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Installed the files into the distribution directory, in preparation
for release of 1.3b7.
Note that I removed the email addresses from the HTML version to
prevent spam robots from collecting addresses.
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diff -u -r1.5 -r1.6
--- Announcement.html 1998/05/23 22:21:24 1.5
+++ Announcement.html 1998/05/26 19:43:17 1.6
@@ -1,120 +1,41 @@
<HTML>
<HEAD>
-<TITLE>Apache 1.3 Beta 6 Released</TITLE>
+<TITLE>Apache 1.3 Beta 7 Released</TITLE>
</HEAD>
-<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
-<PRE>
+<BODY>
- <STRONG>Apache 1.3 Beta 6 Released</STRONG>
- ==========================
+<H1>Apache 1.3 Beta 7 Released</H1>
- 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.
+<P>The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the 1.3b7 version
+ of Apache, the latest beta release of the Apache HTTP server. 1.3b7 is
+ a second 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
+<P>This version is stable under UNIX but remains beta-level under Win32. No
+ new features are expected between 1.3b7 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.
- To grab the latest Apache distribution, check out
- <A HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/";>http://www.apache.org/dist/</A>
- and the huge list of available "International Mirror Sites" at
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/mirrors/";>http://www.apache.org/mirrors/</A>
+<P>For a full list of specific code changes see <A
HREF="CHANGES">CHANGES</A>.
- For a detailed list of changes please read the CHANGES file in the
- distribution and the "New Features with Apache 1.3" document at
- <<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_3.html";
- >http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_3.html</A>>.
- For your convenience here
- 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 '+'):
-
- o Ported to Windows 95/NT
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/windows";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/windows</A>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/README.NT";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/README.NT</A>
-
- o Ported to BS2000/OSD, a mainframe OS with EBCDIC charset
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/ebcdic";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/ebcdic</A>
-
-<STRONG> + Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for out-of-the-box
installation</STRONG>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/README.configure";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/README.configure</A>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/INSTALL";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/INSTALL</A>
-
-<STRONG> + Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for all major Unix
platforms </STRONG>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/README.DSO";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/README.DSO</A>
-
-<STRONG> + APache eXtenSion (APXS) tool for building third-party modules
as DSO</STRONG>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/README.DSO";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/README.DSO</A>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/support/";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/support/</A>
-
-<STRONG> + Additional support tools: apachectl, ab (ApacheBench),
dbmmanage</STRONG>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/support/";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/support/</A>
-
-<STRONG> + Enhanced configuration support: Include and
Line-Continuation</STRONG>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3</A>
-
- o New `Magic' MIME-typing module for content type guessing
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_mime_magic";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_mime_magic</A>
-
- o Regular Expression support for Alias and Redirect directives
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_alias";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_alias</A>
-
-<STRONG> + Overhauled and enhanced URL Rewriting Engine</STRONG>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite</A>
-
- o Spell-checking module for on-the-fly URL corrections
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_speling";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_speling</A>
-
- o Additional access control via CIDR and Netmasks
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_access";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_access</A>
-
- o Improved HTTP/1.1-style Virtual Host support
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/vhosts/";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/vhosts/</A>
-
- o Less Buffering of CGI Script Output (makes nph- obsolete)
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3</A>
-
-<STRONG> + Various Proxy Enhancements (NoProxy, ProxyDomain,
ProxyPassReverse)</STRONG>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_proxy";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_proxy</A>
-
- o Various internal performance improvements
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3</A>
-
- o Various fixes to the hostname DNS lookup handling
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/core";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/core</A>
-
- o Various Directory Indexing enhancements
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex</A>
-
- o Various Logging enhancements (Reliable Piped Logs, Named Log Formats)
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/core";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/core</A>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_log_config";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_log_config</A>
-
- o Unique Identifiers
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_unique_id";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_unique_id</A>
-
- o Source tree reorganization
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/sourcereorg";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/sourcereorg</A>
-
-<STRONG> + Big Symbol Renaming to avoid symbol clashes with third-party
code</STRONG>
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/sourcereorg";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/sourcereorg</A>
-
- o API Additions
- <A
HREF="http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3";>http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3</A>
-
- Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of
- 1996. The Web Server Survey by Netcraft (<<A
- HREF="http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/";
- >http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/</A>>)
- 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 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 <<A HREF="http://www.apache.org/.";>http://www.apache.org/</A>>.
-
-</PRE>
-</BODY>
-</HTML>
+<P>Major changes with this beta:
+<UL>
+<LI>HTTP: fixes for 400 and 408 error codes.
+<LI>WIN32:
+ <UL>
+ <LI>Child process spawning now uses native Win32 API.
+ This should address many problems people have had
+ on Win32 - it also forced us to modify the
+ related child_spawn calls in the Apache API.
+ <LI>Other various stability fixes.
+ <LI>Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled.
+ </UL>
+<LI>Various mod_rewrite fixes.
+<LI>Various makefile cleanups.
+<LI>Various APACI changes.
+<LI>Various DSO cleanups, better support for AIX, OpenBSD, NetBSD
+<LI>Server's OS family now reported in Server: strings.
+<LI>PORT: added support for NCR MP/RAS 3.0
+<LI>Security: we now make sure all config files opened by Apache are not
+ special devices.
+<LI>Added "-s" command line option to dump out vhost settings.
+</UL>
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Index: Announcement.txt
===================================================================
RCS file: /export/home/cvs/apache-site/dist/Announcement.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- Announcement.txt 1998/05/19 23:50:50 1.1
+++ Announcement.txt 1998/05/26 19:43:17 1.2
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
- Apache 1.3 Beta 6 Released
+ Apache 1.3 Beta 7 Released
==========================
- 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.
+ The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the 1.3b7 version
+ of Apache, the latest beta release of the Apache HTTP server. 1.3b7 is
+ a second 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
+ This version is stable under UNIX but remains beta-level under Win32. No
+ new features are expected between 1.3b7 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.
@@ -16,92 +16,54 @@
and the huge list of available "International Mirror Sites" at
http://www.apache.org/mirrors/
- For a detailed list of changes please read the CHANGES file in the
- distribution and the "New Features with Apache 1.3" document at
- http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_3.html. For your convenience here
- 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 '+'):
+ For a full list of specific code changes see src/CHANGES.
- 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
-
- 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
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/INSTALL
-
- + Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for all major Unix platforms
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/README.DSO
-
- + APache eXtenSion (APXS) tool for building third-party modules as DSO
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/README.DSO
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/src/support/
-
- + Additional support tools: apachectl, ab (ApacheBench), dbmmanage
- 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
-
- o New `Magic' MIME-typing module for content type guessing
-
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_mime_magic
-
- 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
-
- o Spell-checking module for on-the-fly URL corrections
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_speling
-
- o Additional access control via CIDR and Netmasks
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_access
-
- o Improved HTTP/1.1-style Virtual Host support
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/vhosts/
-
- 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
-
- o Various internal performance improvements
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3
-
- o Various fixes to the hostname DNS lookup handling
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/core
-
- o Various Directory Indexing enhancements
-
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex
-
- 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_config
-
- o Unique Identifiers
-
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_unique_id
-
- 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
-
- o API Additions
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3
-
- 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 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/.
+ For an overview of new features in 1.2 please read the CHANGES file
+ in the distribution and the "New Features with Apache 1.3" document at
+ http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_3.html
+
+ Major changes with this beta:
+ HTTP: fixes for 400 and 408 error codes.
+ WIN32: Child process spawning now uses native Win32 API.
+ This should address many problems people have had
+ on Win32 - it also forced us to modify the
+ related child_spawn calls in the Apache API.
+ Other various stability fixes.
+ Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled.
+ Various mod_rewrite fixes.
+ Various makefile cleanups.
+ Various APACI changes.
+ Various DSO cleanups, better support for AIX, OpenBSD, NetBSD
+ Server's OS family now reported in Server: strings.
+ PORT: added support for NCR MP/RAS 3.0
+ Security: we now make sure all config files opened by Apache are not
+ special devices.
+ Added "-s" command line option to dump out vhost settings.
+
+ Contributing code to this beta:
+ Ralf S. Engelschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Ed Korthof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Rick Ohnemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Brian Behlendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Bill Stoddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Ernst Kloppenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ John Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Jim Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Jim Jagielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Martin Kraemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Lars Eilebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+ Kari Likovuori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Michael Anderson's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+ Jaromir Dolecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Roy Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ David MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Francisco Tomei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Jens Schleusener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Jeff Earickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
