-Apache 1.3.6 Released
-=====================
-The Apache Software Foundation is pleased to announce the release of version
-1.3.6 of the Apache HTTP server.
+Apache 2.0alpha1 Released
+------------------------
+
+The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the first public
+alpha release of Apache 2.0.
+
+Apache 2.0 offers numerous enhancements, improvements and performance
+boosts over the 1.3 codebase. The most visible and noteworthy addition
+is the ability to run Apache in a hybrid thread/process mode on any
+platform that supports both threads and processes. This has shown to
+improve the scalability of the Apache HTTPD server significantly in our
+early testing, on some versions of Unix. This release also greatly
+improves the performance and robustness of Apache on Windows Operating
+Systems. Lastly we are proud to announce support for BeOS in this
+version of the server.
+
+Apache 2.0a1 under UNIX has undergone some testing, there are
+known issues in the current release, including at least one small memory
+leak. This should be considered a ``developers version'' including only
+the source and no pre-compiled binaries. It is anticipated that a
+binary-release will be available for the first beta release. If you do
+not feel comfortable compiling code, the Apache Group strongly recommends
+that you wait for a more stable beta release before you try this version.
+
+Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April
+of 1996. The February 2000 WWW server site survey by Netcraft (see:
+http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/) found that more web servers were
+using Apache than any other software, and Apache hit an all time high of,
+running on 58% of the Internet.
+
+The Apache project has been organized in an attempt to answer some of
+the concerns regarding active development of a public domain HTTP server
+for UNIX. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and
+extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the current
+HTTP standards.
+
+For more information, please check out http://www.apache.org/
-This new Apache version incorporates over 60 significant improvements
-to the server. Apart from portability and security fixes, documentation
-enhancements, performance improvements, and assorted other minor
-features or fixes notable changes are:
-
- - mod_log_config now supports conditional logging based upon
- environment variables and support for multiline entries.
-
- - New CustomLog directive %V: This logs the hostname according to the
- UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of %v).
-
- - Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text
- and DBM format mapfiles now uses a hash table with LRU functionality.
- Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
- The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite
- maps are in use.
-
- - Ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
-
- - New <LimitExcept> directive to allow the user to assign authentication
- control to any HTTP method that is *not* given in the argument list;
- i.e., the logical negation of the <Limit> directive.
-
- - Improved content negotiation.
-
- - New ScriptInterpreterSource directive to enable searching the
- Win32 registry for script interpreters.
-
- - The FAQ document was reorganised.
-
- - Overhauled ApacheBench benchmark program.
-
- - Several new API functions have been added.
-
-A complete listing with detailed descriptions is provided in the
-src/CHANGES file.
-
-We consider Apache 1.3.6 to be the best version of Apache available and
-we strongly recommend that users of older versions, especially of the
-1.1.x and 1.2.x family, upgrade as soon as possible. No further releases
-will be made in the 1.2.x family.
-
-
-Apache 1.3.6 is available for download from
-
- http://www.apache.org/dist/
-
-Please see the CHANGES_1.3 file in the same directory for a full
-list of changes.
-
-Binary distributions are available from
-
- http://www.apache.org/dist/binaries/
-
-As of Apache 1.3.6 binary distributions contain all standard Apache
-modules as shared objects (if supported by the platform) and include
-full source code. Installation is easily done by executing the
-included install script. See the README.bindist and INSTALL.bindist
-files for a complete explanation. Please note that the binary
-distributions are only provided for your convenience and current
-distributions for specific platforms are not always available.
-
-The source and binary distributions are also available via any of the
-mirrors listed at
-
- http://www.apache.org/mirrors/
-
-For an overview of new features in 1.3 please see
-
- http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_3.html
-
-In general, Apache 1.3 offers several substantial improvements
-over version 1.2, including better performance, reliability and a
-wider range of supported platforms, including Windows 95/98 and NT
-(which fall under the "Win32" label).
-
-Apache is the most popular web server in the known universe; over
-half of the servers on the Internet are running Apache or one of
-its variants.
-
-IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WIN32 USERS: Over the years, many users have
-come to trust Apache as a secure and stable server. It must
-be realized that the current Win32 code has not yet reached these
-levels and should still be considered to be of beta quality. Any
-Win32 stability or security problems do not impact, in any way,
-Apache on other platforms. With the continued donation of time
-and resources by individuals and companies, we hope that the Win32
-version of Apache will grow stronger through the 1.3.x release cycle.
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