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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "Robert S. Thau" <rs...@ai.mit.edu> on 1995/07/19 15:32:18 UTC

Stuff for 0.8.2...

This is a note about what's in my current development sandbox.  I'm
not shipping this yet, because it includes a few items on which I'm
not sure we've reached closure.  Specifically --- I've included
Florent's AddLanguage code.  By the old Apache voting rules, we need
three votes and no vetoes for this.  I want it, I presume Florent
wants it, and the most serious objections have been devil's advocacy,
but still to be formal about it, given that there has been
controversy, I think we need one more vote.

Other things of special note, about which reasonable people might
disagree: Due to the lack of objection (or any comment at all), I've
propagated the Berkeley legal disclaimer through the license copies in
the source code.  Also, now that we have an optional module mechanism,
I've added Mark Cox's cookie-click-trace code, commented out in the
default Configuration and noted there as an experiment on a par with
mod_dld.

The rest of it is mostly just bugfixes and tidying up.  From here on
in, BTW, I'm starting to think that it really would be appropriate to
freeze things completely, and allow bugfixes only, until public
release; the stuff we've been adding is worthwhile, but it is
important to reach formal closure.  (Likewise when 0.8.2 comes out,
I'd appreciate people building and testing it, to make sure that
nothing broke since the last Shambhala release you tried).

The 0.8.2 changes follow.  I have a release with these built,
actually, and will release it ASAP if I hear no objections:

  *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]

  *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found.  [Mark Cox] 

  *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory.  It would
     be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
     just punt.  [reported by Brian Behlendorf]

  *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
     is gone and we can reopen it.  [reported by Randy Terbush]

  *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration

  *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
     [Randy Terbush]

  *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
     module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
     an experiment, along with mod_dld).

  *) Compiles on Ultrix (a continuing battle...).

  *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs.

  *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer.

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