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  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: read the whole FCGI response even when the content
     has not been modified (HTTP 304) or in case of a precondition failure
     (HTTP 412) to avoid subsequent bogus reads and confusing
     error messages logged. [Luca Toscano]
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  *) mod_http2: h2 status resource follows latest draft, see
     http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-benfield-http2-debug-state-01.txt
     [Stefan Eissing]
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  *) mod_http2: handling graceful shutdown gracefully, e.g. handling existing
     streams to the end. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_proxy_{http,ajp,fcgi}: don't reuse backend connections with data
     available before the request is sent.  PR 57832.  [Yann Ylavic]

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  *) mod_proxy_balancer: Prevent redirect loops between workers within a
     balancer by limiting the number of redirects to the number balancer
     members. PR 59864 [Ruediger Pluem]

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  *) mod_proxy: Correctly consider error response codes by the backend when
     processing failonstatus. PR 59869 [Ruediger Pluem]

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  *) mod_dav: Add dav_get_provider_name() function to obtain the name
     of the provider from mod_dav.  [Graham Leggett]

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  *) mod_dav: Add support for childtags to dav_error.
     [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix 2.4.23 breakage for mod_rewrite per-dir and query
     string showing up in SCRIPT_FILENAME. PR59815

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  *) mod_include: Fix a potential memory misuse while evaluating expressions.
     PR59844. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_http2: new H2CopyFiles directive that changes treatment of file
     handles in responses. Necessary in order to fix broken lifetime handling
     in modules such as mod_wsgi.
  *) mod_http2: removing timeouts on master connection while requests are
     being processed. Requests may timeout, but the master only times out when
     no more requests are active. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: fixes connection flush when answering SETTINGS without any
     stream open. [Moto Ishizawa <@summerwind>, Stefan Eissing]
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Changes with Apache 2.4.23

  *) mod_ssl: reset client-verify state of ssl when aborting renegotiations.
     [Erki Aring <erki@example.ee>, Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_sed: Fix 'x' command processing. [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) configure: Fix ./configure edge-case failures around dependencies
     of mod_proxy_hcheck. [William Rowe, Ruediger Pluem, Jeff Trawick]
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Changes with Apache 2.4.22

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  *) mod_http2: fix for request abort when connections drops, introduced in
     1.5.8

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Changes with Apache 2.4.21

  *) core: Added support for HTTP code 451. PR 58985.
     [Yehuda Katz <yehuda ymkatz.net>, Jim Jagielski]

  *) ab: Use caseless matching for HTTP tokens (e.g. content-length). PR 59111.
     [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_http2: more rigid error handling in DATA frame assembly, leading
     to deterministic connection errors if assembly fails.
     [Stefan Eissing, Pal Nilsen <https://github.com/maedox>]

  *) abs: Include OPENSSL_Applink when compiling on Windows, to resolve
     failures under Visual Studio 2015 and other mismatched MSVCRT flavors.
     PR59630 [Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev ehrhardt.nl>]

  *) mod_ssl: Add "no_crl_for_cert_ok" flag to SSLCARevocationCheck directive
     to opt-in previous behaviour (2.2) with CRLs verification when checking
     certificate(s) with no corresponding CRL.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mpm_event, mpm_worker: Fix computation of MinSpareThreads' lower bound
     according the number of listeners buckets.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) Add ap_cstr_casecmp[n]() - placeholder of apr_cstr_casecmp[n] functions
     for case-insensitive C/POSIX-locale token comparison.
     [Jim Jagielski, William Rowe, Yann Ylavic, Branko Čibej]

  *) mod_userdir: Constify and save a few bytes in the conf pool when
     parsing the "UserDir" directive. [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_cache: Fix (max-stale with no '=') and enforce (check
     integers after '=') Cache-Control header parsing.
     [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) core: Add -DDUMP_INCLUDES configtest option to show the tree
     of Included configuration files.
     [Jacob Champion <champion.pxi gmail.com>]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Avoid passing a filename of proxy:fcgi:// as
     SCRIPT_FILENAME to a FastCGI server. PR59618.
     [Jacob Champion <champion.pxi gmail.com>]

  *) mod_dav: Add dav_get_provider_name() function to obtain the name
     of the provider from mod_dav.
     [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>]

  *) mod_proxy_http2: properly care for HTTP2 flow control of the frontend
     connection is HTTP/1.1. [Patch supplied by Evgeny Kotkov]
  *) mod_http2: improved cleanup of connection/streams/tasks to always
     have deterministic order regardless of event initiating it. Addresses
     reported crashes due to memory read after free issues.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_ssl: Correct the interaction between SSLProxyCheckPeerCN and newer
     SSLProxyCheckPeerName directives since release 2.4.5, such that disabling
     either disables both, and that enabling either triggers the new, more
     comprehensive SSLProxyCheckPeerName behavior. Only a single configuration
     remains to enable the legacy behavior, which is to explicitly disable
     SSLProxyCheckPeerName, and enable SSLProxyCheckPeerCN. [William Rowe]

  *) mod_include: add the <!--#comment ...> syntax in order to include comments
     in a SSI file. [Christophe Jaillet based on a suggestion from Rob]

  *) mod_http2: improved event handling for suspended streams, responses
     and window updates. [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_proxy_hcheck: Provide for dynamic background health
     checks on reverse proxies associated with BalancerMember
     workers. [Jim Jagielski]

  *) mod_http2: Fix async write issue that led to selection of wrong timeout
     vs. keepalive timeout selection for idle sessions. [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: checking LimitRequestLine, LimitRequestFields and
     LimitRequestFieldSize configurated values for incoming streams. Returning
     HTTP status 431 for too long/many headers fields and 414 for a too long
     pseudo header. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: tracking conn_rec->current_thread on slave connections, so
     that mod_lua finds the correct one. Fixes PR 59542. [Stefan Eissing]
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  *) mod_proxy_http2: new experimental http2 proxy module for h2: and h2c: proxy
     urls. Part of the httpd mod_proxy framework, common settings apply.
     Requests from the same HTTP/2 frontend connection against the same backend
     are aggregated on a single connection.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: slave connections have conn_rec->aborted flag set when a stream
     has been reset by the client. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: merge of some 2.4.x adaptions re filters on slave connections.
     Small fixes in bucket beams when forwarding file buckets. Output handling
     on master connection uses less FLUSH and passes automatically when more
     than half of H2StreamMaxMemSize bytes have accumulated.
     Workaround for http: when forwarding partial file buckets to keep the
     output filter from closing these too early. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: elimination of fixed master connection buffer for TLS
     connections. New scratch bucket handling optimized for TLS write sizes.
     File bucket data read directly into scratch buffers, avoiding one
     copy. Non-TLS connections continue to pass buckets unchanged to the core
     filters to allow sendfile() usage. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2/mod_proxy_http2: h2_request.c is no longer shared between these
     modules. This simplifies building on platforms such as Windows, as module
     reference used in logging is now clear. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) Scoreboard: Fix a regression in 2.4.20 that causes wrong request data
     to be displayed on the status page. PR 59333. [Yann Ylavic, William Rowe]

  *) mod_http2: fixed a bug that caused mod_proxy_http2 to be called for window
     updates on requests it had already reported done. Added synchronization
     on early connection/stream close that lets ongoing requests safely drain
     their input filters.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: scoreboard updates that summarize the h2 session (and replace
     the last request information) will only happen when the session is idle or
     in shutdown/done phase. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: new "bucket beam" technology to transport buckets across
     threads without buffer copy. Delaying response start until flush or
     enough body data has been accumulated. Overall significantly smaller
     memory footprint. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) core: New CGIVar directive can configure REQUEST_URI to represent the
     current URI being processed instead of always the original request.
     [Jeff Trawick]

  *) scoreboard/status: Restore behavior of showing workers' previous Client,
     VHost and Request values when idle, like in 2.4.18 and earlier.
  *) mod_http2: r->protocol changed to "HTTP/2.0" (was "HTTP/2") as this will
     give expected syntax in CGI's SERVER_PROTOCOL is more compatible with
     existing major/minor handling. Fixes PR 59313.
  *) mod_http2: disabling mmap for file buckets transport due to segmenation
     faults when files change on the fly.
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Changes with Apache 2.4.20

  *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-1546 (cve.mitre.org)
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     mod_http2: restricting number of concurrent stream workers per connection
     if client is slow.
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  *) core: Do not read .htaccess if AllowOverride and AllowOverrideList
     are "None". PR 58528.
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     [Michael Schlenker <msc contact.de, Ruediger Pluem, Daniel Ruggeri]
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  *) mod_proxy_express: Fix possible use of DB handle after close.  PR 59230.
     [Petr <pgajdos suse.cz>]
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  *) core/util_script: relax alphanumeric filter of environment variable names
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     on Windows to allow '(' and ')' for passing PROGRAMFILES(X86) et.al.
     unadulterated in 64 bit versions of Windows. PR 46751.
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     [John <john leineweb de>]

  *) mod_http2: incrementing keepalives on each request started so that logging
     %k gives increasing numbers per master http2 connection.
     New documented variables in env, usable in custom log formats: H2_PUSH,
     H2_PUSHED, H2_PUSHED_ON, H2_STREAM_ID and H2_STREAM_TAG.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: more efficient passing of response bodies with less contention
     and file bucket forwarding. [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: fix for missing score board updates on request count, fix for
     memory leak on slave connection reuse. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: Fix build on Windows from dsp files.
     [Stefan Eissing]

Changes with Apache 2.4.19

  *) mod_ssl: Add missing Upgrade/Connection headers in case of TRACE or
     OPTIONS * requests. PR 58688. [William Rowe]

  *) mod_include: Add variable DOCUMENT_ARGS, with the arguments to the
     request for the SSI document.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_authz_host: Add a new "forward-dns" authorization type, not relying on
     reverse DNS lookups.  [Fabien]

  *) mod_proxy_http2: new experimental http2 proxy module for h2: and h2c: proxy
     urls. Uses backend connections for concurrent requests if frontend
     connection is http2 as well.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_ssl: Add hooks to allow other modules to perform processing at
     several stages of initialization and connection handling.  See
     mod_ssl_openssl.h.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_http2: disabling PUSH when client sends GOAWAY. Slave connections are
     reused for several requests, improved performance and better memory use.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_rewrite: Don't implicitly URL-escape the original query string
     when no substitution has changed it (like PR50447 but server context)
     [Evgeny Kotkov <evgeny.kotkov visualsvn.com>]

  *) mod_http2: fixes problem with wrong lifetime of file buckets on main
     connection. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: fixes incorrect denial of requests without :authority header.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_reqtimeout: Prevent long response times from triggering a timeout once
     the request has been fully read.  PR 59045.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) ap_expr: expression support for variable HTTP2=on|off. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: give control to async mpm for keepalive timeouts only when
     no streams are open and even if only after 1 sec delay. Under load, event
     mpm discards connections otherwise too quickly. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_ssl: Don't lose track of the SSL context if an unlikely failure occurs
     in ssl_init_ssl_connection().  [Graham Leggett]
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  *) mod_rewrite: Add QSL|qslast flag to allow rewrites to files with
     literal question marks in their names. PR 58777. [Eric Covener]

  *) event: use pre_connection hook to properly initialize connection state for
     slave connections. use protocol_switch hook to initialize server config
     early based on SNI selected vhost.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) hostname: Test and log useragent_host per-request across various modules,
     including the scoreboard, expression and rewrite engines, setenvif,
     authz_host, access_compat, custom logging, ssl and REMOTE_HOST variables.
     PR55348  [William Rowe]
  *) core: Track the useragent_host per-request when mod_remoteip or similar
     modules track a per-request useragent_ip.  Modules should be updated
     to inquire for ap_get_useragent_host() in place of ap_get_remote_host().
     [William Rowe]

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  *) core: fix a bug in <UnDefine ...> directive processing. When used, the last
     <Define...>'ed variable was also withdrawn. PR 59019
     [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_http2: Accept-Encoding is, when present on the initiating request,
     added to push promises. This lets compressed content work in pushes.
     by the client. [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: fixed possible read after free when streams were cancelled early
     by the client. [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: fixed possible deadlock during connection shutdown. Thanks to
     @FrankStolle for reporting and getting the necessary data.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: fixed apr_uint64_t formatting in a log statement to user proper
  *) mod_http2: number of worker threads allowed to a connection is adjusting
     dynamically. Starting with 4, the number is doubled when streams can be
     served without block on http/2 connection flow. The number is halfed, when
     the server has to wait on client flow control grants.
     This can happen with a maximum frequency of 5 times per second.
     When a connection occupies too many workers, repeatable requests
     (GET/HEAD/OPTIONS) are cancelled and placed back in the queue. Should that
     not suffice and a stream is busy longer than the server timeout, the
     connection will be aborted with error code ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM.
     This does *not* limit the number of streams a client may open, rather the
     number of server threads a connection might use.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: allowing link header to specify multiple "rel" values,
     space-separated inside a quoted string. Prohibiting push when Link
     parameter "nopush" is present.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: reworked connection state handling. Idle connections accept a
     GOAWAY from the client without further reply. Otherwise the
     module makes a best effort to send one last GOAWAY to the client.
  *) mod_http2: the values from standard directives Timeout and KeepAliveTimeout
     properly are applied to http/2 connections.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: idle connections are returned to async mpms. new hook
     "pre_close_connection" used to send GOAWAY frame when not already done.
     Setting event mpm server config "by hand" for the main connection to
     the correct negotiated server.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: keep-alive blocking reads are done with 1 second timeouts to
     check for MPM stopping. Will announce early GOAWAY and finish processing
     open streams, then close.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: bytes read/written on slave connections are reported via the
     optional mod_logio functions. Fixes PR 58871.

  *) prefork: Initialize the POD when running in ONE_PROCESS (or -X) mode to
     avoid a crash.  [Jan Kaluza, Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_ssl: When SSLVerify is disabled (NONE), don't force a renegotiation if
     the SSLVerifyDepth applied with the default/handshaken vhost differs from
     the one applicable with the finally selected vhost.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) core: Ensure that httpd exits with an error status when the MPM fails
     to run.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_ssl: Fix a possible memory leak on restart for custom [EC]DH params.
     [Jan Kaluza, Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_ssl: Add SSLOCSPProxyURL to add the possibility to do all queries
     to OCSP responders through a HTTP proxy. [Ruediger Pluem]

  *) mod_proxy: Play/restore the TLS-SNI on new backend connections which
     had to be issued because the remote closed the previous/reusable one
     during idle (keep-alive) time.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_cache_socache: Fix a possible cached entity body corruption when it
     is received from an origin server in multiple batches and forwarded by
     mod_proxy.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) core: Add expression support to SetHandler.
     [Eric Covener]
  *) mod_remoteip: Prevent an external proxy from presenting an internal
     proxy. PR 55962. [Mike Rumph]

  *) core: Prevent a server crash in case of an invalid CONNECT request with
     a custom error page for status code 400 that uses server side includes.
     PR 58929 [Ruediger Pluem]

  *) mod_ssl: handle TIMEOUT on empty SSL input as non-fatal, returning
     APR_TIMEUP and preserving connection state for later retry.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_ssl: Save some TLS record (application data) fragmentations by
     including the last and subsequent suitable buckets when coalescing.
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     [Yann Ylavic]
  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Suppress HTTP error 503 and message 01075,
     "Error dispatching request", when the cause appears to be
     due to the client closing the connection.
     PR58118.  [Tobias Adolph <adolph lrz.de>]

  *) mod_cgid: Message AH02550, failure to flush a response to the client,
     is now logged at TRACE1 level to match the underlying core output filter
     severity.  [Eric Covener]

  *) mime.types: add common extension "m4a" for MPEG 4 Audio.
     PR 57895 [Dylan Millikin <dylan.millikin gmail.com>]

  *) Added many log numbers to log statements that had none.
     [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_log_config: Add GlobalLog to allow a globally defined log to
     be inherited by virtual hosts that define a CustomLog.
     [Edward Lu]
  *) mod_http2: connections how keep a "push diary" where hashes of already
     pushed resources are kept. See directive H2PushDiarySize for managing this.
     Push diaries can be initialized by clients via the "Cache-Digest" request
     header. This carries a base64url encoded. compressed Golomb set as described
     in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kazuho-h2-cache-digest/
     Introduced a status handler for HTTP/2 connections, giving various counters
     and statistics about the current connection, plus its cache digest value
     in a JSON record. Not a replacement for more HTTP/2 in the server status.
     Configured as
     <Location "/http2-status">
         SetHandler http2-status
     </Location>
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  *) mod_http2: Fixed flushing of last GOAWAY frame. Previously, that frame
     did not always reach the client, causing some to fail the next request.
     Fixed calculation of last stream id accepted as described in rfc7540.
     Reading in KEEPALIVE state now correctly shown in scoreboard.
     Fixed possible race in connection shutdown after review by Ylavic.
     Fixed segfault on connection shutdown, callback ran into a semi dismantled session.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: Added support for experimental accept-push-policy draft
     (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ruellan-http-accept-push-policy-00). Clients
     may now influence server pushes by sending accept-push-policy headers.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: new r->subprocess_env variables HTTP2 and H2PUSH, set to "on"
     when available for request.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: fixed bug in input window size calculation by moving chunked
     request body encoding into later stage of processing. Fixes PR 58825.
     [Stefan Eissing]
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  *) core: new hook "pre_close_connection" which is run before the lingering
     close of connections is started. This gives protocol handlers one last
     chance to use a connection before it goes down.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_status/scoreboard: showing connection protocol in new column, new
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     ap_update_child_status methods for updating server/description. mod_ssl
     sets vhost negotiated by servername directly.
     [Stefan Eissing]

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  *) mod_ssl: for all ssl_engine_vars.c lookups, fall back to master connection
     if conn_rec itself holds no valid SSLConnRec*. Fixes PR58666.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: connection level window for flow control is set to protocol
     maximum of 2GB-1, preventing window exhaustion when sending data on many
     streams with higher cumulative window size.
     Reducing write frequency unless push promises need to be flushed.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: required minimum version of libnghttp2 is 1.2.1
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_proxy_fdpass: Fix AH01153 error when using the default configuration.
     In earlier version of httpd, you can explicitelly set the 'flusher' parameter
     to 'flush' as a workaround. (i.e. flusher=flush)
     Add documentation for the 'flusher' parameter when defining a proxy worker.
     [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_ssl: For the "SSLStaplingReturnResponderErrors off" case, make sure
     to only staple responses with certificate status "good". [Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2PushPriority' to allow priority specifications
     on server pushed streams according to their content-type.
     [Stefan Eissing]
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  *) mod_http2: fixes crash on connection abort for a busy connection.
     fixes crash on a request that did not produce any response.
     [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: trailers are sent after response body if set in request_rec
     trailers_out before the end-of-request bucket is sent through the
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     output filters. [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: incoming trailers (headers after request body) are properly
     forwarded to the processing engine. [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2Push' to en-/disable HTTP/2 server
     pushes a server/virtual host. Pushes are initiated by the presence
     of 'Link:' headers with relation 'preload' on a response. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: write performance of http2 improved for larger resources,
     especially static files. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) core: if the first HTTP/1.1 request on a connection goes to a server that
     prefers different protocols, these protocols are announced in a Upgrade:
     header on the response, mentioning the preferred protocols.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: new directives 'H2TLSWarmUpSize' and 'H2TLSCoolDownSecs'
     to control TLS record sizes during connection lifetime.
     [Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2ModernTLSOnly' to enforce security
     requirements of RFC 7540 on TLS connections. [Stefan Eissing]
  *) core: add ap_get_protocol_upgrades() to retrieve the list of protocols
     that a client could possibly upgrade to. Use in first request on a
     connection to announce protocol choices. [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_http2: reworked deallocation on connection shutdown and worker
     abort. Separate parent pool for all workers. worker threads are joined
     on planned worker shutdown. [Yann Ylavic, Stefan Eissing]
  *) mod_ssl: when receiving requests for other virtual hosts than the handshake
     server, the SSL parameters are checked for equality. With equal
     configuration, requests are passed for processing. Any change will trigger
     the old behaviour of "421 Misdirected Request".
     SSL now remembers the cipher suite that was used for the last handshake.
     This is compared against for any vhost/directory cipher specification.
     Detailed examination of renegotiation is only done when these do not
     match.
     Renegotiation is 403ed when a master connection is present. Exact reason
     is given additionally in a request note. [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_ssl: Make the output filter more friendly with deferred write and
     response pipelining. [Yann Ylavic, Joe Orton]

  *) core: Fix scoreboard crash (SIGBUS) on hardware requiring strict 64bit
     alignment (SPARC64, PPC64).  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_cache: Accept HT (Horizontal Tab) when parsing cache related header
     fields as described in RFC7230. [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) core/util_script: making REDIRECT_URL a full URL is now opt-in
     via new 'QualifyRedirectURL' directive.

  *) core: Limit to ten the number of tolerated empty lines between request,
     and consume them before the pipelining check to avoid possible response
     delay when reading the next request without flushing.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_ssl: Extend expression parser registration to support ssl variables
     in any expression using mod_rewrite syntax "%{SSL:VARNAME}" or function
     syntax "ssl(VARNAME)". [Rainer Jung]
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  *) mod_http2: added donated HTTP/2 implementation via core module. Similar
     configuration options to mod_ssl. [Stefan Eissing]

  *) mod_proxy: don't recyle backend announced "Connection: close" connections
     to avoid reusing it should the close be effective after some new request
     is ready to be sent.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_substitute: Allow to configure the patterns merge order with the new
     SubstituteInheritBefore on|off directive.  PR 57641
     [Marc.Stern <Marc.Stern approach.be>, Yann Ylavic, William Rowe]

  *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxySourceAddress binding failure with AH00938.
     PR 56687.  [Arne de Bruijn <apache arbruijn.dds.nl>

  *) mod_ssl: Support compilation against libssl built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL3,
     and change the compiled-in default for SSL[Proxy]Protocol to "all -SSLv3",
     in accordance with RFC 7568. PR 58349, PR 57120. [Kaspar Brand]

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  *) mod_ssl: append :!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXP to the cipher string settings,
     instead of prepending !aNULL:!eNULL:!EXP: (as was the case in 2.4.7
     and later). Enables support for configuring the SUITEB* cipher
     strings introduced in OpenSSL 1.0.2. PR 58213. [Kaspar Brand]

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  *) mod_ssl: Add support for extracting the msUPN and dnsSRV forms
     of subjectAltName entries of type "otherName" into
     SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_SAN_OTHER_{msUPN,dnsSRV}_n environment
     variables. Addresses PR 58020. [Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora redhat.com>,
     Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_logio: Fix logging of %^FB (time to first byte) on the first request on
     an SSL connection.  PR 58454.
     [Konstantin J. Chernov <k.j.chernov gmail.com>]

  *) mod_cache: r->err_headers_out is not merged into
     r->headers when mod_cache is enabled and the response
     is cached for the first time. [Edward Lu]

  *) mod_slotmem_shm: Fix slots/SHM files names on restart for systems that
     can't create new (clear) slots while previous children gracefully stopping
     still use the old ones (e.g. Windows, OS2). mod_proxy_balancer failed to
     restart whenever the number of configured balancers/members changed during
     restart.  PR 58024.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) core/util_script: make REDIRECT_URL a full URL.  PR 57785. [Nick Kew]

  *) MPMs: Support SO_REUSEPORT to create multiple duplicated listener
     records for scalability. [Yingqi Lu <yingqi.lu@intel.com>,
     Jeff Trawick, Jim Jagielski, Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_alias: Introduce expression parser support for Alias, ScriptAlias
     and Redirect. Limit Redirect expressions to directory (Location) context
     and redirect statuses (implicit or explicit).
     [Graham Leggett, Yann Ylavic, Ruediger Pluem]

  *) mod_proxy: Fix a race condition that caused a failed worker to be retried
     before the retry period is over. [Ruediger Pluem]

  *) mod_autoindex: Allow autoindexes when neither mod_dir nor mod_mime are
     loaded. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_rewrite:  Allow cookies set by mod_rewrite to contain ':' by accepting
     ';' as an alternate separator.  PR47241.
     [<bugzilla schermesser com>, Eric Covener]

  *) apxs: Add HTTPD_VERSION and HTTPD_MMN to the variables available with
     apxs -q. PR58202. [Daniel Shahaf <danielsh apache.org>]

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  *) mod_rewrite: Avoid a crash when lacking correct DB access permissions
     when using RewriteMap with MapType dbd or fastdbd.  [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_authz_dbd: Avoid a crash when lacking correct DB access permissions.
     PR 57868. [Jose Kahan <jose w3.org>, Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_socache_memcache: Add the 'MemcacheConnTTL' directive to control how
     long to keep idle connections with the memcache server(s).
     Change default value from 600 usec (!) to 15 sec. PR 58091
     [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_dir: Prevent the internal identifier "httpd/unix-directory" from
     appearing as a Content-Type response header when requests for a directory
     are rewritten by mod_rewrite. [Eric Covener]
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Changes with Apache 2.4.16

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  *) http: Fix LimitRequestBody checks when there is no more bytes to read.
     [Michael Kaufmann <mail michael-kaufmann.ch>]
  *) mod_alias: Revert expression parser support for Alias, ScriptAlias
     and Redirect due to a regression (introduced in 2.4.13, not released).
  *) mod_reqtimeout: Don't let pipelining checks and keep-alive times interfere
     with the timeouts computed for subsequent requests.  PR 56729.
     [Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]

  *) core: Avoid a possible truncation of the faulty header included in the
     HTML response when LimitRequestFieldSize is reached.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_ldap: In some case, LDAP_NO_SUCH_ATTRIBUTE could be returned instead
     of an error during a compare operation. [Eric Covener]

Changes with Apache 2.4.15 (not released)
  *) mod_ext_filter, mod_charset_lite: Avoid inadvertent filtering of protocol
     data during read of chunked request bodies. PR 58049.
     [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]

  *) mod_ldap: Stop leaking LDAP connections when 'LDAPConnectionPoolTTL 0'
     is configured.  PR 58037.  [Ted Phelps <phelps gnusto.com>]

  *) core: Allow spaces after chunk-size for compatibility with implementations
     using a pre-filled buffer.  [Yann Ylavic, Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_ssl: Remove deprecated SSLCertificateChainFile warning.
     [Yann Ylavic]
Changes with Apache 2.4.14 (not released)
  *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-3183 (cve.mitre.org)
     core: Fix chunk header parsing defect.
     Remove apr_brigade_flatten(), buffering and duplicated code from
     the HTTP_IN filter, parse chunks in a single pass with zero copy.
     Limit accepted chunk-size to 2^63-1 and be strict about chunk-ext
     authorized characters.  [Graham Leggett, Yann Ylavic]
  *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-3185 (cve.mitre.org)
     Replacement of ap_some_auth_required (unusable in Apache httpd 2.4)
     with new ap_some_authn_required and ap_force_authn hook.  [Ben Reser]

Changes with Apache 2.4.13 (not released)
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  *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-0253 (cve.mitre.org)
     core: Fix a crash with ErrorDocument 400 pointing to a local URL-path
     with the INCLUDES filter active, introduced in 2.4.11. PR 57531.
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     [Yann Ylavic]
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  *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-0228 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_lua: A maliciously crafted websockets PING after a script
     calls r:wsupgrade() can cause a child process crash.
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     [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]

  *) mod_proxy: Don't put the worker in error state for 500 or 503 errors
     returned by the backend unless failonstatus is configured to.  PR 56925.
     [Yann Ylavic]

  *) core: Don't lowercase the argument to SetHandler if it begins with
     "proxy:unix". PR 57968. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_ssl OCSP Stapling: Don't block initial handshakes while refreshing
     the OCSP response for a different certificate.  mod_ssl has an additional
     global mutex, "ssl-stapling-refresh".  PR 57131 (partial fix).
     [Jeff Trawick]
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  *) mod_authz_dbm: Fix crashes when "dbm-file-group" is used and
     authz modules were loaded in the "wrong" order.  [Joe Orton]

  *) mod_authn_dbd, mod_authz_dbd, mod_session_dbd, mod_rewrite: Fix lifetime
     of DB lookup entries independently of the selected DB engine.  PR 46421.
     [Steven whitson <steven.whitson gmail com>, Jan Kaluza, Yann Ylavic].

  *) In alignment with RFC 7525, the default recommended SSLCipherSuite
     and SSLProxyCipherSuite now exclude RC4 as well as MD5. Also, the
     default recommended SSLProtocol and SSLProxyProtocol directives now
     exclude SSLv3. Existing configurations must be adjusted by the
     administrator. [William Rowe]

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  *) mod_ssl: Add support for extracting subjectAltName entries of type
     rfc822Name and dNSName into SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_SAN_{Email,DNS}_n
     environment variables. Also addresses PR 57207. [Kaspar Brand]

  *) dav_validate_request: avoid validating locks and ETags when there are
     no If headers providing them on a resource we aren't modifying.
     [Ben Reser]

  *) mod_proxy_scgi: ProxySCGIInternalRedirect now allows an alternate
     response header to be used by the application, for when the application
     or framework is unable to return Location in the internal-redirect
     form.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) core: Cleanup the request soon/even if some output filter fails to
     handle the EOR bucket.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mpm_event: Allow for timer events duplicates. [Jim Jagielski, Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_proxy, mod_ssl, mod_cache_socache, mod_socache_*: Support machine
     readable server-status produced when using the "?auto" query string.
     [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_status: Add more data to machine readable server-status produced
     when using the "?auto" query string.  [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_ssl: Check for the Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) availability at
     configure time (RAND_egd), and complain if SSLRandomSeed requires using
     it otherwise.  [Bernard Spil <pil.oss gmail com>, Stefan Sperling,
     Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_ssl: make sure to consistently output SSLCertificateChainFile
     deprecation warnings, when encountered in a VirtualHost block.
     [Falco Schwarz <hiding falco.me>]

  *) mod_log_config: Add "%{UNIT}T" format to output request duration in
     seconds, milliseconds or microseconds depending on UNIT ("s", "ms", "us").
     [Ben Reser, Rainer Jung]
  *) Allow FallbackResource to work when a directory is requested and
     there is no autoindex nor DirectoryIndex.
     [Jack <tjerk.meesters gmail.com>, Eric Covener]

  *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Bypass the handler while the connection is not
     upgraded to WebSocket, so that other modules can possibly take over
     the leading HTTP requests.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_http: Fix incorrect If-Match handling. PR 57358
     [Kunihiko Sakamoto <ksakamoto google.com>]

  *) mod_ssl: Add a warning if protocol given in SSLProtocol or SSLProxyProtocol
     will override other parameters given in the same directive. This could be
     a missing + or - prefix.  PR 52820 [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) core, modules: Avoid error response/document handling by the core if some
     handler or input filter already did it while reading the request (causing
     a double response body).  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix client connection errors handling and logged status
     when it occurs.  PR 56823.  [Yann Ylavic]

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  *) mod_proxy: Use the correct server name for SNI in case the backend
     SSL connection itself is established via a proxy server.
     PR 57139 [Szabolcs Gyurko <szabolcs gyurko.org>]

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  *) mod_ssl: Fix possible crash when loading server certificate constraints.
     PR 57694. [Paul Spangler <paul.spangler ni com>, Yann Ylavic]

  *) build: Don't load both mod_cgi and mod_cgid in the default configuration
     if they're both built.  [olli hauer <ohauer gmx.de>]

  *) mod_logio: Add LogIOTrackTTFB and %^FB logformat to log the time
     taken to start writing response headers. [Eric Covener]

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  *) mod_ssl: Avoid compilation errors with LibreSSL related to
     the use of ENGINE_CTRL_CHIL_SET_FORKCHECK.
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     [Stuart Henderson <sthen openbsd.org>]

  *) mod_proxy_http: Use the "Connection: close" header for requests to
     backends not recycling connections (disablereuse), including the default
     reverse and forward proxies.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_proxy: Add ap_connection_reusable() for checking if a connection
     is reusable as of this point in processing.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Avoid an empty response by failing with 502 (Bad
     Gateway) when no response is ever received from the backend.
     [Jan Kaluza]

  *) core_filters: Restore/disable TCP_NOPUSH option after non-blocking
     sendfile.  PR 53253.  [Yann Ylavic]
  *) mod_buffer: Forward flushed input data immediately and avoid (unlikely)
     access to freed memory. [Yann Ylavic, Christophe Jaillet]

  *) core: Add CGIPassAuth directive to control whether HTTP authorization
     headers are passed to scripts as CGI variables.  PR 56855.  [Jeff
  *) core: Initialize scoreboard's used optional functions on graceful restarts
     to avoid a crash when relocation occurs.  PR 57177.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_dav: Avoid a potential integer underflow in the lock timeout value sent
     back to a client. The answer to a LOCK request could be an extremly large
     integer if the time needed to lock the resource was longer that the
     requested timeout given in the LOCK request. In such a case, we now answer
     "Second-0".  PR55420
     [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_cgid: Within the first minute of a server start or restart,
     allow mod_cgid to retry connecting to its daemon process. Previously,
     'No such file or directory: unable to connect to cgi daemon...' could
     be logged without an actual retry. PR57685.
     [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
  *) mod_proxy: Use the original (non absolute) form of the request-line's URI
     for requests embedded in CONNECT payloads used to connect SSL backends via
     a ProxyRemote forward-proxy.  PR 55892.  [Hendrik Harms <hendrik.harms
     gmail com>, William Rowe, Yann Ylavic]

  *) http: Make ap_die() robust against any HTTP error code and not modify
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     response status (finally logged) when nothing is to be done. PR 56035.
     [Yann Ylavic]
  *) mod_proxy_connect/wstunnel: If both client and backend sides get readable
     at the same time, don't lose errors occurring while forwarding on the first
     side when none occurs next on the other side, and abort.  [Yann Ylavic]

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  *) mod_rewrite: Improve relative substitutions in per-directory/htaccess
     context for directories found by mod_userdir and mod_alias.  These no
     longer require RewriteBase to be specified. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_proxy_http: Don't expect the backend to ack the "Connection: close" to
     finally close those not meant to be kept alive by SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive
     or force-proxy-request-1.0.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) core: If explicitly configured, use the KeepaliveTimeout value of the
     virtual host which handled the latest request on the connection, or by
     default the one of the first virtual host bound to the same IP:port.
     PR56226.  [Yann Ylavic]

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  *) mod_lua: After a r:wsupgrade(), mod_lua was not properly
     responding to a websockets PING but instead invoking the specified
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     script. PR57524. [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]

  *) mod_ssl: Add the SSL_CLIENT_CERT_RFC4523_CEA variable, which provides
     a combination of certificate serialNumber and issuer as defined by
     CertificateExactMatch in RFC4523. [Graham Leggett]

  *) core: Add expression support to ErrorDocument. Switch from a fixed
     sized 664 byte array per merge to a hash table. [Graham Leggett]

  *) ab: Add missing longest request (100%) to CSV export.
     [Marcin Fabrykowski <bugzilla fabrykowski.pl>]
  *) mod_macro: Clear macros before initialization to avoid use-after-free
     on startup or restart when the module is linked statically. PR 57525
     [apache.org tech.futurequest.net, Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_alias: Introduce expression parser support for Alias, ScriptAlias
     and Redirect. [Graham Leggett]

  *) mod_ssl: 'SSLProtocol ALL' was being ignored in virtual host context.
     PR 57100.  [Michael Kaufmann <apache-bugzilla michael-kaufmann.ch>,
     Yann Ylavic]

  *) mpm_event: Avoid access to the scoreboard from the connection while
     it is suspended (waiting for events).  [Eric Covener, Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_ssl: Fix renegotiation failures redirected to an ErrorDocument.
     PR 57334.  [Yann Ylavic].

  *) mod_deflate: A misplaced check prevents limiting small bodies with the
     new inflate limits. PR56872. [Edward Lu, Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]

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  *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward SSL protocol name (SSLv3, TLSv1.1 etc.) as a
     request attribute to the backend. Recent Tomcat versions will extract
     it and provide it as a servlet request attribute named
     "org.apache.tomcat.util.net.secure_protocol_version". [Rainer Jung]

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  *) core: Optimize string concatenation in expression parser when evaluating
     a string expression. [Rainer Jung]

  *) acinclude.m4: Generate #LoadModule directive in default httpd.conf for
     every --enable-mpms-shared. PR 53882.  [olli hauer <ohauer gmx.de>,
     Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_authn_dbd: Fix the error message logged in case of error while querying
     the database. This is associated to AH01656 and AH01661. [Christophe Jaillet]
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  *) mod_authz_groupfile: Reduce the severity of AH01667 from ERROR to DEBUG,
     because it may be evaluated inside <RequireAny>. PR55523. [Eric Covener]
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  *) mod_ssl: Fix small memory leak during initialization when ECDH is used.
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Changes with Apache 2.4.12

  *) mpm_winnt: Accept utf-8 (Unicode) service names and descriptions for
     internationalization.  [William Rowe]

  *) mpm_winnt: Normalize the error and status messages emitted by service.c,
     the service control interface for Windows.  [William Rowe]
  *) configure: Fix --enable-v4-mapped configuration on *BSD. PR 53824.
     [ olli hauer <ohauer gmx.de>, Yann Ylavic ]

  *) Reverted <DirectoryMatch > behavior regression introduced in 2.4.11
     (not released).

Changes with Apache 2.4.11 (not released)
  *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-3583 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix a potential crash due to buffer over-read, with
     response headers' size above 8K.  [Yann Ylavic, Jeff Trawick]
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  *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-3581 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_cache: Avoid a crash when Content-Type has an empty value.
     PR 56924.  [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>, Jan Kaluza]

  *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-8109 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_lua: Fix handling of the Require line when a LuaAuthzProvider is
     used in multiple Require directives with different arguments.
     PR57204 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]

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  *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-5704 (cve.mitre.org)
     core: HTTP trailers could be used to replace HTTP headers
     late during request processing, potentially undoing or
     otherwise confusing modules that examined or modified
     request headers earlier.  Adds "MergeTrailers" directive to restore
     legacy behavior.  [Edward Lu, Yann Ylavic, Joe Orton, Eric Covener]

  *) mod_ssl: New directive SSLSessionTickets (On|Off).
     The directive controls the use of TLS session tickets (RFC 5077),
     default value is "On" (unchanged behavior).
     Session ticket creation uses a random key created during web
     server startup and recreated during restarts. No other key
     recreation mechanism is available currently. Therefore using session
     tickets without restarting the web server with an appropriate frequency
     (e.g. daily) compromises perfect forward secrecy. [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Provide some basic alternate options for specifying
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     how PATH_INFO is passed to FastCGI backends by adding significance to
     the value of proxy-fcgi-pathinfo. PR 55329. [Eric Covener]
  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Enable UDS backends configured with SetHandler/RewriteRule
     to opt-in to connection reuse and other Proxy options via explicitly
     declared "proxy workers" (<Proxy unix:... enablereuse=on max=...)
     [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_proxy: Add "enablereuse" option as the inverse of "disablereuse".
     [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Enable opt-in to TCP connection reuse by explicitly
     setting proxy option disablereuse=off. [Eric Covener] PR 57378.

  *) event: Update the internal "connection id" when requests
     move from thread to thread. Reuse can confuse modules like
     mod_cgid. PR 57435. [Michael Thorpe <mike gistnet.com>]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Remove proxy:balancer:// prefix from SCRIPT_FILENAME
     passed to fastcgi backends. [Eric Covener]

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  *) core: Configuration files with long lines and continuation characters
     are not read properly. PR 55910. [Manuel Mausz <manuel-as mausz.at>]

  *) mod_include: the 'env' function was incorrectly handled as 'getenv' if the
     leading 'e' was written in upper case in <!--#if expr="..." -->
     statements. [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) split-logfile: Fix perl error:  'Can't use string ("example.org:80")
     as a symbol ref while "strict refs"'. PR 56329.
     [Holger Mauermann <mauermann gmail.com>]

  *) mod_proxy: Prevent ProxyPassReverse from doing a substitution when
     the URL parameter interpolates to an empty string. PR 56603.