Hi Robie

I only noticed yesterday that HTTP/2 support graduated from experimental
mode to "fully production ready" in Apache2 v2.4.26
<http://apache.mesi.com.ar/httpd/CHANGES_2.4>, released June 13th.

Is there a likely timeline for building HTTP/2 support into the version of
Apache2 provided with Xenial (currently at 2.4.18)?

Let me know if there's anything I could do to help.

Thanks,
Robin

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 7:10 PM Robin Winslow <[email protected]> wrote:

> Unfortunately what I consider the most useful feature of HTTP/2, server
> push, isn't currently included in nginx's implementation.
>
> On Fri, 13 May 2016 17:33 Robie Basak, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 07:59:02AM -0700, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>> > Oh, I would think we definitely want to enable http2 in Xenial by
>> > default! Jay can you take care of that?
>>
>> HTTP/2 support in Apache is still considered experimental by
>> upstream[1], so we didn't enable it in the LTS under security team
>> guidance[2]. Support is available in nginx though, as that went stable
>> in time.
>>
>> We intend to enable HTTP/2 support for Apache in an SRU as soon as
>> upstream consider it stable and no longer experimental.
>>
>> The concern is that both implementation and configuration directives may
>> change, and we can't realistically follow this in the LTS timeframe
>> without breaking production users. This in turn would compromise
>> security since upstream security patches will no longer apply and be
>> tough to backport.
>>
>> A weighing up of regression risk to users will need to influence any
>> future SRU decision to enable support, of course.
>>
>> Robie
>>
>> [1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_http2.html
>> [2]
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#HTTP.2F2_support_in_Apache_httpd
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