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| Apache 2.0alpha9 Released |
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| The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the ninth public |
| alpha release of Apache 2.0. This is scheduled to be the last alpha release, |
| although we will not release a beta until it is ready, so we may require |
| another alpha. |
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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. With this version of Apache, |
| we have also added support for filtered I/O. This allows modules to modify |
| the output of other modules before it is sent to the client. 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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| Included in this alpha is a pre-alpha version of mod_proxy. Mod_proxy |
| is not at the same level as the rest of the server, and should be enabled |
| only by people who are very interested in working with the code. Mod_proxy |
| has lost some functionality in this alpha, because of a code re-org, the |
| maintainers are working to get mod_proxy running again. |
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| Apache 2.0a9 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 2.0a9 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 2.0a9 |
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| *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users |
| to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@ |
| and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories. |
| [William Rowe] |
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| *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with |
| functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily. |
| The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function |
| combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include |
| parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a |
| hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes |
| all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then |
| responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back |
| to mod_include for further processing. |
| [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>] |
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| *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has |
| fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed from the parameter list because all required information is available |
| via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick] |
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| *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a |
| normal source distribution with external install targets. |
| [Roy Fielding] |
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| *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create |
| two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation. |
| the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required |
| for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one |
| variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations, |
| so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based |
| on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment. |
| It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two |
| shmem memory blocks. |
| [Ryan Bloom] |
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| *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of |
| functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure |
| time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file. Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those |
| functions that are valid on the platform we are building on. |
| [Ryan Bloom] |
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| *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config |
| [Sander van Zoest <sander@covalent.net>] |
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| *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration. |
| [Jeff Trawick] |
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| *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not |
| specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR). |
| The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM |
| files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases. |
| [Greg Stein] |
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| *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that |
| uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly. |
| [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>] |
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| *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the |
| output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore |
| skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom] |
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| *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the |
| format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in |
| the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be |
| used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with |
| the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format |
| of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick] |
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| *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the |
| rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this |
| condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski] |
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| *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter. |
| [Greg Ames] |
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