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NEWS
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- 1.3.16 - 2005-07-31
* added Date: headers to dynamic HTTP/1.0 requests
* added support for OPTION * HTTP/1.1
* added support for accesslog to syslog
* added support for PATH_INFO guessing if check-local is disabled in
mod_fastcgi
* added switch to disable range-requests
* added valid-user option for mod_auth (tigger at gentoo.org)
* added JavaScript based sorting to mod_status (erik)
* added selective TCP_CORK (Christian von Roques)
* break up endless loops with Status: 500
* fixed endless loops in mod_rewrite
* mapped url.rewrite and url.rewrite-final to uri.rewrite-once
* fixed compilation for mod_trigger_b4_dl
* fixed 'can't reach host' in mod_proxy
* error-handler-404 defaults to Status: 200 and static files work now
- 1.3.15 - 2005-07-15
* added mod_cml
* added mod_trigger_b4_dl
* added encoding to mod_dirlisting
* added ?auto to mod_status
* relaxed handling of characters in URIs even more
* fixed detection of sendfile() on Linux 2.4.x
* fixed comparision of buffers for short strings
* server.errorfile-prefix is now conditional
* fixed mod_rrdtool to close STDERR
- 1.3.14 - 2005-06-15
* added SCGI support via mod_scgi
* added hash-based and round-robin load balancing to mod_proxy
* fixed range requests larger than 2Gb
* fixed compilation on Solaris
* fixed endless loops in mod_fastcgi, mod_cgi and mod_proxy
* fixed handling of URIs for '+' and characters > 127
- 1.3.13 - 2005-03-06
* added customizable directory listings
* fixed compile error on all BSD unixes
* fixed PATHINFO handling for FastCGI
* fixed handling of remote-close on FreeBSD and OpenSSL
- 1.3.12 - 2005-03-02
* added ssl.ca-file
* added support for \n\n as terminator
* rewrote test-framework and added more tests
* fixed cgi.assign with empty handler
* fixed segfault in debug-code
* fixed mod_expire if modification-timestamps are used
* fixed segfault on duplication Host-headers
* fixed endless loop in mod_fastcgi
* fixed handling of dead fastcgi-processes
- 1.3.11 - 2005-02-20
* added REMOTE_PORT and SERVER_ADDR to CGI-env
* relaxed handling of newlines before keep-alive requests
* relaxed uri-parser again
* fixed PHP_SELF for php
* fixed compilation on MacOS X
* fixed handling of EPIPE and ECONNRESET
* fixed crash in mod_auth if config-options are missing
* fixed handling of missing trailing / in mod_userdir
* fixed conditional secdownload.secret
* fixed REPORT ME error due to failed reconnects in mod_fastcgi
* fixed cmdline handling in mod_fastcgi
- 1.3.10 - 2005-02-06
* added support for full commandline in spawn-fcgi
* fixed missing check for IP-address in mod_fastcgi
* fixed compile error with openssl in mod_fastcgi
* removed a debug-message from network-functions
- 1.3.9 - 2005-02-06
* added a stricter URI parser
* added a check to the CGI spawner if the cgi-handler exists
* added documentation for SSL and mod_status
* added handling of startup environment to FastCGI
* improved performance in FastCGI in buildind the FastCGI header
* fixed min-procs and max-procs in FastCGI on PowerPC
* fixed crash in setenv.add-response-header
* fixed handling of nph-scripts in CGI
* fixed accidently sending out physical file in CGI on error
* fixed cygwin support
* fixed handling of missing files
* fixed HEAD requests for dynamic requests
- 1.3.8 - 2005-01-30
* added traffic shaping by remote host and virtual server
* added auto-spawning of FastCGI process on demand
* added virtual host based on MySQL
* added mod_setenv to add envirnoment and http headers on the fly
* added support for syslog in mod_accesslog
* improved output of mod_status
* improved debug output in request handling
* fixed build problems on netbsd 1.4.x and 1.5.x
* fixed status.url configuration
* fixed handling of != and !~ in configutation
* fixed special cases in keep-alive handling
* fixed timeout handling in handling POST requests
* fixed mode AUTHORIZER in FastCGI
* fixed handling if internal redirects if no Host: is supplied
* fixed mod_alias + pathinfo
* fixed directory indexes and permissions
* enabled sending errorlog to syslog again
- 1.3.7 - 2004-12-11
* added retries for a fastcgi connect if a php-childs
dies at startup
* update the debian directory
* added setgroups() to drop all group-privs
* added native port to windows via mingw32
* added server.tag = '...'
* added support for ${...} in mod_ssi
* ported all plugins to conditional support
* fixed multipart handling in cgi
* fixed kqueue event-handler
* fixed wrap-around in mod_status
* fixed crash with SSL + FastCGI
* fixed detection of SSL headers
* fixed handling of dangling SSL_shutdown
* fixed detection of keep-alive of Firefox
- 1.3.6 - 2004-11-03
* added spawn-fcgi to the distribution
* added support in fastcgi module to spawn fastcgi
processes itself
* fixed logfile cycling if external logging is used
* fixed connection handling in fastcgi if no chunk
encoding is used
* fixed internal redirects on directories if a query
string is supplied
* fixed cgi-module for POST request above 4k
* fixed mod_alias and follow-symlink
- 1.3.5 - 2004-10-31
* added mod_alias
* added mod_userdir
* added the exec command to the SSI handler
* added a switch to disable follow-symlinks
* added a switch to disable IPv6 at compile-time
* fixed compilation on FreeBSD and NetBSD 1.3.x
* fixed segfault in pipelining
* fixed a segfault in writev() handler if LFS is used
- 1.3.4 - 2004-10-24
* added limiter for open files
* added logging of user supplied data to accesslogs
* added build target for OpenWRT
* added plain backend support for auth-digest
* fixed handling the external accesslog processes
* fixed SERVER_NAME in CGI and FastCGI
- 1.3.3 - 2004-10-16
* added support for NL terminators in CGI-scripts
* added support for conditionals in mod_auth,
mod_simple_vhost and mod_evhost
* added a error-handler for 404 codes
* fixed request counter in the rrdtool module
* fixed log-file cycling
* fixed seg-fault
- 1.3.2 - 2004-09-30
* fixed file-cache
- 1.3.1 - 2004-09-30
* fixed file-cache
* fixed parsing of IPv6 adresses
* fixed cgi for cygwin
* fixed test-suite for FreeBSD and IRIX
* fixed handling of shrinked files
* fixed handling of REQUEST_URI after rewrite
- 1.3.0 - 2004-09-17
* added build for MacOS X and Cygwin
* added handling of more than one socket
* added config-conditions for User-Agent and Referer
* added final rewrite-rules
- 1.2.8 - 2004-09-11
* added a cache for mimetypes
* added X-Forwarded-For for mod_proxy
* fixed handling of comments in If-Modified-Since
* fixed error handling in FastCGI code
* fixed expire plugin for second Expire header
- 1.2.7 - 2004-09-04
* added mod_rrdtool for internal statistics
* added xattr support
* added user-controlable timeouts
* improved documentation for many plugins
* fixed POST requests for mod_proxy
* fixed rare hang with CGI
* fixed seg-fault if no configfile is specified
* fixed rare problem in FastCGI header generation
- 1.2.6 - 2004-08-26
* added apache-like accesslog definition
* enabled timestamp cache again
* improved performance in the string compare functions
* fixed double-free in fastcgi handler
* fixed error-handling in cgi handler
- 1.2.5 - 2004-08-10
* added skeleton for solaris 10 port-API
* added compression support even if no cachedir is set
* added conditional configoptions
* fixed compilation on OpenBSD
* fixed kqueue support
* fixed pipelining bug
* fixed parallel build (triggered by Gentoo)
* updated debian postinst
- 1.2.4 - 2004-07-31
* added kqueue support
* added server-side includes (mod_ssi)
* fixed large post uploads in fastcgi
* fixed rt-signals handling of delayed events
- 1.2.3 - 2004-07-10
* added a proxy module for Java and friends
* added support to pass accesslog through an external programm
* added mimetypes for text/css and text/javascript
* fixed index-files for FastCGI if webserver is in chroot
* fixed error messages of CGI process fails to exec()
* fixed detection of pcre on IRIX and FreeBSD
* fixed timestamps in Last-Modified checks
* fixed 64bit builds
* fixed mmap-caching of large files
* relaxed the HTTP parser on empty headerfields
- 1.2.2 - 2004-06-15
* added support for unix domain sockets in FastCGI
* fixed mmap caching
* fixed compile-time check for linux sendfile()
* fixed check for pcre.h on Fedora Core 2
- 1.2.1 - 2004-05-30
* added experimental support for AIX send_file()
* added an mmap cache to the filehandle cache
* enabled FreeBSD sendfile support again
* added support for calling CGI binaries directly
* fixed pipelining for POST requests
* fixed some seg-faults if no configfile is used
- 1.2.0 - 2004-05-17
* added conforming Expect: handling
* added a module for secure and fast downloading
* rewrote the event handling interface
* fixed array handling which might lead to 'missing header'
* fixed pipelining support
* fixed build of the localizer extension
* fixed cgi handling for headers which are flushed to often
* fixed compilation on Solaris 2.5
- 1.1.9 - 2004-04-29
* added AUTHORIZER mode to the FastCGI module
* added 'check-local' option to disable local stat() in the FastCGI module
* added prefix-notation for FastCGI module
* added 'mod_usertrack'
* improved CGI/FastCGI spec conformance
* more code cleanup
* fixed HTTP/1.1 chunk headers
* fixed POST handling
* fixed SSL network handler
* fixed writev() network handler
- 1.1.8 - 2004-04-16
* code cleanup
* limiting the size of the request-body and the request-header
* minor speed improvements
* tightend the HTTP-Parser again
- 1.1.7 - 2004-04-12
* added REMOTE_USER to the Server->FastCGI parameters
* added bzip2 compression
* improved the error-messages from the new configfile parser
* fixed accesslog writing for errornous requests
* fixed LFS (64bit filesizes) handling
* fixed Content-Length for HEAD requests
* fixed some memory leaks in the configfile parser
- 1.1.6 - 2004-04-10
* tightend the HTTP-Parser
* rewrote the configfile parser (based on lemon)
* fixed openssl support
* fixed mmap+write support
* use localtime in accesslog if possible
- 1.1.5 - 2004-04-07
* added ldap backend to the auth
* added a mod_expire
* added debian packaging structure
* merged redhat and suse spec-file
* fixed eventhandler for solaris
* fixed 64bit fileoffsets
* fixed permissions of the PID-file
- 1.1.4 - 2004-04-04
* added server.pid-file
* added support for solaris /dev/poll and solaris sendfilev()
* added support for writev()
* added PATHINFO support (again)
* fixed CLF logfile writing
- 1.1.3 - 2004-03-25
* set default event-handler to 'poll'
* fixed logcycling in chroot()
* fixed hostname detection
* added syslog() as fallback for error-logging
- 1.1.2 - 2004-03-22
* added a "docroot" setting for fastcgi processes
* performance improvements
* improved configure script
* rewrote the fastcgi config parser
* added a rc-script for RedHat
* added epoll() support for Linux 2.6.x
- 1.1.1 - 2004-03-15
* added localizer module
* performance improvements
* code cleanup
- 1.1.0 - 2004-03-06
* changed some configuration keys for better readability
* moved the virtual-host code to mod_simple_vhost
* added enhanced virtual host plugin from Christian Kruse
* added two new auth-backends (htpasswd, htdigest)
* fixed and improved authentification
* stricter parsing of the Host: field
* added a warning for unused configuration keys
* improved FastCGI documentation
- 1.0.3 - 2004-02-13
* a startup script has been added (LSB compliant)
* HEAD requests were submitting the content like a GET request
* the virtual directory listing got a face-lifting and fixes
* request-headers are now handled case-in-sensitive as required
by the standard. this fixes POST requests for w3m and some Proxies.
- 1.0.2 - 2004-02-07
* rearrangement of the default configfile
* some updates in the documentation
* a entry in the error-log for a 404
* stdout is no longer the default for the accesslog