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[Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Always log if LimitRequestFieldSize triggers. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_deflate: Skip compression if compression is enabled at SSL level.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add missing HTTP status codes registered with IANA.
[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke gmx.de>, Rainer Jung]
*) mod_ldap: Treat the "server unavailable" condition as a transient
error with all LDAP SDKs. [Filip Valder <filip.valder vsb.cz>]
*) core: Fix spurious "not allowed here" error returned when the Options
directive is used in .htaccess and "AllowOverride Options" (with no
specific options restricted) is configured. PR 53444. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_authz_core: Fix parsing of Require arguments in <AuthzProviderAlias>.
PR 53048. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_log_config: Fix %{abc}C truncating cookie values at first "=".
PR 53104. [Greg Ames]
*) mod_ext_filter: Fix error_log spam when input filters are configured.
[Joe Orton]
*) mod_rewrite: Add "AllowAnyURI" option. PR 52774. [Joe Orton]
*) htdbm, htpasswd: Don't crash if crypt() fails (e.g. with FIPS enabled).
[Paul Wouters <pwouters redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
*) core: Use a TLS 1.0 close_notify alert for internal dummy connection if
the chosen listener is configured for https. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_proxy: Use the the same hostname for SNI as for the HTTP request when
forwarding to SSL backends. PR 53134.
[Michael Weiser <michael weiser.dinsnail.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
*) mod_info: Display all registered providers. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ssl: Send the error message for speaking http to an https port using
HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/0.9, and omit the link that may be wrong when
using SNI. PR 50823. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Fix segfault in logging if r->useragent_addr or c->client_addr is
*) log_server_status: Bring Perl style forward to the present, use
standard modules, update for new format of server-status output.
PR 45424. [Richard Bowen, Dave Brondsema, and others]
*) mod_sed, mod_log_debug, mod_rewrite: Symbol namespace cleanups.
[Joe Orton, André Malo]
*) core: Prevent "httpd -k restart" from killing server in presence of
config error. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_proxy_fcgi: If there is an error reading the headers from the
backend, send an error to the client. PR 52879. [Stefan Fritsch]
Changes with Apache 2.4.2
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0883 (cve.mitre.org)
envvars: Fix insecure handling of LD_LIBRARY_PATH that could lead to the
current working directory to be searched for DSOs. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_slotmem_shm: Honor DefaultRuntimeDir [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_ssl: Fix crash with threaded MPMs due to race condition when
initializing EC temporary keys. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Fix RewriteCond integer checks to be parsed correctly.
PR 53023. [Axel Reinhold <apache freakout.de>, André Malo]
*) mod_proxy: Add the forcerecovery balancer parameter that determines if
recovery for balancer workers is enforced. [Ruediger Pluem]
*) Fix MPM DSO load failure on AIX. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_proxy: Correctly set up reverse proxy worker. PR 52935.
[Petter Berntsen <petterb gmail.com>]
*) mod_sed: Don't define PATH_MAX to a potentially undefined value, causing
compile problems on GNU hurd. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add ap_runtime_dir_relative() and DefaultRuntimeDir.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) core: Fix breakage of Listen directives with MPMs that use a
per-directory config. PR 52904. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Disallow directives in AllowOverrideList which are only allowed
in VirtualHost or server context. These are usually not prepared to be
called in .htaccess files. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: In AllowOverrideList, do not allow 'None' together with other
directives. PR 52823. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_slotmem_shm: Support DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR for file-based shm.
[Jim Jagielski]
*) core: Fix merging of AllowOverrideList and ContentDigest.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_request: Fix validation of the KeptBodySize argument so it
doesn't always throw a configuration error. PR 52981 [Eric Covener]
*) core: Add filesystem paths to access denied / access failed messages
AH00035 and AH00036. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_dumpio: Properly handle errors from subsequent input filters.
PR 52914. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Unix MPMs: Fix small memory leak in parent process if connect()
failed when waking up children. [Joe Orton]
*) "DirectoryIndex disabled" now undoes DirectoryIndex settings in
the current configuration section, not just previous config sections.
*) mod_xml2enc: Fix broken handling of EOS buckets which could lead to
response headers not being sent. PR 52766. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ssl: Properly free the GENERAL_NAMEs. PR 32652. [Kaspar Brand]
*) core: Check during config test that directories for the access
*) mod_xml2enc, mod_proxy_html: Enable per-module loglevels.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_filter: Fix segfault with AddOutputFilterByType. PR 52755.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_session: Sessions are encoded as application/x-www-form-urlencoded
strings, however we do not handle the encoding of spaces properly.
Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
*) Configuration: Example in comment should use a path consistent
with the default configuration. PR 52715.
[Rich Bowen, Jens Schleusener, Rainer Jung]
*) Configuration: Switch documentation links from trunk to 2.4.
[Rainer Jung]
*) configure: Fix out of tree build using apr and apr-util in srclib.
[Rainer Jung]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0053 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix an issue in error responses that could expose "httpOnly" cookies
when no custom ErrorDocument is specified for status code 400.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix crash on Windows. PR 52402 [Mladen Turk]
*) core: Check during configtest that the directories for error logs exist.
PR 29941 [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Core configuration: add AllowOverride option to treat syntax
errors in .htaccess as non-fatal. PR 52439 [Nick Kew, Jim Jagielski]
*) core: Fix memory consumption in core output filter with streaming
bucket types like CGI or PIPE. [Joe Orton, Stefan Fritsch]
*) configure: Disable modules at configure time if a prerequisite module
is not enabled. PR 52487. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Rewrite and proxy now decline what they don't support rather
than fail the request. [Joe Orton]
*) Fix building against external apr plus apr-util if apr is not installed
in a system default path. [Rainer Jung]
*) Doxygen fixes and improvements. [Joe Orton, Igor Galić]
*) core: Fix building against PCRE 8.30 by switching from the obsolete
pcre_info() to pcre_fullinfo(). PR 52623 [Ruediger Pluem, Rainer Jung]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0031 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix scoreboard issue which could allow an unprivileged child process
to cause the parent to crash at shutdown rather than terminate
cleanly. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_ssl: Fix compilation with xlc on AIX. PR 52394. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0021 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_log_config: Fix segfault (crash) when the '%{cookiename}C' log format
string is in use and a client sends a nameless, valueless cookie, causing
a denial of service. The issue existed since version 2.2.17 and 2.3.3.
PR 52256. [Rainer Canavan <rainer-apache 7val com>]
*) mod_ssl: when compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1 or later, allow explicit
control of TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 through the SSLProtocol directive.
[Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_ssl: set OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN when compiling against OpenSSL 1.0.1
or later, to improve binary compatibility with future OpenSSL releases.
[Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_mime: Don't arbitrarily bypass AddOutputFilter during a ProxyPass,
but then allow AddOutputFilter during a RewriteRule [P]. Make mod_mime
behave identically in both cases. PR52342. [Graham Leggett]
*) Move ab, logresolve, httxt2dbm and apxs to bin from sbin, along with
corresponding man pages. [Graham Leggett]
*) Distinguish properly between the bindir and sbindir directories when
installing binaries. Previously all binaries were silently installed to
sbindir, whether they were system administration commands or not.
[Graham Leggett]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2011-4317 (cve.mitre.org)
Resolve additional cases of URL rewriting with ProxyPassMatch or
RewriteRule, where particular request-URIs could result in undesired
backend network exposure in some configurations.
[Joe Orton]
*) core: Limit line length in .htaccess to 8K like in 2.2.x, to avoid
additional DoS potential. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core, all modules: Add unique tag to most error log messages. [Stefan
Fritsch]
*) mod_socache_memcache: Change provider name from "mc" to "memcache" to
match module name. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_slotmem_shm: Change provider name from "shared" to "shm" to match
module name. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ldap: Fix segfault with Solaris LDAP when enabling ldaps. This
requires an apr-util fix in which is available in apr-util >= 1.4.0.
PR 42682. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Add the AllowNoSlash RewriteOption, which makes it possible
for RewriteRules to be placed in .htaccess files that match the directory
with no trailing slash. PR 48304.
[Matthew Byng-Maddick <matthew byng-maddick bbc.co.uk>]
*) mod_session_crypto: Add a SessionCryptoPassphraseFile directive so that
the administrator can hide the keys from the configuration. [Graham
Leggett]
*) Introduce a per request version of the remote IP address, which can be
optionally modified by a module when the effective IP of the client
is not the same as the real IP of the client (such as a load balancer).
Introduce a per connection "peer_ip" and a per request "client_ip" to
distinguish between the raw IP address of the connection and the effective
IP address of the request. [Graham Leggett]
*) ap_pass_brigade_fchk() function added. [Jim Jagielski]
*) core: Pass ap_errorlog_info struct to error log hook. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_cache_disk: Make sure we check return codes on all writes and
attempts to close, and clean up after ourselves in these cases.
PR43589. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_cache_disk: Remove the unnecessary intermediate brigade while
writing to disk. Fixes a problem where mod_disk_cache was leaving
buckets in the intermediate brigade and not passing them to out on
exit. [Florian S. <f_los_ch yahoo.com>, Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: use a shorter setting for SSLCipherSuite in the default
default configuration file, and add some more information about
configuring a speed-optimized alternative.
[Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_ssl: drop support for the SSLv2 protocol. [Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_lua: Stop losing track of all but the most specific LuaHook* directives
when multiple per-directory config sections are used. Adds LuaInherit
directive to control how parent sections are merged. [Eric Covener]
*) Server directive display (-L): Include directives of DSOs.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_cache: Make sure we merge headers correctly when we handle a
non cacheable conditional response. PR52120. [Graham Leggett]
- mod_noloris was superseded by mod_reqtimeout
*) core: Set MaxMemFree 2048 by default. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mpm_event: Fix assertion failure during very high load. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) configure: Additional modules loaded by default: mod_headers.
Modules moved from module set "few" to "most" and no longer loaded
by default: mod_actions, mod_allowmethods, mod_auth_form, mod_buffer,
mod_cgi(d), mod_include, mod_negotiation, mod_ratelimit, mod_request,
mod_userdir. [Rainer Jung]
*) mod_lua: Use the right lua scope when used as a hook. [Rainer Jung]
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*) configure: Only load the really imporant modules (i.e. those enabled by
the 'few' selection) by default. Don't handle modules enabled with
--enable-foo specially. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) end-generation hook: Fix false notification of end-of-generation for
temporary intervals with no active MPM children. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_ssl: Add support for configuring persistent TLS session ticket
encryption/decryption keys (useful for clustered environments).
[Paul Querna, Kaspar Brand]
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*) mod_usertrack: Use random value instead of remote IP address.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3348 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_proxy_ajp: Respond with HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED when the method is not
recognized. [Jean-Frederic Clere]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3192 (cve.mitre.org)
core: Fix handling of byte-range requests to use less memory, to avoid
denial of service. If the sum of all ranges in a request is larger than
the original file, ignore the ranges and send the complete file.
William A. Rowe Jr
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PR 51714. [Stefan Fritsch, Jim Jagielski, Ruediger Pluem, Eric Covener,
<lowprio20 gmail.com>]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3607 (cve.mitre.org)
core: Fix integer overflow in ap_pregsub. This can be triggered e.g.
with mod_setenvif via a malicious .htaccess. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3368 (cve.mitre.org)
Reject requests where the request-URI does not match the HTTP
specification, preventing unexpected expansion of target URLs in
some reverse proxy configurations. [Joe Orton]
*) configure: Load all modules in the generated default configuration
when using --enable-load-all-modules. [Rainer Jung]
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*) mod_reqtimeout: Change the default to set some reasonable timeout
values. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) core, mod_dav_fs: Change default ETag to be "size mtime", i.e. remove
the inode. PR 49623. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_lua: Expose SSL variables via r:ssl_var_lookup(). [Eric Covener]
*) mod_lua: LuaHook{AccessChecker,AuthChecker,CheckUserID,TranslateName}
can now additionally be run as "early" or "late" relative to other modules.
[Eric Covener]
*) configure: By default, only load those modules that are either required
or explicitly selected by a configure --enable-foo argument. The
LoadModule statements for modules enabled by --enable-mods-shared=most
and friends will be commented out. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_lua: Prevent early Lua hooks (LuaHookTranslateName and
LuaHookQuickHandler) from being configured in <Directory>, <Files>,
and htaccess where the configuration would have been ignored.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_lua: Resolve "attempt to index local 'r' (a userdata value)" errors
in LuaMapHandler scripts [Eric Covener]
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*) mod_log_debug: Rename optional argument from if= to expr=, to be more
in line with other config directives. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_headers: Require an expression to be specified with expr=, to be more
in line with other config directives. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_substitute: To prevent overboarding memory usage, limit line length
to 1MB. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_lua: Make the query string (r.args) writable. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_include: Add support for application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding
and decoding. [Graham Leggett]
*) rotatelogs: Add -c option to force logfile creation in every rotation
interval, even if empty. [Jan Kaluža <jkaluza redhat.com>]
*) core: Limit ap_pregsub() to 64K, add ap_pregsub_ex() for longer strings.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_session_crypto: Refactor to support the new apr_crypto API.
[Graham Leggett]
*) http: Add missing Location header if local URL-path is used as
ErrorDocument for 30x. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_buffer: Make sure we step down for subrequests, but not for internal
redirects triggered by mod_rewrite. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_lua: add r:construct_url as a wrapper for ap_construct_url.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_remote_ip: Fix configuration of internal proxies. PR 49272.
[Jim Riggs <jim riggs me>]
*) mpm_winnt: Handle AcceptFilter 'none' mode correctly; resolve specific
server IP endpoint and remote client IP upon connection. [William Rowe]
*) mod_setenvif: Remove OID match which is obsoleted by SetEnvIfExpr with
PeerExtList(). [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mpm_prefork, mpm_worker, mpm_event: If a child is created just before
graceful restart and then exits because of a missing lock file, don't
shutdown the whole server. PR 39311. [Shawn Michael
<smichael rightnow com>]
*) mpm_event: Check the return value from ap_run_create_connection.
PR: 41194. [Davi Arnaut]
*) mod_mime_magic: Add signatures for PNG and SWF to the example config.
PR: 48352. [Jeremy Wagner-Kaiser <jwagner-kaiser adknowledge com>]
*) core, unixd: Add -D DUMP_RUN_CFG option to dump some configuration items
from the parsed (or default) config. This is useful for init scripts that
need to setup temporary directories and permissions. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) core, mod_actions, mod_asis: Downgrade error log messages which accompany
a 404 request status from loglevel error to info. PR: 35768. [Stefan
Fritsch]
*) core: Fix hook sorting with Perl modules. PR: 45076. [Torsten Foertsch
Stefan Fritsch
committed
<torsten foertsch gmx net>]
*) core: Enforce LimitRequestFieldSize after multiple headers with the same
name have been merged. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ssl: If MaxMemFree is set, ask OpenSSL >= 1.0.0 to reduce memory
usage. PR 51618. [Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez opensuse org>,
Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ssl: At startup, when checking a server certificate whether it
matches the configured ServerName, also take dNSName entries in the
subjectAltName extension into account. PR 32652, PR 47051. [Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_substitute: Reduce memory usage and copying of data. PR 50559.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ssl/proxy: enable the SNI extension for backend TLS connections
[Kaspar Brand]
*) Add wrappers for malloc, calloc, realloc that check for out of memory
situations and use them in many places. PR 51568, PR 51569, PR 51571.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) Fix cross-compilation of mod_cgi/mod_cgid when APR_HAVE_STRUCT_RLIMIT is
false but RLIMIT_* are defined. PR51371. [Eric Covener]
*) core: Correctly obey ServerName / ServerAlias if the Host header from the
request matches the VirtualHost address.
PR 51709. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk.info>]
*) mod_unique_id: Use random number generator to initialize counter.
PR 45110. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add convenience API for apr_random. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add MaxRangeOverlaps and MaxRangeReversals directives to control
the number of overlapping and reversing ranges (respectively) permitted
before returning the entire resource, with a default limit of 20.
[Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_ldap: Optional function uldap_ssl_supported(r) always returned false
if called from a virtual host with mod_ldap directives in it. Did not
affect mod_authnz_ldap's usage of mod_ldap. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_filter: Instead of dropping the Accept-Ranges header when a filter
registered with AP_FILTER_PROTO_NO_BYTERANGE is present,
set the header value to "none". [Eric Covener, Ruediger Pluem]
*) core: Allow MaxRanges none|unlimited|default and set 'Accept-Ranges: none'
in the case Ranges are being ignored with MaxRanges none.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_ssl: revamp CRL-based revocation checking when validating
certificates of clients or proxied servers. Completely delegate
CRL processing to OpenSSL, and add a new [Proxy]CARevocationCheck
directive for controlling the revocation checking mode. [Kaspar Brand]
*) core: Add MaxRanges directive to control the number of ranges permitted
before returning the entire resource, with a default limit of 200.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_cache: Ensure that CacheDisable can correctly appear within
a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_cache: Fix the moving of the CACHE filter, which erroneously
stood down if the original filter was not added by configuration.
[Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: improve certificate error logging. PR 47408. [Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_authz_groupfile: Increase length limit of lines in the group file to
16MB. PR 43084. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Increase length limit of lines in the configuration file to 16MB.
PR 45888. PR 50824. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add API for resizable buffers. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) mod_ldap: Enable LDAPConnectionTimeout for LDAP toolkits that have
LDAP_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT instead of LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT, such
as Tivoli Directory Server 6.3 and later. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_ldap: Change default number of retries from 10 to 3, and add
Eric Covener
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an LDAPRetries and LDAPRetryDelay directives. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't retry during authentication, because this just
multiplies the ample retries already being done by mod_ldap. [Eric Covener]
*) configure: Allow to explicitly disable modules even with module selection
'reallyall'. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Check validity of each internal (int:) RewriteMap even if the
RewriteEngine is disabled in server context, avoiding a crash while
referencing the invalid int: map at runtime. PR 50994.
[Ben Noordhuis <info noordhuis nl>]
*) mod_ssl, configure: require OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later. [Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_ssl: remove ssl_toolkit_compat layer. [Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_ssl, configure, ab: drop support for RSA BSAFE SSL-C toolkit.
[Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_usertrack: Run mod_usertrack earlier in the fixups hook to ensure the
cookie is set when modules such as mod_rewrite trigger a redirect. Also
use r->err_headers_out for the cookie, for the same reason. PR29755.
[Sami J. Mäkinen <sjm almamedia fi>, Eric Covener]
Stefan Fritsch
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*) mod_proxy_http, mod_proxy_connect: Add 'proxy-status' and
'proxy-source-port' request notes for logging. PR 30195. [Stefan Fritsch]
Stefan Fritsch
committed
*) configure: Enable ldap modules in 'all' and 'most' selections if ldap
is compiled into apr-util. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add ap_check_cmd_context()-check if a command is executed in
.htaccess file. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_deflate: Fix endless loop if first bucket is metadata. PR 51590.
[Torsten Foertsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
*) mod_authn_socache: Fix to work in .htaccess if not configured anywhere
in httpd.conf, and introduce an AuthnCacheEnable directive.
PR 51991 [Nick Kew]
*) mod_xml2enc: new (formerly third-party) module supporting
internationalisation for filters via smart charset sniffing
and conversion. [Nick Kew]
*) mod_proxy_html: new (formerly third-party) module to fix up
HTML links in a reverse proxy situation, where a backend
generates URLs that are not resolvable by Clients. [Nick Kew]
*) mod_proxy_ajp: Improve trace logging. [Rainer Jung]
*) mod_proxy_ajp: Respect "reuse" flag in END_REPONSE packets.
[Rainer Jung]
*) mod_proxy: enable absolute URLs to be rewritten with ProxyPassReverse,
e.g. to reverse proxy "Location: https://other-internal-server/login"
[Nick Kew]
*) prefork, worker, event: Make sure crashes are logged to the error log if
httpd has already detached from the console. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) prefork, worker, event: Reduce period during startup/restart where a
successive signal may be lost. PR 43696. [Arun Bhalla <arun shme net>]
*) mod_allowmethods: Correct Merging of "reset" and do not allow an
empty parameter list for the AllowMethods directive. [Rainer Jung]
*) configure: Update selection of modules for 'all' and 'most'. 'all' will
now enable all modules except for example and test modules. Make the
selection for 'most' more useful (including ssl and proxy). Both 'all'
and 'most' will now disable modules if dependencies are missing instead
of aborting. If a specific module is requested with --enable-XXX=yes,
missing dependencies will still cause configure to exit with an error.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ldap: Revert the integration of apr-ldap as ap_ldap which was done
in 2.3.13. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: For '*' or '_default_' vhosts, use a wildcard address of any
address family, rather than IPv4 only. [Joe Orton]
*) core, mod_rewrite, mod_ssl, mod_nw_ssl: Make the SERVER_NAME variable
include [ ] for literal IPv6 addresses, as mandated by RFC 3875.
PR 26005. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_negotiation: Fix parsing of Content-Length in type maps. PR 42203.
[Nagae Hidetake <nagae eagan jp>]
*) core: Add more logging to ap_scan_script_header_err* functions. Add
ap_scan_script_header_err*_ex functions that take a module index for
logging.
mod_cgi, mod_cgid, mod_proxy_fcgi, mod_proxy_scgi, mod_isapi: Use the
new functions in order to make logging configurable per-module.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_dir: Add DirectoryIndexRedirect to send an external redirect to
the proper index. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_deflate: Don't try to compress requests with a zero sized body.
PR 51350. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Fix startup on IPv6-only systems. PR 50592. [Joe Orton,
<root linkage white-void net>]
*) suexec: Add environment variables CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT, CONTEXT_PREFIX,
REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES, REDIRECT_SCRIPT_FILENAME, REQUEST_SCHEME to the
whitelist in suexec. PR 51499. [Graham Laverty <graham reg ca>,
Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Fix regexp RewriteCond with NoCase. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_log_debug: New module that allows to log custom messages at various
phases in the request processing. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ssl: Add some debug logging when loading server certificates.
PR 37912. [Nick Burch <nick burch alfresco com>]
*) configure: Support reallyall option also for --enable-mods-static.
[Rainer Jung]
*) mod_socache_dc: add --with-distcache to configure for choosing
the distcache installation directory. [Rainer Jung]
*) mod_socache_dc: use correct build variable MOD_SOCACHE_DC_LDADD
instead of MOD_SOCACHE_LDADD in build macro. [Rainer Jung]
*) mod_lua, mod_deflate: respect platform specific runpath linker
flag. [Rainer Jung]
*) configure: Only link the httpd binary against PCRE. No other support
binary needs PCRE. [Rainer Jung]
*) configure: tolerate dependency checking failures for modules if
they have been enabled implicitely. [Rainer Jung]
*) configure: Allow to specify module specific custom linker flags via
the MOD_XXX_LDADD variables. [Rainer Jung]
*) ab: Support specifying the local address to use. PR 48930.
[Peter Schuller <scode spotify com>]
*) core: Add support to ErrorLogFormat for logging the system unique
thread id under Linux. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) event: New AsyncRequestWorkerFactor directive to influence how many
connections will be accepted per process. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) prefork, worker, event: Rename MaxClients to MaxRequestWorkers which
describes more accurately what it does. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) rotatelogs: Add -p argument to specify custom program to invoke
after a log rotation. PR 51285. [Sven Ulland <sveniu ifi.uio.no>,
*) mod_ssl: Don't do OCSP checks for valid self-issued certs. [Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_ssl: Avoid unnecessary renegotiations with SSLVerifyDepth 0.
PR 48215. [Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_status: Display information about asynchronous connections in the
server-status. PR 44377. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mpm_event: If the number of connections of a process is very high, or if
all workers are busy, don't accept new connections in that process.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mpm_event: Process lingering close asynchronously instead of tying up
worker threads. [Jeff Trawick, Stefan Fritsch]
*) mpm_event: If MaxMemFree is set, limit the number of pools that is kept
around. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mpm_event: Fix graceful restart aborting connections. PR 43359.
[Takashi Sato <takashi lans-tv com>]
*) mod_ssl: Disable AECDH ciphers in example config. PR 51363.
[Rob Stradling <rob comodo com>]
*) core: Introduce new function ap_get_conn_socket() to access the socket of
a connection. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_data: Introduce a filter to support RFC2397 data URLs. [Graham
Leggett]
*) mod_userdir/mod_alias/mod_vhost_alias: Correctly set DOCUMENT_ROOT,
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT, CONTEXT_PREFIX. PR 26052. PR 46198.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Allow to override document_root on a per-request basis. Introduce
new context_document_root and context_prefix which provide information
about non-global URI-to-directory mappings (from e.g. mod_userdir or
mod_alias) to scripts. PR 49705. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) core: Add <ElseIf> and <Else> to complement <If> sections.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ext_filter: Remove DebugLevel option in favor of per-module loglevel.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_include: Make the "#if expr" element use the new "ap_expr" expression
parser. The old parser can still be used by setting the new directive
SSILegacyExprParser. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add some features to ap_expr for use by mod_include: a restricted
mode that does not allow to bypass request access restrictions; new
variables DOCUMENT_URI (alias for REQUEST_URI), LAST_MODIFIED; -A as an
alias for -U; an additional data entry in ap_expr_eval_ctx_t for use by
the consumer; an extensible ap_expr_exec_ctx() API that allows to use that
data entry. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_include: Merge directory configs instead of one SSI* config directive
causing all other per-directory SSI* config directives to be reset.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_charset_lite: Remove DebugLevel option in favour of per-module
loglevel. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add ap_regexec_len() function that works with non-null-terminated
strings. PR 51231. [Yehezkel Horowitz <horowity checkpoint com>]
*) mod_authnz_ldap: If the LDAP server returns constraint violation,
don't treat this as an error but as "auth denied". [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy_fcgi|scgi: Add support for "best guess" of PATH_INFO
for SCGI/FCGI. PR 50880, 50851. [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>,
Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_cache: When content is served stale, and there is no means to
revalidate the content using ETag or Last-Modified, and we have
mandated no stale-on-error behaviour, stand down and don't cache.
Saves a cache write that will never be read.
[Graham Leggett]
*) mod_reqtimeout: Fix a timed out connection going into the keep-alive
state after a timeout when discarding a request body. PR 51103.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add various file existance test operators to ap_expr.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy_express: New mass reverse-proxy switch extension for
mod_proxy. [Jim Jagielski]
*) configure: Fix script error when configuring module set "reallyall".
[Rainer Jung]
*) configure, core: Provide easier support for APR's hook probe
capability. [Jim Jagielski, Jeff Trawick]
*) Silence autoconf 2.68 warnings. [Rainer Jung]
*) mod_authnz_ldap: Resolve crash when LDAP is used for authorization only
[Scott Hill <shill genscape.com>]
*) support: Make sure check_forensic works with mod_unique_id loaded
[Joe Schaefer]
*) Add child_status hook for tracking creation/termination of MPM child
processes. Add end_generation hook for notification when the last
MPM child of a generation exits. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_ldap: Make LDAPSharedCacheSize 0 create a non-shared-memory cache per
process as opposed to disabling caching completely. This allows to use
the non-shared-memory cache as a workaround for the shared memory cache
not being available during graceful restarts. PR 48958. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Add new ap_reserve_module_slots/ap_reserve_module_slots_directive API,
necessary if a module (like mod_perl) registers additional modules late
in the startup phase. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Prevent segfault if DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT is reached. PR 51072.
[Torsten Förtsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
*) WinNT MPM: Improve robustness under heavy load. [Jeff Trawick]
*) MinGW build improvements. PR 49535. [John Vandenberg
*) core: Support module names with colons in loglevel configuration.
[Torsten Förtsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
*) mod_ssl, ab: Support OpenSSL compiled without SSLv2 support.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Abort if the MPM is changed across restart. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_proxy_ajp: Add support for 'ProxyErrorOverride on'. PR 50945.
[Peter Pramberger <peter pramberger.at>, Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_proxy_fcgi: Add support for 'ProxyErrorOverride on'. PR 50913.
[Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>, Jim Jagielski]
*) core: Change the APIs of ap_cfg_getline() and ap_cfg_getc() to return an
error code. Abort with a nice error message if a config line is too long.
Partial fix for PR 50824. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_info: Dump config to stdout during startup if -DDUMP_CONFIG is
specified. PR 31956. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Restore visibility of DEFAULT_PIDLOG to core and modules. MPM
helper function ap_remove_pid() added. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Enable DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR on Windows and NetWare. [various]
*) Correct C++ incompatibility with http_log.h. [Stefan Fritsch, Jeff
Trawick]
*) mod_log_config: Prevent segfault. PR 50861. [Torsten Förtsch
<torsten.foertsch gmx.net>]
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*) core: AllowEncodedSlashes new option NoDecode to allow encoded slashes
in request URL path info but not decode them. Change behavior of option
"On" to decode the encoded slashes as 2.0 and 2.2 do. PR 35256,
PR 46830. [Dan Poirier]
*) mod_ssl: Check SNI hostname against Host header case-insensitively.
PR 49491. [Mayank Agrawal <magrawal.08 gmail.com>]
*) mod_ldap: Add LDAPConnectionPoolTTL to give control over lifetime
of bound backend LDAP connections. PR47634 [Eric Covener]
*) mod_cache: Make CacheEnable and CacheDisable configurable per
directory in addition to per server, making them work from within
a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
*) worker, event, prefork: Correct several issues when built as
DSOs; most notably, the scoreboard was reinitialized during graceful
restart, such that processes of the previous generation were not
observable. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_win32: Added shebang check for '! so that .vbs scripts work as CGI.
Win32's cscript interpreter can only use a single quote as comment char.
[Guenter Knauf]
*) mod_proxy: balancer-manager now uses POST instead of GET.
[Jim Jagielski]
*) core: new util function: ap_parse_form_data(). Previously,
this capability was tucked away in mod_request. [Jim Jagielski]
*) core: new hook: ap_run_pre_read_request. [Jim Jagielski]
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*) modules: Fix many modules that were not correctly initializing if they
were not active during server startup but got enabled later during a
graceful restart. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Create new ap_state_query function that allows modules to determine
if the current configuration run is the initial one at server startup,
and if the server is started for testing/config dumping only.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy: Runtime configuration of many parameters for existing
balancers via the balancer-manager. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_proxy: Runtime addition of new workers (BalancerMember) for existing
balancers via the balancer-manager. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_cache: When a bad Expires date is present, we need to behave as if
the Expires is in the past, not as if the Expires is missing. PR 16521.
[Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
*) mod_cache: We must ignore quoted-string values that appear in a
Cache-Control header. PR 50199. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_dav: Revert change to send 501 error if unknown Content-* header is
received for a PUT request. PR 42978. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_cache: Respect s-maxage as described by RFC2616 14.9.3, which must
take precedence if present. PR 35247. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: Fix a possible startup failure if multiple SSL vhosts
are configured with the same ServerName and private key file.
[Masahiro Matsuya <mmatsuya redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
*) mod_socache_dc: Make module compile by fixing some typos.
PR 50735 [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>]
*) prefork: Update MPM state in children during a graceful stop or
restart. PR 41743. [Andrew Punch <andrew.punch 247realmedia.com>]
*) mod_mime: Ignore leading dots when looking for mime extensions.
PR 50434 [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add support to set variables with the 'Define' directive. The
variables that can then be used in the config using the ${VAR} syntax
known from envvar interpolation. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy_http: make adding of X-Forwarded-* headers configurable.
ProxyAddHeaders defaults to On. [Vincent Deffontaines]
*) mod_slotmem_shm: Increase memory alignment for slotmem data.
[Rainer Jung]
*) mod_ssl: Add config options for OCSP: SSLOCSPResponderTimeout,
SSLOCSPResponseMaxAge, SSLOCSPResponseTimeSkew.
[Kaspar Brand <httpd-dev.2011 velox.ch>]
*) mod_ssl: Revamp output buffering to reduce network overhead for
output fragmented into many buckets, such as chunked HTTP responses.
[Joe Orton]
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*) core: Apply <If> sections to all requests, not only to file base requests.
Allow to use <If> inside <Directory>, <Location>, and <Files> sections.
The merging of <If> sections now happens after the merging of <Location>
sections, even if an <If> section is embedded inside a <Directory> or
<Files> section. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy: Refactor usage of shared data by dropping the scoreboard
and using slotmem. Create foundation for dynamic growth/changes of
members within a balancer. Remove BalancerNonce in favor of a
per-balancer 'nonce' parameter. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_status: Don't show slots which are disabled by MaxClients as open.
PR: 47022 [Jordi Prats <jordi prats gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
*) mpm_prefork: Fix ap_mpm_query results for AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS and
AP_MPMQ_MAX_THREADS.
*) mod_authz_core: Fix bug in merging logic if user-based and non-user-based
authorization directives were mixed. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_authn_socache: change directive name from AuthnCacheProvider
to AuthnCacheProvideFor. The term "provider" is overloaded in
this module, and we should avoid confusion between the provider
of a backend (AuthnCacheSOCache) and the authn provider(s) for
which this module provides cacheing (AuthnCacheProvideFor).
[Nick Kew]
*) mod_proxy_http: Allocate the fake backend request from a child pool
of the backend connection, instead of misusing the pool of the frontend
request. Fixes a thread safety issue where buckets set aside in the
backend connection leak into other threads, and then disappear when
the frontend request is cleaned up, in turn causing corrupted buckets
to make other threads spin. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: Change the format of the SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_{I,S}_DN variables
to be RFC 2253 compatible, convert non-ASCII characters to UTF8, and
escape other special characters with backslashes. The old format can
still be used with the LegacyDNStringFormat argument to SSLOptions.
*) core, mod_rewrite: Make the REQUEST_SCHEME variable available to
scripts and mod_rewrite. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Allow to use arbitrary boolean expressions (ap_expr) in
RewriteCond. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Allow to unset environment variables using E=!VAR.
PR 49512. [Mark Drayton <mark markdrayton info>, Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_headers: Restore the 2.3.8 and earlier default for the first
argument of the Header directive ("onsuccess"). [Eric Covener]
*) core: Disallow the mixing of relative and absolute Options PR 33708.
[Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>]
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*) core: When exporting request headers to HTTP_* environment variables,
drop variables whose names contain invalid characters. Describe in the
docs how to restore the old behaviour. [Malte S. Stretz <mss apache org>]
*) core: When selecting an IP-based virtual host, favor an exact match for
the port over a wildcard (or omitted) port instead of favoring the one
that came first in the configuration file. [Eric Covener]
*) core: Overlapping virtual host address/port combinations now implicitly
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enable name-based virtual hosting for that address. The NameVirtualHost
directive has no effect, and _default_ is interpreted the same as "*".
Eric Covener
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[Eric Covener]
*) core: In the absence of any Options directives, the default is now
"FollowSymlinks" instead of "All". [Igor Galić]
*) rotatelogs: Add -e option to write logs through to stdout for optional
further processing. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: Correctly read full lines in input filter when the line is
incomplete during first read. PR 50481. [Ruediger Pluem]
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*) mod_authz_core: Add AuthzSendForbiddenOnFailure directive to allow
sending '403 FORBIDDEN' instead of '401 UNAUTHORIZED' if authorization
fails for an authenticated user. PR 40721. [Stefan Fritsch]