The Apache Software Foundation

Apache HTTP Server 2.4.2 Released

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.2 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache").  This version of Apache is our 2nd GA release of the new generation 2.4.x branch of Apache HTTPD and represents fifteen years of innovation by the project, and is recommended over all previous releases. This version of Apache is principally a security and bug fix release, including the following security fix:

*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0883 (cve.mitre.org)

   envvars: Fix insecure handling of LD_LIBRARY_PATH that could

   lead to the current working directory to be searched for DSOs.

Apache HTTP Server 2.4.2 is available for download from:

 http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache 2.4 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 2.2 codebase.  For an overview of new features introduced since 2.4 please see:

 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/new_features_2_4.html

Please see the CHANGES_2.4 file, linked from the download page, for a full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.4.2 includes only those changes introduced since the prior 2.4 release.  A summary of all of the security vulnerabilities addressed in this and earlier releases is available:

 http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

This release requires the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.4.x and APR-Util version 1.4.x. The APR libraries must be upgraded for all features of httpd to operate correctly.

This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.2 API.  Modules written for Apache 2.2 will need to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.4, and require minimal or no source code changes.

 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/VERSIONING

When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please bear in mind that if you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs (other than the Prefork MPM), you must ensure that any modules you will be using (and the libraries they depend on) are thread-safe.

NOTE to Windows users: AcceptFilter None has replaced Win32DisableAcceptEx 

   and the feature appears to have interoperability issues with mod_ssl.

   Apache 2.4.2 may not yet be suitable for all Windows servers.  There 

   is not yet a Windows binary distribution of httpd 2.4, but this is

   expected to be remedied soon as various dependencies graduate from

   beta to GA.

The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.27

This release is includes significant new features as well as a number of bug fixes compared to version 7.0.26. The notable changes include:

* Support for the WebSocket protocol (RFC6455). Both streaming and  message based APIs are provided and the implementation currently  fully passes the Autobahn test suite. Also included are several  examples.

* A number of fixes to the HTTP NIO connector, particularly when using Comet.

* Improve the memory leak prevention and detection code so that it works well with JVMs from IBM.

Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html

Note that this version has 4 zip binaries: a generic one and three bundled with Tomcat native binaries for Windows operating systems running on different CPU architectures.

Downloads:

http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi

Migration guides from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x:

http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html

Thank you,

-- The Apache Tomcat Team