Apache 2.0.39 Released Page 2

AIX 4.3.2 and above: Define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
These levels of AIX don’t have a thundering herd problem with
accept(). [Jeff Trawick]

• prefork MPM: Ignore mutex errors during graceful restart. For
  certain types of mutexes (particularly SysV semaphores), we
  should expect to occasionally fail to obtain or release the
  mutex during restart processing. [Jeff Trawick]
• Fix install-bindist.sh so that it finds any perl instead of just
  early perl 5.x versions. This is consistent with a build/install
  from source, and it allows the perl scripts installed by a bindist
  to work on systems with perl 5.6. [Jeff Trawick]
• Fix apxs so that the makefile created by “apxs -g” works on AIX and
  Tru64 (and probably some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
• Allow CGI scripts to return their Content-Length. This also fixes a
  hang on HEAD requests seen on certain platforms (such as FreeBSD).
  [Justin Erenkrantz]
• Added log rotation based on file size to the RotateLog support
  utility. [Brad Nicholes]
• Fix some casting in mod_rewrite which broke random maps.
  PR 9770 [Allan Edwards, Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
  Changes with Apache 2.0.37
  • allow POST method over SSL when per-directory client cert
    authentication is used with ‘SSLOptions +OptRenegotiate’ enabled
    and a client cert was found in the ssl session cache.
  • ‘SSLOptions +OptRengotiate’ will use client cert in from the ssl
    session cache when there is no cert chain in the cache. prior to
    the fix this situation would result in a FORBIDDEN response and
    error message “Cannot find peer certificate chain”
    [Doug MacEachern]
  • ap_finalize_sub_req_protocol() shouldn’t send an EOS bucket if
    one was already sent. PR 9644 [Jeff Trawick]
  • Fix the display of the default name for the mime types config
    file. PR 9729 [Matthew Brecknell ]
  • Fix the working directory *for WinNT/2K/XP services only* to
    change to the Apache directory (one level above the location
    of Apache.exe, in the case that Apache.exe resides in bin/.)
    Solves the case of ServerRoot /foo paths where /foo was not
    on the same drive as /winnt/system32. [William Rowe]
  • Make 2.0’s “AcceptMutex” startup message now “completely”
    match how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
  • Implement a fixed size memory cache using a priority queue
    [Ian Holsman]
  • Fix apxs to allow “apxs -q installbuilddir” and to allow
    querying certain other variables from config_vars.mk. PR 9316
    [Jeff Trawick]
  • Added the “detached” attribute to the cgi_exec_info_t internals
    so that Win32 and Netware won’t create a new window or console
    for each CGI invoked. PR 8387
    [Brad Nicholes, William Rowe]
  • Consolidated the command line parameters and attributes that are
    manipulated by the optional function ap_cgi_build_command() in
    mod_cgi into a single structure.
    [Brad Nicholes]
  • Get rid of uninitialized value errors with “apxs -q” on certain
    variables. [Stas Bekman ]
  • Fix apxs to allow it to work when the build directory is somewhere
    besides server-root/build. PR 8453
    [Jeff Trawick and a host of others]
  • Allow ap_discard_request_body to be called multiple times in the
    same request. Essentially, ap_http_filter keeps track of whether
    it has sent an EOS bucket up the stack, if so, it will only ever
    send an EOS bucket for this request.
    [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein]