[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache HTTP Server 2.4.2 Released

          Apache HTTP Server 2.4.2 Released

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project
are pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.2 of the Apache
HTTP Server ("Apache").  This version of Apache is our 2nd GA
release of the new generation 2.4.x branch of Apache HTTPD and
represents fifteen years of innovation by the project, and is
recommended over all previous releases. This version of Apache is
principally a security and bug fix release, including the following
security fix:

*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0883 (cve.mitre.org)
  envvars: Fix insecure handling of LD_LIBRARY_PATH that could
  lead to the current working directory to be searched for DSOs.

Apache HTTP Server 2.4.2 is available for download from:

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache 2.4 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance
boosts over the 2.2 codebase.  For an overview of new features
introduced since 2.4 please see:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/new_features_2_4.html

Please see the CHANGES_2.4 file, linked from the download page, for a
full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.4.2 includes only
those changes introduced since the prior 2.4 release.  A summary of all 
of the security vulnerabilities addressed in this and earlier releases 
is available: