- Apache 1.3.25 Released
+ Apache 1.3.26 Released
The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache Server Project are
- pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.25 of the Apache HTTP
- Server. This Announcement notes the significant changes in 1.3.25.
+ pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.26 of the Apache HTTP
+ Server. This Announcement notes the significant changes in 1.3.26.
+ Apache 1.3.25 was not released.
This version of Apache is principally a security and bug fix
release. A summary of the bug fixes is given at the end of this document.
- Of particular note is that 1.3.25 addresses and fixes the issues noted
+ Of particular note is that 1.3.26 addresses and fixes the issues noted
in CAN-2002-0392 (mitre.org) [CERT VU#944335] regarding a vulnerability
in the handling of chunked transfer encoding. We would like to thank
Mark Litchfield of ngssoftware.com for discovering and reporting the
vulnerability.
- We consider Apache 1.3.25 to be the best version of Apache available
+ We consider Apache 1.3.26 to be the best version of Apache available
and we strongly recommend that users of older versions, especially of
the 1.1.x and 1.2.x family, upgrade as soon as possible. No further
releases will be made in the 1.2.x family.
- Apache 1.3.25 is available for download from
+ Apache 1.3.26 is available for download from
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/
version, but is of acceptable quality. Win32 stability or security
problems do not reflect on the Unix version.
- Apache 1.3.25 Major changes
+ Apache 1.3.26 Major changes
Security vulnerabilities
New features
- The main new features in 1.3.25 (compared to 1.3.24) are:
+ The main new features in 1.3.26 (compared to 1.3.24) are:
* Add some popular types to the mime types magic file.
Bugs fixed
The following bugs were found in Apache 1.3.24 (or earlier) and have
- been fixed in Apache 1.3.25:
+ been fixed in Apache 1.3.26:
* Allow child processes sufficient time for cleanups but making
ap_select in reclaim_child_processes more "resistant" to