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Changes with Apache 2.4.11
  
  *) 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_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.
     [<ajprout hotmail.com>]

  *) core: Fix -D[efined] or <Define>[d] variables lifetime accross restarts. 
     PR 57328.  [Armin Abfalterer <a.abfalterer gmail.com>, Yann Ylavic].

  *) mod_proxy: Preserve original request headers even if they differ
     from the ones to be forwarded to the backend. PR 45387.
     [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_ssl: dump SSL IO/state for the write side of the connection(s),
     like reads (level TRACE4). [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Ignore body data from backend for 304 responses. PR 57198.
     [Jan Kaluza]

  *) mod_ssl: Do not crash when looking up SSL related variables during
     expression evaluation on non SSL connections. PR 57070  [Ruediger Pluem]

  *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix handling of the default port (8009) in the
     ProxyPass and <Proxy> configurations.  PR 57259.  [Yann Ylavic]
  *) mpm_event: Avoid a possible use after free when notifying the end of
     connection during lingering close.  PR 57268.  [Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_ssl: Fix recognition of OCSP stapling responses that are encoded
     improperly or too large.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) core: Add ap_log_data(), ap_log_rdata(), etc. for logging buffers.
     [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi, mod_authnz_fcgi: stop reading the response and issue an
     error when parsing or forwarding the response fails. [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_ssl: Fix a memory leak in case of graceful restarts with OpenSSL >= 0.9.8e
     PR 53435 [tadanori <tadanori2007 yahoo.com>, Sebastian Wiedenroth <wiedi frubar.net>]

  *) mod_proxy_connect: Don't issue AH02447 on sockets hangups, let the read
     determine whether it is a normal close or a real error. PR 57168. [Yann
     Ylavic]

  *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: abort backend connection on polling error to avoid
     further processing.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) core: Support custom ErrorDocuments for HTTP 501 and 414 status codes.
     PR 57167 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]

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  *) mod_proxy_connect: Fix ProxyRemote to https:// backends on EBCDIC 
     systems. PR 57092 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]

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  *) mod_cache: Avoid a 304 response to an unconditional requst when an AH00752
     CacheLock error occurs during cache revalidation. [Eric Covener]
 
  *) mod_ssl: Move OCSP stapling information from a per-certificate store to
     a per-server hash. PR 54357, PR 56919. [Alex Bligh <alex alex.org.uk>,
     Yann Ylavic, Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_cache_socache: Change average object size hint from 32 bytes to
     2048 bytes.  [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_cache_socache: Add cache status to server-status.  [Rainer Jung]

  *) event: Fix worker-listener deadlock in graceful restart.
     PR 56960.

  *) Concat strings at compile time when possible. PR 53741.

  *) mod_substitute: Restrict configuration in .htaccess to
     FileInfo as documented.  [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_substitute: Make maximum line length configurable.  [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_substitute: Fix line length limitation in case of regexp plus flatten.
     [Rainer Jung]
  
  *) mod_proxy: Truncated character worker names are no longer fatal
     errors. PR53218. [Jim Jagielski]

  *) mod_dav: Set r->status_line in dav_error_response. PR 55426.

  *) mod_proxy_http, mod_cache: Avoid (unlikely) accesses to freed memory.
     [Yann Ylavic, Christophe Jaillet]
  *) http_protocol: fix logic in ap_method_list_(add|remove) in order:
       - to correctly reset bits
       - not to modify the 'method_mask' bitfield unnecessarily
     [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_slotmem_shm: Increase log level for some originally debug messages.
     [Jim Jagielski]

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  *) mod_ldap: In 2.4.10, some LDAP searches or comparisons might be done with
     the wrong credentials when a backend connection is reused.
     [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_macro: Add missing APLOGNO for some Warning log messages.
     [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_cache: Avoid sending 304 responses during failed revalidations
     PR56881. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_status: Honor client IP address using mod_remoteip. PR 55886.
     [Jim Jagielski]

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  *) cmake-based build for Windows: Fix incompatibility with cmake 2.8.12
     and later.  PR 56615.  [Chuck Liu <cliu81 gmail.com>, Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_ratelimit: Drop severity of AH01455 and AH01457 (ap_pass_brigade
     failed) messages from ERROR to TRACE1.  Other filters do not bother 
     re-reporting failures from lower level filters.  PR56832.  [Eric Covener]

  *) core: Avoid useless warning message when parsing a section guarded by
     <IfDefine foo> if $(foo) is used within the section.
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     PR 56503 [Christophe Jaillet]
  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix faulty logging of large amounts of stderr from the
     application.  PR 56858.  [Manuel Mausz <manuel-asf mausz.at>]

  *) mod_proxy_http: Proxy responses with error status and
     "ProxyErrorOverride On" hang until proxy timeout.
     PR53420 [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_log_config: Allow three character log formats to be registered. For
     backwards compatibility, the first character of a three-character format
     must be the '^' (caret) character.  [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_lua: Don't quote Expires and Path values. PR 56734.
     [Keith Mashinter, <kmashint yahoo com>]
  *) mod_authz_core: Allow <AuthzProviderAlias>'es to be seen from auth
     stanzas under virtual hosts. PR 56870. [Eric Covener]

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Changes with Apache 2.4.10
  *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0117 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_proxy: Fix crash in Connection header handling which allowed a denial
     of service attack against a reverse proxy with a threaded MPM.
     [Ben Reser]

  *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-3523 (cve.mitre.org)
     Fix a memory consumption denial of service in the WinNT MPM, used in all
     Windows installations. Workaround: AcceptFilter <protocol> {none|connect}
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  *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0226 (cve.mitre.org)
     Fix a race condition in scoreboard handling, which could lead to
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     a heap buffer overflow.  [Joe Orton, Eric Covener]
  *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0118 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_deflate: The DEFLATE input filter (inflates request bodies) now
     limits the length and compression ratio of inflated request bodies to
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     avoid denial of service via highly compressed bodies.  See directives
     DeflateInflateLimitRequestBody, DeflateInflateRatioLimit,
     and DeflateInflateRatioBurst. [Yann Ylavic, Eric Covener]

  *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0231 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_cgid: Fix a denial of service against CGI scripts that do
     not consume stdin that could lead to lingering HTTPD child processes
     filling up the scoreboard and eventually hanging the server.  By
     default, the client I/O timeout (Timeout directive) now applies to
     communication with scripts.  The CGIDScriptTimeout directive can be
     used to set a different timeout for communication with scripts.
     [Rainer Jung, Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]

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  *) mod_ssl: Extend the scope of SSLSessionCacheTimeout to sessions
     resumed by TLS session resumption (RFC 5077). [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_deflate: Don't fail when flushing inflated data to the user-agent
     and that coincides with the end of stream ("Zlib error flushing inflate
     buffer"). PR 56196. [Christoph Fausak <christoph fausak glueckkanja.com>]

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  *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward local IP address as a custom request attribute
     like we already do for the remote port. [Rainer Jung]

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  *) core: Include any error notes set by modules in the canned error
     response for 403 errors.  [Jeff Trawick]

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  *) mod_ssl: Set an error note for requests rejected due to
     SSLStrictSNIVHostCheck.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_ssl: Fix issue with redirects to error documents when handling
     SNI errors.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_ssl: Fix tmp DH parameter leak, adjust selection to prefer
     larger keys and support up to 8192-bit keys.  [Ruediger Pluem,
     Joe Orton]

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  *) mod_dav: Fix improper encoding in PROPFIND responses.  PR 56480.
     [Ben Reser]

  *) WinNT MPM: Improve error handling for termination events in child.
     [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_proxy: When ping/pong is configured for a worker, don't send or
     forward "100 Continue" (interim) response to the client if it does
     not expect one. [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_ldap: Be more conservative with the last-used time for
     LDAPConnectionPoolTTL. PR54587 [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_ldap: LDAP connections used for authn were not respecting
     LDAPConnectionPoolTTL. PR54587 [Eric Covener]

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  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix occasional high CPU when handling request bodies.
     [Jeff Trawick]

  *) event MPM: Fix possible crashes (third-party modules accessing c->sbh) 
     or occasional missed mod_status updates under load. PR 56639.
     [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]

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  *) mod_authnz_ldap: Support primitive LDAP servers do not accept
     filters, such as "SDBM-backed LDAP" on z/OS, by allowing a special
     filter "none" to be specified in AuthLDAPURL. [Eric Covener]

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  *) mod_deflate: Fix inflation of files larger than 4GB. PR 56062.
     [Lukas Bezdicka <social v3.sk>]

  *) mod_deflate: Handle Zlib header and validation bytes received in multiple
     chunks. PR 46146. [Yann Ylavic]

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  *) mod_proxy: Allow reverse-proxy to be set via explicit handler.
     [ryo takatsuki <ryotakatsuki gmail com>]

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  *) ab: support custom HTTP method with -m argument. PR 56604.
     [Roman Jurkov <winfinit gmail.com>]

  *) mod_proxy_balancer: Correctly encode user provided data in management
     interface. PR 56532 [Maksymilian, <max cert.cx>]
  *) mod_proxy: Don't limit the size of the connectable Unix Domain Socket
     paths. [Graham Dumpleton, Christophe Jaillet, Yann Ylavic]

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  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Support iobuffersize parameter.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) event: Send the SSL close notify alert when the KeepAliveTimeout
     expires. PR54998. [Yann Ylavic] 

  *) mod_ssl: Ensure that the SSL close notify alert is flushed to the client.
     PR54998. [Tim Kosse <tim.kosse filezilla-project.org>, Yann Ylavic] 

  *) mod_proxy: Shutdown (eg. SSL close notify) the backend connection before
     closing. [Yann Ylavic] 

  *) mod_auth_form: Add a debug message when the fields on a form are not
     recognised. [Graham Leggett]

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  *) mod_cache: Preserve non-cacheable headers forwarded from an origin 304
     response. PR 55547.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Fix the use of SSL connections with the "wss:"
     scheme. PR55320. [Alex Liu <alex.leo.ca gmail.com>]

  *) mod_socache_shmcb: Correct counting of expirations for status display.
     Expirations happening during retrieval were not counted. [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_cache: Retry unconditional request with the full URL (including the
     query-string) when the origin server's 304 response does not match the
     conditions used to revalidate the stale entry.  [Yann Ylavic].

  *) mod_alias: Stop setting CONTEXT_PREFIX and CONTEXT_DOCUMENT environment
     variables as a result of AliasMatch. [Eric Covener]
 
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  *) mod_cache: Don't add cached/revalidated entity headers to a 304 response.
     PR 55547.  [Yann Ylavic]

  *) mod_proxy_scgi: Support Unix sockets.  ap_proxy_port_of_scheme():
     Support default SCGI port (4000).  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_cache: Fix AH00784 errors on Windows when the the CacheLock directive
     is enabled.  [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_expires: don't add Expires header to error responses (4xx/5xx),
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     be they generated or forwarded. PR 55669.  [Yann Ylavic]
  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Don't segfault when failing to connect to the backend.
     (regression in 2.4.9 release) [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_authn_socache: Fix crash at startup in certain configurations.
     PR 56371. (regression in 2.4.7) [Jan Kaluza]

  *) mod_ssl: restore argument structure for "exec"-type SSLPassPhraseDialog
     programs to the form used in releases up to 2.4.7, and emulate
     a backwards-compatible behavior for existing setups. [Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_ssl: Add SSLOCSPUseRequestNonce directive to control whether or not
     OCSP requests should use a nonce to be checked against the responder's
     one. PR 56233. [Yann Ylavic, Kaspar Brand]

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  *) mod_ssl: "SSLEngine off" will now override a Listen-based default
     and does disable mod_ssl for the vhost.  [Joe Orton]

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  *) mod_lua: Enforce the max post size allowed via r:parsebody()
     [Daniel Gruno]

  *) mod_lua: Use binary comparison to find boundaries for multipart 
     objects, as to not terminate our search prematurely when hitting
     a NULL byte. [Daniel Gruno]

  *) mod_ssl: add workaround for SSLCertificateFile when using OpenSSL
     versions before 0.9.8h and not specifying an SSLCertificateChainFile
     (regression introduced with 2.4.8). PR 56410. [Kaspar Brand]

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  *) mod_ssl: bring SNI behavior into better conformance with RFC 6066:
     no longer send warning-level unrecognized_name(112) alerts,
     and limit startup warnings to cases where an OpenSSL version
     without TLS extension support is used. PR 56241. [Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_proxy_html: Avoid some possible memory access violation in case of
     specially crafted files, when the ProxyHTMLMeta directive is turned on.
     Follow up of PR 56287 [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the optional functions are loaded even when
     the AuthFormProvider isn't specified. [Graham Leggett]

  *) mod_ssl: avoid processing bogus SSLCertificateKeyFile values
     (and logging garbled file names). PR 56306. [Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_ssl: fix merging of global and vhost-level settings with the
     SSLCertificateFile, SSLCertificateKeyFile, and SSLOpenSSLConfCmd
     directives. PR 56353. [Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_headers: Allow the "value" parameter of Header and RequestHeader to 
     contain an ap_expr expression if prefixed with "expr=". [Eric Covener]

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  *) rotatelogs: Avoid creation of zombie processes when -p is used on
     Unix platforms.  [Joe Orton]

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  *) mod_authnz_fcgi: New module to enable FastCGI authorizer
     applications to authenticate and/or authorize clients.
     [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_proxy: Do not try to parse the regular expressions passed by
     ProxyPassMatch as URL as they do not follow their syntax.
     PR 56074. [Ruediger Pluem]

  *) mod_reqtimeout: Resolve unexpected timeouts on keepalive requests 
     under the Event MPM. PR56216.  [Frank Meier <frank meier ergon ch>]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix sending of response without some HTTP headers
     that might be set by filters.  PR 55558. [Jim Riggs <jim riggs.me>]
  *) mod_proxy_html: Do not delete the wrong data from HTML code when a
     "http-equiv" meta tag specifies a Content-Type behind any other
     "http-equiv" meta tag. PR 56287 [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]

  *) mod_proxy: Don't reuse a SSL backend connection whose requested SNI
     differs. PR 55782.  [Yann Ylavic]
  *) Add suspend_connection and resume_connection hooks to notify modules
     when the thread/connection relationship changes.  (Should be implemented
     for any third-party async MPMs.)  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Don't issue AH02447 and log a 500 on routine 
     hangups from websockets origin servers. PR 56299
     [Yann Ylavic, Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>, Eric Covener] 

  *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Don't pool backend websockets connections,
     because we need to handshake every time. PR 55890.
     [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_lua: Redesign how request record table access behaves,
     in order to utilize the request record from within these tables.
  *) mod_lua: Add r:wspeek for peeking at WebSocket frames. [Daniel Gruno]
  *) mod_lua: Log an error when the initial parsing of a Lua file fails.
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     [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]
  *) mod_lua: Reformat and escape script error output.
     [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]

  *) mod_lua: URL-escape cookie keys/values to prevent tainted cookie data
     from causing response splitting.
     [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]

  *) mod_lua: Disallow newlines in table values inside the request_rec, 
     to prevent HTTP Response Splitting via tainted headers.
     [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]

  *) mod_lua: Remove the non-working early/late arguments for 
     LuaHookCheckUserID. [Daniel Gruno]

  *) mod_lua: Change IVM storage to use shm [Daniel Gruno]

  *) mod_lua: More verbose error logging when a handler function cannot be
     found. [Daniel Gruno]

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Changes with Apache 2.4.9

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  *) mod_ssl: Work around a bug in some older versions of OpenSSL that
     would cause a crash in SSL_get_certificate for servers where the
     certificate hadn't been sent. [Stephen Henson]
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  *) mod_lua: Add a fixups hook that checks if the original request is intended 
     for LuaMapHandler. This fixes a bug where FallbackResource invalidates the 
     LuaMapHandler directive in certain cases by changing the URI before the map 
     handler code executes [Daniel Gruno, Daniel Ferradal <dferradal gmail com>].
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Changes with Apache 2.4.8

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  *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0098 (cve.mitre.org)
     Clean up cookie logging with fewer redundant string parsing passes.
     Log only cookies with a value assignment. Prevents segfaults when
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     logging truncated cookies.
     [William Rowe, Ruediger Pluem, Jim Jagielski]

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  *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-6438 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_dav: Keep track of length of cdata properly when removing
     leading spaces. Eliminates a potential denial of service from
     specifically crafted DAV WRITE requests
     [Amin Tora <Amin.Tora neustar.biz>]
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  *) core: Support named groups and backreferences within the LocationMatch,
     DirectoryMatch, FilesMatch and ProxyMatch directives. (Requires
     non-ancient PCRE library) [Graham Leggett]

  *) core: draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-23 corrections regarding
     TE/CL conflicts. [Yann Ylavic, Jim Jagielski]

  *) core: Detect incomplete request and response bodies, log an error and
     forward it to the underlying filters. PR 55475 [Yann Ylavic]
  *) mod_dir: Add DirectoryCheckHandler to allow a 2.2-like behavior, skipping 
     execution when a handler is already set. PR53929. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_ssl: Do not perform SNI / Host header comparison in case of a
     forward proxy request. [Ruediger Pluem]

  *) mod_ssl: Remove the hardcoded algorithm-type dependency for the
     SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile directives, to enable
     future algorithm agility, and deprecate the SSLCertificateChainFile
     directive (obsoleted by SSLCertificateFile). [Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_rewrite: Add RewriteOptions InheritDown, InheritDownBefore, 
     and IgnoreInherit to allow RewriteRules to be pushed from parent scopes
     to child scopes without explicitly configuring each child scope.
     PR56153.  [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>] 

  *) prefork: Fix long delays when doing a graceful restart.
     PR 54852 [Jim Jagielski, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm maven pl>]

  *) FreeBSD: Disable IPv4-mapped listening sockets by default for versions
     5+ instead of just for FreeBSD 5. PR 53824. [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Avoid busy loop on client errors, drop message
     IDs 02445, 02446, and 02448 to TRACE1 from DEBUG. PR 56145.
     [Joffroy Christen <joffroy.christen solvaxis com>, Eric Covener]

  *) mod_remoteip: Correct the trusted proxy match test. PR 54651.
     [Yoshinori Ehara <yoshinori ehara gmail com>, Eugene L <eugenel amazon com>]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix error message when an unexpected protocol version
     number is received from the application.  PR 56110.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_remoteip: Use the correct IP addresses to populate the proxy_ips field.
     PR 55972. [Mike Rumph]

  *) mod_lua: Update r:setcookie() to accept a table of options and add domain,
     path and httponly to the list of options available to set.
     PR 56128 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>, Daniel Gruno]
     
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  *) mod_lua: Fix r:setcookie() to add, rather than replace,
     the Set-Cookie header. PR56105
     [Kevin J Walters <kjw ms com>, Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]

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  *) mod_lua: Allow for database results to be returned as a hash with 
     row-name/value pairs instead of just row-number/value. [Daniel Gruno]

  *) mod_rewrite: Add %{CONN_REMOTE_ADDR} as the non-useragent counterpart to
     %{REMOTE_ADDR}. PR 56094. [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]

  *) WinNT MPM: If ap_run_pre_connection() fails or sets c->aborted, don't
     save the socket for reuse by the next worker as if it were an 
     APR_SO_DISCONNECTED socket. Restores 2.2 behavior. [Eric Covener]

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  *) mod_dir: Don't search for a DirectoryIndex or DirectorySlash on a URL
     that was just rewritten by mod_rewrite. PR53929. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_session: When we have a session we were unable to decode,
     behave as if there was no session at all. [Thomas Eckert
     <thomas.r.w.eckert gmail com>]

  *) mod_session: Fix problems interpreting the SessionInclude and
     SessionExclude configuration. PR 56038. [Erik Pearson
     <erik adaptations.com>]

  *) mod_authn_core: Allow <AuthnProviderAlias>'es to be seen from auth
     stanzas under virtual hosts. PR 55622. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Use apr_socket_timeout_get instead of hard-coded
     30 seconds timeout. [Jan Kaluza]

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  *) build: only search for modules (config*.m4) in known subdirectories, see
     build/config-stubs. [Stefan Fritsch]

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  *) mod_cache_disk: Fix potential hangs on Windows when using mod_cache_disk. 
     PR 55833. [Eric Covener]
  *) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL configuration commands by introducing
     the SSLOpenSSLConfCmd directive. [Stephen Henson, Kaspar Brand]

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  *) mod_proxy: Remove (never documented) <Proxy ~ wildcard-url> syntax which
     is equivalent to <ProxyMatch wildcard-url>. [Christophe Jaillet]
  *) mod_authz_user, mod_authz_host, mod_authz_groupfile, mod_authz_dbm,
     mod_authz_dbd, mod_authnz_ldap: Support the expression parser within the
     require directives. [Graham Leggett]
  *) mod_proxy_http: Core dumped under high load. PR 50335.
     [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
  *) mod_socache_shmcb.c: Remove arbitrary restriction on shared memory size
     previously limited to 64MB. [Jens Låås <jelaas gmail.com>]
  *) mod_lua: Use binary copy when dealing with uploads through r:parsebody() 
     to prevent truncating files. [Daniel Gruno]

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Changes with Apache 2.4.7

  *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-4352 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_cache: Fix a NULL pointer deference which allowed untrusted
     origin servers to crash mod_cache in a forward proxy
     configuration.  [Graham Leggett]

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  *) APR 1.5.0 or later is now required for the event MPM.
  
  *) slotmem_shm: Error detection. [Jim Jagielski]

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  *) event: Use skiplist data structure. [Jim Jagielski]
  *) event: Fail at startup with message AP02405 if the APR atomic
     implementation is not compatible with the MPM.  [Jim Jagielski]

  *) mpm_unix: Add ap_mpm_podx_* implementation to avoid code duplication
     and align w/ trunk. [Jim Jagielski]

  *) Fix potential rejection of valid MaxMemFree and ThreadStackSize
     directives.  [Mike Rumph <mike.rumph oracle.com>]

  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Remove 64K limit on encoded length of all envvars.
     An individual envvar with an encoded length of more than 16K will be
     omitted.  [Jeff Trawick]
  
  *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Handle reading protocol data that is split between
     packets.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_ssl: Improve handling of ephemeral DH and ECDH keys by
     allowing custom parameters to be configured via SSLCertificateFile,
     and by adding standardized DH parameters for 1024/2048/3072/4096 bits.
     Unless custom parameters are configured, the standardized parameters
     are applied based on the certificate's RSA/DSA key size. [Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_ssl, configure: Require OpenSSL 0.9.8a or later. [Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_ssl: drop support for export-grade ciphers with ephemeral RSA
     keys, and unconditionally disable aNULL, eNULL and EXP ciphers
     (not overridable via SSLCipherSuite). [Kaspar Brand]

  *) mod_proxy: Added support for unix domain sockets as the
     backend server endpoint [Jim Jagielski, Blaise Tarr
     <blaise tarr gmail com>]

  *) Add experimental cmake-based build system for Windows.  [Jeff Trawick,
     Tom Donovan]

  *) event MPM: Fix possible crashes (third party modules accessing c->sbh) 
     or occasional missed mod_status updates for some keepalive requests 
     under load. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_authn_socache: Support optional initialization arguments for
     socache providers.  [Chris Darroch]

  *) mod_session: Reset the max-age on session save. PR 47476. [Alexey
     Varlamov <alexey.v.varlamov gmail com>]

  *) mod_session: After parsing the value of the header specified by the
     SessionHeader directive, remove the value from the response. PR 55279.
     [Graham Leggett]

  *) mod_headers: Allow for format specifiers in the substitution string
     when using Header edit. [Daniel Ruggeri]

  *) mod_dav: dav_resource->uri is treated as unencoded. This was an
     unnecessary ABI changed introduced in 2.4.6. PR 55397.

  *) mod_dav: Don't require lock tokens for COPY source. PR 55306.

  *) core: Don't truncate output when sending is interrupted by a signal,
     such as from an exiting CGI process. PR 55643. [Jeff Trawick]

  *) WinNT MPM: Exit the child if the parent process crashes or is terminated.
     [Oracle Corporation]

  *) Windows: Correct failure to discard stderr in some error log
     configurations.  (Error message AH00093)  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_session_crypto: Allow using exec: calls to obtain session
     encryption key.  [Daniel Ruggeri]

  *) core: Add missing Reason-Phrase in HTTP response headers.
     PR 54946. [Rainer Jung]

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  *) mod_rewrite: Make rewrite websocket-aware to allow proxying.
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     PR 55598. [Chris Harris <chris.harris kitware com>]

  *) mod_ldap: When looking up sub-groups, use an implicit objectClass=*
     instead of an explicit cn=* filter. [David Hawes <dhawes vt.edu>]

  *) ab: Add wait time, fix processing time, and output write errors only if
     they occured. [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) worker MPM: Don't forcibly kill worker threads if the child process is
     exiting gracefully.  [Oracle Corporation]

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

  *) mod_auth_basic: Add AuthBasicUseDigestAlgorithm directive to
     allow migration of passwords from digest to basic authentication.
     [Chris Darroch]

  *) ab: Add a new -l parameter in order not to check the length of the responses.
     This can be usefull with dynamic pages.
     PR9945, PR27888, PR42040 [<ccikrs1 cranbrook edu>]
     
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  *) Suppress formatting of startup messages written to the console when
     ErrorLogFormat is used.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_auth_digest: Be more specific when the realm mismatches because the
     realm has not been specified. [Graham Leggett]

  *) mod_proxy: Add a note in the balancer manager stating whether changes
     will or will not be persisted and whether settings are inherited.
     [Daniel Ruggeri, Jim Jagielski]
  *) core: Add util_fcgi.h and associated definitions and support
     routines for FastCGI, based largely on mod_proxy_fcgi.
     [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_headers: Add 'Header note header-name note-name' for copying a response
     headers value into a note. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_headers: Add 'setifempty' command to Header and RequestHeader.
     [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_logio: new format-specifier %S (sum) which is the sum of received
     and sent byte counts.
     PR54015 [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_deflate: Improve error detection when decompressing request bodies
     with trailing garbage: handle case where trailing bytes are in
     the same bucket. [Rainer Jung]

  *) mod_authz_groupfile, mod_authz_user: Reduce severity of AH01671 and AH01663
     from ERROR to DEBUG, since these modules do not know what mod_authz_core
     is doing with their AUTHZ_DENIED return value. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_ldap: add TRACE5 for LDAP retries. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_ldap: retry on an LDAP timeout during authn. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_ldap: Change "LDAPReferrals off" to actually set the underlying LDAP 
     SDK option to OFF, and introduce "LDAPReferrals default" to take the SDK 
     default, sans rebind authentication callback.
     [Jan Kaluza <kaluze AT redhat.com>]

  *) core: Log a message at TRACE1 when the client aborts a connection.
     [Eric Covener]

  *) WinNT MPM: Don't crash during child process initialization if the
     Listen protocol is unrecognized.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) modules: Fix some compiler warnings. [Guenter Knauf]

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  *) Sync 2.4 and trunk
       - Avoid some memory allocation and work when TRACE1 is not activated
       - fix typo in include guard
       - indent
       - No need to lower the string before removing the path, it is just 
         a waste of time...
       - Save a few cycles
     [Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet wanadoo.fr>]

  *) mod_filter: Add "change=no" as a proto-flag to FilterProtocol
     to remove a providers initial flags set at registration time.
     [Eric Covener]

  *) core, mod_ssl: Enable the ability for a module to reverse the sense of
     a poll event from a read to a write or vice versa. This is a step on
     the way to allow mod_ssl taking full advantage of the event MPM.
     [Graham Leggett]

  *) Makefile.win: Install proper pcre DLL file during debug build install.
     PR 55235.  [Ben Reser <ben reser org>]

  *) mod_ldap: Fix a potential memory leak or corruption.  PR 54936.
     [Zhenbo Xu <zhenbo1987 gmail com>]

  *) ab: Fix potential buffer overflows when processing the T and X
     command-line options.  PR 55360.
     [Mike Rumph <mike.rumph oracle.com>]

  *) fcgistarter: Specify SO_REUSEADDR to allow starting a server
     with old connections in TIME_WAIT.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) core: Add open_htaccess hook which, in conjunction with dirwalk_stat
     and post_perdir_config (introduced in 2.4.5), allows mpm-itk to be 
     used without patches to httpd core. [Stefan Fritsch]
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  *) support/htdbm: fix processing of -t command line switch. Regression
     introduced in 2.4.4
     PR 55264 [Jo Rhett <jrhett netconsonance com>]
  *) mod_lua: add websocket support via r:wsupgrade, r:wswrite, r:wsread 
     and r:wsping. [Daniel Gruno]

  *) mod_lua: add support for writing/reading cookies via r:getcookie and 
     r:setcookie. [Daniel Gruno]

  *) mod_lua: If the first yield() of a LuaOutputFilter returns a string, it should
     be prefixed to the response as documented. [Eric Covener] 
     Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES

  *) mod_lua: Remove ETAG, Content-Length, and Content-MD5 when a LuaOutputFilter
     is configured without mod_filter. [Eric Covener]
     Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES

  *) mod_lua: Register LuaOutputFilter scripts as changing the content and
     content-length by default, when run my mod_filter.  Previously,
     growing or shrinking a response that started with Content-Length set
     would require mod_filter and FilterProtocol change=yes. [Eric Covener]
     Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES

  *) mod_lua: Return a 500 error if a LuaHook* script doesn't return a
     numeric return code. [Eric Covener]
     Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES

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Changes with Apache 2.4.6

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  *) Revert a broken fix for PR54948 that was applied to 2.4.5 (which was
     not released) and found post-2.4.5 tagging.
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Changes with Apache 2.4.5

  *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-1896 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_dav: Sending a MERGE request against a URI handled by mod_dav_svn with
     the source href (sent as part of the request body as XML) pointing to a
     URI that is not configured for DAV will trigger a segfault. [Ben Reser
     <ben reser.org>]

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  *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-2249 (cve.mitre.org)
     mod_session_dbd: Make sure that dirty flag is respected when saving
     sessions, and ensure the session ID is changed each time the session
     changes. This changes the format of the updatesession SQL statement.
     Existing configurations must be changed.
     [Takashi Sato, Graham Leggett]
  *) mod_auth_basic: Add a generic mechanism to fake basic authentication
     using the ap_expr parser. AuthBasicFake allows the administrator to 
     construct their own username and password for basic authentication based 
     on their needs. [Graham Leggett]

  *) mpm_event: Check that AsyncRequestWorkerFactor is not negative. PR 54254.
     [Jackie Zhang <jackie qq zhang gmail com>]

  *) mod_proxy: Ensure we don't attempt to amend a table we are iterating
     through, ensuring that all headers listed by Connection are removed.
     [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]

  *) mod_proxy_http: Make the proxy-interim-response environment variable
     effective by formally overriding origin server behaviour. [Graham
     Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
  *) mod_proxy: Fix seg-faults when using the global pool on threaded
     MPMs [Thomas Eckert <thomas.r.w.eckert gmail.com>, Graham Leggett,
     Jim Jagielski]

  *) mod_deflate: Remove assumptions as to when an EOS bucket might arrive.
     Gracefully step aside if the body size is zero. [Graham Leggett]

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  *) mod_ssl: Fix possible truncation of OCSP responses when reading from the
     server.  [Joe Orton]

  *) core: Support the SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT optimization
     on Linux kernel versions 3.x and above.  PR 55121.  [Bradley Heilbrun
     <apache heilbrun.org>]

  *) mod_cache_socache: Make sure the CacheSocacheMaxSize directive is merged
     correctly. [Jens Låås <jelaas gmail.com>]

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  *) rotatelogs: add -n number-of-files option to rotate through a number
     of fixed-name logfiles. [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_proxy: Support web-socket tunnels via mod_proxy_wstunnel.
     [Jim Jagielski]

  *) mod_cache_socache: Use the name of the socache implementation when performing
     a lookup rather than using the raw arguments. [Martin Ksellmann
     <martin@ksellmann.de>]

  *) core: Add dirwalk_stat hook.  [Jeff Trawick]
  *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
     [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]

  *) proxy_util: NULL terminate the right buffer in 'send_http_connect'.
     [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) mod_remoteip: close file in error path. [Christophe Jaillet]

  *) core: make the "default" parameter of the "ErrorDocument" option case
     insensitive. PR 54419 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs ucsd edu>]

  *) mod_proxy_html: make the "ProxyHTMLFixups" options case insensitive.
     PR 54420 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs ucsd edu>]

  *) mod_cache: Make option "CacheDisable" in mod_cache case insensitive.
     PR 54462 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs ucsd edu>]
  *) mod_cache: If a 304 response indicates an entity not currently cached, then
     the cache MUST disregard the response and repeat the request without the
     conditional. [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]

  *) mod_cache: Ensure that we don't attempt to replace a cached response
     with an older response as per RFC2616 13.12. [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor
     <coad measurement-factory.com>]

  *) core, mod_cache: Ensure RFC2616 compliance in ap_meets_conditions()
     with weak validation combined with If-Range and Range headers. Break
     out explicit conditional header checks to be useable elsewhere in the
     server. Ensure weak validation RFC compliance in the byteranges filter.
     Ensure RFC validation compliance when serving cached entities. PR 16142
     [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]

  *) core: Add the ability to do explicit matching on weak and strong ETags
     as per RFC2616 Section 13.3.3. [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor
     <coad measurement-factory.com>]

  *) mod_cache: Ensure that updated responses to HEAD requests don't get
     mistakenly paired with a previously cached body. Ensure that any existing
     body is removed when a HEAD request is cached. [Graham Leggett,
     Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]

  *) mod_cache: Honour Cache-Control: no-store in a request. [Graham Leggett]

  *) mod_cache: Make sure that contradictory entity headers present in a 304
     Not Modified response are caught and cause the entity to be removed.
     [Graham Leggett]

  *) mod_cache: Make sure Vary processing handles multivalued Vary headers and
     multivalued headers referred to via Vary. [Graham Leggett]

  *) mod_cache: When serving from cache, only the last header of a multivalued
     header was taken into account. Fixed. Ensure that Warning headers are
     correctly handled as per RFC2616. [Graham Leggett]

  *) mod_cache: Ignore response headers specified by no-cache=header and
     private=header as specified by RFC2616 14.9.1 What is Cacheable. Ensure
     that these headers are still processed when multiple Cache-Control
     headers are present in the response. PR 54706 [Graham Leggett,
     Yann Ylavic <ylavic.dev gmail.com>]

  *) mod_cache: Invalidate cached entities in response to RFC2616 Section
     13.10 Invalidation After Updates or Deletions. PR 15868 [Graham
     Leggett]

  *) mod_dav: Improve error handling in dav_method_put(), add new
     dav_join_error() function.  PR 54145.  [Ben Reser <ben reser.org>]

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

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

  *) mod_dav: Sending an If or If-Match header with an invalid ETag doesn't
     result in a 412 Precondition Failed for a COPY operation. PR54610
     [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]
  *) mod_dav: Make sure that when we prepare an If URL for Etag comparison,
     we compare unencoded paths. PR 53910 [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]

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  *) mod_deflate: Remove assumptions as to when an EOS bucket might arrive.
     Gracefully step aside if the body size is zero. [Graham Leggett]

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

  *) 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>]

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

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

  *) mod_ssl: add support for subjectAltName-based host name checking
     in proxy mode (SSLProxyCheckPeerName). PR 54030. [Kaspar Brand]
  *) core: Use the proper macro for HTTP/1.1. [Graham Leggett]

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

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

  *) 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