Re: [RELEASE CANDIDATE] mod_perl-2.0.4 RC1

Ahem,

On that subject, libapreq1 is already a year and a half into it's latest 
release cycle.  We're still waiting for a PMC vote to finish the 
release...  Someone remind me to do a lightning talk about this next 
time I'm at AC :)

Foo JH wrote:
> Fantastic! Can I assume that libapreq will be compatible with this version?
> 
> In all likelihood the only way is to try it yourself...
> 
> Philippe M. Chiasson wrote:
>> The mod_perl 2.0.4 release candidate 1 "Works with Perl 5.10" is 
>> ready. It can be downloaded here:
>>
>> http://www.apache.org/~gozer/mp2/mod_perl-2.0.4-rc1.tar.gz
>>
>> MD5:  1f0a941e8b5f26b6102126ae67ddbb43
>> SHA1: 8b2ceede3c783b9b2cc9e0fe63a095b0e4a1f000
>>
>> Please give it a spin in your favorite configuration and report
>> any problems. Especially needed against Perl-5.10 on Windows.
>>
>> The summary of what has changed since 2.0.3 are (from Changes):
>>
>> Fix $r->location corruption under certain conditions
>> [Gozer]
>>
>> Fix a crash when spawning Perl threads under Perl 5.10
>> [Gozer]
>>
>> Fix erratic behaviour when filters were used with Perl 5.10
>> [Gozer]
>>
>> Fix problems with redefinitions of perl_free as free and perl_malloc
>> as malloc on Win32, as described at
>>  http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl&m=119896407510526&w=2
>> [Tom Donovan]
>>
>> Fix a crash when running a sub-request from within a filter where
>> mod_perl was not the content handler. [Gozer]
>>
>> Refactor tests to use keepalives instead of same_interp [Gozer, Phred]
>>
>> Apache2::Reload has been moved to an externally maintained
>> CPAN distribution [Fred Moyer <[email protected]>]
>>
>> PerlCleanupHandler are now registered with a subpool of $r->pool,
>> instead of $r->pool itself, ensuring they run _before_ any other
>> $r->pool cleanups [Torsten Foertsch]
>>
>> Fix a bug that would prevent pnotes from being cleaned up properly
>> at the end of the request [Torsten Foertsch]
>>
>> On Win32, embed the manifest file, if present, in mod_perl.so,
>> so as to work with VC 8 [Steve Hay, Randy Kobes]
>>
>> Expose apr_thread_rwlock_t with the APR::ThreadRWLock module
>> [Torsten Foertsch]
>>
>> Don't waste an extra interpreter anymore under threaded MPMs when using a
>> modperl handler [Torsten Foertsch]
>>
>> Fix a bug that could cause a crash when using $r->push_handlers() 
>> multiple
>> times for a phase that has no configured handlers [Torsten Foertsch]
>>
>> Catch up with some httpd API changes
>>   2.2.4:
>>    The full server version information is now included in the error 
>> log at
>> startup as well as server status reports, irrespective of the setting
>> of the ServerTokens directive. ap_get_server_version() is now
>> deprecated, and is replaced by ap_get_server_banner() and
>> ap_get_server_description(). [Jeff Trawick]
>>
>>   2.3.0:
>> ap_get_server_version() has been removed. Third-party modules must
>> now use ap_get_server_banner() or ap_get_server_description().
>> [Gozer]
>>
>> fixed Apache2::compat Apache2::ServerUtil::server_root() resolution
>> issues [Joshua Hoblitt]
>>
>> *) SECURITY: CVE-2007-1349 (cve.mitre.org)
>> fix unescaped variable interprolation in regular expression
>> [Randal L. Schwartz <[email protected]>, Fred Moyer 
>> <[email protected]>]
>>
>> Make $r->the_request() writeable
>> [Fred Moyer <[email protected]>]
>>
>> fix ModPerl::RegistryCooker::read_script to handle all possible
>> errors, previously there was a case where Apache2::Const::OK was
>> returned on an error.  [Eivind Eklund <[email protected]>]
>>
>> a minor compilation warning resolved in modperl_handler_new_from_sv
>> [Stas]
>>
>> a minor compilation warning resolved in modperl_gtop_size_string
>> [Stas]
>>
>> Prevent direct use of _deprecated_ Apache2::ReadConfig in
>> <Perl> sections with httpd Alias directives from
>> incorrectly generating
>> 'The Alias directive in xxxxx at line y will probably never match'
>> messages.
>> [Philip M. Gollucci <[email protected]>]
>>
>> Prevent Apache2::PerSections::symdump() from returning invalid
>> httpd.conf snippets like 'Alias undef'
>> [Philip M. Gollucci <[email protected]>]
>>
>> Require B-Size 0.9 for Apache2::Status which fixes
>> Can't call method "script_name" on an undefined value
>> [Philip M. Gollucci <[email protected]>]
>>
>> -march=pentium4 or anything with an = in it in CCFLAGS or @ARGV
>> that gets passed to xs/APR/APR/Makefile.PL broke the @ARGV
>> parsing.  I.E. FreeBSD port builds when users had CPUTYPE
>> set in /etc/make.conf.
>> [Philip M. Gollucci <[email protected]>]
>>
>> Fixes to get bleed-ithread (5.9.5+) to comile again.
>> [Philip M. Gollucci <[email protected]>]
>>