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14 June 2008 - Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9 Released

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.9 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a bug and security fix release. The following potential security flaws are addressed:

• CVE-2008-2364 (cve.mitre.org) -- mod_proxy_http: Better handling of excessive interim responses from origin server to prevent potential denial of service and high memory usage. Reported by Ryujiro Shibuya.
• CVE-2007-6420 (cve.mitre.org) -- mod_proxy_balancer: Prevent CSRF attacks against the balancer-manager interface.

We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available, and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9 is available for download from:

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache 2.2 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 2.0 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced since 2.0 please see:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html

Please see the CHANGES_2.2 file, linked from the download page, for a full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.9 provides the complete list of changes since 2.2.8. A summary of security vulnerabilities which were addressed in the previous 2.2.8 and earlier releases is available:

http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html

Apache HTTP Server 1.3.41 and 2.0.63 legacy releases are also currently available. See the appropriate CHANGES from the url above. See the corresponding CHANGES files linked from the download page. The Apache HTTP Project developers strongly encourage all users to migrate to Apache 2.2, as only limited maintenance is performed on these legacy versions.

This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.3.0 bundled with the tar and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr and libaprutil (and on Win32, libapriconv) must all be updated to ensure binary compatibility and address many known platform bugs.

This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.0 API. Modules written for Apache 2.0 will need to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.2, and require minimal or no source code changes.

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/VERSIONING

When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please bear in mind that if you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs (other than the Prefork MPM), you must ensure that any modules you will be using (and the libraries they depend on) are thread-safe.

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-- The Apache HTTP Server Project

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Project Info -- Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX, MS-Windows, Macintosh and Netware. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996.

Releases can be downloaded from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Project Website	http://httpd.apache.org/
Programming Languages	C
Categories	network-server, http, httpd-module
Mailing Lists	http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html
Project Management Committee	Apache HTTP Server

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd/httpd/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/

Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at June 14, 2008 12:21 AM
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