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The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of version
1.3.9 of the Apache HTTP server.
-This new Apache version incorporates over 130 significant
-improvements to the server. Apart from portability and
-security fixes, documentation enhancements, performance
-improvements, and assorted other minor features or fixes
-notable changes are:
-
- - mod_log_config now supports conditional logging based upon
- environment variables and support for multiline entries.
-
- - New CustomLog directive %V: This logs the hostname according to the
- UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of %v).
-
- - Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text
- and DBM format mapfiles now uses a hash table with LRU functionality.
- Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
- The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite
- maps are in use.
-
- - Ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
-
- - New <LimitExcept> directive to allow the user to assign authentication
- control to any HTTP method that is *not* given in the argument list;
- i.e., the logical negation of the <Limit> directive.
-
- - Improved content negotiation.
-
- - New ScriptInterpreterSource directive to enable searching the
- Win32 registry for script interpreters.
-
- - The FAQ document was reorganised.
-
- - Overhauled ApacheBench benchmark program.
-
- - Several new API functions have been added.
+This new Apache version incorporates over 130 significant improvements
+to the server. Apart from portability and security fixes, documentation
+enhancements, performance improvements, and assorted other minor
+features or fixes notable changes are:
+ - A new experimental digest authentication module, compatible with
+ the latest digest-auth standards, has been added to the base package.
+
+ - The expat XML parser has been added to allow modules to deal with
+ XML if necessary.
+
+ - The processing on Windows of basic authentication passwords in
+ mod_auth password files has been fixed. In addition, the SHA1
+ encoding algorithm has been added to those available and
+ known to htpasswd, and passwords on Windows may be longer than
+ the inadvertent 1.3.6 limit of 8 characters.
+
+ - Several problems with mod_access and CIDR addresses have been fixed.
+
+ - Support has been added or enhanced for Tandem, TPF, and
+ the Macintosh OS X platforms.
+
+ - Some processing of Vary response header fields has been corrected.
+
+ - Restarts with "apache -k" on Windows are now honoured immediately,
+ instead of after the system's listen queue is drained.
+
+ - "Expect: 100-continue" processing has been corrected.
+
+ - Script errors on Windows are now copied to the server's error log
+ if the scripts fail; this is closer to the Unix behaviour.
+
+ - Mass-vhosting has been added (see the documentation for module
+ mod_vhost_alias).
+
+ - The server no longer automatically checks for the existence of a
+ valid DocumentRoot for all virtual hosts; this was imposing a
+ significant startup penalty on systems with numerous vhosts.
+ The default behaviour has changed to *not* performing this
+ check, but it can be re-enabled by specifying the "-t" command
+ line option for full configuration testing.
+
+ - "apache -S" on Windows now exits properly after completing the
+ configuration testing.
+
+ - SetEnvIf* directives can now test the values of environment
+ variables as well as request attributes. In addition,
+ the request protocol and level (e.g., "HTTP/1.1") can now be tested.
+
+ - ReadmeName and HeaderName files (mod_autoindex) are now
+ server-parsable and accessible with MultiViews.
+
+ - AddDescription directives now behave as documented with regard
+ to partial filename matches.
+
+ - The name of the cookie used by mod_usertrack is now customisable.
+
A complete listing with detailed descriptions is provided in the
src/CHANGES file.
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and resources by individuals and companies, we hope that the Win32
version of Apache will grow stronger through the 1.3.x release cycle.
+
+Thank you for using Apache.
