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Announcement

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Apache 2.0alpha1 Released

Apache 2.0alpha2 Released

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

The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the second 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

improve the salability 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

Apache 2.0a2 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
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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 2.0a2 under Windows has undergone some testing as well.  There

are known issues in the current release with regards to Apache on windows

95 and 98.  We are working through those problems, and hope to have them

fixed for future releases of the 2.0 alpha.



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