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Release Notes for Pi3Web 2.0.3 08/2004
======================================
This minor release contains some bugfixes as well as a few useful
functional features and improvements of the administration GUI.

Features/Changes
----------------
- PHP4Wrapper updated to PHP 4.3.8
- SSL module updated to openssl 0.9.7d
- Added HTTP/1.1 ranges support
- Added SSL cipher names for TLS 1.0 ciphers to the SSL module
- Added Pi3Expression ($e) and SSI (HTTPS_CIPHERNAME) variable
  for SSL cipher name
- Added variables for number of files and bytes in directory index
- improved behaviour of directory index sorting (similar to Windows explorer)
- Some improvements regarding service control manager interface,
  fixed possible crash while stopping the service
- Improvement of ISAPI filter implementation related to SF_NOTIFY_URL_MAP
- Improved PathMapper implementation, better determination of PathInfo by
  taking directories into consideration 

Release Notes for Pi3Web 2.0.2 05/2003
======================================
This minor release contains some bugfixes as well as useful
functional features and improvements of the administration GUI.
Notice the changed license from 'Original BSD' to 'Modified BSD'
license, i.e. removal of the advertising clause.

Features/Changes
----------------
- PHP4Wrapper updated to PHP 4.3.2
  - improvement of the wrapper code provides interoperability with
    the prebuilt binaries from php.net
- SSL module updated to openssl 0.9.7a
- Removed remaining global variables in SSL code
- Added passphrase dialog for SSL private key
- Added new server class for thread reusage and multithreaded
  accept handling, i.e. server can accept connections from multiple
  interfaces in parallel. Please note, that this feature is still
  experimental and has to be switched on explicite on the
  'Performance' property page in order to enable:
  - operation of HTTP and HTTPS(SSL) server in parallel
  - bind server to multiple addresses and/or ports
  - v-hosts based on different interfaces and/or ports
  - remote administration on separate interface and/or port
- Added redirection handling to PathMapper
- Some improvements in the build environment
- Supported HTTP messages are now checked for all non-CGI
  applications (POST must enabled explicite e.g. for PHP).

Administration GUI related (Win32 only)
---------------------------------------
- Added generation of SSL demo certificates, removed CA certificate
  file and flags from SSL defaults for 'SSL' property page
- Added configuration for redirection handling to 'Mappings'
  property page
- Added property page 'Interfaces' for management of supplementary I/O.

Bugfixes
--------
- Fixed 'Pi3Web 2.0.2 beta 1 crashes with malformed request'
- Fixed 'Last PHP POST variable can contain garbage characters'
- Fixed 'Path with superfluous trailing slash is accepted'
- Fixed 'Path with superfluous trailing slash is accepted'
- Fixed 'OPTIONS and TRACE doesn't work with generated Config.pi3'
- Fixed 'Problem related to URL's pointing to subfolders of WebRoot'
- Fixed 'Pi3Web doesn't bind with 0.0.0.0'
- Fixed 'Server crashes on empty directory index'
- Fixed 'sending of empty (deleted) HTTP entity headers'
- Fixed some documentation bugs

Release Notes for Pi3Web 2.0.1 08/2002
======================================
This minor release contains some bugfixes as well as useful
improvements of the administration GUI and necessary preparations
for remote administration:

- PHP4Wrapper updated to PHP 4.2.2
- SSL module updated to openssl 0.9.6d
- Minor fix related to URL decoding
- Restructured configuration files distributed with the package
- Path to the used configuration files configurable in SrvMan32.pi3,
  in order to enhance configurability of the Pi3Web running as an
  NT service
- Enhanced GetServerVariable() code in ISAPI20 and ISAPIFLT handlers
- Updated to ISAPI Extension and Filter Version 4.0
- Fixed 'Internal Error 159' during setup on Windows XP and 2K
- Fixed AUTH_TYPE variable in PHP4Wrapper
- Fixed some minor documentation bugs

Administration GUI related (Win32 only)
---------------------------------------
- SSL can be activated and configured by GUI
- Remote administration can be activated by GUI (The admin client
  isn't part of Pi3Web 2.0.1 but will be distributed separately)
- Introduced Digest Access Authentication (MD5 based secure auth.
  method, accordingly to RFC2069, supported e.g. by Opera browser)
  including GUI based administration
- Additional administration GUI property pages:
  - Directory indexing (general layout, columns, sorting, options)
  - SSL (general, server options, client cert. validation, advanced)
  - HTTP (server stamp, index files, request methods, upload options)
- Additional fields at 'General' property page:
  - Installation directory (only for remote admin, r/o)
  - OS family (only for remote admin, r/o)
  - Enable SSL (as a shortcut for the SSL property page)
  - Remote administration
  - Verbose error messages
- Additional fields at 'Performance' property page:
  - Error log (enable/disable)
  - Debug log (enable/disable)
  - No. of processes (only for Posix, r/o)
  - No. requests to exit after (only for Posix, r/o)
  - No. of connections or threads
  - No. of kept alive requests
  - Keep-alive timeout
- Additional fields at 'MIME Types' property page:
  - Default MIME type
- Additional fields at 'Users' property page:
  - Added authentication type (Basic|Digest|NTLM) per realm, thus
    Digest and NTLM based user authentication may be administered
    using the GUI.
- Added more input field validations to the administration GUI
- Added more warning dialogs to the administration GUI
- Fixed some minor administration GUI related bugs
- Enhanced the configuration file generated by the setup tool
  (e.g. included PHP4 support)

Note: The Admin application is backwards compatible to older configuration
files created with Pi3Web 1.0.3 and 2.0.0. Default sections for manual
configuration, which were created by the setup tool won't be re-created
by the new admin GUI in Pi3Web 2.0.1. In order to take full advantage
of the new configuration files, you may reinstall Pi3Web.

Release Notes for Pi3Web 2.0.0 02/2002
======================================
This major release contains all features and bugfixes as
described for the beta versions. The diff to the beta 2
is:
    - Removed strict check for HTTP/1.0 verbs GET and HEAD,
      e.g. to allow HTTP/1.0 upload using PUT with Netscape 4
    - Fixed a problem with PHP4Wrapper, which did supress all
      server variables except the RFC822 headers
    - ISAPI and ISAPIFLT handler have dynamic configurable server
      variables now
    - ISAPIFLT forces system logon on Windows NT/2000/XP
    - Fixed ASP configuration, to run ASP also from "#exec virtual"
      SSI directives
    - Directory index can optional tag files newer than a threshold
      date, e.g. by an <IMG src="/icons/new.gif"> tag
    - Fixed a bug with chunked transfer-encoding, which resulted strange
      behaviour with SSI in HTTP/1.1.
    - Revised the WinCGI handler completely - configuration
      parameters "EnvironmentSize" and "IncludeParentsEnvironment"
      were removed, most sections are supported now, remaining
      incompatibilities are unsupported SELECT MULTIPLE form fields
      and the [Form File] section
    - Completed API documentation
    - Problem with malicious requests in CGI handler on Windows fixed
    - Fixed a bug in the IOBuffer, which prevented PIIOBuffer_getLine()
      from reading lines into buffer longer than the input buffer
    - FCGI handler does process large response from FCGI applications now
    - PHP4 issue with header() function and redirects solved
    - Server port is now reported correctly to logic handlers, changed
      configuration variable "LocalPortVariable STRING:ServerPort"
      into "ServerPortVariable RFC822:ServerPort"

Release Notes for Pi3Web Release 06/2001 2.0 beta 2
===================================================
    - SSL now on openssl 0.9.6
    - PHP4 on PHP 4.0.5
    - Servlet API 2.1 support (this is still experimental,
      JRE 1.2.2 or 1.3.1 required)
    - enhanced ISAPI, ISAPIFLT, PHP4 handlers (more robust
      against variable buffer overflow)
    - fixed ISAPI to run with ASP 1.0 (handler supports
      asynchronous worker threads now)
    - Added handler code for HTTP/1.1 methods OPTIONS and TRACE
    - Added all HTTP/1.1 status codes
    - Some minor fixes

Release Notes for Pi3Web Release 01/2000 2.0 beta 1
===================================================
    - SSL2 and SSL3 support
    - Pi3Web now supports ISAPI filters (V 2.1)
    - PHP3 support as a server module
    - sortable by click directory indexes
    - New handler for HTTP methods PUT and DELETE and form uploads
    - Fixed file-name-with-spaces bug
    - Fixed CGI calls by registered file extensions for Win32
    - Support cookie variables via ALL_HTTP environment variable for ISAPI
    - Server side image mapes completed (polygon and ellipse support)