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Changes with Apache 2.4.5

  *) mod_dav: Do not fail PROPPATCH when prop namespace is not known.
     PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]

  *) mod_dav: When a PROPPATCH attempts to remove a non-existent dead
     property on a resource for which there is no dead property in the same
     namespace httpd segfaults. PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz
     <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]

  *) mod_dav: Sending a If or If-Match header with an invalid ETag doesn't
     result in a 412 Precondition Failed. PR54610 [Timothy Wood
     <tjw omnigroup.com>]

  *) mod_dav: Make sure that when we prepare an If URL for Etag comparison,
     we compare unencoded paths. PR 53910 [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]

  *) 'AuthGroupFile' and 'AuthUserFile' do not accept anymore the optional
     'standard' keyword . It was unused and not documented.
     PR54463 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs.ucsd.edu> and Christophe Jaillet]

  *) core: Do not over allocate memory within 'ap_rgetline_core' for
     the common case. [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) core: speed up (for common cases) and reduce memory usage of
     ap_escape_logitem(). This should save 70-100 bytes in the request
     pool for a default config. [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_dav: Ensure URI is correctly uriencoded on return. PR 54611
     [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]

  *) core: apachectl -S prints wildcard name-based virtual hosts twice. 
     PR54948 [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_proxy: Reject invalid values for Max-Forwards. [Graham Leggett,
     Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]

  *) mod_cache: RFC2616 14.9.3 The s-maxage directive also implies the
     semantics of the proxy-revalidate directive. [Graham Leggett]

  *) mod_ssl: add support for subjectAltName-based host name checking
     in proxy mode. PR 54030. [Kaspar Brand]

  *) core: Use the proper macro for HTTP/1.1. [Graham Leggett]

  *) event MPM: Provide error handling for ThreadStackSize. PR 54311
     [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs.ucsd.edu>, Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_dav: Do not segfault on PROPFIND with a zero length DBM.
     PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]

  *) core: Improve error message where client's request-line exceeds
     LimitRequestLine. PR 54384 [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_macro: New module that provides macros within configuration files.
     [Fabien Coelho]

  *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
     that replaces mod_mem_cache known from httpd 2.2. [Graham
  *) htpasswd: Add -v option to verify a password. [Stefan Fritsch]

  *) mod_proxy: Add BalancerInherit and ProxyPassInherit to control
     whether Proxy Balancers and Workers are inherited by vhosts
     (default is On). [Jim Jagielski]

  *) mod_authnz_ldap: Allow using exec: calls to obtain LDAP bind
     password.  [Daniel Ruggeri]

  *) Added balancer parameter failontimeout to allow server admin
     to configure an IO timeout as an error in the balancer.
     [Daniel Ruggeri]

  *) mod_auth_digest: Fix crashes if shm initialization failed. [Stefan
     Fritsch]

  *) htpasswd, htdbm: Fix password generation. PR 54735. [Stefan Fritsch]

  *) core: Add workaround for gcc bug on sparc/64bit. PR 52900.
     [Stefan Fritsch]

  *) mod_setenvif: Fix crash in case SetEnvif and SetEnvIfExpr are used
     together. PR 54881. [Ruediger Pluem]

  *) htdigest: Fix buffer overflow when reading digest password file
     with very long lines. PR 54893. [Rainer Jung]

  *) ap_expr: Add the ability to base64 encode and base64 decode
     strings and to generate their SHA1 and MD5 hash.
     [Graham Leggett, Stefan Fritsch]

  *) mod_log_config: Fix crash when logging request end time for a failed
     request.  PR 54828 [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_ssl: Catch missing, mismatched or encrypted client cert/key pairs
     with SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212, PR 54698.
     [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton, Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_ssl: Quiet FIPS mode weak keys disabled and FIPS not selected emits
     in the error log to debug level.  [William Rowe]

  *) mod_cache_disk: CacheMinFileSize and CacheMaxFileSize were always
     using compiled in defaults of 1000000/1 respectively. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: Respect DefaultRuntimeDir/
     DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR for the heartbeat storage file.  [Jeff Trawick]

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  *) mod_include: Use new ap_expr for 'elif', like 'if', 
     if legacy parser is not specified.  PR 54548 [Tom Donovan]
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Changes with Apache 2.4.4
  *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-3499 (cve.mitre.org)
     Various XSS flaws due to unescaped hostnames and URIs HTML output in
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     mod_info, mod_status, mod_imagemap, mod_ldap, and mod_proxy_ftp.
     [Jim Jagielski, Stefan Fritsch, Niels Heinen <heinenn google com>]

  *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-4558 (cve.mitre.org)
     XSS in mod_proxy_balancer manager interface. [Jim Jagielski,
     Niels Heinen <heinenn google com>]

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  *) mod_dir: Add support for the value 'disabled' in FallbackResource.
     [Vincent Deffontaines]
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  *) mod_proxy_connect: Don't keepalive the connection to the client if the
     backend closes the connection. PR 54474. [Pavel Mateja <pavel netsafe cz>]

  *) mod_lua: Add bindings for mod_dbd/apr_dbd database access.
     [Daniel Gruno]
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  *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes made via the
     balancer-manager between graceful/normal restarts and power
     cycles. [Jim Jagielski]

  *) mod_proxy: Fix startup crash with mis-defined balancers.
     PR 52402. [Jim Jagielski]

  *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
     module directories.  PR 40097.  [Jeff Trawick]

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  *) htcacheclean: Fix potential segfault if "-p" is omitted.  [Joe Orton]

  *) mod_proxy_http: Honour special value 0 (unlimited) of LimitRequestBody
     PR 54435.  [Pavel Mateja <pavel netsafe.cz>]

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  *) mod_proxy_ajp: Support unknown HTTP methods. PR 54416.
     [Rainer Jung]

  *) htcacheclean: Fix list options "-a" and "-A".
     [Rainer Jung]
  *) mod_slotmem_shm: Fix mistaken reset of num_free for restored shm.
     [Jim Jagielski]

  *) mod_proxy: non-existance of byrequests is not an immediate error.
     [Jim Jagielski]
  *) mod_proxy_balancer: Improve output of balancer-manager (re: Drn,
     Dis, Ign, Stby). PR 52478 [Danijel <dt-ng rbfh de>]
  
  *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
     [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_dialup/mod_http: Prevent a crash in mod_dialup in case of internal
     redirect. PR 52230.

  *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
     apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
     [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]

  *) ab: Support socket timeout (-s timeout).
     [Guido Serra <zeph fsfe org>]
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  *) httxt2dbm: Correct length computation for the 'value' stored in the
     DBM file. PR 47650 [jon buckybox com]
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  *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
     sections. [Stefan Fritsch]

  *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
     at virtual host context or in Directory/Files/Location/If sections to
     work properly in If sections that are not in a Directory/Files/Location.
     [Stefan Fritsch]
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  *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
     Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]

  *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
     without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]

  *) mod_slotmem_*: Add in new fgrab() function which forces a grab and
     slot allocation on a specified slot. Allow for clearing of inuse
     array. [Jim Jagielski]

  *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS
     AAAA records. PR  40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan
     dyndns org>, <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
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