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<manualpage metafile="new_features_2_0.xml.meta">
-<title>Overview of new features in Apache 2.0</title>
+<title>Overview of new features in Apache HTTP Server 2.0</title>
<summary>
<p>This document describes some of the major changes between the
<dl>
<dt>Unix Threading</dt>
- <dd>On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache can
+ <dd>On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache httpd can
now run in a hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode. This
improves scalability for many, but not all configurations.</dd>
<dd>The build system has been rewritten from scratch to be
based on <code>autoconf</code> and <code>libtool</code>.
- This makes Apache's configuration system more similar to
+ This makes Apache httpd's configuration system more similar to
that of other packages.</dd>
<dt>Multiprotocol Support</dt>
- <dd>Apache now has some of the infrastructure in place to
+ <dd>Apache HTTP Server now has some of the infrastructure in place to
support serving multiple protocols. <module>mod_echo</module> has
been written as an example.</dd>
<dt>Better support for non-Unix
platforms</dt>
- <dd>Apache 2.0 is faster and more stable on non-Unix
+ <dd>Apache HTTP Server 2.0 is faster and more stable on non-Unix
platforms such as BeOS, OS/2, and Windows. With the
introduction of platform-specific <a
href="mpm.html">multi-processing modules</a> (MPMs) and the
implemented in their native API, avoiding the often buggy and
poorly performing POSIX-emulation layers.</dd>
- <dt>New Apache API</dt>
+ <dt>New Apache httpd API</dt>
<dd>The API for modules has changed significantly for 2.0.
Many of the module-ordering/-priority problems from 1.3 should
be gone. 2.0 does much of this automatically, and module ordering
is now done per-hook to allow more flexibility. Also, new calls
have been added that provide additional module capabilities
- without patching the core Apache server.</dd>
+ without patching the core Apache HTTP Server.</dd>
<dt>IPv6 Support</dt>
<dd>On systems where IPv6 is supported by the underlying
- Apache Portable Runtime library, Apache gets IPv6 listening
+ Apache Portable Runtime library, Apache httpd gets IPv6 listening
sockets by default. Additionally, the <directive
module="mpm_common">Listen</directive>, <directive module="core"
>NameVirtualHost</directive>, and <directive module="core"
<dt>Filtering</dt>
- <dd>Apache modules may now be written as filters which act on
+ <dd>Apache httpd modules may now be written as filters which act on
the stream of content as it is delivered to or from the
server. This allows, for example, the output of CGI scripts to
be parsed for Server Side Include directives using the
<dt>Native Windows NT Unicode Support</dt>
- <dd>Apache 2.0 on Windows NT now uses utf-8 for all filename
+ <dd>Apache httpd 2.0 on Windows NT now uses utf-8 for all filename
encodings. These directly translate to the underlying Unicode
file system, providing multilanguage support for all Windows
NT-based installations, including Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
<dt>Regular Expression Library Updated</dt>
- <dd>Apache 2.0 includes the <a href="http://www.pcre.org/">Perl
+ <dd>Apache
httpd 2.0 includes the <a href="http://www.pcre.org/">Perl
Compatible Regular Expression Library</a> (PCRE). All regular
expression evaluation now uses the more powerful Perl 5
syntax.</dd>
<dl>
<dt><module>mod_ssl</module></dt>
- <dd>New module in Apache 2.0. This module is an interface
+ <dd>New module in Apache httpd 2.0. This module is an interface
to the SSL/TLS encryption protocols provided by
OpenSSL.</dd>
<dt><module>mod_dav</module></dt>
- <dd>New module in Apache 2.0. This module implements the HTTP
+ <dd>New module in Apache httpd 2.0. This module implements the HTTP
Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) specification for
posting and maintaining web content.</dd>
<dt><module>mod_deflate</module></dt>
- <dd>New module in Apache 2.0. This module allows supporting
+ <dd>New module in Apache httpd 2.0. This module allows supporting
browsers to request that content be compressed before delivery,
saving network bandwidth.</dd>
<dt><module>mod_auth_ldap</module></dt>
- <dd>New module in Apache 2.0.41. This module allows an LDAP
+ <dd>New module in Apache httpd 2.0.41. This module allows an LDAP
database to be used to store credentials for HTTP Basic
Authentication. A companion module, <module>mod_ldap</module>
provides connection pooling and results caching.</dd>
<dt><module>mod_charset_lite</module></dt>
- <dd>New module in Apache 2.0. This experimental module allows
+ <dd>New module in Apache httpd 2.0. This experimental module allows
for character set translation or recoding.</dd>
<dt><module>mod_file_cache</module></dt>
- <dd>New module in Apache 2.0. This module includes the
- functionality of <code>mod_mmap_static</code> in Apache 1.3,
- plus adds further caching abilities.</dd>
+ <dd>New module in Apache httpd 2.0. This module includes the
+ functionality of <code>mod_mmap_static</code> in Apache HTTP
+ Server version 1.3, plus adds further caching abilities.</dd>
<dt><module>mod_headers</module></dt>
- <dd>This module is much more flexible in Apache 2.0. It can now
+ <dd>This module is much more flexible in Apache httpd 2.0. It can now
modify request headers used by <module>mod_proxy</module>, and
it can conditionally set response headers.</dd>
<dt><module>mod_auth_dbm</module></dt>
<dd>Now supports multiple types of DBM-like databases using the
- <directive module="mod_auth_dbm">AuthDBMType</directive>
+ <a href="../2.0/mod/mod_auth_dbm.html#AuthDBMType"><code>AuthDBMType</code></a>
directive.</dd>
</dl>
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