“The Apache Group is proud to announce the release the fifteenth
release of Apache 2.0. This release is the first release to use our
new release process. This process allows the Apache developers to
more easily determine the quality of any release. Instead of
tagging any release as an alpha or beta from now on, all releases
will be available as numbered releases, and the release status will
only be available in the tarball name. More information is
available on this process in the Apache development archives.”
“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
HTTPD server significantly in our early testing, on some versions
of Unix.”