jk 1.2.20 release candidate: ready to test

[Rainer Jung <rj...@apache.org>]

Hi,

version 1.2.20 of the Apache Tomcat jk web server connector has been
tagged. This version contains some bug fixes and improvements over our
last release 1.2.19. Please test and share your experience. Your
feedback helps us a lot to produce stable releases, so we hope there
will be many testers and contributors for binaries.

If no critical bugs will be found, we will have a formal release vote
on the dev list starting at Thursday, December 14th.

The source distribution can be downloaded from:

http://tomcat.apache.org/dev/dist/tomcat-connectors/jk/source/jk-1.2.20/

The updated documentation can be found at

http://tomcat.apache.org/dev/dist/tomcat-connectors/jk/source/jk-1.2.20/docs

Please see

http://tomcat.apache.org/dev/dist/tomcat-connectors/jk/source/jk-1.2.20/docs/miscellaneous/changelog.html

for a complete list of changes.

The most important news are:

Docs: reorganised, three pages added

IIS: Improved support for IIS 6.

Apache: Detailed VHost support for all configuration directives, also
added to documentation.

Apache: Default Log File.

uriworkermap: make reload interval configurable. Improve reload
semantics. Add a special documentation reference page for
uriworkermap.properties.

Status Worker: adding new configuration directives to adjust ouput
formats and authentication/read only.

Status Worker: new property list output format.

Status Worker: added configurable health information for load balancers,
added multi member editing form.

Status Worker: new documentation page in reference guide.

Status Worker: improved HTML-Interface.

Status Worker Ant Tasks: Updated and completed for new Status Worker
features. Short docs page.

Load Balancer: Added the Sessions strategy. Contributed by Takayuki Kaneko.

AJP features: Documented max_packet_size. Added fail_on_status.

Network code: minor fixes and improvements. Enhanced Flushing code.

Regards,

Rainer

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