Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apache-cvs-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 74976 invoked by uid 500); 18 Aug 2000 17:16:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact apache-cvs-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list apache-cvs@apache.org Received: (qmail 74947 invoked by uid 500); 18 Aug 2000 17:16:28 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-apache-2.0-cvs@apache.org Date: 18 Aug 2000 17:16:27 -0000 Message-ID: <20000818171627.74905.qmail@locus.apache.org> From: rbb@locus.apache.org To: apache-2.0-cvs@apache.org Subject: cvs commit: apache-2.0 Announcement rbb 00/08/18 10:16:27 Modified: . Announcement Log: Update the Announcement for the 6th alpha Revision Changes Path 1.11 +36 -262 apache-2.0/Announcement Index: Announcement =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/apache-2.0/Announcement,v retrieving revision 1.10 retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.10 -r1.11 --- Announcement 2000/08/04 17:44:57 1.10 +++ Announcement 2000/08/18 17:16:26 1.11 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -Apache 2.0alpha5 Released +Apache 2.0alpha6 Released ------------------------- -The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the fifth public +The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the sixth public alpha release of Apache 2.0. Apache 2.0 offers numerous enhancements, improvements and performance @@ -15,7 +15,12 @@ Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Lastly we are proud to announce support for BeOS in this version of the server. -Apache 2.0a5 under UNIX has undergone some testing, but there are some +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. + +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 @@ -23,7 +28,7 @@ code, the Apache Group strongly recommends that you wait for a more stable beta release before you try this version. -Apache 2.0a5 under Windows has undergone some testing as well. There +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. @@ -42,271 +47,40 @@ For more information, please check out http://www.apache.org/httpd.html -Changes with Apache 2.0a5 since Apache 2.0a4 +Changes with Apache 2.0a6 + *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames] - *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child - processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I - have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had - different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses. - This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket. - [Ryan Bloom] - - *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages. - It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we - are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix - Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom] - - *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix. - #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat - [Perl] - - *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always - return the right information on the local socket address. - [Gregory Nicholls ] - - *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error. - [Gregory Nicholls ] - - *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without - going into single process mode. This allows for much easier - debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom] + *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer + to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom] - *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function. - [Jeff Trawick] + *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The + docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom] - *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the - scoreboard on graceful restarts. - [Ryan Bloom] + *) 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] - *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c. - An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process(). - [Jeff Trawick] + *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't + built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick] - *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still - never called, but this is a step in the right direction. - [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein] - - *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is - killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets - SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the - process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and - mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time - in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format. - Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time - uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP - spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes - the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom] - - *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error - code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls ] - - *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet] - - *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in - logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles - not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe] - - *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create - apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom] - - *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure - to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a - related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using - fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock() - implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock() - was essentially a no-op because all children were using different - locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into - a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on - end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar] - - *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This - adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional - XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein] - - *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes - [Greg Stein] - - *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from - the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein] - - *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR - configure.in. [Dave Hill ] - - *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for - machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile. - [Dave Hill ] - - *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski] - - *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the - desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving - ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski] - - *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate - with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without - timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to - a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with - Unix non-blocking pipes. - [Bill Stoddard] - - *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to - cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables - Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at - 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps - and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system). - [Bill Stoddard] - - *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache - supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as - mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive - to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems - that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today - on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix. - [Bill Stoddard] - - *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the - configuration process automatically: - inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing - APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl - - Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid, - based on the threading model - - Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's - configuration processing, allowing for more information flow - between the two. - [Ryan Bloom] - - - *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK - with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and - OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick] + *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's + no layout definition file. [Ken Coar] - *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write - operations work a whole lot better on buffered files. - [Jeff Trawick] + *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar] - *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change - compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads). - [Greg Ames] - - *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps - reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is - now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated. - ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack - can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified - domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to - the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the - ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe] - - *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault - at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to - be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding] - - *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX - [Victor J. Orlikowski] - - *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h, - apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h. - [Tyler J. Brooks , Jeff Trawick] - - *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working - state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on - BeOS. [David Reid] - - *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in - maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise - unions. [Ben Laurie] - - *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to - repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered - ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick] - - *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly - in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker. - [Bill Stoddard] - - *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error: - " without matching section", where - container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever. - [Jeff Trawick] + *) 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] + + *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file(). + [Rob Simonson ] + + *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke + APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick] - *) Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when using - mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root - and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi - as reported in - [Tony Finch] - - *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE) - [David Reid] - - *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the - final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles - incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure - that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and - such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet] - - *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting - up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket. - [Dean Gaudet] - - *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches - to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes) - instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex. - It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now - displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the - symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence. - The previous check required features not used by Apache. - [Greg Ames] - - *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were - sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not - initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed - accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call - if the len was negative. Use for struct sockaddr_un - instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem - on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom] - - *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames] - - *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at - initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom - otherwise. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash - doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does. - Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator ==" + *) 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] - - *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM. - All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is - now wrapped within the WinNT MPM. - [William Rowe] - - *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some - getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls. - CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick] - - *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change - to allow just the product name in the server string using - PRODUCT_ONLY. - [Ryan Bloom]