Wednesday, 07 October 2009 Apache 2.0 offers numerous enhancements, improvements and
performance boosts over the 1.3 codebase. The most visible and noteworthy
addition is the ability to run Apache in a hybrid thread/process mode on any
platform that supports both threads and processes. This has shown to improve the
scalability of the Apache HTTP Server significantly in our testing. Apache 2.0
also includes support for filtered I/O. This allows modules to modify the output
of other modules before it is sent to the client. We have also included support
for IPv6 on any platform that supports IPv6.
This version of Apache is known to work on many versions of Unix, BeOS, OS/2,
Windows, and Netware. Because of many of the advancements in Apache 2.0, the
initial release of Apache is expected to perform equally well on all supported
platforms.