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| Apache 2.0alpha3 Released |
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| The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the third public |
| alpha release of Apache 2.0. |
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| Apache 2.0 offers numerous enhancements, improvements and performance |
| boosts over the 1.3 codebase. The most visible and noteworthy addition |
| is the ability to run Apache in a hybrid thread/process mode on any |
| platform that supports both threads and processes. This has shown to |
| improve the scalability of the Apache HTTPD server significantly in our |
| early testing, on some versions of Unix. This release also greatly |
| improves the performance and robustness of Apache on Windows Operating |
| Systems. Lastly we are proud to announce support for BeOS in this |
| version of the server. |
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| Apache 2.0a3 under UNIX has undergone some testing, there are |
| known issues in the current release, including at least one small memory |
| leak. This should be considered a ``developers version'' including only |
| the source and no pre-compiled binaries. It is anticipated that a |
| binary-release will be available for the first beta release. If you do |
| not feel comfortable compiling code, the Apache Group strongly recommends |
| that you wait for a more stable beta release before you try this version. |
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| Apache 2.0a3 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. |
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| Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April |
| of 1996. The February 2000 WWW server site survey by Netcraft (see: |
| http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/) found that more web servers were |
| using Apache than any other software, and Apache hit an all time high of, |
| running on 58% of the Internet. |
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| The Apache project has been organized in an attempt to answer some of |
| the concerns regarding active development of a public domain HTTP server |
| for UNIX. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and |
| extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the current |
| HTTP standards. |
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| For more information, please check out http://www.apache.org/ |
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