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Modified: . Announcement Log: Some reformating and changing the - to o (- looks so negative :) ) Revision Changes Path 1.15 +22 -23 apache-1.3/Announcement Index: Announcement =================================================================== RCS file: /export/home/cvs/apache-1.3/Announcement,v retrieving revision 1.14 retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -r1.14 -r1.15 --- Announcement 1998/04/15 08:30:19 1.14 +++ Announcement 1998/04/15 16:18:00 1.15 @@ -4,20 +4,19 @@ The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the 1.3b6 version of Apache, the latest beta release of the Apache HTTP server. 1.3b6 is - a release candidate for Apache 1.3.0; This version is stable under UNIX - but remains beta-level under Win32. No new features are expected between - 1.3b6 and 1.3.0, so please give this version a good thrashing in order - to provide as much feedback as possible to the Apache Group before the - release of 1.3.0. + a release candidate for Apache 1.3.0. + + This version is stable under UNIX but remains beta-level under Win32. No + new features are expected between 1.3b6 and 1.3.0, so please give this + version a good thrashing in order to provide as much feedback as possible + to the Apache Group before the release of 1.3.0. Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The Web Server Survey by Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/) found that more web servers were using Apache than any other software. Apache and its derivatives are run on over 50% of all web domains on the Internet. - The Apache project has been organized in an attempt to answer some of the - concerns regarding active development of a public domain HTTP server for - Unix. The goal of this project is to provide an open-source, secure, + The Apache project has been organized to provide an open-source, secure, efficient and extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. For more information about the Apache project check out http://www.apache.org/. @@ -33,10 +32,10 @@ is a short summary of all major changes between Apache 1.2 and 1.3 (changes which are new with version 1.3b6 are tagged '+'): - - Ported to Windows 95/NT + o Ported to Windows 95/NT http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/windows http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/README.NT - - Ported to BS2000/OSD, a mainframe OS with EBCDIC charset + o Ported to BS2000/OSD, a mainframe OS with EBCDIC charset http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/ebcdic + Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for out-of-the-box installation http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/README.configure @@ -50,37 +49,37 @@ http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/src/support/ + Enhanced configuration support: Include and Line-Continuation http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3 - - New `Magic' MIME-typing module for content type guessing + o New `Magic' MIME-typing module for content type guessing http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_mime_magic - - Regular Expression support for Alias and Redirect directives + o Regular Expression support for Alias and Redirect directives http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_alias + Overhauled and enhanced URL Rewriting Engine http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite - - Spell-checking module for on-the-fly URL corrections + o Spell-checking module for on-the-fly URL corrections http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_speling - - Additional access control via CIDR and Netmasks + o Additional access control via CIDR and Netmasks http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_access - - Improved HTTP/1.1-style Virtual Host support + o Improved HTTP/1.1-style Virtual Host support http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/vhost/index - - Less Buffering of CGI Script Output (makes nph- obsolete) + o Less Buffering of CGI Script Output (makes nph- obsolete) http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3 + Various Proxy Enhancements (NoProxy, ProxyDomain, ProxyPassReverse) http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_proxy - - Various internal performance improvements + o Various internal performance improvements http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3 - - Various fixes to the hostname DNS lookup handling + o Various fixes to the hostname DNS lookup handling http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/mod/core#hostnamelookups - - Various Directory Indexing enhancements + o Various Directory Indexing enhancements http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex - - Various Logging enhancements (Reliable Piped Logs, Named Log Formats) + o Various Logging enhancements (Reliable Piped Logs, Named Log Formats) http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/core http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_log_custom - - Unique Identifiers + o Unique Identifiers http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_unique_id - - Source tree reorganization + o Source tree reorganization http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/sourcereorg + Big Symbol Renaming to avoid symbol clashes with third-party code http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/sourcereorg - - API Additions + o API Additions http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3