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the -t_pid_file code resulted in confusing and fatal error message
for people using stale 1.27 configurations.  so take steps to make
sure things continue to work.  [Geoffrey Young]


=item 1.28 - February 22, 2006 

add need_imagemap() and have_imagemap() to check for mod_imap
or mod_imagemap [ Colm MacCárthaigh ]

shortcuts like need_cgi() and need_php() no longer spit out
bogus skip messages  [Geoffrey Young]

Adjust Apache::TestConfig::untaint_path() to handle relative paths
that don't start with /.  [Stas]

If perlpath is longer than 62 chars, some shells on certain platforms
won't be able to run the shebang line, so when seeing a long perlpath
use the eval workaround [Mike Smith <mike@mailchannels.com>]

Location of the pid file is now configurable via the command line
-t_pid_file option [Joe Orton]

remove the mod_perl.pm entry from %INC after Apache::Test finishes
initializing itself.  because both mp1 and mp2 share the entry,
leaving it around means that Apache::Test might prevent later modules
from loading the real mod_perl module they're interested in, leading
to bad things  [Geoffrey Young]

use which("cover") to find the cover utility from Devel::Cover and run
it only if found. [Stas]

Devel::Cover magic is now fully integrated.  no more modperl_extra.pl
or extra.conf.in fiddling - 'make testcover' should be all you need
to do now [Geoffrey Young]

Implemented a magic @NextAvailablePort@ to be used in config files to
automatically allocate the next available port [Stas]

Adjust Apache::TestConfig::add_inc to add lib/ in separate call to
lib::->import at the very end of @INC manipulation to ensure it'll be
on top of @INC. For some reason lib has changed to add directories in
a different order than it did before. [Stas]



=item 1.27 - October 20, 2005

localize ScriptSock directive to always point to t/logs/cgisock
regardless of inherited and custom mod_cgid settings
[Geoffrey Young]

Prevent the config file from being overwritten
on platforms such as WIN32 under certain conditions.
[Randy Kobes]

make sure that the TESTS Makefile.PL parameter is properly
recognized ["Christopher H. Laco" <apache-test chrislaco.com>]

Add the output of ldd(unix/cygwin) and otool -L (darwin)
for httpd to the mp2bug report script.
[Philip M. Gollucci]

fall back on using httpd-defined HTTPD_ROOT as the base for
httpd.conf if all other options fail.  [Geoffrey Young]



=item 1.26 - July 25, 2005

some people have their Apache user/group names include spaces, so fix
the autogenerated httpd.conf to quote the two. [Stas]

make sure mp2 loading doesn't make it impossible to complete
mp1 runs.  [Matt Sergeant, Geoffrey Young]

add Apache::TestConfigParrot and Apache::TestRunParrot to
support mod_parrot server-side testing [Geoffrey Young]

update -withtestmore action to properly work with newer versions
of Test::Builder [Geoffrey Young]



=item 1.25 - June 17, 2005

provide $Apache::TestUtil::DEBUG_OUTPUT as target for t_debug()
statements, defaulting to STDOUT.  this allows for changing
t_debug() to STDERR when using functions like t_write_file()
from within handler() server-side tests.  [Geoffrey Young]

adjust need_module()/have_module() to not try to require a module if
it was explicitly passed with a .c extension. in certain cases this
prevents a fatal error (e.g. trying to call
Apache::Test::have_module('mod_alias.c') from the <Perl>
sections. [Stas]



=item 1.24 - May 20, 2005

When adding TypesConfig directives (either inherited from the global
httpd.conf or from the locally generated mime.types) make sure to
enclose it in <IfModule mod_mime.c>..</IfModule>, since mod_mime might
be unavailable. [Stas]



=item 1.23 - May 3, 2005

Fix Apache::TestRequest::hostport to return the default host:port
string if $Apache::TestRequest::Module is 'default' or undef [Stas]

Fix Apache::TestRequest::module2url to allow passing '' as a URI
path. [Stas]

tweaks to Apache::TestClient to better deal with corrupted responses
when LWP is not available. [Stas]

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added bugreport and file argument options to 
Apache::TestRun::generate_script() [Geoffrey Young]



=item 1.06 - November 10, 2003

added -startup_timeout and $ENV{APACHE_TEST_STARTUP_TIMEOUT} as places
to specify the maximum number of seconds to wait for the test
server to start.  the default is still 60 seconds.  [Geoffrey Young]

use apxs PREFIX to resolve relative httpd.conf directives
ServerRoot is not present [Mike Cramer]

add support for a new subclass method 'bug_report', which if provided
will be called when 'make test' fails. we use it in mod_perl to print
the pointers on how to proceed when the failure occurs. [Stas]

sudo and su -u aren't portable, therefore use a simple setuid/setguid
perl program instead, to check whether the root directory of the test
suite is rwx by the user/group apache is going to run under (when
running 'make test' as root). [Stas]



=item 1.05 - October 23, 2003

core scanning changes [Stas]
- speedup by not chdir'ing into subdirs
- an optional scanning of only t/ dir (used by TestSmoke)
- don't scan on win32, since it has no core files

in the autogenerated t/conf/modperl_inc.pl don't add the project/lib
directory, unless a special env var APACHE_TEST_LIVE_DEV is true. This
is because some projects change things in project/blib and pushing
project/lib on top of @INC, breaks the test suite for them [Stas]

TestRun was using httpd.pid file to ensure that the server is killed
before starting it, if the file existed. This was a problem on win32
platforms, where a process scheduler tries to re-use the pids that
were just freed, which may have killed a valid process which is not
even Apache.exe. So we try not to rely on that file, and if the server
wasn't properly stopped and still running, users will learn about
that, since the port will be busy, and Apache will fail to
start. Users have to kill it manually. TestSmoke is no longer using an
explicit kill `cat httpd.pid` to stop Apache, but delegates the
stopping procedure to TestRun [Steve Hay, Randy Kobes]

use IPC::Run3 in Apache::TestSmoke to run t/TEST commands,
so as t/SMOKE can be used on Win32 [Stas, Steve Hay, Randy Kobes]

place mod_perl-specific directives in <IfModule> containers
within httpd.conf, allowing the default server to start if
mod_perl isn't present.  [Geoffrey Young]

fix t/request.t to get /index.html, instead of / since not everybody
uses mod_dir [Steve Piner <stevep@marketview.co.nz>]

when testing whether Apache started as root and running under 'nobody'
or alike, will be able to -r/-w/-x in t/ use 'su' instead of 'sudo',
the latter is not available on all unix platforms. [Vivek Khera
<khera@kcilink.com>]

in the Apache/test.pm nuke code s/PERLRUN/FULLPERL/ as older MakeMaker
doesn't have the PERLRUN target [Stas]

Apache 1.3 servers now run in standard prefork mode under
normal operation.  single server mode (httpd -X) was replaced
with MaxClients set to 1 by default.  [Geoffrey Young]



=item 1.04 - September 29, 2003

if the server stops reading from the client before it has sent all its
data, Apache::TestClient (which is used when LWP is not available)
would just die without any error message (5.8.1) because no SIGPIPE
handler was setup and the Broken Pipe error was missed. Replacing
'print $s' with $s->send() solves this problem: Apache::TestClient
will just move on without bailing out. [Stas]

if env var APACHE_TEST_PRETEND_NO_LWP is true, Apache::Test will
pretend that LWP is not available. useful for testing whether the test
suite will survive on a system which doesn't have libwww-perl
installed. [Stas]

Apache::TestSmoke provides a new mode: -bug_mode, which runs an
equivalent of plain 't/TEST' but generates a lot of useful debug
information, in addition to matching the core files to the tests that
caused them. [Stas]

Apache::TestSmoke now scans for core files, just like Apache::TestRun
does [Stas]

Allow the creation of name based virtual hosts by supplying
<VirtualHost servername:module> containers in .conf.in$ files.
[André Malo]

fix Apache::TestSSLCA to generate a separate index.txt file for each
module, as on certain platforms openssl fails to re-use the same
file. [Stas]

remove the unused example section from t/conf/extra.conf.in, it made
an assumption that mod_auth is available [Stas]

in the autogenerated t/conf/httpd.conf include mod_alias and mod_mime
loading, in case they were built as a shared object and wasn't loaded
from the system-wide httpd.conf from which Apache::Test inherits the
config. [Stas]

added have_apache_mpm() function [Geoffrey Young]

when moving test-specific config directives from __DATA__ to
httpd.conf don't use hash, or the order of arguments is not
preserved. Thanks to perl-5.8.1 for randomizing the hash seed, which
has exposed the bug by breaking the test suite. [Stas]

when the tests are run in the 'root' mode, check whether the
DocumentRoot and its parent dirs are rwx before the tests are run and
suggest possible workarounds when the tests are doomed to fail,
because of the permission issues. [Stas]