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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

  3. 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)

  4. 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.

  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.

  6. 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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