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Apache Portable Runtime 1.4.5 and Apache Portable Runtime Utility
1.3.12 Released
The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Portable Runtime
Project are proud to announce the General Availability of version
1.4.5 of the APR Apache Portable Runtime library, and version
1.3.12 of the APR Apache Portable Runtime Utility library.
These are bug fix releases. Users of previous versions are
cautioned to update to these releases.
APR 1.4.5 contains a fix for a vulnerability affecting some
applications which use the apr_fnmatch() API which could result
in excessive CPU consumption.
Security: CVE-2011-1928
apr_fnmatch(): Fix high CPU loop. [William Rowe]
APR 1.4.5 also contains a correction to a regression in APR 1.4.4
affecting APR applications on Windows.
APR-Util 1.3.12 contains a correction to a regression in APR-Util
1.3.11 affecting some applications which use the APR-Util LDAP
APIs, such as Apache HTTP Server 2.3.x.
(See CHANGES-APR-1.4 and CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.3 for more information.)
Version 1.2.1 of the companion APR-iconv library, an alternative
portable implementation of the 'iconv' library, remains current.
APR is available for download from:
http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi
The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime Project is to create
and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and
consistent interface to underlying platform-specific
implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to
which software developers may code and be assured of predictable
if not identical behavior regardless of the platform on which
their software is built, relieving them of the need to code
special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of
platform-specific deficiencies or features.
APR and its companion libraries are implemented entirely in C
and provide a common programming interface across a wide variety
of operating system platforms without sacrificing performance.
Currently supported platforms include:
UNIX variants
Windows
Netware
Mac OS X
OS/2
To give a brief overview, the primary core
subsystems of APR 1.3 include the following:
Atomic operations
Dynamic Shared Object loading
File I/O
Locks (mutexes, condition variables, etc)
Memory management (high performance allocators)
Memory-mapped files
Multicast Sockets
Network I/O
Shared memory
Thread and Process management
Various data structures (tables, hashes, priority queues, etc)
For a more complete list, please refer to the following URLs:
http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/modules.html
http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr-util/modules.html
Users of APR 0.9 should be aware that migrating to the APR 1.x
programming interfaces may require some adjustments; APR 1.x is
neither source nor binary compatible with earlier APR 0.9 releases.
Users of APR 1.x can expect consistent interfaces and binary backwards
compatibility throughout the entire APR 1.x release cycle, as defined
in our versioning rules:
http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html
APR is already used extensively by the Apache HTTP Server
version 2 and the Subversion revision control system, to
name but a few. We list all known projects using APR at
http://apr.apache.org/projects.html -- so please let us know
if you find our libraries useful in your own projects!
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Fwd: Apache Portable Runtime 1.4.5 and Apache Portable Runtime
Utility 1.3.12 Released
Posted by Jeff Trawick <tr...@gmail.com>.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeff Trawick <tr...@apache.org>
Date: Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:47 PM
Subject: Apache Portable Runtime 1.4.5 and Apache Portable Runtime
Utility 1.3.12 Released
To: announce@apache.org
The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Portable Runtime
Project are proud to announce the General Availability of version
1.4.5 of the APR Apache Portable Runtime library, and version
1.3.12 of the APR Apache Portable Runtime Utility library.
These are bug fix releases. Users of previous versions are
cautioned to update to these releases.
APR 1.4.5 contains a fix for a vulnerability affecting some
applications which use the apr_fnmatch() API which could result
in excessive CPU consumption.
Security: CVE-2011-1928
apr_fnmatch(): Fix high CPU loop. [William Rowe]
APR 1.4.5 also contains a correction to a regression in APR 1.4.4
affecting APR applications on Windows.
APR-Util 1.3.12 contains a correction to a regression in APR-Util
1.3.11 affecting some applications which use the APR-Util LDAP
APIs, such as Apache HTTP Server 2.3.x.
(See CHANGES-APR-1.4 and CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.3 for more information.)
Version 1.2.1 of the companion APR-iconv library, an alternative
portable implementation of the 'iconv' library, remains current.
APR is available for download from:
http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi
The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime Project is to create
and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and
consistent interface to underlying platform-specific
implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to
which software developers may code and be assured of predictable
if not identical behavior regardless of the platform on which
their software is built, relieving them of the need to code
special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of
platform-specific deficiencies or features.
APR and its companion libraries are implemented entirely in C
and provide a common programming interface across a wide variety
of operating system platforms without sacrificing performance.
Currently supported platforms include:
UNIX variants
Windows
Netware
Mac OS X
OS/2
To give a brief overview, the primary core
subsystems of APR 1.3 include the following:
Atomic operations
Dynamic Shared Object loading
File I/O
Locks (mutexes, condition variables, etc)
Memory management (high performance allocators)
Memory-mapped files
Multicast Sockets
Network I/O
Shared memory
Thread and Process management
Various data structures (tables, hashes, priority queues, etc)
For a more complete list, please refer to the following URLs:
http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/modules.html
http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr-util/modules.html
Users of APR 0.9 should be aware that migrating to the APR 1.x
programming interfaces may require some adjustments; APR 1.x is
neither source nor binary compatible with earlier APR 0.9 releases.
Users of APR 1.x can expect consistent interfaces and binary backwards
compatibility throughout the entire APR 1.x release cycle, as defined
in our versioning rules:
http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html
APR is already used extensively by the Apache HTTP Server
version 2 and the Subversion revision control system, to
name but a few. We list all known projects using APR at
http://apr.apache.org/projects.html -- so please let us know
if you find our libraries useful in your own projects!
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