Apache HTTPD 2.0.28 Beta Released

This is a major 2.0 beta release for the Apache HTTPD Project. The last publicly available beta was released in April (and the ChangLog is nearly 500k!). See what the new features are going into the 2.0 release. Please remember to use a mirror.

Comments

front page news?

[Anonymous Coward]

this isnt newsworthy enough of the front page? WTF!? every time there's a minor version of mozilla released or minor release of a linux kernel it's front page news. but this a major release of apache - 2.0 beta. what - did the /. editors just think - nah no one's interested, just tuck it where no one will see it.

Re:forking

[Jerenk]

Yes, it does. There are a range of choices when you compile, but the threaded MPM is the default. There is also a Win32-specific multi-threaded engine.

The one correction I'd like to make is that we disabled the threaded MPM by default after 2.0.16 was released. And, we've actually removed the threaded MPM *after* we released 2.0.28. The threaded MPM has been superceded by the "worker" MPM (our names aren't the greatest). The "worker" MPM is essentially threaded (but has multiple processes to increase redunancy) - you'll see us call this a MPMT (multi-process/multi-thread) MPM.

There is a discussion on-list about whether we should enable threading MPM by default if the OS supports it. It's an open question, but for now (and what is in 2.0.28), we use prefork by default. A configure-time option allows the selection of which MPM it should compile with.

FWIW, special platforms (like Win32) have their own MPM that is specific to their OS. The "worker" MPM is targeted towards UNIX-like platforms (Linux, Solaris, etc.).