Apache.org heeft een public beta van Apache 2.0 uitgebracht. Apache 2.0 kent een aantal belangrijke vernieuwingen, waaronder verbeterde multi-threading voor betere schaalbaarheid op webservers met meerdere CPU's. De Alpha versie kun je hier naar binnen trekken:
Apache 2.0a1 is a public alpha of the forthcoming Apache 2.0, an update which includes several new enhancements, including the new Apache Portable Run-time and the new Multi-processing modules. This is an alpha release, and is for experimental purposes; use at your own risk. It is available in source format only, so a compiler is neccessary to use it.If you are not familiar with software development, and wish to use a stable, working, web server, we strongly reccomend you download Apache 1.3.12 instead. Please report any bugs you find. [break] Hier een overzicht van de nieuwe features in Apache 2.0: [/break] Unix Threading : On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache can now run in a hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode. This should improve scalability.
New Build System : The build system has been rewritten from scratch to be based on autoconf and libtool. This makes Apache's configuration system more similar to that of other packages.
Multiprotocol Support : Apache now has some of the infrastructure in place to support serving multiple protocols. mod_echo has been written as an example.
Better support for non-Unix platforms : Apache 2.0 should be faster and more stable on non-Unix platforms such as BeOS, OS/2, and Windows. With the introduction of platform-specific multiprocessing modules and the Apache Portable Runtime, these platforms can now avoid using POSIX-emulation functions that are sometimes buggy and always hurt performance.
New API : The API for modules has changed significantly for 2.0. Many of the module-ordering problems from 1.3 should be gone. 2.0 does much of this automatically, and module ordering is now done per-hook to allow more flexibility. Also, new calls have been added that should allow modules to do more without requiring patching of the core Apache server.
Thanks Sascha voor de tip.