Changes with nginx 1.2.5 13 Nov 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 Grossing.
*) Feature: resolver now randomly rotates addresses returned from cache.
Thanks to Anton Jouline.
*) Feature: the "auto" parameter of the "worker_processes" directive.
*) Bugfix: "cache file ... has md5 collision" alert.
*) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.7 compatibility.
Changes with nginx 1.2.4 25 Sep 2012
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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 occured 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-0x1F 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 validaiton 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.
- Fixed support of LOG / ALLOW targets
- LOG target for rules and actions
- brings security improvements (HTTP Auth in nx_extract and file disclosure
fixed in nx_extract)
No revbump as this does not affect nginx package itself.
*) 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).
Changes with nginx 1.0.14
*) Security: content of previously freed memory might be sent to a
client if backend returned specially crafted response.
Thanks to Matthew Daley.
Changes with nginx 1.0.13
*) 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: memory leaks.
Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
*) Bugfix: nginx might log incorrect error "upstream prematurely closed
connection" instead of correct "upstream sent too big header" one.
Thanks to Feibo Li.
*) Bugfix: on ZFS filesystem disk cache size might be calculated
incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 1.0.1.
*) Bugfix: the number of internal redirects to named locations was not
limited.
*) 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: the "proxy_redirect" directives might be inherited
incorrectly.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the
--with-openssl option was used.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 12.1 compiler.
Changes with nginx 1.0.12
*) Feature: the "TLSv1.1" and "TLSv1.2" parameters of the
"ssl_protocols" directive.
*) Feature: the "if" SSI command supports captures in regular
expressions.
*) Bugfix: the "if" SSI command did not work inside the "block" command.
*) Bugfix: in AIO error handling on FreeBSD.
*) Bugfix: in the OpenSSL library initialization.
*) Bugfix: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive might not work.
*) Bugfix: the "limit_conn_log_level" and "limit_req_log_level"
directives might not work.
*) Bugfix: the "read_ahead" directive might not work combined with
"try_files" and "open_file_cache".
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_use_stale" directive with "error" parameter
did not return answer from cache if there were no live upstreams.
*) 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.
*) Bugfix: in error handling while connecting to a backend.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
*) Bugfix: in the "epoll" event method.
Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
*) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control variable might contain a wrong
value if the "expires" directive was used.
Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
*) 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: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
1.0.11.
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_scgi_module.
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
Changes with nginx 1.0.11
*) Change: now double quotes are encoded in an "echo" SSI-command
output.
Thanks to Zaur Abasmirzoev.
*) Feature: the "image_filter_sharpen" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if SNI
was used; the bug had appeared in 1.0.9.
*) Bugfix: SIGWINCH signal did not work after first binary upgrade; the
bug had appeared in 1.0.9.
*) 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: in the "scgi_param" directive, if complex parameters were
used.
*) Bugfix: "add_header" and "expires" directives did not work if a
request was proxied and response status code was 206.
*) Bugfix: in the "expires @time" directive.
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_flv_module.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 10.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
PR/45506. No new options added. Notable changes:
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
resolver got a big DNS response.
*) Feature: accept filters are now supported on NetBSD.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or while
reconfiguration if the "ssl" directive was used at http level and
there was no "ssl_certificate" defined.
*) 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.
*) Feature: now nginx supports ECDHE key exchange ciphers.
*) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5".
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if a
caching was used.
*) 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.
- Allow the "error_page" directive to change the status code in a
redirect
- Support special "degration" mask in "gzip_disable" directive
- Fix a socket leak with file AIO
- Fix bug that made a server the default if none was explicitly set and
the first server has no "listen" directive
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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 xcl_r compiler.
*) Bugfix: nginx treated large SSLv2 packets as plain requests.
Thanks to Miroslaw Jaworski.
*) 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.
*) 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.
- New http_uwsgi_module, replacing the (optional) external one
- New ngx_http_split_clients module
- Support "map" directive with keys longer than 255 charecters
- Allow overriding client request header in fastcgi_param
- New "proxy_no_cache" and "fastcgi_no_cache" directives
- Automatically redirect from "rewrite" if $scheme is used
- Various bugfixes
- Support all ciphers and digests typically used in client certificates
- Fix caching of FastCGI reponses with large stderr output
- Support HTTPS referrers
- Fix $date_local variable with "%s" format
- Fix client certificate verification error with ssl_session_cache=none
- Fix matching error with geo ranges
- Fix SSI issue with stub parameter
- Fix $r->sleep
- fix issues with Keep-Alive in various clients
- fix issue with internal redirects between proxy/fastcgi locations
- fix a bug with discarding request bodies
Add optional uwsgi backend.
*) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
to the cookie field contains a pid value.
*) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
*) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
*) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
error; bug appeared in 0.5.13.
*) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
*) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
keep-alive state.
Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
*) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
throughput, even if limit value was very high.
*) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
*) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
it was escaped in a proxied request; bug appeared in 0.5.32.
*) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
error_log.
*) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
*) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
*) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
*) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
*) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
"limit_except" block.
*) 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.
*) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
directive; bug appeared in 0.5.28.
*) 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: compatibility with mget.
*) 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: 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.
