Announcement text...

["Robert S. Thau" <rs...@ai.mit.edu>]

Call it terminal indecisiveness, but I like to let these things sit
for at least a little while before sending them... barring complaints
or second thoughts, I'll send this after lunch.

Subject: New Apache server BETA release...

The Apache project is proud to announce a new beta release of its
server, Apache; see http://www.apache.org for pointers to code and
documentation.  This release features ---

*) non-forking server pool operation on all systems, with the size
   of the server pool dynamically adapted to the observed load (so
   you don't have to guess how many server processes you need ---
   if you can get that right, you're doing better than us ;-).

*) API for server extensions.  Just about anything can be done through
   the API, and in the server code itself, most things are (including
   all forms of authentication, CGI, server-side includes, etc.).

*) Better handling of languages in Content Negotiation --- in
   particular, MultiViews can now be configured to recognize certain
   suffixes (*.fr, *.en, *.de, etc.) as signifying the language of the
   text in the file (a frequently requested feature).

*) Full NCSA 1.4 compatibility, via optional modules which implement
   the RefererLog, RefererIgnore and UserAgentLog features.

Finally, we have some experimental modules, both to illustrate the
possibilities of the API, and to give a preliminary indication of
future directions for our own code (though the official versions of
these features will probably differ somewhat from these experimental
versions).  These include:

*) An experimental replacement for the standard logger, which 
   supports a LogFormat directive allowing you to control the format
   of lines in the access_log (and to add such fields as Referer and
   User-agent).

*) A module which uses the GNU dld library (if you have it) to load
   other modules at runtime.
   
This code has undergone an internal beta test for the last several
weeks on some very busy servers, and is believed to be more or less
stable; however, it is still beta code, and those valuing stability
above all else may wish to continue using the more mature release
0.6.5 code for the next week or two; after that, we anticipate a
further, non-beta 0.8.x release fixing any minor bugs which are
uncovered during this test period.

Re: Announcement text...

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

This is great!  Send it, if you haven't already.

	Brian

On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Robert S. Thau wrote:
> Call it terminal indecisiveness, but I like to let these things sit
> for at least a little while before sending them... barring complaints
> or second thoughts, I'll send this after lunch.
> 
> Subject: New Apache server BETA release...
> 
> The Apache project is proud to announce a new beta release of its
> server, Apache; see http://www.apache.org for pointers to code and
> documentation.  This release features ---
> 
> *) non-forking server pool operation on all systems, with the size
>    of the server pool dynamically adapted to the observed load (so
>    you don't have to guess how many server processes you need ---
>    if you can get that right, you're doing better than us ;-).
> 
> *) API for server extensions.  Just about anything can be done through
>    the API, and in the server code itself, most things are (including
>    all forms of authentication, CGI, server-side includes, etc.).
> 
> *) Better handling of languages in Content Negotiation --- in
>    particular, MultiViews can now be configured to recognize certain
>    suffixes (*.fr, *.en, *.de, etc.) as signifying the language of the
>    text in the file (a frequently requested feature).
> 
> *) Full NCSA 1.4 compatibility, via optional modules which implement
>    the RefererLog, RefererIgnore and UserAgentLog features.
> 
> Finally, we have some experimental modules, both to illustrate the
> possibilities of the API, and to give a preliminary indication of
> future directions for our own code (though the official versions of
> these features will probably differ somewhat from these experimental
> versions).  These include:
> 
> *) An experimental replacement for the standard logger, which 
>    supports a LogFormat directive allowing you to control the format
>    of lines in the access_log (and to add such fields as Referer and
>    User-agent).
> 
> *) A module which uses the GNU dld library (if you have it) to load
>    other modules at runtime.
>    
> This code has undergone an internal beta test for the last several
> weeks on some very busy servers, and is believed to be more or less
> stable; however, it is still beta code, and those valuing stability
> above all else may wish to continue using the more mature release
> 0.6.5 code for the next week or two; after that, we anticipate a
> further, non-beta 0.8.x release fixing any minor bugs which are
> uncovered during this test period.
> 
> 

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