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apache2 (2.2.15-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Note to people using mod_proxy as forward proxy, i.e. with
    'ProxyRequests on':
    This release disables the configuration in mods-available/proxy.conf
    by default. You should verify that access control for proxy access
    still works as intended. This is especially important if you have
    your forward proxy configuration in a different configuration file
    than proxy.conf.

 -- Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:36:57 +0200

apache2 (2.2.15-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * To fix a security vulnerability in the design of the SSL/TLS protocol
    (CVE-2009-3555), the protocol had to be extended (RFC 5746). By default,
    session renegotiation is no longer supported with old clients that do not
    implement this extension. This breaks certain configurations with client
    certificate authentication. If you still need to support old clients, you
    may restore the old (insecure) behaviour by uncommenting the

        SSLInsecureRenegotiation on

    line in /etc/apache2/mods-available/ssl.conf

  * This release adds and enables mod_reqtimeout, which limits the time
    Apache waits for a client to send a complete request. This helps to
    mitigate against certain denial of service attacks. In case of problems
    with slow clients, the timeout values can be adjusted in
    /etc/apache2/mods-available/reqtimeout.conf , or the module can be
    disabled with "a2dismod reqtimeout".

 -- Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:49:30 +0100

apache2 (2.2.14-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Apache now uses the environment variables APACHE_RUN_DIR, APACHE_LOCK_DIR,
    and APACHE_LOG_DIR in the default configuration.  If you have modified
    /etc/apache2/envvars, make sure that these variables are set and exported.
  * There is now some support for running multiple instances of Apache on the
    same machine. See the documentation in /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common for
    details.

 -- Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>  Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:56:59 +0100

apache2 (2.2.13-2) unstable; urgency=high

  * The new support for TLS Server Name Indication added in 2.2.12 causes
    Apache to be stricter about certain misconfigurations involving name
    based SSL virtual hosts. This may result in Apache refusing to start
    with the logged error message:

        Server should be SSL-aware but has no certificate configured
        [Hint: SSLCertificateFile]

    Up to 2.2.11, Apache accepted configurations where the necessary SSL
    configuration statements were included in the first (default)
    <Virtualhost *:443> block but not in subsequent <Virtualhost *:443>
    blocks. Starting with 2.2.12, every VirtualHost block used with SSL must
    contain the SSLEngine, SSLCertificateFile, and SSLCertificateKeyFile
    directives (SSLCertificateKeyFile is optional in some cases).

    When you encounter the above problem, the output of the command

        egrep -ir '^[^#]*(sslcertificate|sslengine|virtualhost)' \
            /etc/apache2/*conf* /etc/apache2/*enabled

    may be useful to determine which VirtualHost sections need to be changed.

    Also, formerly accidentially working constructs like

        <VirtualHost *:80 *:443>

    where one virtual host definition is used for both a non-ssl and a ssl
    virtual host do not work anymore. You can achieve a similar effect with

        <VirtualHost *:80>
        Include /.../vhost.include
        </VirtualHost>
        <VirtualHost *:443>
        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile ...
        Include /.../vhost.include
        </VirtualHost>

 -- Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>  Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:14:59 +0200

apache2 (2.2.9-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * The directive "NameVirtualHost *" has been changed to "NameVirtualHost
    *:80". It has also been moved from sites-available/default to ports.conf.
    This allows to ship a proper SSL default virtual host config in
    sites-available/default-ssl, but it means that if you use several name
    based virtual hosts:
    
    - you will have to change <VirtualHost *> to <VirtualHost *:80> in your
      name based virtual hosts

    - you need to add more NameVirtualHost directives if you use other ports
      than 80 with name based virtual hosts. You may also have to add these
      ports to the default virtual host in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
      (like this: "<VirtualHost *:80 *:81>").
    
    If you prefer to revert to the old setup instead (and don't need the
    default-ssl host), just change "NameVirtualHost *:80" back to
    "NameVirtualHost *" in ports.conf and "<VirtualHost *:80>" to
    "<VirtualHost *>" in sites-available/default.

  * For mod_disk_cache, caching is again disabled in disk_cache.conf by
    default. It usually makes more sense to enable this on a per-virtual host
    basis.

 -- Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:47:52 +0200

apache2 (2.2.8-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * The suexec helper program needed for mod_suexec is now shipped in a
    separate package, apache2-suexec, which is not installed by default.
    You need to install this package manually if you are using mod_suexec.

    There is now also the apache2-suexec-custom package, which contains a
    customizable version of suexec which can be used with different document
    roots than /var/www.

 -- Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>  Sun, 04 May 2008 20:24:00 +0200

apache2 (2.2.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * The Apache User and Group and the PidFile path are now configured in
    /etc/apache2/envvars, to make it easier to use them in scripts
    (like the init and logrotate scripts, and apache2ctl).
    If you have changed these settings from their default values, you need to
    adjust /etc/apache2/envvars.
    This also means that starting apache2 with "apache2 -k start" is no longer
    possible, you have to use /etc/init.d/apache2 or apache2ctl.

 -- Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>  Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:41:23 +0100

apache2 (2.2.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * This version introduces some changes in the configuration layout and
    defaults. You will probably have to adjust your configuration accordingly.

    - Module specific configuration has been moved from 
      /etc/apache2/apache2.conf to /etc/apache2/mods-available/*.conf for the
      following modules: 
        actions          alias              autoindex
        info             mime               negotiation
        setenvif         status

    - AddDefaultCharset is again disabled by default. See
      /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset

    - "Listen 443" is automatically enabled in /etc/apache2/ports.conf if
      mod_ssl is enabled.

  * The NO_START functionality from /etc/default/apache2 has been removed. If
    you don't want to start apache2 on boot, rename the S*apache2 start
    symlinks as usual.

  * To ensure that the disk cache does not grow indefinitely, htcacheclean is
    now started when mod_disk_cache is enabled. The details can be configured
    in /etc/default/apache2 .

 -- Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>  Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:50:58 +0200