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6- 1.4.6 - 2005-10-09
7
8  * fixed compilation on MacOS X and cygwin
9  * fixed compressed output if caching was disabled (seen in IE and Opera)
10  * fixed range-request option
11  * fixed mysql-vhost module (was broken in 1.4.5)
12  * fixed false positive in the detection of case-insensitive FS
13
14- 1.4.5 - 2005-10-02
15
16  * added all DeltaV methods as known methods
17  * added buffer-to-disk of request content
18  * added warning for unused variables in conditionals
19  * added global index-generators to mod_indexfile
20  * fixed caching for remote-ip conditionals with keep-alive
21  * fixed redirects with content
22  * fixed infinite loop in exec-cmd in mod_ssi
23  * fixed segfault in config handling for mod_mysql_vhost
24  * fixed segfault on FIFOs/Sockets
25  * fixed possible crash on uninit memory if If-Modified-Since was too long
26  * fixed accounting of mem-chunks
27  * fixed starving of connections on high load
28  * fixed crc errors in mod_compress on 64bit platforms
29  * fixed handling of overlapping fastcgi packets (bug added in 1.4.4)
30  * fixed logic of conditionals if a header was not set
31  * fixed a segfault in mod_rewrite if %1 references were used
32  * fixed handling of empty request URIs in HTTP requests
33
34- 1.4.4 - 2005-09-16
35  * added support for %V in mod_accesslog
36  * added a option for a FastCGI responser to send static files
37  * added md5 and blowfish hashes to htpasswd
38  * fixed METHOD in mod_accesslog of WebDAV methods
39  * fixed check for permission before files in sent
40  * fixed mod-proxy and content for non-POST requests
41  * fixed compilation of mod_cml on MacOS X
42  * fixed SSL errmsg after accept()
43  * fixed memleak in stat-cache
44  * fixed aborted connections if file was moved while in transfer
45  * fixed mem-usage for large FastCGI transfers
46
47- 1.4.3 - 2005-09-01
48
49  * added gracefull shutdown
50  * added server.max-connections
51  * fixed compilation on all BSD platforms
52  * fixed init of kqueue and /dev/poll after daemonize
53  * fixed segfault if select() is event-handler and more than FD_SETSIZE
54    fds are opened
55  * fixed compilation of mod_cml
56  * fixed bin-copy-env in mod_fastcgi
57
58- 1.4.2 - 2005-08-29
59
60  * fixed mimetype detection on uppercase extensions
61  * fixed memleak in stat-cache
62  * fixed infinite loop in mod_cgi
63  * fixed alignment crashes on sparc64 and alpha64
64  * fixed test system for gentoo ebuild
65  * fixed infinite loop in SSL
66  * fixed range request for files > 2Gb
67
68- 1.4.1 - 2005-08-22
69
70  * added a complete Class 1 complient mod_webdav
71  * fixed ssl support (especially on OpenBSD)
72  * fixed response header in body problem in mod_cgi
73  * fixed numbers before body problem
74  * fixed compilation on Solaris and FreeBSD
75  * fixed conditional options in mod_dirlisting
76  * fixed segfault in mod_dirlisting for NFS directories
77  * fixed check for docroot in change-root environments
78
79- 1.4.0 - 2005-08-17
80
81  * added nested conditionals
82  * added remote-ip to $HTTP
83  * added support for stat-cache via FAM
84  * added a read-only WebDAV module
85  * fixed cleanup in mod_proxy and mod_fastcgi
86  * fixed handling of filenames on case-insensitive filesystems
87
88- 1.3.16 - 2005-07-31
89
90  * added Date: headers to dynamic HTTP/1.0 requests
91  * added support for OPTION * HTTP/1.1
92  * added support for accesslog to syslog
93  * added support for PATH_INFO guessing if check-local is disabled in
94      mod_fastcgi
95  * added switch to disable range-requests
96  * added valid-user option for mod_auth (tigger at gentoo.org)
97  * added JavaScript based sorting to mod_status (erik)
98  * added selective TCP_CORK (Christian von Roques)
99  * break up endless loops with Status: 500
100  * fixed endless loops in mod_rewrite
101  * mapped url.rewrite and url.rewrite-final to uri.rewrite-once
102  * fixed compilation for mod_trigger_b4_dl
103  * fixed 'can't reach host' in mod_proxy
104  * error-handler-404 defaults to Status: 200 and static files work now
105
106- 1.3.15 - 2005-07-15
107
108  * added mod_cml
109  * added mod_trigger_b4_dl
110  * added encoding to mod_dirlisting
111  * added ?auto to mod_status
112  * relaxed handling of characters in URIs even more
113  * fixed detection of sendfile() on Linux 2.4.x
114  * fixed comparision of buffers for short strings
115  * server.errorfile-prefix is now conditional
116  * fixed mod_rrdtool to close STDERR
117
118- 1.3.14 - 2005-06-15
119
120  * added SCGI support via mod_scgi
121  * added hash-based and round-robin load balancing to mod_proxy
122  * fixed range requests larger than 2Gb
123  * fixed compilation on Solaris
124  * fixed endless loops in mod_fastcgi, mod_cgi and mod_proxy
125  * fixed handling of URIs for '+' and characters > 127
126
127- 1.3.13 - 2005-03-06
128
129  * added customizable directory listings
130  * fixed compile error on all BSD unixes
131  * fixed PATHINFO handling for FastCGI
132  * fixed handling of remote-close on FreeBSD and OpenSSL
133
134- 1.3.12 - 2005-03-02
135
136  * added ssl.ca-file
137  * added support for \n\n as terminator
138  * rewrote test-framework and added more tests
139  * fixed cgi.assign with empty handler
140  * fixed segfault in debug-code
141  * fixed mod_expire if modification-timestamps are used
142  * fixed segfault on duplication Host-headers
143  * fixed endless loop in mod_fastcgi
144  * fixed handling of dead fastcgi-processes
145
146- 1.3.11 - 2005-02-20
147
148  * added REMOTE_PORT and SERVER_ADDR to CGI-env
149  * relaxed handling of newlines before keep-alive requests
150  * relaxed uri-parser again
151  * fixed PHP_SELF for php
152  * fixed compilation on MacOS X
153  * fixed handling of EPIPE and ECONNRESET
154  * fixed crash in mod_auth if config-options are missing
155  * fixed handling of missing trailing / in mod_userdir
156  * fixed conditional secdownload.secret
157  * fixed REPORT ME error due to failed reconnects in mod_fastcgi
158  * fixed cmdline handling in mod_fastcgi
159
160- 1.3.10 - 2005-02-06
161
162  * added support for full commandline in spawn-fcgi
163  * fixed missing check for IP-address in mod_fastcgi
164  * fixed compile error with openssl in mod_fastcgi
165  * removed a debug-message from network-functions
166
167- 1.3.9 - 2005-02-06
168
169  * added a stricter URI parser
170  * added a check to the CGI spawner if the cgi-handler exists
171  * added documentation for SSL and mod_status
172  * added handling of startup environment to FastCGI
173  * improved performance in FastCGI in buildind the FastCGI header
174  * fixed min-procs and max-procs in FastCGI on PowerPC
175  * fixed crash in setenv.add-response-header
176  * fixed handling of nph-scripts in CGI
177  * fixed accidently sending out physical file in CGI on error
178  * fixed cygwin support
179  * fixed handling of missing files
180  * fixed HEAD requests for dynamic requests
181
182- 1.3.8 - 2005-01-30
183
184  * added traffic shaping by remote host and virtual server
185  * added auto-spawning of FastCGI process on demand
186  * added virtual host based on MySQL
187  * added mod_setenv to add envirnoment and http headers on the fly
188  * added support for syslog in mod_accesslog
189  * improved output of mod_status
190  * improved debug output in request handling
191  * fixed build problems on netbsd 1.4.x and 1.5.x
192  * fixed status.url configuration
193  * fixed handling of != and !~ in configutation
194  * fixed special cases in keep-alive handling
195  * fixed timeout handling in handling POST requests
196  * fixed mode AUTHORIZER in FastCGI
197  * fixed handling if internal redirects if no Host: is supplied
198  * fixed mod_alias + pathinfo
199  * fixed directory indexes and permissions
200  * enabled sending errorlog to syslog again
201
202- 1.3.7 - 2004-12-11
203
204  * added retries for a fastcgi connect if a php-childs
205    dies at startup
206  * update the debian directory
207  * added setgroups() to drop all group-privs
208  * added native port to windows via mingw32
209  * added server.tag = '...'
210  * added support for ${...} in mod_ssi
211  * ported all plugins to conditional support
212  * fixed multipart handling in cgi
213  * fixed kqueue event-handler
214  * fixed wrap-around in mod_status
215  * fixed crash with SSL + FastCGI
216  * fixed detection of SSL headers
217  * fixed handling of dangling SSL_shutdown
218  * fixed detection of keep-alive of Firefox
219
220- 1.3.6 - 2004-11-03
221
222  * added spawn-fcgi to the distribution
223  * added support in fastcgi module to spawn fastcgi
224    processes itself
225  * fixed logfile cycling if external logging is used
226  * fixed connection handling in fastcgi if no chunk
227    encoding is used
228  * fixed internal redirects on directories if a query
229    string is supplied
230  * fixed cgi-module for POST request above 4k
231  * fixed mod_alias and follow-symlink
232
233- 1.3.5 - 2004-10-31
234
235  * added mod_alias
236  * added mod_userdir
237  * added the exec command to the SSI handler
238  * added a switch to disable follow-symlinks
239  * added a switch to disable IPv6 at compile-time
240  * fixed compilation on FreeBSD and NetBSD 1.3.x
241  * fixed segfault in pipelining
242  * fixed a segfault in writev() handler if LFS is used
243
244- 1.3.4 - 2004-10-24
245
246  * added limiter for open files
247  * added logging of user supplied data to accesslogs
248  * added build target for OpenWRT
249  * added plain backend support for auth-digest
250  * fixed handling the external accesslog processes
251  * fixed SERVER_NAME in CGI and FastCGI
252
253- 1.3.3 - 2004-10-16
254
255  * added support for NL terminators in CGI-scripts
256  * added support for conditionals in mod_auth,
257    mod_simple_vhost and mod_evhost
258  * added a error-handler for 404 codes
259  * fixed request counter in the rrdtool module
260  * fixed log-file cycling
261  * fixed seg-fault
262
263- 1.3.2 - 2004-09-30
264
265  * fixed file-cache
266
267- 1.3.1 - 2004-09-30
268
269  * fixed file-cache
270  * fixed parsing of IPv6 adresses
271  * fixed cgi for cygwin
272  * fixed test-suite for FreeBSD and IRIX
273  * fixed handling of shrinked files
274  * fixed handling of REQUEST_URI after rewrite
275
276- 1.3.0 - 2004-09-17
277
278  * added build for MacOS X and Cygwin
279  * added handling of more than one socket
280  * added config-conditions for User-Agent and Referer
281  * added final rewrite-rules
282
283- 1.2.8 - 2004-09-11
284
285  * added a cache for mimetypes
286  * added X-Forwarded-For for mod_proxy
287  * fixed handling of comments in If-Modified-Since
288  * fixed error handling in FastCGI code
289  * fixed expire plugin for second Expire header
290
291- 1.2.7 - 2004-09-04
292
293  * added mod_rrdtool for internal statistics
294  * added xattr support
295  * added user-controlable timeouts
296  * improved documentation for many plugins
297  * fixed POST requests for mod_proxy
298  * fixed rare hang with CGI
299  * fixed seg-fault if no configfile is specified
300  * fixed rare problem in FastCGI header generation
301
302- 1.2.6 - 2004-08-26
303
304  * added apache-like accesslog definition
305  * enabled timestamp cache again
306  * improved performance in the string compare functions
307  * fixed double-free in fastcgi handler
308  * fixed error-handling in cgi handler
309
310- 1.2.5 - 2004-08-10
311
312  * added skeleton for solaris 10 port-API
313  * added compression support even if no cachedir is set
314  * added conditional configoptions
315  * fixed compilation on OpenBSD
316  * fixed kqueue support
317  * fixed pipelining bug
318  * fixed parallel build (triggered by Gentoo)
319  * updated debian postinst
320
321- 1.2.4 - 2004-07-31
322
323  * added kqueue support
324  * added server-side includes (mod_ssi)
325  * fixed large post uploads in fastcgi
326  * fixed rt-signals handling of delayed events
327
328- 1.2.3 - 2004-07-10
329
330  * added a proxy module for Java and friends
331  * added support to pass accesslog through an external programm
332  * added mimetypes for text/css and text/javascript
333  * fixed index-files for FastCGI if webserver is in chroot
334  * fixed error messages of CGI process fails to exec()
335  * fixed detection of pcre on IRIX and FreeBSD
336  * fixed timestamps in Last-Modified checks
337  * fixed 64bit builds
338  * fixed mmap-caching of large files
339  * relaxed the HTTP parser on empty headerfields
340
341- 1.2.2 - 2004-06-15
342
343  * added support for unix domain sockets in FastCGI
344  * fixed mmap caching
345  * fixed compile-time check for linux sendfile()
346  * fixed check for pcre.h on Fedora Core 2
347
348- 1.2.1 - 2004-05-30
349
350  * added experimental support for AIX send_file()
351  * added an mmap cache to the filehandle cache
352  * enabled FreeBSD sendfile support again
353  * added support for calling CGI binaries directly
354  * fixed pipelining for POST requests
355  * fixed some seg-faults if no configfile is used
356
357- 1.2.0 - 2004-05-17
358
359  * added conforming Expect: handling
360  * added a module for secure and fast downloading
361  * rewrote the event handling interface
362  * fixed array handling which might lead to 'missing header'
363  * fixed pipelining support
364  * fixed build of the localizer extension
365  * fixed cgi handling for headers which are flushed to often
366  * fixed compilation on Solaris 2.5
367
368- 1.1.9 - 2004-04-29
369
370  * added AUTHORIZER mode to the FastCGI module
371  * added 'check-local' option to disable local stat() in the FastCGI module
372  * added prefix-notation for FastCGI module
373  * added 'mod_usertrack'
374  * improved CGI/FastCGI spec conformance
375  * more code cleanup
376  * fixed HTTP/1.1 chunk headers
377  * fixed POST handling
378  * fixed SSL network handler
379  * fixed writev() network handler
380
381- 1.1.8 - 2004-04-16
382
383  * code cleanup
384  * limiting the size of the request-body and the request-header
385  * minor speed improvements
386  * tightend the HTTP-Parser again
387
388- 1.1.7 - 2004-04-12
389
390  * added REMOTE_USER to the Server->FastCGI parameters
391  * added bzip2 compression
392  * improved the error-messages from the new configfile parser
393  * fixed accesslog writing for errornous requests
394  * fixed LFS (64bit filesizes) handling
395  * fixed Content-Length for HEAD requests
396  * fixed some memory leaks in the configfile parser
397
398- 1.1.6 - 2004-04-10
399
400  * tightend the HTTP-Parser
401  * rewrote the configfile parser (based on lemon)
402  * fixed openssl support
403  * fixed mmap+write support
404  * use localtime in accesslog if possible
405
406- 1.1.5 - 2004-04-07
407
408  * added ldap backend to the auth
409  * added a mod_expire
410  * added debian packaging structure
411  * merged redhat and suse spec-file
412  * fixed eventhandler for solaris
413  * fixed 64bit fileoffsets
414  * fixed permissions of the PID-file
415
416- 1.1.4 - 2004-04-04
417
418  * added server.pid-file
419  * added support for solaris /dev/poll and solaris sendfilev()
420  * added support for writev()
421  * added PATHINFO support (again)
422  * fixed CLF logfile writing
423
424- 1.1.3 - 2004-03-25
425
426  * set default event-handler to 'poll'
427  * fixed logcycling in chroot()
428  * fixed hostname detection
429  * added syslog() as fallback for error-logging
430
431- 1.1.2 - 2004-03-22
432
433  * added a "docroot" setting for fastcgi processes
434  * performance improvements
435  * improved configure script
436  * rewrote the fastcgi config parser
437  * added a rc-script for RedHat
438  * added epoll() support for Linux 2.6.x
439
440- 1.1.1 - 2004-03-15
441
442  * added localizer module
443  * performance improvements
444  * code cleanup
445
446- 1.1.0 - 2004-03-06
447
448  * changed some configuration keys for better readability
449  * moved the virtual-host code to mod_simple_vhost
450  * added enhanced virtual host plugin from Christian Kruse
451  * added two new auth-backends (htpasswd, htdigest)
452  * fixed and improved authentification
453  * stricter parsing of the Host: field
454  * added a warning for unused configuration keys
455  * improved FastCGI documentation
456
457- 1.0.3 - 2004-02-13
458
459  * a startup script has been added (LSB compliant)
460  * HEAD requests were submitting the content like a GET request
461  * the virtual directory listing got a face-lifting and fixes
462  * request-headers are now handled case-in-sensitive as required
463    by the standard. this fixes POST requests for w3m and some Proxies.
464
465- 1.0.2 - 2004-02-07
466
467  * rearrangement of the default configfile
468  * some updates in the documentation
469  * a entry in the error-log for a 404
470  * stdout is no longer the default for the accesslog
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