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6- 1.4.2 - 2005-08-29
7
8  * fixed mimetype detection on uppercase extensions
9  * fixed memleak in stat-cache
10  * fixed infinite loop in mod_cgi
11  * fixed alignment crashes on sparc64 and alpha64
12  * fixed test system for gentoo ebuild
13  * fixed infinite loop in SSL
14  * fixed range request for files > 2Gb
15
16- 1.4.1 - 2005-08-22
17
18  * added a complete Class 1 complient mod_webdav
19  * fixed ssl support (especially on OpenBSD)
20  * fixed response header in body problem in mod_cgi
21  * fixed numbers before body problem
22  * fixed compilation on Solaris and FreeBSD
23  * fixed conditional options in mod_dirlisting
24  * fixed segfault in mod_dirlisting for NFS directories
25  * fixed check for docroot in change-root environments
26
27- 1.4.0 - 2005-08-17
28
29  * added nested conditionals
30  * added remote-ip to $HTTP
31  * added support for stat-cache via FAM
32  * added a read-only WebDAV module
33  * fixed cleanup in mod_proxy and mod_fastcgi
34  * fixed handling of filenames on case-insensitive filesystems
35
36- 1.3.16 - 2005-07-31
37
38  * added Date: headers to dynamic HTTP/1.0 requests
39  * added support for OPTION * HTTP/1.1
40  * added support for accesslog to syslog
41  * added support for PATH_INFO guessing if check-local is disabled in
42      mod_fastcgi
43  * added switch to disable range-requests
44  * added valid-user option for mod_auth (tigger at gentoo.org)
45  * added JavaScript based sorting to mod_status (erik)
46  * added selective TCP_CORK (Christian von Roques)
47  * break up endless loops with Status: 500
48  * fixed endless loops in mod_rewrite
49  * mapped url.rewrite and url.rewrite-final to uri.rewrite-once
50  * fixed compilation for mod_trigger_b4_dl
51  * fixed 'can't reach host' in mod_proxy
52  * error-handler-404 defaults to Status: 200 and static files work now
53
54- 1.3.15 - 2005-07-15
55
56  * added mod_cml
57  * added mod_trigger_b4_dl
58  * added encoding to mod_dirlisting
59  * added ?auto to mod_status
60  * relaxed handling of characters in URIs even more
61  * fixed detection of sendfile() on Linux 2.4.x
62  * fixed comparision of buffers for short strings
63  * server.errorfile-prefix is now conditional
64  * fixed mod_rrdtool to close STDERR
65
66- 1.3.14 - 2005-06-15
67
68  * added SCGI support via mod_scgi
69  * added hash-based and round-robin load balancing to mod_proxy
70  * fixed range requests larger than 2Gb
71  * fixed compilation on Solaris
72  * fixed endless loops in mod_fastcgi, mod_cgi and mod_proxy
73  * fixed handling of URIs for '+' and characters > 127
74
75- 1.3.13 - 2005-03-06
76
77  * added customizable directory listings
78  * fixed compile error on all BSD unixes
79  * fixed PATHINFO handling for FastCGI
80  * fixed handling of remote-close on FreeBSD and OpenSSL
81
82- 1.3.12 - 2005-03-02
83
84  * added ssl.ca-file
85  * added support for \n\n as terminator
86  * rewrote test-framework and added more tests
87  * fixed cgi.assign with empty handler
88  * fixed segfault in debug-code
89  * fixed mod_expire if modification-timestamps are used
90  * fixed segfault on duplication Host-headers
91  * fixed endless loop in mod_fastcgi
92  * fixed handling of dead fastcgi-processes
93
94- 1.3.11 - 2005-02-20
95
96  * added REMOTE_PORT and SERVER_ADDR to CGI-env
97  * relaxed handling of newlines before keep-alive requests
98  * relaxed uri-parser again
99  * fixed PHP_SELF for php
100  * fixed compilation on MacOS X
101  * fixed handling of EPIPE and ECONNRESET
102  * fixed crash in mod_auth if config-options are missing
103  * fixed handling of missing trailing / in mod_userdir
104  * fixed conditional secdownload.secret
105  * fixed REPORT ME error due to failed reconnects in mod_fastcgi
106  * fixed cmdline handling in mod_fastcgi
107
108- 1.3.10 - 2005-02-06
109
110  * added support for full commandline in spawn-fcgi
111  * fixed missing check for IP-address in mod_fastcgi
112  * fixed compile error with openssl in mod_fastcgi
113  * removed a debug-message from network-functions
114
115- 1.3.9 - 2005-02-06
116
117  * added a stricter URI parser
118  * added a check to the CGI spawner if the cgi-handler exists
119  * added documentation for SSL and mod_status
120  * added handling of startup environment to FastCGI
121  * improved performance in FastCGI in buildind the FastCGI header
122  * fixed min-procs and max-procs in FastCGI on PowerPC
123  * fixed crash in setenv.add-response-header
124  * fixed handling of nph-scripts in CGI
125  * fixed accidently sending out physical file in CGI on error
126  * fixed cygwin support
127  * fixed handling of missing files
128  * fixed HEAD requests for dynamic requests
129
130- 1.3.8 - 2005-01-30
131
132  * added traffic shaping by remote host and virtual server
133  * added auto-spawning of FastCGI process on demand
134  * added virtual host based on MySQL
135  * added mod_setenv to add envirnoment and http headers on the fly
136  * added support for syslog in mod_accesslog
137  * improved output of mod_status
138  * improved debug output in request handling
139  * fixed build problems on netbsd 1.4.x and 1.5.x
140  * fixed status.url configuration
141  * fixed handling of != and !~ in configutation
142  * fixed special cases in keep-alive handling
143  * fixed timeout handling in handling POST requests
144  * fixed mode AUTHORIZER in FastCGI
145  * fixed handling if internal redirects if no Host: is supplied
146  * fixed mod_alias + pathinfo
147  * fixed directory indexes and permissions
148  * enabled sending errorlog to syslog again
149
150- 1.3.7 - 2004-12-11
151
152  * added retries for a fastcgi connect if a php-childs
153    dies at startup
154  * update the debian directory
155  * added setgroups() to drop all group-privs
156  * added native port to windows via mingw32
157  * added server.tag = '...'
158  * added support for ${...} in mod_ssi
159  * ported all plugins to conditional support
160  * fixed multipart handling in cgi
161  * fixed kqueue event-handler
162  * fixed wrap-around in mod_status
163  * fixed crash with SSL + FastCGI
164  * fixed detection of SSL headers
165  * fixed handling of dangling SSL_shutdown
166  * fixed detection of keep-alive of Firefox
167
168- 1.3.6 - 2004-11-03
169
170  * added spawn-fcgi to the distribution
171  * added support in fastcgi module to spawn fastcgi
172    processes itself
173  * fixed logfile cycling if external logging is used
174  * fixed connection handling in fastcgi if no chunk
175    encoding is used
176  * fixed internal redirects on directories if a query
177    string is supplied
178  * fixed cgi-module for POST request above 4k
179  * fixed mod_alias and follow-symlink
180
181- 1.3.5 - 2004-10-31
182
183  * added mod_alias
184  * added mod_userdir
185  * added the exec command to the SSI handler
186  * added a switch to disable follow-symlinks
187  * added a switch to disable IPv6 at compile-time
188  * fixed compilation on FreeBSD and NetBSD 1.3.x
189  * fixed segfault in pipelining
190  * fixed a segfault in writev() handler if LFS is used
191
192- 1.3.4 - 2004-10-24
193
194  * added limiter for open files
195  * added logging of user supplied data to accesslogs
196  * added build target for OpenWRT
197  * added plain backend support for auth-digest
198  * fixed handling the external accesslog processes
199  * fixed SERVER_NAME in CGI and FastCGI
200
201- 1.3.3 - 2004-10-16
202
203  * added support for NL terminators in CGI-scripts
204  * added support for conditionals in mod_auth,
205    mod_simple_vhost and mod_evhost
206  * added a error-handler for 404 codes
207  * fixed request counter in the rrdtool module
208  * fixed log-file cycling
209  * fixed seg-fault
210
211- 1.3.2 - 2004-09-30
212
213  * fixed file-cache
214
215- 1.3.1 - 2004-09-30
216
217  * fixed file-cache
218  * fixed parsing of IPv6 adresses
219  * fixed cgi for cygwin
220  * fixed test-suite for FreeBSD and IRIX
221  * fixed handling of shrinked files
222  * fixed handling of REQUEST_URI after rewrite
223
224- 1.3.0 - 2004-09-17
225
226  * added build for MacOS X and Cygwin
227  * added handling of more than one socket
228  * added config-conditions for User-Agent and Referer
229  * added final rewrite-rules
230
231- 1.2.8 - 2004-09-11
232
233  * added a cache for mimetypes
234  * added X-Forwarded-For for mod_proxy
235  * fixed handling of comments in If-Modified-Since
236  * fixed error handling in FastCGI code
237  * fixed expire plugin for second Expire header
238
239- 1.2.7 - 2004-09-04
240
241  * added mod_rrdtool for internal statistics
242  * added xattr support
243  * added user-controlable timeouts
244  * improved documentation for many plugins
245  * fixed POST requests for mod_proxy
246  * fixed rare hang with CGI
247  * fixed seg-fault if no configfile is specified
248  * fixed rare problem in FastCGI header generation
249
250- 1.2.6 - 2004-08-26
251
252  * added apache-like accesslog definition
253  * enabled timestamp cache again
254  * improved performance in the string compare functions
255  * fixed double-free in fastcgi handler
256  * fixed error-handling in cgi handler
257
258- 1.2.5 - 2004-08-10
259
260  * added skeleton for solaris 10 port-API
261  * added compression support even if no cachedir is set
262  * added conditional configoptions
263  * fixed compilation on OpenBSD
264  * fixed kqueue support
265  * fixed pipelining bug
266  * fixed parallel build (triggered by Gentoo)
267  * updated debian postinst
268
269- 1.2.4 - 2004-07-31
270
271  * added kqueue support
272  * added server-side includes (mod_ssi)
273  * fixed large post uploads in fastcgi
274  * fixed rt-signals handling of delayed events
275
276- 1.2.3 - 2004-07-10
277
278  * added a proxy module for Java and friends
279  * added support to pass accesslog through an external programm
280  * added mimetypes for text/css and text/javascript
281  * fixed index-files for FastCGI if webserver is in chroot
282  * fixed error messages of CGI process fails to exec()
283  * fixed detection of pcre on IRIX and FreeBSD
284  * fixed timestamps in Last-Modified checks
285  * fixed 64bit builds
286  * fixed mmap-caching of large files
287  * relaxed the HTTP parser on empty headerfields
288
289- 1.2.2 - 2004-06-15
290
291  * added support for unix domain sockets in FastCGI
292  * fixed mmap caching
293  * fixed compile-time check for linux sendfile()
294  * fixed check for pcre.h on Fedora Core 2
295
296- 1.2.1 - 2004-05-30
297
298  * added experimental support for AIX send_file()
299  * added an mmap cache to the filehandle cache
300  * enabled FreeBSD sendfile support again
301  * added support for calling CGI binaries directly
302  * fixed pipelining for POST requests
303  * fixed some seg-faults if no configfile is used
304
305- 1.2.0 - 2004-05-17
306
307  * added conforming Expect: handling
308  * added a module for secure and fast downloading
309  * rewrote the event handling interface
310  * fixed array handling which might lead to 'missing header'
311  * fixed pipelining support
312  * fixed build of the localizer extension
313  * fixed cgi handling for headers which are flushed to often
314  * fixed compilation on Solaris 2.5
315
316- 1.1.9 - 2004-04-29
317
318  * added AUTHORIZER mode to the FastCGI module
319  * added 'check-local' option to disable local stat() in the FastCGI module
320  * added prefix-notation for FastCGI module
321  * added 'mod_usertrack'
322  * improved CGI/FastCGI spec conformance
323  * more code cleanup
324  * fixed HTTP/1.1 chunk headers
325  * fixed POST handling
326  * fixed SSL network handler
327  * fixed writev() network handler
328
329- 1.1.8 - 2004-04-16
330
331  * code cleanup
332  * limiting the size of the request-body and the request-header
333  * minor speed improvements
334  * tightend the HTTP-Parser again
335
336- 1.1.7 - 2004-04-12
337
338  * added REMOTE_USER to the Server->FastCGI parameters
339  * added bzip2 compression
340  * improved the error-messages from the new configfile parser
341  * fixed accesslog writing for errornous requests
342  * fixed LFS (64bit filesizes) handling
343  * fixed Content-Length for HEAD requests
344  * fixed some memory leaks in the configfile parser
345
346- 1.1.6 - 2004-04-10
347
348  * tightend the HTTP-Parser
349  * rewrote the configfile parser (based on lemon)
350  * fixed openssl support
351  * fixed mmap+write support
352  * use localtime in accesslog if possible
353
354- 1.1.5 - 2004-04-07
355
356  * added ldap backend to the auth
357  * added a mod_expire
358  * added debian packaging structure
359  * merged redhat and suse spec-file
360  * fixed eventhandler for solaris
361  * fixed 64bit fileoffsets
362  * fixed permissions of the PID-file
363
364- 1.1.4 - 2004-04-04
365
366  * added server.pid-file
367  * added support for solaris /dev/poll and solaris sendfilev()
368  * added support for writev()
369  * added PATHINFO support (again)
370  * fixed CLF logfile writing
371
372- 1.1.3 - 2004-03-25
373
374  * set default event-handler to 'poll'
375  * fixed logcycling in chroot()
376  * fixed hostname detection
377  * added syslog() as fallback for error-logging
378
379- 1.1.2 - 2004-03-22
380
381  * added a "docroot" setting for fastcgi processes
382  * performance improvements
383  * improved configure script
384  * rewrote the fastcgi config parser
385  * added a rc-script for RedHat
386  * added epoll() support for Linux 2.6.x
387
388- 1.1.1 - 2004-03-15
389
390  * added localizer module
391  * performance improvements
392  * code cleanup
393
394- 1.1.0 - 2004-03-06
395
396  * changed some configuration keys for better readability
397  * moved the virtual-host code to mod_simple_vhost
398  * added enhanced virtual host plugin from Christian Kruse
399  * added two new auth-backends (htpasswd, htdigest)
400  * fixed and improved authentification
401  * stricter parsing of the Host: field
402  * added a warning for unused configuration keys
403  * improved FastCGI documentation
404
405- 1.0.3 - 2004-02-13
406
407  * a startup script has been added (LSB compliant)
408  * HEAD requests were submitting the content like a GET request
409  * the virtual directory listing got a face-lifting and fixes
410  * request-headers are now handled case-in-sensitive as required
411    by the standard. this fixes POST requests for w3m and some Proxies.
412
413- 1.0.2 - 2004-02-07
414
415  * rearrangement of the default configfile
416  * some updates in the documentation
417  * a entry in the error-log for a 404
418  * stdout is no longer the default for the accesslog
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