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in the startup phase. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Prevent segfault if DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT is reached. PR 51072.
[Torsten Förtsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
*) WinNT MPM: Improve robustness under heavy load. [Jeff Trawick]
*) MinGW build improvements. PR 49535. [John Vandenberg
*) core: Support module names with colons in loglevel configuration.
[Torsten Förtsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
*) mod_ssl, ab: Support OpenSSL compiled without SSLv2 support.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Abort if the MPM is changed across restart. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_proxy_ajp: Add support for 'ProxyErrorOverride on'. PR 50945.
[Peter Pramberger <peter pramberger.at>, Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_proxy_fcgi: Add support for 'ProxyErrorOverride on'. PR 50913.
[Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>, Jim Jagielski]
*) core: Change the APIs of ap_cfg_getline() and ap_cfg_getc() to return an
error code. Abort with a nice error message if a config line is too long.
Partial fix for PR 50824. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_info: Dump config to stdout during startup if -DDUMP_CONFIG is
specified. PR 31956. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Restore visibility of DEFAULT_PIDLOG to core and modules. MPM
helper function ap_remove_pid() added. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Enable DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR on Windows and NetWare. [various]
*) Correct C++ incompatibility with http_log.h. [Stefan Fritsch, Jeff
Trawick]
*) mod_log_config: Prevent segfault. PR 50861. [Torsten Förtsch
<torsten.foertsch gmx.net>]
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*) core: AllowEncodedSlashes new option NoDecode to allow encoded slashes
in request URL path info but not decode them. Change behavior of option
"On" to decode the encoded slashes as 2.0 and 2.2 do. PR 35256,
PR 46830. [Dan Poirier]
*) mod_ssl: Check SNI hostname against Host header case-insensitively.
PR 49491. [Mayank Agrawal <magrawal.08 gmail.com>]
*) mod_ldap: Add LDAPConnectionPoolTTL to give control over lifetime
of bound backend LDAP connections. PR47634 [Eric Covener]
*) mod_cache: Make CacheEnable and CacheDisable configurable per
directory in addition to per server, making them work from within
a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
*) worker, event, prefork: Correct several issues when built as
DSOs; most notably, the scoreboard was reinitialized during graceful
restart, such that processes of the previous generation were not
observable. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_win32: Added shebang check for '! so that .vbs scripts work as CGI.
Win32's cscript interpreter can only use a single quote as comment char.
[Guenter Knauf]
*) mod_proxy: balancer-manager now uses POST instead of GET.
[Jim Jagielski]
*) core: new util function: ap_parse_form_data(). Previously,
this capability was tucked away in mod_request. [Jim Jagielski]
*) core: new hook: ap_run_pre_read_request. [Jim Jagielski]
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*) modules: Fix many modules that were not correctly initializing if they
were not active during server startup but got enabled later during a
graceful restart. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Create new ap_state_query function that allows modules to determine
if the current configuration run is the initial one at server startup,
and if the server is started for testing/config dumping only.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy: Runtime configuration of many parameters for existing
balancers via the balancer-manager. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_proxy: Runtime addition of new workers (BalancerMember) for existing
balancers via the balancer-manager. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_cache: When a bad Expires date is present, we need to behave as if
the Expires is in the past, not as if the Expires is missing. PR 16521.
[Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
*) mod_cache: We must ignore quoted-string values that appear in a
Cache-Control header. PR 50199. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_dav: Revert change to send 501 error if unknown Content-* header is
received for a PUT request. PR 42978. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_cache: Respect s-maxage as described by RFC2616 14.9.3, which must
take precedence if present. PR 35247. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: Fix a possible startup failure if multiple SSL vhosts
are configured with the same ServerName and private key file.
[Masahiro Matsuya <mmatsuya redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
*) mod_socache_dc: Make module compile by fixing some typos.
PR 50735 [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>]
*) prefork: Update MPM state in children during a graceful stop or
restart. PR 41743. [Andrew Punch <andrew.punch 247realmedia.com>]
*) mod_mime: Ignore leading dots when looking for mime extensions.
PR 50434 [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add support to set variables with the 'Define' directive. The
variables that can then be used in the config using the ${VAR} syntax
known from envvar interpolation. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy_http: make adding of X-Forwarded-* headers configurable.
ProxyAddHeaders defaults to On. [Vincent Deffontaines]
*) mod_slotmem_shm: Increase memory alignment for slotmem data.
[Rainer Jung]
*) mod_ssl: Add config options for OCSP: SSLOCSPResponderTimeout,
SSLOCSPResponseMaxAge, SSLOCSPResponseTimeSkew.
[Kaspar Brand <httpd-dev.2011 velox.ch>]
*) mod_ssl: Revamp output buffering to reduce network overhead for
output fragmented into many buckets, such as chunked HTTP responses.
[Joe Orton]
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*) core: Apply <If> sections to all requests, not only to file base requests.
Allow to use <If> inside <Directory>, <Location>, and <Files> sections.
The merging of <If> sections now happens after the merging of <Location>
sections, even if an <If> section is embedded inside a <Directory> or
<Files> section. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy: Refactor usage of shared data by dropping the scoreboard
and using slotmem. Create foundation for dynamic growth/changes of
members within a balancer. Remove BalancerNonce in favor of a
per-balancer 'nonce' parameter. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_status: Don't show slots which are disabled by MaxClients as open.
PR: 47022 [Jordi Prats <jordi prats gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
*) mpm_prefork: Fix ap_mpm_query results for AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS and
AP_MPMQ_MAX_THREADS.
*) mod_authz_core: Fix bug in merging logic if user-based and non-user-based
authorization directives were mixed. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_authn_socache: change directive name from AuthnCacheProvider
to AuthnCacheProvideFor. The term "provider" is overloaded in
this module, and we should avoid confusion between the provider
of a backend (AuthnCacheSOCache) and the authn provider(s) for
which this module provides cacheing (AuthnCacheProvideFor).
[Nick Kew]
*) mod_proxy_http: Allocate the fake backend request from a child pool
of the backend connection, instead of misusing the pool of the frontend
request. Fixes a thread safety issue where buckets set aside in the
backend connection leak into other threads, and then disappear when
the frontend request is cleaned up, in turn causing corrupted buckets
to make other threads spin. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: Change the format of the SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_{I,S}_DN variables
to be RFC 2253 compatible, convert non-ASCII characters to UTF8, and
escape other special characters with backslashes. The old format can
still be used with the LegacyDNStringFormat argument to SSLOptions.
*) core, mod_rewrite: Make the REQUEST_SCHEME variable available to
scripts and mod_rewrite. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Allow to use arbitrary boolean expressions (ap_expr) in
RewriteCond. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Allow to unset environment variables using E=!VAR.
PR 49512. [Mark Drayton <mark markdrayton info>, Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_headers: Restore the 2.3.8 and earlier default for the first
argument of the Header directive ("onsuccess"). [Eric Covener]
*) core: Disallow the mixing of relative and absolute Options PR 33708.
[Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>]
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*) core: When exporting request headers to HTTP_* environment variables,
drop variables whose names contain invalid characters. Describe in the
docs how to restore the old behaviour. [Malte S. Stretz <mss apache org>]
*) core: When selecting an IP-based virtual host, favor an exact match for
the port over a wildcard (or omitted) port instead of favoring the one
that came first in the configuration file. [Eric Covener]
*) core: Overlapping virtual host address/port combinations now implicitly
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enable name-based virtual hosting for that address. The NameVirtualHost
directive has no effect, and _default_ is interpreted the same as "*".
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[Eric Covener]
*) core: In the absence of any Options directives, the default is now
"FollowSymlinks" instead of "All". [Igor Galić]
*) rotatelogs: Add -e option to write logs through to stdout for optional
further processing. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: Correctly read full lines in input filter when the line is
incomplete during first read. PR 50481. [Ruediger Pluem]
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*) mod_authz_core: Add AuthzSendForbiddenOnFailure directive to allow
sending '403 FORBIDDEN' instead of '401 UNAUTHORIZED' if authorization
fails for an authenticated user. PR 40721. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Don't implicitly URL-escape the original query string
when no substitution has changed it. PR 50447. [Eric Covener]
*) core: Honor 'AcceptPathInfo OFF' during internal redirects,
such as per-directory mod_rewrite substitutions. PR 50349.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_rewrite: Add 'RewriteOptions InheritBefore' to put the base
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rules/conditions before the overridden rules/conditions. PR 39313.
[Jérôme Grandjanny <jerome.grandjanny cea.fr>]
*) mod_autoindex: add IndexIgnoreReset to reset the list of IndexIgnored
filenames in higher precedence configuration sections. PR 24243.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_cgid: RLimit* directive support for mod_cgid. PR 42135
[Eric Covener]
*) core: Fail startup when the argument to ServerName looks like a glob
or a regular expression instead of a hostname (*?[]). PR 39863
[Rahul Nair <rahul.g.nair gmail.com>]
*) mod_userdir: Add merging of enable, disable, and filename arguments
to UserDir directive, leaving enable/disable of userlists unmerged.
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*) httpd: When no -k option is provided on the httpd command line, the server
was starting without checking for an existing pidfile. PR 50350
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_proxy: Put the worker in error state if the SSL handshake with the
backend fails. PR 50332.
[Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
*) mod_cache_disk: Fix Windows build which was broken after renaming
the module. [Gregg L. Smith]
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*) SECURITY: CVE-2010-1623 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix a denial of service attack against mod_reqtimeout.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_headers: Change default first argument of Header directive
from "onsuccess" to "always". [Eric Covener]
*) mod_include: Add the onerror attribute to the include element,
allowing an URL to be specified to include on error. [Graham
Leggett]
*) mod_cache_disk: mod_disk_cache renamed to mod_cache_disk, to be
consistent with the naming of other modules. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_setenvif: Add SetEnvIfExpr directive to set env var depending on
expression. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyPassInterpolateEnv directive. PR 50292.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) suEXEC: Add Suexec directive to disable suEXEC without renaming the
binary (Suexec Off), or force startup failure if suEXEC is required
but not supported (Suexec On). Change SuexecUserGroup to fail
startup instead of just printing a warning if suEXEC is disabled.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) core: Add Error directive for aborting startup or htaccess processing
with a specified error message. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_rewrite: Fix the RewriteEngine directive to work within a
location. Previously, once RewriteEngine was switched on globally,
it was impossible to switch off. [Graham Leggett]
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*) core, mod_include, mod_ssl: Move the expression parser derived from
mod_include back into mod_include. Replace ap_expr with a parser
derived from mod_ssl's parser. Make mod_ssl use the new parser. Rework
ap_expr's public interface and provide hooks for modules to add variables
and functions. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Do the hook sorting earlier so that the hooks are properly sorted
for the pre_config hook and during parsing the config. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) core: In the absence of any AllowOverride directives, the default is now
"None" instead of "All". PR49823 [Eric Covener]
*) mod_proxy: Don't allow ProxyPass or ProxyPassReverse in
<Directory> or <Files>. PR47765 [Eric Covener]
*) prefork/worker/event MPMS: default value (when no directive is present)
of MaxConnectionsPerChild/MaxRequestsPerChild is changed to 0 from 10000
to match default configuration and manual. PR47782 [Eric Covener]
*) proxy_connect: Don't give up in the middle of a CONNECT tunnel
when the child process is starting to exit. PR50220. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_autoindex: Fix inheritance of mod_autoindex directives into
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contexts that don't have any mod_autoindex directives. PR47766.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_rewrite: Add END flag for RewriteRule to prevent further rounds
of rewrite processing when a per-directory substitution occurs.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_ssl: Make sure to always log an error if loading of CA certificates
fails. PR 40312. [Paul Tiemann <issues apache org ourdetour com>]
*) mod_dav: Send 501 error if unknown Content-* header is received for a PUT
request (RFC 2616 9.6). PR 42978. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_dav: Send 400 error if malformed Content-Range header is received for
a put request (RFC 2616 14.16). PR 49825. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy: Release the backend connection as soon as EOS is detected,
so the backend isn't forced to wait for the client to eventually
acknowledge the data. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_proxy: Optimise ProxyPass within a Location so that it is stored
per-directory, and chosen during the location walk. Make ProxyPass
work correctly from within a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
*) core: Fix segfault if per-module LogLevel is on virtual host
scope. PR 50117. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) mod_proxy: Move the ProxyErrorOverride directive to have per
directory scope. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_allowmethods: New module to deny certain HTTP methods without
interfering with authentication/authorization. [Paul Querna,
Igor Galić, Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ssl: Log certificate information and improve error message if client
cert verification fails. PR 50093, PR 50094. [Lassi Tuura <lat cern ch>,
Stefan Fritsch]
*) htcacheclean: Teach htcacheclean to limit cache size by number of
inodes in addition to size of files. Prevents a cache disk from
running out of space when many small files are cached.
[Graham Leggett]
*) core: Rename MaxRequestsPerChild to MaxConnectionsPerChild, which
describes more accurately what the directive does. The old name
still works but logs a warning. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_cache: Optionally serve stale data when a revalidation returns a
5xx response, controlled by the CacheStaleOnError directive.
[Graham Leggett]
*) htcacheclean: Allow the listing of valid URLs within the cache, with
the option to list entry metadata such as sizes and times. [Graham
Leggett]
*) mod_cache: correctly parse quoted strings in cache headers.
PR 50199 [Nick Kew]
*) mod_cache: Allow control over the base URL of reverse proxied requests
using the CacheKeyBaseURL directive, so that the cache key can be
calculated from the endpoint URL instead of the server URL. [Graham
Leggett]
*) mod_cache: CacheLastModifiedFactor, CacheStoreNoStore, CacheStorePrivate,
CacheStoreExpired, CacheIgnoreNoLastMod, CacheDefaultExpire,
CacheMinExpire and CacheMaxExpire can be set per directory/location.
[Graham Leggett]
*) mod_disk_cache: CacheMaxFileSize, CacheMinFileSize, CacheReadSize and
CacheReadTime can be set per directory/location. [Graham Leggett]
*) core: Speed up config parsing if using a very large number of config
files. PR 50002 [andrew cloudaccess net]
*) mod_cache: Support the caching of HEAD requests. [Graham Leggett]
*) htcacheclean: Allow the option to round up file sizes to a given
block size, improving the accuracy of disk usage. [Graham Leggett]
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*) mod_ssl: Add authz providers for use with mod_authz_core and its
RequireAny/RequireAll containers: 'ssl' (equivalent to SSLRequireSSL),
'ssl-verify-client' (for use with 'SSLVerifyClient optional'), and
'ssl-require' (expressions with same syntax as SSLRequire).
[Stefan Fritsch]
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*) mod_ssl: Make the ssl expression parser thread-safe. It now requires
bison instead of yacc. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_disk_cache: Change on-disk header file format to support the
link of the device/inode of the data file to the matching header
file, and to support the option of not writing a data file when
the data file is empty. [Graham Leggett]
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*) core/mod_unique_id: Add generate_log_id hook to allow to use
the ID generated by mod_unique_id as error log ID for requests.
[Stefan Fritsch]
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*) mod_cache: Make sure that we never allow a 304 Not Modified response
that we asked for to leak to the client should the 304 response be
uncacheable. PR45341 [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_cache: Add the cache_status hook to register the final cache
decision hit/miss/revalidate. Add optional support for an X-Cache
and/or an X-Cache-Detail header to add the cache status to the
response. PR48241 [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_authz_host: Add 'local' provider that matches connections originating
on the local host. PR 19938. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Event MPM: Fix crash accessing pollset on worker thread when child
process is exiting. [Jeff Trawick]
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*) core: For process invocation (cgi, fcgid, piped loggers and so forth)
pass the system library path (LD_LIBRARY_PATH or platform-specific
variables) along with the system PATH, by default. Both should be
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overridden together as desired using PassEnv etc; see mod_env.
[William Rowe]
*) mod_cache: Introduce CacheStoreExpired, to allow administrators to
capture a stale backend response, perform If-Modified-Since requests
against the backend, and serving from the cache all 304 responses.
This restores pre-2.2.4 cache behavior. [William Rowe]
*) mod_rewrite: Introduce <=, >= string comparison operators, and integer
comparators -lt, -le, -eq, -ge, and -gt. To help bash users and drop
the ambiguity of the symlink test "-ltest", introduce -h or -L as
symlink test operators. [William Rowe]
*) mod_cache: Give the cache provider the opportunity to choose to cache
or not cache based on the buckets present in the brigade, such as the
presence of a FILE bucket.
[Graham Leggett]
*) mod_authz_core: Allow authz providers to check args while reading the
config and allow to cache parsed args. Move 'all' and 'env' authz
providers from mod_authz_host to mod_authz_core. Add 'method' authz
provider depending on the HTTP method. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_include: Move the request_rec within mod_include to be
exposed within include_ctx_t. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_include: Reinstate support for UTF-8 character sets by allowing a
variable being echoed or set to be decoded and then encoded as separate
steps. PR47686 [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_cache: Add a discrete commit_entity() provider function within the
mod_cache provider interface which is called to indicate to the
provider that caching is complete, giving the provider the opportunity
to commit temporary files permanently to the cache in an atomic
fashion. Replace the inconsistent use of error cleanups with a formal
set of pool cleanups attached to a subpool, which is destroyed on error.
[Graham Leggett]
*) mod_cache: Change the signature of the store_body() provider function
within the mod_cache provider interface to support an "in" brigade
and an "out" brigade instead of just a single input brigade. This
gives a cache provider the option to consume only part of the brigade
passed to it, rather than the whole brigade as was required before.
This fixes an out of memory and a request timeout condition that would
occur when the original document was a large file. Introduce
CacheReadSize and CacheReadTime directives to mod_disk_cache to control
the amount of data to attempt to cache at a time. [Graham Leggett]
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*) core: Add ErrorLogFormat to allow configuring error log format, including
additional information that is logged once per connection or request. Add
error log IDs for connections and request to allow correlating error log
lines and the corresponding access log entry. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) core: Disable sendfile by default. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_cache: Check the request to determine whether we are allowed
to return cached content at all, and respect a "Cache-Control:
no-cache" header from a client. Previously, "no-cache" would
behave like "max-age=0". [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_cache: Use a proper filter context to hold filter data instead
of misusing the per-request configuration. Fixes a segfault on trunk
when the normal handler is used. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_cgid: Log a warning if the ScriptSock path is truncated because
it is too long. PR 49388. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) vhosts: Do not allow _default_ in NameVirtualHost, or mixing *
and non-* ports on NameVirtualHost, or multiple NameVirtualHost
directives for the same address:port, or NameVirtualHost
directives with no matching VirtualHosts, or multiple ip-based
VirtualHost sections for the same address:port. These were
previously accepted with a warning, but the behavior was
undefined. [Dan Poirier]
*) mod_remoteip: Fix a segfault when using mod_remoteip in conjunction with
Allow/Deny. PR 49838. [Andrew Skalski <voltara gmail.com>]
*) core: DirectoryMatch can now match on the end of line character ($),
and sub-directories of matched directories are no longer implicitly
matched. PR49809 [Eric Covener]
*) Regexps: introduce new higher-level regexp utility including parsing
and executing perl-style regexp ops (e.g s/foo/bar/i) and regexp memory
[Nick Kew]
*) Proxy: support setting source address. PR 29404
[Multiple contributors iterating through bugzilla,
Aron Ujvari <xanco nikhok.hu>, Aleksey Midenkov <asm uezku.kemsu.ru>,
<dan listening-station.net; trunk version Nick Kew]
*) HTTP protocol: return 400 not 503 if we have to abort due to malformed
chunked encoding. [Nick Kew]
*) suexec: Support large log files. PR 45856. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Abort with sensible error message if no or more than one MPM is
loaded. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy: Rename erroronstatus to failonstatus.
[Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>]
*) mod_dav_fs: Fix broken "creationdate" property.
Regression in version 2.3.7. [Rainer Jung]
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*) SECURITY: CVE-2010-1452 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_dav, mod_cache, mod_session: Fix Handling of requests without a path
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segment. PR: 49246 [Mark Drayton, Jeff Trawick]
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*) mod_ldap: Properly check the result returned by apr_ldap_init. PR 46076.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Log errors if rewrite map files cannot be opened. PR 49639.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy_http: Support the 'ping' property for backend HTTP/1.1 servers
via leveraging 100-Continue as the initial "request".
[Jim Jagielski]
*) core/mod_authz_core: Introduce new access_checker_ex hook that enables
mod_authz_core to bypass authentication if access should be allowed by
IP address/env var/... [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Introduce note_auth_failure hook to allow modules to add support
for additional auth types. This makes ap_note_auth_failure() work with
mod_auth_digest again. PR 48807. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) socache modules: return APR_NOTFOUND when a lookup is not found [Nick Kew]
*) mod_authn_socache: new module [Nick Kew]
*) configure: Add reallyall option for --enable-mods-shared. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Fix Windows build when using VC6. [Gregg L. Smith <lists glewis com>]
*) mod_rewrite: Allow to set environment variables without explicitly
giving a value. [Rainer Jung]
*) mod_rewrite: Remove superfluous EOL from rewrite logging. [Rainer Jung]
*) mod_include: recognise "text/html; parameters" as text/html
PR 49616 [Andrey Chernov <ache nagual.pp.ru>]
*) CGI vars: allow PATH to be set by SetEnv, consistent with LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PR 43906 [Nick Kew]
*) Core: Extra robustness: don't try authz and segfault if authn
fails to set r->user. Log bug and return 500 instead.
PR 42995 [Nick Kew]
*) HTTP protocol filter: fix handling of longer chunk extensions
PR 49474 [<tee.bee gmx.de>]
*) Update SSL cipher suite and add example for SSLHonorCipherOrder.
[Lars Eilebrecht, Rainer Jung]
*) move AddOutputFilterByType from core to mod_filter. This should
fix nasty side-effects that happen when content_type is set
more than once in processing a request, and make it fully
compatible with dynamic and proxied contents. [Nick Kew]
*) mod_log_config: Implement logging for sub second timestamps and
request end time. [Rainer Jung]
Changes with Apache 2.3.6
*) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3555 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_ssl: Comprehensive fix of the TLS renegotiation prefix injection
attack when compiled against OpenSSL version 0.9.8m or later. Introduces
the 'SSLInsecureRenegotiation' directive to reopen this vulnerability
and offer unsafe legacy renegotiation with clients which do not yet
support the new secure renegotiation protocol, RFC 5746.
[Joe Orton, and with thanks to the OpenSSL Team]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3555 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_ssl: A partial fix for the TLS renegotiation prefix injection attack
by rejecting any client-initiated renegotiations. Forcibly disable
keepalive for the connection if there is any buffered data readable. Any
configuration which requires renegotiation for per-directory/location
access control is still vulnerable, unless using OpenSSL >= 0.9.8l.
[Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem, Hartmut Keil <Hartmut.Keil adnovum.ch>]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0408 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_proxy_ajp: Respond with HTTP_BAD_REQUEST when the body is not sent
when request headers indicate a request body is incoming; not a case of
HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR. [Niku Toivola <niku.toivola sulake.com>]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0425 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_isapi: Do not unload an isapi .dll module until the request
processing is completed, avoiding orphaned callback pointers.
[Brett Gervasoni <brettg senseofsecurity.com>, Jeff Trawick]
*) core: Filter init functions are now run strictly once per request
before handler invocation. The init functions are no longer run
for connection filters. PR 49328. [Joe Orton]
*) core: Adjust the output filter chain correctly in an internal
redirect from a subrequest, preserving filters from the main
request as necessary. PR 17629. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_cache: Explicitly allow cache implementations to cache a 206 Partial
Response if they so choose to do so. Previously an attempt to cache a 206
was arbitrarily allowed if the response contained an Expires or
Cache-Control header, and arbitrarily denied if both headers were missing.
[Graham Leggett]
*) core: Add microsecond timestamp fractions, process id and thread id
to the error log. [Rainer Jung]
*) configure: The "most" module set gets build by default. [Rainer Jung]
*) configure: Building dynamic modules (DSO) by default. [Rainer Jung]
*) configure: Fix broken VPATH build when using included APR.
[Rainer Jung]
*) mod_session_crypto: Fix configure problem when building
with APR 2 and for VPATH builds with included APR.
[Rainer Jung]
*) mod_session_crypto: API compatibility with APR 2 crypto and
APR Util 1.x crypto. [Rainer Jung]
*) ab: Fix memory leak with -v2 and SSL. PR 49383.
[Pavel Kankovsky <peak argo troja mff cuni cz>]
*) core: Add per-module and per-directory loglevel configuration.
Add some more trace logging.
mod_rewrite: Replace RewriteLog/RewriteLogLevel with trace log levels.
mod_ssl: Replace LogLevelDebugDump with trace log levels.
mod_ssl/mod_proxy*: Adjust loglevels to be less verbose at levels info
and debug.
mod_dumpio: Replace DumpIOLogLevel with trace log levels.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ldap: LDAP caching was suppressed (and ldap-status handler returns
title page only) when any mod_ldap directives were used in VirtualHost
context. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_disk_cache: Decline the opportunity to cache if the response is
a 206 Partial Content. This stops a reverse proxied partial response
from becoming cached, and then being served in subsequent responses.
[Graham Leggett]
*) mod_deflate: avoid the risk of forwarding data before headers are set.
PR 49369 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
*) mod_authnz_ldap: Ensure nested groups are checked when the
top-level group doesn't have any direct non-group members
of attributes in AuthLDAPGroupAttribute. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_authnz_ldap: Search or Comparison during authorization phase
can use the credentials from the authentication phase
(AuthLDAPSearchAsUSer,AuthLDAPCompareAsUser).
PR 48340 [Domenico Rotiroti, Eric Covener]
*) mod_authnz_ldap: Allow the initial DN search during authentication
to use the HTTP username/pass instead of an anonymous or hard-coded
LDAP id (AuthLDAPInitialBindAsUser, AuthLDAPInitialBindPattern).
[Eric Covener]
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*) mod_authnz_ldap: Publish requested LDAP data with an AUTHORIZE_ prefix
when this module is used for authorization. See AuthLDAPAuthorizePrefix.
PR 45584 [Eric Covener]
*) apxs -q: Stop filtering out ':' characters from the reported values.
PR 45343. [Bill Cole]
*) prefork MPM: Work around possible crashes on child exit in APR reslist
cleanup code. PR 43857. [Tom Donovan]
*) ab: fix number of requests sent by ab when keepalive is enabled. PR 48497.
[Bryn Dole <dole blekko.com>]
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*) Log an error for failures to read a chunk-size, and return 408 instead of
413 when this is due to a read timeout. This change also fixes some cases
of two error documents being sent in the response for the same scenario.
[Eric Covener] PR49167
*) mod_proxy_balancer: Add new directive BalancerNonce to allow admin
to control/set the nonce used in the balancer-manager application.
[Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_proxy_connect: Support port ranges in AllowConnect. PR 23673.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) Proxy balancer: support setting error status according to HTTP response
code from a backend. PR 48939. [Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>]
*) htcacheclean: Introduce the ability to clean specific URLs from the
cache, if provided as an optional parameter on the command line.
[Graham Leggett]
*) core: Introduce the IncludeStrict directive, which explicitly fails
server startup if no files or directories match a wildcard path.
[Graham Leggett]
*) htcacheclean: Report additional statistics about entries deleted.
PR 48944. [Mark Drayton mark markdrayton.info]
*) Introduce SSLFIPS directive to support OpenSSL FIPS_mode; permits all
builds of mod_ssl to use 'SSLFIPS off' for portability, but the proper
build of openssl is required for 'SSLFIPS on'. PR 46270.
[Dr Stephen Henson <steve openssl.org>, William Rowe]
*) mod_proxy_http: Log the port of the remote server in various messages.
PR 48812. [Igor Galić <i galic brainsware org>]
*) mod_reqtimeout: Do not wrongly enforce timeouts for mod_proxy's backend
connections and other protocol handlers (like mod_ftp). [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy_ajp: Really regard the operation a success, when the client
aborted the connection. In addition adjust the log message if the client
aborted the connection. [Ruediger Pluem]
*) mod_ssl: Add the 'SSLInsecureRenegotiation' directive, which
allows insecure renegotiation with clients which do not yet
support the secure renegotiation protocol. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_ssl: Fix a potential I/O hang if a long list of trusted CAs
is configured for client cert auth. PR 46952. [Joe Orton]
*) core: Only log a 408 if it is no keepalive timeout. PR 39785
[Ruediger Pluem, Mark Montague <markmont umich.edu>]
*) support/rotatelogs: Add -L option to create a link to the current
log file. PR 48761 [<lyndon orthanc.ca>, Dan Poirier]
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*) mod_ldap: Update LDAPTrustedClientCert to consistently be a per-directory
setting only, matching most of the documentation and examples.
PR 46541 [Paul Reder, Eric Covener]
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*) mod_ldap: LDAPTrustedClientCert now accepts CA_DER/CA_BASE64 argument
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types previously allowed only in LDAPTrustedGlobalCert. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_negotiation: Preserve query string over multiviews negotiation.
This buglet was fixed for type maps in 2.2.6, but the same issue
affected multiviews and was overlooked.
PR 33112 [Joergen Thomsen <apache jth.net>]
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*) mod_ldap: Eliminate a potential crash with multiple LDAPTrustedClientCert
when some are not password-protected. [Eric Covener]
*) Fix startup segfault when the Mutex directive is used but no loaded
modules use httpd mutexes. PR 48787. [Jeff Trawick]
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*) Proxy: get the headers right in a HEAD request with
ProxyErrorOverride, by checking for an overridden error
before not after going into a catch-all code path.
PR 41646. [Nick Kew, Stuart Children]
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*) support/rotatelogs: Support the simplest log rotation case, log
truncation. Useful when the log is being processed in real time
using a command like tail. [Graham Leggett]
*) support/htcacheclean: Teach it how to write a pid file (modelled on
httpd's writing of a pid file) so that it becomes possible to run
more than one instance of htcacheclean on the same machine.
[Graham Leggett]
*) Log command line on startup, so there's a record of command line
arguments like -f. PR 48752. [Dan Poirier]
*) Introduce mod_reflector, a handler capable of reflecting POSTed
request bodies back within the response through the output filter
stack. Can be used to turn an output filter into a web service.
[Graham Leggett]
*) mod_proxy_http: Make sure that when an ErrorDocument is served
from a reverse proxied URL, that the subrequest respects the status
of the original request. This brings the behaviour of proxy_handler
in line with default_handler. PR 47106. [Graham Leggett]
*) Support wildcards in both the directory and file components of
the path specified by the Include directive. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_http: Support remote https proxies
by using HTTP CONNECT. PR 19188.
[Philippe Dutrueux <lilas evidian.com>, Rainer Jung]
*) apxs: Fix -A and -a options to ignore whitespace in httpd.conf
[Philip M. Gollucci]
*) worker: Don't report server has reached MaxClients until it has.
Add message when server gets within MinSpareThreads of MaxClients.
PR 46996. [Dan Poirier]
*) mod_session: Session expiry was being initialised, but not updated
on each session save, resulting in timed out sessions when there
should not have been. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_log_config: Add the R option to log the handler used within the
request. [Christian Folini <christian.folini netnea com>]
*) mod_include: Allow fine control over the removal of Last-Modified and
ETag headers within the INCLUDES filter, making it possible to cache
responses if desired. Fix the default value of the SSIAccessEnable
directive. [Graham Leggett]
*) Add new UnDefine directive to undefine a variable. PR 35350.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) Make ap_pregsub(), used by AliasMatch and friends, use the same syntax
for regex backreferences as mod_rewrite and mod_include: Remove the use
of '&' as an alias for '$0' and allow to escape any character with a
backslash. PR 48351. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) mod_authnz_ldap: If AuthLDAPCharsetConfig is set, also convert the
password to UTF-8. PR 45318.
[Johannes Müller <joh_m gmx.de>, Stefan Fritsch]
*) ab: Fix calculation of requests per second in HTML output. PR 48594.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_authnz_ldap: Failures to map a username to a DN, or to check a user
password now result in an informational level log entry instead of
warning level. [Eric Covener]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0434 (cve.mitre.org)
Ensure each subrequest has a shallow copy of headers_in so that the
parent request headers are not corrupted. Eliminates a problematic
optimization in the case of no request body. PR 48359
[Jake Scott, William Rowe, Ruediger Pluem]
*) Turn static function get_server_name_for_url() into public
ap_get_server_name_for_url() and use it where appropriate. This
fixes mod_rewrite generating invalid URLs for redirects to IPv6
literal addresses. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ldap: Introduce new config option LDAPTimeout to set the timeout
for LDAP operations like bind and search. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_ftp: Move ProxyFtpDirCharset from mod_proxy to
mod_proxy_ftp. [Takashi Sato]
*) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_connect: Move AllowCONNECT from mod_proxy to
mod_proxy_connect. [Takashi Sato]
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*) mod_cache: Do an exact match of the keys defined by
CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers against the querystring instead of
a partial match. PR 48401.
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[Dodou Wang <wangdong.08 gmail.com>, Ruediger Pluem]
*) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix crash in balancer-manager. [Rainer Jung]
*) Core HTTP: disable keepalive when the Client has sent
Expect: 100-continue
but we respond directly with a non-100 response.
Keepalive here led to data from clients continuing being treated as
a new request.
PR 47087 [Nick Kew]
*) Core: reject NULLs in request line or request headers.
PR 43039 [Nick Kew]
*) Core: (re)-introduce -T commandline option to suppress documentroot
check at startup.
PR 41887 [Jan van den Berg <janvdberg gmail.com>]
*) mod_autoindex: support XHTML as equivalent to HTML in IndexOptions,
ScanHTMLTitles, ReadmeName, HeaderName
PR 48416 [Dmitry Bakshaev <dab18 izhnet.ru>, Nick Kew]
*) Proxy: Fix ProxyPassReverse with relative URL
Derived (slightly erroneously) from PR 38864 [Nick Kew]
*) mod_headers: align Header Edit with Header Set when used on Content-Type
PR 48422 [Cyril Bonté <cyril.bonte free.fr>, Nick Kew>]
*) mod_headers: Enable multi-match-and-replace edit option
*) mod_filter: enable it to act on non-200 responses.
PR 48377 [Nick Kew]
*) Replace AcceptMutex, LockFile, RewriteLock, SSLMutex, SSLStaplingMutex,
and WatchdogMutexPath with a single Mutex directive. Add APIs to
simplify setup and user customization of APR proc and global mutexes.
(See util_mutex.h.) Build-time setting DEFAULT_LOCKFILE is no longer
respected; set DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR instead. [Jeff Trawick]
*) http_core: KeepAlive no longer accepts other than On|Off.
[Takashi Sato]
*) mod_dav: Remove errno from dav_error interface. Calls to dav_new_error()
and dav_new_error_tag() must be adjusted to add an apr_status_t parameter.
[Jeff Trawick]
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*) mod_authnz_ldap: Add AuthLDAPBindAuthoritative to allow Authentication to
try other providers in the case of an LDAP bind failure.
PR 46608 [Justin Erenkrantz, Joe Schaefer, Tony Stevenson]
*) Build: fix --with-module to work as documented
PR 43881 [Gez Saunders <gez.saunders virgin.net>]
Changes with Apache 2.3.3
*) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3095 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_proxy_ftp: sanity check authn credentials.
[Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3094 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_proxy_ftp: NULL pointer dereference on error paths.
[Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
*) mod_ssl: enable support for ECC keys and ECDH ciphers. Tested against
OpenSSL 1.0.0b3. [Vipul Gupta <vipul.gupta sun.com>, Sander Temme]
*) mod_dav: Include uri when logging a PUT error due to connection abort.
PR 38149. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_dav: Return 409 instead of 500 for a LOCK request if the parent
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resource does not exist or is not a collection. PR 43465. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_dav_fs: Return 409 instead of 500 for Litmus test case copy_nodestcoll
(a COPY request where the parent of the destination resource does not
exist). PR 39299. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_dav_fs: Don't delete the whole file if a PUT with content-range failed.
PR 42896. [Stefan Fritsch]
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*) mod_dav_fs: Make PUT create files atomically and no longer destroy the
old file if the transfer aborted. PR 39815. [Paul Querna, Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_dav_fs: Remove inode keyed locking as this conflicts with atomically
creating files. On systems with inode numbers, this is a format change of
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the DavLockDB. The old DavLockDB must be deleted on upgrade.
[Stefan Fritsch]
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*) mod_log_config: Make ${cookie}C correctly match whole cookie names
instead of substrings. PR 28037. [Dan Franklin <dan dan-franklin.com>,
Stefan Fritsch]
*) vhost: A purely-numeric Host: header should not be treated as a port.
PR 44979 [Nick Kew]
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*) mod_ldap: Avoid 500 errors with "Unable to set LDAP_OPT_REFHOPLIMIT option to 5"
when built against openldap by using SDK LDAP_OPT_REFHOPLIMIT defaults unless
LDAPReferralHopLimit is explicitly configured.
[Eric Covener]
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*) mod_charset_lite: Honor 'CharsetOptions NoImplicitAdd'.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_ssl: Add support for OCSP Stapling. PR 43822.
[Dr Stephen Henson <shenson oss-institute.org>]
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*) mod_socache_shmcb: Allow parens in file name if cache size is given.
Fixes SSLSessionCache directive mis-parsing parens in pathname.
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PR 47945. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) htpasswd: Improve out of disk space handling. PR 30877. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) htpasswd: Use MD5 hash by default on all platforms. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_sed: Reduce memory consumption when processing very long lines.
PR 48024 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
*) ab: Fix segfault in case the argument for -n is a very large number.
PR 47178. [Philipp Hagemeister <oss phihag.de>]
*) Allow ProxyPreserveHost to work in <Proxy> sections. PR 34901.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) configure: Fix THREADED_MPMS so that mod_cgid is enabled again