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  *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-2687 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_negotiation: Escape filenames in variant list to prevent an
     possible XSS for a site where untrusted users can upload files to
     a location with MultiViews enabled. [Niels Heinen <heinenn google.com>]

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  *) mod_cache: Set content type in case we return stale content.
     [Ruediger Pluem]

  *) Windows: Fix SSL failures on windows with AcceptFilter https none.
  *) ab: Fix read failure when targeting SSL server.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
     - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
       mutexes (Mutex)
     - mod_auth_digest: shared memory file
     - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
     - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
     - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
     - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
     [Jeff Trawick, Jim Jagielski]
  *) 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]

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  *) 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>]

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  *) 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]

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  *) core: Add the port number to the vhost's name in the scoreboard.
     [Stefan Fritsch]

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  *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyPassReverse for balancer configurations.
     PR 45434.  [Joe Orton]

  *) 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]

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  *) ab: Fix bind() errors.  [Joe Orton]

  *) 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]

  *) mpm_ssl: Fix handling of empty response from OCSP server.
     [Jim Meyering <meyering redhat.com>, Joe Orton]

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  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

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  *) core: Fix segfault in logging if r->useragent_addr or c->client_addr is
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     unset. PR 53265. [Stefan Fritsch]
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  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

  *) 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]
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  *) 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]

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  *) 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>]

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  *) mod_sed: Don't define PATH_MAX to a potentially undefined value, causing
     compile problems on GNU hurd. [Stefan Fritsch]

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  *) core: Add ap_runtime_dir_relative() and DefaultRuntimeDir.
     [Jeff Trawick]

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  *) core: Fix breakage of Listen directives with MPMs that use a
     per-directory config. PR 52904. [Stefan Fritsch]

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  *) 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]

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  *) core: In AllowOverrideList, do not allow 'None' together with other
     directives. PR 52823. [Stefan Fritsch]

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  *) mod_slotmem_shm: Support DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR for file-based shm.
     [Jim Jagielski]

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  *) core: Fix merging of AllowOverrideList and ContentDigest.
     [Stefan Fritsch]

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  *) 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]

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  *) mod_dumpio: Properly handle errors from subsequent input filters.
     PR 52914. [Stefan Fritsch]
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  *) 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.
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     PR 52845. [Eric Covener]
  *) mod_xml2enc: Fix broken handling of EOS buckets which could lead to
     response headers not being sent. PR 52766. [Stefan Fritsch]

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  *) mod_ssl: Properly free the GENERAL_NAMEs. PR 32652. [Kaspar Brand]
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  *) core: Check during config test that directories for the access
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     logs actually exist. PR 29941. [Stefan Fritsch]
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  *) mod_xml2enc, mod_proxy_html: Enable per-module loglevels.
     [Stefan Fritsch]

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  *) mod_filter: Fix segfault with AddOutputFilterByType. PR 52755.
     [Stefan Fritsch]

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  *) 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]
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  *) 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]

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Changes with Apache 2.4.1

  *) 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]

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  *) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix crash on Windows. PR 52402 [Mladen Turk]

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  *) 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]

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  *) 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]
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  *) Fix building against external apr plus apr-util if apr is not installed
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     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]

Changes with Apache 2.4.0

  *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0031 (cve.mitre.org)
     Fix scoreboard issue which could allow an unprivileged child process
     could 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.
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     PR 52256.  [Rainer Canavan <rainer-apache 7val com>]
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  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

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  *) Move ab, logresolve, httxt2dbm and apxs to bin from sbin, along with
     corresponding man pages. [Graham Leggett]

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  *) 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]
Changes with Apache 2.3.16
  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

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  *) 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>]

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  *) mod_session_crypto: Add a SessionCryptoPassphraseFile directive so that
     the administrator can hide the keys from the configuration. [Graham
     Leggett]

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  *) 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]

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  *) ap_pass_brigade_fchk() function added. [Jim Jagielski]

  *) core: Pass ap_errorlog_info struct to error log hook. [Stefan Fritsch]

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  *) 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]

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  *) 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]
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  *) 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]

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  *) mod_ssl: drop support for the SSLv2 protocol. [Kaspar Brand]

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  *) 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]

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  *) Server directive display (-L): Include directives of DSOs.
     [Jeff Trawick]

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  *) mod_cache: Make sure we merge headers correctly when we handle a
     non cacheable conditional response. PR52120. [Graham Leggett]

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  *) Pre GA removal of components that will not be included:
     - 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]

  *) 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]
  *) mod_usertrack: Use random value instead of remote IP address.
     [Stefan Fritsch]
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Changes with Apache 2.3.15

  *) 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.
     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]

  *) mod_reqtimeout: Change the default to set some reasonable timeout
     values. [Stefan Fritsch]

  *) 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]

  *) 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>]

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  *) 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]

  *) core, mod_actions, mod_asis: Downgrade error log messages which accompany
     a 404 request status from loglevel error to info. PR: 35768. [Stefan
     Fritsch]

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  *) core: Fix hook sorting with Perl modules. PR: 45076. [Torsten Foertsch
  *) 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>,
  *) 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.
  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

  *) 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
     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]

  *) mod_proxy_http, mod_proxy_connect: Add 'proxy-status' and
     'proxy-source-port' request notes for logging. PR 30195. [Stefan Fritsch]

  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

  *) 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]

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  *) 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]

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Changes with Apache 2.3.13

  *) 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]

  *) 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>,
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  *) 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]

  *) 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]

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  *) 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]
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Changes with Apache 2.3.12

  *) 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
     <jayvdb gmail.com>, Jeff Trawick]

  *) 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>]

  *) 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]
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Changes with Apache 2.3.11

  *) 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]

  *) 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]

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  *) 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]