Changes for version 1.99_13
- respect $ENV{APACHE_TEST_STARTUP_TIMEOUT} settings if any [Stas]
- Added tests for issuing subrequests from filters [Geoffrey Young]
- Updated to the new Apache License Version 2.0 [Gozer]
- Drop the support for making GATEWAY_INTERFACE special. It's not needed as $ENV{MOD_PERL}, available in both mod_perl generations, should be used to test whether the code is running under mod_perl. [Stas]
- Handle correctly the situation when response HTTP headers are printed from the handler and the response body starts with \000, which is the case with some images like .ico. [Stas]
- Apache::PerlSections->dump() and store(filename) [Gozer]
- expose $c->keepalive related constants and $c->keepalives counter
- Stas
- Perl handlers are now guaranteed to run before core C handlers for all request phases. [Geoffrey Young]
- Fix the STDIN/OUT overriding process to handle gracefully cases, when either or both are closed/bogus (the problem was only with useperlio enabled perl) [Stas]
- copy apr_table_compress logic from later httpd versions in case mod_perl is built against 2.0.46, as mod_perl now requires it internally. users should be aware that 2.0.47 may become the oldest supported httpd version in the near future. [Geoffrey Young]
- Fix the corruption of the httpd process argv[0], caused by $0 manipulating [Stas]
- ModPerl::MethodLookup::lookup_method now handles sub-classed objects
- Stas
- standard %ENV population with CGI variables and contents of the subprocess_env table (such as SetEnv and PassEnv) has been delayed until the last possible moment before content-generation runs. PerlSetEnv and PerlPassEnv are each an exception to this and are placed in both %ENV and the subprocess_env table immediately, regardless of the current [+-]SetupEnv setting.
- Geoffrey Young
- fix PerlAddVar configuration merging [Geoffrey Young]
- Anonymous subs are now supported in push_handlers, set_handlers, add_input_filter, etc. A fast cached cv is used with non-ithreaded perl. A slower deparse/eval approach (via B::Deparse) is used with ithreads enabled perls. Further optimizations are planned for the latter case. [Stas]
- ht_time w/o the pool is now available only via override/restore compat API. format_time, has been renamed back to ht_time, and the default values for fmt, time and gmt are now supported. [Stas]
- it's now possible to push new handlers into the same phase that is running at the moment [Stas].
- when $r->handler($new_handler) is called from a response phase, it now checks that the response handler type is not switched (e.g. from 'modperl' to 'perl-script') from the currently used one [Stas]
- Since Apache::SubProcess is now part of the mp2 API, add $r->cleanup_for_exec as a noop in Apache::compat. That function is no longer needed in Apache2. [Stas]
- When 'perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/foo/bar' is used and mod_perl 1 is found, but at different prefix no longer require MP_INST_APACHE2=1. [Stas]
- modperl_mgv_resolve now croaks when a module scheduled for autoloading fails to load. AutoLoaded modules shouldn't silently fail. [Stas]
- Perl(Input|Output)FilterHandler handlers are now always AutoLoaded, as if '+' prefix was used. This must be performed to get the access to filter attributes long before the filter itself is executed. [Stas]
- APR/Pool.xs has been reimplemented. The problem with the previous implementation is that a dead perl pool object could hijack a newly created pool, which didn't belong to that object, but which happened to be allocated at the same memory location. The problem is that apr_pool_user_data_set/get has no mechanism to check whether the pool has changed since it was last assigned to (it does but only in the debug mode). It really needs some signature mechanism which can be verified that the pool is still the same pool. Since apr_pool doesn't have this feature, the reference counting has been reimplemented using a plain sv reference. Several new (mainly hijacking) tests which badly fail with the previous impelementation have been added. [Stas]
- fix calling $r->subprocess_env() in a void context so that it only populates %ENV if also called with no arguments. also, make sure it can be called more than once and still populate %ENV.
- Geoffrey Young
- add APR::Brigade::pool() to allow access to the pool associated with the brigade [Geoffrey Young]
- make 't/TEST -startup_timeout secs' working (previously user's value was ignored) [Stas]
- ModPerl::Registry and friends now support non-parsed headers scripts, whose filename =~ /^nph-/, identically to mod_cgi. + test [Stas]
- implement APR::Brigade::length() and APR::Brigade::flatten() (the latter implements a wrapper for apr_brigade_flatten, but also includes an emulation of apr_brigade_pflatten) as [Geoffrey Young]
- ($r|$s)->add_config() now die if failed (previously returned the error) [Stas]
- fix context problems in <perl> sections and PerlModule/PerlLoadModule/PerlRequre under threaded mpms w/ PerlOptions +Parent/+Clone in Vhosts + TestVhost::config test. [Stas]
- Implemented Apache::get_server_version and Apache::get_server_built as constant subroutines [Geoffrey Young]
- Moved some functions out of the Apache:: namespace: Apache::unescape_url() is now Apache::URI::unescape_url() Apache::log_pid() is now Apache::Log::log_pid() Apache::LOG_MARK() is now Apache::Log::LOG_MARK()
- Geoffrey Young
- if MP_AP_PREFIX is used apxs and apr-config from the apache build tree won't work, so it can't co-exist with MP_APXS and MP_APR_CONFIG build options - ensure that this doesn't happen. [Stas]
- server_root_relative() now requires either a valid pool or an $r, $s, or $c object as a first argument. also, the returned result is a copy, protecting against cases where the pool would go out of scope before the result. [Geoffrey Young]
- Check the success of sysopen in tmpfile() in compat [Geoffrey Young]
- make sure DynaLoader is loaded before XSLoader, not only with perl 5.6.1, but always because of the issues with <Perl> sections are loaded from +Parent vhost [Stas]
- added ($r|$s)->is_perl_option_enabled($option_name), to test for PerlOptions + tests [Stas]
- On Solaris add a workaround for xs/APR/APR/Makefile.PL to build APR.so, correctly linked against apr and apr-util libs, by addding the missing -R paths corresponding to -L flags. EU::MM was adding them via LD_RUN_PATH instead of using -R, but since perl's lddflags may have -R it overrides LD_RUN_PATH. So explicitly add anything that may go into LD_RUN_PATH via -R. Also make sure that -R coming from Apache will appear first. [Brad Lanam <bll@gentoo.com>]
- 'make dist' now generates and picks Apache-Test/META.yml which was always reported missing, as it was included in Apache-Test/MANIFEST
- Stas
- fix the $r->read function to return undef on failure similar to the core perl function and make $! available for those who test for read() failures. [Stas]
- Make sure that pnotes are destroyed after PerlCleanup handlers are finished and not before + test. [Stas]
Changes for version 1.99_12
- Restore a proper behavior of all Registry handlers, but PerlRun, not to reset %INC to forget any .pl files required during the script's execution. [Stas]
- <Perl> are now evaluating code into one distinct namespace per container, similar to ModPerl::Registry scripts. [Philippe M. Chiasson]
- Fix ModPerl::MM::WriteMakefile to use the MODPERL_CCOPTS entry from Apache::BuildConfig, as it contains some flags added by mod_perl, which aren't in perl_ccopts and ap_ccopts. [Stas]
- Add the implementation of Apache::Connection::local_addr and Apache::Connection::remote_addr to the Apache::compat overridable functions. [Stas]
- Apache::compat's implementation of APR::URI::unparse, Apache::RequestRec::finfo and Apache::RequestRec::notes is now overridable and not enabled by default. [Stas]
- Apache::compat no longer enables functions which collide with mp2 API by default. It provides two new functions: override_mp2_api and restore_mp2_api to override and restore the original mp2 API. [Stas]
- For Win32, add a .bat extension to candidates for the apxs and apr-config utilities used in Apache::Build, so that the -x file test can potentially succeed [Randy Kobes]
- Plug a memory leak with 'perl-script' not cleaning up the temp vars created during the override of STDIN/STDOUT to use the :Apache IO layer [Stas]
- libgtop config (needed for enabling MOD_PERL_TRACE=m) is now searched using the gnome packaging tools if available (pkg-config for gnome-2.x and gnome-config for gnome-1.x) [Stas]
- Prevent a problem where an autovivified package (stash) prevents from modperl_mgv to load the file with that package (until now it was checking whether the stash existed already and skipped the loading if that was the case). Now checking %INC and attempting to load the module. Reporting the failure only if the module has failed to load and the stash is not defined (so that it's possible to autovivify packages without loading them from an external file). [Stas]
- MaxClients is now overridable from the t/TEST -maxclients command line option (it was hardcoded before). [Stas]
- Postpone the allocation of the wbucket in filters till the moment it's needed (if at all). Since non-streaming filters aren't going to use that buffer, it's a waste to allocate/free it. [Stas]
- Extend the autogenerated bug report to include information about installed modules of special interest (which may aid in understanding the bug report), such as CGI.pm, Apache::Request, LWP, etc. [Stas]
- As the test suite keeps on growing, it takes longer time to startup. Change the main test suite timeout to 180 secs for threaded mpms and 120 secs for non-threaded ones. [Stas]
- use plain malloc/free to allocate filter structs, since they could be invoked hundreds of times during a single request, causing huge memory demands if the memory is allocated from the pool, which gets destroyed only at the end of a request. [Stas]
- Fix a compilation error in APX.xs when MP_HAVE_APR_LIBS is not defined
- Fred Moyer <fred@taperfriendlymusic.org>
- fix a memory leak when $filter->ctx is used [Stas]
- fix buglet on Win32 (and potentially other non-Unix platforms) where not all files were being installed under a relative Apache2 subdirectory when MP_INST_APACHE2 was specified [Randy Kobes].
- deprecated APR::SockAddr::port_get()/APR::SockAddr::port_set() replaced with direct access to the port record via APR::SockAddr::port(). [Geoffrey Young, Stas]
- deprecated APR::URI::default_port_for_scheme() replaced with APR::URI::port_of_scheme() [Geoffrey Young]
- deprecated APR::SockAddr::ip_set() and APR::NO_TIMEOUT removed.
- Geoffrey Young
- Apache::MPM->is_threaded() replaces Apache::MPM_IS_THREADED
- Geoffrey Young
- fix "PerlSetVar Foo 0" so that $r->dir_config('Foo') returns 0, not undef
- Geoffrey Young
- add Apache::MPM class, along with show() and query() class methods
- Geoffrey Young
- add :mpmq import tag to Apache::Const [Geoffrey Young]
- Fix ModPerl::Registry handlers family to modify $0 only for the duration of the handler, by localizing it [Stas]
- Fix :Apache perlio's STDOUT to be reentrant + modules/include_subreq test [Stas]
- fix slurp_filename to always open the file and not try to guess whether filename has been already opened, as there is no reliable way to accomplish that [Stas]
- Apache->can_stack_handlers is now in Apache::compat (mp2 always can stack handlers) [Stas]
- add access to $r->finfo() and related APR::Finfo methods, such as $r->finfo->size(), $r->finfo->mtime(), and $r->finfo->stat() [Geoffrey Young]
- add :filetype import tag to APR::Const [Geoffrey Young]
- <Perl> sections now properly set $0 to the name of the configuration file they are in. [Philippe M. Chiasson]
- Apache::Status: provide a workaround for Config::myconfig() which fails under threads with (5.8.0 < perl < 5.8.3) [Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@dijkmat.nl>]
- Fix Apache::Status::handler to return 'Apache::OK' [Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>]
- <Perl> sections now properly set filename and line number information, making error messages report the correct location. [Philippe M. Chiasson]
Changes for version 1.99_11
- add a build/win32_fetch_apxs script (called within the top-level Makefile.PL) to offer to fetch and install a Win32 development version of apxs and (apr|apu)-config [Randy Kobes]
- rewrite $r->read() and perlio read functions to use the same function, which completely satisfies the read request if possible, on the way getting rid of get_client_block and its supporting functions which have problems and will most likely will be removed from the httpd-API in the future. Directly manipulate bucket brigades instead. [Stas]
- Since Apache2.pm pops /foo/Apache2 dirs to the top of @INC, it now also takes care of keeping lib and blib dirs before the system dirs, so that previously installed libraries won't get loaded instead of the currently uninstalled libraries that are under test. [Stas]
- When 'make test' fails we now print the info on what to do next [Stas]
- At the end of 'make install' we now print the info how to proceed with mod_perl and what to do in the case of post-install problems
- Geoffrey Young
- Adjust the source to properly work with 5.8.2's new algorithm of dynamic re-hashing of hashes on hash collision attack. [Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>, Stas]. Add a test that mounts such an attack so we can verify that we can survive this rehashing. [Scott A Crosby <scrosby@cs.rice.edu>, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>, Tels <perl_dummy@bloodgate.com>, Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>, Stas]
- Standardize the Apache::PerlSections package name to it's plural form for clarity and so that the pod gets glued in it's proper place.
- Philippe M. Chiasson <gozer@cpan.org>
- return value from Perl callbacks are now passed directly to Apache without additional post-call manipulations (such as assuming HTTP_OK should really be OK). [Geoffrey Young]
- perl 5.8.1 w/ ithreads has a bug where it reports the wrong parent pid (as if the process was never forked), provide a local workaround (+ new test). [Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr>]
- overridden STD* streams now can be further overridden and will be properly restored, which allows functions like $r->internal_redirect work (+add tests) [Stas]
- implement perlio's getarg hook, which now allows duping STD* streams overloaded by modperl [Stas]
- Add PerlMapToStorageHandler [Geoffrey Young]
- callbacks are now expected to return a meaningful value (OK, SERVER_ERROR, etc) or return via an official API (exit, die, etc). relying on implicit returns from the last call evaluated by a subroutine may result in server errors. [Stas, Geoffrey Young]
- in the MP_MAINTAINER mode add the -Werror compilation flag when perl
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Perl Interface for libapr and libaprutil Libraries
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Perl Interface for APR Constants
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An APR Perl IO layer
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Perl API for XXX
Perl API for for manipulating opaque string-content table
Perl API for XXX
Perl API for XXX
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A ghost mod_perl 2.0 class
A Perl API for Apache request object
Perl API for XXX
Perl API for XXX
Perl API for Apache connection object
Perl Interface for Apache Constants
Perl API for manipulating Apache configuration tree
Perl API for Apache 2.0 Filtering
Perl API for manipulating the Apache filter record
Perl API for XXX
Perl API for Apache Logging Methods
Perl API for creating and working with Apache modules
Default Handler for Perl sections
Perl API for XXX
Reload Perl Modules when Changed on Disk
Perl API for Apache request record IO
Perl API for Apache request record accessors
Perl API for Apache request record utils
Perl API for Apache HTTP request response methods
Perl API for for Apache server record accessors
Perl API for XXX
Embedded interpreter status information
Executing SubProcesses from mod_perl
Perl API for Apache subrequests
Perl API for manipulating URIs
Perl API for XXX
1.0 backward compatibility functions deprecated in 2.0
a helper module for mod_perl 1.0 to mod_perl 2.0 porting
A "subclass" of ModPerl::MM used for building mod_perl 2.0
A "subclass" of ExtUtils::MakeMaker for mod_perl 2.0
Map mod_perl 2.0 modules, objects and methods
Run unaltered CGI scripts under mod_perl
Run unaltered CGI scripts persistently under mod_perl
Run unaltered CGI scripts persistently under mod_perl
Cook mod_perl 2.0 Registry Modules
Compile ModPerl::RegistryCooker scripts at server startup
Helper mod_perl 2.0 Functions
Multi-Processing Model Modules
Modules
Test.pm wrapper with helpers for testing Apache
Test Configuration setup module
Provide MakeMaker Wrapper Methods
A parent class for generating bug/success reports
Send requests to your Apache test server
Configuration file for Apache::Test
Special Tests Sequence Failure Finder
Helper output generation functions
Utility functions for writing tests
A bundle to install all Apache-Test related modules
Methods for locating and parsing bits of Apache source code
Install Apache mod_perl2 and related modules
Functions to retrieve mod_perl specific env information.
Embed a Perl interpreter in the Apache/2.x HTTP server
Provides
in xs/APR/APR/APR.pm
in xs/APR/Const/Const.pm
in xs/APR/PerlIO/PerlIO.pm
in lib/APR/XSLoader.pm
in lib/Apache/compat.pm
in lib/Apache/compat.pm
in xs/Apache/Const/Const.pm
in lib/Apache/compat.pm
in xs/tables/current/Apache/ConstantsTable.pm
in lib/Apache/compat.pm
in xs/tables/current/Apache/FunctionTable.pm
in lib/Apache/ParseSource.pm
in lib/Apache/ParseSource.pm
in lib/Apache/PerlSections.pm
in lib/Apache/PerlSections/Dump.pm
in lib/Apache/Reload.pm
in lib/Apache/compat.pm
in lib/Apache/compat.pm
in lib/Apache/compat.pm
in lib/Apache/SourceTables.pm
in lib/Apache/Status.pm
in xs/tables/current/Apache/StructureTable.pm
in lib/Apache/compat.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/Test5005compat.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestBuild.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestClient.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestClient.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestCommon.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestCommonPost.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestConfigC.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestConfigParse.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestConfigPerl.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestConfigC.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestHandler.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestHarness.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestReportPerl.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestRun.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestRunPerl.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestSSLCA.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestServer.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestSmokePerl.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestSort.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/Test.pm
in lib/Apache/compat.pm
in lib/Apache/XSLoader.pm
in lib/Apache/compat.pm
in lib/Apache/porting.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestRequest.pm
in lib/ModPerl/BuildMM.pm
in lib/ModPerl/BuildOptions.pm
in lib/ModPerl/Code.pm
in xs/ModPerl/Const/Const.pm
in lib/ModPerl/FunctionMap.pm
in xs/tables/current/ModPerl/FunctionTable.pm
in lib/ModPerl/MM.pm
in lib/ModPerl/Manifest.pm
in lib/ModPerl/MapUtil.pm
in lib/ModPerl/MapUtil.pm
in lib/ModPerl/ParseSource.pm
in ModPerl-Registry/lib/ModPerl/PerlRun.pm
in ModPerl-Registry/lib/ModPerl/Registry.pm
in ModPerl-Registry/lib/ModPerl/RegistryBB.pm
in ModPerl-Registry/lib/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm
in ModPerl-Registry/lib/ModPerl/RegistryLoader.pm
in lib/ModPerl/StructureMap.pm
in lib/ModPerl/TestRun.pm
in lib/ModPerl/TestReport.pm
in lib/ModPerl/TestRun.pm
in lib/ModPerl/TypeMap.pm
in lib/ModPerl/WrapXS.pm
in Apache-Test/lib/Apache/Test5005compat.pm