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The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations.

The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features.

APR and its companion libraries are implemented entirely in C and provide a common programming interface across a wide variety of operating system platforms without sacrificing performance.

Currently supported platforms include: Mac OS X, UNIX variants, Windows, Netware, OS/2.

To give a brief overview, the primary core subsystems of APR include the following: · Atomic operations · Dynamic Shared Object loading · File I/O · Locks (mutexes, condition variables, etc) · Memory management (high performance allocators) · Memory-mapped files · Multicast Sockets · Network I/O · Shared memory · Thread and Process management · Various data structures (tables, hashes, priority queues, etc)

What's new in Apache Portable Runtime 1.5.2:

SECURITY: CVE-2015-1829 (cve.mitre.org) APR applications using APR named pipe support on Windows can be vulnerable to a pipe squatting attack from a local process; the extent of the vulnerability, when present, depends on the application. Initial analysis and report was provided by John Hernandez of Casaba Security via HP SSRT Security Alert. [Yann Ylavic]
apr_atomic: Fix errors when building on Visual Studio 2013 while maintaining the ability to build on Visual Studio 6 with Windows Server 2003 R2 SDK. PR 57191. [Gregg Smith]
Switch to generic atomics for early/unpatched Solaris 10 not exporting some atomic functions. PR 55418. [Yann Ylavic]
apr_file_mktemp() on HP-UX: Remove limitation of 26 temporary files per process. PR 57677. [Jeff Trawick]

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