Win32 support was added. Some parts were moved into modules, creating mod_static, mod_log, and mod_dir_browser. New mod_autofix_uri and mod_cache modules were added. The pcntl extension is no longer required. Support for IP-based virtual hosts was dropped. Many improvements were made. A bug where internal GZIP compression not work was fixed along with a problem where the same header name wasn't handled more than once in HTTP headers.
Digest authentication. A modular architecture. Currenly available modules: mod_auth_basic, mod_auth_digest, mod_bandwidth, mod_cgi_header, mod_cgi, mod_encoding, mod_rewrite, mod_status, and mod_vhost. Bug #1887560 (CGI header was not handled properly), bug #1885235 (errors not properly handled on external gzip), and bug #1885216 (missing compression level on external gzip) have been fixed.
A manual and API documentation have been added. URL rewriting has been added. A deflate format for Content-Encoding has been added (PHP must be compiled using --with-zlib). Basic Authentication has been added. The license has changed from the GPLv2 to the GPLv3. There is a new comment style to suit the PHPDocumentor style guide. Logs are written to files (access_log and rewrite_log). Bug #1882558, Always return Error 500 when listing a directory, has been fixed.
Content Encoding support (gzip format) was added.
Support was added for virtual host (both IP and
name based virtual host). A bug in which \r\n\r\n
characters on terminal based requests could not be
handled was fixed.
