The long life of Apache httpd 2.4

May 19, 2023

Here’s something that hadn’t struck me until I looked it up for
this entry: Apache 2.4 is now more
than ten years old. The first 2.4 release was made in early 2012
(per Wikipedia),
and despite being that old, 2.4 remains the current version of the
Apache web server (with 2.4.57 released in early April of this year,
2023). There is a ‘2.5’ in development which will be released as
2.6, someday, but the current trunk 2.5/2.6 changes are somewhat
underwhelming.

This isn’t entirely new in the Apache (httpd) project, since the
initial releases of 2.2 and 2.4 were almost seven years apart, but
it still feels like we’ve bee