3 Changes with Apache 2.3.3
5 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3095 (cve.mitre.org)
6 mod_proxy_ftp: sanity check authn credentials.
7 [Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
9 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3094 (cve.mitre.org)
10 mod_proxy_ftp: NULL pointer dereference on error paths.
11 [Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
13 *) core, mod_deflate, mod_sed: Reduce memory usage by reusing bucket
14 brigades in several places. [Stefan Fritsch]
16 *) mod_cache: Fix uri_meets_conditions() so that CacheEnable will
17 match by scheme, or by a wildcarded hostname. PR 40169
18 [Ryan Pendergast <rpender us.ibm.com>, Graham Leggett]
20 *) suxec: Allow to log an error if exec fails by setting FD_CLOEXEC
21 on the log file instead of closing it. PR 10744. [Nicolas Rachinsky]
23 *) mod_mime: Make RemoveType override the info from TypesConfig.
24 PR 38330. [Stefan Fritsch]
26 *) mod_cache: Introduce the option to run the cache from within the
27 normal request handler, and to allow fine grained control over
28 where in the filter chain content is cached. [Graham Leggett]
30 *) core: Treat timeout reading request as 408 error, not 400.
31 Log 408 errors in access log as was done in Apache 1.3.x.
32 PR 39785 [Nobutaka Mantani <nobutaka nobutaka.org>,
33 Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Dan Poirier]
35 *) mod_ssl: Reintroduce SSL_CLIENT_S_DN, SSL_CLIENT_I_DN, SSL_SERVER_S_DN,
36 SSL_SERVER_I_DN back to the environment variables to be set by mod_ssl.
37 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>]
39 *) mod_cache: don't cache incomplete responses, per RFC 2616, 13.8.
40 PR15866. [Dan Poirier]
42 *) ab: ab segfaults in verbose mode on https sites
43 PR46393. [Ryan Niebur]
45 *) mod_dav: Allow other modules to become providers and add resource types
46 to the DAV response. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
47 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
49 *) mod_dav: Allow other modules to add things to the DAV or Allow headers
50 of an OPTIONS request. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
51 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
53 *) core: Lower memory usage of core output filter.
54 [Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
56 *) mod_mime: Detect invalid use of MultiviewsMatch inside Location and
57 LocationMatch sections. PR47754. [Dan Poirier]
59 *) mod_request: Make sure the KeptBodySize directive rejects values
60 that aren't valid numbers. [Graham Leggett]
62 *) mod_session_crypto: Sanity check should the potentially encrypted
63 session cookie be too short. [Graham Leggett]
65 *) mod_session.c: Prevent a segfault when session is added but not
66 configured. [Graham Leggett]
68 *) htcacheclean: 19 ways to fail, 1 error message. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
70 *) mod_auth_digest: Fail server start when nonce count checking
71 is configured without shared memory, or md5-sess algorithm is
72 configured. [Dan Poirier]
74 *) mod_proxy_connect: The connect method doesn't work if the client is
75 connecting to the apache proxy through an ssl socket. Fixed.
76 PR29744. [Brad Boyer, Mark Cave-Ayland, Julian Gilbey, Fabrice Durand,
77 David Gence, Tim Dodge, Per Gunnar Hans, Emmanuel Elango,
78 Kevin Croft, Rudolf Cardinal]
80 *) mod_ssl: The error message when SSLCertificateFile is missing should
81 at least give the name or position of the problematic virtual host
82 definition. [Stefan Fritsch sf sfritsch.de]
84 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix null pointer when qop=none. [Dan Poirier]
86 *) Add support for HTTP PUT to ab. [Jeff Barnes <jbarnesweb yahoo.com>]
88 *) mod_headers: generalise the envclause to support expression
89 evaluation with ap_expr parser [Nick Kew]
91 *) mod_cache: Introduce the thundering herd lock, a mechanism to keep
92 the flood of requests at bay that strike a backend webserver as
93 a cached entity goes stale. [Graham Leggett]
95 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix usage of shared memory and re-enable it.
96 PR 16057 [Dan Poirier]
98 *) Preserve Port information over internal redirects
99 PR 35999 [Jonas Ringh <jonas.ringh cixit.se>]
101 *) Proxy: unable to connect to a backend is SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE,
102 rather than BAD_GATEWAY or (especially) NOT_FOUND.
103 PR 46971 [evanc nortel.com]
105 *) Various modules: Do better checking of pollset operations in order to
106 avoid segmentation faults if they fail. PR 46467
107 [Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
109 *) mod_autoindex: Correctly create an empty cell if the description
110 for a file is missing. PR 47682 [Peter Poeml <poeml suse.de>]
112 *) ab: Fix broken error messages after resolver or connect() failures.
115 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1890 (cve.mitre.org)
116 Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_proxy in a
117 reverse proxy configuration, where a remote attacker can force a
118 proxy process to consume CPU time indefinitely. [Nick Kew, Joe Orton]
120 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1191 (cve.mitre.org)
121 mod_proxy_ajp: Avoid delivering content from a previous request which
122 failed to send a request body. PR 46949 [Ruediger Pluem]
124 *) htdbm: Fix possible buffer overflow if dbm database has very
125 long values. PR 30586 [Dan Poirier]
127 *) core: Return APR_EOF if request body is shorter than the length announced
128 by the client. PR 33098 [ Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
130 *) mod_suexec: correctly set suexec_enabled when httpd is run by a
131 non-root user and may have insufficient permissions.
132 PR 42175 [Jim Radford <radford blackbean.org>]
134 *) mod_ssl: Fix SSL_*_DN_UID variables to use the 'userID' attribute
135 type. PR 45107. [Michael Ströder <michael stroeder.com>,
136 Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>]
138 *) mod_proxy_http: fix case sensitivity checking transfer encoding
139 PR 47383 [Ryuzo Yamamoto <ryuzo.yamamoto gmail.com>]
141 *) mod_alias: ensure Redirect issues a valid URL.
142 PR 44020 [Håkon Stordahl <hakon stordahl.org>]
144 *) mod_dir: add FallbackResource directive, to enable admin to specify
145 an action to happen when a URL maps to no file, without resorting
146 to ErrorDocument or mod_rewrite. PR 47184 [Nick Kew]
148 *) mod_cgid: Do not leak the listening Unix socket file descriptor to the
149 CGI process. PR 47335 [Kornél Pál <kornelpal gmail.com>]
151 *) mod_rewrite: Remove locking for writing to the rewritelog.
152 PR 46942 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
154 *) mod_alias: check sanity in Redirect arguments.
155 PR 44729 [Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>, Jim Jagielski]
157 *) mod_proxy_http: fix Host: header for literal IPv6 addresses.
158 PR 47177 [Carlos Garcia Braschi <cgbraschi gmail.com>]
160 *) mod_cache: Add CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers directive to ignore
161 defined session identifiers encoded in the URL when caching.
164 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the error string returned by RewriteRule.
165 RewriteRule returned "RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters" when the 3rd
166 argument of RewriteRule was not started with "[" or not ended with "]".
167 PR 45082 [Vitaly Polonetsky <m_vitaly topixoft.com>]
169 *) Windows: Fix usage message.
172 *) apachectl: When passing through arguments to httpd in
173 non-SysV mode, use the "$@" syntax to preserve arguments.
176 *) mod_dbd: add DBDInitSQL directive to enable SQL statements to
177 be run when a connection is opened. PR 46827
178 [Marko Kevac <mkevac gmail.com>]
180 *) mod_cgid: Improve handling of long AF_UNIX socket names (ScriptSock).
181 PR 47037. [Jeff Trawick]
183 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Check more strictly that the backend follows the AJP
184 protocol. [Mladen Turk]
186 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward remote port information by default.
189 *) Allow MPMs to be loaded dynamically, as with most other modules. This
190 required changes to the MPM interfaces. Removed: mpm.h, mpm_default.h
191 (as an installed header), APACHE_MPM_DIR, MPM_NAME, ap_threads_per_child,
192 ap_max_daemons_limit, ap_my_generation, etc. ap_mpm_query() can't be
193 called until after the register-hooks phase. [Jeff Trawick]
195 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire and SSLProxyCheckPeerCN directives
196 to enable stricter checking of remote server certificates.
199 *) ab: Fix a 100% CPU loop on platforms where a failed non-blocking connect
200 returns EINPROGRESS and a subsequent poll() returns only POLLERR.
201 Observed on HP-UX. [Eric Covener]
203 *) Remove broken support for BeOS, OS/2, TPF, and even older platforms such
204 as A/UX, Next, and Tandem. [Jeff Trawick]
206 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Add ProxyFtpListOnWildcard directive to allow files with
207 globbing characters to be retrieved instead of converted into a
208 directory listing. PR 46789 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
210 *) Provide ap_retained_data_create()/ap_retained_data_get() for preservation
211 of module state across unload/load. [Jeff Trawick]
213 *) mod_substitute: Fix a memory leak. PR 44948
214 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
216 Changes with Apache 2.3.2
218 *) mod_mime_magic: Fix detection of compressed content. [Rainer Jung]
220 *) mod_negotiation: Escape pathes of filenames in 406 responses to avoid
221 HTML injections and HTTP response splitting. PR 46837.
222 [Geoff Keating <geoffk apple.com>]
224 *) mod_ssl: add support for type-safe STACK constructs in OpenSSL
225 development HEAD. PR 45521. [Kaspar Brand, Sander Temme]
227 *) ab: Fix maintenance of the pollset to resolve EALREADY errors
228 with kqueue (BSD/OS X) and excessive CPU with event ports (Solaris).
229 PR 44584. Use APR_POLLSET_NOCOPY for better performance with some
230 pollset implementations. [Jeff Trawick]
232 *) mod_disk_cache: The module now turns off sendfile support if
233 'EnableSendfile off' is defined globally. [Lars Eilebrecht]
235 *) mod_deflate: Adjust content metadata before bailing out on 304
236 responses so that the metadata does not differ from 200 response.
239 *) mod_deflate: Fix creation of invalid Etag headers. We now make sure
240 that the Etag value is properly quoted when adding the gzip marker.
241 PR 39727, 45023. [Lars Eilebrecht, Roy T. Fielding]
243 *) Added 20x22 icons for ODF, SVG, and XML documents. PR 37185.
246 *) Disabled DefaultType directive and removed ap_default_type()
247 from core. We now exclude Content-Type from responses for which
248 a media type has not been configured via mime.types, AddType,
249 ForceType, or some other mechanism. PR 13986. [Roy T. Fielding]
251 *) mod_rewrite: Add IPV6 variable to RewriteCond
252 [Ryan Phillips <ryan-apache trolocsis.com>]
254 *) core: Enhance KeepAliveTimeout to support a value in milliseconds.
255 PR 46275. [Takashi Sato]
257 *) rotatelogs: Allow size units B, K, M, G and combination of
258 time and size based rotation. [Rainer Jung]
260 *) rotatelogs: Add flag for verbose (debug) output. [Rainer Jung]
262 *) mod_ssl: Fix merging of SSLRenegBufferSize directive. PR 46508
263 [<tlhackque yahoo.com>]
265 *) core: Translate the the status line to ASCII on EBCDIC platforms in
266 ap_send_interim_response() and for locally generated "100 Continue"
267 responses. [Eric Covener]
269 *) prefork: Fix child process hang during graceful restart/stop in
270 configurations with multiple listening sockets. PR 42829. [Joe Orton,
273 *) mod_session_crypto: Ensure that SessionCryptoDriver can only be
274 set in the global scope. [Graham Leggett]
276 *) mod_ext_filter: We need to detect failure to startup the filter
277 program (a mangled response is not acceptable). Fix to detect
278 failure, and offer configuration option either to abort or
279 to remove the filter and continue.
282 *) mod_session_crypto: Rewrite the session_crypto module against the
283 apr_crypto API. [Graham Leggett]
285 *) mod_auth_form: Fix a pool lifetime issue, don't remove the subrequest
286 until the main request is cleaned up. [Graham Leggett]
288 Changes with Apache 2.3.1
290 *) ap_slotmem: Add in new slot-based memory access API impl., including
291 2 providers (mod_sharedmem and mod_plainmem) [Jim Jagielski,
292 Jean-Frederic Clere, Brian Akins <brian.akins turner.com>]
294 *) mod_include: support generating non-ASCII characters as entities in SSI
297 *) core/utils: Enhance ap_escape_html API to support escaping non-ASCII chars
300 *) mod_rewrite: fix "B" flag breakage by reverting r5589343
301 PR 45529 [Bob Ionescu <bobsiegen googlemail.com>]
303 *) CGI: return 504 (Gateway timeout) rather than 500 when a script
304 times out before returning status line/headers.
307 *) mod_cgid: fix segfault problem on solaris.
308 PR 39332 [Masaoki Kobayashi <masaoki techfirm.co.jp>]
310 *) mod_proxy_scgi: Added. [André Malo]
312 *) mod_cache: Introduce 'no-cache' per-request environment variable
313 to prevent the saving of an otherwise cacheable response.
316 *) mod_rewrite: Introduce DiscardPathInfo|DPI flag to stop the troublesome
317 way that per-directory rewrites append the previous notion of PATH_INFO
318 to each substitution before evaluating subsequent rules.
319 PR 38642 [Eric Covener]
321 *) mod_cgid: Do not add an empty argument when calling the CGI script.
322 PR 46380 [Ruediger Pluem]
324 *) scoreboard: Remove unused sb_type from process_score.
325 [Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch gmx.net>, Chris Darroch]
327 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLRenegBufferSize directive to allow changing the
328 size of the buffer used for the request-body where necessary
329 during a per-dir renegotiation. PR 39243. [Joe Orton]
331 *) mod_proxy_fdpass: New module to pass a client connection over to a separate
332 process that is reading from a unix daemon socket.
334 *) mod_ssl: Improve environment variable extraction to be more
335 efficient and to correctly handle DNs with duplicate tags.
336 PR 45975. [Joe Orton]
338 *) Remove the obsolete serial attribute from the RPM spec file. Compile
339 against the external pcre. Add missing binaries fcgistarter, and
340 mod_socache* and mod_session*. [Graham Leggett]
342 Changes with Apache 2.3.0
344 *) mod_ratelimit: New module to do bandwidth rate limiting. [Paul Querna]
346 *) Remove X-Pad header which was added as a work around to a bug in
347 Netscape 2.x to 4.0b2. [Takashi Sato <takashi lans-tv.com>]
349 *) Add DTrace Statically Defined Tracing (SDT) probes.
350 [Theo Schlossnagle <jesus omniti.com>, Paul Querna]
352 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Move all load balancing implementations
353 as individual, self-contained mod_proxy submodules under
354 modules/proxy/balancers [Jim Jagielski]
356 *) Rename APIs to include ap_ prefix:
357 find_child_by_pid -> ap_find_child_by_pid
358 suck_in_APR -> ap_suck_in_APR
359 sys_privileges_handlers -> ap_sys_privileges_handlers
360 unixd_accept -> ap_unixd_accept
361 unixd_config -> ap_unixd_config
362 unixd_killpg -> ap_unixd_killpg
363 unixd_set_global_mutex_perms -> ap_unixd_set_global_mutex_perms
364 unixd_set_proc_mutex_perms -> ap_unixd_set_proc_mutex_perms
365 unixd_set_rlimit -> ap_unixd_set_rlimit
368 *) core: When the ap_http_header_filter processes an error bucket, cleanup
369 the passed brigade before returning AP_FILTER_ERROR down the filter
370 chain. This unambiguously ensures the same error bucket isn't revisited
373 *) mod_lbmethod_heartbeat: New module to load balance mod_proxy workers
374 based on heartbeats. [Paul Querna]
376 *) mod_heartmonitor: New module to collect heartbeats, and write out a file
377 so that other modules can load balance traffic as needed. [Paul Querna]
379 *) mod_heartbeat: New module to generate multicast heartbeats to know if a
380 server is online. [Paul Querna]
382 *) core: Error responses set by filters were being coerced into 500 errors,
383 sometimes appended to the original error response. Log entry of:
384 'Handler for (null) returned invalid result code -3'
387 *) mod_buffer: Honour the flush bucket and flush the buffer in the
388 input filter. Make sure that metadata buckets are written to
389 the buffer, not to the final brigade. [Graham Leggett]
391 *) mod_buffer: Optimise the buffering of heap buckets when the heap
392 buckets stay exactly APR_BUCKET_BUFF_SIZE long. [Graham Leggett,
395 *) mod_buffer: Optional support for buffering of the input and output
396 filter stacks. Can collapse many small buckets into fewer larger
397 buckets, and prevents excessively small chunks being sent over
398 the wire. [Graham Leggett]
400 *) mod_privileges: new module to make httpd on Solaris privileges-aware
401 and to enable different virtualhosts to run with different
402 privileges and Unix user/group IDs [Nick Kew]
404 *) mod_mem_cache: this module has been removed. [William Rowe]
406 *) authn/z: Remove mod_authn_default and mod_authz_default.
409 *) authz: Fix handling of authz configurations, make default authz
410 logic replicate 2.2.x authz logic, and replace <Satisfy*>, Reject,
411 and AuthzMergeRules directives with Match, <Match*>, and AuthzMerge
412 directives. [Chris Darroch]
414 *) mod_authn_core: Prevent crash when provider alias created to
415 provider which is not yet registered. [Chris Darroch]
417 *) mod_authn_core: Add AuthType of None to support disabling
418 authentication. [Chris Darroch]
420 *) core: Allow <Limit> and <LimitExcept> directives to nest, and
421 constrain their use to conform with that of other access control
422 and authorization directives. [Chris Darroch]
424 *) unixd: turn existing code into a module, and turn the set user/group
425 and chroot into a child_init function. [Nick Kew]
427 *) core: Add ap_timeout_parameter_parse to public API. [Ruediger Pluem]
429 *) mod_dir: Support "DirectoryIndex disabled"
430 Suggested By André Warnier <aw ice-sa.com> [Eric Covener]
432 *) mod_ssl: Send Content-Type application/ocsp-request for POST requests to
433 OSCP responders. PR 46014 [Dr Stephen Henson <steve openssl.org>]
435 *) Export and install the mod_rewrite.h header to ensure the optional
436 rewrite_mapfunc_t and ap_register_rewrite_mapfunc functions are
437 available to third party modules. [Graham Leggett]
439 *) mod_authnz_ldap: don't return NULL-valued environment variables to
440 other modules. PR 39045 [Francois Pesce <francois.pesce gmail.com>]
442 *) Don't adjust case in pathname components that are not of interest
443 to mod_mime. Fixes mod_negotiation's use of such components.
444 PR 43250 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
446 *) Be tolerant in what you accept - accept slightly broken
447 status lines from a backend provide they include a valid status code.
448 PR 44995 [Rainer Jung <rainer.jung kippdata.de>]
450 *) New module mod_sed: filter Request/Response bodies through sed
451 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
453 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure that basic authentication is correctly
454 faked directly after login. [Graham Leggett]
456 *) mod_session_cookie, mod_session_dbd: Make sure cookies are set both
457 within the output headers and error output headers, so that the
458 session is maintained across redirects. [Graham Leggett]
460 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the logged in user is populated correctly
461 after a form login. Fixes a missing REMOTE_USER variable directly
462 following a login. [Graham Leggett]
464 *) mod_session_cookie: Make sure that cookie attributes are correctly
465 included in the blank cookie when cookies are removed. This fixes an
466 inability to log out when using mod_auth_form. [Graham Leggett]
468 *) mod_autoindex: add configuration option to insert string
469 in HTML HEAD. [Nick Kew]
471 *) mod_session: Prevent a segfault when a CGI script sets a cookie with a
472 null value. [David Shane Holden <dpejesh apache.org>]
474 *) mod_headers: Prevent Header edit from processing only the first header
475 of possibly multiple headers with the same name and deleting the
476 remaining ones. PR 45333. [Ruediger Pluem]
478 *) mod_rewrite: Preserve the query string with [proxy,noescape]. PR 45247
481 *) core, authn/z: Determine registered authn/z providers directly in
482 ap_setup_auth_internal(), which allows optional functions that just
483 wrapped ap_list_provider_names() to be removed from authn/z modules.
486 *) authn/z: Convert common provider version strings to macros.
489 *) ab: Make ab.c compile on VC6. PR 45024 [Ruediger Pluem]
491 *) configure: Don't reject libtool 2.x
492 PR 44817 [Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever.FTA gmail.com>]
494 *) core: When testing for slash-terminated configuration paths in
495 ap_location_walk(), don't look past the start of an empty string
496 such as that created by a <Location ""> directive.
499 *) core, mod_proxy: If a kept_body is present, it becomes safe for
500 subrequests to support message bodies. Make sure that safety
501 checks within the core and within the proxy are not triggered
502 when kept_body is present. This makes it possible to embed
503 proxied POST requests within mod_include. [Graham Leggett]
505 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the input filter stack is properly set
506 up before reading the login form. Make sure the kept body filter
507 is correctly inserted to ensure the body can be read a second
508 time safely should the authn be successful. [Graham Leggett,
511 *) mod_request: Insert the KEPT_BODY filter via the insert_filter
512 hook instead of during fixups. Add a safety check to ensure the
513 filters cannot be inserted more than once. [Graham Leggett,
516 *) core: Do not allow Options ALL if not all options are allowed to be
517 overwritten. PR 44262 [Michał Grzędzicki <lazy iq.pl>]
519 *) ap_cache_cacheable_headers_out() will (now) always
520 merge an error headers _before_ clearing them and _before_
521 merging in the actual entity headers and doing normal
522 hop-by-hop cleansing. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
524 *) cache: retire ap_cache_cacheable_hdrs_out() which was used
525 for both in- and out-put headers; and replace it by a single
526 ap_cache_cacheable_headers() wrapped in a in- and out-put
527 specific ap_cache_cacheable_headers_in()/out(). The latter
528 which will also merge error and ensure content-type. To keep
529 cache modules consistent with ease. This API change bumps
530 up the minor MM by one [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
532 *) mod_rewrite: Allow Cookie option to set secure and HttpOnly flags.
533 PR 44799 [Christian Wenz <christian wenz.org>]
535 *) Move the KeptBodySize directive, kept_body filters and the
536 ap_parse_request_body function out of the http module and into a
537 new module called mod_request, reducing the size of the core.
540 *) mod_dbd: Handle integer configuration directive parameters with a
543 *) Change the directives within the mod_session* modules to be valid
544 both inside and outside the location/directory sections, as
545 suggested by wrowe. [Graham Leggett]
547 *) mod_auth_form: Add a module capable of allowing end users to log
548 in using an HTML form, storing the credentials within mod_session.
551 *) Add a function to the http filters that is able to parse an HTML
552 form request with the type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
555 *) mod_session_crypto: Initialise SSL in the post config hook.
556 [Ruediger Pluem, Graham Leggett]
558 *) mod_session_dbd: Add a session implementation capable of storing
559 session information in a SQL database via the dbd interface. Useful
560 for sites where session privacy is important. [Graham Leggett]
562 *) mod_session_crypto: Add a session encoding implementation capable
563 of encrypting and decrypting sessions wherever they may be stored.
564 Introduces a level of privacy when sessions are stored on the
565 browser. [Graham Leggett]
567 *) mod_session_cookie: Add a session implementation capable of storing
568 session information within cookies on the browser. Useful for high
569 volume sites where server bound sessions are too resource intensive.
572 *) mod_session: Add a generic session interface to unify the different
573 attempts at saving persistent sessions across requests.
576 *) core, authn/z: Avoid calling access control hooks for internal requests
577 with configurations which match those of initial request. Revert to
578 original behaviour (call access control hooks for internal requests
579 with URIs different from initial request) if any access control hooks or
580 providers are not registered as permitting this optimization.
581 Introduce wrappers for access control hook and provider registration
582 which can accept additional mode and flag data. [Chris Darroch]
584 *) Introduced ap_expr API for expression evaluation.
585 This is adapted from mod_include, which is the first module
589 *) mod_authz_dbd: When redirecting after successful login/logout per
590 AuthzDBDRedirectQuery, do not report authorization failure, and use
591 first row returned by database query instead of last row.
594 *) mod_ldap: Correctly return all requested attribute values
595 when some attributes have a null value.
596 PR 44560 [Anders Kaseorg <anders kaseorg.com>]
598 *) core: check symlink ownership if both FollowSymlinks and
599 SymlinksIfOwnerMatch are set [Nick Kew]
601 *) core: fix origin checking in SymlinksIfOwnerMatch
602 PR 36783 [Robert L Mathews <rob-apache.org.bugs tigertech.net>]
604 *) Activate mod_cache, mod_file_cache and mod_disk_cache as part of the
605 'most' set for '--enable-modules' and '--enable-shared-mods'. Include
606 mod_mem_cache in 'all' as well. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
608 *) Also install mod_so.h, mod_rewrite.h and mod_cache.h; as these
609 contain public function declarations which are useful for
610 third party module authors. PR 42431 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
612 *) mod_dir, mod_negotiation: pass the output filter information
613 to newly created sub requests; as these are later on used
614 as true requests with an internal redirect. This allows for
615 mod_cache et.al. to trap the results of the redirect.
616 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ruediger Pluem]
618 *) mod_ldap: Add support (taking advantage of the new APR capability)
619 for ldap rebind callback while chasing referrals. This allows direct
620 searches on LDAP servers (in particular MS Active Directory 2003+)
621 using referrals without the use of the global catalog.
622 PRs 26538, 40268, and 42557 [Paul J. Reder]
624 *) mod_ssl: Added server name indication support (SNI, RFC 4366).
625 PR 34607. [Kaspar Brand <asfbugz velox.ch>]. A test configuration
626 can be created with test/make_sni.sh [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
628 *) ApacheMonitor.exe: Introduce --kill argument for use by the
629 installer. This will permit the installation tool to remove
630 all running instances before attempting to remove the .exe.
633 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OCSP validation of client certificates.
634 PR 41123. [Marc Stern <marc.stern approach.be>, Joe Orton]
636 *) mod_serf: New module for Reverse Proxying. [Paul Querna]
638 *) core: Add the option to keep aside a request body up to a certain
639 size that would otherwise be discarded, to be consumed by filters
640 such as mod_include. When enabled for a directory, POST requests
641 to shtml files can be passed through to embedded scripts as POST
642 requests, rather being downgraded to GET requests. [Graham Leggett]
644 *) mod_ssl: Fix TLS upgrade (RFC 2817) support. PR 41231. [Joe Orton]
646 *) scoreboard: Correctly declare ap_time_process_request.
647 PR 43789 [Tom Donovan <Tom.Donovan acm.org>]
649 *) core; scoreboard: ap_get_scoreboard_worker(sbh) now takes the sbh member
650 from the connection rec, ap_get_scoreboard_worker(proc, thread) will now
651 provide the unusual legacy lookup. [William Rowe]
653 *) mpm winnt: fix null pointer dereference
654 PR 42572 [Davi Arnaut]
656 *) mod_authnz_ldap, mod_authn_dbd: Tidy up the code to expose authn
657 parameters to the environment. Improve portability to
658 EBCDIC machines by using apr_toupper(). [Martin Kraemer]
660 *) mod_ldap, mod_authnzldap: Add support for nested groups (i.e. the ability
661 to authorize an authenticated user via a "require ldap-group X" directive
662 where the user is not in group X, but is in a subgroup contained in X.
663 PR 42891 [Paul J. Reder]
665 *) mod_ssl: Add support for caching SSL Sessions in memcached. [Paul Querna]
667 *) mod_ldap: Fix the search limit parameter to ldap_search_ext_s()
668 for SDKs that define LDAP_NO_LIMIT to something other than -1.
669 [David Jones <oscaremma gmail.com>]
671 *) apxs: Enhance -q flag to print all known variables and their values
672 when invoked without variable name(s).
673 [William Rowe, Sander Temme]
675 *) apxs: Eliminate run-time check for mod_so. PR 40653.
676 [David M. Lee <dmlee crossroads.com>]
678 *) beos MPM: Create pmain pool and run modules' child_init hooks when
679 entering ap_mpm_run(), then destroy pmain when exiting ap_mpm_run().
682 *) netware MPM: Destroy pmain pool when exiting ap_mpm_run() so that
683 cleanups registered in modules' child_init hooks are performed.
686 *) mod_dbd: Stash DBD connections in request_config of initial request
687 only, or else sub-requests and internal redirections may cause
688 entire DBD pool to be stashed in a single HTTP request. [Chris Darroch]
690 *) Fix issue which could cause error messages to be written to access logs
691 on Win32. PR 40476. [Tom Donovan <Tom.Donovan acm.org>]
693 *) The LockFile directive, which specifies the location of
694 the accept() mutex lockfile, is deprecated. Instead, the
695 AcceptMutex directive now takes an optional lockfile
696 location parameter, ala SSLMutex. [Jim Jagielski]
698 *) mod_authn_dbd: Export any additional columns queried in the SQL select
699 into the environment with the name AUTHENTICATE_<COLUMN>. This brings
700 mod_authn_dbd behaviour in line with mod_authnz_ldap. [Graham Leggett]
702 *) mod_dbd: Key the storage of prepared statements on the hex string
703 value of server_rec, rather than the server name, as the server name
704 may change (eg when the server name is set) at any time, causing
705 weird behaviour in modules dependent on mod_dbd. [Graham Leggett]
707 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Added win32 build. [Mladen Turk]
709 *) sendfile_nonblocking() takes the _brigade_ as an argument, gets
710 the first bucket from the brigade, finds it not to be a FILE
711 bucket and barfs. The fix is to pass a bucket rather than a brigade.
712 [Niklas Edmundsson <nikke acc.umu.se>]
714 *) mod_rewrite: support rewritemap by SQL query [Nick Kew]
716 *) ap_get_server_version() has been removed. Third-party modules must
717 now use ap_get_server_banner() or ap_get_server_description().
720 *) All MPMs: Introduce a check_config phase between pre_config and
721 open_logs, to allow modules to review interdependent configuration
722 directive values and adjust them while messages can still be logged
723 to the console. Handle relevant MPM directives during this phase
724 and format messages for both the console and the error log, as
725 appropriate. [Chris Darroch]
727 *) mod_proxy: don't URLencode tilde in path component
728 [Stijn Hoop <stijn sandcat.nl>]
730 *) mpm_winnt: Fix return values from wait_for_many_objects.
731 The return value is index to the signaled thread in the
732 creted_threads array. We can not use WAIT_TIMEOUT because
733 his value is defined as 258, thus limiting the MaxThreads
734 to that value. [Mladen Turk]
736 *) core: Do not allow internal redirects like the DirectoryIndex of mod_dir
737 to circumvent the symbolic link checks imposed by FollowSymLinks and
738 SymLinksIfOwnerMatch. [Nick Kew, Ruediger Pluem, William Rowe]
740 *) New SSLLogLevelDebugDump [ None (default) | IO (not bytes) | Bytes ]
741 configures the I/O Dump of SSL traffic, when LogLevel is set to Debug.
742 The default is none as this is far greater debugging resolution than
743 the typical administrator is prepared to untangle. [William Rowe]
745 *) mod_disk_cache: If possible, check if the size of an object to cache is
746 within the configured boundaries before actually saving data.
747 [Niklas Edmundsson <nikke acc.umu.se>]
749 *) mod_disk_cache: Delete temporary files if they cannot be renamed to their
750 final name. [Davi Arnaut <davi haxent.com.br>]
752 *) Worker and event MPMs: Remove improper scoreboard updates which were
753 performed in the event of a fork() failure. [Chris Darroch]
755 *) Add support for fcgi:// proxies to mod_rewrite.
756 [Markus Schiegl <ms schiegl.com>]
758 *) Remove incorrect comments from scoreboard.h regarding conditional
759 loading of worker_score structure with mod_status, and remove unused
760 definitions relating to old life_status field.
761 [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
763 *) Remove allocation of memory for unused array of lb_score pointers
764 in ap_init_scoreboard(). [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
766 *) Add mod_proxy_fcgi, a FastCGI back end for mod_proxy.
767 [Garrett Rooney, Jim Jagielski, Paul Querna]
769 *) Event MPM: Fill in the scoreboard's tid field. PR 38736.
770 [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
772 *) mod_charset_lite: Remove Content-Length when output filter can
773 invalidate it. Warn when input filter can invalidate it.
776 *) Authz: Add the new module mod_authn_core that will provide common
777 authn directives such as 'AuthType', 'AuthName'. Move the directives
778 'AuthType' and 'AuthName' out of the core module and merge mod_authz_alias
779 into mod_authn_core. [Brad Nicholes]
781 *) Authz: Move the directives 'Order', 'Allow', 'Deny' and 'Satisfy'
782 into the new module mod_access_compat which can be loaded to provide
783 support for these directives.
786 *) Authz: Move the 'Require' directive from the core module as well as
787 add the directives '<SatisfyAll>', '<SatisfyOne>', '<RequireAlias>'
788 and 'Reject' to mod_authz_core. The new directives introduce 'AND/OR'
789 logic into the authorization processing. [Brad Nicholes]
791 *) Authz: Add the new module mod_authz_core which acts as the
792 authorization provider vector and contains common authz
793 directives. [Brad Nicholes]
795 *) Authz: Renamed mod_authz_dbm authz providers from 'group' and
796 'file-group' to 'dbm-group' and 'dbm-file-group'. [Brad Nicholes]
798 *) Authz: Added the new authz providers 'env', 'ip', 'host', 'all' to handle
799 host-based access control provided by mod_authz_host and invoked
800 through the 'Require' directive. [Brad Nicholes]
802 *) Authz: Convert all of the authz modules from hook based to
803 provider based. [Brad Nicholes]
805 *) mod_cache: Add CacheMinExpire directive to set the minimum time in
806 seconds to cache a document.
807 [Brian Akins <brian.akins turner.com>, Ruediger Pluem]
809 *) mod_authz_dbd: SQL authz with Login/Session support [Nick Kew]
811 *) Fix typo in ProxyStatus syntax error message.
812 [Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet wanadoo.fr>]
814 *) Asynchronous write completion for the Event MPM. [Brian Pane]
816 *) Added an End-Of-Request bucket type. The logging of a request and
817 the freeing of its pool are now done when the EOR bucket is destroyed.
818 This has the effect of delaying the logging until right after the last
819 of the response is sent; ap_core_output_filter() calls the access logger
820 indirectly when it destroys the EOR bucket. [Brian Pane]
822 *) Rewrite of logresolve support utility: IPv6 addresses are now supported
823 and the format of statistical output has changed. [Colm MacCarthaigh]
825 *) Rewrite of ap_coreoutput_filter to do nonblocking writes [Brian Pane]
827 *) Added new connection states for handler and write completion
830 *) mod_cgid: Refuse to work on Solaris 10 due to OS bugs. PR 34264.
833 *) Teach mod_ssl to use arbitrary OIDs in an SSLRequire directive,
834 allowing string-valued client certificate attributes to be used for
835 access control, as in: SSLRequire "value" in OID("1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.1")
836 [Martin Kraemer, David Reid]
838 [Apache 2.1.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
839 Apache 2.2.xx tree as documented, and except as noted, below.]
841 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
843 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
845 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
847 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup
849 Changes with Apache 1.3.x and later:
851 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/src/CHANGES?view=markup