudet]
9859 *) WIN32: Allow .cmd as an executable extension.
9860 [Kari Likovuori <Kari.Likovuori mol.fi>] PR#2146
9862 *) Make Apache header files, and some variables, C++ friendly.
9863 [Michael Anderson's <mka redes.int.com.mx>]
9865 *) Child processes can now "signal" (by exiting with a status
9866 of APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) the parent process to abort and
9867 shutdown the server if the error in the child process was
9868 fatal enough. [Jim Jagielski]
9870 *) mod_autoindex's find_itme() was sensitive to MIME type case.
9871 [Jim Jagielski] PR#2112
9873 *) Make sure the referer_log and agent_log entries in the default httpd.conf
9874 file are also adjusted for the actual relative installation paths.
9875 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2175
9877 *) WIN32: Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled. [Ben Laurie]
9879 *) WIN32: Make roots of filesystems (e.g. c:/) work. [Ben Laurie]
9882 *) PORT: Various porting changes to support AIX 3.2, 4.1.5, 4.2 and 4.3.
9883 Additionally the checks for finding the vendor DSO library were moved
9884 from mod_so.c to Configure because first it needs $PLAT etc. and second
9885 mod_so already uses an abstraction layer and does not fiddle with the
9886 vendor functions itself.
9887 [Jens-Uwe Mager, Ralf S. Engelschall]
9889 *) PORT: Some optimization defines for NetBSD
9890 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek ics.muni.cz>] PR#2165
9892 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for NetBSD.
9893 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek ics.muni.cz>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2158
9895 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for AIX (at least 4.2 but older
9896 AIX variants should work fine, too. Even AIX 3.x should work). This is
9897 accomplished by using the free DSO emulation code from Jens-Uwe Mager
9898 which we put into a os/unix/os-dso-aix.c file.
9899 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9901 *) PORT: Fix compiler warnings under AIX >= 4.2 where the manual pages imply
9902 that we should use NET_SIZE_T == int but the include files force size_t.
9903 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9905 *) Fix two bugs in select() handling in http_main.c.
9908 *) Suppress "error(0)" messages for ap_log_error() when the APLOG_NOERRNO
9909 is unset (as it is in situations like timeouts) where it is unclear
9910 whether errno is set or not. [Martin Kraemer]
9912 *) Just having APACI's localstatedir is too general and not enough for most
9913 of the systems. 1.3b6 again required manual APACI patches by package
9914 maintainers from Red Hat and FreeBSD because for their filesystem layout a
9915 little bit more flexibility in configuring the paths is needed. Hence we
9916 provide three additional configure options (--runtimedir, --logfiledir,
9917 --proxycachedir) which now can be used for more granular adjustments if
9918 --localstatedir is not enough to fit the particular needs. As a nice
9919 side-effect this reduces some subdir fiddling in configure+Makefile.tmpl.
9920 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9922 *) Make the install root for "make install" in APACI's Makefile overrideable
9923 by package authors. This way we are even more friendly to package
9924 maintainers (especially Debian and Red Hat) who build for the real prefix
9925 via "configure --prefix=/<real>" but use a different local prefix via
9926 "make root=/tmp/apache install" for rolling the package without bristling
9927 the target location on their system.
9928 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9930 *) Workaround sed limitations in APACI's configure script by now
9931 substituting in chunks of 50 commands (because for instance HPUX's vendor
9932 sed has a limit of max. 98 commands)
9933 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2136
9935 *) Adding SOCKS5 support and fixing existing SOCKS4 support.
9936 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2140
9938 *) Manually fix some symbols which were not renamed to prefix ap_ in the BIG
9939 RENAMING process because they are defined as pre-processor macros instead
9940 of real functions: bputc, bgetc, piped_log_write_fd, piped_log_read_fd
9941 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9943 *) Workaround braindead AWK's when generating ap_config.h: The split() and
9944 substr() functions cannot be nested under vendor AWK from Solaris 2.6.
9945 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2139
9947 *) Various bugfixes and cleanups for the APACI configure script:
9948 o fix IFS handling for _nested_ situation
9949 o fix Perl interpreter search: take first one found instead of last one
9950 o fix DSO consistency check
9951 o print error messages to stderr instead of stdout
9952 o add install-quiet for --shadow situation to Makefile stub
9953 o reduce complexity by avoiding sed-hacks for rule and module list loops
9954 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9956 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI situation in mod_cgi.c [David MacKenzie] PR#2114
9958 *) Make sure the input field separator (IFS) shell variable is explicitly
9959 initialized correctly before _every_ `for' loop and also restored after
9960 the loops. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9962 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the `mime.types' and
9963 `magic' files from an existing Apache installation. Because people often
9964 customize these for own MIME and content types.
9965 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9967 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for OpenBSD 2.x
9968 [Peter Galbavy, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2109
9970 *) Fix the path to the ScoreBoardFile in the install-config target, too.
9971 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2105
9973 *) Let "configure" clear out the users parameters (provided as shell
9974 variables) to avoid side-effects in "src/Configure" when the user
9975 exported them (which is not needed, but some users do it).
9976 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2101
9978 *) Provide backward compatibility from some old src/Configuration.tmpl
9979 parameter names to the canonical Autoconf-style shell variable names. For
9980 instance CFLAGS vs. EXTRA_CFLAGS. The EXTRA_xxx variants are accepted now
9981 but a hint message is displayed. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9983 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the DocumentRoot and
9984 CGI scripts from an existing Apache installation.
9985 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Jim Jagielski] PR#2084
9987 *) Make `configure --compat' more "compatible" by first
9988 let the libexecdir default to EPREFIX/libexec instead of EPREFIX/bin and
9989 second by making sure the "avoid-bristling-suffix" /apache is not
9990 appended to sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir and includedir when
9991 --compat is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht]
9993 *) NeXT required strdup() in support/logresolve.c
9994 [Francisco Tomei <fatomei sandburg.unm.edu>] PR#2082
9996 *) AIX required sys/select.h in support/ab.c
9997 [Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener dlr.de>] PR#2081
9999 *) Fix the path to the MimeMagicFile in the install-config target, too.
10000 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2089
10002 *) PORT: Added HP-UX 11 patches [Jeff Earickson <jaearick colby.edu>]
10004 *) If you start apache with the -S command line option it will dump
10005 out the parsed vhost settings. This is useful for folks trying
10006 to figure out what is wrong with their vhost configuration.
10007 (Other dumps may be added in the future.) [Dean Gaudet]
10009 *) Add %pA, %pI, and %pp codes to ap_vformatter (and hence ap_bprintf,
10010 ap_snprintf, and ap_psprintf). See include/ap.h for docs.
10013 *) Because /usr/local/apache is the default prefix the ``configure
10014 --compat'' option no longer has to set prefix, again. This way the
10015 --compat option honors a leading --prefix option. [Lars Eilebrecht]
10017 *) PORT: Cast the first argument of dlopen() in ap_os_dso_load()
10018 to `char *' under OSF1 and FreeBSD 2.x where it is defined this way
10019 to avoid "discard const" warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10021 *) If a specific handler is set for a file yet the request still
10022 ends up being handled by the default handler, log an error
10023 message before handling it. This catches things such as trying
10024 to use SSIs without mod_include enabled. [Marc Slemko]
10026 *) Fix error logging for the startup case where ap_log_error() still uses
10027 stderr as the target. Now the default log level is honored here, too.
10028 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10030 *) PORT: Make sure some AWK's don't fail in src/Configure with "string too
10031 long" errors when generating the MODULES entry for src/Makefile
10032 [Ben Hyde, Ralf S. Engelschall]
10034 *) Make sure src/Configure doesn't complain about the old directory
10035 /usr/local/etc/httpd/ when APACI is used. [Lars Eilebrecht]
10037 Changes with Apache 1.3b6
10039 *) PORT: Clean up warnings on Ultrix and HPUX. [Ben Hyde]
10041 *) Adding DSO support for the HP/UX platform by emulating the dlopen-style
10042 interface via the similar but proprietary HP/UX shl_xxx-style system
10043 calls. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10045 *) PORT: Updated UnixWare 2.0.x and 2.1.x entries for DSO support and made
10046 APACI Makefile.tmpl "install" target more robust for sensible UnixWare
10047 Make. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10049 *) ++++ THE BIG SYMBOL RENAMING ++++
10050 To avoid symbol clashes with third-party code compiled into the server,
10051 we globally applied the prefix "ap_" to the following classes of
10053 - Apache provided general functions (e.g., ap_cpystrn)
10054 - Public API functions (e.g., palloc, bgets)
10055 - Private functions which we can't make static (because of
10056 cross-object usage) but should be (e.g., new_connection)
10057 For backward source compatibility a new header file named compat.h was
10058 created which provides defines for the old symbol names and can be used
10059 by third-party module authors.
10062 *) Added dynamic shared object (DSO) support for SVR4-derivates: The
10063 problem under SVR4 is that there is no command flag to force the linker
10064 to export the global symbols of the httpd executable therewith they are
10065 available to the DSO's. Instead of problematic hacks like creating a
10066 dummy.so file (containing dummy references to all global symbols) the
10067 httpd binary is linked against, we use a clean trick stolen from Perl 5:
10068 Placing the Apache core code itself into a DSO library named libhttpd.so.
10069 This way the global symbols _HAVE_ to be exported and thus are available
10070 to any manually loaded DSO's under runtime. To reduce the impact to the
10071 user to null we go even further and create a stub httpd executable which
10072 automatically keeps track of the DSO library loading itself and thus
10073 hides the complete mechanism from the user. Although the generation of
10074 this DSO library is automatically triggered for platforms which
10075 essentially need it (mostly all SVR4-derivates) it can be also enabled
10076 manually via the Rule SHARED_CORE. This can be interesting in the future
10077 where we perhaps exploit this libhttpd.so mechanism for providing nifty
10078 features like graceful upgrades, or whatever.
10079 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer]
10081 *) Build the libraries before building the rest of the tools. [Ben Hyde]
10083 *) Add "distclean" target to src/-Makefiles to provide "make distclean" also
10084 inside the src subtree (i.e. for non-APACI users). Following GNU Makefile
10085 conventions while "clean" removes only stuff created by "all" targets,
10086 "distclean" additionally removes the stuff from the configuration
10087 process. This way "make distclean" (hence the name) provides a fresh
10088 source tree as it was for distribution.
10089 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10091 *) Allow top-level (APACI) Makefile to break on build errors
10092 the same way the src/ subtree Makefiles breaks on them by replacing the
10093 initial APACI sed-subdir-display-kludge with a more clean
10094 variable-passing-solution: variable SDP can optionally hold the subdir
10095 prefix which is consistently used for displaying the subdir movement.
10096 This way even the top-level Makefile can stop correctly on errors as the
10097 user expects. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10099 *) Fixed ordering of argument checks for RewriteBase directive.
10100 [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr mixi.net>] PR#2045
10102 *) Change Win32 IS_MODULE to SHARED_MODULE to match Unix' method of
10103 indicating that a module is being compiled for dynamic loading. Also
10104 remove #define IS_MODULE from modules and add SHARED_MODULE define
10105 to the mak/dsp files. [Alexei Kosut]
10107 *) Reduce logging level of "normal" warning messages to APLOG_INFO,
10108 since we are now logging APLOG_WARNING by default. [Roy Fielding]
10110 *) PORT: OS/2 tweak to deal with multiple .exe targets. [Brian Havard]
10112 *) Add documentation file and src/Configuration.tmpl entry for the
10113 experimental mod_mmap_static module. Because although it is and marked as
10114 an experimental one it is distributed and thus should be documented and
10115 prepared for configuration the same way as all others modules.
10116 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10118 *) Add query (-q) option to apxs support tool to be able to manually query
10119 specific settings from apxs. This is needed for instance when you
10120 manually want to access Apache's header files and you need to assemble
10121 the -I option. Now you can do -I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`.
10122 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10124 *) Now src/Configure uses a fallback strategy for the shared object support
10125 on platforms where no explicit information is available: If a Perl
10126 installation exists we ask it about its shared object support and if it's
10127 the dlopen-style one we shamelessly guess the compiler and linker flags
10128 for creating shared objects from Perls knowledge. Of course, the user is
10129 warning about what we are doing and informed that he should send us
10130 the guessed flags when they work. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10132 *) Provide APACI --without-support option to be able to disable the build
10133 and installation of the support tools from the src/support/ area.
10134 Although its useful to have these installed per default we should provide
10135 a way to compile and install without them for backward-compatibility.
10136 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10138 *) Add of the new APache eXtenSion (apxs) support tool for building and
10139 installing modules into an _already installed_ Apache package through the
10140 dynamic shared object (DSO) mechanism [mod_so.c]. The trick here is that
10141 this approach actually doesn't need the Apache source tree. The
10142 (APACI-installed) server package is enough, because this now includes the
10143 Apache C header files (PREFIX/include) and the new APXS tool
10144 (SBINDIR/apxs). The intend is to provide a handy tool for third-party
10145 module authors to build their Apache modules _OUTSIDE_ the Apache source
10146 tree while avoiding them to fiddle around with the totally platform
10147 dependend way of compiling DSO files. The tool supports all ranges of
10148 modules, from trivial ones (single mod_foo.c) to complex ones (like PHP3
10149 which has a mod_php3.c plus a pre-built libmodphp3-so.a) and even can
10150 on-the-fly generate a minimalistic Makefile and sample module for the
10151 first step to provide both a quick success event and to demonstrate the
10152 APXS mechanism to module authors. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10154 *) Fix core dumps in use of CONNECT in proxy.
10155 [<Rainer.Scherg rexroth.de>] PR#1326, #1573, #1942
10157 *) Modify the log directives in httpd.conf-dist files to use CustomLog
10158 so that users have examples of how CustomLog can be used.
10161 *) Add the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for the top-level of
10162 the Apache distribution tree. Until Apache 1.3 there was no real
10163 out-of-the-box batch-capable build and installation procedure for the
10164 complete Apache package. This is now provided by a top-level "configure"
10165 script and a corresponding top-level "Makefile.tmpl" file. The goal is
10166 to provide a GNU Autoconf-style frontend which is capable to both drive
10167 the old src/Configure stuff in batch and additionally installs the
10168 package with a GNU-conforming directory layout. Any options from the old
10169 configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for flexibly
10170 customizing Apache. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10172 *) The floating point ap_snprintf code wasn't threadsafe.
10173 Had to remove the HAVE_CVT macro in order to do threadsafe
10174 calling of the ?cvt() floating point routines. [Dean Gaudet]
10176 *) PORT: Add the SCO_SV port. [Jim Jagielski] PR#1962
10178 *) PORT: IRIX needs the -n32 flag iff using the 'cc' compiler
10179 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1901
10181 *) BUG: Configure was using TCC and CC inconsistently. Make sure
10182 Configure knows which CC we are using. [Jim Jagielski]
10184 *) "Options +Includes" wasn't correctly merged if "+IncludesNoExec"
10185 was defined in a parent directory. [Lars Eilebrecht]
10187 *) API: ap_snprintf() code mutated into ap_vformatter(), which is
10188 a generic printf-style routine that can call arbitrary output
10189 routines. Use this to replace http_bprintf.c. Add new routines
10190 psprintf(), pvsprintf() which allocate the exact amount of memory
10191 required for a string from a pool. Use psprintf() to clean up
10192 various bits of code which used ap_snprintf()/pstrdup().
10195 *) PORT: HAVE_SNPRINTF doesn't do anything any longer. This is because
10196 ap_snprintf() has different semantics and formatting codes than
10197 snprintf(). [Dean Gaudet]
10199 *) SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ are now reset to SIG_DFL at boot-time. This
10200 is necessary on at least Solaris where the /etc/rc?.d scripts
10201 are run with these signals ignored, and "SIG_IGN" settings are
10202 maintained across exec().
10203 [Rein Tollevik <reint sys.sol.no>] PR#2009
10205 *) Fix the check for symbolic links in ``RewriteCond ... -l'': stat() was
10206 used instead of lstat() and thus this flag didn't work as expected.
10207 [Rein Tollevik <reint sys.sol.no>] PR#2010
10209 *) Fix the proxy pass-through feature of mod_rewrite for the case of
10210 existing QUERY_STRING now that mod_proxy was recently changed because of
10211 the new URL parsing stuff. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10213 *) A few changes to scoreboard definitions which helps gcc generate
10214 better code. [Dean Gaudet]
10216 *) ANSI C doesn't guarantee that "int foo : 2" in a structure will
10217 be a signed bitfield. So mark a few bitfields as signed to
10218 ensure correct code. [Dean Gaudet]
10220 *) The default for HostnameLookups was changed to Off, but there
10221 was a problem and it wasn't taking effect. [Dean Gaudet]
10223 *) PORT: Clean up undefined signals on some platforms (SCO, BeOS).
10226 *) After a SIGHUP the listening sockets in the parent weren't
10227 properly marked for closure on fork().
10228 [Jürgen Keil <jk tools.de>] PR#2000
10230 *) Allow %2F in two situations: 1) it is in the query part of the URI,
10231 therefore not exposed to %2F -> '/' translations and 2) the request
10232 is a proxy request, so we're not dealing with a local resource anyway.
10233 Without this, the proxy would fail to work for any URL's with
10234 %2f in them (occurs quite often in
10235 http://.../cgi-bin/...?http%3A%2F%2F... references) [Martin Kraemer]
10237 *) Protect against FD_SETSIZE mismatches. [Dean Gaudet]
10239 *) Make the shared object compilation command more portable by avoiding
10240 the direct combination of `-c' & `-o' which is not honored by some
10241 compilers like UnixWare's cc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10243 *) WIN32: the proxy was creating filenames missing the last four
10244 characters. While this normally doesn't stop anything from
10245 working, it can result in extra collisions.
10246 [Tim Costello <tjcostel socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#1890
10248 *) Now mod_proxy uses the response string (in addition to the response status
10249 code) from the already used FTP SIZE command to setup the Content-Length
10250 header if available. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1183
10252 *) Reanimated the (still undocumented) proxy receive buffer size directive:
10253 Renamed from ReceiveBufferSize to ProxyReceiveBufferSize because the old
10254 name was really too generic, added documentation for this directive to
10255 the mod_proxy.html and corrected the hyperlink to it in the
10256 new_features_1.3.html document. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1348
10258 *) Fix a bug in the src/helpers/fp2rp script and make it a little bit
10259 faster [Martin Kraemer]
10261 *) Make Configure die when you give it an unknown command switch.
10264 *) Add five new and fresh manpages for the support programs: dbmmanage.1,
10265 suexec.8, htdigest.1, rotatelogs.8 and logresolve.8. Now all up-to-date
10266 and per default compiled support programs have manual pages - just to
10267 document our stuff a little bit more and to be able to do really
10268 Unix-like installations ;-) [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10270 *) Major cleanups to the Configure script to make it and its generated
10271 Makefiles again readable and maintainable: add SRCDIR option, removed
10272 INCLUDES_DEPTH[0-2] kludge, cleanup of TARGET option, cleanup of
10273 generated sections, consequently added Makefile headers with inheritance
10274 information, added subdir movement messages for easier following where
10275 the build process currently stays (more verbose then standard Make, less
10276 verbose than GNU make), same style to comments in the Configure script,
10277 added Apache license header, fixed a few bugs, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10279 *) Add the new ApacheBench program "ab" to src/support/: This is derived
10280 from the ZeusBench benchmarking program and can be used to determine the
10281 response performance of an Apache installation. This version is
10282 officially licensed with Zeus Technology, Ltd. See the license agreement
10283 statements in <199803171224.NAA24547 en1.engelschall.com> in apache-core.
10284 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10286 *) API: Various core functions that are definately not part of the API
10287 have been made static, and a few have been marked API_EXPORT. Still
10288 more have been marked CORE_EXPORT and are not intended for general
10289 use by modules. [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
10291 *) mod_proxy was not clearing the Proxy-Connection header from
10292 requests; now it does. This did not violate any spec, however
10293 causes poor interactions when you are talking to remote proxies.
10294 [Marc Slemko] PR#1741
10296 *) Various cleanups to the command line interface and manual pages.
10297 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10299 *) cfg_getline() was not properly handling lines that did not end
10300 with a line termination character. [Marc Slemko] PR#1869, 1909
10302 *) Performance tweak to mod_log_config. [Dmitry Khrustalev]
10304 *) Clean up some undocumented behavior of mod_setenvif related to
10305 "merging" two SetEnvIf directives when they match the same header
10306 and regex. Document that mod_setenvif will perform comparisons in
10307 the order they appear in the config file. Optimize mod_setenvif by
10308 doing more work at config time rather than at runtime.
10311 *) src/include/ap_config.h now wraps it's #define's with #ifndef/#endif's
10312 to allow for modules to overrule them and to reduce redefinition
10313 warnings [Jim Jagielski]
10315 *) [PORT] For A/UX change the OS-#define for -DAUX to -DAUX3.
10318 *) Making the hard-coded cross-module function call mime_find_ct() (from
10319 mod_proxy to mod_mime) obsolete by making sure the API hook for MIME type
10320 checking is really called even for proxy requests except for URLs with
10321 HTTP schemes (because there we can optimize by not running the type
10322 checking hooks due to the fact that the proxy gets the MIME Content-type
10323 from the remote host later). This change cleans up mod_mime by removing
10324 the ugly export kludge, makes the one-liner file mod_mime.h obsolete, and
10325 especially unbundles mod_proxy and mod_mime. This way they both now can
10326 be compiled as shared objects and are no longer tied together.
10327 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10329 *) util.c cleanup and speedup. [Dean Gaudet]
10331 *) API: Clarification, pstrndup() will always copy n bytes of the source
10332 and NUL terminate at the (n+1)st byte. [Dean Gaudet]
10334 *) Mark module command_rec and handler_rec structures const so that they
10335 end up in the read-only data section (and are friendlier to systems
10336 that don't do optimistic memory allocation on fork()). [Dean Gaudet]
10338 *) Add check to the "Port" directive to make sure the specified
10339 port is in the appropriate range. [Ben Hyde]
10341 *) Performance improvements to invoke_handler().
10342 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima bog.msu.su>]
10344 *) Added support for building shared objects even for library-style modules
10345 (which are built from more than one object file). This now provides the
10346 ability to build mod_proxy as a shared object module. Additionally
10347 modules like mod_example are now also supported for shared object
10348 building because the generated Makefiles now no longer assume there is at
10349 least one statically linked module. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10351 *) API: Clarify usage of content_type, handler, content_encoding,
10352 content_language and content_languages fields in request_rec. They
10353 must always be lowercased; and the strings pointed to shouldn't
10354 be modified (you must copy them to modify them). Fix a few bugs
10355 related to this. [Dean Gaudet]
10357 *) API: Clarification: except for RAW_ARGS, all command handlers can
10358 treat the char * parameters as permanent, and modifiable. There
10359 is no need to pstrdup() them. Clean up some needless pstrdup().
10362 *) Now mod_so keeps track of which module shared objects with which names
10363 are loaded and thus avoids multiple loading and unloading and irritating
10364 error_log messages. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10366 *) Prior to the existence of mod_setenv it was necessary to tweak the TZ
10367 environment variable in the apache core. But that tweaking interferes
10368 with mod_setenv. So don't tweak if the user has specified an explicit
10369 TZ variable. [Jay Soffian <jay cimedia.com>] PR#1888
10371 *) rputs() did not calculate r->sent_bodyct properly.
10372 [Siegmund Stirnweiss <siegst kat.ina.de>] PR#1900
10374 *) The CGI spec says that REMOTE_HOST should be set to the remote hosts's
10375 name, or left unset if this value is unavailable. Apache was setting
10376 it to the IP address when unavailable.
10377 [Tony Finch <fanf demon.net>] PR#1925
10379 *) Various improvements to the configuration and build support for compiling
10380 modules as shared objects. Especially Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1, IRIX and
10381 OSF1 support with GCC and vendor compilers was added. This way shared
10382 object support is now provided out-of-the-box for FreeBSD, Linux,
10383 Solaris, SunOS, IRIX and OSF1. In short: On all major platforms!
10384 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10386 *) Minor cleanup in http_main -- split QNX and OS2 specific "mmap"
10387 scoreboard code into separate #defines -- USE_POSIX_SCOREBOARD
10388 and USE_OS2_SCOREBOARD. [Dean Gaudet]
10390 *) Fix one more special locking problem for RewriteMap programs in
10391 mod_rewrite: According to the documentation of flock(), "Locks are on
10392 files, not file descriptors. That is, file descriptors duplicated
10393 through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result in multiple instances of a lock,
10394 but rather multiple references to a single lock. If a process holding a
10395 lock on a file forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the
10396 parent will lose its lock.". To overcome this we have to make sure the
10397 RewriteLock file is opened _AFTER_ the childs were spawned which is now
10398 the case by opening it in the child_init instead of the module_init API
10399 hook. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
10401 *) Change to Location and LocationMatch semantics. LocationMatch no
10402 longer lets a single slash match multiple adjacent slashes in the
10403 URL. This change is for consistency with RewriteRule and
10404 AliasMatch. Multiple slashes have meaning in URLs that they do
10405 not have in (some) filesystems. Location on the other hand can
10406 be considered a shorthand for a more complicated regex, and it
10407 does match multiple slashes with a single slash -- which is
10408 also consistent with the Alias directive.
10409 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#1440
10411 *) Fix bug with mod_mime_magic causing certain files, including files
10412 of length 0, to result in no response from the server.
10415 *) The Configure script now generates src/include/ap_config.h which
10416 contains the set of defines used when Apache is compiled on a platform.
10417 This file can then be included by external modules before including
10418 any Apache header files in case they are being built separately from
10419 Apache. Along with this change, a couple of minor changes were
10420 made to make Apache's #defines coexist peacefully with any autoconf
10421 defines an external module might have. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
10423 *) Fix mod_rewrite for the ugly API case where <VirtualHost> sections exist
10424 but without any RewriteXXXXX directives. Here mod_rewrite is given no
10425 chance by the API to initialize its per-server configuration and thus
10426 receives the wrong one from the main server. This is now avoided by
10427 remembering the server together with the config structure while
10428 configuring and later assuming there is no config when we see a
10429 difference between the remembered server and the one calling us.
10430 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1790
10432 *) Fixed the DBM RewriteMap support for mod_rewrite: First the support now
10433 is automatically disabled under configure time when the dbm_xxx functions
10434 are not available. Second, two heavy source code errors in the DBM
10435 support code were fixed. This makes DBM RewriteMap's usable again after
10436 a long time of brokenness. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1696
10438 *) Now all configuration files support Unix-style line-continuation via
10439 the trailing backslash ("\") character. This enables us to write down
10440 complex or just very long directives in a more readable way. The
10441 backslash character has to be really the last character before the
10442 newline and it has not been prefixed by another (escaping) backslash.
10443 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10445 *) When using ProxyPass the ?querystring was not passed correctly.
10446 [Joel Truher <truher wired.com>]
10448 *) To deal with modules being compiled and [dynamically] linked
10449 at a different time from the core, the SERVER_VERSION and
10450 SERVER_BUILT symbols have been abstracted through the new
10451 API routines apapi_get_server_version() and apapi_get_server_built().
10454 *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
10455 in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
10457 *) PORT: USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT has proven unreliable
10458 depending on the rev of Solaris and what mixture of modules
10459 are in use. So it has been disabled, and Solaris is back to
10460 using USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. Users may experiment with
10461 USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT at their own risk, it may speed
10462 up static content only servers. Or it may fail unpredictably.
10463 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1779, 1854, 1904
10465 *) mod_test_util_uri.c created which tests the logic in util_uri.c.
10468 *) API: Rewrite of absoluteURI handling, and in particular how
10469 absoluteURIs match vhosts. Unless a request is a proxy request, a
10470 "http://host" url is treated as if a similar "Host:" header had been
10471 supplied. This change was made to support future HTTP/1.x protocols
10472 which may require clients to send absoluteURIs for all requests.
10474 In order to achieve this change subtle changes were made to the API. In a
10475 request_rec, r->hostlen has been removed. r->unparsed_uri now exists so
10476 that the unmodified uri can be retrieved easily. r->proxyreq is not set
10477 by the core, modules must set it during the post_read_request or
10478 translate_names phase.
10480 Plus changes to the virtualhost test suite for absoluteURI testing.
10482 This fixes several bugs with the proxy proxying requests to vhosts
10483 managed by the same httpd.
10486 *) API: Cleanup of code in http_vhost.c, and remove vhost matching
10487 code from mod_rewrite. The vhost matching is now performed by a
10488 globally available function matches_request_vhost(). [Dean Gaudet]
10490 *) Reduce memory usage, and speed up ServerAlias support. As a
10491 side-effect users can list multiple ServerAlias directives
10492 and they're all considered.
10493 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao cirx.org>] PR#1531
10495 *) The "poly" directive in image maps did not include the borders of the
10496 polygon, whereas the "rect" directive does. Fix this inconsistency.
10497 [Konstantin Morshnev <moko design.ru>] PR#1771
10499 *) Make \\ behave as expected. [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>]
10501 *) Add the `%a' construct to LogFormat and CustomLog to log the client IP
10502 address. [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr mixi.net>] PR#1885
10504 *) API: A new source module main/util_uri.c; It contains a routine
10505 parse_uri_components() and friends which breaks a URI into its component
10506 parts. These parts are stored in a uri_components structure called
10507 parsed_uri within each request_rec, and are available to all modules.
10508 Additionally, an unparse routine is supplied which re-assembles the URI
10509 components back to an URI, optionally hiding the username:password@ part
10510 from ftp proxy requests, and other useful routines. Within the structure,
10511 you find on a ready-for-use basis:
10512 scheme; /* scheme ("http"/"ftp"/...) */
10513 hostinfo; /* combined [user[:password]@]host[:port] */
10514 user; /* user name, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
10515 password; /* password, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
10516 hostname; /* hostname from URI (or from Host: header) */
10517 port_str; /* port string (integer representation is in "port") */
10518 path; /* the request path (or "/" if only scheme://host was given) */
10519 query; /* Everything after a '?' in the path, if present */
10520 fragment; /* Trailing "#fragment" string, if present */
10521 This is meant to serve as the platform for *BIG* savings in
10522 code complexity for the proxy module (and maybe the vhost logic).
10525 *) Make all possible meta-construct expansions ($N, %N, %{NAME} and
10526 ${map:key}) available for all location where a string is created in
10527 mod_rewrite rewriting rulesets: 1st arg of RewriteCond, 2nd arg of
10528 RewriteRule and for the [E=NAME:STRING] flag of RewriteRule. This way the
10529 possible expansions are consequently usable at all string creation
10530 locations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10532 *) Fix initialization of RewriteLogLevel (default now is 0 as documented
10533 and not 1) and the per-virtual-server merging of directives. Now all
10534 directives except `RewriteEngine' and `RewriteOption' are either
10535 completely overridden (default) or completely inherited (when
10536 `RewriteOptions inherit') is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1325
10538 *) Fix `RewriteMap' program lookup in situations where such maps are
10539 defined but disabled (`RewriteEngine off') in per-server context.
10540 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1431
10542 *) Fix bug introduced in 1.3b4-dev, config with no Port setting would cause
10543 server to bind to port 0 rather than 80. [Dean Gaudet]
10545 *) Fix long-standing problem with RewriteMap _programs_ under Unix derivates
10546 (like SunOS and FreeBSD) which don't accept the locking of pipes
10547 directly. A new directive RewriteLock is introduced which can be used to
10548 setup a separate locking file which then is used for synchronization.
10549 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
10551 *) WIN32: The server root is obtained from the registry key
10552 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Apache Group\Apache\<version> (version is currently
10553 "1.3 beta"), unless overridden by the -d command line flag. The
10554 value is stored by running "apache -i -d serverroot". [Paul Sutton]
10556 *) Merged os/win32/mod_dll.c into modules/standard/mod_so.c to support
10557 dynamic loading on Win32 and Unix via the same module. [Paul Sutton]
10559 *) Now mod_rewrite no longer makes problematic assumptions on the characters
10560 a username can contain when trying to expand it via /etc/passwd.
10561 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10563 *) The mod_setenvif BrowserMatch backwards compatibility command did not
10564 work properly with spaces in the regex. [Ronald Tschalaer] PR#1825
10566 *) Add new RewriteMap types: First, `rnd' which is equivalent to the `txt'
10567 type but with a special post-processing for the looked-up value: It
10568 parses it into alternatives according to `|' chars and then only one
10569 particular alternative is chosen randomly (this is an essential
10570 functionality needed for balancing between backend-servers when using
10571 Apache as a Reverse Proxy. The looked up value here is a list of
10572 servers). Second, `int' with the built-in maps named `tolower' and
10573 `toupper' which can be used to map URL parts to a fixed case (this is an
10574 essential feature to fix the case of server names when doing mass
10575 virtual-hosting with the help of mod_rewrite instead of using
10576 <VirtualHost> sections). [Ralf S. Engelschall, parts based on code from
10577 Jay Soffian <jay cimedia.com>] PR#1631
10579 *) Add a new directive to mod_proxy similar to ProxyPass: `ProxyPassReverse'.
10580 This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in Location-headers on HTTP
10581 redirect responses sent by the remote server. This way the virtually
10582 mapped area is no longer left on redirects and thus by-passed which is
10583 especially essential when running Apache as a reverse proxy.
10584 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10586 *) Hide Proxy-Authorization from CGI/SSI/etc just like Authorization is
10587 hidden. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
10589 *) Apache will, when started with the -X (single process) debugging flag,
10590 honor the SIGINT or SIGQUIT signals again now. This capability got lost
10591 a while ago during OS/2 signal handling changes.
10593 *) [PORT] Work around the fact that NeXT runs on more than the
10594 m68k chips in mod_status [Scott Anguish and Timothy Luoma
10597 *) [PORT] Recognize FreeBSD versions so we can use the OS regex as well
10598 as handling unsigned-chars for FreeBSD v3 and v2 [Andrey Chernov
10599 <ache nagual.pp.ru> and Jim] PR#1450
10601 *) Use SA_RESETHAND or SA_ONESHOT when installing the coredump handlers.
10602 In particular the handlers could trigger themselves into an infinite
10603 loop if RLimitMem was used with a small amount of memory -- too small
10604 for the signal stack frame to be set up. [Dean Gaudet]
10606 *) Fix problems with absoluteURIs introduced during 1.3b4. [Dean Gaudet,
10607 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria <alvaro lander.es>]
10609 *) Fix multiple UserDir problem introduced during 1.3b4-dev.
10610 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1850
10612 *) ap_cpystrn() had an off-by-1 error.
10613 [Charles Fu <ccwf klab.caltech.edu>] PR#1847
10615 *) API: As Ken suggested the check_cmd_context() function and related
10616 defines are non-static now so modules can use 'em. [Martin Kraemer]
10618 *) mod_info would occasionally produce an unpaired <tt> in its
10619 output. Fixed. [Martin Kraemer]
10621 *) By default AIX binds a process (and it's children) to a single
10622 processor. httpd children now unbind themselves from that cpu
10623 and re-bind to one selected at random via bindprocessor()
10626 *) Linux 2.0 and above implement RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA has almost no
10627 effect. Work around it by using RLIMIT_AS for the RLimitMEM
10628 directive. [Enrik Berkhan <enrik inka.de>] PR#1816
10630 *) mod_mime_magic error message should indicate the filename when
10631 reads fail. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc netcom.com>] PR#1827
10633 *) Previously Apache would permit </Files> to end <FilesMatch> (and
10634 similary for Location and Directory), now this is diagnosed as an
10635 error. Improve error messages for mismatched sections (<Files>,
10636 <FilesMatch>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, ...).
10637 [Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
10639 *) <Files> is not permitted within <Location> (because of the
10640 semantic ordering). [Dean Gaudet] PR#379
10642 *) <Files> with wildcards was broken by the change in wildcard
10643 semantics (* does not match /). To fix this, <Files> now
10644 apply only to the basename of the request filename. This
10645 fixes some other inconsistencies in <Files> semantics
10646 (such as <Files a*b> not working). [Dean Gaudet] PR#1817
10648 *) Removed bogus "dist.tar" target from Makefile.tmpl and make sure
10649 backup files are removed on "clean" target [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10651 *) PORT: Add -lm to LIBS for HPUX. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1639
10653 *) Various errors from select() and accept() in child_main() would
10654 result in an infinite loop. It seems these two tickle kernel
10655 or library bugs occasionally, and result in log spammage and
10656 a generally bad scene. Now the child exits immediately,
10657 which seems to be a good workaround.
10658 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1747, 1107, 588, 1787, 987, 588
10660 *) Cleaned up some race conditions in unix child_main during
10661 initialization. [Dean Gaudet]
10663 *) SECURITY: "UserDir /abspath" without a * in the path would allow
10664 remote users to access "/~.." and bypass access restrictions
10665 (but note /~../.. was handled properly).
10666 [Lauri Jesmin <jesmin ut.ee>] PR#1701
10668 *) API: os_is_path_absolute() now takes a const char * instead of a char *.
10671 Changes with Apache 1.3b5
10673 *) Source file dependencies in Makefile.tmpl files throughout the
10674 source tree were updated to accurately reflect reality.
10677 *) Preserve the content encoding given by the AddEncoding directive
10678 when the client doesn't otherwise specify an encoding.
10679 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>]
10681 *) Sort out problems with canonical filename handling happening too late.
10682 [Dean Gaudet, Ben Laurie]
10684 Changes with Apache 1.3b4
10686 *) The module structure was modified to include a *dynamic_load_handle
10687 in the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF portion, and the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER
10688 has been bumped accordingly. [Paul Sutton]
10690 *) All BrowserMatch directives mentioned in
10691 htdocs/manual/known_client_problems.html are in the default
10692 configuration files. [Lars Eilebrecht]
10694 *) MiNT port update. [Jan Paul Schmidt]
10696 *) HTTP/1.1 requires x-gzip and gzip encodings be treated
10697 equivalent, similarly for x-compress and compress. Apache
10698 now ignores a leading x- when comparing encodings. It also
10699 preserves the encoding the client requests (for example if
10700 it requests x-gzip, then Apache will respond with x-gzip
10701 in the Content-Encoding header).
10702 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1772
10704 *) Fix a memory leak on keep-alive connections. [Igor Tatarinov]
10706 *) Added mod_so module to support dynamic loading of modules on Unix
10707 (like mod_dld for Win32). This replaces mod_dld.c. Use SharedModule
10708 instead of AddModule in Configuration to build shared modules
10709 [Sameer Parekh, Paul Sutton]
10711 *) Minor cleanups to r->finfo handling in some modules.
10714 *) Abstract read()/write() to ap_read()/ap_write().
10715 Makes it easier to add other types of IO code such as SFIO.
10718 *) API: Generalize default_port manipulations to make support of
10719 different protocols easier. [Ben Laurie, Randy Terbush]
10721 *) There are many cases where users do not want Apache to form
10722 self-referential urls using the "canonical" ServerName and Port.
10723 The new UseCanonicalName directive (default on), if set to off
10724 will cause Apache to use the client-supplied hostname and port.
10725 API: Part of this change required a change to the construct_url()
10726 prototype; and the addition of get_server_name() and
10728 [Michael Douglass <mikedoug texas.net>, Dean Gaudet]
10729 PR#315, 459, 485, 1433
10731 *) Yet another rearrangement of the source tree.. now all the common
10732 header files are in the src/include directory. The -Imain -Iap
10733 references in Makefiles have been changed to the simpler -Iinclude
10734 instead. In addition to simplifying the build a little bit, this
10735 also makes it clear when a module is referencing something in a
10736 other than kosher manner (e.g., the proxy including mod_mime.h).
10737 Module-private header files (the proxy, mod_mime, the regex library,
10738 and mod_rewrite) have not been moved to src/include; nor have
10739 the OS-abstraction files. [Ken Coar]
10741 *) Fix a bug where r->hostname didn't have the :port stripped
10742 from it. [Dean Gaudet]
10744 *) Tweaked the headers_out table size, and the subprocess_env
10745 table size guess in rename_original_environment(). Added
10746 MAKE_TABLE_PROFILE which can help discover make_table()
10747 calls that use too small an initial guess, see alloc.c.
10750 *) Options and AllowOverride weren't properly merging in the main
10751 server setting inside vhosts (only an issue when you have no
10752 <Directory> or other section containing an Options that affects
10753 a request). Options +foo or -foo in the main_server wouldn't
10754 affect the main_server's lookup defaults. [Dean Gaudet]
10756 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
10759 *) r->allowed handling cleaned up in the standard modules.
10762 *) Some case-sensitivity issues cleaned up to be consistent with
10763 RFC2068. [Dean Gaudet]
10765 *) SIGURG doesn't exist everywhere.
10766 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
10768 *) mod_unique_id was erroneously generating a second unique id when
10769 an internal redirect occured. Such redirects occur, for example,
10770 when processing a DirectoryIndex match. [Dean Gaudet]
10772 *) API: table_add, table_merge, and table_set include implicit pstrdup()
10773 of the key and value. But in many cases this is not required
10774 because the key/value is a constant, or the value has been built
10775 by pstrcat() or other similar means. New routines table_addn,
10776 table_mergen, and table_setn have been added to the API, these
10777 routines do not pstrdup() their arguments. The core code and
10778 standard modules were changed to take advantage of these routines.
10779 The resulting server is up to 20% faster in some situations.
10781 Note that it is easy to get code subtly wrong if you pass a key/value
10782 which is in a pool other than the pool of the table. The only
10783 safe thing to do is to pass key/values which are in the pool of
10784 the table, or in one of the ancestors of the pool of the table.
10785 i.e. if the table is part of a subrequest, a value from the main
10786 request's pool is OK since the subrequest pool is a sub_pool of the
10787 main request's pool (and therefore has a lifespan at most as long as
10788 the main pool). There is debugging code which can detect improper
10789 usage, enabled by defining POOL_DEBUG. See alloc.c for more details.
10790 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima bog.msu.su>, Dean Gaudet]
10792 *) More mod_mime_magic cleanup: fewer syscalls; should handle "files"
10793 which don't exist on disk more gracefully; handles vhosts properly.
10794 Update documentation to reflect the code -- if there's no
10795 MimeMagicFile directive then the module is not enabled.
10798 *) PORT: Some older *nix dialects cannot automatically start scripts
10799 which begin with a #! interpreter line (the shell starts the scripts
10800 appropriately on these platforms). Apache now supports starting of
10801 "hashbang-scripts" when the NEED_HASHBANG_EMUL define is set.
10802 [Martin Kraemer, with code from Peter Wemm <peter zeus.dialix.oz.au>
10805 *) API: "typedef array_header table" removed from alloc.h, folks should
10806 have been writing to use table as if it were an opaque type, but even
10807 some standard modules got this wrong. By changing the definition
10808 to "typedef struct table table" module authors will receive compile
10809 time warnings that they're doing the wrong thing. This change
10810 facilitates future changes with more sophisticated table
10811 structures. Specifically, module authors should be using table_elts()
10812 to get access to an array_header * for the table. [Dean Gaudet]
10814 *) API: Renamed new_connection() to avoid namespace collision with LDAP
10815 library routines. [Ken Coar, Rasmus Lerdorf]
10817 *) WIN32: mod_speling is now available on the Win32 platform.
10820 *) For clarity the following compile time definition was changed:
10822 SAFE_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -> SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
10824 Also, for example, HAVE_MMAP would mean to use mmap() scoreboards
10825 and not be a general notice that the OS has mmap(). Now the
10826 HAVE_MMAP/SHMGET #defines strictly are informational that the
10827 OS has that method of shared memory; the type to use for
10828 the scoreboard is a seperate #define (USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
10829 and USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD). This allows outside modules to
10830 determine if shared memory is available and allows Apache
10831 to determine the best method to use for the scoreboard.
10834 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.1.2 SMP appears to require USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT,
10835 as do various earlier versions. It should be safe on all versions.
10836 Unixware 1.x appears to have the same SIGHUP bug as solaris does with
10837 the slack code. A few other cleanups for Unixware.
10838 [Tom Hughes <thh cyberscience.com>] PR#1082, PR#1282, PR#1499, PR#1553
10840 *) PORT: A/UX can handle single-listen accepts without mutex
10841 locking, so we add SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT. [Jim Jagielski]
10843 *) When die() happens we need to eat any request body if one exists.
10844 Otherwise we can't continue with a keepalive session. This shows up
10845 as a POST problem with MSIE 4.0, typically against pages which are
10846 authenticated. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
10848 *) If you define SECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION then the Authorization
10849 header will be passed to CGIs. This is generally a security hole, so
10850 it's not a default. [Marc Slemko] PR#549
10852 *) Fix Y2K problem with date printing in suexec log.
10853 [Paul Eggert <eggert twinsun.com>] PR#1343
10855 *) WIN32 deserves a pid file. [Ben Hyde]
10857 *) suexec errors now include the errno/description. [Marc Slemko] PR#1543
10859 *) PORT: OSF/1 now uses USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT to solve PR#467.
10860 The choice of flock vs. fcntl was made based on timings which showed that
10861 even on non-NFS, non-exported filesystems fcntl() was an order of
10862 magnitude slower. It also uses SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT so
10863 that single socket users will see no difference. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
10865 *) "File does not exist" error message was erroneously including the
10866 errno. [Marc Slemko]
10868 *) Improve the warning message generated when a client drops the
10869 connection (hits stop button, etc.) during a send. [Roy Fielding]
10871 *) Defining GPROF will disable profiling in the parent and enable it
10872 in the children. If you're profiling under Linux this is pretty much
10873 necessary because SIGPROF is lost across a fork(). [Dean Gaudet]
10875 *) htdigest and htpasswd needed slight tweaks to work on OS/2 and WIN32.
10878 *) The NeXT cc (which is gcc hacked up) doesn't appear to support some
10879 gcc functionality. Work around it.
10880 [Keith Severson <keith sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1613
10882 *) Some linkers complain when .o files contain no functions.
10883 [Keith Severson <keith sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1614
10885 *) Some const declarations in mod_imap.c that were added for debugging
10886 purposes caused some compilers heartburn without adding any
10887 significant value, so they've been removed. [Ken Coar]
10889 *) The src/main/*.h header files have had #ifndef wrappers added to
10890 insulate them against duplicate calls if they get included through
10891 multiple paths (e.g., in .c files as well as other .h files).
10894 *) The libap routines now have a header file for their prototypes,
10895 src/ap/ap.h, to ease their use in non-httpd applications. [Ken Coar]
10897 *) mod_autoindex with a plaintext header file would emit the <PRE>
10898 start-tag before the HTML preamble, rather than after the preamble
10899 but before the header file contents. [John Van Essen <jve gamers.org>]
10902 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
10903 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
10904 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
10906 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
10907 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
10908 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
10910 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
10911 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
10913 *) The "Connection" header could be sent back with multiple "close"
10914 tokens. Not an error, but a waste.
10915 [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1683
10917 *) mod_rewrite's RewriteLog should behave like mod_log_config, it
10918 shouldn't force hostname lookups. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1684
10920 *) "basic" auth needs a case-insensitive comparison.
10921 [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1666
10923 *) For maximum portability, the environment passed to CGIs should
10924 only contain variables whose names match the regex
10925 /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/. This is now enforced by stamping
10926 underscores over any character outside the regex. This
10927 affects HTTP_* variables, in a way that should be backward
10928 compatible for all the standard headers; and affects variables
10929 set with SetEnv/BrowserMatch and similar directives.
10932 *) mod_speling returned incorrect HREF's when an ambigous match
10933 was found. Noticed by <robinton amtrash.comlink.de> (Soeren Ziehe)
10934 [Soeren Ziehe <robinton amtrash.comlink.de>, Martin Kraemer]
10936 *) PORT: Apache now compiles & runs on an EBCDIC mainframe
10937 (the Siemens BS2000/OSD family) in the POSIX subsystem
10940 *) PORT: Fix problem killing children when terminating. Allow ^C
10941 to shut down the server. [Brian Havard]
10943 *) pstrdup() is implicit in calls to table_* functions, so there's
10944 no need to do it before calling. Clean up a few cases.
10945 [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
10947 *) new -C and -c command line arguments
10949 -C "directive" : process directive before reading config files
10950 -c "directive" : process directive after reading config files
10952 httpd -C "PerlModule Apache::httpd_conf"
10953 [Doug MacEachern, Martin Kraemer]
10955 *) WIN32: Fix the execution of CGIs that are scripts and called
10956 with path info that does not have an '=' in.
10957 (eg. http://server/cgi-bin/printenv?foobar)
10958 [Marc Slemko] PR#1591
10960 *) WIN32: Fix a call to os_canonical_filename so it doesn't try to
10961 mess with fake filenames. This fixes proxy caching on
10964 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
10965 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop.
10966 [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
10968 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
10969 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. [Dean Gaudet]
10971 *) WIN32: overhaul of multithreading code. Shutdowns are now graceful
10972 (connections are not dropped). Code can handle graceful restarts
10973 (but there is as yet no way to signal this to Apache). Various
10974 other cleanups. [Paul Sutton]
10976 *) The aplog_error changes specific to 1.3 introduced a buffer
10977 overrun in the (now legacy) log_printf function. Fixed.
10980 *) mod_digest didn't properly deal with proxy authentication. It
10981 also lacked a case-insensitive comparision of the "Digest"
10982 token. [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1599
10984 *) A few cleanups in mod_status for efficiency. [Dean Gaudet]
10986 *) A few cleanups in mod_info to make it thread-safe, and remove an
10987 off-by-5 bug that could hammer \0 on the stack. [Dean Gaudet]
10989 *) no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input. Make it O(n).
10992 *) API: migration from strncpy() to our "enhanced" version called
10993 ap_cpystrn() for performance and functionality reasons.
10994 Located in libap.a. [Jim Jagielski]
10996 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
10997 multiple occurrences of the same key.
10998 [Stephen Scheck <sscheck infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
11000 *) The AuthName must now be enclosed in quotes if it is to contain
11001 spaces. [Ken Coar] PR#1195
11003 *) API: new function: ap_escape_quotes(). [Ken Coar] PR#1195
11005 *) WIN32: Work around optimiser bug that killed ISAPI in release
11006 versions. [Ben Laurie] PR#1533
11008 *) PORT: Update the MPE port [Mark Bixby, Jim Jagielski]
11010 *) Interim (slow) fix for p->sub_pool critical sections in
11011 alloc.c (affects win32 only). [Ben Hyde]
11013 *) non-WIN32 was missing destroy_mutex definition. [Ben Hyde]
11015 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly.
11016 [Ben Reser <breser regnow.com>] PR#1366
11018 *) The bputc() macro was not properly integrated with the chunking
11019 code; in many cases modules using bputc() could cause completely
11020 bogus chunked output. (Typically this will show up as problems
11021 with Internet Explorer 4.0 reading a page, but other browsers
11022 having no problem.) [Dean Gaudet]
11024 *) Create LARGE_WRITE_THRESHOLD define which determines how many
11025 bytes have to be supplied to bwrite() before it will consider
11026 doing a writev() to assemble multiple buffers in one system
11027 call. This is critical for modules such as mod_include,
11028 mod_autoindex, mod_php3 which all use bputc()/bputs() of smaller
11029 strings in some cases. The result would be extra effort
11030 setting up writev(), and in many cases extra effort building
11031 chunks. The default is 31, it can be overriden at compile
11032 time. [Dean Gaudet]
11034 *) Move the gid switching code into the child so that log files
11035 and pid files are opened with the root gid.
11036 [Gregory A Lundberg <lundberg vr.net>]
11038 *) WIN32: Check for binaries by looking for the executable header
11039 instead of counting control characters.
11040 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson Cognos.COM>] PR#1340
11042 *) ap_snprintf() moved from main/util_snprintf.c to ap/ap_snprintf.c
11043 so the functionality is available to applications other than the
11044 server itself (like the src/support tools). [Ken Coar]
11046 *) ap_slack() moved out of main/util.c into ap/ap_slack.c as part of
11047 the libap consolidation work. [Ken Coar]
11049 *) ap_snprintf() with a len of 0 behaved like sprintf(). This is not
11050 useful, and isn't what the standards require. Now it returns 0
11051 and writes nothing. [Dean Gaudet]
11053 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
11054 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
11056 *) Eliminate some dead code from writev_it_all().
11057 [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino prairie.NoDak.edu>]
11059 *) mod_autoindex had an fread() without checking the result code.
11060 It also wouldn't handle "AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif text/*"
11061 (note the missing closing paren) properly. [Dean Gaudet]
11063 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
11064 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
11065 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
11067 *) PORT: Fix mod_mime_magic under OS/2, no support for block devices.
11070 *) Fix memory corruption caused by allocating auth usernames in the
11071 wrong pool. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
11073 *) Fix an off-by-1, and an unterminated string error in
11074 mod_mime_magic. [Dean Gaudet]
11076 *) Fix a potential SEGV problem in mod_negotiation when dealing
11077 with type-maps. [Dean Gaudet]
11079 *) Better glibc support under Linux. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1542
11081 *) "RedirectMatch gone /" would cause a SIGSEGV. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1319
11083 *) WIN32: avoid overflows during file canonicalisations.
11084 [<malcolm mgdev.demon.co.uk>] PR#1378
11086 *) WIN32: set_file_slot() didn't detect absolute paths. [Ben Laurie]
11089 *) WIN32: mod_status display header didn't match fields. [Ben Laurie]
11091 *) The pthread_mutex_* functions return an error code, and don't
11092 set errno. [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino prairie.NoDak.edu>]
11094 *) WIN32: Allow spaces to prefix the interpreter in #! lines.
11095 [Ben Laurie] PR#1101
11097 *) WIN32: Cure file leak in CGIs. [Peter Tillemans <pti net4all.be>] PR#1523
11099 *) proxy_ftp: the directory listings generated by the proxy ftp module
11100 now have a title in which the path components are clickable and allow
11101 quick navigation to the clicked-on directory on the currently listed
11102 ftp server. This also fixes a bug where the ".." directory links would
11103 sometimes refer to the wrong directory. [Martin Kraemer]
11105 *) WIN32: Allocate the correct amount of memory for the scoreboard.
11108 *) WIN32: Only lowercase the part of the path that is real. [Ben Laurie]
11111 *) Fix problems with timeouts in inetd mode and -X mode. [Dean Gaudet]
11113 *) Fix the spurious "(0)unknown error: mmap_handler: mmap failed"
11114 error messages. [Ben Hyde]
11116 Changes with Apache 1.3b3
11118 *) WIN32: Work around brain-damaged spawn calls that can't deal
11119 with spaces and slashes. [Ben Laurie]
11121 *) WIN32: Fix the code so CGIs can use socket calls on Windows.
11122 The problem was that certain undocumented environment variables
11123 needed for sockets to work under Win32 were not being passed.
11124 [Frank Faubert <frank sane.com>]
11126 *) Add a "-V" command line flag to the httpd binary. This
11127 flag shows some of the defines that Apache was compiled with.
11128 It is useful for debugging purposes. [Martin Kraemer]
11130 *) Start separating the ap_*() routines into their own library, so they
11131 can be used by items in src/support among other things.
11132 [Ken Coar] PR#512, 905, 1252, 1308
11134 *) Give a more informative error when no AuthType is set.
11137 *) Remove strtoul() use from mod_proxy because it isn't available
11138 on all platforms. [Marc Slemko] PR#1214
11140 *) WIN32: Some Win32 systems terminated all responses after 16 kB.
11141 This turns out to be a bug in Winsock - select() doesn't always
11142 return the correct status. [Ben Laurie]
11144 *) Directives owned by http_core can now use the new check_cmd_context()
11145 routine to ensure that they're not being used within a container
11146 (e.g., <Directory>) where they're invalid. [Martin Kraemer]
11148 *) PORT: Recent changes made it necessary to add explicit prototype
11149 for fgetc() and fgets() on SunOS 4.x. [Martin Kraemer, Ben Hyde]
11151 *) It was necessary to distinguish between resources which are
11152 allocated in the parent, for cleanup in the parent, and resources
11153 which are allocated in each child, for cleanup in each child.
11154 A new pool was created which is passed to the module child_init
11155 and child_exit functions; modules are free to register per-child
11156 cleanups there. This fixes a bug with reliable piped logs.
11159 *) mod_autoindex wasn't displaying the ReadmeName file at the bottom
11160 unless it was also doing FancyIndexes, but it displayed the
11161 HeaderName file at the top under all circumstances. It now shows
11162 the ReadmeName file for simple indices, too, as it should.
11165 *) http_core was mmap()ing even in cases where it wasn't going to
11166 read the file. [Ben Hyde <bhyde gensym.com>]
11168 *) Complete rewrite ;-) of mod_rewrite's URL rewriting engine:
11169 Now the rewriting engine (the heart of mod_rewrite) is organized more
11170 straight-forward, first time well documented and reduced to the really
11171 essential parts. All redundant cases were stripped off and processing now
11172 is the same for both per-server and per-directory context with only a
11173 minimum difference (the prefix stripping in per-dir context). As a
11174 side-effect some subtle restrictions and two recently discovered problems
11175 are gone: Wrong escaping of QUERY_STRING on redirects in per-directory
11176 context and restrictions on the substitution URL on redirects.
11177 Additionally some minor source cleanups were done.
11178 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
11180 *) Lars Eilebrecht wrote a whole new set of Apache Vhost Internals
11181 documentation, examples, explanations and caveats. They live in a new
11182 subdirectory htdocs/manual/vhost/. [Lars Eilebrecht <sfx unix-ag.org>]
11184 *) If ap_slack fails to allocate above the low slack line it's a good
11185 indication that further problems will occur; it's a better indication
11186 than many external libraries give us when we actually run out of
11187 descriptors. So report it to the user once per restart.
11188 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1181
11190 *) Change mod_include and mod_autoindex to use Y2K-safe date formats
11191 by default. [Ken Coar]
11193 *) Add a "SuppressColumnSorting" option to the IndexOptions list,
11194 which will keep the column heading from being links for sorting
11195 the display. [Ken Coar, suggested by Brian Tiemann <btman pacific.net>]
11198 *) PORT: Update the LynxOS port. [Marius Groeger <mag sysgo.de>]
11200 *) Fix logic error when issuing a mmap() failed message
11201 with a non-zero MMAP_THRESHOLD.
11202 [David Chambers <davidc flosun.salk.edu>] PR#1294
11204 *) Preserve handler value on ProxyPass'ed requests by not
11205 calling find_types on a proxy'd request; fixes problems
11206 where some ProxyPass'ed URLs weren't actually passed
11208 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#870
11210 *) Fix a byte ordering problem in mod_access which prevented
11211 the old-style syntax (i.e. "a.b.c." to match a class C)
11212 from working properly. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1248, 1328, 1384
11214 *) Fix problem with USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT not working
11215 properly. Each child needs to open the lockfile instead
11216 of using the passed file-descriptor from the parent.
11217 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1056
11219 *) Fix the error logging in mod_cgi; the recent error log changes
11220 introduced a bug that prevented it from working correctly.
11221 [M.D.Parker] PR#1352
11223 *) Default to USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT on HPUX to properly
11224 handle multiple Listen directives. [Marc Slemko] PR#872
11226 *) Inherit a bugfix to fnmatch.c from FreeBSD sources.
11227 ["[KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ×" <ache nagual.pp.ru>] PR#1311
11229 *) When a configuration parse complained about a bad directive,
11230 the logger would use whatever (unrelated) value was in errno.
11231 errno is now forced to EINVAL first in this case. [Ken Coar]
11233 *) A sed command in the Configure script pushed the edge of POSIXness,
11234 breaking on some systems. [Bhaba R.Misra <system vt.edu>] PR#1368
11236 *) Solaris >= 2.5 was totally broken due to a mess up using pthread
11237 mutexes. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
11239 *) OS/2 Port updated; it should be possible to build OS/2 from the same
11240 sources as Unix now. [Brian Havard <brianh kheldar.apana.org.au>]
11242 *) Fix a year formatting bug in mod_usertrack.
11243 [Paul Eggert <eggert twinsun.com>] PR#1342
11245 *) A mild SIGTERM/SIGALRM race condition was eliminated.
11246 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1211
11248 *) Warn user that default path has changed if /usr/local/etc/httpd
11249 is found on the system. [Lars Eilebrecht]
11251 *) Various mod_mime_magic bug fixes and cleanups: Uncompression
11252 should work, it should work on WIN32, and a few resource
11253 leaks and abort conditions are fixed.
11254 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1205
11256 *) PORT: On AIX 1.x files can't be named '@', fix the proxy cache
11257 to use '%' instead of '@' in its encodings.
11258 [David Schuler <schuld btv.ibm.com>] PR#1317
11260 *) Improve the warning message generated when the "server is busy".
11261 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1293
11263 *) PORT: All ports which don't otherwise define DEF_WANTHSREGEX will
11264 get Spencer regex by default. This is to avoid having to
11265 discover bugs in operating system libraries. [Dean Gaudet]
11267 *) PORT: "Fix" PR#467 by generating warnings on systems which we have
11268 not been able to get working USE_*_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT settings for.
11269 Document this a bit more in src/PORTING. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
11271 *) Ensure that one copy of config warnings makes it to the
11272 error_log. [Dean Gaudet]
11274 *) Invent new structure and associated methods to handle config file
11275 reading. Add "custom" hook to use config file cfg_getline() on
11276 something which is not a FILE* [Martin Kraemer]
11278 *) Make single-exe Windows install. [Ben Laurie and Eric Esselink]
11280 *) WIN32: Make CGI work under Win95. [Ben Laurie and Paul Sutton]
11282 *) WIN32: Make index.html and friends work under Win95. [Ben Laurie]
11284 *) PORT: Solaris 2.4 needs Spencer regex, the system regex is broken.
11285 [John Line <jml4 cam.ac.uk>] PR#1321
11287 *) Default pathname has been changed everywhere to /usr/local/apache
11288 [Sameer <sameer c2.net>]
11290 *) PORT: AIX now uses USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
11291 [David Bronder <David-Bronder uiowa.edu>] PR#849
11293 *) PORT: i386 AIX does not have memmove.
11294 [David Schuler <schuld btv.ibm.com>] PR#1267
11296 *) PORT: HPUX now defaults to using Spencer regex.
11297 [Philippe Vanhaesendonck <pvanhaes be.oracle.com>,
11298 Omar Del Rio <al112263 academ01.lag.itesm.mx>] PR#482, 1246
11300 *) PORT: Some versions of NetBSD don't automatically define
11301 __NetBSD__. Workaround by defining NETBSD.
11302 [Chris Craft <ccraft cncc.cc.co.us>] PR#977
11304 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.x requires -lgen for syslog.
11305 [Hans Snijder <hs meganet.nl>] PR#1249
11307 *) PORT: ULTRIX appears to not have syslog.
11308 [Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht unix-ag.org>]
11310 *) PORT: Basic Gemini port (treat it like unixware212).
11311 ["Pavel Yakovlev (Paul McHacker)" <hac tomcat.olly.ru>]
11313 *) PORT: All SVR4 systems now use NET_SIZE_T = size_t, and
11314 use USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD.
11317 *) Various improvements in detecting config file errors (missing closing
11318 directives for <Directory>, <Files> etc. blocks, prohibiting global
11319 server settings in <VirtualHost> blocks, flagging unhandled multiple
11320 arguments to <Directory>, <Files> etc.)
11323 *) Add support to suexec wrapper program for mod_unique_id's UNIQUE_ID
11324 variable to provide this one to suexec'd CGIs, too.
11325 [M.D.Parker <mdpc netcom.com>] PR#1284
11327 *) New support tool: src/support/split-logfile, a sample Perl script which
11328 splits up a combined access log into separate files based on the
11329 name of the virtual host (listed first in the log records by "%v").
11332 Changes with Apache 1.3b2 (there is no 1.3b1)
11334 *) TestCompile was not passing $LIBS [Dean Gaudet]
11336 *) Makefile.tmpl was not using $CFLAGS in the link phase.
11339 *) Add debugging code to alloc.c. Defining ALLOC_DEBUG provides a
11340 rudimentary memory debugger which can be used on live servers with
11341 low impact -- it sets all allocated and freed memory bytes to 0xa5.
11342 Defining ALLOC_USE_MALLOC will cause the alloc code to use malloc()
11343 and free() for each object. This is far more expensive and should
11344 only be used for testing with tools such as Electric Fence and
11345 Purify. See main/alloc.c for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
11347 *) Configure uses a sh trap and didn't set its exitcode properly.
11348 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1159
11350 *) Yet another vhost revamp. Add the NameVirtualHost directive which
11351 explicitly lists the ip:port pairs that are to be used for name-vhosts.
11352 From a given ip:port, regardless what the Host: header is, you can
11353 only reach the vhosts defined on that ip:port. The precedence of
11354 vhosts was reversed to match other precedences in the config --
11355 the earlier vhosts override the later vhosts. All vhost matching was
11356 moved into http_vhost.[ch]. [Dean Gaudet]
11358 *) ap_inline can be used to force inlining. GNUC __attribute__() can
11359 be used for whatever reason is appropriate (i.e. format() warnings
11360 for printf style functions). Both are enabled only with
11361 gcc >= 2.7.x (so that we have fewer support issues with older
11362 versions). [Dean Gaudet]
11364 *) Fix support for Proxy Authentication (we were testing the response
11365 status too early). [Marc Slemko]
11367 *) CoreDumpDirectory directive directs where the core file is
11368 written when a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABORT or SIGABRT are
11369 received. [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
11371 *) PORT: Support for Atari MINT.
11372 [Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt mni.fh-giessen.de>]
11374 *) When booting, apache will now detach itself from stdin, stdout,
11375 and stderr. stderr will not be detached until after the config
11376 files have been read so you will be able to see initial error
11377 messages. After that all errors are logged in the error_log.
11378 This makes it more convenient to start apache via rsh, ssh,
11379 or crontabs. [Dean Gaudet] PR#523
11381 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
11382 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
11383 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
11385 *) send_fb would not detect aborted connections in some situations.
11388 *) mod_include would use uninitialized data when parsing certain
11389 expressions involving && and ||. [Brian Slesinsky] PR#1139
11391 *) mod_imap should only handle GET methods. [Jay Bloodworth]
11393 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
11395 *) mod_autoindex improperly counted &escapes; as more than one
11396 character in the description. It also improperly truncated
11397 descriptions that were exactly the maximum length.
11400 *) RedirectMatch was not properly escaping the result (PR#1155). Also
11401 "RedirectMatch /advertiser/(.*) $1" is now permitted.
11404 *) mod_include now uses symbolic names to check for request success
11405 and return HTTP errors, and correctly handles all types of
11406 redirections (previously it only did temporary redirect correctly).
11407 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding]
11409 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
11410 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
11411 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson intranet.csupomona.edu>]
11413 *) PORT: Support Unisys SVR4, whose uname returns mostly useless data.
11414 ["Kaufman, Steven E" <Steven.Kaufman unisys.com>]
11416 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
11417 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
11419 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
11420 reporting a select error over and over.
11421 [Rick Franchuk <rickf transpect.net>] PR#1107, 987, 588
11423 *) Fixed error in proxy_util.c when looping through multiple host IP
11424 addresses. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#974
11426 *) If BUFFERED_LOGS is defined then mod_log_config will do atomic
11427 buffered writes -- that is, it will buffer up to PIPE_BUF (i.e. 4k)
11428 bytes before writing, but it will never split a log entry across a
11429 buffer boundary. [Dean Gaudet]
11431 *) API: the short_score record has been split into two pieces, one which
11432 the parent writes on, and one which the child writes on. As part of
11433 this change the get_scoreboard_info() function was removed, and
11434 scoreboard_image was exported. This change fixes a race condition
11435 in file based scoreboard systems, and speeds up changes involving the
11436 scoreboard in earlier 1.3 development. [Dean Gaudet]
11438 *) API: New register_other_child() API (see http_main.h) which allows
11439 modules to register children with the parent for maintenance. It
11440 is disabled by defining NO_OTHER_CHILD. [Dean Gaudet]
11442 *) API: New piped_log API (see http_log.h) which implements piped logs,
11443 and will use register_other_child to implement reliable piped logs
11444 when it is available. The reliable piped logs part can be disabled
11445 by defining NO_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS. At the moment reliable piped
11446 logs is only available on Unix. [Dean Gaudet]
11448 *) API: set_last_modified() broken into set_last_modified(), set_etag(), and
11449 meets_conditions(). This allows conditional HTTP selection to be
11450 handled separately from the storing of the header fields, and provides
11451 the ability for CGIs to set their own ETags for conditional checking.
11452 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding] PR#895
11454 *) Changes to mod_log_config to allow naming of format strings.
11455 Format nicknames are defined with "LogFormat fmt nickname", and can
11456 be used with "LogFormat nickname" and "CustomLog logtarget nickname".
11459 *) New module, "mod_speling", which can help find files even when
11460 the URL is slightly misspelled. [Martin Kraemer, Alexei Kosut]
11462 *) API: New function child_terminate() triggers the child process to
11463 exit, while allowing the child finish what it needs to for the
11464 current request first.
11465 [Doug MacEachern, Alexei Kosut]
11467 *) Windows now defaults to using full status reports with mod_status.
11468 [Alexei Kosut] PR #1094
11470 *) *Really* disable all mod_rewrite operations if the engine is off.
11471 Some things (like RewriteMaps) were checked/performed even if they
11472 weren't supposed to be. [Ken Coar] PR #991
11474 *) Implement a new timer scheme which eliminates the need to call alarm() all
11475 the time. Instead a counter in the scoreboard for each child is used to
11476 show when the child has made forward progress. The parent samples this
11477 counter every scoreboard maintenance cycle, and issues SIGALRM if no
11478 progress has been made in the timeout period. This reduces the static
11479 request best-case syscall count to 22 from 29. This scheme is only
11480 used by systems with memory-based scoreboards. [Dean Gaudet]
11482 *) The proxy now properly handles CONNECT requests which are sent
11483 to proxy servers when using ProxyRemote. [Marc Slemko] PR#1024
11485 *) A script called apachectl has been added to the support
11486 directory. This script allows you to do things such as
11487 "apachectl start" and "apachectl restart" from the command
11488 line. [Marc Slemko]
11490 *) Modules and core routines are now put into libraries, which
11491 simplifies the link line tremendously (among other advantages).
11494 *) Some of the MD5 names defined in Apache have been renamed to have
11495 an `ap_' prefix to avoid conflicts with routines supplied by
11496 external libraries. [Ken Coar]
11498 *) Removal of mod_auth_msql.c from the distribution. There are many
11499 other options for databases today. Rather than offer one option,
11500 offer none at this time. mod_auth_msql and other SQL database
11501 authentication modules can be found at the Apache Module Registry.
11502 http://modules.apache.org/ It would be nice to offer a generic
11503 mod_auth_sql option in the near future.
11505 *) PORT: BeOS support added [Alexei Kosut]
11507 *) Configure no longer accepts the -make option, since it creates
11508 Makefile on the fly based on Makefile.tmpl and Configuration.
11510 *) Apache now gracefully shuts down when it receives a SIGTERM, instead
11511 of forcibly killing off all its processes and exiting without
11512 cleaning up. [Alexei Kosut]
11514 *) API: A new field in the request_rec, r->mtime, has been added to
11515 avoid gratuitous parsing of date strings. It is intended to hold
11516 the last-modified date of the resource (if applicable). An
11517 update_mtime() routine has also been added to advance it if
11518 appropriate. [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
11520 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad permissions,
11521 deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN. The previous
11522 behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not be read.
11523 This change may make some setups with unreadable htaccess files
11524 stop working. [Marc Slemko] PR#817
11526 *) Add aplog_error() providing a mechanism to define levels of
11527 verbosity to the server error logging. This addition also provides
11528 the ability to log errors using syslogd. Error logging is configurable
11529 on a per-server basis using the LogLevel directive. Conversion
11530 of log_*() in progress. [Randy Terbush]
11532 *) Further enhance aplog_error() to not log filename, line number, and
11533 errno information when it isn't applicable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
11535 *) WIN32: Canonicalise filenames under Win32. Short filenames are
11536 converted to long ones. Backslashes are converted to forward
11537 slashes. Case is converted to lower. Parts of URLs that do not
11538 correspond to files are left completely alone. [Ben Laurie]
11540 *) PORT: 2 new OSs added to the list of ports:
11541 Encore's UMAX V: Arieh Markel <amarkel encore.com>
11542 Acorn RISCiX: Stephen Borrill <sborrill xemplar.co.uk>
11544 *) Add the server version (SERVER_VERSION macro) to the "server
11545 configured and running" entry in the error_log. Also build an
11546 object file at link-time that contains the current time
11547 (SERVER_BUILT global const char[]), and include that in the
11548 message. [Ken Coar]
11550 *) Set r->headers_out when sending responses from the proxy.
11551 This fixes things such as the logging of headers sent from
11552 the proxy. [Marc Slemko] PR#659
11554 *) support/httpd_monitor is no longer distributed because the
11555 scoreboard should not be file based if at all possible. Use
11556 mod_status to see current server snapshot.
11558 *) (set_file_slot): New function, allowing auth directives to be
11559 independent of the server root, so the server documents can be
11560 moved to a different directory or machine more easily.
11561 [David J. MacKenzie]
11563 *) If no TransferLog is given explicitly, decline
11564 to log. This supports coexistence with other logging modules,
11565 such as the custom one that UUNET uses. [David J. MacKenzie]
11567 *) Check for titles in server-parsed HTML files.
11568 Ignore leading newlines and returns in titles. The old behavior
11569 of replacing a newline after <title> with a space causes the
11570 title to be misaligned in the listing. [David J. MacKenzie]
11572 *) Change mod_cern_meta to be configurable on a per-directory basis.
11573 [David J. MacKenzie]
11575 *) Add 'Include' directive to allow inclusion of configuration
11576 files within configuration files. [Randy Terbush]
11578 *) Proxy errors on connect() are logged to the error_log (nothing
11579 new); now they include the IP address and port that failed
11580 (*that's* new). [Ken Coar, Marc Slemko] PR#352
11582 *) Various architectures now define USE_MMAP_FILES which causes
11583 the server to use mmap() for static files. There are two
11584 compile-time tunables MMAP_THRESHOLD (minimum number of bytes
11585 required to use mmap(), default is 0), and MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE (maximum
11586 number of bytes written in one cycle from a single mmap()d object,
11587 default 32768). [Dean Gaudet]
11589 *) API: Added post_read_request API phase which is run right after reading
11590 the request from a client, or right after an internal redirect. It is
11591 useful for modules setting environment variables that depend only on
11592 the headers/contents of the request. It does not run during subrequests
11593 because subrequests inherit pretty much everything from the main
11594 request. [Dean Gaudet]
11596 *) Added mod_unique_id which is used to generate a unique identifier for
11597 each hit, available in the environment variable UNIQUE_ID.
11600 *) init_modules is now called after the error logs have been opened. This
11601 allows modules to emit information messages into the error logs.
11604 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
11605 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
11607 *) PORT: Apache has need for mutexes to serialize its children around
11608 accept. In prior versions either fcntl file locking or flock file
11609 locking were used. The method is chosen by the definition of
11610 USE_xxx_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT in conf.h. xxx is FCNTL for fcntl(),
11611 and FLOCK for flock(). New options have been added:
11612 - SYSVSEM to use System V style semaphores
11613 - PTHREAD to use POSIX threads (appears to work on Solaris only)
11614 - USLOCK to use IRIX uslock
11615 Based on timing various techniques, the following changes were made
11617 - Linux 2.x uses flock instead of fcntl
11618 - Solaris 2.x uses pthreads
11619 - IRIX uses SysV semaphores -- however multiprocessor IRIX boxes
11620 work far faster if you -DUSE_USLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
11621 [Dean Gaudet, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <Pierre-Yves.Kerembellec vtcom.fr>,
11622 Martijn Koster <m.koster pobox.com>]
11624 *) PORT: The semantics of accept/select make it very desirable to use
11625 mutexes to serialize accept when multiple Listens are in use. But
11626 in the case where only a single socket is open it is sometimes
11627 redundant to serialize accept(). Not all unixes do a good job with
11628 potentially dozens of children blocked on accept() on the same
11629 socket. It's now possible to define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
11630 the server will avoid serialization when listening on only one socket,
11631 and use serialization when listening on multiple sockets.
11632 [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
11634 *) Configure changes: TestLib replaced by TestCompile, which has
11635 some additional capability (such as doing a sanity check of
11636 the compiler and flags selected); the version of Solaris is now
11637 available via the #define value of SOLARIS2; IRIX n32bit libs
11638 now supported and selectable by new Configuration Rule: IRIXN32;
11639 We no longer default to -O2 optimization. [Jim Jagielski]
11641 *) Updated Configure: Configuration now uses AddModule to specify
11642 module source or binary file location, relative to src directory.
11643 Modules can be dropped into modules/extra, or in their own
11644 directory, and modules can come with a Makefile or Configure can
11645 create one. Modules can add compiler or library information to
11646 generated Makefiles. [Paul Sutton]
11648 *) Source core re-organisation: distributed modules are now in
11649 modules/standard. All other source code is in main. OS-specific
11650 code is in os/{unix,emx,win32} directories. [Paul Sutton]
11652 *) mod_browser has been removed, since it's replaced by mod_setenvif.
11655 *) Fix another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
11656 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with
11657 relative paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation,
11658 and mod_include.) [Dean Gaudet]
11660 *) directory_walk optimization to reduce an O(N*M) loop to O(N+M) where
11661 N is the number of <Directory> sections, and M is the number of
11662 components in the filename of an object.
11664 To achieve this optimization the following config changes were made:
11665 - Wildcards (* and ?, not the regex forms) in <Directory>s,
11666 <Files>s, and <Location>s now treat a slash as a special
11667 character. For example "/home/*/public_html" previously would
11668 match "/home/a/andrew/public_html", now it only matches things
11669 like "/home/bob/public_html". This mimics /bin/sh behaviour.
11670 - It's possible now to use [] wildcarding in <Directory>, <Files>
11672 - Regex <Directory>s are applied after all non-regex <Directory>s.
11676 *) Fix a bug introduced in 1.3a1 directory_walk regarding .htaccess files
11677 and corrupted paths. [Dean Gaudet]
11679 *) Enhanced and cleaned up the URL rewriting engine of mod_rewrite:
11680 First the grouped parts of RewriteRule pattern matches (parenthesis!) can
11681 be accessed now via backreferences $1..$9 in RewriteConds test-against
11682 strings in addition to RewriteRules subst string. Second the grouped
11683 parts of RewriteCond pattern matches (parenthesis!) can be accessed now
11684 via backreferences %1..%9 both in following RewriteCond test-against
11685 strings and RewriteRules subst string. This provides maximum flexibility
11686 through the use of backreferences.
11687 Additionally the rewriting engine was cleaned up by putting common
11688 code to the new expand_backrefs_inbuffer() function.
11689 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
11691 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
11692 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
11693 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
11695 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
11696 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
11699 *) ip-based vhosts are stored and queried using a hashing function, which
11700 has been shown to improve performance on servers with many ip-vhosts.
11701 Some other changes had to be made to accommodate this:
11702 - the * address for vhosts now behaves like _default_
11703 - the matching process now is:
11704 - match an ip-vhost directly via hash (possibly matches main
11706 - if that fails, just pretend it matched the main server
11707 - if so far only the main server has been matched, perform
11708 name-based lookups (ServerName, ServerAlias, ServerPath)
11709 *only on name-based vhosts*
11710 - if they fail, look for _default_ vhosts
11711 [Dean Gaudet, Dave Hankins <dhankins sugarat.net>]
11713 *) dbmmanage overhaul:
11714 - merge dbmmanage and dbmmanage.new functionality, remove dbmmanage.new
11715 - tie() to AnyDBM_File which will use one of DB_File, NDBM_File or
11716 GDBM_File (-ldb, -lndbm, -lgdbm) (trying each in that order)
11717 - provide better seed for rand
11718 - prompt for password as per getpass(3) (turn off echo, read from
11720 - use "newstyle" crypt based on $Config{osname} ($^O)
11721 - will not add a user if already in database, use new `update' command
11723 - added `check' command to check a users' password
11724 - added `import' command to convert existing password text-files or
11725 dbm files exported with `view'
11726 - more descriptive usage, general cleanup, 'use strict' clean, etc.
11729 *) Added psocket() which is a pool form of socket(), various places within
11730 the proxy weren't properly blocking alarms while registering the cleanup
11731 for its sockets. bclose() now uses pclose() and pclosesocket(). There
11732 was a bug where the client socket was being close()d twice due a still
11733 registered cleanup. [Dean Gaudet]
11735 *) A few cleanups were made to reduce time(), getpid(), and signal() calls.
11738 *) PORT: AIX >= 4.2 requires -lm due to libc changes.
11739 [Jason Venner <jason idiom.com>] PR#667
11741 *) Enable ``=""'' for RewriteCond directives to match against
11742 the empty string. This is the preferred way instead of ``^$''.
11743 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
11745 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root
11746 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
11748 *) mod_proxy now has a ReceiveBufferSize directive, similar to
11749 SendBufferSize, so that the TCP window can be set appropriately
11750 for LFNs. [Phillip A. Prindeville]
11752 *) mod_browser has been replaced by the more general mod_setenvif
11753 (courtesy of Paul Sutton). BrowserMatch* directives are still
11754 available, but are now joined by SetEnvIf*, UnSetEnvIf*, and
11755 UnSetEnvIfZero directives. [Ken Coar]
11757 *) "HostnameLookups double" forces double-reverse DNS to succeed in
11758 order for remote_host to be set (for logging, or for the env var
11759 REMOTE_HOST). The old define MAXIMUM_DNS has been deprecated.
11762 *) mod_access overhaul:
11763 - Now understands network/netmask syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0)
11764 and cidr syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/16). PR#762
11765 - Critical path was sped up by pre-computing a few things at config time.
11766 - The undocumented syntax "allow user-agents" was removed,
11767 the replacement is "allow from env=foobar" combined with mod_browser.
11768 - When used with hostnames it now forces a double-reverse lookup
11769 no matter what the directory settings are. This double-reverse
11770 doesn't affect any of the other routines that use the remote
11771 hostname. In particular it's still passed to CGIs and the log
11772 without the double-reverse check. Related PR#860.
11775 *) When a large bwrite() occurs (larger than the internal buffer size),
11776 while there is already something in the buffer, apache will combine
11777 the large write and the buffer into a single writev(). (This is
11778 in anticipation of using mmap() for reading files.)
11781 *) In obscure cases where a partial socket write occurred while chunking,
11782 Apache would omit the chunk header/footer on the next block. Cleaned
11783 up other bugs/inconsistencies in error conditions in buff.c. Fixed
11784 a bug where a long pause in DNS lookups could cause the last packet
11785 of a response to be unduly delayed. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
11787 *) API: Added child_exit function to module structure. This is called
11788 once per "heavy-weight process" just before a server child exit()'s
11789 e.g. when max_requests_per_child is reached, etc.
11790 [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
11792 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
11793 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
11796 *) mod_cern_meta would attempt to find meta files for the directory itself
11797 in some cases, but not in others. It now avoids it in all cases.
11800 *) mod_mime_magic would core dump if there was a decompression error.
11801 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer mch.sni.de>] PR#904
11803 *) PORT: some variants of DGUX require -lsocket -lnsl
11804 [Alexander L Jones <alex systems-options.co.uk>] PR#732
11806 *) mod_autoindex now allows sorting of FancyIndexed directory listings
11807 by the various fields (name, size, et cetera), either in ascending
11808 or descending order. Just click on the column header. [Ken Coar]
11810 *) PORT: Various tweaks to eliminate pointer-int casting warnings on 64-bit
11811 CPUs like the Alpha. Apache still stores ints in pointers, but that's
11812 the relatively safe direction. [Dean Gaudet] PR#344
11814 *) PORT: QNX mmap() support for faster/more reliable scoreboard handling.
11815 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh mail.wplus.net>] PR#683
11817 *) child_main avoids an unneeded call to select() when there is only one
11818 listening socket. [Dean Gaudet]
11820 *) In the event that the server is starved for idle servers it will
11821 spawn 1, then 2, then 4, ..., then 32 servers each second,
11822 doubling each second. It'll also give a warning in the errorlog
11823 since the most common reason for this is a poor StartServers
11824 setting. The define MAX_SPAWN_RATE can be used to raise/lower
11825 the maximum. [Dean Gaudet]
11827 *) Apache now provides an effectively unbuffered connection for
11828 CGI scripts. This means that data will be sent to the client
11829 as soon as the CGI pauses or stops output; previously, Apache would
11830 buffer the output up to a fixed buffer size before sending, which
11831 could result in the user viewing an empty page until the CGI finished
11832 or output a complete buffer. It is no longer necessary to use an
11833 "nph-" CGI to get unbuffered output. Given that most CGIs are written
11834 in a language that by default does buffering (e.g. perl) this
11835 shouldn't have a detrimental effect on performance.
11837 "nph-" CGIs, which formerly provided a direct socket to the client
11838 without any server post-processing, were not fully compatible with
11839 HTTP/1.1 or SSL support. As such they would have had to implement
11840 the transport details, such as encryption or chunking, in order
11841 to work properly in certain situations. Now, the only difference
11842 between nph and non-nph scripts is "non-parsed headers".
11843 [Dean Gaudet, Sameer Parekh, Roy Fielding]
11845 *) If a BUFF is switched from buffered to unbuffered reading the first
11846 bread() will return whatever remained in the buffer prior to the
11847 switch. [Dean Gaudet]
11849 Changes with Apache 1.3a1
11851 *) Added another Configure helper script: TestLib. It determines
11852 if a specified library exists. [Jim Jagielski]
11854 *) PORT: Allow for use of n32bit libraries under IRIX 6.x
11855 [derived from patch from Jeff Hayes <jhayes aw.sgi.com>]
11858 *) PORT: Some architectures use size_t for various lengths in network
11859 functions such as accept(), and getsockname(). The definition
11860 NET_SIZE_T is used to control this. [Dean Gaudet]
11862 *) PORT: Linux: Attempt to detect glibc based systems and include crypt.h
11863 and -lcrypt. Test for various db libraries (dbm, ndbm, db) when
11864 mod_auth_dbm or mod_auth_db are included. [Dean Gaudet]
11866 *) PORT: QNX doesn't have initgroups() which support/suexec.c uses.
11867 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh mail.wplus.net>]
11869 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
11870 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
11871 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
11872 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#875
11874 *) API: Correct child_init() slot declaration from int to void, to
11875 match the init() declaration. Update mod_example to use the new
11878 *) added transport handle slot (t_handle) to the BUFF structure
11881 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
11882 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
11883 [Kenichi Hori <ken d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
11885 *) Support the image map format of FrontPage. For example:
11886 rect /url.hrm 10 20 30 40
11887 ["Chris O'Byrne" <obyrne iol.ie>] PR#807
11889 *) PORT: -lresolv and -lsocks were in the wrong order for Solaris.
11890 ["Darren O'Shaughnessy" <darren aaii.oz.au>] PR#846
11892 *) AddModuleInfo directive for mod_info which allows you to annotate
11893 the output of mod_info. ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl usi.utah.edu>]
11895 *) Added NoProxy directive to avoid using ProxyRemote for selected
11896 addresses. Added ProxyDomain directive to cause unqualified
11897 names to be qualified by redirection.
11898 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer mch.sni.de>]
11900 *) Support Proxy Authentication, and don't pass the Proxy-Authorize
11901 header to the remote host in the proxy. [Sameer Parekh and
11904 *) Upgraded mod_rewrite from 3.0.6+ to latest officially available version
11905 3.0.9. This upgrade includes: fixed deadlooping on rewriting to same
11906 URLs, fixed rewritelog(), fixed forced response code handling on
11907 redirects from within .htaccess files, disabled pipe locking under
11908 braindead SunOS 4.1.x, allow env variables to be set even on rules with
11909 no substitution, bugfixed situations where HostnameLookups is off, made
11910 mod_rewrite more thread-safe for NT port and fixed problem when creating
11911 an empty query string via "xxx?".
11912 This update also removes the copyright of Ralf S. Engelschall,
11913 i.e. now mod_rewrite no longer has a shared copyright. Instead is is
11914 exclusively copyrighted by the Apache Group now. This happened because
11915 the author now has gifted mod_rewrite exclusively to the Apache Group and
11916 no longer maintains an external version.
11917 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
11919 *) API: Added child_init function to module structure. This is called
11920 once per "heavy-weight process" before any requests are handled.
11921 See http_config.h for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
11923 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
11924 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, 868
11926 *) API: Added is_initial_req() which tests if the request being
11927 processed is the initial request, or a subrequest.
11930 *) Extended SSI (mod_include) now handles additional relops for
11931 string comparisons (<, >, <=, and >=). [Bruno Wolff III] PR#41
11933 *) Configure fixed to correctly propagate user-selected options and
11934 settings (such as CC and OPTIM) to Makefiles other than
11935 src/Makefile (notably support/Makefile). [Ken Coar] PR#666, #834
11937 *) IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble now causes the actual HTML of
11938 directory indices to start with the contents of the HeaderName file
11939 if there is one. If there isn't one, the behaviour is unchanged.
11940 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding, Andrey A. Chernov]
11942 *) WIN32: Modules can now be dynamically loaded DLLs using the
11943 LoadModule/LoadFile directives. Note that module DLLs must be
11944 compiled with the multithreaded DLL version of the runtime library.
11945 [Alexei Kosut and Ben Laurie]
11947 *) Automatic indexing removed from mod_dir and placed into mod_autoindex.
11948 This allows the admin to completely remove automatic indexing
11949 from the server, while still supporting the basic functions of
11950 trailing-slash redirects and DirectoryIndex files. Note that if
11951 you're carrying over an old Configuration file and you use directory
11952 indexing then you'll want to add:
11954 Module autoindex_module mod_autoindex.o
11956 before mod_dir in your Configuration. [Dean Gaudet]
11958 *) popendir/pclosedir created to properly protect directory scanning.
11959 [Dean Gaudet] PR#525
11961 *) AliasMatch, ScriptAliasMatch and RedirectMatch directives added,
11962 giving regex support to mod_alias. <DirectoryMatch>, <LocationMatch>
11963 and <FilesMatch> sections added to succeed <DirectoryMatch ~>, etc...
11966 *) The AccessFileName directive can now take more than one filename.
11967 ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl usi.utah.edu>]
11969 *) The new mod_mime_magic can be used to "magically" determine the type
11970 of a file if the extension is unknown. Based on the unix file(1)
11971 command. [Ian Kluft <ikluft cisco.com>]
11973 *) We now determine and display the time spent processing a
11974 request if desired. [Jim Jagielski]
11976 *) mod_status: PID field of "dead" child slots no longer displays
11977 main httpd process's PID. [Jim Jagielski]
11979 *) Makefile.nt added - to build all the bits from the command line:
11980 nmake -f Makefile.nt
11981 Doesn't yet work properly. [Ben Laurie]
11983 *) Default text of 404 error is now "Not Found" rather than the
11984 potentially misleading "File Not Found". [Ken Coar]
11986 *) CONFIG: "HostnameLookups" now defaults to off because it is far better
11987 for the net if we require people that actually need this data to
11988 enable it. [Linus Torvalds]
11990 *) directory_walk() is an expensive function, keep a little more state to
11991 avoid needless string counting. Add two new functions make_dirstr_parent
11992 and make_dirstr_prefix which replace all existing uses of make_dirstr.
11993 The new functions are a little less general than make_dirstr, but
11994 work more efficiently (less memory, less string counting).
11997 *) EXTRA_LFLAGS was changed to EXTRA_LDFLAGS (and LFLAGS was changed
11998 to LDFLAGS) to avoid complications with lex rules in make files.
11999 [Dean Gaudet] PR#372
12001 *) run_method optimized to avoid needless scanning over NULLs in the
12002 module list. [Dean Gaudet]
12004 *) Revamp of (unix) scoreboard management code such that it avoids
12005 unnecessary traversals of the scoreboard on each hit. This is
12006 particularly important for high volume sites with a large
12007 HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Some of the previous operations were O(n^2),
12008 and are now O(n). See also SCOREBOARD_MAINTENANCE_INTERVAL in
12009 httpd.h. [Dean Gaudet]
12011 *) In configurations using multiple Listen statements it was possible for
12012 busy sockets to starve other sockets of service. [Dean Gaudet]
12014 *) Added hook so standalone_main can be replaced at compile time
12015 (define STANDALONE_MAIN)
12018 *) Lowest-level read/write functions in buff.c will be replaced with
12019 the SFIO library calls sfread/sfwrite if B_SFIO is defined at
12020 compile time. The default sfio discipline will behave as apache
12021 would without sfio compiled in.
12024 *) Enhance UserDir directive (mod_userdir) to accept a list of
12025 usernames for the 'disable' keyword, and add 'enable user...' to
12026 selectively *en*able userdirs if they're globally disabled.
12029 *) If NETSCAPE_DBM_COMPAT is defined in EXTRA_CFLAGS then Apache
12030 will work with Netscape dbm files. (dbmmanage will probably not
12031 work however.) [Alexander Spohr <aspohr netmatic.com>] PR#444
12033 *) Add a ListenBacklog directive to control the backlog parameter
12034 passed to listen(). Also change the default to 511 from 512.
12037 *) API: A new handler response DONE which informs apache that the
12038 request has been handled and it can finish off quickly, similar to
12039 how it handles errors. [Rob Hartill]
12041 *) Turn off chunked encoding after sending terminating chunk/footer
12042 so that we can't do it twice by accident. [Roy Fielding]
12044 *) mod_expire also issues Cache-Control: max-age headers.
12047 *) API: Added kill_only_once option for free_proc_chain so that it won't
12048 aggressively try to kill off specific children. For fastcgi.
12049 [Stanley Gambarin <gambarin OpenMarket.com>]
12051 *) mod_auth deals with extra ':' delimited fields. [Marc Slemko]
12053 *) Added IconHeight and IconWidth to mod_dir's IndexOptions directive.
12054 When used together, these cause mod_dir to emit HEIGHT and WIDTH
12055 attributes in the FancyIndexing IMG tags. [Ken Coar]
12057 *) PORT: Sequent and SONY NEWS-OS support added. [Jim Jagielski]
12059 *) PORT: Added Windows NT support
12060 [Ben Laurie and Ambarish Malpani <ambarish valicert.com>]
12062 Changes with Apache 1.2.6
12064 *) mod_include when using XBitHack Full would send ETags in addition to
12065 sending Last-Modifieds. This is incorrect HTTP/1.1 behaviour.
12066 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1133
12068 *) SECURITY: When a client connects to a particular port/addr, and
12069 gives a Host: header ensure that the virtual host requested can
12070 actually be reached via that port/addr. [Ed Korthof <ed organic.com>]
12072 *) Support virtual hosts with wildcard port and/or multiple ports
12073 properly. [Ed Korthof <ed organic.com>]
12075 *) Fixed some case-sensitivity issues according to RFC2068.
12078 *) Set r->allowed properly in mod_asis.c, mod_dir.c, mod_info.c,
12079 and mod_include.c. [Dean Gaudet]
12081 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
12084 *) SIGURG doesn't exist on all platforms.
12085 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
12087 *) When an error occurs during a POST, or other operation with a
12088 request body, the body has to be read from the net before allowing
12089 a keepalive session to continue. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
12091 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
12092 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
12094 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
12095 multiple occurrences of the same key. [Stephen Scheck
12096 <sscheck infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
12098 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly in error
12099 cases. [Ben Reser <breser regnow.com>] PR#1366
12101 *) r->connection->user was allocated in the wrong pool causing corruption
12102 in some cases when used with mod_cern_meta. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
12104 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
12105 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
12106 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
12108 *) Multiple "close" tokens may have been set in the "Connection"
12109 header, not an error, but a waste.
12110 [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1683
12112 *) "basic" and "digest" auth tokens should be tested case-insensitive.
12113 [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1599, PR#1666
12115 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
12116 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
12117 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
12119 *) mod_rewrite would not handle %3f properly in some situations.
12122 *) Apache could generate improperly chunked HTTP/1.1 responses when
12123 the bputc() or rputc() functions were used by modules (such as
12124 mod_include). [Dean Gaudet]
12126 *) #ifdef wrap a few #defines in httpd.h to make life easier on
12127 some ports. [Ralf Engelschall]
12129 *) Fix MPE compilation error in mod_usertrack.c. [Mark Bixby]
12131 *) Quote CC='$(CC)' to improve recurse make calls. [Martin Kraemer]
12133 *) Avoid B_ERROR redeclaration on sysvr4 systems. [Martin Kraemer]
12135 Changes with Apache 1.2.5
12137 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
12138 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
12139 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
12141 *) Fix an improper length in an ap_snprintf call in proxy_date_canon().
12144 *) Fix core dump in the ftp proxy when reading incorrectly formatted
12145 directory listings. [Marc Slemko]
12147 *) SECURITY: Fix possible minor buffer overflow in the proxy cache.
12150 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
12151 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
12152 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
12154 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
12155 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
12157 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
12158 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop. This cleanup
12159 was done against 1.3 code and then backported to 1.2, the result
12160 is a large difference (due to indentation cleanup in 1.3 code).
12161 Users interested in seeing a smaller set of relevant differences
12162 should consider comparing against src/modules/standard/mod_include.c
12163 from the 1.3b3 release. Non-indentation changes to mod_include
12164 between 1.2 and 1.3 were minimal. [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
12166 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
12167 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. This cleanup also
12168 was done with 1.3 code as a basis, see the previous note
12169 about mod_include. [Dean Gaudet]
12171 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad
12172 permissions, deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
12173 The previous behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not
12174 be read. This change may make some setups with unreadable
12175 htaccess files stop working. PR#817 [Marc Slemko]
12177 *) SECURITY: no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input.
12178 Make it O(n). This inefficiency could be used to mount a denial
12179 of service attack against the Apache server. Thanks to
12180 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf boss.staszic.waw.pl> for reporting
12181 this. [Dean Gaudet]
12183 *) mod_include used uninitialized data for some uses of && and ||.
12184 [Brian Slesinsky <bslesins wired.com>] PR#1139
12186 *) mod_imap should decline all non-GET methods.
12187 [Jay Bloodworth <jay pathways.sde.state.sc.us>]
12189 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
12191 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
12192 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
12193 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson intranet.csupomona.edu>]
12195 *) mod_include did not properly handle all possible redirects from sub-
12196 requests. [Ken Coar]
12198 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
12199 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
12201 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
12202 reporting a select error over and over.
12203 [Rick Franchuk <rickf transpect.net>] PR#1107
12205 Changes with Apache 1.2.4
12207 *) The ProxyRemote change in 1.2.3 introduced a bug resulting in the proxy
12208 always making requests with the full-URI instead of just the URI path.
12209 [Marc Slemko, Roy Fielding]
12211 *) Add -lm for AIX versions >= 4.2 to allow Apache to link properly
12212 on this platform. [Marc Slemko]
12214 Changes with Apache 1.2.3
12216 *) The request to a remote proxy was mangled if it was generated as the
12217 result of a ProxyPass directive. URL schemes other than http:// were not
12218 supported when ProxyRemote was used. PR#260, PR#656, PR#699, PR#713,
12219 PR#812 [Lars Eilebrecht]
12221 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
12222 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
12224 *) Force proxy to always respond as HTTP/1.0, which it was failing to
12225 do for errors and cached responses. [Roy Fielding]
12227 *) PORT: Improved support for ConvexOS 11. [Jeff Venters]
12229 Changes with Apache 1.2.2 [not released]
12231 *) Fixed another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
12232 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with relative
12233 paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation, and mod_include.)
12236 *) Add lockfile name to error message printed out when
12237 USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
12240 *) Enhanced the chunking and error handling inside the buffer functions.
12241 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding]
12243 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
12244 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
12245 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
12247 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
12248 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
12251 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root.
12252 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
12254 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
12255 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
12258 *) Last official synchronization of mod_rewrite with author version (because
12259 mod_rewrite is now directly developed by the author at the Apache Group):
12260 o added diff between mod_rewrite 3.0.6+ and 3.0.9
12261 minus WIN32/NT stuff, but plus copyright removement.
12263 - workaround for detecting infinite rewriting loops
12264 - fixed setting of env vars when "-" is used as subst string
12265 - fixed forced response code on redirects (PR#777)
12266 - fixed cases where r->args is ""
12267 - kludge to disable locking on pipes under braindead SunOS
12268 - fix for rewritelog in cases where remote hostname is unknown
12269 - fixed totally damaged request_rec walk-back loop
12270 o remove static from local data and add static to global ones.
12271 o replaced ugly proxy finding stuff by simple
12272 find_linked_module("mod_proxy") call.
12273 o added missing negation char on rewritelog()
12274 o fixed a few comment typos
12275 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
12277 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
12278 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, PR#868
12280 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
12281 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
12282 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
12283 Additionally mod_browser now triggers during translate_name to workaround
12284 a deficiency in the header_parse phase.
12285 [Dean Gaudet] PR#875
12287 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
12288 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
12289 [Kenichi Hori <ken d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
12291 *) Properly treat <files> container like other containers in mod_info.
12292 [Marc Slemko] PR#848
12294 *) The proxy didn't treat the "Host:" keyword of the host header as case-
12295 insensitive. The proxy would corrupt the first line of a response from
12296 an HTTP/0.9 server. [Kenichi Hori <ken d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#813,814
12298 *) mod_include would log some bogus values occasionally.
12299 [Skip Montanaro <skip calendar.com>, Marc Slemko] PR#797
12301 *) PORT: The slack fd changes in 1.2.1 introduced a problem with SIGHUP
12302 under Solaris 2.x (up through 2.5.1). It has been fixed.
12303 [Dean Gaudet] PR#832
12305 *) API: In HTTP/1.1, whether or not a request message contains a body
12306 is independent of the request method and based solely on the presence
12307 of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding. Therefore, our default
12308 handlers need to be prepared to read a body even if they don't know
12309 what to do with it; otherwise, the body would be mistaken for the
12310 next request on a persistent connection. discard_request_body()
12311 has been added to take care of that. [Roy Fielding] PR#378
12313 *) API: Symbol APACHE_RELEASE provides a numeric form of the Apache
12314 release version number, such that it always increases along the
12315 same lines as our source code branching. [Roy Fielding]
12317 *) Minor oversight on multiple variants fixed. [Paul Sutton] PR#94
12319 Changes with Apache 1.2.1
12321 *) SECURITY: Don't serve file system objects unless they are plain files,
12322 symlinks, or directories. This prevents local users from using pipes
12323 or named sockets to invoke programs for an extremely crude form of
12326 *) SECURITY: HeaderName and ReadmeName were settable in .htaccess and
12327 could contain "../" allowing a local user to "publish" any file on
12328 the system. No slashes are allowed now. [Dean Gaudet]
12330 *) SECURITY: It was possible to violate the symlink Options using mod_dir
12331 (headers, readmes, titles), mod_negotiation (type maps), or
12332 mod_cern_meta (meta files). [Dean Gaudet]
12334 *) SECURITY: Apache will refuse to run as "User root" unless
12335 BIG_SECURITY_HOLE is defined at compile time. [Dean Gaudet]
12337 *) CONFIG: If a symlink pointed to a directory then it would be disallowed
12338 if it contained a .htaccess disallowing symlinks. This is contrary
12339 to the rule that symlink permissions are tested with the symlink
12340 options of the parent directory. [Dean Gaudet] PR#353
12342 *) CONFIG: The LockFile directive can be used to place the serializing
12343 lockfile in any location. It previously defaulted to /usr/tmp/htlock.
12344 [Somehow it took four of us: Randy Terbush, Jim Jagielski, Dean Gaudet,
12347 *) Request processing now retains state of whether or not the request
12348 body has been read, so that internal redirects and subrequests will
12349 not try to read it twice (and block). [Roy Fielding]
12351 *) Add a placeholder in modules/Makefile to avoid errors with certain
12352 makes. [Marc Slemko]
12354 *) QUERY_STRING was unescaped in mod_include, it shouldn't be.
12355 [Dean Gaudet] PR#644
12357 *) mod_include was not properly changing the current directory.
12358 [Marc Slemko] PR#742
12360 *) Attempt to work around problems with third party libraries that do not
12361 handle high numbered descriptors (examples include bind, and
12362 solaris libc). On all systems apache attempts to keep all permanent
12363 descriptors above 15 (called the low slack line). Solaris users
12364 can also benefit from adding -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 to EXTRA_CFLAGS
12365 which keeps all non-FILE * descriptors above 255. On all systems
12366 this should make supporting large numbers of vhosts with many open
12367 log files more feasible. If this causes trouble please report it,
12368 you can disable this workaround by adding -DNO_SLACK to EXTRA_CFLAGS.
12369 [Dean Gaudet] various PRs
12371 *) Related to the last entry, network sockets are now opened before
12372 log files are opened. The only known case where this can cause
12373 problems is under Solaris with many virtualhosts and many Listen
12374 directives. But using -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 described above will
12375 work around this problem. [Dean Gaudet]
12377 *) USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is now default for FreeBSD, A/UX, and
12380 *) Improved unix error response logging. [Marc Slemko]
12382 *) Update mod_rewrite from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. New ruleflag
12383 QSA=query_string_append. Also fixed a nasty bug in per-dir context:
12384 when a URL http://... was used in conjunction with a special
12385 redirect flag, e.g. R=permanent, the permanent status was lost.
12386 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
12388 *) If an object has multiple variants that are otherwise equal Apache
12389 would prefer the last listed variant rather than the first.
12390 [Paul Sutton] PR#94
12392 *) "make clean" at the top level now removes *.o. [Dean Gaudet] PR#752
12394 *) mod_status dumps core in inetd mode. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
12397 *) pregsub had an off-by-1 in its error checking code. [Alexei Kosut]
12399 *) PORT: fix rlim_t problems with AIX 4.2. [Marc Slemko] PR#333
12401 *) PORT: Update UnixWare support for 2.1.2.
12402 [Lawrence Rosenman <ler lerctr.org>] PR#511
12404 *) PORT: NonStop-UX [Joachim Schmitz <schmitz_joachim tandem.com>] PR#327
12406 *) PORT: Update ConvexOS support for 11.5.
12407 [David DeSimone <fox convex.com>] PR#399
12409 *) PORT: Support for DEC cc compiler under ULTRIX.
12410 ["P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <alejolo ideam.gov.co>] PR#388
12412 *) PORT: Support for Maxion/OS SVR4.2 Real Time Unix. [no name given] PR#383
12414 *) PORT: Workaround for AIX 3.x compiler bug in http_bprintf.c.
12415 [Marc Slemko] PR#725
12417 *) PORT: fix problem compiling http_bprintf.c with gcc under SCO
12418 [Marc Slemko] PR#695
12420 Changes with Apache 1.2
12422 Changes with Apache 1.2b11
12424 *) Fixed open timestamp fd in proxy_cache.c [Chuck Murcko]
12426 *) Added undocumented perl SSI mechanism for -DUSE_PERL_SSI and mod_perl.
12427 [Doug MacEachern, Rob Hartill]
12429 *) Proxy needs to use hard_timeout instead of soft_timeout when it is
12430 reading from one buffer and writing to another, at least until it has
12431 a custom timeout handler. [Roy Fielding and Petr Lampa]
12433 *) Fixed problem on IRIX with servers hanging in IdentityCheck,
12434 apparently due to a mismatch between sigaction and setjmp.
12435 [Roy Fielding] PR#502
12437 *) Log correct status code if we timeout before receiving a request (408)
12438 or if we received a request-line that was too long to process (414).
12439 [Ed Korthof and Roy Fielding] PR#601
12441 *) Virtual hosts with the same ServerName, but on different ports, were
12442 not being selected properly. [Ed Korthof]
12444 *) Added code to return the requested IP address from proxy_host2addr()
12445 if gethostbyaddr() fails due to reverse DNS lookup problems. Original
12446 change submitted by Jozsef Hollosi <hollosi sbcm.com>.
12447 [Chuck Murcko] PR#614
12449 *) If multiple requests on a single connection are used to retrieve
12450 data from different virtual hosts, the virtual host list would be
12451 scanned starting with the most recently used VH instead of the first,
12452 causing most virtual hosts to be ignored.
12453 [Paul Sutton and Martin Mares] PR#610
12455 *) The OS/2 handling of process group was broken by a porting patch for
12456 MPE, so restored prior code for OS/2. [Roy Fielding and Garey Smiley]
12458 *) Inherit virtual server port from main server if none (or "*") is
12459 given for VirtualHost. [Dean Gaudet] PR#576
12461 *) If the lookup for a DirectoryIndex name with content negotiation
12462 has found matching variants, but none are acceptable, return the
12463 negotiation result if there are no more DirectoryIndex names to lookup.
12464 [Petr Lampa and Roy Fielding]
12466 *) If a soft_timeout occurs after keepalive is set, then the main child
12467 loop would try to read another request even though the connection
12468 has been aborted. [Roy Fielding]
12470 *) Configure changes: Allow for whitespace at the start of a
12471 Module declaration. Also, be more understanding about the
12472 CC=/OPTIM= format in Configuration. Finally, fix compiler
12473 flags if using HP-UX's cc compiler. [Jim Jagielski]
12475 *) Subrequests and internal redirects now inherit the_request from the
12476 original request-line. [Roy Fielding]
12478 *) Test for error conditions before creating output header fields, since
12479 we don't want the error message to include those fields. Likewise,
12480 reset the content_language(s) and content_encoding of the response
12481 before generating or redirecting to an error message, since the new
12482 message will have its own Content-* definitions. [Dean Gaudet]
12484 *) Restored the semantics of headers_out (headers sent only with 200..299
12485 and 304 responses) and err_headers_out (headers sent with all responses).
12486 Avoid the overhead of copying tables if err_headers_out is empty
12487 (the usual case). [Roy Fielding]
12489 *) Fixed a couple places where a check for the default Content-Type was
12490 not properly checking both the value configured by the DefaultType
12491 directive and the DEFAULT_TYPE symbol in httpd.h. Changed the value
12492 of DEFAULT_TYPE to match the documented default (text/plain).
12493 [Dean Gaudet] PR#506
12495 *) Escape the HTML-sensitive characters in the Request-URI that is
12496 output for each child by mod_status. [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar] PR#501
12498 *) Properly initialize the flock structures used by the mutex locking
12499 around accept() when USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
12502 *) The method for determining PATH_INFO has been restored to the pre-1.2b
12503 (and NCSA httpd) definition wherein it was the extra path info beyond
12504 the CGI script filename. The environment variable FILEPATH_INFO has
12505 been removed, and instead we supply the original REQUEST_URI to any
12506 script that wants to be Apache-specific and needs the real URI path.
12507 This solves a problem with existing scripts that use extra path info
12508 in the ScriptAlias directive to pass options to the CGI script.
12511 *) The _default_ change in 1.2b10 will change the behaviour on configs
12512 that use multiple Listen statements for listening on multiple ports.
12513 But that change is necessary to make _default_ consistent with other
12514 forms of <VirtualHost>. It requires such configs to be modified
12515 to use <VirtualHost _default_:*>. The documentation has been
12516 updated. [Dean Gaudet] PR#530
12518 *) If an ErrorDocument CGI script is used to respond to an error
12519 generated by another CGI script which has already read the message
12520 body of the request, the server would block trying to read the
12521 message body again. [Rob Hartill]
12523 *) signal() replacement conflicted with a define on QNX (and potentially
12524 other platforms). Fixed. [Ben Laurie] PR#512
12526 Changes with Apache 1.2b10
12528 *) Allow HTTPD_ROOT, SERVER_CONFIG_FILE, DEFAULT_PATH, and SHELL_PATH
12529 to be configured via -D in Configuration. [Dean Gaudet] PR#449
12531 *) <VirtualHost _default_:portnum> didn't work properly. [Dean Gaudet]
12533 *) Added prototype for mktemp() for SUNOS4 [Marc Slemko]
12535 *) In mod_proxy.c, check return values for proxy_host2addr() when reading
12536 config, in case the hostent struct returned is trash.
12537 [Chuck Murcko] PR #491
12539 *) Fixed the fix in 1.2b9 for parsing URL query info into args for CGI
12540 scripts. [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
12542 Changes with Apache 1.2b9 [never announced]
12544 *) Reset the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER to account for the unsigned port
12545 changes and in anticipation of 1.2 final release. [Roy Fielding]
12547 *) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
12548 the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
12549 trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
12550 [Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
12552 *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
12553 than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy;
12554 rearranged other modules to enhance understanding of their purpose
12555 and relative order (and maybe even reduce some overhead).
12556 [Roy Fielding and Sameer Parekh]
12558 *) Fix graceful restart. Eliminate many signal-related race
12559 conditions in both forms of restart, and in SIGTERM. See
12560 htdocs/manual/stopping.html for details on stopping and
12561 restarting the parent. [Dean Gaudet]
12563 *) Fix memory leaks in mod_rewrite, mod_browser, mod_include. Tune
12564 memory allocator to avoid a behaviour that required extra blocks to
12565 be allocated. [Dean Gaudet]
12567 *) Allow suexec to access files relative to current directory but not
12568 above. (Excluding leading / or any .. directory.) [Ken Coar]
12571 *) Fix suexec segfault when group doesn't exist. [Gregory Neil Shapiro]
12572 PR#367, 368, 354, 453
12574 *) Fix the above fix: if suexec is enabled, avoid destroying r->url
12575 while obtaining the /~user and save the username in a separate data
12576 area so that it won't be overwritten by the call to getgrgid(), and
12577 fix some misuse of the pool string allocation functions. Also fixes
12578 a general problem with parsing URL query info into args for CGI scripts.
12579 [Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
12581 *) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
12583 *) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
12585 *) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
12586 AuthDBAuthoritative. [Marc Slemko] PR#420
12588 *) MaxClients should be at least 1. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#375
12590 *) The default handler now logs invalid methods or URIs (i.e. PUT on an
12591 object that can't be PUT, or FOOBAR for some method FOOBAR that
12592 apache doesn't know about at all). Log 404s that occur in mod_include.
12593 [Paul Sutton, John Van Essen]
12595 *) If a soft timeout (or lingerout) occurs while trying to flush a
12596 buffer or write inside buff.c or fread'ing from a CGI's output,
12597 then the timeout would be ignored. [Roy Fielding] PR#373
12599 *) Work around a bug in Netscape Navigator versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2's
12600 parsing of headers. If the terminating empty-line CRLF occurs starting
12601 at the 256th or 257th byte of output, then Navigator will think a normal
12602 image is invalid. We are guessing that this is because their initial
12603 read of a new request uses a 256 byte buffer. We check the bytes written
12604 so far and, if we are about to tickle the bug, we instead insert a
12605 padding header of eminent bogosity. [Roy Fielding and Dean Gaudet] PR#232
12607 *) Fixed SIGSEGV problem when a DirectoryIndex file is also the source
12608 of an external redirection. [Roy Fielding and Paul Sutton]
12610 *) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
12611 contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
12613 *) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
12614 main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
12615 where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
12618 *) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
12619 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
12621 *) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
12622 [Mitchell Blank Jr]
12624 *) Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.4: Fixes HTTP redirects from within
12625 .htaccess files because the RewriteBase was not replaced correctly.
12626 Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.5: Fixes problem with rewriting inside
12627 <Directory> sections missing a trailing /. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
12629 *) Clean up Linux settings in conf.h by detecting 2.x versus 1.x. For
12630 1.x the settings are those of pre-1.2b8. For 2.x we include
12631 USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD (scoreboard in shared memory rather than file) and
12632 HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H (enable the RLimit commands).
12633 [Dean Gaudet] PR#336, PR#340
12635 *) Redirect did not preserve ?query_strings when present in the client's
12636 request. [Dean Gaudet]
12638 *) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
12640 *) Use /bin/sh5 on ULTRIX. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
12642 *) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
12644 *) Add mod_example (illustration of API techniques). [Ken Coar]
12646 *) Add macro for memmove to conf.h for SUNOS4. [Marc Slemko]
12648 *) Improve handling of directories when filenames have spaces in them.
12651 *) For hosts with multiple IP addresses, try all additional addresses if
12652 necessary to get a connect. Fail only if hostent address list is
12653 exhausted. [Chuck Murcko]
12655 *) More signed/unsigned port fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
12657 *) HARD_SERVER_LIMIT can be defined in the Configuration file now.
12660 Changes with Apache 1.2b8
12662 *) suexec.c doesn't close the log file, allowing CGIs to continue writing
12663 to it. [Marc Slemko]
12665 *) The addition of <Location> and <File> directives made the
12666 sub_req_lookup_simple() function bogus, so we now handle
12667 the special cases directly. [Dean Gaudet]
12669 *) We now try to log where the server is dumping core when a fatal
12670 signal is received. [Ken Coar]
12672 *) Improved lingering_close by adding a special timeout, removing the
12673 spurious log messages, removing the nonblocking settings (they
12674 are not needed with the better timeout), and adding commentary
12675 about the NO_LINGCLOSE and USE_SO_LINGER issues. NO_LINGCLOSE is
12676 now the default for SunOS4, UnixWare, NeXT, and IRIX. [Roy Fielding]
12678 *) Send error messages about setsockopt failures to the server error
12679 log instead of stderr. [Roy Fielding]
12681 *) Fix loopholes in proxy cache expiry vis a vis alarms. [Brian Moore]
12683 *) Stopgap solution for CGI 3-second delay with server-side includes: if
12684 processing a subrequest, allocate memory from r->main->pool instead
12685 of r->pool so that we can avoid waiting for free_proc_chain to cleanup
12686 in the middle of an SSI request. [Dean Gaudet] PR #122
12688 *) Fixed status of response when POST is received for a nonexistent URL
12689 (was sending 405, now 404) and when any method is sent with a
12690 full-URI that doesn't match the server and the server is not acting
12691 as a proxy (was sending 501, now 403). [Roy Fielding]
12693 *) Host port changed to unsigned short. [Ken Coar] PR #276
12695 *) Fix typo in command definition of AuthAuthoritative. [Ken Coar] PR #246
12697 *) Defined USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD for shared memory on Linux. [Dean Gaudet]
12699 *) Report extra info from errno with many errors that cause httpd to exit.
12700 spawn_child, popenf, and pclosef now have valid errno returns in the
12701 event of an error. Correct problems where errno was stomped on
12702 before being reported. [Dean Gaudet]
12704 *) In the proxy, if the cache filesystem was full, garbage_coll() was
12705 never called, and thus the filesystem would remain full indefinitely.
12706 We now also remove incomplete cache files left if the origin server
12707 didn't send a Content-Length header and either the client has aborted
12708 transfer or bwrite() to client has failed. [Petr Lampa]
12710 *) Fixed the handling of module and script-added header fields.
12711 Improved the interface for sending header fields and reduced
12712 the duplication of code between sending okay responses and errors.
12713 We now always send both headers_out and err_headers_out, and
12714 ensure that the server-reserved fields are not being overridden,
12715 while not overriding those that are not reserved. [Roy Fielding]
12717 *) Moved transparent content negotiation fields to err_headers_out
12718 to reflect above changes. [Petr Lampa]
12720 *) Fixed the determination of whether or not we should make the
12721 connection persistent for all of the cases where some other part
12722 of the server has already indicated that we should not. Also
12723 improved the ordering of the test so that chunked encoding will
12724 be set whenever it is desired instead of only when KeepAlive
12725 is enabled. Added persistent connection capability for most error
12726 responses (those that do not indicate a bad input stream) when
12727 accessed by an HTTP/1.1 client. [Roy Fielding]
12729 *) Added missing timeouts for sending header fields, error responses,
12730 and the last chunk of chunked encoding, each of which could have
12731 resulted in a process being stuck in write forever. Using soft_timeout
12732 requires that the sender check for an aborted connection rather than
12733 continuing after an EINTR. Timeouts that used to be initiated before
12734 send_http_header (and never killed) are now initiated only within or
12735 around the routines that actually do the sending, and not allowed to
12736 propagate above the caller. [Roy Fielding]
12738 *) mod_auth_anon required an @ or a . in the email address, not both.
12741 *) per_dir_defaults weren't set correctly until directory_walk for
12742 name-based vhosts. This fixes an obscure bug with the wrong config
12743 info being used for vhosts that share the same ip as the server.
12746 *) Improved generation of modules/Makefile to be more generic for
12747 new module directories. [Ken Coar, Chuck Murcko, Roy Fielding]
12749 *) Generate makefile dependency for Configuration based on the actual
12750 name given when running the Configure process. [Dean Gaudet]
12752 *) Fixed problem with vhost error log not being set prior to
12753 initializing virtual hosts. [Dean Gaudet]
12755 *) Fixed infinite loop when a trailing slash is included after a type map
12756 file URL (extra path info). [Petr Lampa]
12758 *) Fixed server status updating of per-connection counters. [Roy Fielding]
12760 *) Add documentation for DNS issues (reliability and security), and try
12761 to explain the virtual host matching process. [Dean Gaudet]
12763 *) Try to continue gracefully by disabling the vhost if a DNS lookup
12764 fails while parsing the configuration file. [Dean Gaudet]
12766 *) Improved calls to setsockopt. [Roy Fielding]
12768 *) Negotiation changes: Don't output empty content-type in variant list;
12769 Output charset in variant list; Return sooner from handle_multi() if
12770 no variants found; Add handling of '*' wildcard in Accept-Charset.
12771 [Petr Lampa and Paul Sutton]
12773 *) Fixed overlaying of request/sub-request notes and headers in
12774 mod_negotiation. [Dean Gaudet]
12776 *) If two variants' charset quality are equal and one is the default
12777 charset (iso-8859-1), then prefer the variant that was specifically
12778 listed in Accept-Charset instead of the default. [Petr Lampa]
12780 *) Memory allocation problem in push_array() -- it would corrupt memory
12781 when nalloc==0. [Kai Risku <krisku tf.hut.fi> and Roy Fielding]
12783 *) invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments in content-type
12784 [Petr Lampa] PR#160
12786 *) Reduced IdentityCheck timeout to 30 seconds, as per RFC 1413 minimum.
12789 *) Fixed problem with ErrorDocument not working for virtual hosts
12790 due to one of the performance changes in 1.2b7. [Dean Gaudet]
12792 *) Log an error message if we get a request header that is too long,
12793 since it may indicate a buffer overflow attack. [Marc Slemko]
12795 *) Made is_url() allow "[-.+a-zA-Z0-9]+:" as a valid scheme and
12796 not reject URLs without a double-slash, as per RFC2068 section 3.2.
12797 [Ken Coar] PR #146, #187
12799 *) Added table entry placeholder for new header_parser callback
12800 in all of the distributed modules. [Ken Coar] PR #191
12802 *) Allow for cgi files without the .EXE extension on them under OS/2.
12803 [Garey Smiley] PR #59
12805 *) Fixed error message when resource is not found and URL contains
12806 path info. [Petr Lampa and Dean Gaudet] PR #40
12808 *) Fixed user and server confusion over what should be a virtual host
12809 and what is the main server, resulting in access to something
12810 other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but
12811 with the same IP address) failing. [Dean Gaudet]
12813 *) Updated mod_rewrite to version 3.0.2, which: fixes compile error on
12814 AIX; improves the redirection stuff to enable the users to generally
12815 redirect to http, https, gopher and ftp; added TIME variable for
12816 RewriteCond which expands to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS strings and added the
12817 special patterns >STRING, <STRING and =STRING to RewriteCond, which
12818 can be used in conjunction with %{TIME} or other variables to create
12819 time-dependent rewriting rules. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
12821 *) bpushfd() no longer notes cleanups for the file descriptors it is handed.
12822 Module authors may need to adjust their code for proper cleanup to take
12823 place (that is, call note_cleanups_for_fd()). This change fixes problems
12824 with file descriptors being erroneously closed when the proxy module was
12825 in use. [Ben Laurie]
12827 *) Fix bug in suexec reintroduced by changes in 1.2b7 which allows
12828 initgroups() to hose the group information needed for later
12829 comparisons. [Randy Terbush]
12831 *) Remove unnecessary call to va_end() in create_argv() which
12832 caused a SEGV on some systems.
12834 *) Use proper MAXHOSTNAMELEN symbol for limiting length of server name.
12837 *) Clear memory allocated for listeners. [Randy Terbush]
12839 *) Improved handling of IP address as a virtualhost address and
12840 introduced "_default_" as a synonym for the default vhost config.
12841 [Dean Gaudet] PR #212
12843 Changes with Apache 1.2b7
12845 *) Port to UXP/DS(V20) [Toshiaki Nomura <nom yk.fujitsu.co.jp>]
12847 *) unset Content-Length if chunked (RFC-2068) [Petr Lampa]
12849 *) mod_negotiation fixes [Petr Lampa] PR#157, PR#158, PR#159
12850 - replace protocol response numbers with symbols
12851 - save variant-list into main request notes
12852 - free allocated memory from subrequests
12853 - merge notes, headers_out and err_headers_out
12855 *) changed status check mask in proxy_http.c from "HTTP/#.# ### *" to
12856 "HTTP/#.# ###*" to be more lenient about what we accept.
12859 *) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
12860 - Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
12861 - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
12862 - remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
12863 - Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
12864 specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
12865 on each line). These seem to be all NT FTP servers, and while
12866 perhaps questionable, they appear to be legal by RFC 959.
12867 - Add missing kill_timeout() after transfer to user completes.
12870 *) Fixed problem where a busy server could hang when restarting
12871 after being sent a SIGHUP due to child processes not exiting.
12874 *) Modify mod_include escaping so a '\' only signifies an escaped
12875 character if the next character is one that needs
12876 escaping. [Ben Laurie]
12878 *) Eliminated possible infinite loop in mod_imap when relative URLs are
12879 used with a 'base' directive that does not have a '/' in it.
12880 [Marc Slemko, reported by Onno Witvliet <onno tc.hsa.nl>]
12882 *) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
12883 one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
12885 *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
12886 print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
12888 *) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
12889 [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
12891 *) Fixed problem with mod_cgi-generated internal redirects trying to
12892 read the request message-body twice. [Archie Cobbs and Roy Fielding]
12894 *) Reduced timeout on lingering close, removed possibility of a blocked
12895 read causing the child to hang, and stopped logging of errors if
12896 the socket is not connected (reset by client). [Roy Fielding]
12898 *) Rearranged main child loop to remove duplication of code in
12899 select/accept and keep-alive requests, fixed several bugs regarding
12900 checking scoreboard_image for exit indication and failure to
12901 account for all success conditions and trap all error conditions,
12902 prevented multiple flushes before closing the socket; close the entire
12903 socket buffer instead of just one descriptor, prevent logging of
12904 EPROTO and ECONNABORTED on platforms where supported, and generally
12905 improved readability. [Roy Fielding]
12907 *) Extensive performance improvements. Cleaned up inefficient use of
12908 auto initializers, multiple is_matchexp calls on a static string,
12909 and excessive merging of response_code_strings. [Dean Gaudet]
12911 *) Added double-buffering to mod_include to improve performance on
12912 server-side includes. [Marc Slemko]
12914 *) Several fixes for suexec wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
12915 - Make wrapper work for files on NFS filesystem.
12916 - Fix portability problem of MAXPATHLEN.
12917 - Fix array overrun problem in clean_env().
12918 - Fix allocation of PATH environment variable
12920 *) Removed extraneous blank line is description of mod_status chars.
12923 *) Logging of errors from the call_exec routine simply went nowhere,
12924 since the logfile fd has been closed, so now we send them to stderr.
12925 [Harald T. Alvestrand]
12927 *) Fixed core dump when DocumentRoot is a CGI.
12928 [Ben Laurie, reported by <geddis tesserae.com>]
12930 *) Fixed potential file descriptor leak in mod_asis; updated it and
12931 http_core to use pfopen/pfclose instead of fopen/fclose.
12932 [Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
12934 *) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
12935 as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
12936 [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
12938 *) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
12939 due to a missing trailing '/' on a directory instead of a 301; now
12940 it is cacheable. [Markus Gyger]
12942 *) Fix condition where, if a bad directive occurs in .htaccess, and
12943 sub_request() goes first to this directory, then log_reason() will
12944 SIGSEGV because it doesn't have initialized r->per_dir_config.
12945 [PR#162 from Petr Lampa, fix by Marc Slemko and Dean Gaudet]
12947 *) Fix handling of lang_index in is_variant_better(). This was
12948 causing problems which resulted in the server sending the
12949 wrong language document in some cases. [Petr Lampa]
12951 *) Remove free() from clean_env() in suexec wrapper. This was nuking
12952 the clean environment on some systems.
12954 *) Tweak byteserving code (e.g. serving PDF files) to work around
12955 bugs in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
12956 Emit Content-Length header when sending multipart/byteranges.
12959 *) Port to HI-UX/WE2. [Nick Maclaren]
12961 *) Port to HP MPE operating system for HP 3000 machines
12962 [Mark Bixby <markb cccd.edu>]
12964 *) Fixed bug which caused a segmentation fault if only one argument
12965 given to RLimit* directives. [Ed Korthof]
12967 *) Continue persistent connection after 204 or 304 response. [Dean Gaudet]
12969 *) Improved buffered output to the client by delaying the flush decision
12970 until the BUFF code is actually about to read the next request.
12971 This fixes a problem introduced in 1.2b5 with clients that send
12972 an extra CRLF after a POST request. Also improved chunked output
12973 performance by combining writes using writev() and removing as
12974 many bflush() calls as possible. NOTE: Platforms without writev()
12975 must add -DNO_WRITEV to the compiler CFLAGS, either in Configuration
12976 or Configure, unless we have already done so. [Dean Gaudet]
12978 *) Fixed mod_rewrite bug which truncated the rewritten URL [Marc Slemko]
12980 *) Fixed mod_info output corruption bug introduced by buffer overflow
12981 fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
12983 *) Fixed http_protocol to correctly output all HTTP/1.1 headers, including
12984 for the special case of a 304 response. [Paul Sutton]
12986 *) Improved handling of TRACE method by bypassing normal method handling
12987 and header parsing routines; fixed Allow response to always allow TRACE.
12990 *) Fixed compiler warnings in the regex library. [Dean Gaudet]
12992 *) Cleaned-up some of the generated HTML. [Ken Coar]
12994 Changes with Apache 1.2b6
12996 *) Allow whitespace in imagemap mapfile coordinates. [Marc Slemko]
12998 *) Fix typo introduced in fix for potential infinite loop around
12999 accept() in child_main(). This change caused the rev to 1.2b6.
13000 1.2b5 was never a public beta.
13002 Changes with Apache 1.2b5
13004 *) Change KeepAlive semantics (On|Off instead of a number), add
13005 MaxKeepAliveRequests directive. [Alexei Kosut]
13007 *) Various NeXT compilation patches, as well as a change in
13008 regex/regcomp.c since that file also used a NEXT define.
13011 *) Allow * to terminate the end of a directory match in mod_dir.
13012 Allows /~* to match for both /~joe and /~joe/. [David Bronder]
13014 *) Don't call can_exec() if suexec_enabled. Calling this requires
13015 scripts executed by the suexec wrapper to be world executable, which
13016 defeats one of the advantages of running the wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
13018 *) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure* (removed)
13021 *) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
13022 overflows. [Marc Slemko]
13024 *) Provide portable snprintf() implementation (ap_snprintf)
13025 as well as *cvt family. [Jim Jagielski]
13027 *) Portability Fix: NeXT lacks unistd.h so we wrap it's inclusion
13030 *) Remove mod_fastcgi.c from the distribution. This module appears
13031 to be maintained more through the Open Market channels and should
13032 continue to be easily available at http://www.fastcgi.com/
13034 *) Fixed bug in modules/Makefile that wouldn't allow building in more
13035 than one subdirectory (or cleaning, either). [Jeremy Laidman]
13037 *) mod_info assumed that the config files were relative to ServerRoot.
13040 *) CGI scripts called as an error document resulting from failed
13041 CGI execution would hang waiting for POST'ed data. [Rob Hartill]
13043 *) Log reason when mod_dir returns access HTTP_FORBIDDEN
13046 *) Properly check errno to prevent display of a directory index
13047 when server receives a long enough URL to confuse stat().
13050 *) Several security enhancements to suexec wrapper. It is _highly_
13051 recommended that previously installed versions of the wrapper
13052 be replaced with this version. [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
13054 - ~user execution now properly restricted to ~user's home
13055 directory and below.
13056 - execution restricted to UID/GID > 100
13057 - restrict passed environment to known variables
13058 - call setgid() before initgroups() (portability fix)
13059 - remove use of setenv() (portability fix)
13061 *) Add HTTP/1.0 response forcing. [Ben Laurie]
13063 *) Add access control via environment variables. [Ben Laurie]
13065 *) Add rflush() function. [Alexei Kosut]
13067 *) remove duplicate pcalloc() call in new_connection().
13069 *) Fix incorrect comparison which could allow number of children =
13070 MaxClients + 1 if less than HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Also fix potential
13071 problem if StartServers > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. [Ed Korthof]
13073 *) Updated support for OSes (MachTen, ULTRIX, Paragon, ISC, OpenBSD
13074 AIX PS/2, CONVEXOS. [Jim Jagielski]
13076 *) Replace instances of inet_ntoa() with inet_addr() for ProxyBlock.
13077 It's more portable. [Martin Kraemer]
13079 *) Replace references to make in Makefile.tmpl with $(MAKE).
13082 *) Add ProxyBlock directive w/IP address caching. Add IP address
13083 caching to NoCache directive as well. ProxyBlock works with all
13084 handlers; NoCache now also works with FTP for anonymous logins.
13085 Still more code cleanup. [Chuck Murcko]
13087 *) Add "header parse" API hook [Ben Laurie]
13089 *) Fix byte ordering problems for REMOTE_PORT [Chuck Murcko]
13091 *) suEXEC wrapper was freeing memory that had not been malloc'ed.
13093 *) Correctly allow access and auth directives in <Files> sections in
13094 server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
13096 *) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
13097 found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
13099 *) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
13100 double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
13101 status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
13103 *) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
13104 interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
13105 that has already been aborted or never really existed, to ensure that
13106 we stop lingering as soon as any error condition is received, and to
13107 prevent being stuck indefinitely if the read blocks. Also improves
13108 reporting of error conditions. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
13110 *) Fixed initialization of parameter structure for sigaction.
13111 [<mgyger itr.ch>, Adrian Filipi-Martin]
13113 *) Fixed reinitializing the parameters before each call to accept and
13114 select, and removed potential for infinite loop in accept.
13115 [Roy Fielding, after useful PR from <adrian virginia.edu>]
13117 *) Fixed condition where, if a child fails to fork, the scoreboard would
13118 continue to say SERVER_STARTING forever. Eventually, the main process
13119 would refuse to start new children because count_idle_servers() will
13120 count those SERVER_STARTING entries and will always report that there
13121 are enough idle servers. [Phillip Vandry]
13123 *) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
13124 Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
13125 Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
13127 *) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
13129 Changes with Apache 1.2b4
13131 *) Fix possible race condition in accept_mutex_init() that
13132 could leave a small security hole open allowing files to be
13133 overwritten in cases where the server UID has write permissions.
13136 *) Fix awk compatibilty problem in Configure. [Jim Jagielski]
13138 *) Fix portablity problem in util_script where ARG_MAX may not be
13139 defined for some systems.
13141 *) Add changes to allow compilation on Machten 4.0.3 for PowerPC.
13144 *) OS/2 changes to support an MMAP style scoreboard file and UNIX
13145 style magic #! token for better script portability. [Garey Smiley]
13147 *) Fix bug in suexec wrapper introduced in b3 that would cause failed
13148 execution for ~userdir CGI. [Jason Dour]
13150 *) Fix initgroups() business in suexec wrapper. [Jason Dour]
13152 *) Fix month off by one in suexec wrapper logging.
13154 Changes with Apache 1.2b3:
13156 *) Fix error in mod_cgi which could cause resources not to be properly
13157 freed, or worse. [Dean Gaudet]
13159 *) Fix find_string() NULL pointer dereference. [Howard Fear]
13161 *) Add set_flag_slot() at the request of Dirk and others.
13164 *) Sync mod_rewrite with patch level 10. [Ralf Engelschall]
13166 *) Add changes to improve the error message given for invalid
13167 ServerName parameters. [Dirk vanGulik]
13169 *) Add "Authoritative" directive for Auth modules that don't
13170 currently have it. This gives admin control to assign authoritative
13171 control to an authentication scheme and allow "fall through" for
13172 those authentication modules that aren't "Authoritative" thereby
13173 allowing multiple authentication mechanisms to be chained.
13176 *) Remove requirement for ResourceConfig/AccessConfig if not using
13177 the three config file layout. [Randy Terbush]
13179 *) Add PASV mode to mod_proxy FTP handler. [Chuck Murcko]
13181 *) Changes to suexec wrapper to fix the following problems:
13182 1. symlinked homedirs will kill ~userdirs.
13183 2. initgroups() on Linux 2.0.x clobbers gr->grid.
13184 3. CGI command lines paramters problems
13185 4. pw-pwdir for "docroot check" still the httpd user's pw record.
13186 [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
13188 *) Change create_argv() to accept variable arguments. This fixes
13189 a problem where arguments were not getting passed to the CGI via
13190 argv[] when the suexec wrapper was active. [Randy Terbush, Jake Buchholz]
13192 *) Collapse multiple slashes in path URLs to properly apply
13193 handlers defined by <Location>. [Alexei Kosut]
13195 *) Define a sane set of DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_GROUP values for AIX.
13197 *) Improve the accuracy of request duration timings by setting
13198 r->request_time in read_request_line() instead of read_request().
13201 *) Reset timeout while reading via get_client_block() in mod_cgi.c
13202 Fixes problem with timed out transfers of large files. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
13204 *) Add the ability to pass different Makefile.tmpl files to Configure
13205 using the -make flag. [Rob Hartill]
13207 *) Fix coredump triggered when sending a SIGHUP to the server caused
13208 by an assertion failure, in turn caused by an uninitialised field in a
13212 *) Add FILEPATH_INFO variable to CGI environment, which is equal to
13213 PATH_INFO from previous versions of Apache (in certain situations,
13214 Apache 1.2's PATH_INFO will be different than 1.1's). [Alexei Kosut]
13215 [later removed in 1.2b11]
13217 *) Add rwrite() function to API to allow for sending strings of
13218 arbitrary length. [Doug MacEachern]
13220 *) Remove rlim_t typedef for NetBSD. Do older versions need this?
13222 *) Defined rlim_t and WANTHSREGEX=yes and fixed waitpid() substitute for
13223 NeXT. [Jim Jagielski]
13225 *) Removed recent modification to promote the status code on internal
13226 redirects, since the correct fix was to change the default log format
13227 in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
13229 Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
13231 *) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
13232 This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
13233 bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
13235 *) Changes to allow mod_status compile for OS/2 [Garey Smiley]
13237 *) changes for DEC AXP running OSF/1 v3.0. [Marc Evans]
13239 *) proxy_http.c bugfixes: [Chuck Murcko]
13240 1) fixes possible NULL pointer reference w/NoCache
13241 2) fixes NoCache behavior when using ProxyRemote (ProxyRemote
13242 host would cache nothing if it was in the local domain,
13243 and the local domain was in the NoCache list)
13244 3) Adds Host: header when not available
13245 4) Some code cleanup and clarification
13247 *) mod_include.c bugfixes:
13248 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
13249 be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
13250 2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
13251 3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [<perrot lal.in2p3.fr>]
13252 4) Allow backslash-escaping to all quoted text
13253 [Ben Yoshino <ben wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>]
13254 5) Pass variable to command line if not set in XSSI's env
13257 *) Fix infinite loop when processing Content-language lines in
13258 type-map files. [Alexei Kosut]
13260 *) Closed file-globbing hole in test-cgi script. [Brian Behlendorf]
13262 *) Fixed problem in set_[user|group] that prevented CGI execution
13263 for non-virtualhosts when suEXEC was enabled. [Randy Terbush]
13265 *) Added PORTING information file. [Jim Jagielski]
13267 *) Added definitions for S_IWGRP and S_IWOTH to conf.h [Ben Laurie]
13269 *) Changed default group to "nogroup" instead of "nobody" [Randy Terbush]
13271 *) Fixed define typo of FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT where
13272 USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT was intended.
13274 *) Fixed additional uses of 0xffffffff where INADDR_NONE was intended,
13275 which caused problems of systems where socket s_addr is >32bits.
13277 *) Added comment to explain (r->chunked = 1) side-effect in
13278 http_protocol.c [Roy Fielding]
13280 *) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
13281 and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
13283 *) Updated Configure for ...
13284 OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
13285 *-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
13286 QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
13287 *-sunos4* (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, -DUSEBCOPY)
13289 *-unixware211 (new)
13290 and added some user diagnostic info. [Ben Laurie]
13292 *) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
13293 for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
13295 *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
13296 SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
13297 SCO UnixWare (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
13298 SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
13299 IRIX64 (-sgi-irix64)
13300 ULTRIX (-unknown-ultrix)
13301 SINIX (-whatever-sysv4)
13302 NCR Unix (-ncr-sysv4)
13303 and fixed something in helpers/PrintPath [Ben Laurie]
13305 Changes with Apache 1.2b1
13307 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_2.html>
13309 Changes with Apache 1.1.1
13311 *) Fixed bug where Cookie module would make two entries in the
13312 logfile for each access [Mark Cox]
13314 *) Fixed bug where Redirect in .htaccess files would cause memory
13315 leak. [Nathan Neulinger]
13317 *) MultiViews now works correctly with AddHandler [Alexei Kosut]
13319 *) Problems with mod_auth_msql fixed [Dirk vanGulik]
13321 *) Fix misspelling of "Anonymous_Authorative" directive in mod_auth_anon.
13323 Changes with Apache 1.1.0
13325 *) Bring NeXT support up to date. [Takaaki Matsumoto]
13327 *) Bring QNX support up to date. [Ben Laurie]
13329 *) Make virtual hosts default to main server keepalive parameters.
13330 [Alexei Kosut, Ben Laurie]
13332 *) Allow ScanHTMLTitles to work with lowercase <title> tags. [Alexei Kosut]
13334 *) Fix missing address family for connect, also remove unreachable statement
13335 in mod_proxy. [Ben Laurie]
13337 *) mod_env now turned on by default in Configuration.tmpl.
13339 *) Bugs which were fixed:
13340 a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
13341 b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
13342 c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [<osm interguide.com>]
13343 d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [<jk tools.de>]
13345 Changes with Apache 1.1b4
13347 *) r->bytes_sent variable restored. [Robert Thau]
13349 *) Previously broken multi-method <Limit> parsing fixed. [Robert Thau]
13351 *) More possibly unsecure programs removed from the support directory.
13353 *) More mod_auth_msql authentication improvements.
13355 *) VirtualHosts based on Host: headers no longer conflict with the
13358 *) OS/2 compatibility enhancements. [Gary Smiley]
13360 *) POST now allowed to directory index CGI scripts.
13362 *) Actions now work with files of the default type.
13364 *) Bugs which were fixed:
13365 a) more mod_proxy bugs
13366 b) early termination of inetd requests
13367 c) compile warnings on several systems
13368 d) problems when scripts stop reading output early
13370 Changes with Apache 1.1b3
13372 *) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
13373 various security holes found and that we could no longer support
13376 *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
13377 instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
13378 Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
13380 *) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
13383 *) CONNECT method for proxy module, which means tunneling SSL should work.
13384 (No crypto needed) Also a NoCache config directive.
13386 *) Several API additions: pstrndup(), table_unset() and get_token()
13387 functions now available to modules.
13389 *) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
13392 *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
13393 special URL, a la mod_status.
13395 *) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
13396 for Host:-header-based virtual hosts.
13398 *) Anonymous authentication module improvements.
13400 *) MSQL authentication module improvements.
13402 *) Status module design improved - output now table-based. [Ben Laurie]
13404 *) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
13407 *) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
13408 less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
13409 value. [Alexei Kosut]
13411 *) Bugs which were fixed:
13412 a) numerous mod_proxy bugs
13413 b) CGI early-termination bug [Ben Laurie]
13414 c) Keepalives not working with virtual hosts
13415 d) RefererIgnore problems
13416 e) closing fd's twice in mod_include (causing core dumps on
13417 Linux and elsewhere).
13419 Changes with Apache 1.1b2
13422 a) core dumps in mod_digest
13423 b) truncated hostnames/ip address in the logs
13424 c) relative URL's in mod_imap map files
13426 Changes with Apache 1.1b1
13428 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_1.html>
13430 Changes with Apache 1.0.3
13432 *) Internal redirects which occur in mod_dir.c now preserve the
13433 query portion of a request (the bit after the question mark).
13436 *) Escape active characters '<', '>' and '&' in html output in
13437 directory listings, error messages and redirection links.
13440 *) Apache will now work with LynxOS 2.3 and later [Steven Watt]
13442 *) Fix for POSIX compliance in waiting for processes in alloc.c.
13445 *) setsockopt no longer takes a const declared argument [Martijn Koster]
13447 *) Reset timeout timer after each successful fwrite() to the network.
13448 This patch adds a reset_timeout() procedure that is called by
13449 send_fd() to reset the timeout ever time data is written to the net.
13452 *) timeout() signal handler now checks for SIGPIPE and reports
13453 lost connections in a more user friendly way. [Rob Hartill]
13455 *) Location of the "scoreboard" file which used to live in /tmp is
13456 now configurable (for OSes that can't use mmap) via ScoreBoardFile
13457 which works similar to PidFile (in httpd.conf) [Rob Hartill]
13459 *) Include sys/resource.h in the correct place for SunOS4 [Sameer Parekh]
13461 *) the pstrcat call in mod_cookies.c didn't have an ending NULL,
13462 which caused a SEGV with cookies enabled
13464 *) Output warning when MinSpareServers is set to <= 0 and change it to 1
13467 *) Log the UNIX textual error returned by some system calls, in
13468 particular errors from accept() [David Robinson]
13470 *) Add strerror function to util.c for SunOS4 [Randy Terbush]
13472 Changes with Apache 1.0.2
13474 *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
13475 a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
13477 *) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
13480 *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
13481 setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
13482 broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
13483 for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
13485 *) Remove uses of MAX_STRING_LEN/HUGE_STRING_LEN from several routines.
13488 *) Fix use of pointer to scratch memory. [Cliff Skolnick]
13490 *) Merge multiple headers from CGI scripts instead of taking last
13491 one. [David Robinson]
13493 *) Add support for SCO 5. [Ben Laurie]
13495 Changes with Apache 1.0.1
13497 *) Silence mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent if not configured
13500 *) Recursive includes can occur if the client supplies PATH_INFO data
13501 and the server provider uses relative links; as file.html
13502 relative to /doc.shtml/pathinfo is /doc.shtml/file.html. [David Robinson]
13504 *) The replacement for initgroups() did not call {set,end}grent(). This
13505 had two implications: if anything else used getgrent(), then
13506 initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
13509 *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
13510 out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
13511 The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
13512 be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
13513 system failure. [Ben Laurie]
13515 *) Fix typo in license. [David Robinson]
13517 Changes with Apache 1.0.0 23 Nov 1995
13519 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_0.html>
13521 Changes with Apache 0.8.16 05 Nov 1995
13523 *) New man page for 'httpd' added to support directory [David Robinson]
13525 *) .htgroup files can have more than one line giving members for a
13526 given group (each must have the group name in front), for NCSA
13527 back-compatibility [Robert Thau]
13529 *) Mutual exclusion around accept() is on by default for SVR4 systems
13530 generally, since they generally can't handle multiple processes in
13531 accept() on the same socket. This should cure flaky behavior on
13532 a lot of those systems. [David Robinson]
13534 *) AddType, AddEncoding, and AddLanguage directives take multiple
13535 extensions on a single command line [David Robinson]
13537 *) UserDir can be disabled for a given virtual host by saying
13538 "UserDir disabled" in the <VirtualHost> section --- it was a bug
13539 that this didn't work. [David Robinson]
13541 *) Compiles on QNX [Ben Laurie]
13543 *) Corrected parsing of ctime time format [David Robinson]
13545 *) httpd does a perror() before exiting if it can't log its pid
13546 to the PidFile, to make diagnosing the error a bit easier.
13549 *) <!--#include file="..."--> can no longer include files in the
13550 parent directory, for NCSA back-compatibility. [David Robinson]
13552 *) '~' is *not* escaped in URIs generated for directory listings
13555 *) Eliminated compiler warning in the imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
13557 *) Fixed bug involving handling URIs with escaped %-characters
13558 in redirects [David Robinson]
13560 Changes with Apache 0.8.15 14 Oct 1995
13562 *) Switched to new, simpler license
13564 *) Eliminated core dumps with improperly formatted DBM group files [Mark Cox]
13566 *) Don't allow requests for ordinary files to have PATH_INFO [Ben Laurie]
13568 *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson]
13570 *) Correctly handles internal redirects to files with names containing '%'
13573 *) Repunctuated some error messages [Aram Mirzadeh, Andrew Wilson]
13575 *) Use geteuid() rather than getuid() to see if we have root privilege,
13576 so that server correctly resets privilege if run setuid root. [Andrew
13579 *) Handle ftp: and telnet: URLs correctly in imagemaps (built-in module)
13582 *) Fix relative URLs in imagemap files [Randy Terbush]
13584 *) Somewhat better fix for the old "Alias /foo/ /bar/" business
13587 *) Don't repeatedly open the ErrorLog if a bunch of <VirtualHost>
13588 entries all name the same one. [David Robinson]
13590 *) Fix directory listings with filenames containing unusual characters
13593 *) Better URI-escaping for generated URIs in directories with filenames
13594 containing unusual characters [Ben Laurie]
13596 *) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
13598 *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
13600 *) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
13602 *) Configuration has note for HP-UX users [Rob Hartill]
13604 *) Eliminated some bogus Linux-only #defines in conf.h [Aram Mirzadeh]
13606 *) Nuked bogus #define in httpd.h [David Robinson]
13608 *) Better test for whether a system has setrlimit() [David Robinson]
13610 *) Calls update_child_status() after reopen_scoreboard() [David Robinson]
13612 *) Doesn't send itself SIGHUP on startup when run in the -X debug-only mode
13615 Changes with Apache 0.8.14 19 Sep 1995
13617 *) Compiles on SCO ODT 3.0 [Ben Laurie]
13619 *) AddDescription works (better) [Ben Laurie]
13621 *) Leaves an intelligible error diagnostic when it can't set group
13622 privileges on standalone startup [Andrew Wilson]
13624 *) Compiles on NeXT again --- the 0.8.13 RLIMIT patch was failing on
13625 that machine, which claims to be BSD but does not support RLIMIT.
13628 *) gcc -Wall no longer complains about an unused variable when util.c
13629 is compiled with -DMINIMAL_DNS [Andrew Wilson]
13631 *) Nuked another compiler warning for -Wall on Linux [Aram Mirzadeh]
13633 Changes with Apache 0.8.13 07 Sep 1995
13635 *) Make IndexIgnore *work* (ooops) [Jarkko Torppa]
13637 *) Have built-in imagemap code recognize & honor Point directive [James
13640 *) Generate cleaner directory listings in directories with a mix of
13641 long and short filenames [Rob Hartill]
13643 *) Properly initialize dynamically loaded modules [Royston Shufflebotham]
13645 *) Properly default ServerName for virtual servers [Robert Thau]
13647 *) Rationalize handling of BSD in conf.h and elsewhere [Randy Terbush,
13648 Paul Richards and a cast of thousands...]
13650 *) On self-identified BSD systems (we don't try to guess any more),
13651 allocate a few extra file descriptors per virtual host with setrlimit,
13652 if we can, to avoid running out. [Randy Terbush]
13654 *) Write 22-character lock file name into buffer with enough space
13655 on startup [Konstantin Olchanski]
13657 *) Use archaic setpgrp() interface on NeXT, which requires it [Brian
13660 *) Suppress -Wall warning by casting const away in util.c [Aram Mirzadeh]
13662 *) Suppress -Wall warning by initializing variable in negotiation code
13663 [Tobias Weingartner]
13665 Changes with Apache 0.8.12 31 Aug 1995
13667 *) Doesn't pause three seconds after including a CGI script which is
13668 too slow to die off (this is done by not even trying to kill off
13669 subprocesses, including the SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine, until
13670 after the entire document has been processed). [Robert Thau]
13672 *) Doesn't do SSI if Options Includes is off. (Ooops). [David Robinson]
13674 *) Options IncludesNoExec allows inclusion of at least text/* [Roy Fielding]
13676 *) Allows .htaccess files to override <Directory> sections naming the
13677 same directory [David Robinson]
13679 *) Removed an efficiency hack in sub_req_lookup_uri which was
13680 causing certain extremely marginal cases (e.g., ScriptAlias of a
13681 *particular* index.html file) to fail. [David Robinson]
13683 *) Doesn't log an error when the requested URI requires
13684 authentication, but no auth header line was supplied by the
13685 client; this is a normal condition (the client doesn't no auth is
13686 needed here yet). [Robert Thau]
13688 *) Behaves more sanely when the name server loses its mind [Sean Welch]
13690 *) RFC931 code compiles cleanly on old BSDI releases [Randy Terbush]
13692 *) RFC931 code no longer passes out name of prior clients on current
13693 requests if the current request came from a server that doesn't
13694 do RFC931. [David Robinson]
13696 *) Configuration script accepts "Module" lines with trailing whitespace.
13699 *) Cleaned up compiler warning from mod_access.c [Robert Thau]
13701 *) Cleaned up comments in mod_cgi.c [Robert Thau]
13703 Changes with Apache 0.8.11 24 Aug 1995
13705 *) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
13707 *) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
13709 *) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always check
13710 the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
13711 up to it. [Robert Thau]
13713 *) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
13714 in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
13716 *) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
13717 "/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
13719 *) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
13720 other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
13722 *) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
13723 [Florent Guillaume]
13725 *) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
13726 --- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
13727 (using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
13728 icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
13731 *) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
13734 *) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
13737 *) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
13740 *) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
13741 mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
13742 adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
13743 to discover whether the Alias module has put this request through
13744 ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
13745 NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
13748 Changes with Apache 0.8.10 18 Aug 1995
13750 *) AllowOverride applies to the named directory, and not just
13751 subdirectories. [David Robinson]
13753 *) Do locking for accept() exclusion (on systems that need it)
13754 using a special file created for the purpose in /usr/tmp, and
13755 not the error log; using the error log causes real problems
13756 if it's NFS-mounted; this is known to be the cause of a whole
13757 lot of "server hang" problems with Solaris. [David Robinson;
13758 thanks to Merten Schumann for help diagnosing the problem].
13760 Changes with Apache 0.8.9 12 Aug 1995
13762 *) Compiles with -DMAXIMUM_DNS ---- ooops! [Henrik Mortensen]
13764 *) Nested includes see environment variables of the including document,
13765 for NCSA bug-compatibility (some sites have standard footer includes
13766 which try to print out the last-modified date). [Eric Hagberg/Robert
13769 *) <!--exec cgi="/some/uri/here"--> always treats the item named by the
13770 URI as a CGI script, even if it would have been treated as something
13771 else if requested directly, for NCSA back-compatibility. (Note that
13772 this means that people who know the name of the script can see the
13773 code just by asking for it). [Robert Thau]
13775 *) New version of dbmmanage script included in support directory as
13778 *) Check if scoreboard file couldn't be opened, and say so, rather
13779 then going insane [David Robinson]
13781 *) POST to CGI works on A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
13783 *) AddIcon and AddAlt commands work properly [Rob Hartill]
13785 *) NCSA server push works properly --- the Arena bug compatibility
13786 workaround, which broke it, is gone (use -DARENA_BUG_WORKAROUND
13787 if you still want the workaround). [Rob Hartill]
13789 *) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
13790 content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
13791 for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
13793 *) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jagielski]
13795 *) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
13797 *) Give Redirect priority over Alias, for NCSA bug compatibility
13800 *) Correctly set PATH_TRANSLATED in all cases from <!--#exec cmd=""-->,
13801 paralleling earlier bug fix for CGI [David Robinson]
13803 *) If DBM auth is improperly configured, report a server error and don't
13806 *) Deleted FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPTS from conf.h entry for A/UX;
13807 it seems to work well enough without it (even in a 10 hits/sec
13808 workout), and the overhead for the locking under A/UX is
13809 alarmingly high (though it is very low on other systems).
13810 [Eric Hagberg, Jim Jagielski]
13812 *) Fixed portability problems with mod_cookies.c [Cliff Skolnick]
13814 *) Further de-Berklize mod_cookies.c; change the bogus #include. [Brian
13815 Behlendorf/Eric Hagberg]
13817 *) More improvements to default Configuration for A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
13819 *) Compiles clean on NEXT [Rob Hartill]
13821 *) Compiles clean on SGI [Robert Thau]
13823 Changes with Apache 0.8.8 08 Aug 1995
13825 *) SunOS library prototypes now never included unless explicitly
13826 requested in the configuration (via -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES);
13827 people using GNU libc on SunOS are screwed by prototypes for the
13830 (Those who wish to compile clean with gcc -Wall on a standard
13831 SunOS setup need the prototypes, and may obtain them using
13832 -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES. Those wishing to use -Wall on a system
13833 with nonstandard libraries are presumably competent to make their
13836 *) Strips trailing '/' characters off both args to the Alias command,
13837 to make 'Alias /foo/ /bar/' work.
13839 Changes with Apache 0.8.7 03 Aug 1995
13841 *) Don't hang when restarting with a child from 'TransferLog "|..."' running
13842 [reported by David Robinson]
13844 *) Compiles clean on OSF/1 [David Robinson]
13846 *) Added some of the more recent significant changes (AddLanguage stuff,
13847 experimental LogFormat support) to CHANGES file in distribution root
13850 Changes with Apache 0.8.6 02 Aug 1995
13852 *) Deleted Netscape reload workaround --- it's in violation of HTTP specs.
13853 (If you actually wanted a conditional GET which bypassed the cache, you
13854 couldn't get it). [Reported by Roy Fielding]
13856 *) Properly terminate headers on '304 Not Modified' replies to conditional
13857 GETs --- no browser we can find cares much, but the CERN proxy chokes.
13858 [Reported by Cliff Skolnick; fix discovered independently by Rob Hartill]
13860 *) httpd -v doesn't call itself "Shambhala". [Reported by Chuck Murcko]
13862 *) SunOS lib-function prototypes in conf.h conditionalized on __GNUC__,
13863 not __SUNPRO_C (they're needed to quiet gcc -Wall, but acc chokes on 'em,
13864 and older versions don't set the __SUNPRO_C preprocessor variable). On
13865 all other systems, these are never used anyway. [Reported by Mark Cox].
13867 *) Scoreboard file (/tmp/htstatus.*) no longer publically writable.
13869 Changes with Apache 0.8.5 01 Aug 1995
13871 *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module
13873 *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
13874 properly. (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).
13876 *) Work around bogus behavior when reloading from Netscape.
13877 It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
13878 If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
13879 comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
13880 spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
13882 *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
13884 *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric Hagberg,
13887 *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].
13889 *) Corrected cgi-src/Makefile entry for new imagemap script. [Alexei Kosut]
13891 *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
13892 *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
13893 fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]
13895 *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
13896 legal disclaimer (everyplace).
13898 *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
13899 of everywhere else.
13901 Changes with Apache 0.8.4
13903 *) Changes to server-pool management parms --- renamed current
13904 StartServers to MinSpareServers, created separate StartServers
13905 parameter which means what it says, and renamed MaxServers to
13906 MaxSpareServers (though the old name still works, for NCSA 1.4
13907 back-compatibility). The old names were generally regarded as
13908 too confusing. Also altered "docs" in sample config files.
13910 *) More improvements to default config files ---
13911 sample directives (commented out) for XBitHack, BindAddress,
13912 CacheNegotiatedDocs, VirtualHost; decent set of AddLanguage
13913 defaults, AddTypes for send-as-is and imagemap magic types, and
13914 improvements to samples for DirectoryIndex [Alexei Kosut]
13916 *) Yet more improvements to default config files --- changes to
13917 Alexei's sample AddLanguage directives, and sample LanguagePriority
13918 [ Florent Guillaume ]
13920 *) Set config file locations properly if not set in httpd.conf
13923 *) Don't escape URIs in internal redirects multiple times; don't
13924 do that when translating PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED either.
13927 *) Corrected spelling of "Required" in 401 error reports [Andrew Wilson]
13929 Changes with Apache 0.8.3
13931 *) Edited distribution README to *briefly* summarize installation
13932 procedures, and give a pointer to the INSTALL file in the src/
13935 *) Upgraded imagemap script in cgi-bin to 1.8 version from more
13936 recent NCSA distributions.
13938 *) Bug fix to previous bug fix --- if .htaccess file and <Directory>
13939 exist for the same directory, use both and don't segfault. [Reported
13942 *) Proper makefile dependencies [David Robinson]
13944 *) Note (re)starts in error log --- reported by Rob Hartill.
13946 *) Only call no2slash() after get_path_info() has been done, to
13947 preserve multiple slashes in the PATH_INFO [NCSA compatibility,
13948 reported by Andrew Wilson, though this one is probably a real bug]
13950 *) Fixed mod_imap.c --- relative paths with base_uri referer don't
13951 dump core when Referer is not supplied. [Randy Terbush]
13953 *) Lightly edited sample config files to refer people to our documentation
13954 instead of NCSA's, and to list Rob McCool as *original* author (also
13955 deleted his old, and no doubt non-functional email address). Would be
13956 nice to have examples of new features...
13958 Changes with Apache 0.8.2 19 Jul 1995
13960 *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
13962 *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark Cox]
13964 *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
13965 be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
13966 just punt. [reported by Brian Behlendorf]
13968 *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
13969 is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
13971 *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
13973 *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
13976 *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
13977 module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
13978 an experiment, along with mod_dld). [Mark Cox]
13980 *) Compiles on ULTRIX (a continuing battle...). [Robert Thau]
13982 *) Fixed nasty bug in SIGTERM handling [reported by Randy Terbush]
13984 *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs. [Robert Thau]
13986 *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer. [Robert Thau; copied from BSD
13989 Changes with Apache 0.8.1
13991 *) New imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
13993 *) Replacement referer log module with NCSA-compatible RefererIgnore
13994 [Matthew Gray again]
13996 *) Don't mung directory listings with very long filenames.
13997 [Florent Guillaume]
13999 Changes with Apache 0.8.0 (nee Shambhala 0.6.2) 16 Jul 1995
14001 *) New config script. See INSTALL for info. [Robert Thau]
14003 *) Scoreboard mechanism for regulating the number of extant server
14004 processes. MaxServers and StartServers defaults are the same as
14005 for NCSA, but the meanings are slightly different. (Actually,
14006 I should probably lower the MaxServers default to 10).
14008 Before asking for a new connection, each server process checks
14009 the number of other servers which are also waiting for a
14010 connection. If there are more than MaxServers, it quietly dies
14011 off. Conversely, every second, the root, or caretaker, process
14012 looks to see how many servers are waiting for a new connection;
14013 if there are fewer than StartServers, it starts a new one. This
14014 does not depend on the number of server processes already extant.
14015 The accounting is arranged through a "scoreboard" file, named
14016 /tmp/htstatus.*, on which each process has an independent file
14017 descriptor (they need to seek without interference).
14019 The end effect is that MaxServers is the maximum number of
14020 servers on an *inactive* server machine, but more will be forked
14021 off to handle unusually heavy loads (or unusually slow clients);
14022 these will die off when they are no longer needed --- without
14023 reverting to the overhead of full forking operation. There is a
14024 hard maximum of 150 server processes compiled in, largely to
14025 avoid forking out of control and dragging the machine down.
14026 (This is arguably too high).
14028 In my server endurance tests, this mechanism did not appear to
14029 impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
14030 scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
14031 overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
14033 *) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
14036 *) Read .htaccess files even in directory with <Directory> section.
14037 (Former incompatibility noted on mailing list, now fixed). [Robert
14040 *) "HEAD /" gives the client a "Bad Request" error message, rather
14041 than trying to send no body *and* no headers. [Cliff Skolnick].
14043 *) Don't produce double error reports for some very obscure cases
14044 mainly involving auth configuration (the "all modules decline to
14045 handle" case which is a sure sign of a server bug in most cases,
14046 but also happens when authentication is badly misconfigured).
14049 *) Moved FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT defines into conf.h (that's what
14050 it's *for*, and this sort of thing really shouldn't be cluttering
14051 up the Makefile). [Robert Thau]
14053 *) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
14054 sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
14056 *) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
14057 in some places...). [Mark Cox]
14059 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.1 13 Jul 1995
14061 *) Fixed auth_name-related typos in http_core.c [Brian Behlendorf]
14062 Also, fixed auth typo in http_protocol.c unmasked by this fix.
14064 *) Compiles clean with acc on SunOS [Paul Sutton]
14066 *) Reordered modules in modules.c so that Redirect takes priority
14067 over ScriptAlias, for NCSA bug-compatibility [Rob Hartill] ---
14068 believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
14069 a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
14070 compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
14071 required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
14073 *) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
14074 servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
14075 [Cliff Skolnick --- 'port' was a particular irritant].
14077 *) No longer kills off nph- child processes before they are
14078 finished sending output. [Matthew Gray]
14080 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.0 10 Jul 1995
14082 *) Two styles of timeout --- hard and soft. soft_timeout()s just put
14083 the connection to the client in an "aborted" state, but otherwise
14084 allow whatever handlers are running to clean up. hard_timeout()s
14085 abort the request in progress completely; anything not tied to some
14086 resource pool cleanup will leak. They're still around because I
14087 haven't yet come up with a more elegant way of handling
14088 timeouts when talking to something that isn't the client. The
14089 default_handler and the dir_handler now use soft timeouts, largely
14090 so I can test the feature. [Robert Thau]
14092 *) TransferLog "| my_postprocessor ..." seems to be there. Note that
14093 the case of log handlers dying prematurely is probably handled VERY
14094 gracelessly at this point, and if the logger stops reading input,
14095 the server will hang. (It is known to correctly restart the
14096 logging process on server restart; this is (should be!) going through
14097 the same SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine used to ding an errant CGI
14098 script). [Robert Thau]
14100 *) asis files supported (new module). [Robert Thau]
14102 *) IdentityCheck code is compiled in, but has not been tested. (I
14103 don't know anyone who runs identd). [Robert Thau]
14105 *) PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not set unless some real PATH_INFO
14106 came in with the request, for NCSA bug-compatibility. [Robert Thau]
14108 *) Don't leak the DIR * on HEAD request for a directory. [Robert Thau]
14110 *) Deleted the block_alarms() stuff from dbm_auth; no longer necessary,
14111 as timeouts are not in scope. [Robert Thau]
14113 *) quoted-string args in config files now handled correctly (doesn't drop
14114 the last character). [Robert Thau; reported by Randy Terbush]
14116 *) Fixed silly typo in http_main.c which was suddenly fatal in HP-UX.
14117 How the hell did it ever work? [Robert Thau; reported by Rob Hartill]
14119 *) mod_core.c --- default_type returns DEFAULT_TYPE (the compile-time
14120 default default type); the former default default behavior when all
14121 type-checkers defaulted had been a core dump. [Paul Sutton]
14123 *) Copy filenames out of the struct dirent when indexing
14124 directories. (On Linux, readdir() returns a pointer to the same
14125 memory area every time). Fix is in mod_dir.c. [Paul Sutton]
14127 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.3 [not released]
14129 *) Default response handler notes "file not found" in the error log,
14130 if the file was not found. [Cliff Skolnick].
14132 *) Another Cliff bug --- "GET /~user" now properly redirects (the userdir
14133 code no longer sets up bogus PATH_INFO which fakes out the directory
14134 handler). [Cliff Skolnick]
14136 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.2 06 Jul 1995
14138 *) Changes to http_main.c --- root server no longer plays silly
14139 games with SIGCHLD, and so now detects and replaces dying
14140 children. Child processes just die on SIGTERM, without taking
14141 the whole process group with them. Potential problem --- if any
14142 child process refuses to die, we hang in restart.
14143 MaxRequestsPerChild may still not work, but it certainly works
14144 better than it did before this! [Robert Thau]
14146 *) mod_dir.c bug fixes: ReadmeName and HeaderName
14147 work (or work better, at least); over-long description lines
14148 properly terminated. [Mark Cox]
14150 *) http_request.c now calls unescape_url() more places where it
14151 should [Paul Sutton].
14153 *) More directory handling bugs (reported by Cox)
14154 Parent Directory link is now set correctly. [Robert Thau]
14156 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.1 04 Jul 1995
14158 *) Generalized cleanup interface in alloc.c --- any function can be
14159 registered with alloc.c as a cleanup for a resource pool;
14160 tracking of files and file descriptors has been reimplemented in
14161 terms of this interface, so I can give it some sort of a test.
14164 *) More changes in alloc.c --- new cleanup_for_exec() function,
14165 which tracks down and closes all file descriptors which have been
14166 registered with the alloc.c machinery before the server exec()s a
14167 child process for CGI or <!--#exec-->. CGI children now get
14168 started with exactly three file descriptors open. Hopefully,
14169 this cures the problem Rob H. was having with overly persistent
14170 CGI connections. [Robert Thau]
14172 *) Mutual exclusion around the accept() in child_main() --- this is
14173 required on at least SGI, Solaris and Linux, and is #ifdef'ed in
14174 by default on those systems only (-DFCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT).
14175 This uses fcntl(F_SETLK,...) on the error log descriptor because
14176 flock() on that descriptor won't work on systems which have BSD
14177 flock() semantics, including (I think) Linux 1.3 and Solaris.
14179 This does work on SunOS (when the server is idle, only one
14180 process in the pool is waiting on accept()); it *ought* to work
14181 on the other systems. [Robert Thau]
14183 *) FreeBSD and BSDI portability tweaks [Chuck Murcko]
14185 *) sizeof(*sa_client) bugfix from [Rob Hartill]
14187 *) pstrdup(..., NULL) returns NULL, [Randy Terbush]
14189 *) block_alarms() to avoid leaking the DBM* in dbm auth (this should
14190 be unnecessary if I go to the revised timeout-handling scheme).
14193 *) For NCSA bug-compatibility, set QUERY_STRING env var (to a null
14194 string) even if none came in with the request. [Robert Thau]
14196 *) CHANGES file added to distribution ;-).
14198 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.5
14200 *) mod_dld --- early dynamic loading support [rst]
14201 *) Add wildcard content handlers for XBITHACK; default_hander now
14202 invoked with that mechanism (as a handler hanging off mod_core) [rst]
14203 *) XBITHACK supported as a wildcard content-handler, and
14204 configurable at run-time (not just at compile time, as in the
14205 "patchy server" releases) [rst]
14207 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.4 30 Jun 1995
14209 *) Fixed basic thinkos in mod_dbm_auth.c [rst, reported by Mark Cox]
14210 *) Handle Addtype x/y .z [rst, reported by Cox]
14212 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.3
14214 *) Fixed very dumb bug in mod_alias; "Alias" and "Redirect" are not
14215 synonymous [rst, terbush]
14217 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.1 28 Jun 1995
14219 *) First-cut virtual host implementation; some refit in the config
14220 reading code, and log management, was necessary to support this [rst]
14221 *) Sub-pool machinery, originally added to avoid excessive storage
14222 allocation on listings of large directories (which turned out to
14223 be the problem that the 0.3 storage accounting was added to
14224 find). Subrequests and mod_dir changed to use subpools. [rst]
14225 *) More memory debugging --- free list consistency checks. [rst]
14226 *) Added err_headers to request_rec, with support elsewhere [rst]
14227 *) Other fixes to minor bugs in mod_dir and mod_includes [rst, terbush]
14229 Changes with Shambhala 0.3 19 Jun 1995
14231 *) Switch ONE_PROCESS to a runtime command-line option (-X)
14232 *) Don't compile in mod_ai_backcompat by default
14233 *) Switch name of server from Apache to Shambhala in Makefile
14234 *) Add some accounting routines to track memory usage in the pools,
14237 Changes with Shambhala 0.2
14239 *) Set DOCUMENT_ROOT CGI variable
14240 *) Add single-process debugging, as a compile-time option (ONE_PROCESS)
14241 *) Add critical section protection to handling of cleanup structures
14243 *) Significant code reorg within the server core to group related
14244 functions together [rst]
14245 *) Correctly handle clients that hang up before sending any request
14247 *) Replace dying child processes. [rst]
14249 Changes with Shambhala 0.1 12 Jun 1995
14251 Major rewrite of the pre-existing "patchy server" codebase, by
14252 Robert Thau (rst). Significant portions of the server code, such
14253 as configuration-file handling and HTTP authentication support,
14254 were ripped out and rewritten from scratch. Code that was not
14255 completely rewritten was significantly altered.
14257 Major changes with this release include:
14259 *) Introduction of the module API; in request handling, the central
14260 machinery just dispatches to various modules, which actually do
14261 most of the work. Configuration handling is similar --- modules
14262 declare their own commands, and the central machinery just
14263 dispatches to them.
14265 API features from shambhala/0.1 were substantially unchanged in
14266 Apache 1.0 and 1.1. (1.0 API features not yet present in this
14267 release, such as wildcard handlers and subpools, were added in
14268 subsequent Shambhala releases, and were also generally rst's
14271 *) This release included the following modules:
14273 mod_access (access control --- allow and deny directives),
14274 mod_alias (Alias and Redirect commands),
14275 mod_auth (straight HTTP authentication, based on flat-files)
14276 mod_auth_dbm (same, with dbm files)
14277 mod_cgi (CGI scripts and, in this release, ScriptAlias)
14278 mod_common_log (CLF access logs; later renamed mod_log_common)
14279 mod_dir (directory indexing)
14280 mod_include (server-side includes)
14281 mod_mime (AddType directives)
14282 mod_negotiation (content negotiation)
14283 mod_userdir (support for users' public_html directories)
14285 It also included a mod_ai_backcompat, which was a private hack
14286 for back-compatibility with rst's own AI-lab servers.
14288 All of these modules were substantially complete, and functional
14289 or nearly so (a few, which implemented features not in use at
14290 Thau's site, required patches of a few lines).
14292 *) sub-request machinery, to allow modules to determine how other
14293 modules would assign MIME types to a given file, or optionally
14294 serve its content (this is heavily used by mod_dir, mod_include
14295 and mod_negotiation).
14297 *) Resource pool system for keeping track of memory allocated and
14298 files opened in service of a particular request. Much of the
14299 code in the modules (when they weren't rewrites) was adjusted to
14300 replace a pervasive convention of using fixed-size buffers on
14301 the stack with an equally pervasive convention of using memory
14302 allocated with palloc().
14304 *) Reorganization of data structures associated with a given
14305 request to eliminate use of global variables and the troublesome
14306 unmunge_name function (used in NCSA and early Apache releases to
14307 attempt to determine the URI which mapped to a given filename
14308 --- a difficult proposition, given that it is easy to produce
14309 setups in which multiple URIs map to the same file).
14311 *) Source files renamed and rearranged
14313 *) Very simple pre-forking behavior --- parent process forked off a
14314 fixed number of children, and then just waited for SIGHUP.
14316 *) Other more minor changes too numerous to list.
14318 This release included modified versions of a lot of code from the
14319 Apache 0.6.4 public release, plus an early pre-forking patch
14320 codeveloped by Robert Thau and Rob Hartill.
14322 Changes with Apache 0.7.3 20 Jun 1995
14324 *) There were a bunch of changes between Apache 0.6.4 and 0.7.3 that
14325 were incorporated by Rob Hartill on the main branch while Robert Thau
14326 worked on the Shambhala rewrite above. Most were merged into the
14327 Shambala architecture after Apache 0.8.0.
14329 Changes with Apache 0.6.4 13 May 1995
14331 *) Patches by Rob Hartill, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau,
14334 Changes with Apache 0.5.1 10 Apr 1995
14336 Changes with Apache 0.4 02 Apr 1995
14338 *) Patches by Brian Behlendorf, Andrew Wilson, Robert Thau,
14341 Changes with Apache 0.3 24 Mar 1995
14343 *) Patches by Robert Thau, David Robinson, Rob Hartill, and
14346 Changes with Apache 0.2 18 Mar 1995
14348 *) Based on NCSA httpd 1.3 by Rob McCool and patches by CERT,
14349 Roy Fielding, Robert Thau, Nicolas Pioch, David Robinson,
14350 Brian Behlendorf, Rob Hartill, and Cliff Skolnick.
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