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| <H1 ALIGN="CENTER">Overview of New Features in Apache 2.0</H1> |
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| <P>Enhancements: <A HREF="#core">Core</A> | |
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| <H2><A NAME="core">Core Enhancements:</A></H2> |
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| <DT><STRONG>Unix Threading</STRONG> |
| <DD>On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache can now run in a |
| hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode. This should improve |
| scalability. |
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| <DT><STRONG>New Build System</STRONG> |
| <DD>The build system has been rewritten from scratch to be based on |
| autoconf and libtool. This makes Apache's configuration system more |
| similar to that of other packages. |
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| <DT><STRONG>Multiprotocol Support</STRONG> |
| <DD>Apache now has some of the infrastructure in place to support serving |
| multiple protocols. mod_echo has been written as an example. |
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| <DT><STRONG>Better support for non-Unix platforms</STRONG> |
| <DD>Apache 2.0 should be faster and more stable on non-Unix platforms such |
| as BeOS, OS/2, and Windows. With the introduction of platform-specific |
| multiprocessing modules and the Apache Portable Runtime, these |
| platforms can now avoid using POSIX-emulation functions that are |
| sometimes buggy and always hurt performance. |
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| <DT><STRONG>New API</STRONG> |
| <DD>The API for modules has changed significantly for 2.0. Many of the |
| module-ordering problems from 1.3 should be gone, since 2.0 does much |
| of this automatically now. Also, new calls have been added that should |
| allow modules to do more without requiring patching of the core Apache |
| server. |
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