Apache/httpd 2.4.52-rc1
*) http: Enforce that fully qualified uri-paths not to be forward-proxied
have an http(s) scheme, and that the ones to be forward proxied have a
hostname, per HTTP specifications. [Ruediger Pluem, Yann Ylavic]
*) OpenSSL autoconf detection improvement: pick up openssl.pc in the
specified openssl path. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_proxy_connect, mod_proxy: Do not change the status code after we
already sent it to the client.
*) mod_http: Correctly sent a 100 Continue status code when sending an interim
response as result of an Expect: 100-Continue in the request and not the
current status code of the request. PR 65725 [Ruediger Pluem]
*) mod_dav: Some DAV extensions, like CalDAV, specify both document
elements and property elements that need to be taken into account
when generating a property. The document element and property element
are made available in the dav_liveprop_elem structure by calling
dav_get_liveprop_element(). [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_dav: Add utility functions dav_validate_root_ns(),
dav_find_child_ns(), dav_find_next_ns(), dav_find_attr_ns() and
dav_find_attr() so that other modules get to play too.
[Graham Leggett]
*) mpm_event: Restart stopping of idle children after a load peak. PR 65626.
[Yann Ylavic, Ruediger Pluem]
*) mod_http2: fixes 2 regressions in server limit handling.
1. When reaching server limits, such as MaxRequestsPerChild, the
HTTP/2 connection send a GOAWAY frame much too early on new
connections, leading to invalid protocol state and a client
failing the request. See PR65731.
The module now initializes the HTTP/2 protocol correctly and
allows the client to submit one request before the shutdown
via a GOAWAY frame is being announced.
2. A regression in v1.15.24 was fixed that could lead to httpd
child processes not being terminated on a graceful reload or
when reaching MaxConnectionsPerChild. When unprocessed h2
requests were queued at the time, these could stall.
See https://github.com/icing/mod_h2/issues/212.
[Stefan Eissing]
*) mod_ssl: Add build support for OpenSSL v3. [Rainer Jung,
Stefan Fritsch, Yann Ylavic, Stefan Eissing, Joe Orton,
Giovanni Bechis]
*) mod_proxy_connect: Honor the smallest of the backend or client timeout
while tunneling. [Yann Ylavic]
*) mod_proxy: SetEnv proxy-nohalfclose (or alike) allows to disable TCP
half-close forwarding when tunneling protocols. [Yann Ylavic]
*) core: Be safe with ap_lingering_close() called with a socket NULL-ed by
a third-party module. PR 65627.
[acmondor , Yann Ylavic]
*) mod_md: Fix memory leak in case of failures to load the private key.
PR 65620 [ Filipe Casal ]
*) mod_md: adding v2.4.8 with the following changes
- Added support for ACME External Account Binding (EAB).
Use the new directive `MDExternalAccountBinding` to provide the
server with the value for key identifier and hmac as provided by
your CA.
While working on some servers, EAB handling is not uniform
across CAs. First tests with a Sectigo Certificate Manager in
demo mode are successful. But ZeroSSL, for example, seems to
regard EAB values as a one-time-use-only thing, which makes them
fail if you create a seconde account or retry the creation of the
first account with the same EAB.
- The directive 'MDCertificateAuthority' now checks if its parameter
is a http/https url or one of a set of known names. Those are
'LetsEncrypt', 'LetsEncrypt-Test', 'Buypass' and 'Buypass-Test'
for now and they are not case-sensitive.
The default of LetsEncrypt is unchanged.
- `MDContactEmail` can now be specified inside a `mdomain dnsname=""`
section.
- Treating 401 HTTP status codes for orders like 403, since some ACME
servers seem to prefer that for accessing oders from other accounts.
- When retrieving certificate chains, try to read the repsonse even
if the HTTP Content-Type is unrecognized.
- Fixed a bug that reset the error counter of a certificate renewal
and prevented the increasing delays in further attempts.
- Fixed the renewal process giving up every time on an already existing
order with some invalid domains. Now, if such are seen in a previous
order, a new order is created for a clean start over again.
See https://github.com/icing/mod_md/issues/268
- Fixed a mixup in md-status handler when static certificate files
and renewal was configured at the same time.
*) mod_md: values for External Account Binding (EAB) can
now also be configured to be read from a separate JSON
file. This allows to keep server configuration permissions
world readable without exposing secrets.
[Stefan Eissing]
*) mod_proxy_uwsgi: Remove duplicate slashes at the beginning of PATH_INFO.
PR 65616. [Ruediger Pluem]
A release candidate for Apache web server 2.4.52 has been released for testing.
