Changes between 1.2.18 and 1.2.19
Native
update Docs: Add SetHandler and new env var to Apache config docs. (rjung)
update Apache 1.3: Backport "no-jk" feature. (rjung)
update Apache: Add an environment variable to make SetHandler "jakarta-servlet" more useful. The variable is JK_WORKER_NAME, but can be changed by the new directive JkWorkerIndicator. (rjung)
fix LB: Don't use single worker shortcut, if the single worker is being diabled. (rjung)
fix Status worker: Add short explanation of activation and error states to legend. (rjung)
fix Docs: Add meaning of zero timeout values for various timeouts in workers.properties. (rjung)
fix LB: Cleanup of Mladens forced recovery. (rjung)
fix LB: Do not change lb_value for recovering workers to max, if we are using BUSYNESS method. (rjung)
fix Apache: Since 1.2.14 mod_jk failed to detect client abort. (rjung)
fix Docs: Corrected description of JkEnvVar. (rjung)
fix Solaris: Detect filio.h in configure to make the new connection detection build on solaris (r432825). (rjung)
update Add feature to force the recovery of workers that are member of loadbalancer if all the members are in error state. This fixes the time gap where 503 was returned caused by recovery_timeout although the backend was ready to handle the requests. (mturk)
update Docs: Seperate deprecated directives in their own table. (rjung)
update Docs: Allow "-" and "_" in worker names. (rjung)
update Allow multiple lines with attributes "balance_workers" and "mount". (rjung)
fix Make jk_is_some_property match more precisely. (rjung)
update JkStatus: Make refresh interval changeable. (rjung)
fix JkStatus: Adjust display of recover time wrt. global maintenance. (rjung)
update LB: Resetting worker state from OK to NA, if worker has been idle too long. (rjung)
fix Avoid compiler warnings concerning the use of lb_*_type arrays. Use functions instead. (rjung)
update Added %R JkRequestLogFormat option for Apache 1 and Apache 2. (mturk)
update Allow changing jvm Route from status manager. (mturk)
fix Do not retun 400 if Tomcat fails in the midle of the post request. Return 500 insted. (mturk)
update LB: Combine ok/error/recovering/busy runtime states into a single scalar. (rjung)
update LB: Combine active/disabled/stopped configuration states into a single scalar. (rjung)
update LB: Add several Apache notes to enable standard logging for load balancer results. (rjung)
update LB: Reorganisation of the main load balancer service loop. (rjung)
update Implement hierarchical worker configuration via attribute "reference". (rjung)
update Log deprecated properties. (rjung)
fix IIS: Fix simple_rewrite for the cases where the rewritten url is larger then the original one. (mturk)
update New JkOption "DisableReuse" to disable connection persistence. (jim)
update LB: Move sessionid retrieval out of get_most_suitable_worker into service. (rjung)
update Code cleanup for all service methods (use TRACE, JK_LOG_NULL_PARAMS, null pointer checks). (rjung)
update JKSTATUS: add refresh link. No refresh for updates. Redirect to list view after update. (rjung)
update Add new hook add_log_items into servers. (rjung)
update APACHE httpd: Rename apache logging notes. (rjung)
update LB: Rename lock and method constants. Add constants for defaults. (rjung)
fix Default log level should be INFO and not DEBUG. Default log level should be the same for all server types. (rjung)
fix Make rewrite_rule_map and log_level as non mandatory directives for isapi_redirect. (mturk)
fix 40107: Rewrite is_socket_connected function. Non blocking socket is not used any more. (mturk)
update Allow building with VS2005 without too many warnings. (mturk)
fix Decide by MMN, which piped log API we should use. mod_jk 1.2.18 broke compilation with Apache 1.3 pre 1.3.28. (rjung)
Changes between 1.2.17 and 1.2.18
Native
fix Using socklen_t in getsockopt. Also introducing jk_sock_t. (mturk)
update Allow recovery wait time below 60 seconds (new minimum is 1 second). (mturk)
Changes between 1.2.16 and JK 1.2.17
Native
fix Fix hanging jk status worker when certain attributes are being updated due to double locking. (rjung)
update Allow JkMount to behave like uriworkermap.properties by parsing pipe symbol as two directive marker. (mturk)
Changes between 1.2.15 and JK 1.2.16
Native
update Added simple rewrite capability for IIS. Although simple it will fulfill most needs. (mturk)
update Added RECOVER_ABORT_IF_CLIENTERROR recovery_option that closes the connection if client connection is broken during the request. (mturk)
update Renamed cache_timeout directive to connection_pool_timeout. (mturk)
update Added connection_pool_minsize directive. (mturk)
update Deprecate recycle_timeout directive. (mturk)
update Corrected some HTML syntax bugs in output of status worker. (rjung)
update Added the refresh=n parameter to the status worker. It will update the display every n seconds. (rjung)
update Balancer: Add attribute distance to balanced workers to express preferences between workers. (rjung)
update Balancer: Add attribute jvm_route to balanced workers to be able to use the same target in different balancers. (rjung)
update Status: Add lb_mult to status. (rjung)
update Balancer: Make different balancing strategies work in a similar way (use lb_value, use decay during global maintenance, use integer factors for weights. (rjung)
update Balancer: Improve locking. (rjung)
update Balancer: Workers start slower after recovering. (rjung)
update Balancer: Make different balancing strategies work in a similar way (use lb_value, use decay during global maintenance, use integer factors lb_mult for weights). (rjung)
update Balancer: Move recovery check to global maintenance. (rjung)
update Balancer: Add global maintenance method, that is called in only one process. (rjung)
update Extend our use of autoconf to find a 32Bit and a 64Bit unsigned type and their printf formats. (rjung)
update Logging: piped loggers for JkLogFile and Apache 1.3. (rjung)
update Logging: Add PID to log lines for each log level apart from REQUEST. (rjung)
update Logging: flush buffered logs to keep lines in correct order. Output final newline together with log message. (rjung)
update Reducing shm size. (rjung)
update Only log removing of old worker, when we actually do it. (rjung)
fix 37469: Fix shared memory close for forked childs. The shared memory will be closed by the parent process. (mturk)
fix 37332: Fix potential misuse of buffer length with snprintf functions. (mturk)
fix 38859: Protect mod_jk against buggy or malicious AJP servers in the backend. Patch provided by Ruediger Pluem. (mturk)
fix 38889: Use worker map sorting depending on the path elements, to comply with Servlet spec. Patch provided by Steve Revilak. (mturk)
update 36138: Added Busyness lb method. Patch provided by Chris Lamprecht. (mturk)
fix Fix pessimistic locking mode. The patch correctly handles the burst load, by syncing the access to the shared memory data. (mturk)
fix 38806: Reclycle worker even if it is disabled. This fixes hot-standby workers in error state. (mturk)
fix 37167: Allow building with BSD-ish like make. (mturk)
fix ISAPI plugin (isapi_redirect.dll) did not provide correct request data for IIS to include in the IIS log. (markt)
