-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
Changes with Apache 2.5.0
- *) mod_socache_shmcb: Fix bus error due to a misalignment
- in some 64 bit builds, especially on Solaris Sparc.
- PR 53040. [Rainer Jung]
+ *) mod_status: Print out list of times since a Vhost was last used.
+ [Jim Jagielski]
- *) core: Be less strict when checking whether Content-Type is set to
- "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" when parsing POST data,
- or we risk losing data with an appended charset. PR 53698
- [Petter Berntsen <petterb gmail.com>]
+ *) core: Don't fail at startup with AH00554 when Include points to
+ a directory without any wildcard character. PR 54223 [Eric Covener]
+
+ *) core: Fail startup if the argument to ServerTokens is unrecognized.
+ PR 54222 [Jackie Zhang <jackie.qq.zhang gmail.com>]
+
+ *) mod_log_forensic: Don't log a spurious "-" if a request has been rejected
+ before mod_log_forensic could attach its id to it. [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR
+ variables. [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) mod_rewrite: Stop mergeing RewriteBase down to subdirectories
+ unless new option 'RewriteOptions MergeBase' is configured.
+ PR 53963. [Eric Covener]
+
+ *) mod_session_dbd: fix a segmentation fault in the function dbd_remove.
+ PR 53452. [<rebanerebane gmail com>, Reimo Rebane]
+
+ *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
+ HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
+ Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
+
+ *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
+ support. [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
+ directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
+ sections. [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
+ at virtual host context or in Directory/Files/Location/If sections to
+ work properly in If sections that are not in a Directory/Files/Location.
+ [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) mod_cache_disk: Resolve errors while revalidating disk-cached files on
+ Windows ("...rename tempfile to datafile failed..."). PR 38827
+ [Eric Covener]
+
+ *) mod_proxy: Add ability to configure the sticky session separator.
+ PR 53893. [<inu inusasha de>, Jim Jagielski]
+
+ *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS AAAA records.
+ PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan dyndns org>,
+ <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
+
+ *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
+ without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) mod_ssl: Change default for SSLCompression to off, as compression
+ causes security issues in most setups. (The so called "CRIME" attack).
+ [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) syslog logging: Remove stray ", referer" at the end of some messages.
+ [Jeff Trawick]
+
+ *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
+ [Jeff Trawick]
+
+ *) "Iterate" directives: Report an error if no arguments are provided.
+ [Jeff Trawick]
+
+ *) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more
+ secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas
+ paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires
+ apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve
+ error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,
+ e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]
+
+ *) ab: add TLS1.1/TLS1.2 options to -f switch, and adapt output
+ to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.
+ [Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]
+
+ *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
+ [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
+
+ *) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.
+ PR 48357. [Jeff Trawick]
+
+ *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
+ module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
+
+ *) mod_headers: New params: %l for load averages, %i for an
+ idle percentage rating of httpd, and %b for a busy percentage
+ rating. [Jim Jagielski]
+
+ *) core: New functions to obtain load parameters: ap_get_sload()
+ and ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski]
+
+ *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
+ that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
+ Leggett]
+
+ *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
+ AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
+ AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
+
+ *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
+ to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
+
+ *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
+ balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
+ [Jim Jagielski]
+
+ *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
+ allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
+
+ *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
+ not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
+
+ *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
+ filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
+
+ *) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
+ [Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
+
+ *) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
+ PR 53006. [Joe Orton]
+
+ *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
+ to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
+ or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
+
+ *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
+ SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
+ [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
+
+ *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
+ a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
+
+ *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
+ with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
+
+ *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
+ mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
+ PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
*) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
- APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
- core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
mutexes (Mutex)
+ - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
- mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
- mod_ldap: shared memory cache
- mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
*) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
- *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaAuthzProvider to allow implementing an
- authorization provider in lua. [Stefan Fritsch]
-
*) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
- *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't try a potentially expensive nested groups
- search before exhausting all AuthLDAPGroupAttribute checks on the
- current group. PR52464 [Eric Covener]
-
*) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
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