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| Apache 2.0alpha6 Released |
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| The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the sixth 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 the |
| Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Lastly we are proud to announce |
| support for BeOS in this version of the server. |
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| The newest development in Apache 2.0 is the addition of I/O fitlering. |
| This allows modules to filter data before it has been sent to the |
| network. This feature is still in its infancy, and it is likely to |
| change and evolve in the next few weeks. |
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| Apache 2.0a6 under UNIX has undergone some testing, but there are some |
| known issues in the current release (hey, it is an "alpha" for a |
| reason!). It is intended for developers and experienced Apache HTTPD |
| administrators to play around with and work on. It is not a production |
| release. If you do not feel comfortable compiling and working with |
| 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 2.0a6 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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| There are new snapshots of the Apache httpd source available every 6 |
| hours from http://dev.apache.org/from-cvs/apache-2.0/ - please |
| download and test if you feel brave. We don't guarantee anything |
| except that it will take up disk space, but if you have the time and |
| skills, please give it a spin on your platforms. |
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| Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since |
| April of 1996. The May 2000 WWW server site survey by Netcraft (see: |
| http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/) found that more web servers were |
| using Apache than any other software running on more than 60% of the |
| Internet web servers. |
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| For more information, please check out http://www.apache.org/httpd.html |
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| Changes with Apache 2.0a6 |
| *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames] |
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| *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer |
| to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom] |
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| *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The |
| docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom] |
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| *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades, |
| Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that |
| should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the |
| core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group] |
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| *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't |
| built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick] |
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| *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's |
| no layout definition file. [Ken Coar] |
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| *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar] |
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| *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header |
| field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the |
| list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar] |
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| *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file(). |
| [Rob Simonson <simo@us.ibm.com>] |
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| *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke |
| APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick] |
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| *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the |
| configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container, |
| only the last statement in the container would be retained. |
| [Jeff Trawick] |
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