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Apache 2.0.48 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hitting-the-streets dept.

Gruturo writes "Busy week for the Apache software foundation: After 1.3.29, version 2 gets an update as well with 2.0.48, which mainly fixes these two security vulnerabilities. As usual, using a mirror is recommended." The official announcement lists several changes as well.

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  1. Re:Logging bug by portnoy · · Score: 5, Informative
    Um, didn't someone provide a solution to your bug report? (i.e. use the more advanced log module).

    Seems to me that they do see this as a problem worth addressing; they already have a fix.

  2. Re:Apache 2.0 by Spoke · · Score: 5, Informative

    IMO, the best reason to use Apache 2.0 is that with mod_deflate, you can now easily add content encoding compression to an entire website to save bandwidth. Previously with Apache 1.3, you could add in mod_gzip, but mod_gzip wouldn't compress SSL content without some very ugly config hacks including mod_proxy with a substantial performance benefit. 2.0 eliminates this issue.

    I've seen bandwith drop on websites drop from 20-80% depending on how much content is non-compressible (like graphics).