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diff --git a/nginx/CHANGES b/nginx/CHANGES deleted file mode 100644 index 597c270..0000000 --- a/nginx/CHANGES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8115 +0,0 @@ - -Changes with nginx 1.14.2 04 Dec 2018 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 8.1. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Fedora 28 Linux. - - *) Bugfix: in handling of client addresses when using unix domain listen - sockets to work with datagrams on Linux. - - *) Change: the logging level of the "http request", "https proxy - request", "unsupported protocol", "version too low", "no suitable key - share", and "no suitable signature algorithm" SSL errors has been - lowered from "crit" to "info". - - *) Bugfix: when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 or newer it was not possible to - switch off "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" in a virtual server if it was - switched on in the default server. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with LibreSSL 2.8.0. - - *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with OpenSSL 1.1.0 and used with OpenSSL - 1.1.1, the TLS 1.3 protocol was always enabled. - - *) Bugfix: sending a disk-buffered request body to a gRPC backend might - fail. - - *) Bugfix: connections with some gRPC backends might not be cached when - using the "keepalive" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - ngx_http_mp4_module was used on 32-bit platforms. - - -Changes with nginx 1.14.1 06 Nov 2018 - - *) Security: when using HTTP/2 a client might cause excessive memory - consumption (CVE-2018-16843) and CPU usage (CVE-2018-16844). - - *) Security: processing of a specially crafted mp4 file with the - ngx_http_mp4_module might result in worker process memory disclosure - (CVE-2018-16845). - - *) Bugfix: working with gRPC backends might result in excessive memory - consumption. - - -Changes with nginx 1.14.0 17 Apr 2018 - - *) 1.14.x stable branch. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.12 10 Apr 2018 - - *) Bugfix: connections with gRPC backends might be closed unexpectedly - when returning a large response. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.11 03 Apr 2018 - - *) Feature: the "proxy_protocol" parameter of the "listen" directive now - supports the PROXY protocol version 2. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with OpenSSL 1.1.1 statically on - Linux. - - *) Bugfix: in the "http_404", "http_500", etc. parameters of the - "proxy_next_upstream" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.10 20 Mar 2018 - - *) Feature: the "set" parameter of the "include" SSI directive now - allows writing arbitrary responses to a variable; the - "subrequest_output_buffer_size" directive defines maximum response - size. - - *) Feature: now nginx uses clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) if available, - to avoid timeouts being incorrectly triggered on system time changes. - - *) Feature: the "escape=none" parameter of the "log_format" directive. - Thanks to Johannes Baiter and Calin Don. - - *) Feature: the $ssl_preread_alpn_protocols variable in the - ngx_stream_ssl_preread_module. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_grpc_module. - - *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling in the "geo" directive. - - *) Bugfix: when using variables in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive - a null character might appear in logs. - Thanks to Vadim Filimonov. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.9 20 Feb 2018 - - *) Feature: HTTP/2 server push support; the "http2_push" and - "http2_push_preload" directives. - - *) Bugfix: "header already sent" alerts might appear in logs when using - cache; the bug had appeared in 1.9.13. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "ssl_verify_client" directive was used and no SSL certificate was - specified in a virtual server. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_v2_module. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.8 26 Dec 2017 - - *) Feature: now nginx automatically preserves the CAP_NET_RAW capability - in worker processes when using the "transparent" parameter of the - "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", "memcached_bind", "scgi_bind", and - "uwsgi_bind" directives. - - *) Feature: improved CPU cache line size detection. - Thanks to Debayan Ghosh. - - *) Feature: new directives in vim syntax highlighting scripts. - Thanks to Gena Makhomed. - - *) Bugfix: binary upgrade refused to work if nginx was re-parented to a - process with PID different from 1 after its parent process has - finished. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module incorrectly handled requests - with bodies. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_limit_rate" directive when used with the - "keepalive" directive. - - *) Bugfix: some parts of a response might be buffered when using - "proxy_buffering off" if the client connection used SSL. - Thanks to Patryk Lesiewicz. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cache_background_update" directive. - - *) Bugfix: it was not possible to start a parameter with a variable in - the "${name}" form with the name in curly brackets without enclosing - the parameter into single or double quotes. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.7 21 Nov 2017 - - *) Bugfix: in the $upstream_status variable. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if a - backend returned a "101 Switching Protocols" response to a - subrequest. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process if a shared - memory zone size was changed during a reconfiguration and the - reconfiguration failed. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module. - - *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 500 error if parameters without variables - were specified in the "xslt_stylesheet" directive. - - *) Workaround: "gzip filter failed to use preallocated memory" alerts - appeared in logs when using a zlib library variant from Intel. - - *) Bugfix: the "worker_shutdown_timeout" directive did not work when - using mail proxy and when proxying WebSocket connections. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.6 10 Oct 2017 - - *) Bugfix: switching to the next upstream server in the stream module - did not work when using the "ssl_preread" directive. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_v2_module. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates after the year 2038 on 32-bit - platforms with 64-bit time_t. - - *) Bugfix: in handling of dates prior to the year 1970 and after the - year 10000. - - *) Bugfix: in the stream module timeouts waiting for UDP datagrams from - upstream servers were not logged or logged at the "info" level - instead of "error". - - *) Bugfix: when using HTTP/2 nginx might return the 400 response without - logging the reason. - - *) Bugfix: in processing of corrupted cache files. - - *) Bugfix: cache control headers were ignored when caching errors - intercepted by error_page. - - *) Bugfix: when using HTTP/2 client request body might be corrupted. - - *) Bugfix: in handling of client addresses when using unix domain - sockets. - - *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU when using the "hash ... consistent" - directive in the upstream block if large weights were used and all or - most of the servers were unavailable. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.5 05 Sep 2017 - - *) Feature: the $ssl_client_escaped_cert variable. - - *) Bugfix: the "ssl_session_ticket_key" directive and the "include" - parameter of the "geo" directive did not work on Windows. - - *) Bugfix: incorrect response length was returned on 32-bit platforms - when requesting more than 4 gigabytes with multiple ranges. - - *) Bugfix: the "expires modified" directive and processing of the - "If-Range" request header line did not use the response last - modification time if proxying without caching was used. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.4 08 Aug 2017 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_mirror_module. - - *) Bugfix: client connections might be dropped during configuration - testing when using the "reuseport" parameter of the "listen" - directive on Linux. - - *) Bugfix: request body might not be available in subrequests if it was - saved to a file and proxying was used. - - *) Bugfix: cleaning cache based on the "max_size" parameter did not work - on Windows. - - *) Bugfix: any shared memory allocation required 4096 bytes on Windows. - - *) Bugfix: nginx worker might be terminated abnormally when using the - "zone" directive inside the "upstream" block on Windows. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.3 11 Jul 2017 - - *) Security: a specially crafted request might result in an integer - overflow and incorrect processing of ranges in the range filter, - potentially resulting in sensitive information leak (CVE-2017-7529). - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.2 27 Jun 2017 - - *) Change: nginx now returns 200 instead of 416 when a range starting - with 0 is requested from an empty file. - - *) Feature: the "add_trailer" directive. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Cygwin and NetBSD; the bug had - appeared in 1.13.0. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built under MSYS2 / MinGW 64-bit. - Thanks to Orgad Shaneh. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when - using SSI with many includes and proxy_pass with variables. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_v2_module. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.1 30 May 2017 - - *) Feature: now a hostname can be used as the "set_real_ip_from" - directive parameter. - - *) Feature: vim syntax highlighting scripts improvements. - - *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive now works on DragonFly - BSD. - Thanks to Sepherosa Ziehau. - - *) Bugfix: SSL renegotiation on backend connections did not work when - using OpenSSL before 1.1.0. - - *) Workaround: nginx could not be built with Oracle Developer Studio - 12.5. - - *) Workaround: now cache manager ignores long locked cache entries when - cleaning cache based on the "max_size" parameter. - - *) Bugfix: client SSL connections were immediately closed if deferred - accept and the "proxy_protocol" parameter of the "listen" directive - were used. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cache_background_update" directive. - - *) Workaround: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive sets the TCP_NODELAY - option before an SSL handshake. - - -Changes with nginx 1.13.0 25 Apr 2017 - - *) Change: SSL renegotiation is now allowed on backend connections. - - *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen" - directives of the mail proxy and stream modules. - - *) Feature: the "return" and "error_page" directives can now be used to - return 308 redirections. - Thanks to Simon Leblanc. - - *) Feature: the "TLSv1.3" parameter of the "ssl_protocols" directive. - - *) Feature: when logging signals nginx now logs PID of the process which - sent the signal. - - *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling. - - *) Bugfix: if a server in the stream module listened on a wildcard - address, the source address of a response UDP datagram could differ - from the original datagram destination address. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.13 04 Apr 2017 - - *) Feature: the "http_429" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream", - "fastcgi_next_upstream", "scgi_next_upstream", and - "uwsgi_next_upstream" directives. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling. - - *) Bugfix: requests might hang when using the "sendfile" and - "timer_resolution" directives on Linux. - - *) Bugfix: requests might hang when using the "sendfile" and "aio_write" - directives with subrequests. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_v2_module. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when - using HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: requests might hang when using the "limit_rate", - "sendfile_max_chunk", "limit_req" directives, or the $r->sleep() - embedded perl method with subrequests. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_slice_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.12 24 Mar 2017 - - *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU; the bug had appeared in 1.11.11. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.11 21 Mar 2017 - - *) Feature: the "worker_shutdown_timeout" directive. - - *) Feature: vim syntax highlighting scripts improvements. - Thanks to Wei-Ko Kao. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - $limit_rate variable was set to an empty string. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_background_update", - "fastcgi_cache_background_update", "scgi_cache_background_update", - and "uwsgi_cache_background_update" directives might work incorrectly - if the "if" directive was used. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if - number of large_client_header_buffers in a virtual server was - different from the one in the default server. - - *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.10 14 Feb 2017 - - *) Change: cache header format has been changed, previously cached - responses will be invalidated. - - *) Feature: support of "stale-while-revalidate" and "stale-if-error" - extensions in the "Cache-Control" backend response header line. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_background_update", - "fastcgi_cache_background_update", "scgi_cache_background_update", - and "uwsgi_cache_background_update" directives. - - *) Feature: nginx is now able to cache responses with the "Vary" header - line up to 128 characters long (instead of 42 characters in previous - versions). - - *) Feature: the "build" parameter of the "server_tokens" directive. - Thanks to Tom Thorogood. - - *) Bugfix: "[crit] SSL_write() failed" messages might appear in logs - when handling requests with the "Expect: 100-continue" request header - line. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_slice_module did not work in named locations. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when - using AIO after an "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection. - - *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption for long-lived requests using - gzipping. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.9 24 Jan 2017 - - *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU when using the stream module; the bug had - appeared in 1.11.5. - - *) Bugfix: EXTERNAL authentication mechanism in mail proxy was accepted - even if it was not enabled in the configuration. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "ssl_verify_client" directive of the stream module was used. - - *) Bugfix: the "ssl_verify_client" directive of the stream module might - not work. - - *) Bugfix: closing keepalive connections due to no free worker - connections might be too aggressive. - Thanks to Joel Cunningham. - - *) Bugfix: an incorrect response might be returned when using the - "sendfile" directive on FreeBSD and macOS; the bug had appeared in - 1.7.8. - - *) Bugfix: a truncated response might be stored in cache when using the - "aio_write" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occur when using the "aio_write" - directive. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.8 27 Dec 2016 - - *) Feature: the "absolute_redirect" directive. - - *) Feature: the "escape" parameter of the "log_format" directive. - - *) Feature: client SSL certificates verification in the stream module. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_session_ticket_key" directive supports AES256 - encryption of TLS session tickets when used with 80-byte keys. - - *) Feature: vim-commentary support in vim scripts. - Thanks to Armin Grodon. - - *) Bugfix: recursion when evaluating variables was not limited. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_stream_ssl_preread_module. - - *) Bugfix: if a server in an upstream in the stream module failed, it - was considered alive only when a test connection sent to it after - fail_timeout was closed; now a successfully established connection is - enough. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with 64-bit Visual Studio. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with OpenSSL 1.1.0. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.7 13 Dec 2016 - - *) Change: now in case of a client certificate verification error the - $ssl_client_verify variable contains a string with the failure - reason, for example, "FAILED:certificate has expired". - - *) Feature: the $ssl_ciphers, $ssl_curves, $ssl_client_v_start, - $ssl_client_v_end, and $ssl_client_v_remain variables. - - *) Feature: the "volatile" parameter of the "map" directive. - - *) Bugfix: dependencies specified for a module were ignored while - building dynamic modules. - - *) Bugfix: when using HTTP/2 and the "limit_req" or "auth_request" - directives client request body might be corrupted; the bug had - appeared in 1.11.0. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when - using HTTP/2; the bug had appeared in 1.11.3. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. - Thanks to Congcong Hu. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_perl_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.6 15 Nov 2016 - - *) Change: format of the $ssl_client_s_dn and $ssl_client_i_dn variables - has been changed to follow RFC 2253 (RFC 4514); values in the old - format are available in the $ssl_client_s_dn_legacy and - $ssl_client_i_dn_legacy variables. - - *) Change: when storing temporary files in a cache directory they will - be stored in the same subdirectories as corresponding cache files - instead of a separate subdirectory for temporary files. - - *) Feature: EXTERNAL authentication mechanism support in mail proxy. - Thanks to Robert Norris. - - *) Feature: WebP support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module. - - *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_method" directive. - Thanks to Dmitry Lazurkin. - - *) Feature: the "http2_max_requests" directive in the - ngx_http_v2_module. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_max_range_offset", - "fastcgi_cache_max_range_offset", "scgi_cache_max_range_offset", and - "uwsgi_cache_max_range_offset" directives. - - *) Bugfix: graceful shutdown of old worker processes might require - infinite time when using HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. - - *) Bugfix: "ignore long locked inactive cache entry" alerts might appear - in logs when proxying WebSocket connections with caching enabled. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not write anything to log and returned a response - with code 502 instead of 504 when a timeout occurred during an SSL - handshake to a backend. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.5 11 Oct 2016 - - *) Change: the --with-ipv6 configure option was removed, now IPv6 - support is configured automatically. - - *) Change: now if there are no available servers in an upstream, nginx - will not reset number of failures of all servers as it previously - did, but will wait for fail_timeout to expire. - - *) Feature: the ngx_stream_ssl_preread_module. - - *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports - the "max_conns" parameter. - - *) Feature: the --with-compat configure option. - - *) Feature: "manager_files", "manager_threshold", and "manager_sleep" - parameters of the "proxy_cache_path", "fastcgi_cache_path", - "scgi_cache_path", and "uwsgi_cache_path" directives. - - *) Bugfix: flags passed by the --with-ld-opt configure option were not - used while building perl module. - - *) Bugfix: in the "add_after_body" directive when used with the - "sub_filter" directive. - - *) Bugfix: in the $realip_remote_addr variable. - - *) Bugfix: the "dav_access", "proxy_store_access", - "fastcgi_store_access", "scgi_store_access", and "uwsgi_store_access" - directives ignored permissions specified for user. - - *) Bugfix: unix domain listen sockets might not be inherited during - binary upgrade on Linux. - - *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests with the "-" - character in the HTTP method. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.4 13 Sep 2016 - - *) Feature: the $upstream_bytes_received variable. - - *) Feature: the $bytes_received, $session_time, $protocol, $status, - $upstream_addr, $upstream_bytes_sent, $upstream_bytes_received, - $upstream_connect_time, $upstream_first_byte_time, and - $upstream_session_time variables in the stream module. - - *) Feature: the ngx_stream_log_module. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_protocol" parameter of the "listen" directive, - the $proxy_protocol_addr and $proxy_protocol_port variables in the - stream module. - - *) Feature: the ngx_stream_realip_module. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the stream module and the - ngx_http_ssl_module, but without ngx_stream_ssl_module; the bug had - appeared in 1.11.3. - - *) Feature: the IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT socket option was not used; the - bug had appeared in 1.11.2. - - *) Bugfix: in the "ranges" parameter of the "geo" directive. - - *) Bugfix: an incorrect response might be returned when using the "aio - threads" and "sendfile" directives; the bug had appeared in 1.9.13. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.3 26 Jul 2016 - - *) Change: now the "accept_mutex" directive is turned off by default. - - *) Feature: now nginx uses EPOLLEXCLUSIVE on Linux. - - *) Feature: the ngx_stream_geo_module. - - *) Feature: the ngx_stream_geoip_module. - - *) Feature: the ngx_stream_split_clients_module. - - *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" and "proxy_ssl_name" - directives in the stream module. - - *) Bugfix: socket leak when using HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: in configure tests. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.2 05 Jul 2016 - - *) Change: now nginx always uses internal MD5 and SHA1 implementations; - the --with-md5 and --with-sha1 configure options were canceled. - - *) Feature: variables support in the stream module. - - *) Feature: the ngx_stream_map_module. - - *) Feature: the ngx_stream_return_module. - - *) Feature: a port can be specified in the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", - "memcached_bind", "scgi_bind", and "uwsgi_bind" directives. - - *) Feature: now nginx uses the IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT socket option - when available. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when - using HTTP/2 and the "proxy_request_buffering" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "Content-Length" request header line was always added to - requests passed to backends, including requests without body, when - using HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: "http request count is zero" alerts might appear in logs when - using HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: unnecessary buffering might occur when using the "sub_filter" - directive; the issue had appeared in 1.9.4. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.1 31 May 2016 - - *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while - writing a specially crafted request body to a temporary file - (CVE-2016-4450); the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. - - -Changes with nginx 1.11.0 24 May 2016 - - *) Feature: the "transparent" parameter of the "proxy_bind", - "fastcgi_bind", "memcached_bind", "scgi_bind", and "uwsgi_bind" - directives. - - *) Feature: the $request_id variable. - - *) Feature: the "map" directive supports combinations of multiple - variables as resulting values. - - *) Feature: now nginx checks if EPOLLRDHUP events are supported by - kernel, and optimizes connection handling accordingly if the "epoll" - method is used. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_certificate" and "ssl_certificate_key" directives - can be specified multiple times to load certificates of different - types (for example, RSA and ECDSA). - - *) Feature: the "ssl_ecdh_curve" directive now allows specifying a list - of curves when using OpenSSL 1.0.2 or newer; by default a list built - into OpenSSL is used. - - *) Change: to use DHE ciphers it is now required to specify parameters - using the "ssl_dhparam" directive. - - *) Feature: the $proxy_protocol_port variable. - - *) Feature: the $realip_remote_port variable in the - ngx_http_realip_module. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module is now able to set the client - port in addition to the address. - - *) Change: the "421 Misdirected Request" response now used when - rejecting requests to a virtual server different from one negotiated - during an SSL handshake; this improves interoperability with some - HTTP/2 clients when using client certificates. - - *) Change: HTTP/2 clients can now start sending request body - immediately; the "http2_body_preread_size" directive controls size of - the buffer used before nginx will start reading client request body. - - *) Bugfix: cached error responses were not updated when using the - "proxy_cache_bypass" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.15 19 Apr 2016 - - *) Bugfix: "recv() failed" errors might occur when using HHVM as a - FastCGI server. - - *) Bugfix: when using HTTP/2 and the "limit_req" or "auth_request" - directives a timeout or a "client violated flow control" error might - occur while reading client request body; the bug had appeared in - 1.9.14. - - *) Workaround: a response might not be shown by some browsers if HTTP/2 - was used and client request body was not fully read; the bug had - appeared in 1.9.14. - - *) Bugfix: connections might hang when using the "aio threads" - directive. - Thanks to Mindaugas Rasiukevicius. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.14 05 Apr 2016 - - *) Feature: OpenSSL 1.1.0 compatibility. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_request_buffering", "fastcgi_request_buffering", - "scgi_request_buffering", and "uwsgi_request_buffering" directives - now work with HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: "zero size buf in output" alerts might appear in logs when - using HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: the "client_max_body_size" directive might work incorrectly - when using HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: of minor bugs in logging. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.13 29 Mar 2016 - - *) Change: non-idempotent requests (POST, LOCK, PATCH) are no longer - passed to the next server by default if a request has been sent to a - backend; the "non_idempotent" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" - directive explicitly allows retrying such requests. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module can be built dynamically. - - *) Feature: UDP support in the stream module. - - *) Feature: the "aio_write" directive. - - *) Feature: now cache manager monitors number of elements in caches and - tries to avoid cache keys zone overflows. - - *) Bugfix: "task already active" and "second aio post" alerts might - appear in logs when using the "sendfile" and "aio" directives with - subrequests. - - *) Bugfix: "zero size buf in output" alerts might appear in logs if - caching was used and a client closed a connection prematurely. - - *) Bugfix: connections with clients might be closed needlessly if - caching was used. - Thanks to Justin Li. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU if the "sendfile" directive was used on - Linux or Solaris and a file being sent was changed during sending. - - *) Bugfix: connections might hang when using the "sendfile" and "aio - threads" directives. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", and - "uwsgi_pass" directives when using variables. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_sub_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: if an error occurred in a cached backend connection, the - request was passed to the next server regardless of the - proxy_next_upstream directive. - - *) Bugfix: "CreateFile() failed" errors when creating temporary files on - Windows. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.12 24 Feb 2016 - - *) Feature: Huffman encoding of response headers in HTTP/2. - Thanks to Vlad Krasnov. - - *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive now supports more than - 64 CPUs. - - *) Bugfix: compatibility with 3rd party C++ modules; the bug had - appeared in 1.9.11. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built statically with OpenSSL on Linux; - the bug had appeared in 1.9.11. - - *) Bugfix: the "add_header ... always" directive with an empty value did - not delete "Last-Modified" and "ETag" header lines from error - responses. - - *) Workaround: "called a function you should not call" and "shutdown - while in init" messages might appear in logs when using OpenSSL - 1.0.2f. - - *) Bugfix: invalid headers might be logged incorrectly. - - *) Bugfix: socket leak when using HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_v2_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.11 09 Feb 2016 - - *) Feature: TCP support in resolver. - - *) Feature: dynamic modules. - - *) Bugfix: the $request_length variable did not include size of request - headers when using HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_v2_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.10 26 Jan 2016 - - *) Security: invalid pointer dereference might occur during DNS server - response processing if the "resolver" directive was used, allowing an - attacker who is able to forge UDP packets from the DNS server to - cause segmentation fault in a worker process (CVE-2016-0742). - - *) Security: use-after-free condition might occur during CNAME response - processing if the "resolver" directive was used, allowing an attacker - who is able to trigger name resolution to cause segmentation fault in - a worker process, or might have potential other impact - (CVE-2016-0746). - - *) Security: CNAME resolution was insufficiently limited if the - "resolver" directive was used, allowing an attacker who is able to - trigger arbitrary name resolution to cause excessive resource - consumption in worker processes (CVE-2016-0747). - - *) Feature: the "auto" parameter of the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_protocol" parameter of the "listen" directive did - not work with IPv6 listen sockets. - - *) Bugfix: connections to upstream servers might be cached incorrectly - when using the "keepalive" directive. - - *) Bugfix: proxying used the HTTP method of the original request after - an "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.9 09 Dec 2015 - - *) Bugfix: proxying to unix domain sockets did not work when using - variables; the bug had appeared in 1.9.8. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.8 08 Dec 2015 - - *) Feature: pwritev() support. - - *) Feature: the "include" directive inside the "upstream" block. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_slice_module. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when - using LibreSSL; the bug had appeared in 1.9.6. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OS X in some cases. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.7 17 Nov 2015 - - *) Feature: the "nohostname" parameter of logging to syslog. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_convert_head" directive. - - *) Feature: the $realip_remote_addr variable in the - ngx_http_realip_module. - - *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive might not work when using variables. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when - using HTTP/2; the bug had appeared in 1.9.6. - - *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_v2_module it was - possible to use the HTTP/2 protocol even if the "http2" parameter of - the "listen" directive was not specified. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_v2_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.6 27 Oct 2015 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when - using HTTP/2. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora and Denis Andzakovic. - - *) Bugfix: the $server_protocol variable was empty when using HTTP/2. - - *) Bugfix: backend SSL connections in the stream module might be timed - out unexpectedly. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if - different ssl_session_cache settings were used in different virtual - servers. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with MinGW gcc; the bug had - appeared in 1.9.4. - Thanks to Kouhei Sutou. - - *) Bugfix: time was not updated when the timer_resolution directive was - used on Windows. - - *) Miscellaneous minor fixes and improvements. - Thanks to Markus Linnala, Kurtis Nusbaum and Piotr Sikora. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.5 22 Sep 2015 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_v2_module (replaces ngx_http_spdy_module). - Thanks to Dropbox and Automattic for sponsoring this work. - - *) Change: now the "output_buffers" directive uses two buffers by - default. - - *) Change: now nginx limits subrequests recursion, not simultaneous - subrequests. - - *) Change: now nginx checks the whole cache key when returning a - response from cache. - Thanks to Gena Makhomed and Sergey Brester. - - *) Bugfix: "header already sent" alerts might appear in logs when using - cache; the bug had appeared in 1.7.5. - - *) Bugfix: "writev() failed (4: Interrupted system call)" errors might - appear in logs when using CephFS and the "timer_resolution" directive - on Linux. - - *) Bugfix: in invalid configurations handling. - Thanks to Markus Linnala. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process if the - "sub_filter" directive was used at http level; the bug had appeared - in 1.9.4. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.4 18 Aug 2015 - - *) Change: the "proxy_downstream_buffer" and "proxy_upstream_buffer" - directives of the stream module are replaced with the - "proxy_buffer_size" directive. - - *) Feature: the "tcp_nodelay" directive in the stream module. - - *) Feature: multiple "sub_filter" directives can be used simultaneously. - - *) Feature: variables support in the search string of the "sub_filter" - directive. - - *) Workaround: configuration testing might fail under Linux OpenVZ. - Thanks to Gena Makhomed. - - *) Bugfix: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration with - a large number of worker_connections. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "try_files" and "alias" directives were used inside a location given - by a regular expression; the bug had appeared in 1.7.1. - - *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive inside a nested location given by a - regular expression worked incorrectly if the "alias" directive was - used in the outer location. - - *) Bugfix: in hash table initialization error handling. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with Visual Studio 2015. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.3 14 Jul 2015 - - *) Change: duplicate "http", "mail", and "stream" blocks are now - disallowed. - - *) Feature: connection limiting in the stream module. - - *) Feature: data rate limiting in the stream module. - - *) Bugfix: the "zone" directive inside the "upstream" block did not work - on Windows. - - *) Bugfix: compatibility with LibreSSL in the stream module. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in the "--builddir" configure parameter. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: the "ssl_stapling_file" directive did not work; the bug had - appeared in 1.9.2. - Thanks to Faidon Liambotis and Brandon Black. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "ssl_stapling" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.9.2. - Thanks to Matthew Baldwin. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.2 16 Jun 2015 - - *) Feature: the "backlog" parameter of the "listen" directives of the - mail proxy and stream modules. - - *) Feature: the "allow" and "deny" directives in the stream module. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_bind" directive in the stream module. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_protocol" directive in the stream module. - - *) Feature: the -T switch. - - *) Feature: the REQUEST_SCHEME parameter added to the fastcgi.conf, - fastcgi_params, scgi_params, and uwsgi_params standard configuration - files. - - *) Bugfix: the "reuseport" parameter of the "listen" directive of the - stream module did not work. - - *) Bugfix: OCSP stapling might return an expired OCSP response in some - cases. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.1 26 May 2015 - - *) Change: now SSLv3 protocol is disabled by default. - - *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore. - - *) Feature: the "reuseport" parameter of the "listen" directive. - Thanks to Yingqi Lu at Intel and Sepherosa Ziehau. - - *) Feature: the $upstream_connect_time variable. - - *) Bugfix: in the "hash" directive on big-endian platforms. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might fail to start on some old Linux variants; the bug - had appeared in 1.7.11. - - *) Bugfix: in IP address parsing. - Thanks to Sergey Polovko. - - -Changes with nginx 1.9.0 28 Apr 2015 - - *) Change: obsolete aio and rtsig event methods have been removed. - - *) Feature: the "zone" directive inside the "upstream" block. - - *) Feature: the stream module. - - *) Feature: byte ranges support in the ngx_http_memcached_module. - Thanks to Martin Mlynář. - - *) Feature: shared memory can now be used on Windows versions with - address space layout randomization. - Thanks to Sergey Brester. - - *) Feature: the "error_log" directive can now be used on mail and server - levels in mail proxy. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_protocol" parameter of the "listen" directive did - not work if not specified in the first "listen" directive for a - listen socket. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.12 07 Apr 2015 - - *) Feature: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive works with backend SSL - connections. - - *) Feature: now thread pools can be used to read cache file headers. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_request_buffering" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when - using thread pools on Linux. - - *) Bugfix: in error handling when using the "ssl_stapling" directive. - Thanks to Filipe da Silva. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.11 24 Mar 2015 - - *) Change: the "sendfile" parameter of the "aio" directive is - deprecated; now nginx automatically uses AIO to pre-load data for - sendfile if both "aio" and "sendfile" directives are used. - - *) Feature: experimental thread pools support. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_request_buffering", "fastcgi_request_buffering", - "scgi_request_buffering", and "uwsgi_request_buffering" directives. - - *) Feature: request body filters experimental API. - - *) Feature: client SSL certificates support in mail proxy. - Thanks to Sven Peter, Franck Levionnois, and Filipe Da Silva. - - *) Feature: startup speedup when using the "hash ... consistent" - directive in the upstream block. - Thanks to Wai Keen Woon. - - *) Feature: debug logging into a cyclic memory buffer. - - *) Bugfix: in hash table handling. - Thanks to Chris West. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cache_revalidate" directive. - - *) Bugfix: SSL connections might hang if deferred accept or the - "proxy_protocol" parameter of the "listen" directive were used. - Thanks to James Hamlin. - - *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might contain a wrong - value if the "image_filter" directive was used. - - *) Bugfix: in integer overflow handling. - Thanks to Régis Leroy. - - *) Bugfix: it was not possible to enable SSLv3 with LibreSSL. - - *) Bugfix: the "ignoring stale global SSL error ... called a function - you should not call" alerts appeared in logs when using LibreSSL. - - *) Bugfix: certificates specified by the "ssl_client_certificate" and - "ssl_trusted_certificate" directives were inadvertently used to - automatically construct certificate chains. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.10 10 Feb 2015 - - *) Feature: the "use_temp_path" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path", - "fastcgi_cache_path", "scgi_cache_path", and "uwsgi_cache_path" - directives. - - *) Feature: the $upstream_header_time variable. - - *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write error logs once - a second only. - - *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive did not ignore normal files while - testing directories. - Thanks to Damien Tournoud. - - *) Bugfix: alerts "sendfile() failed" if the "sendfile" directive was - used on OS X; the bug had appeared in 1.7.8. - - *) Bugfix: alerts "sem_post() failed" might appear in logs. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with musl libc. - Thanks to James Taylor. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Tru64 UNIX. - Thanks to Goetz T. Fischer. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.9 23 Dec 2014 - - *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_cache", "fastcgi_cache", - "scgi_cache", and "uwsgi_cache" directives. - - *) Feature: variables support in the "expires" directive. - - *) Feature: loading of secret keys from hardware tokens with OpenSSL - engines. - Thanks to Dmitrii Pichulin. - - *) Feature: the "autoindex_format" directive. - - *) Bugfix: cache revalidation is now only used for responses with 200 - and 206 status codes. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: the "TE" client request header line was passed to backends - while proxying. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", and - "uwsgi_pass" directives might not work correctly inside the "if" and - "limit_except" blocks. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" directive with the "on" parameter was - ignored if the "proxy_store" directive with an explicitly specified - file path was used on a previous level. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with BoringSSL. - Thanks to Lukas Tribus. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.8 02 Dec 2014 - - *) Change: now the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request - header lines are passed to a backend while caching if nginx knows in - advance that the response will not be cached (e.g., when using - proxy_cache_min_uses). - - *) Change: now after proxy_cache_lock_timeout nginx sends a request to a - backend with caching disabled; the new directives - "proxy_cache_lock_age", "fastcgi_cache_lock_age", - "scgi_cache_lock_age", and "uwsgi_cache_lock_age" specify a time - after which the lock will be released and another attempt to cache a - response will be made. - - *) Change: the "log_format" directive can now be used only at http - level. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_certificate", "proxy_ssl_certificate_key", - "proxy_ssl_password_file", "uwsgi_ssl_certificate", - "uwsgi_ssl_certificate_key", and "uwsgi_ssl_password_file" - directives. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Feature: it is now possible to switch to a named location using - "X-Accel-Redirect". - Thanks to Toshikuni Fukaya. - - *) Feature: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive works with SPDY connections. - - *) Feature: new directives in vim syntax highliting scripts. - Thanks to Peter Wu. - - *) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "s-maxage" value in the "Cache-Control" - backend response header line. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in the "ssl_password_file" directive when using OpenSSL - 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, 1.0.1j. - - *) Bugfix: alerts "header already sent" appeared in logs if the - "post_action" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.5.4. - - *) Bugfix: alerts "the http output chain is empty" might appear in logs - if the "postpone_output 0" directive was used with SSI includes. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cache_lock" directive with SSI subrequests. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.7 28 Oct 2014 - - *) Change: now nginx takes into account the "Vary" header line in a - backend response while caching. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_force_ranges", "fastcgi_force_ranges", - "scgi_force_ranges", and "uwsgi_force_ranges" directives. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_limit_rate", "fastcgi_limit_rate", - "scgi_limit_rate", and "uwsgi_limit_rate" directives. - - *) Feature: the "Vary" parameter of the "proxy_ignore_headers", - "fastcgi_ignore_headers", "scgi_ignore_headers", and - "uwsgi_ignore_headers" directives. - - *) Bugfix: the last part of a response received from a backend with - unbufferred proxy might not be sent to a client if "gzip" or "gunzip" - directives were used. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cache_revalidate" directive. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in error handling. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang and Daniil Bondarev. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_next_upstream_tries" and - "proxy_next_upstream_timeout" directives. - Thanks to Feng Gu. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with MinGW-w64 gcc. - Thanks to Kouhei Sutou. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.6 30 Sep 2014 - - *) Change: the deprecated "limit_zone" directive is not supported - anymore. - - *) Feature: the "limit_conn_zone" and "limit_req_zone" directives now - can be used with combinations of multiple variables. - - *) Bugfix: request body might be transmitted incorrectly when retrying a - FastCGI request to the next upstream server. - - *) Bugfix: in logging to syslog. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.5 16 Sep 2014 - - *) Security: it was possible to reuse SSL sessions in unrelated contexts - if a shared SSL session cache or the same TLS session ticket key was - used for multiple "server" blocks (CVE-2014-3616). - Thanks to Antoine Delignat-Lavaud. - - *) Change: now the "stub_status" directive does not require a parameter. - - *) Feature: the "always" parameter of the "add_header" directive. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream_tries", - "proxy_next_upstream_timeout", "fastcgi_next_upstream_tries", - "fastcgi_next_upstream_timeout", "memcached_next_upstream_tries", - "memcached_next_upstream_timeout", "scgi_next_upstream_tries", - "scgi_next_upstream_timeout", "uwsgi_next_upstream_tries", and - "uwsgi_next_upstream_timeout" directives. - - *) Bugfix: in the "if" parameter of the "access_log" directive. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_perl_module. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive of the mail proxy module did not allow - to specify more than two parameters. - - *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive did not work with a string to - replace consisting of a single character. - - *) Bugfix: requests might hang if resolver was used and a timeout - occurred during a DNS request. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module when using with AIO. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "set" directive was used to change the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", - or "$upstream_http_..." variables. - - *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling. - Thanks to Markus Linnala and Feng Gu. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.4 05 Aug 2014 - - *) Security: pipelined commands were not discarded after STARTTLS - command in SMTP proxy (CVE-2014-3556); the bug had appeared in 1.5.6. - Thanks to Chris Boulton. - - *) Change: URI escaping now uses uppercase hexadecimal digits. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Feature: now nginx can be build with BoringSSL and LibreSSL. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: requests might hang if resolver was used and a DNS server - returned a malformed response; the bug had appeared in 1.5.8. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: the $uri variable might contain garbage when returning errors - with code 400. - Thanks to Sergey Bobrov. - - *) Bugfix: in error handling in the "proxy_store" directive and the - ngx_http_dav_module. - Thanks to Feng Gu. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if logging of errors to - syslog was used; the bug had appeared in 1.7.1. - - *) Bugfix: the $geoip_latitude, $geoip_longitude, $geoip_dma_code, and - $geoip_area_code variables might not work. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang. - - *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling. - Thanks to Tatsuhiko Kubo and Piotr Sikora. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.3 08 Jul 2014 - - *) Feature: weak entity tags are now preserved on response - modifications, and strong ones are changed to weak. - - *) Feature: cache revalidation now uses If-None-Match header if - possible. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_password_file" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the If-None-Match request header line was ignored if there - was no Last-Modified header in a response returned from cache. - - *) Bugfix: "peer closed connection in SSL handshake" messages were - logged at "info" level instead of "error" while connecting to - backends. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module module in nginx/Windows. - - *) Bugfix: SPDY connections might be closed prematurely if caching was - used. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.2 17 Jun 2014 - - *) Feature: the "hash" directive inside the "upstream" block. - - *) Feature: defragmentation of free shared memory blocks. - Thanks to Wandenberg Peixoto and Yichun Zhang. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - default value of the "access_log" directive was used; the bug had - appeared in 1.7.0. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: trailing slash was mistakenly removed from the last parameter - of the "try_files" directive. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OS X in some cases. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.1 27 May 2014 - - *) Feature: the "$upstream_cookie_..." variables. - - *) Feature: the $ssl_client_fingerprint variable. - - *) Feature: the "error_log" and "access_log" directives now support - logging to syslog. - - *) Feature: the mail proxy now logs client port on connect. - - *) Bugfix: memory leak if the "ssl_stapling" directive was used. - Thanks to Filipe da Silva. - - *) Bugfix: the "alias" directive used inside a location given by a - regular expression worked incorrectly if the "if" or "limit_except" - directives were used. - - *) Bugfix: the "charset" directive did not set a charset to encoded - backend responses. - - *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original - request after the $args variable was set. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang. - - *) Bugfix: in the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive; the bug - had appeared in 1.5.6. - Thanks to Svyatoslav Nikolsky. - - *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses - might be transferred incorrectly. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --with-file-aio option on - Linux/aarch64. - - -Changes with nginx 1.7.0 24 Apr 2014 - - *) Feature: backend SSL certificate verification. - - *) Feature: support for SNI while working with SSL backends. - - *) Feature: the $ssl_server_name variable. - - *) Feature: the "if" parameter of the "access_log" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.13 08 Apr 2014 - - *) Change: improved hash table handling; the default values of the - "variables_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size" were changed - to 1024 and 64 respectively. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_mp4_module now supports the "end" argument. - - *) Feature: byte ranges support in the ngx_http_mp4_module and while - saving responses to cache. - - *) Bugfix: alerts "ngx_slab_alloc() failed: no memory" no longer logged - when using shared memory in the "ssl_session_cache" directive and in - the ngx_http_limit_req_module. - - *) Bugfix: the "underscores_in_headers" directive did not allow - underscore as a first character of a header. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: cache manager might hog CPU on exit in nginx/Windows. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows terminated abnormally if the - "ssl_session_cache" directive was used with the "shared" parameter. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.12 18 Mar 2014 - - *) Security: a heap memory buffer overflow might occur in a worker - process while handling a specially crafted request by - ngx_http_spdy_module, potentially resulting in arbitrary code - execution (CVE-2014-0133). - Thanks to Lucas Molas, researcher at Programa STIC, Fundación Dr. - Manuel Sadosky, Buenos Aires, Argentina. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_protocol" parameters of the "listen" and - "real_ip_header" directives, the $proxy_protocol_addr variable. - - *) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_next_upstream" directive. - Thanks to Lucas Molas. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.11 04 Mar 2014 - - *) Security: memory corruption might occur in a worker process on 32-bit - platforms while handling a specially crafted request by - ngx_http_spdy_module, potentially resulting in arbitrary code - execution (CVE-2014-0088); the bug had appeared in 1.5.10. - Thanks to Lucas Molas, researcher at Programa STIC, Fundación Dr. - Manuel Sadosky, Buenos Aires, Argentina. - - *) Feature: the $ssl_session_reused variable. - - *) Bugfix: the "client_max_body_size" directive might not work when - reading a request body using chunked transfer encoding; the bug had - appeared in 1.3.9. - Thanks to Lucas Molas. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when - proxying WebSocket connections. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - ngx_http_spdy_module was used on 32-bit platforms; the bug had - appeared in 1.5.10. - - *) Bugfix: the $upstream_status variable might contain wrong data if the - "proxy_cache_use_stale" or "proxy_cache_revalidate" directives were - used. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if - errors with code 400 were redirected to a named location using the - "error_page" directive. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2013. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.10 04 Feb 2014 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_spdy_module now uses SPDY 3.1 protocol. - Thanks to Automattic and MaxCDN for sponsoring this work. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_mp4_module now skips tracks too short for a - seek requested. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - $ssl_session_id variable was used in logs; the bug had appeared in - 1.5.9. - - *) Bugfix: the $date_local and $date_gmt variables used wrong format - outside of the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: client connections might be immediately closed if deferred - accept was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.15. - - *) Bugfix: alerts "getsockopt(TCP_FASTOPEN) ... failed" appeared in logs - during binary upgrade on Linux; the bug had appeared in 1.5.8. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.9 22 Jan 2014 - - *) Change: now nginx expects escaped URIs in "X-Accel-Redirect" headers. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_buffer_size" directive. - - *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive can now be used to rate limit - responses sent in SPDY connections. - - *) Feature: the "spdy_chunk_size" directive. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_session_tickets" directive. - Thanks to Dirkjan Bussink. - - *) Bugfix: the $ssl_session_id variable contained full session - serialized instead of just a session id. - Thanks to Ivan Ristić. - - *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly handled escaped "?" character in the - "include" SSI command. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module did not unescape destination URI of - the COPY and MOVE methods. - - *) Bugfix: resolver did not understand domain names with a trailing dot. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang. - - *) Bugfix: alerts "zero size buf in output" might appear in logs while - proxying; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - ngx_http_spdy_module was used. - - *) Bugfix: proxied WebSocket connections might hang right after - handshake if the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used. - - *) Bugfix: the "xclient" directive of the mail proxy module incorrectly - handled IPv6 client addresses. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.8 17 Dec 2013 - - *) Feature: IPv6 support in resolver. - - *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "fastopen" parameter. - Thanks to Mathew Rodley. - - *) Feature: SSL support in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module. - Thanks to Roberto De Ioris. - - *) Feature: vim syntax highlighting scripts were added to contrib. - Thanks to Evan Miller. - - *) Bugfix: a timeout might occur while reading client request body in an - SSL connection using chunked transfer encoding. - - *) Bugfix: the "master_process" directive did not work correctly in - nginx/Windows. - - *) Bugfix: the "setfib" parameter of the "listen" directive might not - work. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.7 19 Nov 2013 - - *) Security: a character following an unescaped space in a request line - was handled incorrectly (CVE-2013-4547); the bug had appeared in - 0.8.41. - Thanks to Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team. - - *) Change: a logging level of auth_basic errors about no user/password - provided has been lowered from "error" to "info". - - *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_revalidate", "fastcgi_cache_revalidate", - "scgi_cache_revalidate", and "uwsgi_cache_revalidate" directives. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_session_ticket_key" directive. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header Cache-Control ''" added a - "Cache-Control" response header line with an empty value. - - *) Bugfix: the "satisfy any" directive might return 403 error instead of - 401 if auth_request and auth_basic directives were used. - Thanks to Jan Marc Hoffmann. - - *) Bugfix: the "accept_filter" and "deferred" parameters of the "listen" - directive were ignored for listen sockets created during binary - upgrade. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: some data received from a backend with unbufferred proxy - might not be sent to a client immediately if "gzip" or "gunzip" - directives were used. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang. - - *) Bugfix: in error handling in ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: responses might hang if the ngx_http_spdy_module was used - with the "auth_request" directive. - - *) Bugfix: memory leak in nginx/Windows. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.6 01 Oct 2013 - - *) Feature: the "fastcgi_buffering" directive. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_protocols" and "proxy_ssl_ciphers" - directives. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Feature: optimization of SSL handshakes when using long certificate - chains. - - *) Feature: the mail proxy supports SMTP pipelining. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_auth_basic_module when using "$apr1$" - password encryption method. - Thanks to Markus Linnala. - - *) Bugfix: in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows incorrect location might - be used to process a request if locations were given using characters - in different cases. - - *) Bugfix: automatic redirect with appended trailing slash for proxied - locations might not work. - - *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.5 17 Sep 2013 - - *) Change: now nginx assumes HTTP/1.0 by default if it is not able to - detect protocol reliably. - - *) Feature: the "disable_symlinks" directive now uses O_PATH on Linux. - - *) Feature: now nginx uses EPOLLRDHUP events to detect premature - connection close by clients if the "epoll" method is used. - - *) Bugfix: in the "valid_referers" directive if the "server_names" - parameter was used. - - *) Bugfix: the $request_time variable did not work in nginx/Windows. - - *) Bugfix: in the "image_filter" directive. - Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. - - *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 1.0.1f compatibility. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.4 27 Aug 2013 - - *) Change: the "js" extension MIME type has been changed to - "application/javascript"; default value of the "charset_types" - directive was changed accordingly. - - *) Change: now the "image_filter" directive with the "size" parameter - returns responses with the "application/json" MIME type. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_request_module. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur on start or during - reconfiguration if the "try_files" directive was used with an empty - parameter. - - *) Bugfix: memory leak if relative paths were specified using variables - in the "root" or "auth_basic_user_file" directives. - - *) Bugfix: the "valid_referers" directive incorrectly executed regular - expressions if a "Referer" header started with "https://". - Thanks to Liangbin Li. - - *) Bugfix: responses might hang if subrequests were used and an SSL - handshake error happened during subrequest processing. - Thanks to Aviram Cohen. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.3 30 Jul 2013 - - *) Change in internal API: now u->length defaults to -1 if working with - backends in unbuffered mode. - - *) Change: now after receiving an incomplete response from a backend - server nginx tries to send an available part of the response to a - client, and then closes client connection. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - ngx_http_spdy_module was used with the "client_body_in_file_only" - directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "so_keepalive" parameter of the "listen" directive might - be handled incorrectly on DragonFlyBSD. - Thanks to Sepherosa Ziehau. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_sub_filter_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.2 02 Jul 2013 - - *) Feature: now several "error_log" directives can be used. - - *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() embedded perl method did not return value - of the "Cookie" and "X-Forwarded-For" request header lines; the bug - had appeared in 1.3.14. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. - Thanks to Jim Radford. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux with x32 ABI. - Thanks to Serguei Ivantsov. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.1 04 Jun 2013 - - *) Feature: the "ssi_last_modified", "sub_filter_last_modified", and - "xslt_last_modified" directives. - Thanks to Alexey Kolpakov. - - *) Feature: the "http_403" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream", - "fastcgi_next_upstream", "scgi_next_upstream", and - "uwsgi_next_upstream" directives. - - *) Feature: the "allow" and "deny" directives now support unix domain - sockets. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_mail_ssl_module, but - without ngx_http_ssl_module; the bug had appeared in 1.3.14. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_set_body" directive. - Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. - - *) Bugfix: in the "lingering_time" directive. - Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. - - *) Bugfix: the "fail_timeout" parameter of the "server" directive in the - "upstream" context might not work if "max_fails" parameter was used; - the bug had appeared in 1.3.0. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "ssl_stapling" directive was used. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server. - Thanks to Filipe Da Silva. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might stop accepting connections if several - worker processes were used. - - -Changes with nginx 1.5.0 07 May 2013 - - *) Security: a stack-based buffer overflow might occur in a worker - process while handling a specially crafted request, potentially - resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2013-2028); the bug had - appeared in 1.3.9. - Thanks to Greg MacManus, iSIGHT Partners Labs. - - -Changes with nginx 1.4.0 24 Apr 2013 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the - --with-openssl option was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.16. - - *) Bugfix: in a request body handling in the ngx_http_perl_module; the - bug had appeared in 1.3.9. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.16 16 Apr 2013 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if - subrequests were used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. - - *) Bugfix: the "tcp_nodelay" directive caused an error if a WebSocket - connection was proxied into a unix domain socket. - - *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_length variable has an incorrect value - "0" if buffering was not used. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in the eventport and /dev/poll methods. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.15 26 Mar 2013 - - *) Change: opening and closing a connection without sending any data in - it is no longer logged to access_log with error code 400. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_spdy_module. - Thanks to Automattic for sponsoring this work. - - *) Feature: the "limit_req_status" and "limit_conn_status" directives. - Thanks to Nick Marden. - - *) Feature: the "image_filter_interlace" directive. - Thanks to Ian Babrou. - - *) Feature: $connections_waiting variable in the - ngx_http_stub_status_module. - - *) Feature: the mail proxy module now supports IPv6 backends. - - *) Bugfix: request body might be transmitted incorrectly when retrying a - request to the next upstream server; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had - appeared in 1.3.9. - - *) Bugfix: responses might hang if subrequests were used and a DNS error - happened during subrequest processing. - Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. - - *) Bugfix: in backend usage accounting. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.14 05 Mar 2013 - - *) Feature: $connections_active, $connections_reading, and - $connections_writing variables in the ngx_http_stub_status_module. - - *) Feature: support of WebSocket connections in the - ngx_http_uwsgi_module and ngx_http_scgi_module. - - *) Bugfix: in virtual servers handling with SNI. - - *) Bugfix: new sessions were not always stored if the "ssl_session_cache - shared" directive was used and there was no free space in shared - memory. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: multiple X-Forwarded-For headers were handled incorrectly. - Thanks to Neal Poole for sponsoring this work. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. - Thanks to Gernot Vormayr. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.13 19 Feb 2013 - - *) Change: a compiler with name "cc" is now used by default. - - *) Feature: support for proxying of WebSocket connections. - Thanks to Apcera and CloudBees for sponsoring this work. - - *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "{SHA}" - password encryption method. - Thanks to Louis Opter. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.12 05 Feb 2013 - - *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", - "memcached_bind", "scgi_bind", and "uwsgi_bind" directives. - - *) Feature: the $pipe, $request_length, $time_iso8601, and $time_local - variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. - Thanks to Kiril Kalchev. - - *) Feature: IPv6 support in the ngx_http_geoip_module. - Thanks to Gregor KaliÅ¡nik. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_method" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if - resolver was used with the poll method. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU during SSL handshake with a backend if - the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used. - - *) Bugfix: the "[crit] SSL_write() failed (SSL:)" error. - - *) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had - appeared in 1.3.9. - - *) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.11 10 Jan 2013 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if logging was used; the bug - had appeared in 1.3.10. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with IP addresses - without port specified; the bug had appeared in 1.3.10. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during - reconfiguration if the "keepalive" directive was specified more than - once in a single upstream block. - - *) Bugfix: parameter "default" of the "geo" directive did not set - default value for IPv6 addresses. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.10 25 Dec 2012 - - *) Change: domain names specified in configuration file are now resolved - to IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 ones. - - *) Change: now if the "include" directive with mask is used on Unix - systems, included files are sorted in alphabetical order. - - *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds headers to 201 responses. - - *) Feature: the "geo" directive now supports IPv6 addresses in CIDR - notation. - - *) Feature: the "flush" and "gzip" parameters of the "access_log" - directive. - - *) Feature: variables support in the "auth_basic" directive. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module in - some cases. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - ngx_http_xslt_module was used. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX in some cases. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive with high rates might result in - truncated responses on 32-bit platforms. - Thanks to Alexey Antropov. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "if" directive was used. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued with "413 Request Entity - Too Large" responses. - - *) Bugfix: the "image_filter", "image_filter_jpeg_quality" and - "image_filter_sharpen" directives might be inherited incorrectly. - Thanks to Ian Babrou. - - *) Bugfix: "crypt_r() failed" errors might appear if the "auth_basic" - directive was used on Linux. - - *) Bugfix: in backup servers handling. - Thanks to Thomas Chen. - - *) Bugfix: proxied HEAD requests might return incorrect response if the - "gzip" directive was used. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.9 27 Nov 2012 - - *) Feature: support for chunked transfer encoding while reading client - request body. - - *) Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not - only in the "log_format" directive. - - *) Bugfix: cache manager and cache loader processes might not be able to - start if more than 512 listen sockets were used. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.8 30 Oct 2012 - - *) Feature: the "optional_no_ca" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" - directive. - Thanks to Mike Kazantsev and Eric O'Connor. - - *) Feature: the $bytes_sent, $connection, and $connection_requests - variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. - Thanks to Benjamin Grössing. - - *) Feature: the "auto" parameter of the "worker_processes" directive. - - *) Bugfix: "cache file ... has md5 collision" alert. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: in the "ssl_stapling" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.7 02 Oct 2012 - - *) Feature: OCSP stapling support. - Thanks to Comodo, DigiCert and GlobalSign for sponsoring this work. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_trusted_certificate" directive. - - *) Feature: resolver now randomly rotates addresses returned from cache. - Thanks to Anton Jouline. - - *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.7 compatibility. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.6 12 Sep 2012 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module. - - *) Feature: the "memcached_gzip_flag" directive. - - *) Feature: the "always" parameter of the "gzip_static" directive. - - *) Bugfix: in the "limit_req" directive; the bug had appeared in 1.1.14. - Thanks to Charles Chen. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.7 with -O2 optimization if - the --with-ipv6 option was used. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.5 21 Aug 2012 - - *) Change: the ngx_http_mp4_module module no longer skips tracks in - formats other than H.264 and AAC. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "map" directive was used with variables as values. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "geo" directive was used with the "ranges" parameter but without the - "default" parameter; the bug had appeared in 0.8.43. - Thanks to Zhen Chen and Weibin Yao. - - *) Bugfix: in the -p command-line parameter handling. - - *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server. - - *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs. - Thanks to Coverity. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2005 - Express. - Thanks to HAYASHI Kentaro. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.4 31 Jul 2012 - - *) Change: the "ipv6only" parameter is now turned on by default for - listening IPv6 sockets. - - *) Feature: the Clang compiler support. - - *) Bugfix: extra listening sockets might be created. - Thanks to Roman Odaisky. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might hog CPU if a worker process failed to - start. - Thanks to Ricardo Villalobos Guevara. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass_header", "fastcgi_pass_header", - "scgi_pass_header", "uwsgi_pass_header", "proxy_hide_header", - "fastcgi_hide_header", "scgi_hide_header", and "uwsgi_hide_header" - directives might be inherited incorrectly. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.3 10 Jul 2012 - - *) Feature: entity tags support and the "etag" directive. - - *) Bugfix: trailing dot in a source value was not ignored if the "map" - directive was used with the "hostnames" parameter. - - *) Bugfix: incorrect location might be used to process a request if a - URI was changed via a "rewrite" directive before an internal redirect - to a named location. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.2 26 Jun 2012 - - *) Change: the "single" parameter of the "keepalive" directive is now - ignored. - - *) Change: SSL compression is now disabled when using all versions of - OpenSSL, including ones prior to 1.0.0. - - *) Feature: it is now possible to use the "ip_hash" directive to balance - IPv6 clients. - - *) Feature: the $status variable can now be used not only in the - "log_format" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process on - shutdown if the "resolver" directive was used. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - ngx_http_mp4_module was used. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if - conflicting wildcard server names were used. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally on a SIGBUS signal on - ARM platform. - - *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file number)" on HP-UX - while reconfiguration. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.1 05 Jun 2012 - - *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dot in URI path - component, and does not allow URIs with ":$" in it. - Thanks to Vladimir Kochetkov, Positive Research Center. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass" - directives, and the "server" directive inside the "upstream" block, - now support IPv6 addresses. - - *) Feature: the "resolver" directive now supports IPv6 addresses and an - optional port specification. - - *) Feature: the "least_conn" directive inside the "upstream" block. - - *) Feature: it is now possible to specify a weight for servers while - using the "ip_hash" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "image_filter" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.0. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with ngx_cpp_test_module; the bug - had appeared in 1.1.12. - - *) Bugfix: access to variables from SSI and embedded perl module might - not work after reconfiguration. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module. - Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji. - - *) Bugfix: memory leak if $geoip_org variable was used. - Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path" - directives. - - -Changes with nginx 1.3.0 15 May 2012 - - *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive now supports IPv6 addresses - and the "unix:" parameter. - - *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive and the "proxy" parameter - of the "geo" directive now support IPv6 addresses. - - *) Feature: the "real_ip_recursive", "geoip_proxy", and - "geoip_proxy_recursive" directives. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_recursive" parameter of the "geo" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "resolver" directive was used. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or "uwsgi_pass" directives were used and - backend returned incorrect response. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "rewrite" directive was used and new request arguments in a - replacement used variables. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU if the open file resource limit was - reached. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might loop infinitely over backends if the - "proxy_next_upstream" directive with the "http_404" parameter was - used and there were backup servers specified in an upstream block. - - *) Bugfix: adding the "down" parameter of the "server" directive might - cause unneeded client redistribution among backend servers if the - "ip_hash" directive was used. - - *) Bugfix: socket leak. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.2.0 23 Apr 2012 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "try_files" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.19. - - *) Bugfix: response might be truncated if there were more than IOV_MAX - buffers used. - - *) Bugfix: in the "crop" parameter of the "image_filter" directive. - Thanks to Maxim Bublis. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.19 12 Apr 2012 - - *) Security: specially crafted mp4 file might allow to overwrite memory - locations in a worker process if the ngx_http_mp4_module was used, - potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2012-2089). - Thanks to Matthew Daley. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might be terminated abnormally. - Thanks to Vincent Lee. - - *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as - "backup". - - *) Bugfix: the "allow" and "deny" directives might be inherited - incorrectly if they were used with IPv6 addresses. - - *) Bugfix: the "modern_browser" and "ancient_browser" directives might - be inherited incorrectly. - - *) Bugfix: timeouts might be handled incorrectly on Solaris/SPARC. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.18 28 Mar 2012 - - *) Change: keepalive connections are no longer disabled for Safari by - default. - - *) Feature: the $connection_requests variable. - - *) Feature: $tcpinfo_rtt, $tcpinfo_rttvar, $tcpinfo_snd_cwnd and - $tcpinfo_rcv_space variables. - - *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive now works on FreeBSD. - - *) Feature: the "xslt_param" and "xslt_string_param" directives. - Thanks to Samuel Behan. - - *) Bugfix: in configure tests. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian GNU/Hurd. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.17 15 Mar 2012 - - *) Security: content of previously freed memory might be sent to a - client if backend returned specially crafted response. - Thanks to Matthew Daley. - - *) Bugfix: in the embedded perl module if used from SSI. - Thanks to Matthew Daley. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.16 29 Feb 2012 - - *) Change: the simultaneous subrequest limit has been raised to 200. - - *) Feature: the "from" parameter of the "disable_symlinks" directive. - - *) Feature: the "return" and "error_page" directives can now be used to - return 307 redirections. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "resolver" directive was used and there was no "error_log" directive - specified at global level. - Thanks to Roman Arutyunyan. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the - "proxy_http_version 1.1" or "fastcgi_keep_conn on" directives were - used. - - *) Bugfix: memory leaks. - Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. - - *) Bugfix: in the "disable_symlinks" directive. - - *) Bugfix: on ZFS filesystem disk cache size might be calculated - incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 1.0.1. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 12.1 compiler. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc on Solaris; the bug had - appeared in 1.1.15. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.15 15 Feb 2012 - - *) Feature: the "disable_symlinks" directive. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path" - directives. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might log incorrect error "upstream prematurely closed - connection" instead of correct "upstream sent too big header" one. - Thanks to Feibo Li. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the - --with-openssl option was used. - - *) Bugfix: the number of internal redirects to named locations was not - limited. - - *) Bugfix: calling $r->flush() multiple times might cause errors in the - ngx_http_gzip_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store" - directive was used with SSI includes. - - *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cacheable variables (such as the $args - variable) returned old empty cached value. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if too - many SSI subrequests were issued simultaneously; the bug had appeared - in 0.7.25. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.14 30 Jan 2012 - - *) Feature: multiple "limit_req" limits may be used simultaneously. - - *) Bugfix: in error handling while connecting to a backend. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in AIO error handling on FreeBSD. - - *) Bugfix: in the OpenSSL library initialization. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directives might be inherited - incorrectly. - - *) Bugfix: memory leak during reconfiguration if the "pcre_jit" - directive was used. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.13 16 Jan 2012 - - *) Feature: the "TLSv1.1" and "TLSv1.2" parameters of the - "ssl_protocols" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "limit_req" directive parameters were not inherited - correctly; the bug had appeared in 1.1.12. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive incorrectly processed - "Refresh" header if regular expression were used. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_use_stale" directive with "error" parameter - did not return answer from cache if there were no live upstreams. - - *) Bugfix: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive might not work. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in - 1.1.12. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.12 26 Dec 2011 - - *) Change: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part now uses changed - URI after redirection with the "error_page" directive. - Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. - - *) Feature: the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock", - "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock_timeout" directives. - - *) Feature: the "pcre_jit" directive. - - *) Feature: the "if" SSI command supports captures in regular - expressions. - - *) Bugfix: the "if" SSI command did not work inside the "block" command. - - *) Bugfix: the "limit_conn_log_level" and "limit_req_log_level" - directives might not work. - - *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full - throughput, even if limit value was very high. - - *) Bugfix: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive did not work, if the - "limit_rate" directive was used. - - *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part always used - original request URI if variables were used. - - *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original - request after redirection with the "try_files" directive. - Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_scgi_module. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in - 1.1.9. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.11 12 Dec 2011 - - *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" parameter of the "listen" directive. - Thanks to Vsevolod Stakhov. - - *) Feature: the "if_not_empty" parameter of the - "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives. - - *) Feature: the $https variable. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports variables in the - first parameter. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports regular expressions. - - *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control variable might contain a wrong - value if the "expires" directive was used. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang. - - *) Bugfix: the "read_ahead" directive might not work combined with - "try_files" and "open_file_cache". - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if small - time was used in the "inactive" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path" - directive. - - *) Bugfix: responses from cache might hang. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.10 30 Nov 2011 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process if AIO was - used on Linux; the bug had appeared in 1.1.9. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.9 28 Nov 2011 - - *) Change: now double quotes are encoded in an "echo" SSI-command - output. - Thanks to Zaur Abasmirzoev. - - *) Feature: the "valid" parameter of the "resolver" directive. By - default TTL returned by a DNS server is used. - Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might hang after a worker process abnormal termination. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if SNI - was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.2. - - *) Bugfix: in the "keepalive_disable" directive; the bug had appeared in - 1.1.8. - Thanks to Alexander Usov. - - *) Bugfix: SIGWINCH signal did not work after first binary upgrade; the - bug had appeared in 1.1.1. - - *) Bugfix: backend responses with length not matching "Content-Length" - header line are no longer cached. - - *) Bugfix: in the "scgi_param" directive, if complex parameters were - used. - - *) Bugfix: in the "epoll" event method. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_flv_module. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. - - *) Bugfix: IPv6 addresses are now handled properly in a request line and - in a "Host" request header line. - - *) Bugfix: "add_header" and "expires" directives did not work if a - request was proxied and response status code was 206. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 10. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.8 14 Nov 2011 - - *) Change: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module was renamed to the - ngx_http_limit_conn_module. - - *) Change: the "limit_zone" directive was superseded by the - "limit_conn_zone" directive with a new syntax. - - *) Feature: support for multiple "limit_conn" limits on the same level. - - *) Feature: the "image_filter_sharpen" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if - resolver got a big DNS response. - Thanks to Ben Hawkes. - - *) Bugfix: in cache key calculation if internal MD5 implementation was - used; the bug had appeared in 1.0.4. - - *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request - header lines might be passed to backend while caching; or not passed - without caching if caching was enabled in another part of the - configuration. - - *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module sent incorrect - "Content-Length" response header line if the "start" argument was - used. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.7 31 Oct 2011 - - *) Feature: support of several DNS servers in the "resolver" directive. - Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during - reconfiguration if the "ssl" directive was used at http level and - there was no "ssl_certificate" defined. - - *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption while proxying big files if they - were buffered to disk. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if - "proxy_http_version 1.1" directive was used. - - *) Bugfix: in the "expires @time" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.6 17 Oct 2011 - - *) Change in internal API: now module context data are cleared while - internal redirect to named location. - Requested by Yichun Zhang. - - *) Change: if a server in an upstream failed, only one request will be - sent to it after fail_timeout; the server will be considered alive if - it will successfully respond to the request. - - *) Change: now the 0x7F-0xFF characters are escaped as \xXX in an - access_log. - - *) Feature: "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_headers" directives support - the following additional values: X-Accel-Limit-Rate, - X-Accel-Buffering, X-Accel-Charset. - - *) Feature: decrease of memory consumption if SSL is used. - - *) Bugfix: some UTF-8 characters were processed incorrectly. - Thanks to Alexey Kuts. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module directives specified at "server" - level were executed twice if no matching locations were defined. - - *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if "aio sendfile" was used. - - *) Bugfix: connections with fast clients might be closed after - send_timeout if file AIO was used. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module. - - *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support seeking on - 32-bit platforms. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.5 05 Oct 2011 - - *) Feature: the "uwsgi_buffering" and "scgi_buffering" directives. - Thanks to Peter Smit. - - *) Bugfix: non-cacheable responses might be cached if - "proxy_cache_bypass" directive was used. - Thanks to John Ferlito. - - *) Bugfix: in HTTP/1.1 support in the ngx_http_proxy_module. - - *) Bugfix: cached responses with an empty body were returned - incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 0.8.31. - - *) Bugfix: 201 responses of the ngx_http_dav_module were incorrect; the - bug had appeared in 0.8.32. - - *) Bugfix: in the "return" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "ssl_session_cache builtin" directive caused segmentation - fault; the bug had appeared in 1.1.1. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.4 20 Sep 2011 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_upstream_keepalive module. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_http_version" directive. - - *) Feature: the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive. - - *) Feature: the "worker_aio_requests" directive. - - *) Bugfix: if nginx was built --with-file-aio it could not be run on - Linux kernel which did not support AIO. - - *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO error processing. - Thanks to Hagai Avrahami. - - *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption for long-lived requests. - - *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support 64-bit MP4 - "co64" atom. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.3 14 Sep 2011 - - *) Feature: the module ngx_http_mp4_module. - - *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO combined with open_file_cache. - - *) Bugfix: open_file_cache did not update file info on retest if file - was not atomically changed. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.7. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.2 05 Sep 2011 - - *) Change: now if total size of all ranges is greater than source - response size, then nginx disables ranges and returns just the source - response. - - *) Feature: the "max_ranges" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and - "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directives might work incorrectly if SNI - was used. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_client_abort" - directives. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.1 22 Aug 2011 - - *) Change: now cache loader processes either as many files as specified - by "loader_files" parameter or works no longer than time specified by - the "loader_threshold" parameter during each iteration. - - *) Change: now SIGWINCH signal works only in daemon mode. - - *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Solaris. - Thanks to Den Ivanov. - - *) Feature: accept filters are now supported on NetBSD. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 3.0. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not use gzipping in some cases; the bug had - appeared in 1.1.0. - - *) Bugfix: request body might be processed incorrectly if client used - pipelining. - - *) Bugfix: in the "request_body_in_single_buf" directive. - - *) Bugfix: in "proxy_set_body" and "proxy_pass_request_body" directives - if SSL connection to backend was used. - - *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as - "down". - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur during reconfiguration if - ssl_session_cache was defined but not used in previous configuration. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if many - backup servers were used in an upstream. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if - "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives were used with values starting - with "HTTP_"; the bug had appeared in 0.8.40. - - -Changes with nginx 1.1.0 01 Aug 2011 - - *) Feature: cache loader run time decrease. - - *) Feature: "loader_files", "loader_sleep", and "loader_threshold" - options of the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_path" directives. - - *) Feature: loading time decrease of configuration with large number of - HTTPS sites. - - *) Feature: now nginx supports ECDHE key exchange ciphers. - Thanks to Adrian Kotelba. - - *) Feature: the "lingering_close" directive. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: in closing connection for pipelined requests. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not disable gzipping if client sent "gzip;q=0" in - "Accept-Encoding" request header line. - - *) Bugfix: in timeout in unbuffered proxied mode. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: memory leaks when a "proxy_pass" directive contains variables - and proxies to an HTTPS backend. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: in parameter validation of a "proxy_pass" directive with - variables. - Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. - - *) Bugfix: SSL did not work on QNX. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: SSL modules could not be built by gcc 4.6 without - --with-debug option. - - -Changes with nginx 1.0.5 19 Jul 2011 - - *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5". - Thanks to Rob Stradling. - - *) Feature: the "referer_hash_max_size" and "referer_hash_bucket_size" - directives. - Thanks to Witold Filipczyk. - - *) Feature: $uid_reset variable. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if a - caching was used. - Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. - - *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during - reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in - 0.8.48. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 1.0.4 01 Jun 2011 - - *) Change: now regular expressions case sensitivity in the "map" - directive is given by prefixes "~" or "~*". - - *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Linux. - Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. - - *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_auth_basic_module; - the bug had appeared in 1.0.3. - - -Changes with nginx 1.0.3 25 May 2011 - - *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "$apr1", - "{PLAIN}", and "{SSHA}" password encryption methods. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Feature: the "geoip_org" directive and $geoip_org variable. - Thanks to Alexander Uskov, Arnaud Granal, and Denis F. Latypoff. - - *) Feature: ngx_http_geo_module and ngx_http_geoip_module support IPv4 - addresses mapped to IPv6 addresses. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process during - testing IPv4 address mapped to IPv6 address, if access or deny rules - were defined only for IPv6; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22. - - *) Bugfix: a cached response may be broken if "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/ - uwsgi_cache_bypass" and "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_no_cache" directive - values were different; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46. - - -Changes with nginx 1.0.2 10 May 2011 - - *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores. - - *) Bugfix: in the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive. - Thanks to Adam Bocim. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in - 1.0.1. - - -Changes with nginx 1.0.1 03 May 2011 - - *) Change: now the "split_clients" directive uses MurmurHash2 algorithm - because of better distribution. - Thanks to Oleg Mamontov. - - *) Change: now long strings starting with zero are not considered as - false values. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value 511 on Linux. - - *) Feature: the $upstream_... variables may be used in the SSI and perl - modules. - - *) Bugfix: now nginx limits better disk cache size. - Thanks to Oleg Mamontov. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur while parsing incorrect IPv4 - address; the bug had appeared in 0.9.3. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.6 without --with-debug - option. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris 9 and earlier; the bug - had appeared in 0.9.3. - Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. - - *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values if subrequests were - used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.47. - Thanks to Igor A. Valcov. - - -Changes with nginx 1.0.0 12 Apr 2011 - - *) Bugfix: a cache manager might hog CPU after reload. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: an "image_filter crop" directive worked incorrectly coupled - with an "image_filter rotate 180" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a "satisfy any" directive disabled custom 401 error page. - - -Changes with nginx 0.9.7 04 Apr 2011 - - *) Feature: now keepalive connections may be closed premature, if there - are no free worker connections. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Feature: the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive. - Thanks to Adam Bocim. - - *) Bugfix: a case when a backend in "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or - "uwsgi_pass" directives is given by expression and refers to a - defined upstream. - - -Changes with nginx 0.9.6 21 Mar 2011 - - *) Feature: the "map" directive supports regular expressions as value of - the first parameter. - - *) Feature: $time_iso8601 access_log variable. - Thanks to Michael Lustfield. - - -Changes with nginx 0.9.5 21 Feb 2011 - - *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value -1 on Linux. - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Feature: the "utf8" parameter of "geoip_country" and "geoip_city" - directives. - Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. - - *) Bugfix: in a default "proxy_redirect" directive if "proxy_pass" - directive has no URI part. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not work with nonstandard error - codes; the bug had appeared in 0.8.53. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.9.4 21 Jan 2011 - - *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the $hostname variable. - - *) Feature: 494 code for "Request Header Too Large" error. - - -Changes with nginx 0.9.3 13 Dec 2010 - - *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given IPv6 address:port - pair, then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" - directive did not work. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in - 0.9.0. - - -Changes with nginx 0.9.2 06 Dec 2010 - - *) Feature: the "If-Unmodified-Since" client request header line - support. - - *) Workaround: fallback to accept() syscall if accept4() was not - implemented; the issue had appeared in 0.9.0. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Cygwin; the bug had appeared in - 0.9.0. - - *) Bugfix: for OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2010-4180. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.9.1 30 Nov 2010 - - *) Bugfix: "return CODE message" directives did not work; the bug had - appeared in 0.9.0. - - -Changes with nginx 0.9.0 29 Nov 2010 - - *) Feature: the "keepalive_disable" directive. - - *) Feature: the "map" directive supports variables as value of a defined - variable. - - *) Feature: the "map" directive supports empty strings as value of the - first parameter. - - *) Feature: the "map" directive supports expressions as the first - parameter. - - *) Feature: nginx(8) manual page. - Thanks to Sergey Osokin. - - *) Feature: Linux accept4() support. - Thanks to Simon Liu. - - *) Workaround: elimination of Linux linker warning about "sys_errlist" - and "sys_nerr"; the warning had appeared in 0.8.35. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the - "auth_basic" directive was used. - Thanks to Michail Laletin. - - *) Bugfix: compatibility with ngx_http_eval_module; the bug had appeared - in 0.8.42. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.53 18 Oct 2010 - - *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive allows to change a status - code in a redirect. - - *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "degradation" - mask. - - *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if file AIO was used. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: if the first server had no "listen" directive and there was - no explicit default server, then a next server with a "listen" - directive became the default server; the bug had appeared in 0.8.21. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.52 28 Sep 2010 - - *) Bugfix: nginx used SSL mode for a listen socket if any listen option - was set; the bug had appeared in 0.8.51. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.51 27 Sep 2010 - - *) Change: the "secure_link_expires" directive has been canceled. - - *) Change: a logging level of resolver errors has been lowered from - "alert" to "error". - - *) Feature: now a listen socket "ssl" parameter may be set several - times. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.50 02 Sep 2010 - - *) Feature: the "secure_link", "secure_link_md5", and - "secure_link_expires" directives of the ngx_http_secure_link_module. - - *) Feature: the -q switch. - Thanks to Gena Makhomed. - - *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during - reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in - 0.8.48. - - *) Bugfix: in the "gzip_disable" directive. - Thanks to Derrick Petzold. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not send stop, quit, reopen, and reload - signals to a process run in other session. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.49 09 Aug 2010 - - *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive supports - variables. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the - $geoip_region_name variables was used; the bug had appeared in - 0.8.48. - - *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page were cached only for next - request; the bug had appeared in 0.8.48. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.48 03 Aug 2010 - - *) Change: now the "server_name" directive default value is an empty - name "". - Thanks to Gena Makhomed. - - *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive default value is - "off". - - *) Feature: the $geoip_dma_code, $geoip_area_code, and - $geoip_region_name variables. - Thanks to Christine McGonagle. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass", and - "scgi_pass" directives were not inherited inside "limit_except" - blocks. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_min_uses", "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" - "uwsgi_cache_min_uses", and "scgi_cache_min_uses" directives did not - work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46. - - *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive used incorrectly - captures, if only parts of an URI were captured. - Thanks to Yuriy Taraday and Frank Enderle. - - *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not escape a ";" character during - copying from URI to query string. - Thanks to Daisuke Murase. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module closed a connection, if an - image was larger than "image_filter_buffer" size. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.47 28 Jul 2010 - - *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values for subrequests. - - *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page could not be cached. - - *) Bugfix: a cache manager process may got caught in an endless loop, if - max_size parameter was used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.46 19 Jul 2010 - - *) Change: now the "proxy_no_cache", "fastcgi_no_cache", - "uwsgi_no_cache", and "scgi_no_cache" directives affect on a cached - response saving only. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_bypass", "fastcgi_cache_bypass", - "uwsgi_cache_bypass", and "scgi_cache_bypass" directives. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not free memory in cache keys zones if there was an - error during working with backend: the memory was freed only after - inactivity time or on memory low condition. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.45 13 Jul 2010 - - *) Feature: ngx_http_xslt_filter improvements. - Thanks to Laurence Rowe. - - *) Bugfix: SSI response might be truncated after include with - wait="yes"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive did not support the "setfib=0" - parameter. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.44 05 Jul 2010 - - *) Change: now nginx does not cache by default backend responses, if - they have a "Set-Cookie" header line. - - *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "setfib" parameter. - Thanks to Andrew Filonov. - - *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might change character case on - partial match. - - *) Bugfix: compatibility with HP/UX. - - *) Bugfix: compatibility with AIX xlC_r compiler. - - *) Bugfix: nginx treated large SSLv2 packets as plain requests. - Thanks to Miroslaw Jaworski. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.43 30 Jun 2010 - - *) Feature: large geo ranges base loading speed-up. - - *) Bugfix: an error_page redirection to "location /zero {return 204;}" - without changing status code kept the error body; the bug had - appeared in 0.8.42. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might close IPv6 listen socket during reconfiguration. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: the $uid_set variable may be used at any request processing - stage. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.42 21 Jun 2010 - - *) Change: now nginx tests locations given by regular expressions, if - request was matched exactly by a location given by a prefix string. - The previous behavior has been introduced in 0.7.1. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_scgi_module. - Thanks to Manlio Perillo. - - *) Feature: a text answer may be added to a "return" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.41 15 Jun 2010 - - *) Security: nginx/Windows worker might be terminated abnormally if a - requested file name has invalid UTF-8 encoding. - - *) Change: now nginx allows to use spaces in a request line. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive changed incorrectly a backend - "Refresh" response header line. - Thanks to Andrey Andreew and Max Sogin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not support path without host name in "Destination" - request header line. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.40 07 Jun 2010 - - *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores default file stream name. - Thanks to Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_uwsgi_module. - Thanks to Roberto De Ioris. - - *) Feature: a "fastcgi_param" directive with value starting with "HTTP_" - overrides a client request header line. - - *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request - header lines were passed to FastCGI-server while caching. - - *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket could not be changed during - reconfiguration. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.39 31 May 2010 - - *) Bugfix: an inherited "alias" directive worked incorrectly in - inclusive location. - - *) Bugfix: in "alias" with variables and "try_files" directives - combination. - - *) Bugfix: listen unix domain and IPv6 sockets did not inherit while - online upgrade. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.38 24 May 2010 - - *) Feature: the "proxy_no_cache" and "fastcgi_no_cache" directives. - - *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if - the $scheme variable is used. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" delay directive conforms to the described - algorithm. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: the $uid_got variable might not be used in the SSI and perl - modules. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.37 17 May 2010 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_split_clients_module. - - *) Feature: the "map" directive supports keys more than 255 characters. - - *) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "private" and "no-store" values in the - "Cache-Control" backend response header line. - - *) Bugfix: a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was not - used, if empty response has 200 status code. - - *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to - another proxied or FastCGI location, then a segmentation fault might - occur in a worker process; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33. - Thanks to Yichun Zhang. - - *) Bugfix: IMAP connections may hang until they timed out while talking - to Zimbra server. - Thanks to Alan Batie. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.36 22 Apr 2010 - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module handled incorrectly the DELETE, COPY, - and MOVE methods for symlinks. - - *) Bugfix: values of the $query_string, $arg_..., etc. variables cached - in main request were used by the SSI module in subrequests. - - *) Bugfix: a variable value was repeatedly encoded after each an "echo" - SSI-command output; the bug had appeared in 0.6.14. - - *) Bugfix: a worker process hung if a FIFO file was requested. - Thanks to Vicente Aguilar and Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: OpenSSL-1.0.0 compatibility on 64-bit Linux. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had - appeared in 0.8.35. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.35 01 Apr 2010 - - *) Change: now the charset filter runs before the SSI filter. - - *) Feature: the "chunked_transfer_encoding" directive. - - *) Bugfix: an "&" character was not escaped when it was copied in - arguments part in a rewrite rule. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally while a signal - processing or if the directive "timer_resolution" was used on - platforms which do not support kqueue or eventport notification - methods. - Thanks to George Xie and Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: if temporary files and permanent storage area resided at - different file systems, then permanent file modification times were - incorrect. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module might issue the error message - "memcached sent invalid trailer". - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not built zlib-1.2.4 library using the library - sources. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process, if there - was large stderr output before FastCGI response; the bug had appeared - in 0.8.34. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.34 03 Mar 2010 - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not support all ciphers and digests used in client - certificates. - Thanks to Innocenty Enikeew. - - *) Bugfix: nginx cached incorrectly FastCGI responses if there was large - stderr output before response. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not support HTTPS referrers. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not find file if path in configuration - was given in other character case; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33. - - *) Bugfix: the $date_local variable has an incorrect value, if the "%s" - format was used. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: if ssl_session_cache was not set or was set to "none", then - during client certificate verify the error "session id context - uninitialized" might occur; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1. - - *) Bugfix: a geo range returned default value if the range included two - or more /16 networks and did not begin at /16 network boundary. - - *) Bugfix: a block used in a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI - directive was output with "text/plain" MIME type. - - *) Bugfix: $r->sleep() did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.33 01 Feb 2010 - - *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing spaces in URI. - Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies. - - *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores short files names. - Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies. - - *) Change: now keepalive connections after POST requests are not - disabled for MSIE 7.0+. - Thanks to Adam Lounds. - - *) Workaround: now keepalive connections are disabled for Safari. - Thanks to Joshua Sierles. - - *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to - another proxied or FastCGI location, then $upstream_response_time - variable may have abnormally large value; the bug had appeared in - 0.8.7. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, while - discarding a request body; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.32 11 Jan 2010 - - *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures worked for two names only. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: now the "localhost" name is used in the "Host" request header - line, if an unix domain socket is defined in the "auth_http" - directive. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not support chunked transfer encoding for 201 - responses. - Thanks to Julian Reich. - - *) Bugfix: if the "expires modified" set date in the past, then a - negative number was set in the "Cache-Control" response header line. - Thanks to Alex Kapranoff. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.31 23 Dec 2009 - - *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive may redirect the 301 and 302 - responses. - - *) Feature: the $geoip_city_continent_code, $geoip_latitude, and - $geoip_longitude variables. - Thanks to Arvind Sundararajan. - - *) Feature: now the ngx_http_image_filter_module deletes always EXIF and - other application specific data if the data consume more than 5% of a - JPEG file. - - *) Bugfix: nginx closed a connection if a cached response had an empty - body. - Thanks to Piotr Sikora. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might not be built by gcc 4.x if the -O2 or higher - optimization option was used. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Denis F. Latypoff. - - *) Bugfix: regular expressions in location were always tested in - case-sensitive mode; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25. - - *) Bugfix: nginx cached a 304 response if there was the "If-None-Match" - header line in a proxied request. - Thanks to Tim Dettrick and David Kostal. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to delete a temporary file twice if the - file should replace an already existent file. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.30 15 Dec 2009 - - *) Change: now the default buffer size of the - "large_client_header_buffers" directive is 8K. - Thanks to Andrew Cholakian. - - *) Feature: the conf/fastcgi.conf for simple FastCGI configurations. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to rename a temporary file twice if the - file should replace an already existent file. - - *) Bugfix: of "double free or corruption" error issued if host could not - be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22. - Thanks to Konstantin Svist. - - *) Bugfix: in libatomic usage on some platforms. - Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.29 30 Nov 2009 - - *) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for - proxied HTTP/0.9 responses. - - *) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types", - "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support - an "*" parameter. - - *) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage. - Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki. - - *) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure. - Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki. - - *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights. - - *) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly. - - *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not - work in a "server_name" directive. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.28 23 Nov 2009 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter; - the bug had appeared in 0.8.25. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.27 17 Nov 2009 - - *) Bugfix: regular expressions did not work in nginx/Windows; the bug - had appeared in 0.8.25. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.26 16 Nov 2009 - - *) Bugfix: in captures usage in "rewrite" directive; the bug had - appeared in 0.8.25. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the - bug had appeared in 0.8.25. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.25 16 Nov 2009 - - *) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is - not found by $r->variable() method. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module. - - *) Feature: regular expression named captures. - - *) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if - variables are used. - - *) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low - memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18. - - *) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support - gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared - in 0.8.16. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.24 11 Nov 2009 - - *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Content-Encoding: gzip" response header - line in 304 responses sent by ngx_http_gzip_static_module. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the - bug had appeared in 0.8.23. - - *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive - inherited incorrectly from previous level. - - *) Bugfix: in resolving empty name. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.23 11 Nov 2009 - - *) Security: now SSL/TLS renegotiation is disabled. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket did not inherit while online - upgrade. - - *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive did - not without yet another directive with any IP address. - - *) Bugfix: segmentation fault and infinite looping in resolver. - - *) Bugfix: in resolver. - Thanks to Artem Bokhan. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.22 03 Nov 2009 - - *) Feature: the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", and "memcached_bind" - directives. - - *) Feature: the "access" and the "deny" directives support IPv6. - - *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive supports IPv6 addresses in - request headers. - - *) Feature: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not delete unix domain socket after configuration - testing. - - *) Bugfix: nginx deleted unix domain socket while online upgrade. - - *) Bugfix: the "!-x" operator did not work. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if - limit_rate was used in HTTPS server. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while - $limit_rate logging. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if - there was no "listen" directive in "server" block; the bug had - appeared in 0.8.21. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.21 26 Oct 2009 - - *) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support. - - *) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix - domain sockets. - Thanks to Hongli Lai. - - *) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive. - - *) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen - socket options. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms; - - *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009 - - *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5". - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing slash - in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path - configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the - "Cache-Control" backend response header line. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file, - or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker had no enough access - rights for top level directories. - - *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines were - not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives were - used with any parameters. - - *) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009 - - *) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default. - - *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM". - - *) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared in - 0.8.18. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009 - - *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive. - - *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used. - - *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level" - directives. - - *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket - algorithm. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc. - Thanks to Marcus Ramberg. - - *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on MKCOL - request. - Thanks to Xie Zhenye. - - *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the - bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009 - - *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header - line. - - *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case. - - *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable. - - *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009 - - *) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive. - - *) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named - "addtion_types". - - *) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning. - Thanks to Matthew Dempsky. - - *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver. - Thanks to Matthew Dempsky. - - *) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in - access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level. - - *) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the - ngx_http_image_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header - line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on. - - *) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in - nginx/Windows. - - *) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in - 0.8.11. - Thanks to Igor Artemiev. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009 - - *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while - specially crafted request handling. - Thanks to Chris Ries. - - *) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld - were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by - .domain.tld. - - *) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: in file AIO. - - *) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009 - - *) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING" - state. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if - error_log was set to info or debug level. - Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov. - - *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the - bug had appeared in 0.6.10. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009 - - *) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in - 0.8.12. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option - on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009 - - *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD. - - *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009 - - *) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping - for MSIE 6.0 SV1. - - *) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux. - - *) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009 - - *) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used. - - *) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the bug - had appeared in 0.8.9. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009 - - *) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this - should improve large caches handling. - - *) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside at - different file systems. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009 - - *) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request - was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a caching was - enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in 0.8.7. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009 - - *) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7. - - *) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was - changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client - certificate if it was offered. - Thanks to Brice Figureau. - - *) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable. - Thanks to Brice Figureau. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive. - Thanks to Brice Figureau. - - *) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive. - - *) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting - size. - - *) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the bug - had appeared in 0.7.7. - Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev. - - *) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did - not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate", - "X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend - response header. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend - response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an - empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module. - - *) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML - document" for valid XML document. - Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji. - - *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by a - regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode. - - *) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI. - Thanks to Hugo Leisink. - - *) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during - installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009 - - *) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method. - - *) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password - while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows. - - *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests. - - *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had - appeared in 0.8.3. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009 - - *) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had - appeared in 0.8.2. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a backend - 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the - "WWW-Authenticate" response header line. - Thanks to Eugene Mychlo. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009 - - *) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on - start up. - - *) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long; - the bug had appeared in 0.7.4. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009 - - *) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and - "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives. - - *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request - header lines were passed to backend while caching if no - "proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters. - - *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not - hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header" - directives were used with any parameters. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a - format. - Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early; the - bug had appeared in 0.7.56. - - -Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009 - - *) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive. - - *) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive. - Thanks to Ivan Debnar. - - *) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests. - - *) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows. - - *) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and fastcgi_cache - in nginx/Windows. - - *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009 - - *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods" - directives. - - *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request - had no body and the $request_body variable was used; - the bug had appeared in 0.7.58. - - *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux; - the bug had appeared in 0.7.56. - - *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by - SSI, charset, and gzip filters. - - *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to - ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009 - - *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6. - - *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive. - - *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive. - - *) Feature: the $request_body variable. - - *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":" - symbol in the name. - - *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared - in 0.7.53. - Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009 - - *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the - ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named - location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009 - - *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the - HTTP module. - - *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009 - - *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and - "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work. - - *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses. - - *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in - nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an - "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in - 0.7.54. - - *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors. - - *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using - $r->sendfile. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers" - directives. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an - "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had appeared - in 0.7.53. - - *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug - had appeared in 0.7.39. - - *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors. - - *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows. - - *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.53. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009 - - *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very - start-up. - - *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an - error_log and stderr. - - *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use - a directory where it was run as prefix. - - *) Feature: the -p switch. - - *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms. - - *) Feature: the -? and -h switches. - Thanks to Jerome Loyet. - - *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form. - - *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given by - the -c switch. - - *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store", - "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication - server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared - in 0.7.34. - Thanks to Simon Lecaille. - - *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux; - the bug had appeared in 0.7.45. - - *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work. - Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009 - - *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release. - - *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching. - - *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. - client request header lines while caching. - - *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in - cacheable responses. - - *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a - perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the - message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.48. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386, - amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009 - - *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the - fallback parameter. - - *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without - query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44. - - *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses, - then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009 - - *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in - 0.7.49. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the - $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009 - - *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive. - - *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires", - "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response. - - *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only. - - *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited. - - *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library. - Thanks to Timothy Redaelli. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.46. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions; the - bug had appeared in 0.7.46. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.46. - - *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager - might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46. - - *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the - "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/ - "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.46. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a - request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page - or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009 - - *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009 - - *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives - can be set on different levels. - - *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path" - directive is canceled. - - *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path" - directive. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support. - - *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone - names are logged. - - *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a - "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44. - - *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive given - without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44. - Thanks to Jerome Loyet. - - *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without - references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared - in 0.7.42. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support. - - *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure. - - *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server block - level. - - *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string - in a fallback parameter. - - *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories. - - *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given address:port pair, - then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive did - not work. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009 - - *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive used - variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42. - - *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the - $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in - 0.7.36. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009 - - *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by - setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored. - - *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file" directive - is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the 500 one. - - *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables. - Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy. - - *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter. - Thanks to Zhang Hua. - - *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of - regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40. - - *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX. - Thanks to Dustin Marquess. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.41. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a - "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular - expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40. - Thanks to Vladimir Sopot. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009 - - *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular - expressions. - - *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used - inside a location given by a regular expression with captures. - - *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular - expressions. - - *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing - slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in - 0.7.15. - Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009 - - *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled; - the bug had appeared in 0.7.28. - Thanks to Artem Bokhan. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short - static variants are used in a "try_files" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009 - - *) Feature: authentication failures logging. - - *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd - number of empty lines. - Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long - path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009 - - *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had appeared - in 0.7.36. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009 - - *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the - HTTP module supports IPv6. - - *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers - preset by a "modern_browser" directives. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009 - - *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for - asymmetric ciphers. - Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik. - - *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an - original request extension. - - *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in - "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if - ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used; - the bug had appeared in 0.7.9. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009 - - *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive. - - *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT - command. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support - in mail proxy server. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were - concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&"; - the bug had appeared in 0.1.18. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009 - - *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig - methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with body. - Thanks to Eden Li. - - *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some redirects - types. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if - "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009 - - *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in - the "try_files" directive. - - *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always. - - *) Bugfix: in geo ranges. - - *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without - debugging. - Thanks to Andrey Kvasov. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009 - - *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores - directories. - - *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive. - - *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support. - - *) Bugfixes in geo ranges. - - *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END" - line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.18. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK" - instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if variables - were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives and host - name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008 - - *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not - support variables if unix domain sockets were used. - - *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25. - - *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0 requests; - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on - Cygwin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008 - - *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module. - - *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been changed - to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008 - - *) Feature: the "try_files" directive. - - *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive. - - *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a variable. - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before - name. - - *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable. - - *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value. - - *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just - closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25. - - *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one - named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an - error_page directive. - Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008 - - *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008 - - *) Change: in subrequest processing. - - *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed. - - *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a - prohibition reason. - - *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008 - - *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the - server send too many messages to stderr before response. - - *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the - perl module. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008 - - *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive. - - *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values. - - *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008 - - *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables. - - *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem. - - *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses. - Thanks to Zyb. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008 - - *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module. - - *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module. - Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. - - *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3. - Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.6. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008 - - *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module. - - *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and - ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not - work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12. - - *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry" - error. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside - locations, whose names are less than 3 characters. - - *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008 - - *) Bugfix: version number update. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008 - - *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not - allows underscores in a client request header line names. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module. - - *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header. - - *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive. - - *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable. - - *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the - "proxy_next_upstream" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or - "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work. - - *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line - for HEAD requests. - - *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008 - - *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux. - - *) Feature: the $pid variable. - - *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did - not work with open_file_cache. - - *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the - bug had appeared in 0.7.7. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted charset - name received from backend. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.15. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module. - - *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file - requests starting from arbitrary position. - - *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is - necessary. - - *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header line - names. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008 - - *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives - have no default values. - - *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter. - - *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while - reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux. - - *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog", - "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first - one. - - *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a - query string, then the query string was not escaped. - - *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.12. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008 - - *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "". - - *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask. - - *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with - several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an - "error_page" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while - redirection via an "error_page" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the - "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug - had appeared in 0.7.0. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008 - - *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with - text/css MIME type. - - *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method - requesting a static file only if the file exists. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original - request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used. - - *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index - file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code. - - *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008 - - *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types", - "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the - bugs had appeared in 0.7.9. - - *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code. - - *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole - keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008 - - *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following - MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain, - text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml. - - *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives. - - *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types" - directives use hash. - - *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module. - - *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing. - Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files - tests. - - *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or - eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7. - - *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives - used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not - set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had - appeared in 0.3.18. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module. - - *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables. - - *) Feature: Solaris directio support. - Thanks to Ivan Debnar. - - *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without - status line, then nginx uses 302 status code. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008 - - *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered - as temporary error. - - *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate with - TAB character intended before each line except first one; an - unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert - variable. - - *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive. - - *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Feature: the "directio" directive. - Thanks to Jiang Hong. - - *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support. - - *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case - insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte - locales only. - - *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or - /dev/poll methods were used. - - *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008 - - *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a - request root existence is always tested. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a - query string. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008 - - *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the bugs - had appeared in 0.7.4. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug - had appeared in 0.7.3. - Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy. - - *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses - might were transferred incorrectly. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008 - - *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive. - - *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive. - - *) Feature: the -g switch. - - *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support. - - *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008 - - *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to - "application/rss+xml". - - *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a - "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too. - - *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if - the "https://" protocol is used. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS - protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008 - - *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive. - - *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable. - Thanks to Manlio Perillo. - - *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not - search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had - appeared in 0.7.1. - - *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash - added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008 - - *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree. - - *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to the - "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction. - - *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore. - - *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive; - now this is default parameter. - Thanks to Rob Mueller. - - *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log - rotation signals. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux. - Thanks to Roxis. - - -Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008 - - *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as \xXX - in an access_log. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line. - - *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive. - - *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any - request processing stage. - - *) Feature: the $hostname variable. - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Feature: DESTDIR support. - Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux, - if keepalive was enabled. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008 - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the - end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2. - Thanks to Sergey Serov. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file - was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008 - - *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any - file, then nginx does not issue an error. - - *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces, - for example, "1h50m". - - *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on. - Thanks to Chavelle Vincent. - - *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into - output. - - *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account - arguments in redirected URI. - - *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in - 0.6.15. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008 - - *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit - platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008 - - *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in - 0.6.27. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008 - - *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on - Linux 2.6.18+. - - *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a - named location via an "error_page" directive. - - *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP - proxy. - - *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request - was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static - named locations. - - *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid - client certificate in first handshake. - Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin. - - *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page" - directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many - memory. - - *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections. - - *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request - was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static - named locations. - - *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching. - Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov. - - *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the - same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host - name and without variables. - Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov. - - *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some - 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty - stub block was used second time in SSI. - - *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008 - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not - check a response length. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big value - was used in a "expires" directive. - Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela. - - *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4. - Thanks to Gena Makhomed. - - *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method - was used instead of the GET method. - - *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used. - Thanks to Ben Maurer. - - *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed - (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23. - - *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry" - error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008 - - *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead - of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter. - - *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a - "server_name" directive. - - *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy" - directive. - - *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration - if they was run under Linux OpenVZ. - - *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the - ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23. - - *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used. - Thanks to Ben Maurer. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had - appeared in 0.6.23. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS - was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007 - - *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive; now - this is default parameter. - - *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the - "open_file_cache_valid". - - *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module. - - *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive. - - *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if" - block. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the - "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location. - - *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access - and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and - auth directives were not tested; - - *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not - inherited from previous level. - - *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed - with 499 status code. - - *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection. - Thanks to Ben Maurer. - - *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work. - Thanks to Oleg Motienko. - - *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry" - error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007 - - *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to - perl's allocated memory. - - *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl before - 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during - reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in - 0.5.9. - Thanks to Boris Zhmurov. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of - the regex captures. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the - $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small - request body was already received. - - *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to - keep-alive state. - Thanks to Olexander Shtepa. - - *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable; - the bug had appeared in 0.6.18. - - *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code; - now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using - the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the - "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in - 0.6.10. - Thanks to Manlio Perillo. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007 - - *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain - IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a - "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared - in 0.6.19. - - *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support - kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response". - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a - request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size" - directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request - record is too big". - - *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS - server, then nginx returned usual response. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a - "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared - in 0.6.19. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007 - - *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007 - - *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds - to the cookie field contains a pid value. - - *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to - error_log. - - *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive. - - *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives. - - *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a - "Last-Modified" response header line. - - *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full - throughput, even if limit value was very high. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007 - - *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support. - Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin. - - *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh" - directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4. - - *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /" - directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if - subrequests were used. - - *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and - gzip were used. - - *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server - returned response in HTTP/0.9 version. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007 - - *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs. - Thanks to Ilya Novikov. - - *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then it - was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11. - - *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007 - - *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility. - Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov. - - *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive. - - *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive. - - *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while - reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or - "source_charset" directives. - - *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like - "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0". - Thanks to James Oakley. - - *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the - "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body - again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no - server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request; the - bug had appeared in 0.6.7. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007 - - *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding. - - *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command. - - *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the - "limit_except" block. - - *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had got - weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had - appeared in 0.6.6. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if - $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the - ngx_http_ssi_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug - log was enabled. - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set - $upstream_response_time. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the - memcached was used. - - *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive" values - in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared in - 0.6.11. - - *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution. - - *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007 - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if - autoindex was used. - Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007 - - *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp. - - *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module, - and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters. - - *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer" - directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module. - - *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in - 0.6.9. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library - located in non-standard place was used. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives - did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32 - characters. - Thanks to Manlio Perillo. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007 - - *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was - used. - - *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered - proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header - lines. - - *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after - first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in - 0.6.6. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007 - - *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and - "open_file_cache_errors" directives. - - *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7. - - *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to - the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header(). - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if - /dev/poll method was used. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007 - - *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the - HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7. - - *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing - wildcard was used, then nginx did not run. - - *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as - down. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in - 0.6.8. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007 - - *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority", - "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and - "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges. - - *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy - authentication server. - - *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable. - - *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for - non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the - bug had appeared in 0.6.6. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007 - - *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include", - "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate", - "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are - relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but not - to nginx prefix directory. - - *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled. - - *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online - upgrade of 0.1.x versions. - - *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support - regular expressions. - - *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports - the "backup" parameter. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the - $r->discard_request_body. - - *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the - "Last-Modified" response header line. - - *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request - with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the - request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid - address was set in the "auth_http" directive. - - *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all - platforms except FreeBSD. - Thanks to Jiang Hong. - - *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a - "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had - appeared in 0.6.6. - - *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client - request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007 - - *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure. - - *) Feature: named locations. - - *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive. - - *) Feature: the $is_args variable. - - *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer. - - *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx - might not close connection to backend. - - *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend - for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443. - - *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early - versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007 - - *) Feature: $nginx_version variable. - Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh. - - *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable. - - *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on Solaris/amd64. - Thanks to Jiang Hong. - - *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs. - Thanks to Coverity's Scan. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007 - - *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS. - Thanks to Maxim Boguk. - - *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were - changed. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access" - directives. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun - Studio. - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12. - Thanks to Jiang Hong. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007 - - *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the - "auth_http_header" directive was used. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the - CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the - HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the - eventport method was used. - - *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and - "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had - appeared in 0.5.13. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007 - - *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx passed - garbage in the header to a client. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007 - - *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing. - - *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file - subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order. - - *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were - truncated. - - *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal - to the master process identification number. - - -Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007 - - *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives - support the "www.example.*" wildcards. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the - --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in - 0.5.24. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007 - - *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request - was made using HTTP/0.9. - - *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip - was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS - extension. - - *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive. - Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two - virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports. - - *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl - supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error - messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued. - - *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007 - - *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug - had appeared in 0.5.21. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007 - - *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex - locations might be chosen not in that order as they were specified. - - *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit - platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed. - Thanks to Anton Povarov. - - *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE - library was used. - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007 - - *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive. - - *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..." - variables may be changed using the "set" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the SSI - command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used. - - *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was transferred - incorrectly. - Thanks to Evan Miller. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun - Studio. - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris make. - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007 - - *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision. - - *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to - the $r->flush. - - *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and - "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives. - Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko. - - *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using - sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms. - - *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using - sendfile on 64-bit Linux. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module. - - *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables. - - *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time - variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first - reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with - ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug - had appeared in 0.5.9. - - *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after - reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in - 0.3.38. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007 - - *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method. - - *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the - "types" block. - - *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias" - directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow. - - *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive. - - *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cacheable variables (such as $uri variable) - returned old cached value. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007 - - *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the "ip_hash" - directive. - Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a - charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has - trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50. - - *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was - used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of - 32K. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug - option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007 - - *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the - "smtp_auth", "smtp_capabilities", and "xclient" directives. - Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin. - - *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after - receiving the reconfiguration signal. - - *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail" - and "pop3_auth" directives. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the - CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was - disabled. - - *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol, - then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode. - - *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did - not rotate logs if the eventport method was used. - - *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the - "ip_hash" directive was used. - - *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll - methods are used. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007 - - *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of - configuration file. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007 - - *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed - via keep-alive connection. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux. - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes - the connection right away, but not after timeout. - - *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a - connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send - timeout only. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386, - amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386, - amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the - temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug - had appeared in 0.5.8. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the - $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged. - - *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007 - - *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts. - Thanks to Chris McGrath. - - *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested; - the bug had appeared in 0.5.6. - - *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the - intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set. - Thanks to Evan Miller. - - *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log - instead of the "400" and "408" error codes. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx - was built with -O2 optimization. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007 - - *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process - did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx - was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007 - - *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key - variable value as a key. - - *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable. - - *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only" - directive. - - *) Feature: the "env" directive. - - *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block. - - *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a message - to error_log, but not more often than once a minute. - - *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the - logging. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007 - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if - "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if - "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or - "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx - switched to a next upstream. - - *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client - connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send - timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7. - - *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a - connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send - timeout only. - - *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was - used. - - *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007 - - *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization. - - *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while - reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone" directives - were used on 64-bit platforms. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or - "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no "Content-Type" - header line in response. - - *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads - support. - Thanks to Den Ivanov. - - *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007 - - *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the - GET, HEAD, and POST methods. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module. - - *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the - ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module. - - *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal. - - *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the - $r->sendfile() was used. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006 - - *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more. - - *) Feature: the -V switch. - - *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M, - and G. - - *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an unprivileged - user. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or - $r->request_body_file methods were used. - - *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006 - - *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except" - block. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header - line for the DELETE method. - - *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access" directive, - then nginx might report about configuration error. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was - used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status, - $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods. - - *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not exist - in nginx configuration. - - *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006 - - *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the "upstream" - block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had appeared in - 0.5.1. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006 - - *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a - unsuccessful completion of a request. - - *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11. - Thanks to Bron Gondwana. - - *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then - the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared in - 0.5.0. - - *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the - same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the - first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0. - - *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the - unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described - socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0. - - *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the - last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return, - the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password. - - *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to - "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond. - - -Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006 - - *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format" - directive are not supported anymore. - - *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails", - "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", - "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and - "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported - anymore. - - *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports - the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters. - - *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block. - - *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the - IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had - appeared in 0.4.14. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006 - - *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy. - - *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD, Linux, - and NetBSD. - - *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the - threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38. - - *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called - recursively. - - *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line. - - *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a - FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr. - - *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the - system time was changed backward. - - *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3 - proxy authentication server when POP3 was used. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3 - proxy authentication server failed. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006 - - *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the - "limit_except" block. - - *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods. - - *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the - "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred - complete. - - *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and - the deferred accept() were used. - - *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module - responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50. - - *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was - used; - - *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored. - Thanks to Thomas Moschny. - - *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug had - appeared in 0.3.50. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method. - - *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response, - then the response may be transferred incomplete. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006 - - *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges - method. - - *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the USER/PASS - commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006 - - *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command. - - *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then - while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy - hogged CPU. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr variable - was used in the "map" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for - full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had - appeared in 0.4.9. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006 - - *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module - version. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006 - - *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI - command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not - work. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full - responses. - Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module. - - *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable. - - *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the - variables. - - *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI - command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not - work. - - *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while - working with memcached the connections might not be closed on - timeout. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64, - and ppc64. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006 - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64, - and ppc64. - - *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request, - if its length was set by text string in the - $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method. - - *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any - ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug - had appeared in 0.4.4. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had - appeared in 0.4.4. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006 - - *) Feature: the $scheme variable. - - *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter. - - *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask. - Thanks to Jonathan Dance. - - *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page" - response code redirected by the "error_page" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT - method. - - *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were - used in the "proxy_redirect" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006 - - *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an - "error_page" directive. - - *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400 - error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was - used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47. - - *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses. - - *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006 - - *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug had - appeared in 0.4.1. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006 - - *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility. - Thanks to Pavel Nazarov. - - *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more than - 2G. - - *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static requests. - Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas. - - -Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006 - - *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved - from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase. - - *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the - ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the - $r->has_request_body method. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header - line for the PUT method. - - *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index" - directive with variables and the first index name was without - variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006 - - *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default. - - *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive. - - *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the - redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006 - - *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an - error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006 - - *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the - "error_page" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters. - - *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the "Content-Type" - header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had - appeared in 0.3.58. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006 - - *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables. - - *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux. - - *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first - response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used. - - *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error. - - *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new - arguments were added to a rewritten URI. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006 - - *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable. - - *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive. - Thanks to Andrian Budanstov. - - *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send to - a client the required certificates information. - - *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in - the "root" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006 - - *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive. - - *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e", - "-x", and "!-x" operators. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a - redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the - access log. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006 - - *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command. - - *) Feature: the "block" SSI command. - - *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib. - - *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root was - relative to a server prefix. - - *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols - after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped. - - *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now - returns all "Cookie" header lines. - - *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if - "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next - upstream. - - *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes - inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had appeared - in 0.3.50. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006 - - *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and - "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter. - - *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address - form. - - *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was - converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete. - - *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the - first request to a backend only. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had - appeared in 0.3.53. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006 - - *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and - 302 responses. - - *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports - the "weight" parameter. - - *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard. - - *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G. - - *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any - on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written - in the log. - - *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and return - the 409 code. - - *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx - continued proxying anyway. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006 - - *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests - is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not - return the 405 error. - - *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the - limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37. - - *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even - if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50. - - *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a - temporary file was not removed. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006 - - *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the SSI; - the bug had appeared in 0.3.50. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006 - - *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors" - directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and - "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the - single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back. - - *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in - proxy and FastCGI mode. - - *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI - command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol. - - *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the - SSI after inclusion. - - *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then - in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006 - - *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive. - - *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first - subrequest output was included instead of second and following - subrequests. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006 - - *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if the - response has no "Content-Type" header line. - - *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the - "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in start - of the rewritten redirect. - - *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method - to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect" - redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared in - 0.3.42. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was - built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006 - - *) Feature: the "upstream" directive. - - *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the - SSI command is always removed. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006 - - *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header", - "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives. - - *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and - "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled. - - *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported in - proxy mode. - - *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the - ngx_http_perl_module. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006 - - *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and - "ssl_client_certificate" directives. - - *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request - method. - - *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion - table. - - *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion - table. - - *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and - some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was - directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among - the rest. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006 - - *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command. - - *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to - koi-win conversion table. - - *) Bugfix: in the SSI. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006 - - *) Bugfix: in the SSI. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006 - - *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3 - proxy. - - *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more - then once. - - *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length, - $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection, - $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables - were not written to access log. - - *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single - "Cache-Control" response header line. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006 - - *) Feature: the -v switch. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has - remote subrequests. - - *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling. - - *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using - --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the - segmentation fault was occurred. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method. - - *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive. - - *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006 - - *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging - level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from - "alert" to "warn". - - *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive. - - *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if - expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is - not logged. - - *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of - the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections" directive; - the bug had appeared in 0.2.0. - - *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had - appeared in 0.3.38. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module. - - *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations. - Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file - method. - - *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive. - - *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs - once a second only. - Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin. - - *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if - rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s. - Thanks to ForJest. - - *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in - login and password to pass authorization server. - Thanks to Maxim Dounin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006 - - *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive. - - *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and "!-f" - operators. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body - method. - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used - inside the "if" block. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and - "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives. - - *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method and - $r->remote_addr. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command. - - *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the - ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly. - - *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the - ngx_http_ssi_module. - - *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the - "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and - "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to - a current path but not to a server prefix. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006 - - *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set - for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31. - - *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a - subrequest. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006 - - *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006 - - *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or - "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives. - - *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the - configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word. - - *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006 - - *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was - removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006 - - *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses. - - *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port" - form. - - *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4. - - *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout bug. - Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one - various addresses inside one server, then server names like - "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared in - 0.3.18. - - *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive - and the request body was in temporary file then the request was not - transferred. - - *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006 - - *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from - "crit". - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the - ngx_http_ssi_filter_module. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was - used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006 - - *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends - many warnings before the response. - - *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in - the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests. - - *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response - header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records. - - *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action" - directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a - request. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006 - - *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled. - - *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter. - - *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was - terminated prematurely. - Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff. - - *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into - account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect" - header line. - - *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful - completion of a request. - - *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action" - directive was transferred to a client. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006 - - *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and - "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives. - - *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the - "log_format" directive. - - *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables. - - *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start - time. - - *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using fcntl(2) - on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc. - - *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH - autoconfiguration directive. - - *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive - then the requests with the body was not transferred. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006 - - *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the - "optimize_server_names". - - *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then - the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the - SSI subrequest. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006 - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while - reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had - appeared in 0.3.24. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006 - - *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue. - - *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is - not transferred to a client. - - *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used. - - *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one - location. - - *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start - if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug - had appeared in 0.3.18. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006 - - *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive. - - *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias" - directives. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and - Solaris. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and - $r->unescape methods. - - *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was - canceled. - - *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked" - values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had - appeared in 0.3.18. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module. - - *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referrers without - URI part. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006 - - *) Bugfix: in SSI handling. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in the - "/usr?args" form. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005 - - *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables. - - *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part. - - *) Bugfix: in SSI handling. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005 - - *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld" - names. - - *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the - "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names. - - *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and - "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives. - - *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold" - directives were canceled. - - *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names. - - *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names only - without the URI part. - - *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the - ngx_http_map_module. - - *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did not - exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12. - - *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start; - the bug had appeared in 0.3.16. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005 - - *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and - sendfile64() in kernel. - - *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the - ".domain.tld" form. - - *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had - appeared in 0.2.4. - - *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive. - - *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" - directive the port 80 was used by default. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module. - - *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size" - directives. - - *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive. - - *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive. - - *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was - built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for - Pentium 4. - - *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the - SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13. - Thanks to Rob Mueller. - - *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug - had appeared in 0.3.13. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005 - - *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close - connection. - - *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy. - - *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort() only - on graceful quit and active "debug_points" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005 - - *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had - appeared in 0.3.13. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005 - - *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS. - - *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and - /dev/poll methods. - - *) Bugfix: in SSI handling. - - *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client - request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket. - - *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the authorization; - the bug had appeared in 0.3.11. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005 - - *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the - "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization - directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built and - is not built by default. - - *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local". - - *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and - "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the - "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method - was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0. - - *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header - line, then nginx returns the 411 error. - - *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http - level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was - without the "Basic realm" text. - - *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the - "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log; - the bug had appeared in 0.3.8. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except - Solaris. - - *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted - string and closing bracket in the "if" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005 - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while - proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005 - - *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer" - variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the - ngx_http_rewrite_module. - - *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to - "$body_bytes_sent". - - *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables. - - *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive. - - *) Feature: the "post_action" directive. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module. - - *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux. - - *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in - redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF - characters. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler. - - *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the - chunked response was encoded incorrectly. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005 - - *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was between - two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005 - - *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in - "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths - and zeroes. - - *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the - "Authorization" header line as valid one. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the - ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module. - - *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the - ngx_imap_auth_http_module. - - *) Feature: the "add_header" directive. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module. - - *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive: - $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri, - $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status, - $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set, - $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form - will be canceled soon. - - *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the - empty string "" and string starting with "0". - - *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave - connections and temporary files with client requests in open state. - - *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on - graceful exit. - - *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive and - the request was proxied in location given by regular expression, then - the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had - appeared in 0.2.6. - - *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous "Expires" - header. - - *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and - several worker processes were used. - - *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in - SSI commands. - - *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and - gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or - did not transferred at all. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005 - - *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386, - amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005 - - *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to - authorization server. - - *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form. - - *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive, then - nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3. - - *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the 80 - port was always used. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005 - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login - was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2. - - *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were - handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3. - - *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the - "timer_resolution" directive were used. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug - had appeared in 0.3.3. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005 - - *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was - renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter". - - *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen" - directive. - - *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the additional - the gettimeofday() system call. - - *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives. - - *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen" - directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in - the CLOSED state. - - *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for - index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0. - - *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive. - - *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter. - - *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed just - after the response header was transferred to a client. - - *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility. - - *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative. - - *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in the - ngx_imap_ssl_module. - - *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single - protocol only. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005 - - *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails", - "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and - "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005 - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue - overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in - 0.2.0. - - *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in - SSI. - - -Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005 - - *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was eliminated. - The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers overflow. - - -Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005 - - *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed backend - retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds. - - *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI - now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive. - - *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows - more flexible to change an error code. - - *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored - in proxied subrequests. - - *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not - found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran - again. - - *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable - in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in - other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable" - error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2. - - -Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005 - - *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now - causes the warning and changes old value. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in the - "include" command. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value - substitutions in expressions of the "if" command. - - -Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text", - "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command. - - *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had - appeared in 0.1.44. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method was - used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0. - - -Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the - bug had appeared in 0.2.2. - - -Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005 - - *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module. - - *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the - "set" directive. - - *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" - directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the long - file names; - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files - starting by dot. - - *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be - closed too. - Thanks to Rob Mueller. - - *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS. - - -Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005 - - *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one - error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had - appeared in 0.2.0. - - -Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005 - - *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is - not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds - the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file. - The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin" - suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames - back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without - suffix. - - *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the - "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number - of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number. - - *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process. - - *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive. - - *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do - not run for subrequests. - - *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending" - directives. - - *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one - error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds. - - *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing. - Thanks to Rob Mueller. - - *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy. - - *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping. - - *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted - from the 304 responses. - Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005 - - *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the - ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level. - - *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via - SSL connection. - - *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005 - - *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module. - - *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive. - - *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently - of authorization use. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005 - - *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be - changed using the -HUP signal. - - *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib. - - *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed - to a server. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may got - caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent the - "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was used; in - the proxied mode the bug had appeared in 0.1.29. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005 - - *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in - the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error - occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module. - - *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if" - block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005 - - *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it - can not be used in SSI. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005 - - *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request - information did not logged in the error log. - - *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the - "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39. - - *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred - when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used. - - *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the - SIGQUIT signal. - - *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name - became shorter in the "ps" command. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005 - - *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset" - directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response - charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only. - - *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not - transferred while the 401 response code redirecting. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may - close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the - bug had appeared in 0.1.38. - - *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in - the "include virtual" command. - - *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and - nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body - was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29. - - *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and - ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the - location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate - chain. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the long - file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38. - - *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the - login state. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005 - - *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in proxy and FastCGI - mode. - - *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported - in proxy and FastCGI mode. - - *) Feature: the "break" directive. - - *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was - redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line. - - *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used in - SSI. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more - than one remote subrequest. - - *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status - line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had - appeared in 0.1.29. - - *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive. - - *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file - names in UTF-8. - - *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005 - - *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file. - - *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many - parts or the big parts were included by SSI. - - *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 response and the - "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or - "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to - request all backends again. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005 - - *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host", "Connection", - "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx now returns - the 400 error. - - *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled. - - *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind" - parameters of the "listen" directive. - - *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support. - - *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names - in UTF-8. - - *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if - the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005 - - *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive. - - *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response - header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29. - - *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did - not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was - occurred on the start. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was bigger - than the temporary file. - - *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like - "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in - 0.1.28. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005 - - *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the - big response part were include by SSI. - - *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available - in SSI. - - *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids - the client request header line passing. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005 - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter; - the bug had appeared in 0.1.29. - - *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one level - cause the bus fault on start up. - - *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects. - - *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if" - directive, then the 500 error code was returned. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005 - - *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the - "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29. - - *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular - expressions. - - *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures - of regular expressions. - - *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in - proxy and FastCGI mode. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005 - - *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete. - - *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI. - - *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping. - - *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without - response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005 - - *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the - SSI was used. - - *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete. - - *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from - proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the - 500 response code; in proxy mode the bug had appeared in 0.1.29 only. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters - as invalid. - - *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code. - - *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like - 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested - level is supported. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and DATE_GMT - variables and "config timefmt" command. - - *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the - empty QUERY_STRING variable. - - *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers", - "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was - canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive. - - *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced - with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off" - directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive - and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives. - - *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced - with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive. - - *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be - replaced with - the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" - directive. - - *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with - the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri" - directive. - - *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive. - - *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params" - directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param - directives. - - *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables. - - *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels. - - *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute. - - *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables. - - *) Feature: the "internal" directive. - - *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR, - SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME, - REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables. - - *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request - headers or a backend response header. - - *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and - the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx - returned the 408 response. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an - invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault - tolerance configuration. - - *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous "Expires" - and "Cache-Control" headers. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host" header - line. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux. - - *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments - were in a request. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005 - - *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005 - - *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive. - - *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at - "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header - lines also logged. - - *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log. - - *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling - of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is - canceled. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the - --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was - used. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005 - - *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged at - the info level. - - *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic and - auth_basic_user_file directives. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005 - - *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc. - - *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl - kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big. - - *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the - ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or - ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed - after request completion. - - *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular - expression. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the - condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)". - - *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and - text values were used in the "geo" directive. - - *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo" - directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but - will be removed soon. - - *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter. - - *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive. - - *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility. - - *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING and - DOCUMENT_URI variables. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404 - response for existent directory, if this directory was used in - "alias" directive. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large - responses. - - *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted as - valid referrer. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi, - ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo - var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are - supported. - - *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter. - - *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the - "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first - server name of the "server_name" directive. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386, - amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not - about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to. - - *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of - the response header if the no response was transferred to a client. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005 - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled - connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used. - - *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and - Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005 - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics - if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if - the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005 - - *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of - the fastcgi_params directive. - - *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005 - - *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is - returned for the local requests. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0. - - *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the client request - body via SSL connections. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005 - - *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the - devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible - with Solaris 10. - - *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not - inherited. - - *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated - with URI by an "&" rather than a "?". - - *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by - the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module. - - *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused the - segmentation fault. - - *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params - directive. - - *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive. - - *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows - to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current configuration - to the request. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005 - - *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch. - Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check - the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside - locations. The redirect directive was canceled. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module. - - *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives. - - *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in - another location. - - *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use - small caps letters in extension. - - *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the - location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a - static page, then the segmentation fault occurred. - - *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a - host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in - 0.1.14. - - *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005 - - *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD - request the final chunk was issued. - - *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the - keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use. - - *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the - segmentation faults. - - *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred - complete. - - *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPUSH, and TCP_CORK - options, are not used for the unix domain sockets. - - *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting. - - *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with - the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005 - - *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused - segmentation fault. - - *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has - different number of the captures and substitutions. - - *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be - regular expression. - - *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the - arguments and in the original state. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built - to use the regular expressions in locations. - - *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the - "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared - in 0.1.14. - - *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters - --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, or - --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH - caused segmentation fault. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005 - - *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives: - --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and - --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH - - *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client - request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by - default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp. - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives: - fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params, - fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout, - fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers, - fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path, - fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size, - fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by. - - *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in - 0.1.3. - - *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the - proxy_pass directive. - - *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument - string start. - - *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the - ngx_http_proxy_module. - - *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives. - Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004 - - *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold - directives. - - *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did not - work. - - *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect - length. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004 - - *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter. - - *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms, - where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long - delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It - may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll. - - *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux - does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004 - - *) Feature: the worker_priority directive. - - *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the - transferred response. - - *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups(). - Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin. - - *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the - bytes. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the - broken symlink was in a directory. - - *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using - sendfile. - - *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there was - an error while the response waiting then process may got caught in an - endless loop. - - *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message - when the /dev/poll method was used. - - *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors. - - *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups. - - *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux. - - *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events - section in configuration. - - *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD. - - *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to - ":/". - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004 - - *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./", "/../" - or "%XX" then the last character in the request line was lost; the - bug had appeared in 0.1.9. - - *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did - not work. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004 - - *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the request - contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX". - - *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not - completely. - - *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that - does not support sendfile64(). - - *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the --with-poll_module - parameter was required; the bug had appeared in 0.1.8. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004 - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were - in the listing. - - *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive. - - *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004 - - *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of - the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004 - - *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular - expressions caused the wrong configuration choose. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004 - - *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg() - returned not enough data" alerts. - - *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)" - errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms - that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an - endless loop. - - *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using - sendfile. - - *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris. - - *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the - spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing. - - *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations. - - *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004 - - *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004 - - *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive. - - *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive. - - *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile - is not used. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004 - - *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS - options in configure. - - *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld. - - *) Bugfix: the portability improvements. - - *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the - reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1. - - *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile - is not used. - - *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the - charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1. - - *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing. - - *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was - already compressed. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004 - - *) Feature: the gzip_types directive. - - *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive. - - *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that - support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT. - - *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris. - - *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying. - - *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an - endless loop. - - *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed. - - *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were - used while the proxying. - - *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend. - - *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the - --with-poll_module parameter was required. - - -Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004 - - *) The first public version. - |