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Modified: . Announcement Log: Update the announcement. Revision Changes Path 1.45 +58 -34 apache-1.3/Announcement Index: Announcement =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/apache-1.3/Announcement,v retrieving revision 1.44 retrieving revision 1.45 diff -u -r1.44 -r1.45 --- Announcement 1999/08/19 18:15:00 1.44 +++ Announcement 1999/08/19 21:13:07 1.45 @@ -4,41 +4,63 @@ 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. @@ -94,3 +116,5 @@ 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.