From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:21:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Updated the announcement from 1.3.6 to the 2.0 Ryan actually sent X-Git-Tag: APACHE_2_0_ALPHA_2~95 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e251f9cf53b5a6a4cf7c2c07ee153df2da6cf23;p=apache Updated the announcement from 1.3.6 to the 2.0 Ryan actually sent git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@84755 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- diff --git a/Announcement b/Announcement index ef20063374..eb79762d35 100644 --- a/Announcement +++ b/Announcement @@ -1,95 +1,40 @@ -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 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 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.