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*) mod_cache: Invalidate cached entities in response to RFC2616 Section
13.10 Invalidation After Updates or Deletions. PR 15868 [Graham
Leggett]
*) mod_dav: Improve error handling in dav_method_put(), add new
dav_join_error() function. PR 54145. [Ben Reser <ben reser.org>]
*) mod_dav: Do not fail PROPPATCH when prop namespace is not known.
PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]
*) mod_dav: When a PROPPATCH attempts to remove a non-existent dead
property on a resource for which there is no dead property in the same
namespace httpd segfaults. PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz
<diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]
*) mod_dav: Sending an If or If-Match header with an invalid ETag doesn't
result in a 412 Precondition Failed for a COPY operation. PR54610
[Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]
*) mod_dav: Make sure that when we prepare an If URL for Etag comparison,
we compare unencoded paths. PR 53910 [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]
*) mod_deflate: Remove assumptions as to when an EOS bucket might arrive.
Gracefully step aside if the body size is zero. [Graham Leggett]
*) 'AuthGroupFile' and 'AuthUserFile' do not accept anymore the optional
'standard' keyword . It was unused and not documented.
PR54463 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs.ucsd.edu> and Christophe Jaillet]
Graham Leggett
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*) core: Do not over allocate memory within 'ap_rgetline_core' for
the common case. [Christophe Jaillet]
Graham Leggett
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*) core: speed up (for common cases) and reduce memory usage of
ap_escape_logitem(). This should save 70-100 bytes in the request
pool for a default config. [Christophe Jaillet]
*) mod_dav: Ensure URI is correctly uriencoded on return. PR 54611
[Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]
*) mod_proxy: Reject invalid values for Max-Forwards. [Graham Leggett,
Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
*) mod_cache: RFC2616 14.9.3 The s-maxage directive also implies the
semantics of the proxy-revalidate directive. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: add support for subjectAltName-based host name checking
in proxy mode (SSLProxyCheckPeerName). PR 54030. [Kaspar Brand]
*) core: Use the proper macro for HTTP/1.1. [Graham Leggett]
*) event MPM: Provide error handling for ThreadStackSize. PR 54311
[Tianyin Xu <tixu cs.ucsd.edu>, Christophe Jaillet]
*) mod_dav: Do not segfault on PROPFIND with a zero length DBM.
PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]
Graham Leggett
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*) core: Improve error message where client's request-line exceeds
LimitRequestLine. PR 54384 [Christophe Jaillet]
*) mod_macro: New module that provides macros within configuration files.
[Fabien Coelho]
Jim Jagielski
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*) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
that replaces mod_mem_cache known from httpd 2.2. [Graham
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Leggett]
*) htpasswd: Add -v option to verify a password. [Stefan Fritsch]
Jim Jagielski
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*) mod_proxy: Add BalancerInherit and ProxyPassInherit to control
whether Proxy Balancers and Workers are inherited by vhosts
(default is On). [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_authnz_ldap: Allow using exec: calls to obtain LDAP bind
password. [Daniel Ruggeri]
*) Added balancer parameter failontimeout to allow server admin
to configure an IO timeout as an error in the balancer.
[Daniel Ruggeri]
*) mod_auth_digest: Fix crashes if shm initialization failed. [Stefan
Fritsch]
*) htpasswd, htdbm: Fix password generation. PR 54735. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add workaround for gcc bug on sparc/64bit. PR 52900.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_setenvif: Fix crash in case SetEnvif and SetEnvIfExpr are used
together. PR 54881. [Ruediger Pluem]
*) htdigest: Fix buffer overflow when reading digest password file
with very long lines. PR 54893. [Rainer Jung]
*) ap_expr: Add the ability to base64 encode and base64 decode
strings and to generate their SHA1 and MD5 hash.
[Graham Leggett, Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_log_config: Fix crash when logging request end time for a failed
request. PR 54828 [Rainer Jung]
*) mod_ssl: Catch missing, mismatched or encrypted client cert/key pairs
with SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212, PR 54698.
[Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton, Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_ssl: Quiet FIPS mode weak keys disabled and FIPS not selected emits
in the error log to debug level. [William Rowe]
*) mod_cache_disk: CacheMinFileSize and CacheMaxFileSize were always
using compiled in defaults of 1000000/1 respectively. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: Respect DefaultRuntimeDir/
DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR for the heartbeat storage file. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_include: Use new ap_expr for 'elif', like 'if',
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*) mod_lua: Add some new functions: r:htpassword(), r:mkdir(), r:mkrdir(),
r:rmdir(), r:touch(), r:get_direntries(), r.date_parse_rfc().
[Guenter Knauf]
*) mod_lua: Add multipart form data handling. [Daniel Gruno]
*) mod_lua: If a LuaMapHandler doesn't return any value, log a warning
and treat it as apache2.OK. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_lua: Add bindings for apr_dbd/mod_dbd database access
[Daniel Gruno]
*) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
*) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
*) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
*) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
*) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
states with manageable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
*) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
[Daniel Gruno]
*) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-3499 (cve.mitre.org)
Various XSS flaws due to unescaped hostnames and URIs HTML output in
mod_info, mod_status, mod_imagemap, mod_ldap, and mod_proxy_ftp.
[Jim Jagielski, Stefan Fritsch, Niels Heinen <heinenn google com>]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-4558 (cve.mitre.org)
XSS in mod_proxy_balancer manager interface. [Jim Jagielski,
Niels Heinen <heinenn google com>]
*) mod_dir: Add support for the value 'disabled' in FallbackResource.
[Vincent Deffontaines]
*) mod_proxy_connect: Don't keepalive the connection to the client if the
backend closes the connection. PR 54474. [Pavel Mateja <pavel netsafe cz>]
*) mod_lua: Add bindings for mod_dbd/apr_dbd database access.
[Daniel Gruno]
Jim Jagielski
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*) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes made via the
balancer-manager between graceful/normal restarts and power
cycles. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_proxy: Fix startup crash with mis-defined balancers.
PR 52402. [Jim Jagielski]
*) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
*) htcacheclean: Fix potential segfault if "-p" is omitted. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_proxy_http: Honour special value 0 (unlimited) of LimitRequestBody
PR 54435. [Pavel Mateja <pavel netsafe.cz>]
*) mod_proxy_ajp: Support unknown HTTP methods. PR 54416.
[Rainer Jung]
*) htcacheclean: Fix list options "-a" and "-A".
[Rainer Jung]
*) mod_slotmem_shm: Fix mistaken reset of num_free for restored shm.
[Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_proxy: non-existence of byrequests is not an immediate error.
*) mod_proxy_balancer: Improve output of balancer-manager (re: Drn,
Dis, Ign, Stby). PR 52478 [Danijel <dt-ng rbfh de>]
*) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_dialup/mod_http: Prevent a crash in mod_dialup in case of internal
redirect. PR 52230.
*) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
[Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
*) ab: Support socket timeout (-s timeout).
[Guido Serra <zeph fsfe org>]
*) httxt2dbm: Correct length computation for the 'value' stored in the
DBM file. PR 47650 [jon buckybox com]
*) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
sections. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
at virtual host context or in Directory/Files/Location/If sections to
work properly in If sections that are not in a Directory/Files/Location.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
*) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_slotmem_*: Add in new fgrab() function which forces a grab and
slot allocation on a specified slot. Allow for clearing of inuse
array. [Jim Jagielski]
Graham Leggett
committed
*) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS
AAAA records. PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan
dyndns org>, <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_auth_form: Make sure that get_notes_auth() sets the user as does
get_form_auth() and get_session_auth(). Makes sure that REMOTE_USER
does not vanish during mod_include driven subrequests. [Graham
Leggett]
*) mod_cache_disk: Resolve errors while revalidating disk-cached files on
Windows ("...rename tempfile to datafile failed..."). PR 38827
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_proxy_balancer: Bring XML output up to date. [Jim Jagielski]
*) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more
secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas
paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
*) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires
apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve
error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,
e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
*) mod_rewrite: Stop mergeing RewriteBase down to subdirectories
unless new option 'RewriteOptions MergeBase' is configured.
PR 53963. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_header: Allow for exposure of loadavg and server load using new
format specifiers %l, %i, %b [Jim Jagielski]
*) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
requirement to version 6.0. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy: Add ability to configure the sticky session separator.
PR 53893. [<inu inusasha de>, Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_dumpio: Correctly log large messages
PR 54179 [Marek Wianecki <mieszek2 interia pl>]
*) core: Don't fail at startup with AH00554 when Include points to
a directory without any wildcard character. [Eric Covener]
Eric Covener
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*) core: Fail startup if the argument to ServerTokens is unrecognized.
[Jackie Zhang <jackie.qq.zhang gmail.com>]
*) mod_log_forensic: Don't log a spurious "-" if a request has been rejected
before mod_log_forensic could attach its id to it. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) rotatelogs: Omit the second argument for the first invocation of
a post-rotate program when -p is used, per the documentation.
[Joe Orton]
*) mod_session_dbd: fix a segmentation fault in the function dbd_remove.
*) core: Functions to provide server load values: ap_get_sload() and
ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski, Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>,
Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_ldap: Fix regression in handling "server unavailable" errors on
*) syslog logging: Remove stray ", referer" at the end of some messages.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) "Iterate" directives: Report an error if no arguments are provided.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_ssl: Change default for SSLCompression to off, as compression
causes security issues in most setups. (The so called "CRIME" attack).
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) ab: add TLS1.1/TLS1.2 options to -f switch, and adapt output
to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.
[Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]
*) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.
PR 48357. [Jeff Trawick]
*) prefork: Avoid logging harmless errors during graceful stop.
[Joe Orton, Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_proxy: When concatting for PPR, avoid cases where we
concat ".../" and "/..." to create "...//..." [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
*) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
*) httpd.conf: Removed the configuration directives setting a bad_DNT
environment introduced in 2.4.3. The actual directives are commented
out in the default conf file.
*) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
[Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
*) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
*) Windows: Fix output of -M, -L, and similar command-line options
which display information about the server configuration.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-3502 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_proxy_ajp, mod_proxy_http: Fix an issue in back end
connection closing which could lead to privacy issues due
to a response mixup. PR 53727. [Rainer Jung]
mod_negotiation: Escape filenames in variant list to prevent a
possible XSS for a site where untrusted users can upload files to
a location with MultiViews enabled. [Niels Heinen <heinenn google.com>]
*) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't try a potentially expensive nested groups
search before exhausting all AuthLDAPGroupAttribute checks on the
*) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaAuthzProvider to allow implementing an
authorization provider in lua. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Be less strict when checking whether Content-Type is set to
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" when parsing POST data,
Jim Jagielski
committed
or we risk losing data with an appended charset. PR 53698
[Petter Berntsen <petterb gmail.com>]
*) httpd.conf: Added configuration directives to set a bad_DNT environment
variable based on User-Agent and to remove the DNT header field from
incoming requests when a match occurs. This currently has the effect of
removing DNT from requests by MSIE 10.0 because it deliberately violates
the current specification of DNT semantics for HTTP. [Roy T. Fielding]
*) mod_socache_shmcb: Fix bus error due to a misalignment
in some 32 bit builds, especially on Solaris Sparc.
PR 53040. [Rainer Jung]
*) mod_cache: Set content type in case we return stale content.
[Ruediger Pluem]
*) Windows: Fix SSL failures on windows with AcceptFilter https none.
Jeff Trawick
committed
PR 52476. [Jeff Trawick]
*) ab: Fix read failure when targeting SSL server. [Jeff Trawick]
*) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
- mod_auth_digest: shared memory file
[Jeff Trawick]
*) htpasswd: Use correct file mode for checking if file is writable.
PR 45923. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Fix crash with dbd RewriteMaps. PR 53663. [Mikhail T.
<mi apache aldan algebra com>]
*) mod_ssl: Add new directive SSLCompression to disable TLS-level
compression. PR 53219. [Björn Jacke <bjoern j3e de>, Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_lua: Add a few missing request_rec fields. Rename remote_ip to
client_ip to match conn_rec. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_lua: Change prototype of vm_construct, to work around gcc bug which
causes a segfault. PR 52779. [Dick Snippe <Dick Snippe tech omroep nl>]
*) mpm_event: Don't count connections in lingering close state when
calculating how many additional connections may be accepted.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ssl: If exiting during initialization because of a fatal error,
log a message to the main error log pointing to the appropriate
virtual host error log. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy_ajp: Reduce memory usage in case of many keep-alive requests on
one connection. PR 52275. [Naohiro Ooiwa <naohiro ooiwa miraclelinux com>]
*) mod_proxy_balancer: Restore balancing after a failed worker has
recovered when using lbmethod_bybusyness. PR 48735. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_setenvif: Compile some global regex only once during startup.
This should save some memory, especially with .htaccess.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add the port number to the vhost's name in the scoreboard.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyPassReverse for balancer configurations.
*) mod_lua: Add the parsebody function for parsing POST data. PR 53064.
[Daniel Gruno]
*) apxs: Use LDFLAGS from config_vars.mk in addition to CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy: Fix memory leak or possible corruption in ProxyBlock
implementation. [Ruediger Pluem, Joe Orton]
*) mod_proxy: Check hostname from request URI against ProxyBlock list,
not forward proxy, if ProxyRemote* is configured. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_proxy_connect: Avoid DNS lookup on hostname from request URI
if ProxyRemote* is configured. PR 43697. [Joe Orton]
*) mpm_event, mpm_worker: Remain active amidst prevalent child process
resource shortages. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Add "strict" and "warnings" pragmas to Perl scripts. [Rich Bowen]
*) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
- core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
mutexes (Mutex)
[Jim Jagielski]
*) mpm_event: Don't do a blocking write when starting a lingering close
from the listener thread. PR 52229. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_so: If a filename without slashes is specified for LoadFile or
LoadModule and the file cannot be found in the server root directory,
try to use the standard dlopen() search path. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mpm_event, mpm_worker: Fix cases where the spawn rate wasn't reduced
after child process resource shortages. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mpm_prefork: Reduce spawn rate after a child process exits due to
unexpected poll or accept failure. [Jeff Trawick]
*) core: Log value of Status header line in script responses rather
than the fixed header name. [Chris Darroch]
*) mod_ssl: Fix handling of empty response from OCSP server.
[Jim Meyering <meyering redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
*) mpm_event: Fix handling of MaxConnectionsPerChild. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_authz_core: If an expression in "Require expr" returns denied and
references %{REMOTE_USER}, trigger authentication and retry. PR 52892.
[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.
*) mod_rewrite: Add "AllowAnyURI" option. PR 52774. [Joe Orton]
*) htdbm, htpasswd: Don't crash if crypt() fails (e.g. with FIPS enabled).
*) 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.
*) 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]
Jim Jagielski
committed
*) 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]
Stefan Fritsch
committed
*) 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
committed
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]
Stefan Fritsch
committed
*) mod_reqtimeout: Change the default to set some reasonable timeout
values. [Stefan Fritsch]
Stefan Fritsch
committed
*) 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]
Stefan Fritsch
committed
*) 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]
Stefan Fritsch
committed
*) core, mod_actions, mod_asis: Downgrade error log messages which accompany
a 404 request status from loglevel error to info. PR 35768. [Stefan
Stefan Fritsch
committed
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]
Eric Covener
committed
*) 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]