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+++ Announcement 1998/04/15 16:18:00 1.15
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The Apache Group is pleased to announce the release of the 1.3b6 version
of Apache, the latest beta release of the Apache HTTP server. 1.3b6 is
- a release candidate for Apache 1.3.0; This version is stable under UNIX
- but remains beta-level under Win32. No new features are expected between
- 1.3b6 and 1.3.0, so please give this version a good thrashing in order
- to provide as much feedback as possible to the Apache Group before the
- release of 1.3.0.
+ a release candidate for Apache 1.3.0.
+
+ This version is stable under UNIX but remains beta-level under Win32. No
+ new features are expected between 1.3b6 and 1.3.0, so please give this
+ version a good thrashing in order to provide as much feedback as possible
+ to the Apache Group before the release of 1.3.0.

Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of
1996. The Web Server Survey by Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.co.uk/Survey/)
found that more web servers were using Apache than any other software. Apache
and its derivatives are run on over 50% of all web domains on the Internet.

- The Apache project has been organized in an attempt to answer some of the
- concerns regarding active development of a public domain HTTP server for
- Unix. The goal of this project is to provide an open-source, secure,
+ The Apache project has been organized to provide an open-source, secure,
efficient and extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the
current HTTP standards. For more information about the Apache project check
out http://www.apache.org/.
@@ -33,10 +32,10 @@
is a short summary of all major changes between Apache 1.2 and 1.3 (changes
which are new with version 1.3b6 are tagged '+'):

- - Ported to Windows 95/NT
+ o Ported to Windows 95/NT
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/windows
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/README.NT
- - Ported to BS2000/OSD, a mainframe OS with EBCDIC charset
+ o Ported to BS2000/OSD, a mainframe OS with EBCDIC charset
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/ebcdic
+ Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for out-of-the-box installation
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/README.configure
@@ -50,37 +49,37 @@
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/src/support/
+ Enhanced configuration support: Include and Line-Continuation
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3
- - New `Magic' MIME-typing module for content type guessing
+ o New `Magic' MIME-typing module for content type guessing
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_mime_magic
- - Regular Expression support for Alias and Redirect directives
+ o Regular Expression support for Alias and Redirect directives
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_alias
+ Overhauled and enhanced URL Rewriting Engine
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite
- - Spell-checking module for on-the-fly URL corrections
+ o Spell-checking module for on-the-fly URL corrections
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_speling
- - Additional access control via CIDR and Netmasks
+ o Additional access control via CIDR and Netmasks
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_access
- - Improved HTTP/1.1-style Virtual Host support
+ o Improved HTTP/1.1-style Virtual Host support
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/vhost/index
- - Less Buffering of CGI Script Output (makes nph- obsolete)
+ o Less Buffering of CGI Script Output (makes nph- obsolete)
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3
+ Various Proxy Enhancements (NoProxy, ProxyDomain, ProxyPassReverse)
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_proxy
- - Various internal performance improvements
+ o Various internal performance improvements
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3
- - Various fixes to the hostname DNS lookup handling
+ o Various fixes to the hostname DNS lookup handling
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/mod/core#hostnamelookups
- - Various Directory Indexing enhancements
+ o Various Directory Indexing enhancements
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_autoindex
- - Various Logging enhancements (Reliable Piped Logs, Named Log Formats)
+ o Various Logging enhancements (Reliable Piped Logs, Named Log Formats)
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/core
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_log_custom
- - Unique Identifiers
+ o Unique Identifiers
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_unique_id
- - Source tree reorganization
+ o Source tree reorganization
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/sourcereorg
+ Big Symbol Renaming to avoid symbol clashes with third-party code
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/sourcereorg
- - API Additions
+ o API Additions
http://www.apache.org/dist/apache-1.3b6/htdocs/manual/new_features_1_3