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6 2.0a3 : vague plans to release in April sometime.
7 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
8 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
11 * Win32: Get mod_auth_digest working under win32
12 - APR_HAS_RANDOM should be defined on windows and there is a
13 lib/apr/misc/win32/rand.c which is basically a copy of what
14 mod_auth_digest used to use.
16 * Re-work configuration for top level Apache. Work should start with
17 trying to clean the autoconf stuff. If and only if this proves
18 impossible to do (very unlikely), autoconf should be removed and we
19 will roll our own config implementation.
20 NOTE: When this is implemented, it would be really nice if the
21 default cgi module on Unix with a threaded MPM is the cgid
22 module. This should be override-able of course.
23 Status: Jim Jagielski is looking into this.
26 see <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004101511380.7822-100000@twinlark.arctic.org>
28 * MPMs should have responsibility for closing sockets and
29 registering the socket cleanup. Stop registering multiple
30 cleanups for each socket. Move socket close code out of
31 http_connection.c and into the MPMs.
34 * Reliable piped logs look broken everywhere. Each MPM includes essentially
35 identical code to ap_register_other_child(), etc. Most of this code can
36 be moved out of the MPMs and into some common file (http_core.c?).
37 Dean says presumably you mean an os-specific file?
39 * Put back resource limit code
42 Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.
43 <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com>
45 * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
46 Status: Bill will fix this.
48 * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
49 (at least) needs to be done:
50 - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
51 specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
52 - APR sendfile uses TransmitFile which is not available on
54 - ap_stat uses GetFileAttributeEx which is not available on
59 * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
60 native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
61 CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
65 * The handler hook needs to use the new registration system
67 * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
68 Status: The best known candidate would be something from
71 * Switch from HSRegex to PCRE. New code should be src/lib/pcre/
72 (ftp://cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/pcre/)
76 RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
77 * Configuration Modules. Allow a new module type that reads
78 a config file and sets up an internal tree structure for
81 * the top-level configure.in appears to use $USE_MAINTAINER_MODE = yes
82 to set -Wall/etc. flags, and the APR configure.in appears to use
83 --with-debug. both seem like more of a hardwired pain compaired
84 to the pre-2.0 method of setting EXTRA_CFLAGS.
86 * Win32: Reuse accept socket after transmitfile/close
87 This is not a bug, but would be nice to get this feature in
90 * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
92 * Win32: Graceful restart of a service is broken (code does shutdown then start)
94 * Dynamically loadable MPMs
95 Enable users of the binary distributions of Apache to be able to
96 dynamically load the MPM.
98 Dean says this probably isn't a good idea. For example consider
99 -lpthread, you couldn't have the same core run with pthreads,
100 prefork, and gnu pth without a lot of headaches is my guess.
102 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
103 Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. Architect start-up code
104 that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on
105 platforms that do not support fork.
107 * Clean the code. There are a lot of places we used APR but didn't
108 remove the hacks that were required for the cross-platform code in
109 1.3. We need to make the code look like APR was supposed to be there.
111 * Go throught the 1.3 Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended".
112 People were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0,
113 it would be nice to actually do so.
115 * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This
116 would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
117 duplicates what is in APR.
119 Bill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or
120 something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the
121 process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended
122 process This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though.
126 * Move I/O layering into APR.
128 * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
129 loosing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
130 system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
132 * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
135 * Switch to autoconf, et al. for configuration.
136 Status: Manoj has placed an initial version into the 2.0
137 repository. Todos include:
139 - "make install" should work
140 - a tool to simplfy third-party module building should be
141 written. Something like apxs
142 - Add a lot more checks to satisfy the various platforms, e.g.
145 * Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.
146 Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@covalenet.net> is working on this.
148 * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
149 are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
152 * Optimise the name-based <VirtualHost> implementation so that it uses
153 a hash table instead of a linear linked list scan.
155 * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
157 * Provide a sane API for handling the request's environment variables.
159 * configuration option to use *DBM
160 Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
162 * add SDBM into src/lib/sdbm/ as a default/fallback DBM implementation.
163 SDBM is used by Perl, mod_dav, mod_sssl, others for basic DBM support.
164 Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
166 Other bugs that need fixing:
168 * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
169 Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
170 "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
172 * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
173 Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
174 behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
177 * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
178 sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
179 there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
181 Other features that need writing:
183 * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
186 * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
188 Documentation that needs writing:
189 * Mod_status docs are needed.
191 * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
194 * New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from
195 obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation.
197 * Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of
198 manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs.
201 Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
202 (apache-2.0/htdocs/hooks.html)
204 * Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
205 dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0
206 which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
207 committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
208 does not show the contents of new files until later.
211 * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
213 Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
218 * What do we do about mod_proxy?
220 * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?
222 * Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete.