APACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*- Last modified at [$Date: 2001/02/22 01:28:51 $] Release: 2.0b1 : Scheduled to release End of January, 2001 rbb volunteers to be RM 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000 RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS: WARNING: ALWAYS check srclib/apr/STATUS and srclib/apr-util/STATUS * Generic Hooks are absolutely wrong in linkage, they are declared as exported from APU, but actually exported from modules. This needs heavy fixup, which Bill will do on the plane tommorow. The actual 'Apache' declaration is in Apache's files, with the 'explicit linkage' flavor in apr-util. (Unless you folks will finally buckle and accept the linkspec in hook declarations. I'm not holding my breath.) * Root all file systems with for WIN32/OS2/NW permissions Status: patch brought forward from 1.3.14 WIN32 and OS2 need review [William Rowe, Brian Harvard] * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child Status: FirstBill will fix this? * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work (at least) needs to be done: - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT specific code that is still not in NT only code paths - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which is not available on 95/98. - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in rand.c, at least.) * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time we access the logs? Status: * Win32: Complete the revamp the service environment and relocation into the WinNT MPM. Changes ServerRoot service registry parameter into ConfigArgs for multiple service startup parameters. Problems to fix in the revamp: -k shutdown/restart are broken, signals are not being acknowledged. Close window and shutdown also seem out of sorts. OtherBill is working on this and will finish over the weekend. * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix. Status: The best known candidate would be something from BIND v9. Status: Greg asks, "why? doesn't gethostbyname_r() handle this?" * The AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter directives do not allow the administrator to remove or reorder filters. Once a filter is added in a container, it is present in any subcontainers. It can only be added to the filter chain after any filters specified in enclosing containers. * remove the --disable-shared from the subdir config of APR(UTIL) before the final release. (in fact, it might even be nice to allow for Apache config/build against an already-installed APR(UTIL)) Note: we need to do a "make install" for APR(UTIL) so the shared libraries can be installed properly. We could also use that point to install include files (rather than have Apache know everything that needs to be installed from the sub-packages). The original impetus for doing the disable-shared was because the shared lib wasn't getting installed and a "make clean" in aprutil would make Apache fail to load. * users who want to install third-party modules into the Apache source tree (for static linking) need to have autoconf and libtool installed. This is because the module needs to have its config.m4 incorporated into ./configure, which means "buildconf" must be run. Note: This is in part because we have removed the "extra" directory. In the Apache-2.0 repository, this directory had a config.m4 file that allowed people to add external modules by specifying --with-module on the configure line. * ap_vrprintf() needs to handle more than 4K Status: Greg volunteers RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP: * mod_include doesn't stream data when there are no SSI tags in a file. If the OS doesn't have MMAP, this means that the entire file is read into memory before we send it down the filter stack. The includes_filter should only ever parse about 9K of data at one time, so that we always look like we are streaming the data. * All of our MPMs should use APR for threads/processes. This will allow us to error out if a threaded MPM is chosen on a platform that doesn't support threads. * Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c. Common logging API. * Document mod_file_cache. * OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support which doesn't appear to be catered for in the current build system. * OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM. * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API * Win32: Win9x console window still won't play nice with the close window, logoff and shutdown scenarios. Status: OtherBill will move the patch forward from 1.3.15, once we get our other Win9x issues solved. * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad death (non-zero exit code) in console mode. Status: OtherBill is bringing forward same ugly hack from 1.3.13 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400) Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork. * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially duplicates what is in APR. * There are still a number of places in the code where we are losing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a system call and replacing it with a generic error code) * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC. * All DBMs suffer from confusion in support/dbmmanage (perl script) since the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library for predictable mod_auth_db/dbm administration. * use apu_dbm in mod_auth_dbm Status: Greg +1 (low-priority volunteer) * Integrate mod_dav. Some additional items remaining: - case_preserved_filename stuff (use the new canonical name stuff?) - find a new home for ap_text(_header) - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml? * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the translation has decided to do. Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1 * Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()] * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary) * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0. * the LTFLAGS = -export-dynamic in the config.m4 is wrong. it is getting added multiple times during the config process. The -export-dynamic should probably move into build/special.mk (the make file used for building Apache modules). * shift stuff to mod_core.h * APR-ize resolver stuff in mod_unique_id (Jeff volunteers) PRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to put them into 'the next release': * PR#76: general missing call to "setlocale();" Status: * PR#78: mod_include Additional status for XBitHack directive Status: * PR#161: mod_dir Questionable performace of mod_dir() with negotiation Status: * PR#362: mod_proxy Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages Status: * PR#370: mod_env Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead system's is used Status: * PR#440: mod_proxy Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected Status: * PR#534: mod_proxy proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.) Status: * PR#537: mod_access mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted Status: * PR#557: mod_auth-any ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname requests (.htaccess) Status: * PR#573: mod_log-any More LogFormat directives Status: * PR#612: mod_proxy Proxy FTP Authentication Fails Status: * PR#623: mod_include A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600) Status: * PR#628: config Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch" Status: * PR#697: mod_include A security tweak I've been using for a few years for SSI Status: * PR#700: mod_proxy Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp: Status: * PR#759: mod_imap imap should read * too! Status: * PR#793: general RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should Status: * PR#921: suexec Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog Status: * PR#922: config it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks should always be followed Status: * PR#980: mod_proxy Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice... Status: * PR#994: mod_proxy Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module Status: * PR#1004: apache-api request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus Status: * PR#1028: other DoS attacks involving memory consumption Status: * PR#1050: mod_log-any Logging of virtual server to error_log as well Status: * PR#1085: mod_proxy ProxyRemote make a dead cycle. Status: * PR#1117: mod_auth-any Using NIS passwd.byname dbm files with AuthDBMUserFile Status: * PR#1120: suexec suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd Status: * PR#1145: mod_include Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack Status: * PR#1156: config insufficent AllowOverrides granularity for autoindexing Status: * PR#1158: apache-api improvements to child spawning API Status: * PR#1166: mod_proxy ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping Status: * PR#1176: mod_cgi Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers Status: * PR#1191: general setlogin() is not called, causing problems with e.g. identd Status: * PR#1204: general regerror() exists, use it Status: * PR#1233: apache-api there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state Status: * PR#1263: mod_dir Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links Status: * PR#1268: suexec CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.) Status: * PR#1285: suexec Error messages could be easier to spot in cgi.log file for suexec.c Status: * PR#1287: mod_access add allow,deny/deny,allow warning to mod_access Status: * PR#1290: mod_proxy Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache Status: * PR#1358: mod_log-any Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo log_rewrite module?) Status: * PR#1383: mod_headers I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as response ones. Status: * PR#1532: mod_proxy Proxy transfer logging Status: * PR#1547: mod_proxy No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set... Status: * PR#1567: mod_proxy ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall Status: * PR#1574: mod_autoindex ReadmeName and HeaderName don't allow for server-parsed html. Status: * PR#1582: mod_rewrite mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does Status: * PR#1677: mod_headers mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in header values Status: * PR#1702: mod_proxy mod_proxy to support persistent conns? Status: * PR#1803: mod_include patches to mod_include to allow for file tests Status: * PR#1809: mod_auth-any Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument Status: * PR#1855: mod_autoindex More Control over autoindex layout Status: * PR#1878: mod_proxy listing of proxy cache content Status: * PR#1905: suexec Allow modules to set user:group for execution. Status: * PR#2024: apache-api adding auth_why to conn_rec Status: * PR#2073: mod_log-any pipelined connections are not logged correctly Status: * PR#2074: mod_rewrite mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests Status: * PR#2113: config HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better Status: * PR#2138: mod_status mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots Status: * PR#2221: documentation Make online documentation search link back to my installation Status: * PR#2284: general Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6 Status: * PR#2314: mod_proxy patterns in ProxyRemote Status: * PR#2343: mod_status Status module averages are for entire uptime Status: * PR#2360: suexec suexec for general access of user content? Status: * PR#2396: general Proposal for TimeZone directive Status: * PR#2415: mod_info /server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info Status: * PR#2421: config problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure Status: * PR#2431: general A small addition to rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality. Status: * PR#2446: config AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse Status: * PR#2460: mod_cgi TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts Status: * PR#2512: mod_access <IfDenied> directive wanted Status: * PR#2573: suexec CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user with suExec Status: * PR#2648: general Cache file names in Proxy module Status: * PR#2760: config [PATCH] User/Group for and i.e. not only in global and . Status: * PR#2763: general mailto tags and bundling bug report script Status: * PR#2772: mod_log-any more % escapes Status: * PR#2785: os-aix Support for System Resource Controller Status: * PR#2793: protocol When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans? Status: * PR#2873: config Feedback/Comment on APACI Status: * PR#2889: general Inclusion of RPM spec file in CVS/distributions Status: * PR#2906: general Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id" algorithms Status: * PR#2907: config suggestion: power up your Include directive :) Status: * PR#3018: general cannot limit some HTTP methods Status: * PR#3026: mod_autoindex No way to change ReadmeName/HeaderName suffixes. Status: * PR#3143: apache-api No module specific data hook for per-connection data Status: * PR#3181: config Configuration file in Japanese Status: * PR#3191: mod_negotiation no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values with multiviews Status: * PR#3430: mod_negotiation Enhancement: MultiViews, Multi-Language Documents Status: * PR#3568: mod_proxy Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data. Status: * PR#3594: os-windows Please add an Apache icon to the systray instead of a DOS window Status: * PR#3605: mod_proxy Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication Status: * PR#3654: mod_autoindex BORDER=0 makes Icons look nicer (FancyIndexing) Status: * PR#3677: general New ErrorDocumentMatch directive Status: * PR#4180: os-windows Alternative for win95 users Status: * PR#4241: config Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts more portable. Status: * PR#4244: config "Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as negation operator Status: * PR#4448: mod_log-any Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged with %{}e Status: * PR#4459: mod_include Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers Status: * PR#4490: mod_cgi mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests Status: * PR#4520: mod_autoindex mod_autoindex does not generate Last-Modified response headers Status: * PR#4658: os-windows The output of CGI scripts appears in the window that apache is running in Status: * PR#5713: os-windows [PATCH] install as service with domain account Status: * PR#5993: general AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument instead of only 'None' Status: * PR#6347: mod_mime MIME types for MNG and JNG files need adding to mime.types and the mime.types and magic files Status: Waiting for IANA types to be defined Other bugs that need fixing: * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests. Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it "MaxConnectionsPerChild". * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers completely. * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless there is hope soon for a fixed glibc. * orig_ct in the byterange/multipart handling may not be needed. Apache 1.3 just never stashed "multipart" into r->content_type. We should probably follow suit since the byterange stuff doesn't want the rest of the code to see the multipart content-type; the other code should still think it is dealing with the stuff. Status: Greg volunteers to investigate (esp. since he was most likely the one to break it :-) Other features that need writing: * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs Status: post 2.0 * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there Documentation that needs writing: * Mod_status docs are needed. * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a given platform * New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation. * Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs. * API documentation Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation (apache-2.0/htdocs/hooks.html) * Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0 which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog does not show the contents of new files until later. Available Patches: * Jon Travis's patch to deal with thread-safe issues with inet_ntoa. See message <20001201163220.A12827@covalent.net> Status: This is being set aside until the IPv6 work is finished so that we know exactly what is required. * Martin Sojka 's patch to add error reporting for failed htpasswd actions due to a full /tmp volume (other programs may have similar problems?) PR: 6475 Status: * Mike Abbott's patches to improve performance Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to 2.0 * Jim Winstead's patch to add CookieDomain and other small mod_usertrack features * Dan Rench's patch to add allow the errmsg and timefmt of SSI's to be modified in the config file. Patch is available in PR6193 Open issues: * What do we do about mod_proxy? * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?