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.
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