APACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
-Last modified at [$Date: 2001/11/21 18:19:06 $]
+Last modified at [$Date: 2002/01/02 08:05:15 $]
Release:
- 2.0.29 :
+ 2.0.30 : In development
+ 2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001
2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001
2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001
2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
+ * ap_directory_walk skips some per-dir config merge functions
+ if there is no "<Directory />" block in the configuration
+ Message-ID: <m3itbdiijq.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>
+
+ * Test suite failures:
+ o perchild doesn't even build
+ o both worker and prefork are failing some of the 'chunked' subtests
+ o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests
+ (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):
+
* If any request gets to the core handler, without a flag that this
r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very
end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing. This provides
administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)
extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted
before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of
- filename extensions. Add...FilterByType will add to this quandry.
- Some sort of resolution needs to be proposed,
+ filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems
+ like the quickest fix for a 2.0 gold release.
* mod_negotiation needs a new option or directive, something like
ForceLanguagePriority, to fall back to the LanguagePriority
Status: Bill has some code in his tree that accomplishes
this, and will commit it Friday after it's tested.
- * revamp the input filter syntax to provide for ordering of
- filters created with the Set{Input|Output}Filter and the
- Add{Input|Output}Filter directives. At minimum, some sort
- of insert first v.s. append to end or 'relative to x' is
- probably needed.
+ * Fold mod_auth_db features back into mod_auth_dbm, and depricate it.
+ This can't wait until we have a 2.0-gold release, if folks need
+ to move over to auth_dbm, we can't do that to them after 2.0 gold.
+ Status: Ian says.. auth_dbm can now handle multiple DBM types,
+ is this still an issue?
+ Vote: Remove mod_auth_db
+ +1: Justin
+
+ * Convert all instances of the old apr_lock_t type to the new
+ types (once they are fully supported in APR).
+ Status: Aaron is working on converting INTRAPROCESS
+ to apr_thread_mutex_t types. Full replacements for
+ LOCKALL and CROSS_PROCESS are not yet complete on all
+ platforms, and should only be used in MPMs like worker
+ with limited OS exposure.
+
+ * ap_create_scoreboard() can exit the process, leaving stuff like
+ mod_cgid's daemon process stranded. Either ap_create_scoreboard()
+ needs to be called at a different time or the pre-mpm hook needs
+ to be able to return an error code.
+
+RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
+
+ * Handling of %2f in URIs. Currently both 1.3 and 2.0
+ completely disallow %2f in the request URI path (see
+ ap_unescape_url() in util.c). It's permitted and passed
+ through in the query string, however. Roy says the
+ original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,
+ was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to
+ a filesystem location and which might be tricked by
+ ..%2f..%2f(...). We *should* allow path-info of the
+ form 'http://foo.com/index.cgi/path/to/path%2finfo'.
+ Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path
+ segments, it would be nice to allow this, or at least
+ allow it conditionally with a directive.
+
+ * FreeBSD, threads, and worker MPM. All seems to work fine
+ if you only have one worker process with many threads. Add
+ a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be
+ lost. This might be an APR issue with how it deals with
+ the child_init hook (i.e. the fcntl lock needs to be resynced).
+ More examination and analysis is required.
+
+ * There is increasing demand from module writers for an API
+ that will allow them to control the server à la apachectl.
+ Reasons include sole-function servers that need to die if
+ an external dependency (e.g., a database) fails, et cetera.
+ Perhaps something in the (ever more abused) scoreboard?
+ rbb: I don't believe the scoreboard is the correct mechanism
+ for this. We already have a pipe that goes between parent
+ and child for graceful shutdown events, along with an API that
+ can be used to send a message down that pipe. In threaded MPMs,
+ it is easy enough to make that one pipe be used for graceful
+ and graceless events, and it is also easy to open that pipe
+ to both parent and child for writing. Then we just need to figure
+ out how to do graceless on non-threaded MPMs.
* revamp the input filter behavior, per discussions since
February (and especially at the hackathon last
- thoughts on filter modes:
Message-ID: <021b01c14dee$09782af0$93c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
- * Fold mod_auth_db features back into mod_auth_dbm, and depricate it.
- This can't wait until we have a 2.0-gold release, if folks need
- to move over to auth_dbm, we can't do that to them after 2.0 gold.
-
- * Convert all instances of the old apr_lock_t type to the new
- types (once they are fully supported in APR).
- Status: Aaron is working on converting INTRAPROCESS
- to apr_thread_mutex_t types. Full replacements for
- LOCKALL and CROSS_PROCESS are not yet complete on all
- platforms, and should only be used in MPMs like worker
- with limited OS exposure.
-
-RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
-
- * Source code should follow style guidelines.
- This shouldn't wait until we have a 2.0-gold release because
- then style corrections will conflict with bug fixes found after
- release which is not nice.
-
* Allow the DocumentRoot directive within <Location > scopes? This
allows the beloved (crusty) Alias /foo/ /somepath/foo/ followed
by a <Directory /somepath/foo> to become simply
server-info or server-status.
This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.
- * add mod_gz to httpd-2.0 (in modules/experimental/)
- +1: Greg, Justin, ben, Ken, Jeff, Bill, Ian
- 0: Cliff (there's now another candidate to be evaluated)
- 0: Jim, Aaron (premature decision at present, IMO)
- -0: Doug, Ryan
-
- * daedalus: mod_cgid and suexec have a problem co-existing. suexec
- sees a null command string sometimes. The problem happens when
- you access bugs.apache.org, then click on the "search the bug db"
- button.
-
* Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache
goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the
child's-child processes in the parent process.
a userlist via dbm, which has to remain readable between
builds/machines, etc. The use-multiple database schema
for apr-util would let us do this with just apr, though."
+ Ian says: "multi-dbm is in, but it still has ndbm support hardcoded
+ is this still required? isn't ndbm supported via gdbm?"
+
* Integrate mod_dav.
Some additional items remaining:
-0: Aaron (premature decision, needs more discussion)
-0: Cliff (I think the default config should be the safest possible)
+ * Fix the worker MPM to use POD to kill child processes instead
+ of ap_os_killpg, regardless of how they should die. (Ryan Bloom)
+
PRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
put them into 'the next release':
projects / apache / blobdiff