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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 * Current 2.0 code is not tested on many Unix platforms. Make 2.0
66 work on most, if not all the systems 1.3 did
67 Status: Autoconf and APR will get us most of the way there.
69 * The handler hook needs to use the new registration system
71 * Modules. Which modules do not work yet, can we get a list?
73 * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
74 Status: The best known candidate would be something from
77 RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
78 * Configuration Modules. Allow a new module type that reads
79 a config file and sets up an internal tree structure for
82 * "make distclean" leaves (at least these) turds:
85 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/config.log
86 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/mm_conf.h
87 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/libtool
88 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/config.status
89 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/Makefile
90 lib/apr/shmem/unix/mm/mm-config
96 * the top-level configure.in appears to use $USE_MAINTAINER_MODE = yes
97 to set -Wall/etc. flags, and the APR configure.in appears to use
98 --with-debug. both seem like more of a hardwired pain compaired
99 to the pre-2.0 method of setting EXTRA_CFLAGS.
101 * Win32: Reuse accept socket after transmitfile/close
102 This is not a bug, but would be nice to get this feature in
105 * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
107 * Win32: Graceful restart of a service is broken (code does shutdown then start)
109 * Dynamically loadable MPMs
110 Enable users of the binary distributions of Apache to be able to
111 dynamically load the MPM.
113 Dean says this probably isn't a good idea. For example consider
114 -lpthread, you couldn't have the same core run with pthreads,
115 prefork, and gnu pth without a lot of headaches is my guess.
117 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
118 Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. Architect start-up code
119 that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on
120 platforms that do not support fork.
122 * Clean the code. There are a lot of places we used APR but didn't
123 remove the hacks that were required for the cross-platform code in
124 1.3. We need to make the code look like APR was supposed to be there.
126 * Go throught the 1.3 Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended".
127 People were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0,
128 it would be nice to actually do so.
130 * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This
131 would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
132 duplicates what is in APR.
134 Bill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or
135 something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the
136 process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended
137 process This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though.
141 * Move I/O layering into APR.
143 * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
144 loosing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
145 system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
147 * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
150 * Switch to autoconf, et al. for configuration.
151 Status: Manoj has placed an initial version into the 2.0
152 repository. Todos include:
154 - "make install" should work
155 - a tool to simplfy third-party module building should be
156 written. Something like apxs
157 - Add a lot more checks to satisfy the various platforms, e.g.
160 * Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.
161 Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@covalenet.net> is working on this.
163 * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
164 are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
167 * Optimise the name-based <VirtualHost> implementation so that it uses
168 a hash table instead of a linear linked list scan.
170 * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
172 * Provide a sane API for handling the request's environment variables.
174 Other bugs that need fixing:
176 * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
177 Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
178 "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
180 * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
181 Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
182 behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
185 * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
186 sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
187 there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
189 Other features that need writing:
191 * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
194 * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
196 Documentation that needs writing:
197 * Mod_status docs are needed.
199 * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
202 * New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from
203 obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation.
205 * Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of
206 manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs.
209 Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
210 (apache-2.0/htdocs/hooks.html)
212 * Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
213 dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0
214 which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
215 committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
216 does not show the contents of new files until later.
219 * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
221 Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
226 * What do we do about mod_proxy?
228 * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?
230 * Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete.