-*- coding: utf-8 -*- Changes with Apache 2.2.13 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-2412 (cve.mitre.org) Distributed with APR 1.3.8 and APR-util 1.3.9 to fix potential overflow in pools and rmm, where size alignment was taking place. [Matt Lewis , Sander Striker] *) mod_ssl, ab: improve compatibility with OpenSSL 1.0.0 betas. Report warnings compiling mod_ssl against OpenSSL to the httpd developers. [Guenter Knauf] *) mod_cgid: Do not add an empty argument when calling the CGI script. PR 46380 [Ruediger Pluem] *) Fix potential segfaults with use of the legacy ap_rputs() etc interfaces, in cases where an output filter fails. PR 36780. [Joe Orton] Changes with Apache 2.2.12 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1891 (cve.mitre.org) Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_deflate or other modules, by forcing the server to consume CPU time in compressing a large file after a client disconnects. PR 39605. [Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem] *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1195 (cve.mitre.org) Prevent the "Includes" Option from being enabled in an .htaccess file if the AllowOverride restrictions do not permit it. [Jonathan Peatfield , Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem, Jeff Trawick] *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1890 (cve.mitre.org) Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_proxy in a reverse proxy configuration, where a remote attacker can force a proxy process to consume CPU time indefinitely. [Nick Kew, Joe Orton] *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1191 (cve.mitre.org) mod_proxy_ajp: Avoid delivering content from a previous request which failed to send a request body. PR 46949 [Ruediger Pluem] *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-0023, CVE-2009-1955, CVE-2009-1956 (cve.mitre.org) The bundled copy of the APR-util library has been updated, fixing three different security issues which may affect particular configurations and third-party modules. *) mod_include: fix potential segfault when handling back references on an empty SSI variable. [Ruediger Pluem, Lars Eilebrecht, Nick Kew] *) mod_alias: check sanity in Redirect arguments. PR 44729 [Sönke Tesch , Jim Jagielski] *) mod_proxy_http: fix Host: header for literal IPv6 addresses. PR 47177 [Carlos Garcia Braschi ] *) mod_rewrite: Remove locking for writing to the rewritelog. PR 46942 *) mod_alias: Ensure Redirect emits HTTP-compliant URLs. PR 44020 *) mod_proxy_http: fix case sensitivity checking transfer encoding PR 47383 [Ryuzo Yamamoto ] *) mod_rewrite: Fix the error string returned by RewriteRule. RewriteRule returned "RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters" when the 3rd argument of RewriteRule was not started with "[" or not ended with "]". PR 45082 [Vitaly Polonetsky ] *) mod_proxy: Complete ProxyPassReverse to handle balancer URL's. Given; BalancerMember balancer://alias http://example.com/foo ProxyPassReverse /bash balancer://alias/bar backend url http://example.com/foo/bar/that is now translated /bash/that [William Rowe] *) New piped log syntax: Use "||process args" to launch the given process without invoking the shell/command interpreter. Use "|$command line" (the default behavior of "|command line" in 2.2) to invoke using shell, consuming an additional shell process for the lifetime of the logging pipe program but granting additional process invocation flexibility. [William Rowe] *) mod_ssl: Add server name indication support (RFC 4366) and better support for name based virtual hosts with SSL. PR 34607 [Peter Sylvester , Kaspar Brand , Guenter Knauf, Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_negotiation: Escape pathes of filenames in 406 responses to avoid HTML injections and HTTP response splitting. PR 46837. [Geoff Keating ] *) mod_include: Prevent a case of SSI timefmt-smashing with filter chains including multiple INCLUDES filters. PR 39369 [Joe Orton] *) mod_rewrite: When evaluating a proxy rule in directory context, do escape the filename by default. PR 46428 [Joe Orton] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Check more strictly that the backend follows the AJP protocol. [Mladen Turk] *) mod_ssl: Add SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire and SSLProxyCheckPeerCN directives to enable stricter checking of remote server certificates. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_substitute: Fix a memory leak. PR 44948 [Dan Poirier ] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward remote port information by default. [Rainer Jung] *) mod_disk_cache/mod_mem_cache: Fix handling of CacheIgnoreHeaders directive to correctly remove headers before storing them. [Lars Eilebrecht] *) mod_deflate: revert changes in 2.2.8 that caused an invalid etag to be emitted for on-the-fly gzip content-encoding. PR 39727 will require larger fixes and this fix was far more harmful than the original code. PR 45023. [Roy T. Fielding] *) mod_disk_cache: The module now turns off sendfile support if 'EnableSendfile off' is defined globally. PR 41218. [Lars Eilebrecht, Issac Goldstand] *) prefork: Fix child process hang during graceful restart/stop in configurations with multiple listening sockets. PR 42829. [Joe Orton, Jeff Trawick] *) mod_ssl: Add SSLRenegBufferSize directive to allow changing the size of the buffer used for the request-body where necessary during a per-dir renegotiation. PR 39243. [Joe Orton] *) mod_rewrite: Introduce DiscardPathInfo|DPI flag to stop the troublesome way that per-directory rewrites append the previous notion of PATH_INFO to each substitution before evaluating subsequent rules. PR38642 [Eric Covener] *) mod_authnz_ldap: Reduce number of initialization debug messages and make information more clear. PR 46342 [Dan Poirier] *) mod_cache: Introduce 'no-cache' per-request environment variable to prevent the saving of an otherwise cacheable response. [Eric Covener] *) core: Translate the status line to ASCII on EBCDIC platforms in ap_send_interim_response() and for locally generated "100 Continue" responses. [Eric Covener] *) CGI: return 504 (Gateway timeout) rather than 500 when a script times out before returning status line/headers. PR 42190 [Nick Kew] *) prefork: Log an error instead of segfaulting when child startup fails due to pollset creation failures. PR 46467. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_ext_filter: fix error handling when the filter prog fails to start, and introduce an onfail configuration option to abort the request or to remove the broken filter and continue. PR 41120 [Nick Kew] *) mod_include: support generating non-ASCII characters as entities in SSI PR 25202 [Nick Kew] *) core/utils: Enhance ap_escape_html API to support escaping non-ASCII chars [Nick Kew] *) mod_rewrite: fix "B" flag breakage by reverting r589343 PR 45529 [Bob Ionescu ] *) mod_cgid: fix segfault problem on solaris. PR 39332 [Masaoki Kobayashi , Jeff Trawick] *) mod_ldap: Avoid a segfault when result->rc is checked in uldap_connection_init when result is NULL. This could happen if LDAP initialization failed. PR 45994. [Dan Poirier ] *) Set Listen protocol to "https" if port is set to 443 and no proto is specified (as documented but not implemented). PR 46066 [Dan Poirier ] *) mod_cache: Correctly save Content-Encoding of cachable entity. PR 46401 [Dan Poirier ] *) Output -M and -S dumps (modules and vhosts) to stdout instead of stderr. PR 42571 and PR 44266 (dup). [Dan Poirier ] *) mod_cache: When an explicit Expires or Cache-Control header is set, cache normally non-cacheable response statuses. PR 46346. [Alex Polvi ] Changes with Apache 2.2.11 *) core: When the ap_http_header_filter processes an error bucket, cleanup the passed brigade before returning AP_FILTER_ERROR down the filter chain. This unambiguously ensures the same error bucket isn't revisited [Ruediger Pluem] *) core: Error responses set by filters were being coerced into 500 errors, sometimes appended to the original error response. Log entry of: 'Handler for (null) returned invalid result code -3' [Eric Covener] *) configure: Don't reject libtool 2.x PR 44817 [Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis ] *) mod_autoindex: add configuration option to insert string in HTML HEAD (IndexHeadInsert). [Nick Kew] *) Add new LogFormat parameter, %k, which logs the number of keepalive requests on this connection for this request. PR 45762 [Dan Poirier , Jim Jagielski] *) Export and install the mod_rewrite.h header to ensure the optional rewrite_mapfunc_t and ap_register_rewrite_mapfunc functions are available to third party modules. [Graham Leggett] *) mod_cache: Convert age of cached object to seconds before comparing it to age supplied by the request when checking whether to send a Warning header for a stale response. PR 39713. [Owen Taylor ] *) Build: Correctly set SSL_LIBS during openssl detection if pkgconfig is not available. PR 46018 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Do not fail if response data is sent before all request data is read. PR 45911 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Add in forced recovery for balancer members if all are in error state. [Mladen Turk] *) mod_proxy: Prevent segmentation faults by correctly adjusting the lifetime of the buckets read from the proxy backend. PR 45792 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_expires: Do not sets negative max-age / Expires header in the past. PR 39774 [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_info: Was displaying the wrong value for the KeepAliveTimeout value. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix wrongly formatted requests where client sets Content-Length header, but doesn't provide a body. Servlet container always expects that next packet is body whenever C-L is present in the headers. This can lead to wrong interpretation of the packets. In this case send the empty body packet, so container can deal with that. [Mladen Turk] *) core: Add ap_timeout_parameter_parse to public API. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy: Add the possibility to set the worker parameters connectiontimeout and ping in milliseconds. [Ruediger Pluem] *) Worker MPM: Crosscheck that idle workers are still available before using them and thus preventing an overflow of the worker queue which causes a SegFault. PR 45605 [Denis Ustimenko ] *) Windows: Always build the odbc dbd driver on windows, to be consistent with the apr-util default. [Tom Donovan] Changes with Apache 2.2.10 *) SECURITY: CVE-2008-2939 (cve.mitre.org) mod_proxy_ftp: Prevent XSS attacks when using wildcards in the path of the FTP URL. Discovered by Marc Bevand of Rapid7. [Ruediger Pluem] *) Allow for smax to be 0 for balancer members so that all idle connections are able to be dropped should they exceed ttl. PR 43371 [Phil Endecott , Jim Jagielski] *) mod_proxy_http: Don't trigger a retry by the client if a failure to read the response line was the result of a timeout. [Adam Woodworth ] *) Support chroot on Unix-family platforms PR 43596 [Dimitar Pashev ] *) mod_ssl: implement dynamic mutex callbacks for the benefit of OpenSSL. [Sander Temme] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Add 'bybusyness' load balance method. [Joel Gluth , Jim Jagielski] *) mod_authn_alias: Detect during startup when AuthDigestProvider is configured to use an incompatible provider via AuthnProviderAlias. PR 45196 [Eric Covener] *) mod_proxy: Add 'scolonpathdelim' parameter to allow for ';' to also be used as a session path separator/delim PR 45158. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_charset_lite: Avoid dropping error responses by handling meta buckets correctly. PR 45687 [Dan Poirier ] *) mod_proxy_http: Introduce environment variable proxy-initial-not-pooled to avoid reusing pooled connections if the client connection is an initial connection. PR 37770. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_rewrite: Allow Cookie option to set secure and HttpOnly flags. PR 44799 [Christian Wenz ] *) mod_ssl: Rewrite shmcb to avoid memory alignment issues. PR 42101. [Geoff Thorpe] *) mod_proxy: Add connectiontimeout parameter for proxy workers in order to be able to set the timeout for connecting to the backend separately. PR 45445. [Ruediger Pluem, rahul ] *) mod_dav_fs: Retrieve minimal system information about directory entries when walking a DAV fs, resolving a performance degradation on Windows. PR 45464. [Joe Orton, Jeff Trawick] *) mod_cgid: Pass along empty command line arguments from an ISINDEX query that has consecutive '+' characters in the QUERY_STRING, matching the behavior of mod_cgi. [Eric Covener] *) mod_headers: Prevent Header edit from processing only the first header of possibly multiple headers with the same name and deleting the remaining ones. PR 45333. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Move nonce field in the balancer manager page inside the html form where it belongs. PR 45578. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_http: Do not forward requests with 'Expect: 100-continue' to known HTTP/1.0 servers. Return 'Expectation failed' (417) instead. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_rewrite: Preserve the query string when [proxy,noescape]. PR 45247. [Tom Donovan] Changes with Apache 2.2.9 *) SECURITY: CVE-2008-2364 (cve.mitre.org) mod_proxy_http: Better handling of excessive interim responses from origin server to prevent potential denial of service and high memory usage. Reported by Ryujiro Shibuya. [Ruediger Pluem, Joe Orton, Jim Jagielski] *) SECURITY: CVE-2007-6420 (cve.mitre.org) mod_proxy_balancer: Prevent CSRF attacks against the balancer-manager interface. [Joe Orton] *) core: Fix address-in-use startup failure on some platforms caused by creating an IPv4 listener which overlaps with an existing IPv6 listener. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_proxy: Make all proxy modules nocanon aware and do not add the query string again in this case. PR 44803. [Jim Jagielski, Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_unique_id: Fix timestamp value in UNIQUE_ID. PR 37064 [Kobayashi ] *) htpasswd: Fix salt generation weakness. PR 31440 [Andreas Krennmair , Peter Watkins , Paul Querna] *) core: Add the filename of the configuration file to the warning message about the useless use of AllowOverride. PR 39992. [Darryl Miles ] *) scoreboard: Remove unused proxy load balancer elements from scoreboard image (not scoreboard memory itself). [Chris Darroch] *) mod_proxy: Support environment variable interpolation in reverse proxying directives. [Nick Kew] *) suexec: When group is given as a numeric gid, validate it by looking up the actual group name such that the name can be used in log entries. PR 7862 [, Leif W ] *) Fix garbled TRACE response on EBCDIC platforms. [David Jones ] *) ab: Include earlier if available since we may need INT_MAX (defined there on Windows) for the definition of MAX_REQUESTS. PR 45024 [Ruediger Pluem] *) ab: Improve client performance by clearing connection pool instead of destroying it. PR 40054 [Brad Roberts ] *) ab: Don't stop sending a request if EAGAIN is returned, which will only happen if both the write and subsequent wait are returning EAGAIN, and count posted bytes correctly when the initial write of a request is not complete. PR 10038, 38861, 39679 [Patrick McManus , Stefan Fleiter , Davanum Srinivas, Roy T. Fielding] *) ab: Overhaul stats collection and reporting to avoid integer truncation and time divisions within the test loop, retain native time resolution until output, remove unused data, consistently round milliseconds, and generally avoid losing accuracy of calculation due to type casts. PR 44878, 44931. [Roy T. Fielding] *) ab: Add -r option to continue after socket receive errors. [Filip Hanik ] *) core: Do not allow Options ALL if not all options are allowed to be overwritten. PR 44262 [Michał Grzędzicki ] *) mod_cache: Handle If-Range correctly if the cached resource was stale. PR 44579 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy: Do not try a direct connection if the connection via a remote proxy failed before and the request has a request body. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Do not retry request in the case that we either failed to sent a part of the request body or if the request is not idempotent. PR 44334 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_rewrite: Initialize hash needed by ap_register_rewrite_mapfunc early enough. PR 44641 [Daniel Lescohier ] *) mod_dav: Return "method not allowed" if the destination URI of a WebDAV copy / move operation is no DAV resource. PR 44734 [Ruediger Pluem] *) http_filters: Don't return 100-continue on redirects. PR 43711 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_ssl: Fix a memory leak with connections that have zlib compression turned on. PR 44975 [Joe Orton, Amund Elstad , Dr Stephen Henson ] *) mod_proxy: Trigger a retry by the client in the case we fail to read the response line from the backend by closing the connection to the client. PR 37770 [Ruediger Pluem] *) gen_test_char: add double-quote to the list of T_HTTP_TOKEN_STOP. PR 9727 [Ville Skytt ] *) core: reinstate location walk to fix config for subrequests PR 41960 [Jose Kahan ] *) rotatelogs: Log the current file size and error code/description when failing to write to the log file. [Jeff Trawick] *) rotatelogs: Added '-f' option to force rotatelogs to create the logfile as soon as started, and not wait until it reads the first entry. [Jim Jagielski] *) rotatelogs: Don't leak memory when reopening the logfile. PR 40183 [Ruediger Pluem, Takashi Sato ] *) rotatelogs: Improve atomicity when using -l and cleaup code. PR 44004 [Rainer Jung] *) mod_authn_dbd: Disambiguate and tidy database authentication error messages. PR 43210. [Chris Darroch, Phil Endecott ] *) mod_headers: Add 'merge' option to avoid duplicate values within the same header. [Chris Darroch] *) mod_cgid: Explicitly set permissions of the socket (ScriptSock) shared by mod_cgid and request processing threads, for OS'es such as HPUX and AIX that do not use umask for AF_UNIX socket permissions. [Eric Covener, Jeff Trawick] *) mod_cgid: Don't try to restart the daemon if it fails to initialize the socket. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_log_config: Add format options for %p so that the actual local or remote port can be logged. PR 43415. [Adam Hasselbalch Hansen , Ruediger Pluem, Jeff Trawick] *) Added 'disablereuse' option for ProxyPass which, essentially, disables connection pooling for the backend servers. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_speling: remove regression from 1.3/2.0 behavior and drop dependency between mod_speling and AcceptPathInfo. PR 43562 [Jose Kahan ] *) mod_substitute: The default is now flattening the buckets after each substitution. The newly added 'q' flag allows for the quicker, more efficient bucket-splitting if the user so desires. [Jim Jagielski] *) http_filters: Don't spin if get an error when reading the next chunk. PR 44381 [Ruediger Pluem] *) ab: Do not try to read non existing response bodies of HEAD requests. PR 34275 [Takashi Sato ] *) ab: Use a 64 bit unsigned int instead of a signed long to count the bytes transferred to avoid integer overflows. PR 44346 [Ruediger Pluem] *) ProxyPassReverse is now balancer aware. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_include: Correctly handle SSI directives split over multiple filter passes. PR 44447 [Harald Niesche ] *) mod_cache: Revalidate cache entities which have Cache-Control: no-cache set in their response headers. PR 44511 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_rewrite: Check all files used by DBM maps for freshness, mod_rewrite didn't pick up on updated sdbm maps due to this. PR41190 [Niklas Edmundsson] *) mod_proxy: Lower memory consumption for short lived connections. PR 44026. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy: Keep connections to the backend persistent in the HTTPS case. [Ruediger Pluem] *) Don't add bogus duplicate Content-Language entries PR 11035 [Davi Arnaut] *) Worker / Event MPM: Fix race condition in pool recycling that leads to segmentation faults under load. PR 44402 [Basant Kumar Kukreja ] *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix base for directory listings. PR 27834 [Nick Kew] *) mod_logio: Provide optional function to allow modules to adjust the bytes_in count [Eric Covener] *) http_filters: Don't return 100-continue on client error PR 43711 [Chetan Reddy ] *) mod_charset_lite: Add TranslateAllMimeTypes sub-option to CharsetOptions, allowing the administrator to skip the mimetype checking that precedes translation. PR 44458 [Eric Covener] *) mod_proxy_http: Fix processing of chunked responses if Connection: Transfer-Encoding is set in the response of the proxied system. PR 44311 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_http: Return HTTP status codes instead of apr_status_t values for errors encountered while forwarding the request body PR 44165 [Eric Covener] *) mod_rewrite: Don't canonicalise URLs with [P,NE] PR 43319 [] Changes with Apache 2.2.8 *) core: Fix regression in 2.2.7 in chunk filtering with massively chunked requests. [Ruediger Pluem, Nick Kew] *) winnt_mpm: Resolve modperl issues by redirecting console mode stdout to /Device/Nul as the server is starting up, mirroring unix MPM's. PR: 43534 [Tom Donovan , William Rowe] *) winnt_mpm: Restore Win32DisableAcceptEx On directive and Win9x platform by recreating the bucket allocator each time the trans pool is cleared. PR: 11427 #16 (follow-on) [Tom Donovan ] *) mod_dav: Fix evaluation of If-Match * and If-None-Match * conditionals. PR 38034 [Paritosh Shah ] Changes with Apache 2.2.7 (not released) *) SECURITY: CVE-2007-6421 (cve.mitre.org) mod_proxy_balancer: Correctly escape the worker route and the worker redirect string in the HTML output of the balancer manager. Reported by SecurityReason. [Ruediger Pluem] *) SECURITY: CVE-2007-6422 (cve.mitre.org) Prevent crash in balancer manager if invalid balancer name is passed as parameter. Reported by SecurityReason. [Ruediger Pluem] *) SECURITY: CVE-2007-6388 (cve.mitre.org) mod_status: Ensure refresh parameter is numeric to prevent a possible XSS attack caused by redirecting to other URLs. Reported by SecurityReason. [Mark Cox, Joe Orton] *) SECURITY: CVE-2007-5000 (cve.mitre.org) mod_imagemap: Fix a cross-site scripting issue. Reported by JPCERT. [Joe Orton] *) SECURITY: CVE-2008-0005 (cve.mitre.org) Introduce the ProxyFtpDirCharset directive, allowing the administrator to identify a default, or specific servers or paths which list their contents in other-than ISO-8859-1 charset (e.g. utf-8). [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_dav: Adjust etag generation to produce identical results on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms and avoid a regression with conditional PUT's on lock and etag. PR 44152. [Michael Clark , Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_ssl: Fix handling of the buffered request body during a per-location renegotiation, when an internal redirect occurs. PR 43738. [Joe Orton] *) mod_ldap: Try to establish a new backend LDAP connection when the Microsoft LDAP client library returns LDAP_UNAVAILABLE, e.g. after the LDAP server has closed the connection due to a timeout. PR 39095 [Eric Covener] *) log.c: Ensure Win32 resurrects its lost robust logger processes. [William Rowe] *) mod_disk_cache: Delete temporary files if they cannot be renamed to their final name. [Davi Arnaut ] *) Add explicit charset to the output of various modules to work around possible cross-site scripting flaws affecting web browsers that do not derive the response character set as required by RFC2616. One of these reported by SecurityReason [Joe Orton] *) http_protocol: Escape request method in 405 error reporting. This has no security impact since the browser cannot be tricked into sending arbitrary method strings. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_ssl: Fix SSL client certificate extensions parsing bug. PR 44073. [yl ] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Use 64K as maximum AJP packet size. This is the maximum length we can squeeze inside the AJP message packet. [Mladen Turk] *) core: Lower memory consumption of ap_r* functions by reusing the brigade instead of recreating it during each filter pass. [Stefan Fritsch ] *) core: Lower memory consumption in case that flush buckets are passed thru the chunk filter as last bucket of a brigade. PR 23567. [Stefan Fritsch ] *) core: Fix broken chunk filtering that causes all non blocking reads to be converted into blocking reads. PR 19954, 41056. [Jean-Frederic Clere, Jim Jagielski] *) mod_rewrite: Add the novary flag to RewriteCond. [Ruediger Pluem] *) core: Change etag generation to produce identical results on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. PR 40064. [Joe Orton] *) http_protocol: Escape request method in 413 error reporting. Determined to be not generally exploitable, but a flaw in any case. PR 44014 [Victor Stinner ] *) mod_filter: Don't segfault on (unsupported) chained FilterProvider usage. PR 43956 [Nick Kew, Ruediger Pluem] *) core: Handle unrecognised transfer-encodings. PR 43882 [Nick Kew, Jeff Trawick] *) mod_include: Add an "if" directive syntax to test whether an URL is accessible, and if so, conditionally display content. This allows a webmaster to hide a link to a private page when the user has no access to that page. [Graham Leggett] *) Various code cleanups. PR 38699, 39518, 42005, 42006, 42007, 42008, 42009 [Christophe Jaillet ] *) mod_proxy_http: Correctly forward unexpected interim (HTTP 1xx) responses from the backend according to RFC2616. But make it configurable in case something breaks on it. PR 16518 [Nick Kew] *) mod_substitute: Added a new output filter, which performs inline response content pattern matching (including regex) and substitution. [Jim Jagielski, Ruediger Pluem] *) rotatelogs: Change command-line parsing to report more types of errors. Allow local timestamps to be used when rotating based on file size. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_proxy: Canonicalisation improvements. Add "nocanon" keyword to ProxyPass, to suppress URI-canonicalisation in a reverse proxy. Also, don't escape/unescape forward-proxied URLs. PR 41798, 42592 [Nick Kew, Ruediger Pluem, Roy Fielding, Jim Jagielski] *) mod_status: Add SeeRequestTail directive, which determines if ExtendedStatus displays the 1st 63 characters of the request or the last 63. Useful for those requests with large string lengths and which only vary with the last several characters. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_ssl: Prevent memory corruption of version string. PR 43865, 43334 [William Rowe, Joe Orton] *) core: Avoid some unexpected connection closes by telling the client that the connection is not persistent if the MPM process handling the request is already exiting when the response header is built. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_autoindex: Generate valid XHTML output by adding the xhtml namespace. PR 43649 [Jose Kahan ] *) mod_ldap: Give callers a reference to data copied into the request pool instead of references directly into the cache PR 43786 [Eric Covener] *) mod_ldap: Stop passing a reference to pconf around for (limited) use during request processing, avoiding possible memory corruption and crashes. [Eric Covener] *) Event MPM: Add support for running under mod_ssl, by reverting to the Worker MPM behaviors, when run under an input filter that buffers its own data. [Paul Querna] *) mod_charset_lite: Don't crash when the request has no associated filename. [Jeff Trawick] *) Core: fix possible crash at startup in case of nonexistent DocumentRoot. PR 39722 [Adrian Buckley ] *) HTTP protocol: Add "DefaultType none" option. PR 13986 and PR 16139 [Nick Kew] *) mod_rewrite: Add option to suppress URL unescaping PR 34602 [Guenther Gsenger ] *) mpm_winnt: Eliminate wait_for_many_objects. Allows the clean shutdown of the server when the MaxClients is higher then 257, in a more responsive manner [Mladen Turk, William Rowe] *) mod_proxy_http: Remove Warning headers with wrong date PR 16138 [Nick Kew] *) mod_proxy_http: Correctly parse all Connection headers in proxy. PR 43509 [Nick Kew] *) mod_proxy_http: add Via header correctly (if enabled) to response, even where other Via headers exist. PR 19439 [Nick Kew] *) http_core: OPTIONS * no longer maps to local storage or URI space. Note that unlike previous versions, OPTIONS * no longer returns an Allow: header. PR 43519 [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_proxy_http: strip hop-by-hop response headers PR 43455 [Nick Kew] *) mod_proxy: Don't by default violate RFC2616 by setting Max-Forwards when the client didn't send it to us. Leave that as a configuration option. PR 16137 [Nick Kew] *) scoreboard: improve error message on apr_shm_create failure PR 40037 [Nick Kew] *) proxy: Fix persistent backend connections. PR 43472 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_deflate: initialise inflate-out filter correctly when the first brigade contains no data buckets. PR 43512 [Nick Kew] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Ignore any ajp13 flush packets received before we send the response headers. See Tomcat PR 43478. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Do not reset lbstatus, lbfactor and lbset when starting a new child. PR 39907 [Vinicius Petrucci , Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_http: Propagate Proxy-Authorization header correctly. PR 25947 [Nick Kew] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Differentiate within AJP between GET and HEAD requests. PR 43060 [Jim Jagielski] *) Don't send spurious "100 Continue" response lines. PR 38014 [Basant Kumar Kukreja ] *) mod_proxy_ftp: Don't segfault on bad line in FTP listing PR 40733 [Ulf Harnhammar ] *) mod_proxy: escape error-notes correctly PR 40952 [Thijs Kinkhorst ] *) mod_proxy: check ProxyBlock for all blocked addresses PR 36987 [Timo Viipuri ] *) mod_proxy: Don't lose bytes when a response line arrives in small chunks. PR 40894 [Andrew Rucker Jones ] Changes with Apache 2.2.6 *) SECURITY: CVE-2007-3847 (cve.mitre.org) mod_proxy: Prevent reading past the end of a buffer when parsing date-related headers. PR 41144. [Davi Arnaut, Nick Kew] *) SECURITY: CVE-2007-1863 (cve.mitre.org) mod_cache: Prevent a segmentation fault if attributes are listed in a Cache-Control header without any value. [Niklas Edmundsson ] *) SECURITY: CVE-2007-3304 (cve.mitre.org) prefork, worker, event MPMs: Ensure that the parent process cannot be forced to kill processes outside its process group. [Joe Orton, Jim Jagielski] *) SECURITY: CVE-2006-5752 (cve.mitre.org) mod_status: Fix a possible XSS attack against a site with a public server-status page and ExtendedStatus enabled, for browsers which perform charset "detection". Reported by Stefan Esser. [Joe Orton] *) SECURITY: CVE-2007-1862 (cve.mitre.org) mod_mem_cache: Copy headers into longer lived storage; header names and values could previously point to cleaned up storage. PR 41551. [Davi Arnaut ] *) mod_info: mod_info outputs invalid XHTML 1.0 transitional. PR 42847 [Rici Lake ] *) mod_ssl: Fix spurious hostname mismatch warning for valid wildcard certificates. PR 37911. [Nick Burch ] *) mod_mem_cache: Increase the minimum and default value for MCacheMinObjectSize from 0 to 1, as a MCacheMinObjectSize of 0 does not make sense and leads to a division by zero. PR 40576. [Xuekun Hu ] *) mod_cache: Remove expired content from cache that cannot be revalidated. PR 30370. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_http: accept proxy-sendchunked/proxy-sendchunks as synonymous. PR 43183 [Brian Rectanus , Vincent Bray] *) mod_proxy: Ensure that at least scheme://hostname[:port] matches between worker and URL when searching for the best fitting worker for a given URL. PR 40910 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy: Improve network performance by setting APR_TCP_NODELAY (disable Nagle algorithm) on sockets if implemented. PR 42871 [Christian BOITEL , Jim Jagielski] *) core: Do not replace a Date header set by a proxied backend server. PR 40232 [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy: Add a missing assignment in an error checking code path. PR 40865 [Andrew Rucker Jones ] *) mod_proxy_connect: avoid segfault on DNS lookup failure. PR 40756 [Trevin Beattie ] *) mod_proxy: enable Ignore Errors option on ProxyPass Status. PR 43167 [Francisco Gimeno *) mod_proxy_http: Don't try to read body of a HEAD request before responding. PR 41644 [Stuart Children ] *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't return HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED during authorization when LDAP authentication is configured but we haven't seen any 'Require ldap-*' directives, allowing authorization to be passed to lower level modules (e.g. Require valid-user) PR 43281 [Eric Covener] *) mod_proxy: don't URLencode tilde in path component PR 38448 [Stijn Hoop ] *) proxy/ajp_header.c: Fixed header token string comparisons Matching of header tokens failed to include the trailing NIL byte and could misinterpret a longer header token for a shorter. Additionally, a "Content-Type" comparison was made case insensitive. [Martin Kraemer] *) proxy/ajp_header.c: Backport of an AJP protocol fix for EBCDIC On EBCDIC machines, the status_line string was incorrectly converted twice. [Jean-Frederic Clere, Martin Kraemer] *) mod_dumpio: Fix for correct dumping of traffic on EBCDIC hosts Data had been incorrectly converted twice, resulting in garbled log output. [Martin Kraemer] *) mod_autoindex: Add in Type and Charset options to IndexOptions directive. This allows the admin to explicitly set the content-type and charset of the generated page and is therefore a viable workaround for buggy browsers affected by CVE-2007-4465 (cve.mitre.org). [Jim Jagielski] *) log core: ensure we use a special pool for stderr logging, so that the stderr channel remains valid from the time plog is destroyed, until the time the open_logs hook is called again. [William Rowe] *) mod_negotiation: preserve Query String in resolving a type map PR 33112 [Jørgen Thomsen , Nick Kew] *) mod_ssl: Version reporting update; displays 'compiled against' Apache and build-time SSL Library versions at loglevel [info], while reporting the run-time SSL Library version in the server info tags. Helps to identify a mod_ssl built against one flavor of OpenSSL but running against another (also adds SSL-C version number reporting.) [William Rowe] *) mime.types: Many updates to sync with IANA registry and common unregistered types that the owners refuse to register. Admins are encouraged to update their installed mime.types file. PR: 35550, 37798, 39317, 31483 [Roy T. Fielding] *) mod_expires: don't crash on bad configuration data PR 43213 [Julien Perez ] *) mod_dbd: Introduce configuration groups to allow inheritance by virtual hosts of database configurations from the main server. Determine the minimal set of distinct configurations and share connection pools whenever possible. Allow virtual hosts to override inherited SQL statements. PR 41302. [Chris Darroch] *) mod_dbd: Create memory sub-pools for each DB connection and close DB connections in a pool cleanup function. Ensure prepared statements are destroyed before DB connection is closed. When using reslists, prevent segfaults when child processes exit, and stop memory leakage of ap_dbd_t structures. Avoid use of global s->process->pool, which isn't destroyed by exiting child processes in most multi-process MPMs. PR 39985. [Chris Darroch, Nick Kew] *) mod_dbd: Handle error conditions in dbd_construct() properly. Simplify ap_dbd_open() and use correct arguments to apr_dbd_error() when non-threaded. Register correct cleanup data in non-threaded ap_dbd_acquire() and ap_dbd_cacquire(). Clean up configuration data and merge function. Use ap_log_error() wherever possible. [Chris Darroch, Nick Kew] *) mod_dbd: Stash DBD connections in request_config of initial request only, or else sub-requests and internal redirections may cause entire DBD pool to be stashed in a single HTTP request. [Chris Darroch] *) main core: Emit errors during the initial apr_app_initialize() or apr_pool_create() (when apr-based error reporting is not ready). [William Rowe, Jeff Trawick] *) log core: fix the new piped logger case where we couldn't connect the replacement stderr logger's stderr to the NULL stdout stream. Continue in this case, since the previous alternative of no error logging at all (/dev/null) is far worse. [William Rowe] *) mpm_winnt: Prevent the parent-child pipe from leaking into other spawned processes, and ensure we have a /Device/null handle for stdout when running as-a-service. [William Rowe] *) mod_ldap: Avoid possible crashes, hangs, and busy loops due to improper merging of the cache lock in vhost config PR 43164 [Eric Covener] *) ApacheMonitor: Fix Windows Vista detection. [Mladen Turk] *) mod_deflate: fix protocol handling in deflate input filter PR 23287 [Nick Kew] *) mime.types: add Registered Javascript/ECMAScript MIME types (RFC4329) PR 40299 [Dave Hodder ] *) mod_filter: fix integer comparisons in dispatch rules PR 41835 [Nick Kew] *) mod_filter: fix merging of ! and = in FilterChain PR 42186 [Issac Goldstand ] *) mod_deflate: don't try to process metadata buckets as data. what should have been a 413 error was logged as a 500 and a blank screen appeared at the browser. [Greg Ames, Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Fix use of CGI scripts as ErrorDocuments. PR 39710. [Paul Querna, Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy: Allow to use different values for sessionid in url encoded id and cookies. PR 41897. [Jean-Frederic Clere] *) mod_proxy: Fix the 503 returned when session route does not match any of the balancer members. [Mladen Turk] *) mod_proxy: Added ProxyPassMatch directive, which is similar to ProxyPass but takes a regex local path prefix. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_cache: Do not set Date or Expires when they are missing from the original response or are invalid. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_cache: Correctly handle HEAD requests on expired cache content. PR 41230. [Niklas Edmundsson ] *) mod_cache: Let Cache-Control max-age set the expiration of the cached representation if Expires is not set. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_cache: Allow caching of requests with query arguments when Cache-Control max-age is explicitly specified. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_disk_cache: Allow Vary'd responses to be refreshed properly. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_proxy: Print the correct error message for erroneous configured ProxyPass directives. PR 40439. [Takashi Sato ] *) mod_so: Provide more helpful LoadModule feedback when an error occurs. [William Rowe] *) mod_alias: Accept path components (URL part) in Redirects. PR 35314. [Nick Kew] *) mod_headers: Allow % at the end of a Header value. PR 36609. [Nick Kew, Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_cache: Use the same cache key throughout the whole request processing to handle escaped URLs correctly. PR 41475. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_cache: Add CacheIgnoreQueryString directive. PR 41484. [Fredrik Widlund ] *) mod_cache: While serving a cached entity ensure that filters that have been applied to this cached entity before saving it to the cache are not applied again. PR 40090. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_cache: Correctly cache objects whose URL query string has been modified by mod_rewrite. PR 40805. [Ruediger Pluem] *) HTTP proxy ProxyErrorOverride: Leave 1xx and 3xx responses alone. Only processing of error responses (4xx, 5xx) will be altered. PR 39245. [Jeff Trawick, Bart van der Schans ] *) htdbm: Enable crypt support on platforms with crypt() but not , such as z/OS. [David Jones ] *) mod_ssl: initialize thread locks before initializing the hardware acceleration library, so the latter can make use of the former. PR 20951. [] *) ab.c: Correct behavior of HTTP request headers sent by ab in presence of -H command-line overrides. PR 31268, 26554. [Arvind Srinivasan ] *) ab.c: The apr_port_t type is unsigned, but ab was using a signed format code in its reports. PR 42070. [Takashi Sato ] *) mod_ldap: Remove the hardcoded size limit parameter for ldap_search_ext_s and replace it with an APR_ defined value that is set according to the LDAP SDK being used. [David Jones ] *) core: Correct a regression since 2.0.x in the handling of AllowOverride Options. PR 41829. [Torsten Förtsch ] *) mod_proxy_http: Handle request bodies larger than 2 GB by converting the Content-Length header of the request correctly. PR 40883. [Ruediger Pluem, toadie ] *) mod_proxy: Fix some proxy setting inheritance problems (eg: ProxyTimeout). PR 11540. [Stuart Children ] *) Unix MPMs: Catch SIGFPE so that exception hooks and CoreDumpDirectory can work after that terminating signal. [Eric Covener] *) Win32: Makefile.win will now build with MS VC 8 (Visual Studio 2005) including embedding the .manifest information into each binary. [William Rowe] There was no Apache 2.2.5 Changes with Apache 2.2.4 *) mod_isapi: Correctly present SERVER_PORT_SECURE. PR: 40573. [Matt Eaton ] *) Allow htcacheclean, httxt2dbm, and fcgistarter to link apr/apr-util statically like the older support programs. [Eric Covener ] *) core: Fix NONBLOCK status of listening sockets on restart/graceful PR 37680. [Darius Davis ] *) mod_deflate: Rework inflate output and deflate output filter to fix several issues: Incorrect handling of flush buckets, potential memory leaks, excessive memory usage in inflate output filter for large compressed content. PR 39854. [Ruediger Pluem, Nick Kew, Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_mem_cache: Memory leak fix: Unconditionally free the buffer. [Davi Arnaut ] *) Allow mod_dumpio to log at other than DEBUG levels via the new DumpIOLogLevel directive. [Jim Jagielski] *) rotatelogs: Improve error message for open failures. PR 39487. [Joe Orton] *) mod_dbd: share per-request database handles across subrequests and internal redirects [Chris Darroch] *) mod_dbd: key connection pools to virtual hosts correctly even when ServerName is unset/unavailable [Graham Leggett] *) Better detection and clean up of ldap connection that has been terminated by the ldap server. PR 40878. [Rob Baily ] *) mod_mem_cache: Convert mod_mem_cache to use APR memory pool functions by creating a root pool for object persistence across requests. This also eliminates the need for custom serialization code. [Davi Arnaut ] *) mod_authnz_ldap: Add an AuthLDAPRemoteUserAttribute directive. If set, REMOTE_USER will be set to this attribute, rather than the username supplied by the user. Useful for example when you want users to log in using an email address, but need to supply a userid instead to the backend. [Graham Leggett] *) mod_cgi and mod_cgid: Don't use apr_status_t error return from input filters as HTTP return value from the handler. PR 31759. [Nick Kew] *) mod_cache: Eliminate a bogus error in the log when a filter returns AP_FILTER_ERROR. [Niklas Edmundsson ] *) core: Fix issue which could cause piped loggers to be orphaned and never terminate after a graceful restart. PR 40651. [Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem] *) core: Fix address-in-use startup failure caused by corruption of the list of listen sockets in some configurations with multiple generic Listen directives. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_headers: Support regexp-based editing of HTTP headers. [Nick Kew] *) mod_proxy: Add explicit flushing feature. When Servlet container sends AJP body message with size 0, this means that Servlet container has asked for an explicit flush. Create flush bucket in that case. This feature has been added to the recent Tomcat versions without breaking the AJP protocol. [Mladen Turk] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Set the new environment variable BALANCER_ROUTE_CHANGED if a worker with a route different from the one supplied by the client had been chosen or if the client supplied no routing information for a balancer with sticky sessions. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Add information about the route, the sticky session and the worker used during a request as environment variables. PR 39806. [Brian ] *) mod_proxy: Don't try to use dead backend connection. PR 37770. [Olivier BOEL ] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Extract stickysession routing information contained as parameter in the URL correctly. PR 40400. [Ruediger Pluem, Tomokazu Harada ] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Added cping/cpong support for the AJP protocol. A new worker directive ping=timeout will cause CPING packet to be send expecting CPONG packet within defined timeout. In case the backend is too busy this will fail instead sending the full header. [Mladen Turk] *) mod_disk_cache: Make sure that only positive integers are accepted for the CacheMaxFileSize and CacheMinFileSize parameters in the config file. PR39380. [Niklas Edmundsson ] *) mod_cache: From RFC3986 (section 6.2.3.) if a URI contains an authority component and an empty path, the empty path is to be equivalent to "/". It explicitly cites the following four URIs as equivalents: http://example.com http://example.com/ http://example.com:/ http://example.com:80/ [Davi Arnaut ] *) mod_cache: Don't cache requests with a expires date in the past; otherwise mod_cache will always try to cache the URL. This bug might lead to numerous rename() errors on win32 if the URL was previously cached. [Davi Arnaut ] *) core: Deal with the widespread use of apr_status_t return values as HTTP status codes, as documented in PR#31759 (a bug shared by the default handler, mod_cgi, mod_cgid, mod_proxy, and probably others). PR31759. [Jeff Trawick, Ruediger Pluem, Joe Orton] *) mod_ext_filter: Handle filter names which include capital letters. PR 40323. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_isapi: Avoid double trailing slashes in HSE_REQ_MAP_URL_TO_PATH support. Also corrects the slashes for Windows. PR 15993. [William Rowe] *) mod_isapi: Handle "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" style status lines correctly, the token parser worked while the resulting length was misinterpreted. PR 29098. [Brock Bland ] *) mod_isapi: Return 0 (failure) for more of the various ap_pass_brigade attempts to stream the response at the client. Log these as well. PR 30022, 40470. [William Rowe, Matt Eaton ] *) mod_isapi: Ensure we walk through all the methods the developer may have employed to report their HTTP status result code. PR 16637 30033 28089. [Matt Lewandowsky , William Rowe] *) mod_echo: Fix precedence problem in if statement. PR 40658. [Larry Cipriani ] *) mod_mime_magic: Fix precedence problem in if statement. PR 40656. [Larry Cipriani ] *) The full server version information is now included in the error log at startup as well as server status reports, irrespective of the setting of the ServerTokens directive. ap_get_server_version() is now deprecated, and is replaced by ap_get_server_banner() and ap_get_server_description(). [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Workers can now be defined as part of a balancer cluster "set" in which members of a lower-numbered set are preferred over higher numbered ones. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Workers can now be defined as "hot standby" which will only be used if all other workers are unusable (eg: in error or disabled). Also, the balancer-manager displays the election count and I/O counts of all workers. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Close connection to backend if reading of request body fails. PR 40310. [Ian Abel ] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Retry worker chosen by route / redirect worker if it is in error state before sending "Service Temporarily Unavailable". PR 38962. [Christian Boitel ] Changes with Apache 2.2.3 *) SECURITY: CVE-2006-3747 (cve.mitre.org) mod_rewrite: Fix an off-by-one security problem in the ldap scheme handling. For some RewriteRules this could lead to a pointer being written out of bounds. Reported by Mark Dowd of McAfee. [Mark Cox] *) Win32: Minor fixes to build more cleanly under Visual Studio 2005 with command line builds. [William Rowe] *) mod_authn_alias: Add a check to make sure that the base provider and the alias names are different and also that the alias has not been registered before. PR 40051. [Brad Nicholes] *) mod_authnz_ldap: Fix a problem with invalid auth error detection for LDAP client SDKs that don't support the LDAP_SECURITY_ERROR macro. PR 39529. [Ray Price , Josh Fenlason ] *) mod_cache: Do not overwrite the Content-Type in the cache, for successfully revalidated cached objects. PR 39647. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_speling: Add directive to deal with case corrections only and ignore other misspellings [Olivier Thereaux ] *) mod_dbd: Fix dependence on virtualhost configuration in defining prepared statements (possible segfault at startup in user modules such as mod_authn_dbd). [Nick Kew] *) Add optional 'scheme://' prefix to ServerName directive, allowing correct determination of the canonical server URL for use behind a proxy or offload device handling SSL; fixing redirect generation in those cases. PR 33398. [Sander Temme] *) Added server_scheme field to server_rec for above. Minor MMN bump. [Sander Temme] *) mod_cache: Make caching of reverse SSL proxies possible again. PR 39593. [Ruediger Pluem, Joe Orton] *) Worker MPM: On graceless shutdown or restart, send signals to each worker thread to wake them up if they're polling on a Keep-Alive connection. PR 38737. [Chris Darroch] *) worker and event MPMs: fix excessive forking if fork() or child_init take a long time. PR 39275. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch ] *) configure: Add "--with-included-apr" flag to force use of the bundled version of APR at build time. [Joe Orton] *) Respect GracefulShutdownTimeout in the worker and event MPMs. [Chris Darroch, Garrett Rooney] *) mod_mem_cache: Set content type correctly when delivering data from cache. PR 39266. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_autoindex: Fix filename escaping with FancyIndexing disabled. PR 38910. [Robby Griffin ] *) mod_charset_lite: Bypass translation when the source and dest charsets are the same. [Jeff Trawick] Changes with Apache 2.2.2 *) mod_deflate: work correctly in an internal redirect [Brian J. France ] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Initialize members of a balancer correctly. PR 38227. [James A. Robinson ] *) mod_proxy: Do not release connections from connection pool twice. PR 38793. [Ruediger Pluem, matthias ] *) core: Prevent reading uninitialized memory while reading a line of protocol input. PR 39282. [Davi Arnaut ] *) mod_dbd: Update defaults, improve error reporting. [Chris Darroch , Nick Kew] *) mod_dbd: Create own pool and mutex to avoid problem use of process pool in request processing. [Chris Darroch ] *) HTML-escape the Expect error message. Not classed as security as an attacker has no way to influence the Expect header a victim will send to a target site. Reported by Thiago Zaninotti . [Mark Cox] *) htdbm: Fix crash processing -d option in 64-bit mode on HP-UX. [Jeff Trawick] *) htdbm: Warn the user when adding a plaintext password on a platform where it wouldn't work with the server (i.e., anywhere that has crypt()). [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_proxy: don't reuse a connection that may be to the wrong backend PR 39253 [Ruediger Pluem] *) Default handler: Don't return output filter apr_status_t values. PR 31759. [Jeff Trawick, Ruediger Pluem, Joe Orton] Changes with Apache 2.2.1 *) SECURITY: CVE-2005-3357 (cve.mitre.org) mod_ssl: Fix a possible crash during access control checks if a non-SSL request is processed for an SSL vhost (such as the "HTTP request received on SSL port" error message when an 400 ErrorDocument is configured, or if using "SSLEngine optional"). PR 37791. [Rüdiger Plüm, Joe Orton] *) SECURITY: CVE-2005-3352 (cve.mitre.org) mod_imagemap: Escape untrusted referer header before outputting in HTML to avoid potential cross-site scripting. Change also made to ap_escape_html so we escape quotes. Reported by JPCERT. [Mark Cox] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Flushing of the output after each AJP chunk is now configurable at runtime via the 'flushpackets' and 'flushwait' worker params. Minor MMN bump. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_proxy: Fix incorrect usage of local and shared worker init. PR 38403. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_isapi: Fix compiler errors on Unix platforms. [William Rowe] *) mod_proxy_http: Do send keep-alive header if the client sent connection: keep-alive and do not close backend connection if the client sent connection: close. PR 38524. [Ruediger Pluem, Joe Orton] *) mod_disk_cache: Return the correct error codes from bucket read failures, instead of APR_EGENERAL. [Brian Akins ] *) Add APR/APR-Util Compiled and Runtime Version numbers to the output of 'httpd -V'. [William Rowe] *) http: If a connection is aborted while waiting for a chunked line, flag the connection as errored out. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) core: Reject invalid Expect header immediately. PR 38123. [Ruediger Pluem] *) Fix mis-shifted 32 bit scope, masked to 64 bits as a method. [Will Rowe, Joe Orton] *) mod_proxy: Fix KeepAlives not being allowed and set to backend servers. PR 38602. [Ruediger Pluem, Jim Jagielski] *) Fix instdso.sh "sed syntax error" installation issue on some platforms. PR 38108. [Masaoki Kobayashi ] *) mod_ssl: Fix possible crashes in shmcb with gcc 4 on platforms requiring word-aligned pointers. PR 38838. [Joe Orton] *) mod_proxy: If we get an error reading the upstream response, close the connection. [Justin Erenkrantz, Roy T. Fielding, Jim Jagielski, Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Support common headers of the AJP protocol in responses. PR 38340. [Aleksey Pesternikov ] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Do not overwrite the status of initialized workers and respect the configured status of uninitilized workers when creating a new child process. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Crosscheck the length of the body chunk with the length of the ajp message to prevent mod_proxy_ajp from reading beyond the buffer boundaries and thus revealing possibly sensitive memory contents to the client. [Ruediger Pluem] *) Ensure that the proper status line is written to the client, fixing incorrect status lines caused by filters which modify r->status without resetting r->status_line, such as the built-in byterange filter. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_speling: Stop crashing with certain non-file requests. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_cache: Make caching of reverse proxies possible again. PR 38017. [Ruediger Pluem] *) Modify apr[util] .h detection to avoid breakage on VPATH builds using Solaris make (amoung others) and avoid breakage in ./buildconf when srclib/apr[-util] are symlinks rather than directories proper. [William Rowe] *) Avoid Server-driven negotiation when a script has emitted an explicit Status: header. PR 38070. [Nick Kew] *) Fix to avoid feeding C99 to C++ compilers. [Joe Orton] *) Chunk filter: Fix chunk filter to create correct chunks in the case that a flush bucket is surrounded by data buckets. [Ruediger Pluem] *) Fix syntax error in httpd.h with strict compilers. PR 37840. [Per Olausson ] *) Fix recursive ErrorDocument handling. PR 36090. [Chris Darroch ] *) Don't hang on error return from post_read_request. PR 37790. [Nick Kew] *) Fix off-by-one error in proxy_balancer. PR 37753. [Kazuhiro Osawa ] Changes with Apache 2.2.0 *) mod_negotiation: Minor performance tweak by reusing already calculated strlen. [Ruediger Pluem, Christophe Jaillet ] *) Remove support for 'On' and 'Off' for AuthBasicProvider and AuthDigestProvider. [Joshua Slive, Justin Erenkrantz] *) Add in new UseCanonicalPhysicalPort directive, which controls whether or not Apache will ever use the actual physical port when constructing the canonical port number. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_dav: Fix a null pointer dereference in an error code path during the handling of MKCOL. [Ruediger Pluem, Ghassan Misherghi ] *) mod_proxy_balancer: When finding best worker, use case insensitive match for scheme and host, but case sensitive for the rest of the path. [Jim Jagielski, Ruediger Pluem] *) Require use of APR >= 1.2.0 and APR-util >= 1.2.0 when configured to use external copies of the libraries. [Joe Orton] *) Fix DESTDIR=... installation when using bundled copy of APR. [Torsten Foertsch ] *) mod_dav: Fix handling of unknown state tokens in If: headers. PR: 37288. [Joe Orton] *) Strip out Experimental MPMs that have gone nowhere since 2.0 (perchild, threadpool, leader). [Nick Kew] Changes with Apache 2.1.9 *) Add mod_authn_dbd (SQL-based authentication) [Nick Kew] *) mod_proxy_ajp: Do not spool the entire response from AJP backend before sending it up the filter chain. PR 37100. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_cache: Create new filters CACHE_OUT_SUBREQ / CACHE_SAVE_SUBREQ which only differ by the type from CACHE_OUT / CACHE_SAVE to ensure that subrequests to non-local resources work again. [Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy: Do not lowercase the entire worker name of a BalancerMember since this breaks case sensitive URI's. PR 36906. [Ruediger Pluem] *) core: AddOutputFilterByType is ignored for proxied requests. PR 31226. [Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_http: Prevent data corruption of POST request bodies when client accesses proxied resources with SSL. PR 37145. [Ruediger Pluem, William Rowe] *) mod_ssl: Fix issue which could cause spurious warnings about use of name-based vhosts. PR 37051. [Joe Orton] *) ab: Fix to ensure that only the expected number of requests are run. PR 36966. [Joe Orton] *) mod_proxy_balancer: BalancerManager and proxies correctly handle member workers with paths. PR 36816. [Ruediger Pluem, Jim Jagielski] *) mod_log_config: %{hextid}P will log the thread id in hex with APR versions 1.2.0 or higher. [Jeff Trawick] *) httpd.exe/apachectl -V: display the DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT setting, as in 1.3. [Jeff Trawick] *) Support dbd connection tied to conn_rec in mod_dbd. [Nick Kew] *) Fix use of pools in mod_dbd. [Brian J France, Nick Kew] *) Promote modules from "experimental": mod_dbd, mod_filter, mod_charset_lite. [Nick Kew] *) mod_proxy_ajp: mod_proxy_ajp sends empty SSL attributes for non SSL connections. PR 36883. [William Barker , Ruediger Pluem] *) Eliminated the NET_TIME filter, restructuring the timeout logic. This provides a working mod_echo on all platforms, and ensures any custom protocol module is at least given an initial timeout value based on the context's Timeout directive. [William Rowe] *) mod_proxy: Run the request_status hook also if there are no free workers or all workers are in error state. [Ruediger Pluem, Brian Akins ] *) mod_proxy_connect: Fix high CPU loop on systems like UnixWare which trigger POLL_ERR or POLL_HUP on a terminated connection. PR 36951. [Jeff Trawick, Ruediger Pluem] *) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix handling of sticky sessions with Tomcat. PR 36507. [Ruediger Pluem] *) SECURITY: CVE-2005-2970 (cve.mitre.org) worker MPM: Fix a memory leak which can occur after an aborted connection in some limited circumstances. [Greg Ames] *) Doxygen fixups. [Neale Ranns , Ian Holsman] *) mod_cache/mod_dir: Correct a subrequest lookup bug which was preventing mod_dir from serving indexes correctly with mod_cache enabled. [Colm MacCarthaigh] Changes with Apache 2.1.8 *) Fix lingering close implementation to match 1.3.x behaviour. PR 35292. [Joe Orton] *) mod_ssl: Support limited buffering of request bodies to allow per-location renegotiation to proceed. PR 12355. [Joe Orton] *) Fix regression since 2.0.x in AllowOverride Options handling. PR 35330. [kabe ] *) mod_ssl: Fix memory leak in ssl_util_algotypeof(). PR 25659. [David Blake , Martin Kraemer] *) prefork, worker and event MPMs: Support a graceful-stop procedure: Server will wait until existing requests are finished or until "GracefulShutdownTimeout" number of seconds before exiting. [Colm MacCarthaigh, Ken Coar, Bill Stoddard] *) prefork, worker and event MPMs: Prevent children from holding open listening ports upon graceful restart or stop. PR 28167. [Colm MacCarthaigh, Brian Pinkerton ] *) SECURITY: CVE-2005-2700 (cve.mitre.org) mod_ssl: Fix a security issue where "SSLVerifyClient" was not enforced in per-location context if "SSLVerifyClient optional" was configured in the vhost configuration. [Joe Orton] *) mod_ssl: Catch parse errors from misconfigured or malformed CRLs. PR 36438. [Joe Orton] *) mod_proxy/mod_proxy_balancer: lbmethods now implemented as providers. Prevent problems when no Vhost containers were configured with proxy balancers. [Jim Jagielski] *) New provider function to list all available provider names in a specific group and version (ap_list_provider_names). [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_cache: Enhance CacheEnable/CacheDisable to control caching on a per-protocol, per-host and per-path basis. Intended for proxy configurations. [Colm MacCarthaigh] *) mod_disk_cache: Canonicalise the storage key, for improved hit/miss ratio. [Colm MacCarthaigh] *) mod_cgid: Append .PID to the script socket filename and remove the script socket on exit. [Colm MacCarthaigh, Jim Jagielski] *) mod_cgid: run the get_suexec_identity hook within the request-handler instead of within cgid. PR 36410. [Colm MacCarthaigh] *) Linux 2.0: remove support for threaded MPM's due to linuxthreads use of SIGUSR1 clashing with graceful restart signal. [Colm MacCarthaigh] Changes with Apache 2.1.7 *) SECURITY: CVE-2005-2491 (cve.mitre.org): Fix integer overflows in PCRE in quantifier parsing which could be triggered by a local user through use of a carefully-crafted regex in an .htaccess file. [Philip Hazel] *) mod_proxy/mod_proxy_balancer: Provide a simple, functional interface to add additional balancer lb selection methods without requiring code changes to mod_proxy/mod_proxy_balancer; these can be implemented via sub-modules now. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_cache: Fix incorrectly served 304 responses when expired cache entity is valid, but cache is unwritable and headers cannot be updated. [Colm MacCarthaigh ] *) mod_cache: Remove entities from the cache when re-validation receives a 404 or other content-no-longer-present error. [Rüdiger Plüm ruediger.pluem vodafone.com] *) mod_disk_cache: Properly remove files from cache when needed. [Rüdiger Plüm ruediger.pluem vodafone.com] *) mod_disk_cache: Support htcacheclean removing directories. [Andreas Steinmetz] *) htcacheclean: Add -t option to remove empty directories. [Colm MacCarthaigh ] *) Remove the base href tag from mod_proxy_ftp, as it breaks relative links for clients not using an Authorization header. [Graham Leggett, Jon Snow ] *) mod_cache: Restore the HTTP status of cached responses. [Hansjoerg Pehofer ] *) mod_cache: Store varied contents all in the same prefix for a varied URI. [Paul Querna] *) mod_cache: Run the CACHE_SAVE and CACHE_OUT Filters after other content filters. [Paul Querna] *) mod_negotiation: Correctly report 404 instead of 403 for missing files. [Paul Querna] *) new hook (request_status) that gets ran in proxy_handler just before the final return. This gives modules an opportunity to do something based on the proxy status. (minor MMN bump) [Brian Akins , Ian Holsman] *) Add additional SSLSessionCache option, 'nonenotnull', which is similar to 'none' (disabling any external shared cache) but forces OpenSSL to provide a non-null session ID. [Jim Jagielski] *) Add httxt2dbm to support/ for creating RewriteMap DBM Files. [Paul Querna] *) Add SSL_COMPRESS_METHOD variable (included in +StdEnvVars) to note the negotiated compression. [Georg v. Zezschwitz ] *) Fixed complaints about unpackaged files within the RPM build after changes to the config files. [Graham Leggett] *) Fix shutdown for the Worker MPM when an Accept Filter is used. Instead of just closing the socket, a HTTP request is made, to make sure the child is always awakened. [Paul Querna] Changes with Apache 2.1.6 *) Fix htdbm password validation for records which included comments. [Eric Covener ] *) mod_cgid: Fix buffer overflow processing ScriptSock directive. [Steve Kemp ] Changes with Apache 2.1.5 *) mod_ssl: Setting the Protocol to 'https' can replace the use of the 'SSLEngine on' command. [Paul Querna] *) core: Refactor the mapping of Accept Filters to Sockets. Add the AcceptFilter and Protocol directives to aid in mapping filter types. Extend the Listen directive to optionally take a protocol name. [Paul Querna] *) mod_disk_cache: Support storing multiple variations of one URL. PR 35211. [Paul Querna] *) mod_disk_cache: Atomically create the header data file. [Paul Querna] *) mod_cache: Fix 'Vary: *' behavior to be RFC compliant. PR 16125. [Paul Querna] *) mod_cache: Rename 'generate_name' to 'ap_cache_generate_name'. [Paul Querna] *) mod_mime_magic: Handle CRLF-format magic files so that it works with the default installation on Windows. [Jeff Trawick] *) core: Allow multiple modules to register interest in a single configuration command. [Paul Querna] *) authn_provider_alias: Adds the configuration block tag Authentication directives contained within this block can be referenced as a new authProvider using the AuthBasicProvider or AuthDigestProvider directive. These directives will be merged in to the per_dir configuration just before the base provider is called. [Brad Nicholes] *) ap_getword_conf: Fix backslashes at the end of configuration directives. PR 34834. [Timo Viipuri ] *) mod_dbd: New additions: mod_dbd.c, mod_dbd.h, mod_dbd.xml Provide module hooks for apr_dbd; optimise for httpd threaded and non-threaded arch [Nick Kew] *) ab: SSL support rewritten, improved, and enabled if SSL is enabled during the build; -f and -Z arguments added to specify SSL protocol options. [Masaoki Kobayashi ] *) mod_info: Show the Quick Handler [Paul Querna] *) mod_ldap: Add the directive LDAPVerifyServerCert to specify whether to force verification of the server certificate when establishing an SSL connection to the LDAP server. [Brad Nicholes] *) mod_proxy: Run mod_rewrite before mod_proxy in the translate_name hook. [Paul Querna] *) Add AP_INIT_TAKE_ARGV for configuration commands. (minor MMN bump) [Paul Querna] *) ap_get_local_host() rewritten for APR. [Jim Jagielski] *) Add the ap_vhost_iterate_given_conn function to expose the information used in Name Based Virtual Hosting. (minor MMN bump) [Paul Querna] *) Remove the never working ap_method_list_do and ap_method_list_vdo. [Paul Querna] *) Added makefile and doc for building mod_ssl on the NetWare platform. [Guenter Knauf, Brad Nicholes] *) mod_deflate: Merge the Vary header, isntead of Setting it. Fixes applications that send the Vary Header themselves, and also apply mod_deflate as an output filter. [Paul Querna] *) Change the default (when not present in the config file) setting for UseCanonicalName to Off. [Joshua Slive] *) mod_userdir: The module no longer does any remapping unless the UserDir directive is present in the config file. [Joshua Slive] *) Massively simplify the distributed httpd.conf by removing many features and many directives that are at their default setting. Add a selection of example config excerpts for adding extra features in the conf/extra/ directory. Install the distributed config and the extra config examples in the conf/original/ directory during make install. [Joshua Slive, Justin Erenkrantz] *) NetWare: Reposition mod_asis, mod_actions, mod_cgi, mod_imagemap, mod_userdir and mod_autoindex as shared modules rather than built-in modules within the NetWare build. [Brad Nicholes] *) Rename mod_imap to mod_imagemap. [Paul Querna] *) util_ldap: Eliminate the load ordering of mod_ldap and mod_authnz_ldap by changing the mod_ldap exported functions to optional functions. [Brad Nicholes] Changes with Apache 2.1.4 *) Don't let a subrequest inherit headers describing the original request's body. [Greg Ames] *) Fix Windows CompContext buff size miscalculation [Allan Edwards] *) Add ReceiveBufferSize directive to control the TCP receive buffer. [Eric Covener ] *) mod_proxy: Add proxy-sendextracrlf option to send an extra CRLF at the end of the request body to work with really old HTTP servers. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) util_ldap: Keep track of the number of attributes retrieved from LDAP so that all the values can be properly cached even if the value is NULL. PR 33901 [Brad Nicholes] *) mod_cache: Fix error where incoming Cache-Control would be ignored. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_cache: Correctly handle originally conditional requests. [Sander Striker] *) mod_disk_cache: Correctly update cached headers on revalidated responses. [Sander Striker, Justin Erenkrantz] *) worker MPM/mod_status: Support per-worker tracking of pid and generation in the scoreboard so that mod_status can accurately represent workers in processes which are gracefully terminating. (major MMN bump) [Jeff Trawick] *) Correctly export all mod_dav public functions. [Branko Čibej ] Changes with Apache 2.1.3 *) mod_ssl: Add ssl_ext_lookup optional function for accessing certificate extensions. [David Reid, Joe Orton] *) Add support for use of an external PCRE library; pass the --with-pcre flag to configure. PR 27550. [Joe Orton, Andres Salomon ] *) Renamed regex interfaces to be namespace-safe, and moved from pcreposix.h header to ap_regex.h: regex_t->ap_regex_t, regmatch_t->ap_regmatch_t; REG_*->AP_REG_*; functions reg*->ap_reg*. PR 27550. [Andres Salomon , Joe Orton] *) Only recompile buildmark.c when we have to relink httpd. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_cache: Fix up handling of revalidated responses. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_disk_cache: Properly load cached ETag from on-disk structures. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_authnz_ldap: Added an optional second parameter to AuthLDAPURL to allow it to override the connection type set in mod_ldap. This parameter can be set to NONE, SSL or TLS | STARTTLS. [Brad Nicholes] *) Fix --with-apr=/usr and/or --with-apr-util=/usr. PR 29740. [Max Bowsher ] *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyRemoteMatch directive. PR 33170. [Rici Lake ] *) mod_proxy: Fix ap_proxy_canonenc API. PR 32459. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_cache: Add CacheStorePrivate and CacheStoreNoStore directive. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Add --enable-pie flag to configure, to build httpd as a Position Independent Executable where supported (GCC/binutils). [Joe Orton] *) proxy_balancer: Add in load-balancing via weighted traffic byte count. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_disk_cache: Cache r->err_headers_out headers. This allows CGI scripts to be properly cached. [Justin Erenkrantz, Sander Striker] *) mod_ldap: Updated to use the new apr-util v1.1 apr_ldap_*_option() API for the setting of server and client SSL certificates. Replaced LDAPTrustedCA directive with LDAPTrustedGlobalCert and LDAPTrustedClientCert directives to correctly support global certs (CA certs / Netware client certs) and per connection client certs as supported by Netware, OpenLDAP and Netscape/Mozilla. [Graham Leggett] *) mod_cache: Remove unimplemented CacheForceCompletion directive. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) support/check_forensic: Fix temp file usage [Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a ] *) mod_ssl: Add SSLCADNRequestFile and SSLCADNRequestPath directives which can be used to configure a specific list of CA names to send in a client certificate request. PR 32848. [Tim Taylor ] *) --with-module can now take more than one module to be statically linked: --with-module=:,:,... If the -subdirectory doesn't exist it will be created and populated with a standard Makefile.in. [Erik Abele] *) Remove some compiler warnings within the LDAP modules [Graham Leggett] *) Add a build script to create a solaris package. [Graham Leggett] *) ap_http_scheme() replaced with ap_http_method() - this function returns the scheme (http v.s. https). [William Rowe] *) mod_proxy: Fix a request corruption problem and a buffering problem which sometimes prevented proxy-sendchunks from working. [Jeff Trawick] *) Fix the RPM spec file so that an RPM build now works. An RPM build now requires system installations of APR and APR-util. [Graham Leggett] *) Significantly simplify the load balancer scheduling algorithm for the proxy BalancerMember weighting. loadfactors (lbfactors) are now normalized with respect to each other. [Jim Jagielski] *) mod_dumpio: Added to the available module suite; it is an I/O logging/dumping module. Placed in the (new) debug module subdirectory. mod_bucketeer moved to that directory as well. [Jim Jagielski] *) core: Add support for APR_TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT to defer accepting of a connection until data is available. [Paul Querna] Changes with Apache 2.1.2 *) mod_proxy: Respect errors reported by pre_connection hooks. [Jeff Trawick] *) core: Error out on sections that are missing an argument instead of silently consuming the section. PR 25460. [Geoffrey Young, Paul Querna] *) mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Move out of experimental. *) Upgraded PCRE to version 5.0. [Brian Pane] *) mod_cgid: Catch configuration problem where two web server instances share same ServerRoot but admin forgot to use ScriptSock. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_cgi: Ensure that all stderr is logged for a script which returns a Location header to generate a non-local redirect. PR 20111. [Joe Orton] *) Added the Event MPM to more efficiently handle clients during a Keep Alive request. [Paul Querna, Greg Ames] Changes with Apache 2.1.1 *) mod_proxy_http: Stream content better - always flush buffered data to the client before blocking waiting for new data. PR 19954. [Joe Orton] *) mod_ssl: Add support for command-line option "-t -DDUMP_CERTS" which will dump the filenames of all configured SSL certificates to stdout. [Joe Orton] *) mod_disk_cache: Remove a bunch of non-implemented garbage collection and cache size directives that are now available through htcacheclean. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Add htcacheclean to support/ for assistance with mod_disk_cache. [Andreas Steinmetz] *) mod_authnz_ldap: Added the directive "Requires ldap-filter" that allows the module to authorize a user based on a complex LDAP search filter. [Brad Nicholes] *) mod_usertrack: Run the fixups hook before other modules. PR 29755. [Paul Querna] *) Allow mod_authnz_ldap authorization functionality to be used without requiring the user to also be authenticated through mod_authnz_ldap. This allows other authentication modules to take advantage of LDAP authorization only [PR 28253] [Jari Ahonen jah progress.com, Brad Nicholes] *) Log the client IP address when an error occurs disabling nagle on a connection, but log at a severity of debug since this error generally means that the connection was dropped before data was sent. Log the client IP address when reporting errors in the core output filter. [Jeff Trawick] *) core: Add a warning message if the request line read fails. [Paul Querna] *) mod_rewrite: Removed the MaxRedirects option in favor of the core LimitInternalRecursion directive. [André Malo] *) mod_info: Added listing of the Request Hooks and added more build information like 'httpd -V' contains. Changed output to XHTML. [Paul Querna] *) mod_info: Rewrote config tree walk using a recursive function. Added ?config option. Added printout of config filename and line numbers. [Rici Lake , Paul Querna] *) mod_proxy: Fix type error that prevents proxy-sendchunks from working. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_proxy: Fix data corruption by properly setting aside buckets. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_proxy: If a request has a blank body and has a 0 Content-Length headers, pass that to the proxy. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Recognize QSA flag in mod_rewrite again. [Jan Kratochvil ] *) Restructured mod_auth_ldap to fit the new authentication model. The module is now called authnz_ldap and has been moved out of the modules/experimental area and into modules/aaa with the other auth modules. Both the authn_ldap provider and the authz_ldap handler are contained within the authnz_ldap module. The authz_ldap handler introduces 3 new "requires" values for handling authorization. These handlers are ldap-user, ldap-group and ldap-dn. [Brad Nicholes] *) Fix some compiler warnings in proxy [Geoffrey Young ] *) mod_ssl: Add SSL_CLIENT_V_REMAIN variable, representing the number of days until the client cert expires. [Joe Orton] *) Add test_config hook, run only if httpd is invoked using -t. [Joe Orton] *) Improve error handling for corrupted pid files. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_proxy.c and proxy_util.c: Enable compiling on 2.0-HEAD (for backwards compatibility): Avoids mod_ssl.h (not included in 2.0-HEAD) and use apr_socket_create_ex for 0.9.x [Mladen Turk] *) Added proxy_ajp.c module for proxy support to ajp:// backends. [Jean Frederic Clere] *) Fixes the build of proxy on Windows. Since the proxy_module is declared as extern using AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA that expands to dllexport, there is a LNK2001 error when building proxy_http. [Mladen Turk] *) Remove LDAP toolkit specific code from util_ldap and mod_auth_ldap. [Graham Leggett] *) Remove deprecated/removed APR_STATUS_IS_SUCCESS(). [Justin Erenkrantz] *) perchild MPM: Fix thread safety problem in the use of longjmp(). [Tsuyoshi SASAMOTO ] *) Add load balancer support to the scoreboard in preparation for load balancing support in mod_proxy. [Mladen Turk] *) mod_nw_ssl: Added the directive NWSSLUpgradeable to mod_nw_ssl to allow a non-secure connection to be upgraded to secure connections [Brad Nicholes] *) core: Add Options= syntax to AllowOverride to specify which options may be overridden in .htaccess files. PR 29310. [Tom Alsberg , Paul Querna] *) ab: Handle long URLs with an error instead of an buffer overflow. PR 28204. [Erik Weide , Paul Querna] *) mod_so, core: Add new command line options to print all loaded modules. '-t -D DUMP_MODULES' and '-M' will show all static and shared modules as loaded from the configuration file. [Paul Querna] *) mod_autoindex: Add ShowForbidden to IndexOptions to list files that are not shown because the subrequest returned 401 or 403. PR 10575. [Paul Querna] *) mod_headers: implement "Early" processing option in post_read_request to enable Header and RequestHeader directives to be used to set up testcases for pre-fixups request phases [Nick Kew] *) mod_proxy: multiple bugfixes, principally support cookies in ProxyPassReverse, and don't canonicalise URL passed to backend. Documentation correspondingly updated. [Nick Kew ] *) mod_deflate: support gzip flags in inflate_out_filter [Nick Kew ] *) Drop the ErrorHeader directive which turned out to be a misnomer. Instead there's a new optional flag for the Header directive ('always'), which keeps the former ErrorHeader functionality. [André Malo] *) mod_deflate: Don't deflate responses with zero length e.g. proxied 304's [Allan Edwards] *) now recognizes the module identifier in addition to the file name. PR 29003. [Edward Rudd , André Malo] *) mod_ssl: Add "SSLHonorCipherOrder" directive to enable the OpenSSL 0.9.7 flag which uses the server's cipher order rather than the client's. PR 28665. [Jim Schneider ] *) mod_ssl: Drop support for the CompatEnvVars argument to SSLOptions, which was never actually implemented in 2.0. [Joe Orton] *) Fix bug in mod_deflate that unconditionally sent deflate'd output even when Accept-Encoding is not present. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Pass environment variables through to piped loggers and start them via the shell, resolving regressions since 1.3. PR 28815 [Ken Coar, Jeff Trawick] *) External rewrite map responses are no longer limited to 2048 bytes. [André Malo] *) Proxy server was deleting cookies that Apache had already assigned if the origin server had set any cookies. PR 27023. [Jim Jagielski] *) Removed old and unmaintained ap_add_named_module API and changed the following APIs to return an error instead of hard exiting: ap_add_module, ap_add_loaded_module, ap_setup_prelinked_modules, and ap_process_resource_config. [André Malo] *) mod_headers: Allow %% in header values to represent a literal %. [André Malo] *) mod_headers: Allow env clauses also for 'echo' and 'unset' actions. [André Malo] *) mod_headers: Allow 'echo' also for ErrorHeaders. [André Malo] *) mod_deflate: New option for DEFLATE output file (force-gzip), new output filter 'INFLATE' for uncompressing responses. [Nick Kew , Ian Holsman] *) Added new module mod_version, which provides version dependent configuration containers. [André Malo] *) mod_log_config now logs all Set-Cookie headers if the %{Set-Cookie}o format is used. PR 27787. [André Malo] *) Allow Digest providers to return AUTH_DENIED to propagate a 401 status and terminate the provider chain prior to checking the password. [Geoffrey Young] *) mod_cgid: Don't allow Scriptsock to be specified inside VirtualHost; Don't place script socket inside default server root instead of actual server root. PR 27886. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_proxy: Fix handling of non-200 success status codes when "ProxyErrorOverride On" is configured. PR 20183. [Marcus Janson , Joe Orton] *) Threaded MPMs for Unix and Win32: Add support for ThreadStackSize directive (previously NetWare-only) to override default thread stack size for threads which handle client connections. Required for some third-party modules on platforms with small default thread stack size. [Jeff Trawick] *) minor mod_auth_basic and mod_auth_digest sync. mod_auth_basic now populates r->user with the (possibly unauthenticated) user, and mod_auth_digest returns 500 when a provider returns AUTH_GENERAL_ERROR. [Geoffrey Young] *) The whole codebase was relicensed and is now available under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses). [Apache Software Foundation] *) Delete some make-generated files in the server directory during "make clean" processing. PR 26552. [Jeff Trawick] *) Add core version query function (ap_get_server_revision) and accompanying ap_version_t structure (minor MMN bump). [André Malo] *) mod_rewrite: EOLs sent by external rewritemaps are now consumed as whole. That way, on systems with more than one EOL character rewritemap programs no longer need to switch stdout to binary mode. PR 25635. [André Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Introduce the ability to force a content handler via the [handler=...] flag. [André Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Introduce the RewriteCond -x check, which returns true if the pattern is a file with execution permissions. [André Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Allow proxying and RewriteRules in directory context for subrequests. PR 14648, 15114. [André Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Allow setting of any valid HTTP response code. PR 25917. [André Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Cookie creation now works locale independent. [André Malo] *) mod_ssl: Add support for distributed session cache using 'distcache'. [Geoff Thorpe ] *) mod_dav: Disallow requests with an unescaped hash character in the Request-URI. PR 21779. [Amit Athavale ] *) mod_proxy with ProxyErrorOverride On in a reverse-proxy configuration attaches a body to the 302 response and a wrong Content-Length header. PR: 22951 [Ermanno Scaglione scaglione ..at.. starnetone.de] *) Bring ErrorHeader concept forward from 1.3, so that response header fields can be set for return even on errors or external redirects. [Ken Coar] *) Fix and parsing to require a closing '>' in the initial container. PR 25414. [Geoffrey Young ] *) Clean up httpd -V output: Instead of displaying the MPM source directory, display the MPM name and some MPM properties. [Geoffrey Young ] *) mod_ssl/mod_status: Re-enable support for output of SSL session cache information in server-status page. [Joe Orton] *) mod_ssl: Remove the shmht session cache, shmcb should be used instead. [Joe Orton] *) mod_logio: Account for some bytes handed to the network layer prior to dropped connections. [Jeff Trawick] *) mod_autoindex: new directive IndexStyleSheet [Tyler Riddle , Paul Querna ] *) Fix uninitialized gprof directory name in prefork MPM. PR 24450. [Chris Knight ] *) Log an error when requests for URIs which fail to map to a valid filesystem name are rejected with 403. [Jeff Trawick] *) Switch to APR 1.0 API. *) Major overhaul of mod_include's filter parser. The new parser code is expected to be more robust and should catch all of the edge cases that were not handled by the previous one. This includes a binary incompatible change of mod_include's external API. [André Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Allow forced mimetypes [T=...] to get expanded. PR 14223. [André Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Fix LA-U and LA-F lookups in directory context. Previously the current rewrite state was just used as lookup path, which lead to strange and often useless results. Related to PR 8493. [André Malo] *) Change Listen directive to bind to all addresses when a hostname is not specified. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Correct failure with Listen directives on machines with IPv6 enabled. [Colm MacCárthaigh , Justin Erenkrantz] *) Fix a link failure in mod_ssl when the OpenSSL libraries contain the ENGINE functions but the engine header files are missing. [Cliff Woolley] *) mod_rewrite: RewriteRules in server context using the force type feature [T=...] no longer disable MultiViews. [André Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Allow piped rewrite logs to be relative to ServerRoot. [André Malo] *) mod_authz_groupfile: Strip trailing spaces of group names. This hopefully saves some hours of searching for typos. PR 12863. [André Malo] *) mod_actions: Propagate the handler name to the action script via the REDIRECT_HANDLER environment variable. [André Malo] *) mod_actions: Introduce the "virtual" modifier to the Action directive, which allows the use of handlers for virtual locations. PR 8431. [André Malo] *) mod_speling: Recognize AcceptPathInfo setting for the particular location. Default is to reject path information. PR 21059. [André Malo] *) mod_ext_filter: Add the ability to filter request bodies. [Philipp Reisner ] *) Fix some broken log messages in WinNT MPM. [Juan Rivera ] *) prefork MPM: Use the right permissions for the directory created for gprof support. [Jim Carlson ] *) Fix a compile failure with recent OpenSSL and picky compilers (e.g., OpenSSL 0.9.7a and xlc_r on AIX). [Jeff Trawick] *) OpenSSL headers should be included as "openssl/ssl.h", and not rely on the INCLUDE path to be defined properly. PR 11310. [Geoff Thorpe ] *) Modify APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT to detect SSL-C. [Madhusudan Mathihalli] *) Replace the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT method with a cleaner one, using autoconf tools (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_LIB etc). [Geoff Thorpe ] *) change directive name from 'compressionlevel' to 'deflatecompressionlevel' [Ian Holsman, André Malo] *) mod_negotiation: quality values are now parsed independent from the current locale. level values are now really parsed as integers. PR 17564. [André Malo] *) Extend mod_negotiation to evaluate the environment variables no-gzip and gzip-only-text/html the same way as mod_deflate does. [André Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Fix some problems reporting errors with mapping programs (RewriteMap prg:/something). [Jeff Trawick] *) Return 413 if chunk-ext-header is too long rather than reading from the truncated line. PR 15857. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Allow restart of httpd to occur even with syntax errors in the config file. PR 16813. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Use APR_LAYOUT instead of APACHE_LAYOUT in configure. PR 15679. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Remove files on 'make distclean' that should be. PR 15592. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Allow apachectl to perform status with links and elinks as well. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) mod_log_config change optional hook to return previous handler [Ian Holsman] *) Forward port of mod_actions' ability to handle arbitrary methods with the Script directive. [André Malo] *) Let suexec send a message to stderr, if it failed or its policy was violated. This message appears in the error log and allows for easier debugging. PR 5381, 7638, 8255, 10773. [André Malo] *) Modify buildconf to copy all required files into httpd's tree. [Thom May ] *) Allow mod_dav to do weak entity comparison functions. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Move RFC 1413 ident requests from core to new module mod_ident. [André Malo] *) Add mod_authz_owner - a forward port of "Require file-owner" and "Require file-group", which was already present in version 1.3.21. [André Malo] *) Add mod_dav_lock - a generic subset of the DAV locking implementation. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Replace some of the mutex locking in the worker MPM with atomic operations for higher concurrency. [Brian Pane] *) Allow 'make depend' to work with non-GCC compilers. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) If an httpd.conf has commented out AddModule directives, apxs -i -a will add an un-commented AddModule directive for the new module, which breaks the config. PR: 11212 [Joe Orton] *) Fix mod_proxy handling of filtered input bodies. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Move the check of the Expect request header field after the hook for ap_post_read_request, since that is the only opportunity for modules to handle Expect extensions. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Rewrite of aaa modules to an authn/authz model. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Justin Erenkrantz] [Apache 2.1.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the Apache 2.0.xx tree as documented, and except as noted, below.] Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later: *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup Changes with Apache 1.3.x and later: *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/src/CHANGES?view=markup