Updated the announcement from 1.3.6 to the 2.0 Ryan actually sent

Apache 1.3.6 Released

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The Apache Software Foundation is pleased to announce the release of version

1.3.6 of the Apache HTTP server.

Apache 2.0alpha1 Released

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The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the first public

alpha release of Apache 2.0.  

Apache 2.0 offers numerous enhancements, improvements and performance

boosts over the 1.3 codebase. The most visible and noteworthy addition

is the ability to run Apache in a hybrid thread/process mode on any 

platform that supports both threads and processes.  This has shown to

improve the scalability of the Apache HTTPD server significantly in our

early testing, on some versions of Unix.  This release also greatly 

improves the performance and robustness of Apache on Windows Operating 

Systems.  Lastly we are proud to announce support for BeOS in this 

version of the server.

Apache 2.0a1 under UNIX has undergone some testing, there are

known issues in the current release, including at least one small memory 

leak.  This should be considered a ``developers version'' including only 

the source and no pre-compiled binaries. It is anticipated that a 

binary-release will be available for the first beta release.  If you do

not feel comfortable compiling code, the Apache Group strongly recommends

that you wait for a more stable beta release before you try this version. 

Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April

of 1996. The February 2000 WWW server site survey by Netcraft (see:

http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/) found that more web servers were

using Apache than any other software, and Apache hit an all time high of,

running on 58% of the Internet.

The Apache project has been organized in an attempt to answer some of

the concerns regarding active development of a public domain HTTP server

for UNIX. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and

extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the current

HTTP standards.

For more information, please check out http://www.apache.org/

This new Apache version incorporates over 60 significant improvements

to the server.  Apart from portability and security fixes, documentation

enhancements, performance improvements, and assorted other minor

features or fixes notable changes are:

 - mod_log_config now supports conditional logging based upon

   environment variables and support for multiline entries.

 - New CustomLog directive %V: This logs the hostname according to the

   UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of %v).

 - Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text

   and DBM format mapfiles now uses a hash table with LRU functionality.

   Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.

   The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite

   maps are in use.

 - Ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.

 - New <LimitExcept> directive to allow the user to assign authentication

   control to any HTTP method that is *not* given in the argument list;

   i.e., the logical negation of the <Limit> directive.

 - Improved content negotiation.

 - New ScriptInterpreterSource directive to enable searching the

   Win32 registry for script interpreters.

 - The FAQ document was reorganised.

 - Overhauled ApacheBench benchmark program.

 - Several new API functions have been added.

A complete listing with detailed descriptions is provided in the

src/CHANGES file.

We consider Apache 1.3.6 to be the best version of Apache available and

we strongly recommend that users of older versions, especially of the

1.1.x and 1.2.x family, upgrade as soon as possible.  No further releases

will be made in the 1.2.x family.

Apache 1.3.6 is available for download from

    http://www.apache.org/dist/

Please see the CHANGES_1.3 file in the same directory for a full

list of changes.

Binary distributions are available from

   http://www.apache.org/dist/binaries/

As of Apache 1.3.6 binary distributions contain all standard Apache

modules as shared objects (if supported by the platform) and include

full source code.  Installation is easily done by executing the

included install script.  See the README.bindist and INSTALL.bindist

files for a complete explanation.  Please note that the binary

distributions are only provided for your convenience and current

distributions for specific platforms are not always available.

The source and binary distributions are also available via any of the

mirrors listed at

    http://www.apache.org/mirrors/

For an overview of new features in 1.3 please see

    http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_3.html

In general, Apache 1.3 offers several substantial improvements

over version 1.2, including better performance, reliability and a

wider range of supported platforms, including Windows 95/98 and NT

(which fall under the "Win32" label).

Apache is the most popular web server in the known universe; over

half of the servers on the Internet are running Apache or one of

its variants.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WIN32 USERS: Over the years, many users have

come to trust Apache as a secure and stable server.  It must

be realized that the current Win32 code has not yet reached these

levels and should still be considered to be of beta quality.  Any

Win32 stability or security problems do not impact, in any way,

Apache on other platforms.  With the continued donation of time

and resources by individuals and companies, we hope that the Win32

version of Apache will grow stronger through the 1.3.x release cycle.