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The Final Release of Apache HTTP Server 1.3

Posted by timothy on from the people-of-earth-you're-on-your-own dept.

Kyle Hamilton writes "The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.42 of the Apache HTTP Server ('Apache'). This release is intended as the final release of version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server, which has reached end of life status There will be no more full releases of Apache HTTP Server 1.3. However, critical security updates may be made available."

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  1. Open Source by Chris+Lawrence · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is the beauty of open source. Apache 1.3 is still widely used, and many products are still based on it. If the Apache Foundation no longer wants to maintain it, others are free to pick it up and carry on. I wouldn't be surprised if this happened sooner rather than later.

    1. Re:Open Source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, the "beauty of open source" is that people waste time and energy on an obsolete product. Reminds me of Microsoft.

    2. Re:Open Source by Chris+Lawrence · · Score: 4, Insightful

      But it's their time to spend as they want. There are people working on a new port of Firefox to Mac OS 9 (Classilla). That's an operating system that hasn't been updated in 10 years. But if people are having fun doing this, that's great. If the product was closed source, there would simply be no option.

  2. Too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have stopped at version 1.3.37

    1. Re:Too late by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Funny

      1.3.37 is reserved for the OpenBSD fork.

  3. web servers to app servers by Lord+Ender · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems that basic web sites made by uploading html and other files are going extinct, in favor of web apps like CMSs and blogs. As a result, the majority of the functionality provided by web servers like Apache is becoming unnecessary.

    As an example, any web app which interfaces with Apache via Rackmiddleware needs only the enabling of mod_rack. Other than that, you don't need to touch apache2.conf. Apache basically just handles the sockets; the rest of its functionality goes unused.

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    1. Re:web servers to app servers by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Just wait, it will come back. The wheel of computing just goes around and around, now we are reinventing thin clients via netbooks used only to use webapps. In another 5-10 years people will want thick clients again and websites that are actually usable and informative.

    2. Re:web servers to app servers by mirix · · Score: 4, Funny

      They can take my static web page from my cold dead hands.

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    3. Re:web servers to app servers by SEE · · Score: 3, Informative

      "Wheel of reincarnation" is the entry in the Jargon File; term "coined in a paper by T.H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland On the Design of Display Processors, Comm. ACM, Vol. 11, no. 6, June 1968"

    4. Re:web servers to app servers by mirix · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's on an old PIII board, sitting in the closet, running Apache 1.3, oddly enough ;)

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  4. Misleading Summary by RoFLKOPTr · · Score: 5, Informative

    A lot of commentors seem to think that this is the final release of Apache. It is not. This is the final release of Apache 1.3... Apache HTTP Servers 2.0 and 2.2 are still being maintained.

    (As an aside, can somebody explain to me how I ended up with 15 mod points? I've never seen this before)

    1. Re:Misleading Summary by jopsen · · Score: 3, Funny

      (As an aside, can somebody explain to me how I ended up with 15 mod points? I've never seen this before)

      You probably deserve them for being as kind as to point out that the apache HTTP server isn't finished... :)

    2. Re:Misleading Summary by Yossarian45793 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nice try posting anon.

    3. Re:Misleading Summary by Eil · · Score: 3, Funny

      (As an aside, can somebody explain to me how I ended up with 15 mod points? I've never seen this before)

      Those are to be used for moderating all of my last month's comments +1 Insightful. CmdrTaco told me himself, so you can trust me.

  5. Will Slashdot Upgrade? by swajr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder if slashdot is actually going to upgrade now...

    1. Re:Will Slashdot Upgrade? by joe_bruin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dear god, I hoped you were joking.

      Slashdot's running on 1.3.41.

      This was obviously a joke. Slashdot is still run by a mess of perl scripts. They've yet to drag themselves into early last decade.