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The release of Apache 2.4.1

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Apache Software Foundation and Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.1, the first stable release of the new 2.4.

Major improvements:

  • Dynamically loaded MPM. Several MRM can be collected in the form of loadable modules that can be activated without rebuilding
  • Event MPM module is no longer fully supported by experimental and
  • Improved support for asynchronous read / write for the MRM


  • LogLevel can now be configured for each module and each directory individually. Above the level of debug logging can be added to new levels of up to trace1 trace8
  • Operators <If>, <ElseIf>, and <Else> can be used to determine the configuration of blocks that are linked to specific requests
  • The new expression parser allows you to specify complex conditions such directives as SetEnvIfExpr, RewriteCond, Header, <If> etc.
  • It is now possible to specify the value of KeepAliveTimeout in milliseconds
  • NameVirtualHost directive is no longer used and has been declared obsolete (deprecated)
  • The new directive AllowOverrideList provides more fine-tuning. Htaccess-files
  • The ability to use variables in configuration files
  • Despite the many new features, memory consumption compared to the 2.2 branch reduced

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