Apache 2.2 Released

[bubblenut]

As many of you will probably already know, Apache 2.2 has recently been released. Looks like some pretty cool features, here's the one's I like.

PCRE: Time for some fscking hardcode rewrite rules methinks. I've allways known that apache's regex syntax can do more than I use it for, but I could never be bothered to learn the subtelties of yet another regular expression language.
SQL Database Support: We've been using a mysql backend for auth on our maintenance server for a while now but it's been through a ropey third party library (with a less than pleasant API). Also, the wording of this feature is interesting, "to modules that need it", I wonder what other modules will be making use of this.
The Auth, Caching and Configuration look cool too but I've not delved any deeper into them.
I'm a little surprised to see gracefull stop in there, I thought gracefull stopping was already supported, restart certainly was 😕

I just compiled it on my laptopm and everything went fine. I had to recompile php (took the oportunity to upgrade to 5.1.1) but that was to be expected. I haven't had the chance to play around with any of the features yet but it's working fine with my old httpd.conf.

What are other people's thoughts/experiences?

[bubblenut]

Looks like the SQL stuff isn't quite what I thought it was. Apache manages the db connections between different modules. Also very cool. Means that, in my case, auth doesn't need to create it's own connection to the database on the relatively rare occasion that it needs to. It can just use one of the ones from the pool. Thinksing about it, I thought apache already had this. Unless currently PHP manages it's own pool. If anyone has some more insight on this I'd really appreciate it.