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Apache 2.0beta1 Released

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After two long years of development he Apache Group is pleased to announce 

the release of the first public beta 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.  With this version of Apache,

we have also added support for filtered I/O.  This allows modules to modify

the output of other modules before it is sent to the client.  This release also

greatly improves the performance and robustness of Apache on the

Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.  This beta includes support for IPv6

on all platforms that support IPv6.

This version of Apache is known to work on many versions of Unix, BeOS,

OS/2, and Windows.  Because of many of the advancements in Apache 2.0,

the initial release of Apache is expected to perform equally well on all 

supported platforms.

There are new snapshots of the Apache httpd source available every 6

hours from http://dev.apache.org/from-cvs/apache-2.0/ - please

download and test if you feel brave. We don't guarantee anything

except that it will take up disk space, but if you have the time and

skills, please give it a spin on your platforms.

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

April of 1996. The May 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 running on more than 60% of the

Internet web servers.

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

Known problems with Apache 2.0b1

  *) WARNING: Apache 2.0b1 is not expected to run on Windows 95, 98 or ME.

     The intitial production release of Apache 2.0 is expected to run on

     these consumer operating systems, but they cannot be recommended as

     production environments due to the lack of integrated security and

     robustness.

  *) The canonical paths are being overhauled.  This affects especially

     Win32 users with this release.  Due to this transitional state,

     file with names containing non-ASCII characters may refuse serve.

     This is in preparation for the next release, users will be able to 

     serve any Unicode named files with Apache/Win32 on Windows NT/2000.

  *) Win32 users will see no message when Apache 2.0b1 is started as a

     console.  While normal for unix, this differs from the behavior in

     Apache 1.3 on Windows.

Changes with Apache 2.0b1

  *) Apache is now IPv6-capable.  On systems where APR supports IPv6,

     Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default.  Additionally, the

     Listen, NameVirtualHost, and <VirtualHost> directives support IPv6

     numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").

     [Jeff Trawick]

  *) Modify the install directory layout.  Modules are now installed in

     modules/.  Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but

     we don't have any of those on Unix yet.  All install directories

     are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom]

  *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom]

  *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of

     which modules linked into the server.  This uses the same hack

     for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the

     necessary functions are linked.  As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC

     was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make

     the scripts a bit easier.

     [Ryan Bloom]

  *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout

     on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and

     be loadable into the server.  Our new build/install mechanism expects

     that all modules will have a common name format.  The auth modules

     didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly.

     [Ryan Bloom]

  *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer

     available.  Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0.  [Ryan Bloom]

  *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts

     after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]

  *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a

     content-length.  Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to

     have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we

     can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.

     [Ryan Bloom]

  *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.

     [Allan Edwards]

  *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way

     they keep track of whether or not their  post config hook has been

     called before.  Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when

     the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.

     [Jeff Trawick]