From: Ryan Bloom Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:02:06 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Commit the Announcement for people to review before we go beta. X-Git-Tag: APACHE_2_0_BETA_CANDIDATE_1~380 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7cc0697854187fb442a17b26fc2aa15d1057dabe;p=apache Commit the Announcement for people to review before we go beta. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@87454 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- diff --git a/Announcement b/Announcement index 2ae3a1e7f3..1953ac2087 100644 --- a/Announcement +++ b/Announcement @@ -1,11 +1,9 @@ -Apache 2.0alpha9 Released +Apache 2.0beta1 Released ------------------------- -The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the ninth public -alpha release of Apache 2.0. This is scheduled to be the last alpha release, -although we will not release a beta until it is ready, so we may require -another alpha. +After two long years of development he Apache Group is pleased to announce +the release of the first public beta 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 @@ -16,27 +14,12 @@ our early testing, on some versions of Unix. With this version of Apache, we have also added support for filtered I/O. This allows modules to modify the output of other modules before it is sent to the client. This release also greatly improves the performance and robustness of Apache on the -Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Lastly we are proud to announce -support for BeOS in this version of the server. - -Included in this alpha is a pre-alpha version of mod_proxy. Mod_proxy -is not at the same level as the rest of the server, and should be enabled -only by people who are very interested in working with the code. Mod_proxy -has lost some functionality in this alpha, because of a code re-org, the -maintainers are working to get mod_proxy running again. - -Apache 2.0a9 under UNIX has undergone some testing, but there are some -known issues in the current release (hey, it is an "alpha" for a -reason!). It is intended for developers and experienced Apache HTTPD -administrators to play around with and work on. It is not a production -release. If you do not feel comfortable compiling and working with -code, the Apache Group strongly recommends that you wait for a more -stable beta release before you try this version. - -Apache 2.0a9 under Windows has undergone some testing as well. There -are known issues in the current release with regards to Apache on windows -95 and 98. We are working through those problems, and hope to have them -fixed for future releases of the 2.0 alpha. +Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. This beta includes support for IPv6 +on all platforms that support IPv6. + +This version of Apache is known to work on many versions of Unix, BeOS, +OS/2, and Windows. Because of many of the advancements in Apache 2.0, +Apache performs equally on all supported platforms. There are new snapshots of the Apache httpd source available every 6 hours from http://dev.apache.org/from-cvs/apache-2.0/ - please @@ -52,81 +35,57 @@ Internet web servers. For more information, please check out http://www.apache.org/httpd.html -Changes with Apache 2.0a9 - - *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users - to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@ - and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories. - [William Rowe] - - *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with - functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily. - The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function - combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include - parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a - hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes - all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then - responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back - to mod_include for further processing. - [Paul J. Reder ] - - *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has - fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed from the parameter list because all required information is available - via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a - normal source distribution with external install targets. - [Roy Fielding] - - *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create - two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation. - the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required - for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one - variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations, - so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based - on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment. - It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two - shmem memory blocks. - [Ryan Bloom] +Changes with Apache 2.0b1 + *) Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6, + Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the + Listen, NameVirtualHost, and directives support IPv6 + numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080"). + [Jeff Trawick] - *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of - functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure - time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file. Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those - functions that are valid on the platform we are building on. - [Ryan Bloom] + *) Modify the install directory layout. Modules are now installed in + modules/. Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but + we don't have any of those on Unix yet. All install directories + are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom] - *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config - [Sander van Zoest ] + *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom] - *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration. - [Jeff Trawick] + *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of + which modules linked into the server. This uses the same hack + for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the + necessary functions are linked. As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC + was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make + the scripts a bit easier. + [Ryan Bloom] - *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not - specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR). - The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM - files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases. - [Greg Stein] + *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout + on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies. [Jeff Trawick] - *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that - uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly. - [Paul Reder ] + *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and + be loadable into the server. Our new build/install mechanism expects + that all modules will have a common name format. The auth modules + didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly. + [Ryan Bloom] - *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the - output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore - skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom] + *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer + available. Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead. [Jeff Trawick] - *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the - format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in - the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be - used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with - the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format - of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick] + *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom] - *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the - rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this - condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski] + *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts + after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom] - *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter. - [Greg Ames] + *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a + content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to + have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we + can compute the content-length in the byterange filter. + [Ryan Bloom] + *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows. + [Allan Edwards] + + *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way + they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been + called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when + the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool. + [Jeff Trawick]