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6 2.0a2 : vague plans to release in April sometime.
7 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
8 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
11 * Re-work configuration for top level Apache. Work should start with
12 trying to clean the autoconf stuff. If and only if this proves
13 impossible to do (very unlikely), autoconf should be removed and we
14 will roll our own config implementation.
15 Status: Jim Jagielski is looking into this.
17 * Put buffered file I/O back into APR. This should be done using the
18 buffering logic from the OS/2 directory. stdio FILE *'s should not be
19 used on Unix because of the limitations these impose on some platforms,
20 for example the 256 File * limit on Solaris.
22 * Fix SAFEREAD. Can somebody detail what is wrong with SAFEREAD?
27 * MPMs should have responsibility for closing sockets and
28 registering the socket cleanup. Stop registering multiple
29 cleanups for each socket. Move socket close code out of
30 http_connection.c and into the MPMs.
33 * Reliable piped logs look broken everywhere. Each MPM includes essentially
34 identical code to ap_register_other_child(), etc. Most of this code can
35 be moved out of the MPMs and into some common file (http_core.c?).
36 Dean says presumably you mean an os-specific file?
38 * Pipes to CGI scripts are not being timed out
39 Status: code has been added to APR to support timing out pipes.
40 This needs to be used in Apache now.
42 * Put back resource limit code
45 Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.
46 <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com>
48 * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
49 Status: Bill will fix this.
51 * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
52 (at least) needs to be done:
53 - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
54 specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
55 - APR sendfile uses TransmitFile which is not available on
57 - ap_stat uses GetFileAttributeEx which is not available on
62 * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
63 native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
64 CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
68 * Win32: Smoke test all ported modules to make sure they work
69 correctly under Windows.
72 * Current 2.0 code is not tested on many Unix platforms. Make 2.0
73 work on most, if not all the systems 1.3 did
74 Status: Autoconf and APR will get us most of the way there.
76 * The handler hook needs to use the new registration system
78 * Modules. Which modules do not work yet, can we get a list?
80 * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
81 Status: The best known candidate would be something from
84 RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
85 * Configuration Modules. Allow a new module type that reads
86 a config file and sets up an internal tree structure for
89 * "make distclean" leaves (at least these) turds:
92 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/config.log
93 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/mm_conf.h
94 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/libtool
95 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/config.status
96 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/Makefile
97 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/mm-config
103 * the top-level configure.in appears to use $USE_MAINTAINER_MODE = yes
104 to set -Wall/etc. flags, and the APR configure.in appears to use
105 --with-debug. both seem like more of a hardwired pain compaired
106 to the pre-2.0 method of setting EXTRA_CFLAGS.
108 * Win32: Reuse accept socket after transmitfile/close
109 This is not a bug, but would be nice to get this feature in
112 * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
114 * Win32: Non-blocking CGI pipes
116 * Win32: Graceful restart of a service is broken (code does shutdown then start)
118 * Dynamically loadable MPMs
119 Enable users of the binary distributions of Apache to be able to
120 dynamically load the MPM.
122 Dean says this probably isn't a good idea. For example consider
123 -lpthread, you couldn't have the same core run with pthreads,
124 prefork, and gnu pth without a lot of headaches is my guess.
126 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
127 Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. Architect start-up code
128 that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on
129 platforms that do not support fork.
131 * Clean the code. There are a lot of places we used APR but didn't
132 remove the hacks that were required for the cross-platform code in
133 1.3. We need to make the code look like APR was supposed to be there.
135 * Go throught the 1.3 Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended".
136 People were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0,
137 it would be nice to actually do so.
139 * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This
140 would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
141 duplicates what is in APR.
142 Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
144 * Move I/O layering into APR.
146 * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
147 loosing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
148 system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
150 * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
151 Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> has prototype code (not
152 reliable) in 1.3. Should be much cleaner with APR in 2.0.
154 * Switch to autoconf, et al. for configuration.
155 Status: Manoj has placed an initial version into the 2.0
156 repository. Todos include:
158 - "make install" should work
159 - a tool to simplfy third-party module building should be
160 written. Something like apxs
161 - Add a lot more checks to satisfy the various platforms, e.g.
164 * Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.
165 Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@covalenet.net> is working on this.
167 * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
168 are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
171 Other bugs that need fixing:
173 * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
174 Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
175 "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
177 * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
178 Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
179 behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
182 * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
183 sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
184 there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
186 Other features that need writing:
188 * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
191 * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
193 Documentation that needs writing:
194 * Mod_status docs are needed.
196 * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
199 * New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from
200 obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation.
202 * Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of
203 manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs.
206 Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
207 (apache-2.0/htdocs/hooks.html)
209 * Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
210 dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0
211 which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
212 committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
213 does not show the contents of new files until later.
217 * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
219 Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
224 * What do we do about mod_proxy?
226 * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?
228 * Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete.