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NEWS
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- 1.4.13 - 2006-10-09

  * added initgroups in spawn-fcgi (#871)
  * added apr1 support htpasswd in mod-auth (#870)
  * added lighty.stat() to mod_magnet
  * fixed segfault in splitted CRLF CRLF sequences 
    (introduced in 1.4.12) (#876)
  * fixed compilation of LOCK support in mod-webdav
  * fixed fragments in request-URLs (#869)
  * fixed pkg-config check for lua5.1 on debian
  * fixed Content-Length = 0 on HEAD requests without 
    a known Content-Length (#119)
  * fixed mkdir() forcing 0700 (#884)
  * fixed writev() on FreeBSD 4.x and older (#875)
  * removed warning about a 404-error-handler 
    returned 404
  * backported and fixed the buildsystem changes for
    webdav locks
  * fixed plugin loading so we can finally load lua
    extensions in mod_magnet scripts
  * fixed large uploads if xattr is enabled

- 1.4.12 - 2006-09-23

  * added experimental LOCK support for webdav
  * added Content-Range support for PUT in webdav
  * added support for += on empty arrays in config-files
  * added ssl.cipher-list and ssl.use-sslv2
  * added $HTTP["querystring"] conditional
  * added mod_magnet as long-term replacement for mod_cml
  * added work-around for a Opera Bug with SSL + Chunked-Encoding
  * changed --print-config to print to stdout instead of stderr
  * changed no longer use 0600 for new files with webdav. umask is
    honored. Make sure you have set a proper umask.
  * fixed upload hangs with SSL
  * fixed connection drops with SSL (aka bad retry)
  * fixed path traversal with \ on cygwin
  * fixed mem-leak in mod_flv_streaming
  * fixed required trailing newline in configfiles (#142)
  * fixed quoting the autoconf files (#466)
  * fixed empty Host: + $HTTP["host"] handling (#458)
  * fixed handling of If-Modified-Since if ETag is not set
  * fixed default-shell if SHELL is not set (#441)
  * fixed appending and assigning of env.* vars
  * fixed empty FCGI_STDERR packets
  * fixed conditional server.allow-http-11
  * fixed handling of follow-symlink + lstat()
  * fixed SIGHUP handling if max-workers is used
  * fixed "Software caused connection abort" messages on FreeBSD

- 1.4.11 - 2006-03-09

  * added ability to specify which ip address spawn-fci listens on
    (agkr@pobox.com)
  * added mod_flv_streaming to streaming Flash Movies efficiently
  * fixed handling of error codes returned by mod_dav_svn behing a
    mod_proxy
  * fixed error-messages in mod_auth and mod_fastcgi
  * fixed re-enabling overloaded local fastcgi backends
  * fixed handling of deleted files in linux-sendfile
  * fixed compilation on BSD and MacOSX
  * fixed $SERVER["socket"] on a already bound socket
  * fixed local source retrieval on windows
    (secunia)
  * fixed hanging cgi if remote side is dieing while reading
    from the pipe (sandy@meebo.com)

- 1.4.10 - 2006-02-08

  * added docs for mod_dirlisting
  * added fastcgi.map-extensions to mod_fastcgi
  * fixed load balancing for mod_fastcgi
  * fixed extra newline for syslog() in mod_accesslog
  * fixed user-track cookie for IE in mod_usertrack
  * fixed crash in digest handling in mod_auth
  * fixed handling of 301 response-bodies from a mod_proxy backend
  * fixed loading of base modules if server.modules is not set
  * fixed broken cgi if mod_scgi is loaded

- 1.4.9 - 2006-01-14

  * added server.core-files option (sandy <sandy@meebo.com>)
  * added docs for mod_status
  * added mod_evasive to limit the number of connections by IP (<w1zzard@techpowerup.com>)
  * added the power-magnet to mod_cml
  * added internal statistics to mod_fastcgi
  * added server.statistics-url to get internal statistics from mod_status
  * added support for conditional range-requests through If-Range
  * added static building via scons
  * fixed 100% cpu loops in mod_cgi ("sandy" <sjen@cs.stanford.edu>)
  * fixed handling for secure-download.timeout (jamis@37signals.com)
  * fixed IE bug in content-charset in the output of mod_dirlisting (sniper@php.net)
  * fixed typos and language in the docs (ryan-2005@ryandesign.com)
  * fixed assertion in mod_cgi on HEAD request is Content-Length (<sandy@meebo.com>)
  * fixed handling if equal but duplicate If-Modified-Since request headers
  * fixed endless loops in mod_fastcgi if backend is dead
  * fixed Depth: 1 handling in PROPFIND requests on empty dirs
  * fixed encoding of UTF8 encoded dirlistings (Jani Taskinen <sniper@iki.fi>)
  * fixed initial bind to a unix-domain socket through server.bind
  * fixed handling of lowercase filesystems
  * fixed duplicate request headers cause by mod_setenv

- 1.4.8 - 2005-11-23

  * added auto-reconnect to ldap-server in mod_auth
    (joerg@netbsd.org)
  * changed auth.ldap-cafile to be optional
    (joerg@netbsd.org)
  * added strip_request_uri in mod_fastcgi
  * added more X-* headers to mod_proxy
    (Ben Grimm <bengrimm@gmail.com>)
  * added 'debug' to simple-vhost to suppress the
    (mod_simple_vhost.c.157) No such file or directory /servers/ww.lighttpd.net/pages/
    messages by default
  * added support to let the server listen on UNIX-socket
  * changed default stat-cache-engine to 'simple'
  * removed debian/ dir from source package on request by packager
  * fixed max-age timestamps in mod_expire
  * fixed encoding the filenames in PROPFIND in mod_webdav
  * fixed range request handling in network_writev
  * fixed retry on connect error in mod_fastcgi
    (Robert G. Jakabosky <bobby@alphatrade.com>)
  * fixed possible crash in mod_webdav if sqlite3 support
    is available but not use
  * fixed fdvent-handler init if server.max-worker was used
    (Siddharth Vijayakrishnan <mail@bluefireworks.net>)
  * fixed missing cleanup in mysql_vhost
  * fixed assert() in "connections.c:962:
      connection_handle_read_state: Assertion 'c->mem->used' failed."
  * fixed 64bit issue in md5
  * fixed crash in mod_status
  * fixed duplicate headers in mod_proxy
  * fixed Content-Length in HEAD request in mod_proxy
  * fixed unsigned/signed comparisions
  * fixed streaming in mod_cgi
  * fixed possible overflow in password-salt handling
    (reported on slashdot by james-web@and.org)
  * fixed server-traffic-limit if connection limit is not set

- 1.4.7 - 2005-11-02

  * added FD_CLOEXEC to fds which are kept open for a longer time
  * added smaller, moving mmaped windows to network_writev
  * added madvise() to instruct the kernel the do proper read-ahead in network_writev
  * added support for %I in mod_accesslog
  * added better compat to Apache for ?auto in mod_status
  * added support for userdirs without a entry in /etc/passwd in mod_userdir
    (rob@inversepath.com)
  * added startup-time selectable network-backend
  * added location of upload-files to config as array
  * added webdav.log-xml for logging xml-content in mod_webdav
  * added Cache-Control: max-age to mod_expire
  * workaround missing client-bug by assuming we received a close-notify on
    non-keep-alive requests in SSL request
  * disabled kerberos5 support by default to fix compilation on RHEL
  * fixed order of library checks to fix compilation on Solaris 9
  * fixed open file-descriptors on read-error
  * fixed crash if /var/tmp is not writable

- 1.4.6 - 2005-10-09

  * fixed compilation on MacOS X and cygwin
  * fixed compressed output if caching was disabled (seen in IE and Opera)
  * fixed range-request option
  * fixed mysql-vhost module (was broken in 1.4.5)
  * fixed false positive in the detection of case-insensitive FS

- 1.4.5 - 2005-10-02

  * added all DeltaV methods as known methods
  * added buffer-to-disk of request content
  * added warning for unused variables in conditionals
  * added global index-generators to mod_indexfile
  * fixed caching for remote-ip conditionals with keep-alive
  * fixed redirects with content
  * fixed infinite loop in exec-cmd in mod_ssi
  * fixed segfault in config handling for mod_mysql_vhost
  * fixed segfault on FIFOs/Sockets
  * fixed possible crash on uninit memory if If-Modified-Since was too long
  * fixed accounting of mem-chunks
  * fixed starving of connections on high load
  * fixed crc errors in mod_compress on 64bit platforms
  * fixed handling of overlapping fastcgi packets (bug added in 1.4.4)
  * fixed logic of conditionals if a header was not set
  * fixed a segfault in mod_rewrite if %1 references were used
  * fixed handling of empty request URIs in HTTP requests

- 1.4.4 - 2005-09-16
  * added support for %V in mod_accesslog
  * added a option for a FastCGI responser to send static files
  * added md5 and blowfish hashes to htpasswd
  * fixed METHOD in mod_accesslog of WebDAV methods
  * fixed check for permission before files in sent
  * fixed mod-proxy and content for non-POST requests
  * fixed compilation of mod_cml on MacOS X
  * fixed SSL errmsg after accept()
  * fixed memleak in stat-cache
  * fixed aborted connections if file was moved while in transfer
  * fixed mem-usage for large FastCGI transfers

- 1.4.3 - 2005-09-01

  * added gracefull shutdown
  * added server.max-connections
  * fixed compilation on all BSD platforms
  * fixed init of kqueue and /dev/poll after daemonize
  * fixed segfault if select() is event-handler and more than FD_SETSIZE
    fds are opened
  * fixed compilation of mod_cml
  * fixed bin-copy-env in mod_fastcgi

- 1.4.2 - 2005-08-29

  * fixed mimetype detection on uppercase extensions
  * fixed memleak in stat-cache
  * fixed infinite loop in mod_cgi
  * fixed alignment crashes on sparc64 and alpha64
  * fixed test system for gentoo ebuild
  * fixed infinite loop in SSL
  * fixed range request for files > 2Gb

- 1.4.1 - 2005-08-22

  * added a complete Class 1 complient mod_webdav
  * fixed ssl support (especially on OpenBSD)
  * fixed response header in body problem in mod_cgi
  * fixed numbers before body problem
  * fixed compilation on Solaris and FreeBSD
  * fixed conditional options in mod_dirlisting
  * fixed segfault in mod_dirlisting for NFS directories
  * fixed check for docroot in change-root environments

- 1.4.0 - 2005-08-17

  * added nested conditionals
  * added remote-ip to $HTTP
  * added support for stat-cache via FAM
  * added a read-only WebDAV module
  * fixed cleanup in mod_proxy and mod_fastcgi
  * fixed handling of filenames on case-insensitive filesystems

- 1.3.16 - 2005-07-31

  * added Date: headers to dynamic HTTP/1.0 requests
  * added support for OPTION * HTTP/1.1
  * added support for accesslog to syslog
  * added support for PATH_INFO guessing if check-local is disabled in
      mod_fastcgi
  * added switch to disable range-requests
  * added valid-user option for mod_auth (tigger at gentoo.org)
  * added JavaScript based sorting to mod_status (erik)
  * added selective TCP_CORK (Christian von Roques)
  * break up endless loops with Status: 500
  * fixed endless loops in mod_rewrite
  * mapped url.rewrite and url.rewrite-final to uri.rewrite-once
  * fixed compilation for mod_trigger_b4_dl
  * fixed 'can't reach host' in mod_proxy
  * error-handler-404 defaults to Status: 200 and static files work now

- 1.3.15 - 2005-07-15

  * added mod_cml
  * added mod_trigger_b4_dl
  * added encoding to mod_dirlisting
  * added ?auto to mod_status
  * relaxed handling of characters in URIs even more
  * fixed detection of sendfile() on Linux 2.4.x
  * fixed comparision of buffers for short strings
  * server.errorfile-prefix is now conditional
  * fixed mod_rrdtool to close STDERR

- 1.3.14 - 2005-06-15

  * added SCGI support via mod_scgi
  * added hash-based and round-robin load balancing to mod_proxy
  * fixed range requests larger than 2Gb
  * fixed compilation on Solaris
  * fixed endless loops in mod_fastcgi, mod_cgi and mod_proxy
  * fixed handling of URIs for '+' and characters > 127

- 1.3.13 - 2005-03-06

  * added customizable directory listings
  * fixed compile error on all BSD unixes
  * fixed PATHINFO handling for FastCGI
  * fixed handling of remote-close on FreeBSD and OpenSSL

- 1.3.12 - 2005-03-02

  * added ssl.ca-file
  * added support for \n\n as terminator
  * rewrote test-framework and added more tests
  * fixed cgi.assign with empty handler
  * fixed segfault in debug-code
  * fixed mod_expire if modification-timestamps are used
  * fixed segfault on duplication Host-headers
  * fixed endless loop in mod_fastcgi
  * fixed handling of dead fastcgi-processes

- 1.3.11 - 2005-02-20

  * added REMOTE_PORT and SERVER_ADDR to CGI-env
  * relaxed handling of newlines before keep-alive requests
  * relaxed uri-parser again
  * fixed PHP_SELF for php
  * fixed compilation on MacOS X
  * fixed handling of EPIPE and ECONNRESET
  * fixed crash in mod_auth if config-options are missing
  * fixed handling of missing trailing / in mod_userdir
  * fixed conditional secdownload.secret
  * fixed REPORT ME error due to failed reconnects in mod_fastcgi
  * fixed cmdline handling in mod_fastcgi

- 1.3.10 - 2005-02-06

  * added support for full commandline in spawn-fcgi
  * fixed missing check for IP-address in mod_fastcgi
  * fixed compile error with openssl in mod_fastcgi
  * removed a debug-message from network-functions

- 1.3.9 - 2005-02-06

  * added a stricter URI parser
  * added a check to the CGI spawner if the cgi-handler exists
  * added documentation for SSL and mod_status
  * added handling of startup environment to FastCGI
  * improved performance in FastCGI in buildind the FastCGI header
  * fixed min-procs and max-procs in FastCGI on PowerPC
  * fixed crash in setenv.add-response-header
  * fixed handling of nph-scripts in CGI
  * fixed accidently sending out physical file in CGI on error
  * fixed cygwin support
  * fixed handling of missing files
  * fixed HEAD requests for dynamic requests

- 1.3.8 - 2005-01-30

  * added traffic shaping by remote host and virtual server
  * added auto-spawning of FastCGI process on demand
  * added virtual host based on MySQL
  * added mod_setenv to add envirnoment and http headers on the fly
  * added support for syslog in mod_accesslog
  * improved output of mod_status
  * improved debug output in request handling
  * fixed build problems on netbsd 1.4.x and 1.5.x
  * fixed status.url configuration
  * fixed handling of != and !~ in configutation
  * fixed special cases in keep-alive handling
  * fixed timeout handling in handling POST requests
  * fixed mode AUTHORIZER in FastCGI
  * fixed handling if internal redirects if no Host: is supplied
  * fixed mod_alias + pathinfo
  * fixed directory indexes and permissions
  * enabled sending errorlog to syslog again

- 1.3.7 - 2004-12-11

  * added retries for a fastcgi connect if a php-childs
    dies at startup
  * update the debian directory
  * added setgroups() to drop all group-privs
  * added native port to windows via mingw32
  * added server.tag = '...'
  * added support for ${...} in mod_ssi
  * ported all plugins to conditional support
  * fixed multipart handling in cgi
  * fixed kqueue event-handler
  * fixed wrap-around in mod_status
  * fixed crash with SSL + FastCGI
  * fixed detection of SSL headers
  * fixed handling of dangling SSL_shutdown
  * fixed detection of keep-alive of Firefox

- 1.3.6 - 2004-11-03

  * added spawn-fcgi to the distribution
  * added support in fastcgi module to spawn fastcgi
    processes itself
  * fixed logfile cycling if external logging is used
  * fixed connection handling in fastcgi if no chunk
    encoding is used
  * fixed internal redirects on directories if a query
    string is supplied
  * fixed cgi-module for POST request above 4k
  * fixed mod_alias and follow-symlink

- 1.3.5 - 2004-10-31

  * added mod_alias
  * added mod_userdir
  * added the exec command to the SSI handler
  * added a switch to disable follow-symlinks
  * added a switch to disable IPv6 at compile-time
  * fixed compilation on FreeBSD and NetBSD 1.3.x
  * fixed segfault in pipelining
  * fixed a segfault in writev() handler if LFS is used

- 1.3.4 - 2004-10-24

  * added limiter for open files
  * added logging of user supplied data to accesslogs
  * added build target for OpenWRT
  * added plain backend support for auth-digest
  * fixed handling the external accesslog processes
  * fixed SERVER_NAME in CGI and FastCGI

- 1.3.3 - 2004-10-16

  * added support for NL terminators in CGI-scripts
  * added support for conditionals in mod_auth,
    mod_simple_vhost and mod_evhost
  * added a error-handler for 404 codes
  * fixed request counter in the rrdtool module
  * fixed log-file cycling
  * fixed seg-fault

- 1.3.2 - 2004-09-30

  * fixed file-cache

- 1.3.1 - 2004-09-30

  * fixed file-cache
  * fixed parsing of IPv6 adresses
  * fixed cgi for cygwin
  * fixed test-suite for FreeBSD and IRIX
  * fixed handling of shrinked files
  * fixed handling of REQUEST_URI after rewrite

- 1.3.0 - 2004-09-17

  * added build for MacOS X and Cygwin
  * added handling of more than one socket
  * added config-conditions for User-Agent and Referer
  * added final rewrite-rules

- 1.2.8 - 2004-09-11

  * added a cache for mimetypes
  * added X-Forwarded-For for mod_proxy
  * fixed handling of comments in If-Modified-Since
  * fixed error handling in FastCGI code
  * fixed expire plugin for second Expire header

- 1.2.7 - 2004-09-04

  * added mod_rrdtool for internal statistics
  * added xattr support
  * added user-controlable timeouts
  * improved documentation for many plugins
  * fixed POST requests for mod_proxy
  * fixed rare hang with CGI
  * fixed seg-fault if no configfile is specified
  * fixed rare problem in FastCGI header generation

- 1.2.6 - 2004-08-26

  * added apache-like accesslog definition
  * enabled timestamp cache again
  * improved performance in the string compare functions
  * fixed double-free in fastcgi handler
  * fixed error-handling in cgi handler

- 1.2.5 - 2004-08-10

  * added skeleton for solaris 10 port-API
  * added compression support even if no cachedir is set
  * added conditional configoptions
  * fixed compilation on OpenBSD
  * fixed kqueue support
  * fixed pipelining bug
  * fixed parallel build (triggered by Gentoo)
  * updated debian postinst

- 1.2.4 - 2004-07-31

  * added kqueue support
  * added server-side includes (mod_ssi)
  * fixed large post uploads in fastcgi
  * fixed rt-signals handling of delayed events

- 1.2.3 - 2004-07-10

  * added a proxy module for Java and friends
  * added support to pass accesslog through an external programm
  * added mimetypes for text/css and text/javascript
  * fixed index-files for FastCGI if webserver is in chroot
  * fixed error messages of CGI process fails to exec()
  * fixed detection of pcre on IRIX and FreeBSD
  * fixed timestamps in Last-Modified checks
  * fixed 64bit builds
  * fixed mmap-caching of large files
  * relaxed the HTTP parser on empty headerfields

- 1.2.2 - 2004-06-15

  * added support for unix domain sockets in FastCGI
  * fixed mmap caching
  * fixed compile-time check for linux sendfile()
  * fixed check for pcre.h on Fedora Core 2

- 1.2.1 - 2004-05-30

  * added experimental support for AIX send_file()
  * added an mmap cache to the filehandle cache
  * enabled FreeBSD sendfile support again
  * added support for calling CGI binaries directly
  * fixed pipelining for POST requests
  * fixed some seg-faults if no configfile is used

- 1.2.0 - 2004-05-17

  * added conforming Expect: handling
  * added a module for secure and fast downloading
  * rewrote the event handling interface
  * fixed array handling which might lead to 'missing header'
  * fixed pipelining support
  * fixed build of the localizer extension
  * fixed cgi handling for headers which are flushed to often
  * fixed compilation on Solaris 2.5

- 1.1.9 - 2004-04-29

  * added AUTHORIZER mode to the FastCGI module
  * added 'check-local' option to disable local stat() in the FastCGI module
  * added prefix-notation for FastCGI module
  * added 'mod_usertrack'
  * improved CGI/FastCGI spec conformance
  * more code cleanup
  * fixed HTTP/1.1 chunk headers
  * fixed POST handling
  * fixed SSL network handler
  * fixed writev() network handler

- 1.1.8 - 2004-04-16

  * code cleanup
  * limiting the size of the request-body and the request-header
  * minor speed improvements
  * tightend the HTTP-Parser again

- 1.1.7 - 2004-04-12

  * added REMOTE_USER to the Server->FastCGI parameters
  * added bzip2 compression
  * improved the error-messages from the new configfile parser
  * fixed accesslog writing for errornous requests
  * fixed LFS (64bit filesizes) handling
  * fixed Content-Length for HEAD requests
  * fixed some memory leaks in the configfile parser

- 1.1.6 - 2004-04-10

  * tightend the HTTP-Parser
  * rewrote the configfile parser (based on lemon)
  * fixed openssl support
  * fixed mmap+write support
  * use localtime in accesslog if possible

- 1.1.5 - 2004-04-07

  * added ldap backend to the auth
  * added a mod_expire
  * added debian packaging structure
  * merged redhat and suse spec-file
  * fixed eventhandler for solaris
  * fixed 64bit fileoffsets
  * fixed permissions of the PID-file

- 1.1.4 - 2004-04-04

  * added server.pid-file
  * added support for solaris /dev/poll and solaris sendfilev()
  * added support for writev()
  * added PATHINFO support (again)
  * fixed CLF logfile writing

- 1.1.3 - 2004-03-25

  * set default event-handler to 'poll'
  * fixed logcycling in chroot()
  * fixed hostname detection
  * added syslog() as fallback for error-logging

- 1.1.2 - 2004-03-22

  * added a "docroot" setting for fastcgi processes
  * performance improvements
  * improved configure script
  * rewrote the fastcgi config parser
  * added a rc-script for RedHat
  * added epoll() support for Linux 2.6.x

- 1.1.1 - 2004-03-15

  * added localizer module
  * performance improvements
  * code cleanup

- 1.1.0 - 2004-03-06

  * changed some configuration keys for better readability
  * moved the virtual-host code to mod_simple_vhost
  * added enhanced virtual host plugin from Christian Kruse
  * added two new auth-backends (htpasswd, htdigest)
  * fixed and improved authentification
  * stricter parsing of the Host: field
  * added a warning for unused configuration keys
  * improved FastCGI documentation

- 1.0.3 - 2004-02-13

  * a startup script has been added (LSB compliant)
  * HEAD requests were submitting the content like a GET request
  * the virtual directory listing got a face-lifting and fixes
  * request-headers are now handled case-in-sensitive as required
    by the standard. this fixes POST requests for w3m and some Proxies.

- 1.0.2 - 2004-02-07

  * rearrangement of the default configfile
  * some updates in the documentation
  * a entry in the error-log for a 404
  * stdout is no longer the default for the accesslog
