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6 2.0a4 : vague plans to release mid-May
7 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
8 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
9 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
12 * Saferead does not work on Win32
14 * Win32: Get mod_auth_digest working under win32
15 - APR_HAS_RANDOM should be defined on windows and there is a
16 lib/apr/misc/win32/rand.c which is basically a copy of what
17 mod_auth_digest used to use.
19 * Re-work configuration for top level Apache. Work should start with
20 trying to clean the autoconf stuff. If and only if this proves
21 impossible to do (very unlikely), autoconf should be removed and we
22 will roll our own config implementation.
23 NOTE: When this is implemented, it would be really nice if the
24 default cgi module on Unix with a threaded MPM is the cgid
25 module. This should be override-able of course.
26 Status: Jim Jagielski is looking into this.
28 * Put back resource limit code
31 Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.
32 <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com>
34 * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
35 Status: Bill will fix this.
37 * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
38 (at least) needs to be done:
39 - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
40 specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
41 - APR sendfile uses TransmitFile which is not available on
43 - ap_stat uses GetFileAttributeEx which is not available on
48 * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
49 native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
50 CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
54 * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
55 Status: The best known candidate would be something from
58 RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
59 * Build scripts do not recognise AIX 4.2.1 pthreads, so the
60 pthread MPMs will not build.
62 * Win32: Reuse accept socket after transmitfile/close
63 This is not a bug, but would be nice to get this feature in
66 * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
68 * Win32: Graceful restart of a service is broken (code does shutdown
71 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
72 Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. Architect start-up code
73 that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on
74 platforms that do not support fork.
76 * Clean the code. There are a lot of places we used APR but didn't
77 remove the hacks that were required for the cross-platform code in
78 1.3. We need to make the code look like APR was supposed to be there.
80 * Go throught the 1.3 Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended".
81 People were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0,
82 it would be nice to actually do so.
84 * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This
85 would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
86 duplicates what is in APR.
88 Bill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or
89 something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the
90 process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended
91 process This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though.
95 * Move I/O layering into APR.
97 * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
98 loosing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
99 system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
101 * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
104 * Switch to autoconf, et al. for configuration.
105 Status: Manoj has placed an initial version into the 2.0
106 repository. Todos include:
108 * Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.
109 Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@covalenet.net> is working on this.
111 * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
112 are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
115 * Optimise the name-based <VirtualHost> implementation so that it uses
116 a hash table instead of a linear linked list scan.
118 * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
120 * Provide a sane API for handling the request's environment variables.
122 * configuration option to use *DBM
123 Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
125 * add SDBM into src/lib/sdbm/ as a default/fallback DBM implementation.
126 SDBM is used by Perl, mod_dav, mod_sssl, others for basic DBM support.
127 Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
129 Other bugs that need fixing:
131 * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
132 Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
133 "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
135 * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
136 Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
137 behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
140 * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
141 sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
142 there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
144 Other features that need writing:
146 * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
149 * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
151 Documentation that needs writing:
152 * Mod_status docs are needed.
154 * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
157 * New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from
158 obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation.
160 * Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of
161 manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs.
164 Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
165 (apache-2.0/htdocs/hooks.html)
167 * Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
168 dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0
169 which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
170 committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
171 does not show the contents of new files until later.
175 * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
177 Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
182 * What do we do about mod_proxy?
184 * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?
186 * Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete.