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Apache 2.0.49 Released

Posted by michael on from the happy-happy-joy-joy dept.

chipster writes "Apache 2.0.49 has been released today. This version addresses some bugs, as well as a few security issues. You can read about the new features here, and get Apache 2.0.49 here. Also available is the 2.0 ChangeLog."

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  1. Apache alternatives. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    For anyone who isn't that fond of Apache (that would be me!), you should be aware that you have other options.

    For example, very excellent thttpd.

    If you've ever been frustrated with Apache's complexity, bloated size and poor performance - try thttpd!

    1. Re:Apache alternatives. by yusufg · · Score: 5, Informative

      One thing I really miss in thttpd is keep-alive support. I am currently kicking the tires of cherokee . It supports epoll/kqueue and also does keep-alive/pipelining. Very useful if you have to serve lots of images, it even has a nice mechanism to serve cache-friendly headers I see some issues with its gzip support but the author is quite responsive

  2. mod_deflate by wattersa · · Score: 3, Informative

    The mod_deflate features works really well. It's reduced the bandwidth of my mostly text site to about 25% of its former size.

  3. Re:What about Apache 1.3.x ?? by KingOfBLASH · · Score: 2, Informative
    O.k so the foundation has issued an update for 2.x but what about 1.3.x?? is there nothing to patch?

    Apache 1.x is being phased out in favor of 2.x. Support for 1.x has been there for a little while because of the number of copies in use. As 2.x is seen as more and more stable, they will stop patching 1.x. Although, FAIK, they may very well keep a versioning system like MySQL -- so users who want to be on the bleeding edge can live there, and users who want very stable code (read old), can have it their way.