Apache released a new version

The Apache Software Foundation has just introduced a major update to the Apache open source web service server software. New features added in Apache 2.2.0 are large file support and improved storage of memory (caching).

A recent survey by Netcraft, an Internet research company, Apache web server software is currently being used in about 70% of websites and this is part of the LAMP open source software suite (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP or Perl).

According to developers of Apache Software Founfation, this 2.2.0 version marks the beginning of a new stable version, which means that modules and applications developed for Apache 2.2.0 will be compatible with source code and executable code with future 2.2.x versions.

With the new Apache version, the web service server can now support large files (over 2GB) on 32-bit Unix systems and can control other important tasks.

A new feature is the smart filter in the mod_filter module, which can be conditionally inserted, based on any opening of Request or Response or any environment variable, and corrects some errors. in architecture in version 2.0.

In addition, the mod_dbd module adds the SQL database directly to the required modules, supporting "pooling" connections in Multi-Processing Modules. This future database form is not yet supported for Windows and may not be completely "stable" on this platform.

Hong Vy