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2 Changes with nginx 1.1.11 12 Dec 2011
4 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" parameter of the "listen" directive.
5 Thanks to Vsevolod Stakhov.
7 *) Feature: the "if_not_empty" parameter of the
8 "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives.
10 *) Feature: the $https variable.
12 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports variables in the
13 first parameter.
15 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports regular expressions.
17 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control variable might contain a wrong
18 value if the "expires" directive was used.
19 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
21 *) Bugfix: the "read_ahead" directive might not work combined with
22 "try_files" and "open_file_cache".
24 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if small
25 time was used in the "inactive" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
26 directive.
28 *) Bugfix: responses from cache might hang.
31 Changes with nginx 1.1.10 30 Nov 2011
33 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occured in a worker process if AIO was
34 used on Linux; the bug had appeared in 1.1.9.
37 Changes with nginx 1.1.9 28 Nov 2011
39 *) Change: now double quotes are encoded in an "echo" SSI-command
40 output.
41 Thanks to Zaur Abasmirzoev.
43 *) Feature: the "valid" parameter of the "resolver" directive. By
44 default TTL returned by a DNS server is used.
45 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
47 *) Bugfix: nginx might hang after a worker process abnormal termination.
49 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if SNI
50 was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.2.
52 *) Bugfix: in the "keepalive_disable" directive; the bug had appeared in
53 1.1.8.
54 Thanks to Alexander Usov.
56 *) Bugfix: SIGWINCH signal did not work after first binary upgrade; the
57 bug had appeared in 1.1.1.
59 *) Bugfix: backend responses with length not matching "Content-Length"
60 header line are no longer cached.
62 *) Bugfix: in the "scgi_param" directive, if complex parameters were
63 used.
65 *) Bugfix: in the "epoll" event method.
66 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
68 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_flv_module.
69 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
71 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
73 *) Bugfix: IPv6 addresses are now handled properly in a request line and
74 in a "Host" request header line.
76 *) Bugfix: "add_header" and "expires" directives did not work if a
77 request was proxied and response status code was 206.
79 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 10.
81 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
84 Changes with nginx 1.1.8 14 Nov 2011
86 *) Change: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module was renamed to the
87 ngx_http_limit_conn_module.
89 *) Change: the "limit_zone" directive was superseded by the
90 "limit_conn_zone" directive with a new syntax.
92 *) Feature: support for multiple "limit_conn" limits on the same level.
94 *) Feature: the "image_filter_sharpen" directive.
96 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
97 resolver got a big DNS response.
98 Thanks to Ben Hawkes.
100 *) Bugfix: in cache key calculation if internal MD5 implementation was
101 used; the bug had appeared in 1.0.4.
103 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
104 header lines might be passed to backend while caching; or not passed
105 without caching if caching was enabled in another part of the
106 configuration.
108 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module sent incorrect
109 "Content-Length" response header line if the "start" argument was
110 used.
111 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
114 Changes with nginx 1.1.7 31 Oct 2011
116 *) Feature: support of several DNS servers in the "resolver" directive.
117 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
119 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during
120 reconfiguration if the "ssl" directive was used at http level and
121 there was no "ssl_certificate" defined.
123 *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption while proxying big files if they
124 were buffered to disk.
126 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
127 "proxy_http_version 1.1" directive was used.
129 *) Bugfix: in the "expires @time" directive.
132 Changes with nginx 1.1.6 17 Oct 2011
134 *) Change in internal API: now module context data are cleared while
135 internal redirect to named location.
136 Requested by Yichun Zhang.
138 *) Change: if a server in an upstream failed, only one request will be
139 sent to it after fail_timeout; the server will be considered alive if
140 it will successfully respond to the request.
142 *) Change: now the 0x7F-0x1F characters are escaped as \xXX in an
143 access_log.
145 *) Feature: "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_headers" directives support
146 the following additional values: X-Accel-Limit-Rate,
147 X-Accel-Buffering, X-Accel-Charset.
149 *) Feature: decrease of memory consumption if SSL is used.
151 *) Bugfix: some UTF-8 characters were processed incorrectly.
152 Thanks to Alexey Kuts.
154 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module directives specified at "server"
155 level were executed twice if no matching locations were defined.
157 *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if "aio sendfile" was used.
159 *) Bugfix: connections with fast clients might be closed after
160 send_timeout if file AIO was used.
162 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
164 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support seeking on
165 32-bit platforms.
168 Changes with nginx 1.1.5 05 Oct 2011
170 *) Feature: the "uwsgi_buffering" and "scgi_buffering" directives.
171 Thanks to Peter Smit.
173 *) Bugfix: non-cacheable responses might be cached if
174 "proxy_cache_bypass" directive was used.
175 Thanks to John Ferlito.
177 *) Bugfix: in HTTP/1.1 support in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
179 *) Bugfix: cached responses with an empty body were returned
180 incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 0.8.31.
182 *) Bugfix: 201 responses of the ngx_http_dav_module were incorrect; the
183 bug had appeared in 0.8.32.
185 *) Bugfix: in the "return" directive.
187 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_session_cache builtin" directive caused segmentation
188 fault; the bug had appeared in 1.1.1.
191 Changes with nginx 1.1.4 20 Sep 2011
193 *) Feature: the ngx_http_upstream_keepalive module.
195 *) Feature: the "proxy_http_version" directive.
197 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
199 *) Feature: the "worker_aio_requests" directive.
201 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built --with-file-aio it could not be run on
202 Linux kernel which did not support AIO.
204 *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO error processing.
205 Thanks to Hagai Avrahami.
207 *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption for long-lived requests.
209 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support 64-bit MP4
210 "co64" atom.
213 Changes with nginx 1.1.3 14 Sep 2011
215 *) Feature: the module ngx_http_mp4_module.
217 *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO combined with open_file_cache.
219 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache did not update file info on retest if file
220 was not atomically changed.
222 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.7.
225 Changes with nginx 1.1.2 05 Sep 2011
227 *) Change: now if total size of all ranges is greater than source
228 response size, then nginx disables ranges and returns just the source
229 response.
231 *) Feature: the "max_ranges" directive.
233 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
234 "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directives might work incorrectly if SNI
235 was used.
237 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_client_abort"
238 directives.
241 Changes with nginx 1.1.1 22 Aug 2011
243 *) Change: now cache loader processes either as many files as specified
244 by "loader_files" parameter or works no longer than time specified by
245 the "loader_threshold" parameter during each iteration.
247 *) Change: now SIGWINCH signal works only in daemon mode.
249 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Solaris.
250 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
252 *) Feature: accept filters are now supported on NetBSD.
254 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 3.0.
256 *) Bugfix: nginx did not use gzipping in some cases; the bug had
257 appeared in 1.1.0.
259 *) Bugfix: request body might be processed incorrectly if client used
260 pipelining.
262 *) Bugfix: in the "request_body_in_single_buf" directive.
264 *) Bugfix: in "proxy_set_body" and "proxy_pass_request_body" directives
265 if SSL connection to backend was used.
267 *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as
268 "down".
270 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur during reconfiguration if
271 ssl_session_cache was defined but not used in previous configuration.
273 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if many
274 backup servers were used in an upstream.
276 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
277 "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives were used with values starting
278 with "HTTP_"; the bug had appeared in 0.8.40.
281 Changes with nginx 1.1.0 01 Aug 2011
283 *) Feature: cache loader run time decrease.
285 *) Feature: "loader_files", "loader_sleep", and "loader_threshold"
286 options of the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_path" directives.
288 *) Feature: loading time decrease of configuration with large number of
289 HTTPS sites.
291 *) Feature: now nginx supports ECDHE key exchange ciphers.
292 Thanks to Adrian Kotelba.
294 *) Feature: the "lingering_close" directive.
295 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
297 *) Bugfix: in closing connection for pipelined requests.
298 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
300 *) Bugfix: nginx did not disable gzipping if client sent "gzip;q=0" in
301 "Accept-Encoding" request header line.
303 *) Bugfix: in timeout in unbuffered proxied mode.
304 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
306 *) Bugfix: memory leaks when a "proxy_pass" directive contains variables
307 and proxies to an HTTPS backend.
308 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
310 *) Bugfix: in parameter validaiton of a "proxy_pass" directive with
311 variables.
312 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
314 *) Bugfix: SSL did not work on QNX.
315 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
317 *) Bugfix: SSL modules could not be built by gcc 4.6 without
318 --with-debug option.
321 Changes with nginx 1.0.5 19 Jul 2011
323 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5".
324 Thanks to Rob Stradling.
326 *) Feature: the "referer_hash_max_size" and "referer_hash_bucket_size"
327 directives.
328 Thanks to Witold Filipczyk.
330 *) Feature: $uid_reset variable.
332 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if a
333 caching was used.
334 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
336 *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during
337 reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in
338 0.8.48.
339 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
341 *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert.
342 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
345 Changes with nginx 1.0.4 01 Jun 2011
347 *) Change: now regular expressions case sensitivity in the "map"
348 directive is given by prefixes "~" or "~*".
350 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Linux.
351 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
353 *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert.
355 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_auth_basic_module;
356 the bug had appeared in 1.0.3.
359 Changes with nginx 1.0.3 25 May 2011
361 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "$apr1",
362 "{PLAIN}", and "{SSHA}" password encryption methods.
363 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
365 *) Feature: the "geoip_org" directive and $geoip_org variable.
366 Thanks to Alexander Uskov, Arnaud Granal, and Denis F. Latypoff.
368 *) Feature: ngx_http_geo_module and ngx_http_geoip_module support IPv4
369 addresses mapped to IPv6 addresses.
371 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process during
372 testing IPv4 address mapped to IPv6 address, if access or deny rules
373 were defined only for IPv6; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
375 *) Bugfix: a cached response may be broken if "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/
376 uwsgi_cache_bypass" and "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_no_cache" directive
377 values were different; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
380 Changes with nginx 1.0.2 10 May 2011
382 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores.
384 *) Bugfix: in the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
385 Thanks to Adam Bocim.
387 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
388 1.0.1.
391 Changes with nginx 1.0.1 03 May 2011
393 *) Change: now the "split_clients" directive uses MurmurHash2 algorithm
394 because of better distribution.
395 Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.
397 *) Change: now long strings starting with zero are not considered as
398 false values.
399 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
401 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value 511 on Linux.
403 *) Feature: the $upstream_... variables may be used in the SSI and perl
404 modules.
406 *) Bugfix: now nginx limits better disk cache size.
407 Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.
409 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur while parsing incorrect IPv4
410 address; the bug had appeared in 0.9.3.
411 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
413 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.6 without --with-debug
414 option.
416 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris 9 and earlier; the bug
417 had appeared in 0.9.3.
418 Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen.
420 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values if subrequests were
421 used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.47.
422 Thanks to Igor A. Valcov.
425 Changes with nginx 1.0.0 12 Apr 2011
427 *) Bugfix: a cache manager might hog CPU after reload.
428 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
430 *) Bugfix: an "image_filter crop" directive worked incorrectly coupled
431 with an "image_filter rotate 180" directive.
433 *) Bugfix: a "satisfy any" directive disabled custom 401 error page.
436 Changes with nginx 0.9.7 04 Apr 2011
438 *) Feature: now keepalive connections may be closed premature, if there
439 are no free worker connections.
440 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
442 *) Feature: the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
443 Thanks to Adam Bocim.
445 *) Bugfix: a case when a backend in "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or
446 "uwsgi_pass" directives is given by expression and refers to a
447 defined upstream.
450 Changes with nginx 0.9.6 21 Mar 2011
452 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports regular expressions as value of
453 the first parameter.
455 *) Feature: $time_iso8601 access_log variable.
456 Thanks to Michael Lustfield.
459 Changes with nginx 0.9.5 21 Feb 2011
461 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value -1 on Linux.
462 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
464 *) Feature: the "utf8" parameter of "geoip_country" and "geoip_city"
465 directives.
466 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
468 *) Bugfix: in a default "proxy_redirect" directive if "proxy_pass"
469 directive has no URI part.
470 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
472 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not work with nonstandard error
473 codes; the bug had appeared in 0.8.53.
474 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
477 Changes with nginx 0.9.4 21 Jan 2011
479 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the $hostname variable.
481 *) Feature: 494 code for "Request Header Too Large" error.
484 Changes with nginx 0.9.3 13 Dec 2010
486 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given IPv6 address:port
487 pair, then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name"
488 directive did not work.
490 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
491 0.9.0.
494 Changes with nginx 0.9.2 06 Dec 2010
496 *) Feature: the "If-Unmodified-Since" client request header line
497 support.
499 *) Workaround: fallback to accept() syscall if accept4() was not
500 implemented; the issue had appeared in 0.9.0.
502 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Cygwin; the bug had appeared in
503 0.9.0.
505 *) Bugfix: for OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2010-4180.
506 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
509 Changes with nginx 0.9.1 30 Nov 2010
511 *) Bugfix: "return CODE message" directives did not work; the bug had
512 appeared in 0.9.0.
515 Changes with nginx 0.9.0 29 Nov 2010
517 *) Feature: the "keepalive_disable" directive.
519 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports variables as value of a defined
520 variable.
522 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports empty strings as value of the
523 first parameter.
525 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports expressions as the first
526 parameter.
528 *) Feature: nginx(8) manual page.
529 Thanks to Sergey Osokin.
531 *) Feature: Linux accept4() support.
532 Thanks to Simon Liu.
534 *) Workaround: elimination of Linux linker warning about "sys_errlist"
535 and "sys_nerr"; the warning had appeared in 0.8.35.
537 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the
538 "auth_basic" directive was used.
539 Thanks to Michail Laletin.
541 *) Bugfix: compatibility with ngx_http_eval_module; the bug had appeared
542 in 0.8.42.
545 Changes with nginx 0.8.53 18 Oct 2010
547 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive allows to change a status
548 code in a redirect.
550 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "degradation"
551 mask.
553 *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if file AIO was used.
554 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
556 *) Bugfix: if the first server had no "listen" directive and there was
557 no explicit default server, then a next server with a "listen"
558 directive became the default server; the bug had appeared in 0.8.21.
561 Changes with nginx 0.8.52 28 Sep 2010
563 *) Bugfix: nginx used SSL mode for a listen socket if any listen option
564 was set; the bug had appeared in 0.8.51.
567 Changes with nginx 0.8.51 27 Sep 2010
569 *) Change: the "secure_link_expires" directive has been canceled.
571 *) Change: a logging level of resolver errors has been lowered from
572 "alert" to "error".
574 *) Feature: now a listen socket "ssl" parameter may be set several
575 times.
578 Changes with nginx 0.8.50 02 Sep 2010
580 *) Feature: the "secure_link", "secure_link_md5", and
581 "secure_link_expires" directives of the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
583 *) Feature: the -q switch.
584 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
586 *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during
587 reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in
588 0.8.48.
590 *) Bugfix: in the "gzip_disable" directive.
591 Thanks to Derrick Petzold.
593 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not send stop, quit, reopen, and reload
594 signals to a process run in other session.
597 Changes with nginx 0.8.49 09 Aug 2010
599 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive supports
600 variables.
602 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the
603 $geoip_region_name variables was used; the bug had appeared in
604 0.8.48.
606 *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page were cached only for next
607 request; the bug had appeared in 0.8.48.
610 Changes with nginx 0.8.48 03 Aug 2010
612 *) Change: now the "server_name" directive default value is an empty
613 name "".
614 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
616 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive default value is
617 "off".
619 *) Feature: the $geoip_dma_code, $geoip_area_code, and
620 $geoip_region_name variables.
621 Thanks to Christine McGonagle.
623 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass", and
624 "scgi_pass" directives were not inherited inside "limit_except"
625 blocks.
627 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_min_uses", "fastcgi_cache_min_uses"
628 "uwsgi_cache_min_uses", and "scgi_cache_min_uses" directives did not
629 work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
631 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive used incorrectly
632 captures, if only parts of an URI were captured.
633 Thanks to Yuriy Taraday and Frank Enderle.
635 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not escape a ";" character during
636 copying from URI to query string.
637 Thanks to Daisuke Murase.
639 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module closed a connection, if an
640 image was larger than "image_filter_buffer" size.
643 Changes with nginx 0.8.47 28 Jul 2010
645 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values for subrequests.
647 *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page could not be cached.
649 *) Bugfix: a cache manager process may got caught in an endless loop, if
650 max_size parameter was used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
653 Changes with nginx 0.8.46 19 Jul 2010
655 *) Change: now the "proxy_no_cache", "fastcgi_no_cache",
656 "uwsgi_no_cache", and "scgi_no_cache" directives affect on a cached
657 response saving only.
659 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_bypass", "fastcgi_cache_bypass",
660 "uwsgi_cache_bypass", and "scgi_cache_bypass" directives.
662 *) Bugfix: nginx did not free memory in cache keys zones if there was an
663 error during working with backend: the memory was freed only after
664 inactivity time or on memory low condition.
667 Changes with nginx 0.8.45 13 Jul 2010
669 *) Feature: ngx_http_xslt_filter improvements.
670 Thanks to Laurence Rowe.
672 *) Bugfix: SSI response might be truncated after include with
673 wait="yes"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
674 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
676 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive did not support the "setfib=0"
677 parameter.
680 Changes with nginx 0.8.44 05 Jul 2010
682 *) Change: now nginx does not cache by default backend responses, if
683 they have a "Set-Cookie" header line.
685 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "setfib" parameter.
686 Thanks to Andrew Filonov.
688 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might change character case on
689 partial match.
691 *) Bugfix: compatibility with HP/UX.
693 *) Bugfix: compatibility with AIX xlC_r compiler.
695 *) Bugfix: nginx treated large SSLv2 packets as plain requests.
696 Thanks to Miroslaw Jaworski.
699 Changes with nginx 0.8.43 30 Jun 2010
701 *) Feature: large geo ranges base loading speed-up.
703 *) Bugfix: an error_page redirection to "location /zero {return 204;}"
704 without changing status code kept the error body; the bug had
705 appeared in 0.8.42.
707 *) Bugfix: nginx might close IPv6 listen socket during reconfiguration.
708 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
710 *) Bugfix: the $uid_set variable may be used at any request processing
711 stage.
714 Changes with nginx 0.8.42 21 Jun 2010
716 *) Change: now nginx tests locations given by regular expressions, if
717 request was matched exactly by a location given by a prefix string.
718 The previous behavior has been introduced in 0.7.1.
720 *) Feature: the ngx_http_scgi_module.
721 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
723 *) Feature: a text answer may be added to a "return" directive.
726 Changes with nginx 0.8.41 15 Jun 2010
728 *) Security: nginx/Windows worker might be terminated abnormally if a
729 requested file name has invalid UTF-8 encoding.
731 *) Change: now nginx allows to use spaces in a request line.
733 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive changed incorrectly a backend
734 "Refresh" response header line.
735 Thanks to Andrey Andreew and Max Sogin.
737 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support path without host name in "Destination"
738 request header line.
741 Changes with nginx 0.8.40 07 Jun 2010
743 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores default file stream name.
744 Thanks to Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez.
746 *) Feature: the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
747 Thanks to Roberto De Ioris.
749 *) Feature: a "fastcgi_param" directive with value starting with "HTTP_"
750 overrides a client request header line.
752 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
753 header lines were passed to FastCGI-server while caching.
755 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket could not be changed during
756 reconfiguration.
757 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
760 Changes with nginx 0.8.39 31 May 2010
762 *) Bugfix: an inherited "alias" directive worked incorrectly in
763 inclusive location.
765 *) Bugfix: in "alias" with variables and "try_files" directives
766 combination.
768 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain and IPv6 sockets did not inherit while
769 online upgrade.
770 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
773 Changes with nginx 0.8.38 24 May 2010
775 *) Feature: the "proxy_no_cache" and "fastcgi_no_cache" directives.
777 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if
778 the $scheme variable is used.
779 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
781 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" delay directive conforms to the described
782 algorithm.
783 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
785 *) Bugfix: the $uid_got variable might not be used in the SSI and perl
786 modules.
789 Changes with nginx 0.8.37 17 May 2010
791 *) Feature: the ngx_http_split_clients_module.
793 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports keys more than 255 characters.
795 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "private" and "no-store" values in the
796 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
798 *) Bugfix: a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was not
799 used, if empty response has 200 status code.
801 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
802 another proxied or FastCGI location, then a segmentation fault might
803 occur in a worker process; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
804 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
806 *) Bugfix: IMAP connections may hang until they timed out while talking
807 to Zimbra server.
808 Thanks to Alan Batie.
811 Changes with nginx 0.8.36 22 Apr 2010
813 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module handled incorrectly the DELETE, COPY,
814 and MOVE methods for symlinks.
816 *) Bugfix: values of the $query_string, $arg_..., etc. variables cached
817 in main request were used by the SSI module in subrequests.
819 *) Bugfix: a variable value was repeatedly encoded after each an "echo"
820 SSI-command output; the bug had appeared in 0.6.14.
822 *) Bugfix: a worker process hung if a FIFO file was requested.
823 Thanks to Vicente Aguilar and Maxim Dounin.
825 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL-1.0.0 compatibility on 64-bit Linux.
826 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
828 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
829 appeared in 0.8.35.
832 Changes with nginx 0.8.35 01 Apr 2010
834 *) Change: now the charset filter runs before the SSI filter.
836 *) Feature: the "chunked_transfer_encoding" directive.
838 *) Bugfix: an "&" character was not escaped when it was copied in
839 arguments part in a rewrite rule.
841 *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally while a signal
842 processing or if the directive "timer_resolution" was used on
843 platforms which do not support kqueue or eventport notification
844 methods.
845 Thanks to George Xie and Maxim Dounin.
847 *) Bugfix: if temporary files and permanent storage area resided at
848 different file systems, then permanent file modification times were
849 incorrect.
850 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
852 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module might issue the error message
853 "memcached sent invalid trailer".
854 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
856 *) Bugfix: nginx could not built zlib-1.2.4 library using the library
857 sources.
858 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
860 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process, if there
861 was large stderr output before FastCGI response; the bug had appeared
862 in 0.8.34.
863 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
866 Changes with nginx 0.8.34 03 Mar 2010
868 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support all ciphers and digests used in client
869 certificates.
870 Thanks to Innocenty Enikeew.
872 *) Bugfix: nginx cached incorrectly FastCGI responses if there was large
873 stderr output before response.
875 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support HTTPS referrers.
877 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not find file if path in configuration
878 was given in other character case; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
880 *) Bugfix: the $date_local variable has an incorrect value, if the "%s"
881 format was used.
882 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
884 *) Bugfix: if ssl_session_cache was not set or was set to "none", then
885 during client certificate verify the error "session id context
886 uninitialized" might occur; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
888 *) Bugfix: a geo range returned default value if the range included two
889 or more /16 networks and did not begin at /16 network boundary.
891 *) Bugfix: a block used in a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI
892 directive was output with "text/plain" MIME type.
894 *) Bugfix: $r->sleep() did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
897 Changes with nginx 0.8.33 01 Feb 2010
899 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing spaces in URI.
900 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
902 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores short files names.
903 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
905 *) Change: now keepalive connections after POST requests are not
906 disabled for MSIE 7.0+.
907 Thanks to Adam Lounds.
909 *) Workaround: now keepalive connections are disabled for Safari.
910 Thanks to Joshua Sierles.
912 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
913 another proxied or FastCGI location, then $upstream_response_time
914 variable may have abnormally large value; the bug had appeared in
915 0.8.7.
917 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, while
918 discarding a request body; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
921 Changes with nginx 0.8.32 11 Jan 2010
923 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
924 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
926 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures worked for two names only.
927 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
929 *) Bugfix: now the "localhost" name is used in the "Host" request header
930 line, if an unix domain socket is defined in the "auth_http"
931 directive.
932 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
934 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support chunked transfer encoding for 201
935 responses.
936 Thanks to Julian Reich.
938 *) Bugfix: if the "expires modified" set date in the past, then a
939 negative number was set in the "Cache-Control" response header line.
940 Thanks to Alex Kapranoff.
943 Changes with nginx 0.8.31 23 Dec 2009
945 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive may redirect the 301 and 302
946 responses.
948 *) Feature: the $geoip_city_continent_code, $geoip_latitude, and
949 $geoip_longitude variables.
950 Thanks to Arvind Sundararajan.
952 *) Feature: now the ngx_http_image_filter_module deletes always EXIF and
953 other application specific data if the data consume more than 5% of a
954 JPEG file.
956 *) Bugfix: nginx closed a connection if a cached response had an empty
957 body.
958 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
960 *) Bugfix: nginx might not be built by gcc 4.x if the -O2 or higher
961 optimization option was used.
962 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Denis F. Latypoff.
964 *) Bugfix: regular expressions in location were always tested in
965 case-sensitive mode; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
967 *) Bugfix: nginx cached a 304 response if there was the "If-None-Match"
968 header line in a proxied request.
969 Thanks to Tim Dettrick and David Kostal.
971 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to delete a temporary file twice if the
972 file should replace an already existent file.
975 Changes with nginx 0.8.30 15 Dec 2009
977 *) Change: now the default buffer size of the
978 "large_client_header_buffers" directive is 8K.
979 Thanks to Andrew Cholakian.
981 *) Feature: the conf/fastcgi.conf for simple FastCGI configurations.
983 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to rename a temporary file twice if the
984 file should replace an already existent file.
986 *) Bugfix: of "double free or corruption" error issued if host could not
987 be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
988 Thanks to Konstantin Svist.
990 *) Bugfix: in libatomic usage on some platforms.
991 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
994 Changes with nginx 0.8.29 30 Nov 2009
996 *) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for
997 proxied HTTP/0.9 responses.
999 *) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
1000 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support
1001 an "*" parameter.
1003 *) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage.
1004 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1006 *) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure.
1007 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1009 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights.
1011 *) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly.
1013 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not
1014 work in a "server_name" directive.
1015 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1018 Changes with nginx 0.8.28 23 Nov 2009
1020 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
1021 the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1024 Changes with nginx 0.8.27 17 Nov 2009
1026 *) Bugfix: regular expressions did not work in nginx/Windows; the bug
1027 had appeared in 0.8.25.
1030 Changes with nginx 0.8.26 16 Nov 2009
1032 *) Bugfix: in captures usage in "rewrite" directive; the bug had
1033 appeared in 0.8.25.
1035 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
1036 bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1039 Changes with nginx 0.8.25 16 Nov 2009
1041 *) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is
1042 not found by $r->variable() method.
1044 *) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module.
1046 *) Feature: regular expression named captures.
1048 *) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if
1049 variables are used.
1051 *) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too.
1053 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low
1054 memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18.
1056 *) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support
1057 gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared
1058 in 0.8.16.
1061 Changes with nginx 0.8.24 11 Nov 2009
1063 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Content-Encoding: gzip" response header
1064 line in 304 responses sent by ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
1066 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
1067 bug had appeared in 0.8.23.
1069 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
1070 inherited incorrectly from previous level.
1072 *) Bugfix: in resolving empty name.
1075 Changes with nginx 0.8.23 11 Nov 2009
1077 *) Security: now SSL/TLS renegotiation is disabled.
1078 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1080 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket did not inherit while online
1081 upgrade.
1083 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive did
1084 not without yet another directive with any IP address.
1086 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault and infinite looping in resolver.
1088 *) Bugfix: in resolver.
1089 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
1092 Changes with nginx 0.8.22 03 Nov 2009
1094 *) Feature: the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", and "memcached_bind"
1095 directives.
1097 *) Feature: the "access" and the "deny" directives support IPv6.
1099 *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive supports IPv6 addresses in
1100 request headers.
1102 *) Feature: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive.
1104 *) Bugfix: nginx did not delete unix domain socket after configuration
1105 testing.
1107 *) Bugfix: nginx deleted unix domain socket while online upgrade.
1109 *) Bugfix: the "!-x" operator did not work.
1110 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1112 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
1113 limit_rate was used in HTTPS server.
1114 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1116 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while
1117 $limit_rate logging.
1118 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1120 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
1121 there was no "listen" directive in "server" block; the bug had
1122 appeared in 0.8.21.
1125 Changes with nginx 0.8.21 26 Oct 2009
1127 *) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support.
1129 *) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix
1130 domain sockets.
1131 Thanks to Hongli Lai.
1133 *) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive.
1135 *) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen
1136 socket options.
1138 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms;
1140 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1143 Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009
1145 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5".
1147 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing slash
1148 in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15.
1150 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path
1151 configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53.
1153 *) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the
1154 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
1156 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file,
1157 or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker had no enough access
1158 rights for top level directories.
1160 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines were
1161 not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives were
1162 used with any parameters.
1164 *) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size.
1167 Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009
1169 *) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default.
1171 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM".
1173 *) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared in
1174 0.8.18.
1177 Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009
1179 *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive.
1181 *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used.
1183 *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level"
1184 directives.
1186 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket
1187 algorithm.
1188 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1190 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc.
1191 Thanks to Marcus Ramberg.
1193 *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on MKCOL
1194 request.
1195 Thanks to Xie Zhenye.
1197 *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the
1198 bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1200 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1203 Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009
1205 *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header
1206 line.
1208 *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case.
1210 *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable.
1212 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1215 Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009
1217 *) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive.
1219 *) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named
1220 "addtion_types".
1222 *) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning.
1223 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
1225 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
1226 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
1228 *) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in
1229 access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level.
1231 *) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the
1232 ngx_http_image_filter_module.
1234 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header
1235 line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on.
1237 *) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in
1238 nginx/Windows.
1240 *) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in
1241 0.8.11.
1242 Thanks to Igor Artemiev.
1245 Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009
1247 *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while
1248 specially crafted request handling.
1249 Thanks to Chris Ries.
1251 *) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld
1252 were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by
1253 .domain.tld.
1255 *) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
1257 *) Bugfix: in file AIO.
1259 *) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1261 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1264 Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009
1266 *) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING"
1267 state.
1269 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if
1270 error_log was set to info or debug level.
1271 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1273 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1275 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the
1276 bug had appeared in 0.6.10.
1279 Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009
1281 *) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in
1282 0.8.12.
1284 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option
1285 on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12.
1288 Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009
1290 *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD.
1292 *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1294 *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1297 Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009
1299 *) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping
1300 for MSIE 6.0 SV1.
1302 *) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux.
1304 *) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive.
1307 Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009
1309 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used.
1311 *) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the bug
1312 had appeared in 0.8.9.
1315 Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009
1317 *) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this
1318 should improve large caches handling.
1320 *) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside at
1321 different file systems.
1324 Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009
1326 *) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records.
1328 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
1329 was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a caching was
1330 enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in 0.8.7.
1333 Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009
1335 *) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7.
1337 *) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was
1338 changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client
1339 certificate if it was offered.
1340 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
1342 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable.
1343 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
1345 *) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive.
1346 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
1348 *) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive.
1350 *) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting
1351 size.
1353 *) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the bug
1354 had appeared in 0.7.7.
1355 Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev.
1357 *) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did
1358 not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate",
1359 "X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend
1360 response header.
1361 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1363 *) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend
1364 response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
1365 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1367 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an
1368 empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5.
1371 Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009
1373 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module.
1375 *) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML
1376 document" for valid XML document.
1377 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
1379 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by a
1380 regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode.
1382 *) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI.
1383 Thanks to Hugo Leisink.
1385 *) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during
1386 installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
1387 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1390 Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009
1392 *) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method.
1394 *) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password
1395 while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows.
1397 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests.
1399 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module.
1400 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1403 Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009
1405 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
1406 appeared in 0.8.3.
1409 Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009
1411 *) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable.
1413 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6.
1415 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
1416 appeared in 0.8.2.
1418 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a backend
1419 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the
1420 "WWW-Authenticate" response header line.
1421 Thanks to Eugene Mychlo.
1424 Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009
1426 *) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on
1427 start up.
1429 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long;
1430 the bug had appeared in 0.7.4.
1433 Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009
1435 *) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
1436 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives.
1438 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
1439 header lines were passed to backend while caching if no
1440 "proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters.
1442 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not
1443 hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header"
1444 directives were used with any parameters.
1446 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a
1447 format.
1448 Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh.
1450 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early; the
1451 bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
1454 Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009
1456 *) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive.
1458 *) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive.
1459 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
1461 *) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests.
1463 *) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows.
1465 *) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and fastcgi_cache
1466 in nginx/Windows.
1468 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.
1469 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy.
1472 Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009
1474 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods"
1475 directives.
1477 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1478 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1480 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
1481 had no body and the $request_body variable was used;
1482 the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
1484 *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux;
1485 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
1487 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by
1488 SSI, charset, and gzip filters.
1490 *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to
1491 ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses.
1494 Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009
1496 *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6.
1498 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive.
1500 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive.
1502 *) Feature: the $request_body variable.
1504 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":"
1505 symbol in the name.
1507 *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared
1508 in 0.7.53.
1509 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
1512 Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009
1514 *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the
1515 ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named
1516 location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
1519 Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009
1521 *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
1522 HTTP module.
1524 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.
1527 Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009
1529 *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
1530 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work.
1532 *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses.
1534 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in
1535 nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
1537 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
1538 "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
1539 0.7.54.
1541 *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors.
1543 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using
1544 $r->sendfile.
1545 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1548 Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009
1550 *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
1552 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
1553 directives.
1555 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
1556 "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had appeared
1557 in 0.7.53.
1559 *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
1560 had appeared in 0.7.39.
1562 *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.
1564 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
1566 *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
1567 appeared in 0.7.53.
1570 Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009
1572 *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very
1573 start-up.
1575 *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an
1576 error_log and stderr.
1578 *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use
1579 a directory where it was run as prefix.
1581 *) Feature: the -p switch.
1583 *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms.
1585 *) Feature: the -? and -h switches.
1586 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
1588 *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form.
1590 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given by
1591 the -c switch.
1593 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store",
1594 "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used.
1595 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1597 *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication
1598 server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared
1599 in 0.7.34.
1600 Thanks to Simon Lecaille.
1602 *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux;
1603 the bug had appeared in 0.7.45.
1605 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work.
1606 Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff.
1609 Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009
1611 *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release.
1613 *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching.
1615 *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc.
1616 client request header lines while caching.
1618 *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in
1619 cacheable responses.
1621 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a
1622 perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the
1623 message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued.
1625 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
1626 appeared in 0.7.48.
1628 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1629 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
1632 Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009
1634 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the
1635 fallback parameter.
1637 *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive.
1639 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without
1640 query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
1642 *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses,
1643 then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39.
1646 Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009
1648 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
1649 0.7.49.
1652 Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009
1654 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
1655 $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48.
1658 Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009
1660 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive.
1662 *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires",
1663 "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response.
1665 *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only.
1667 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited.
1669 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests.
1670 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1672 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library.
1673 Thanks to Timothy Redaelli.
1675 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had
1676 appeared in 0.7.46.
1679 Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009
1681 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions; the
1682 bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
1684 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had
1685 appeared in 0.7.46.
1687 *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager
1688 might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
1690 *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
1691 "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/
1692 "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had
1693 appeared in 0.7.46.
1695 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
1696 request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page
1697 or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
1700 Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009
1702 *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect.
1705 Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009
1707 *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives
1708 can be set on different levels.
1710 *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
1711 directive is canceled.
1713 *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
1714 directive.
1716 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support.
1718 *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone
1719 names are logged.
1721 *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a
1722 "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
1724 *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive given
1725 without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
1726 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
1728 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without
1729 references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared
1730 in 0.7.42.
1733 Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009
1735 *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.
1737 *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.
1739 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server block
1740 level.
1742 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
1743 in a fallback parameter.
1745 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.
1747 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given address:port pair,
1748 then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive did
1749 not work.
1752 Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009
1754 *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive used
1755 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
1757 *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the
1758 $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in
1759 0.7.36.
1762 Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
1764 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
1765 setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
1767 *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file" directive
1768 is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the 500 one.
1770 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
1771 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
1773 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
1774 Thanks to Zhang Hua.
1776 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
1777 regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
1779 *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
1780 Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
1782 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
1783 appeared in 0.7.41.
1786 Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
1788 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
1789 "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
1790 expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
1791 Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
1794 Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
1796 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
1797 expressions.
1799 *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
1800 inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
1802 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
1803 expressions.
1805 *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
1806 slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
1807 0.7.15.
1808 Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
1811 Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
1813 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
1814 the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
1815 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
1817 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
1818 static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
1821 Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
1823 *) Feature: authentication failures logging.
1825 *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
1826 number of empty lines.
1827 Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
1829 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
1830 path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
1833 Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
1835 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had appeared
1836 in 0.7.36.
1839 Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
1841 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
1842 HTTP module supports IPv6.
1844 *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
1845 preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
1848 Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
1850 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
1851 asymmetric ciphers.
1852 Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
1854 *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
1855 original request extension.
1857 *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
1858 "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if
1859 ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
1860 the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
1863 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
1865 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
1867 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
1868 command.
1869 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1871 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
1872 in mail proxy server.
1873 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1875 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
1876 concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&";
1877 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
1878 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1880 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
1883 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
1885 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
1886 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with body.
1887 Thanks to Eden Li.
1889 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some redirects
1890 types.
1892 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1893 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
1896 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
1898 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
1899 the "try_files" directive.
1901 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
1903 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
1905 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
1906 debugging.
1907 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
1910 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
1912 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
1913 directories.
1915 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
1917 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
1919 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
1921 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
1922 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
1923 appeared in 0.7.18.
1924 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1926 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
1927 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
1928 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1931 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
1933 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if variables
1934 were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives and host
1935 name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
1938 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
1940 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
1941 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
1943 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
1945 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0 requests;
1946 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1948 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
1949 Cygwin.
1952 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
1954 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
1956 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been changed
1957 to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
1960 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
1962 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
1964 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
1966 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a variable.
1967 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1969 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
1970 name.
1972 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
1974 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
1976 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
1977 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1979 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
1981 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
1982 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
1983 error_page directive.
1984 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1987 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
1989 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1992 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
1994 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
1996 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
1998 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
1999 prohibition reason.
2001 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
2004 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
2006 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
2008 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
2009 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
2011 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
2012 perl module.
2015 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
2017 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
2019 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
2021 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
2024 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
2026 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
2027 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2029 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
2031 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
2033 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
2034 Thanks to Zyb.
2037 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
2039 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
2041 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
2042 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
2044 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
2045 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
2047 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
2048 appeared in 0.7.6.
2051 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
2053 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
2055 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
2057 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
2058 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
2059 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2061 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
2062 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
2064 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
2065 error.
2067 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
2068 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
2070 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
2073 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
2075 *) Bugfix: version number update.
2078 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
2080 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
2081 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
2083 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
2085 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
2087 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
2089 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
2091 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
2092 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
2094 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2095 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
2097 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line
2098 for HEAD requests.
2100 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
2103 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
2105 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
2107 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
2109 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
2110 not work with open_file_cache.
2112 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
2113 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
2115 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted charset
2116 name received from backend.
2119 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
2121 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
2122 appeared in 0.7.15.
2125 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
2127 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
2129 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
2130 requests starting from arbitrary position.
2132 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
2133 necessary.
2135 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header line
2136 names.
2139 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
2141 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
2142 have no default values.
2144 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
2146 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
2147 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
2149 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
2150 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
2151 one.
2153 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
2154 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
2156 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
2159 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
2161 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
2162 appeared in 0.7.12.
2165 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
2167 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
2169 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
2171 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
2172 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
2173 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2175 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
2176 "error_page" directive.
2178 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
2179 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
2181 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
2182 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
2183 had appeared in 0.7.0.
2186 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
2188 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
2189 text/css MIME type.
2191 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
2192 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
2194 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
2196 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
2197 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
2199 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
2200 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
2202 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
2205 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
2207 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
2208 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
2209 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
2211 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
2213 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
2214 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
2217 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
2219 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
2220 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
2221 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
2223 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
2225 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
2226 directives use hash.
2228 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
2230 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
2232 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
2233 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
2235 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
2236 tests.
2238 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
2239 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
2241 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
2242 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
2243 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
2244 appeared in 0.3.18.
2247 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
2249 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
2251 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
2253 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
2254 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
2256 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
2257 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
2258 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2261 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
2263 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
2264 as temporary error.
2266 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate with
2267 TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
2268 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
2269 variable.
2271 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
2273 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
2274 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2276 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
2277 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2279 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
2281 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
2282 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
2283 locales only.
2285 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
2286 /dev/poll methods were used.
2288 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
2291 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
2293 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
2294 request root existence is always tested.
2296 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
2297 query string.
2300 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
2302 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the bugs
2303 had appeared in 0.7.4.
2305 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
2306 had appeared in 0.7.3.
2307 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
2309 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
2310 might were transferred incorrectly.
2313 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
2315 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
2317 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
2319 *) Feature: the -g switch.
2321 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
2323 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
2326 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
2328 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
2329 "application/rss+xml".
2331 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
2332 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
2334 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if
2335 the "https://" protocol is used.
2337 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
2338 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
2341 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
2343 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
2345 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
2347 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
2348 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
2350 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
2351 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
2352 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2354 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
2355 appeared in 0.7.1.
2357 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
2358 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
2361 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
2363 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
2365 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to the
2366 "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
2368 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
2370 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
2371 now this is default parameter.
2372 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2374 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
2375 rotation signals.
2377 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
2378 Thanks to Roxis.
2381 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
2383 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as \xXX
2384 in an access_log.
2385 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2387 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
2389 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
2391 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
2392 request processing stage.
2394 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
2395 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2397 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
2398 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
2400 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
2401 if keepalive was enabled.
2404 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
2406 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
2407 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
2408 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
2410 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
2411 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
2414 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
2416 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
2417 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
2419 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
2420 for example, "1h50m".
2422 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
2423 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
2425 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
2426 output.
2428 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
2429 arguments in redirected URI.
2431 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
2433 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
2434 0.6.15.
2437 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
2439 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
2441 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
2442 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
2445 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
2447 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
2448 0.6.27.
2451 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
2453 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
2454 Linux 2.6.18+.
2456 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
2457 named location via an "error_page" directive.
2459 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
2460 proxy.
2462 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
2464 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
2465 was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static
2466 named locations.
2468 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
2469 client certificate in first handshake.
2470 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
2472 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
2473 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
2474 memory.
2476 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
2478 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
2480 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
2481 was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static
2482 named locations.
2484 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
2485 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
2487 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
2488 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
2489 name and without variables.
2490 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
2492 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
2493 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
2495 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
2496 stub block was used second time in SSI.
2498 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
2501 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
2503 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
2504 check a response length.
2506 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big value
2507 was used in a "expires" directive.
2508 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
2510 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
2511 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
2513 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
2514 was used instead of the GET method.
2516 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
2517 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
2519 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
2520 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
2522 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
2523 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
2526 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
2528 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
2529 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
2531 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
2532 "server_name" directive.
2534 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
2535 directive.
2537 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
2538 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
2540 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
2542 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
2544 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
2545 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
2547 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
2548 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
2550 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
2551 appeared in 0.6.23.
2554 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
2556 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
2557 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
2560 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
2562 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive; now
2563 this is default parameter.
2565 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
2566 "open_file_cache_valid".
2568 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
2570 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
2572 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
2574 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
2575 block.
2577 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
2578 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
2580 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
2581 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
2582 auth directives were not tested;
2584 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
2585 inherited from previous level.
2587 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
2588 with 499 status code.
2590 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
2591 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
2593 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
2594 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
2596 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
2597 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
2600 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
2602 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
2603 perl's allocated memory.
2605 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl before
2606 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
2607 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
2608 0.5.9.
2609 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
2611 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
2612 the regex captures.
2614 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
2615 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
2616 request body was already received.
2618 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
2619 keep-alive state.
2620 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
2622 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
2623 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
2625 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
2626 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
2627 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
2629 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
2630 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
2631 0.6.10.
2632 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
2635 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
2637 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
2638 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
2640 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
2641 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
2642 in 0.6.19.
2644 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
2645 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
2646 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2648 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
2649 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
2650 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
2651 record is too big".
2653 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
2654 server, then nginx returned usual response.
2657 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
2659 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
2660 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
2661 in 0.6.19.
2664 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
2666 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
2669 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
2671 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
2672 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
2674 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
2675 error_log.
2677 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2679 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
2681 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
2682 "Last-Modified" response header line.
2684 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
2685 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
2688 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
2690 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
2691 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
2693 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
2694 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
2696 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
2697 directive.
2699 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
2700 subrequests were used.
2702 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
2703 gzip were used.
2705 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
2706 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
2709 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
2711 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
2712 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
2714 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then it
2715 was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
2717 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
2720 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
2722 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
2723 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
2725 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
2727 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
2729 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
2731 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
2733 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2734 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
2735 "source_charset" directives.
2737 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
2738 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
2739 Thanks to James Oakley.
2741 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
2742 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
2743 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
2745 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
2746 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request; the
2747 bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
2750 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
2752 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
2754 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
2756 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
2757 "limit_except" block.
2759 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had got
2760 weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
2761 appeared in 0.6.6.
2763 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
2764 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
2765 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
2767 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
2768 log was enabled.
2769 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2771 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
2772 $upstream_response_time.
2773 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2775 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
2776 memcached was used.
2778 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive" values
2779 in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared in
2780 0.6.11.
2782 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
2784 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
2787 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
2789 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
2790 autoindex was used.
2791 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
2794 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
2796 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
2798 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
2799 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
2801 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
2802 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
2804 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
2805 0.6.9.
2807 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
2808 located in non-standard place was used.
2810 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
2811 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
2812 characters.
2813 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
2816 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
2818 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
2819 used.
2821 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
2822 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
2824 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
2825 lines.
2827 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
2828 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
2829 0.6.6.
2832 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
2834 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
2835 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
2837 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
2839 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
2840 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
2842 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
2843 /dev/poll method was used.
2846 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
2848 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
2849 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
2851 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
2852 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
2854 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
2855 down.
2857 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
2858 0.6.8.
2861 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
2863 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
2864 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
2865 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
2867 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
2868 authentication server.
2870 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
2872 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
2873 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
2874 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
2876 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
2879 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
2881 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
2882 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
2883 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
2884 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but not
2885 to nginx prefix directory.
2887 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
2889 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
2890 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
2892 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
2893 regular expressions.
2895 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2896 the "backup" parameter.
2898 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
2899 $r->discard_request_body.
2901 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
2902 "Last-Modified" response header line.
2904 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
2905 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
2906 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
2908 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
2909 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
2911 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
2912 platforms except FreeBSD.
2913 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2915 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
2916 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
2917 appeared in 0.6.6.
2919 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2920 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2923 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
2925 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
2927 *) Feature: named locations.
2929 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
2931 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
2933 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
2935 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
2936 might not close connection to backend.
2938 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
2939 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
2941 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
2942 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
2945 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
2947 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
2948 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
2950 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
2951 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2953 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
2954 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2956 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
2958 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on Solaris/amd64.
2959 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2961 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
2962 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
2965 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
2967 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
2968 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
2970 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
2971 changed.
2973 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
2974 directives.
2976 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
2977 Studio.
2978 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2980 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
2981 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2984 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
2986 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
2988 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2989 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
2990 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2992 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
2993 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
2995 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
2996 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2998 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2999 eventport method was used.
3001 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
3002 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
3003 appeared in 0.5.13.
3006 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
3008 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx passed
3009 garbage in the header to a client.
3012 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
3014 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
3016 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
3017 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
3019 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
3020 truncated.
3022 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
3023 to the master process identification number.
3026 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
3028 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
3029 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
3032 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
3034 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
3035 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
3036 0.5.24.
3039 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
3041 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
3042 was made using HTTP/0.9.
3044 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
3045 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
3048 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
3050 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
3051 extension.
3053 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
3054 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
3056 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
3057 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
3059 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
3060 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
3061 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
3063 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3066 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
3068 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
3069 had appeared in 0.5.21.
3072 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
3074 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
3075 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
3077 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
3078 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
3079 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
3081 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
3082 library was used.
3083 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3085 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3088 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
3090 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
3092 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
3093 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
3095 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the SSI
3096 command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
3098 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was transferred
3099 incorrectly.
3100 Thanks to Evan Miller.
3102 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
3103 Studio.
3104 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3106 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris make.
3107 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3110 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
3112 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
3114 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
3115 the $r->flush.
3117 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
3119 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
3120 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
3121 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
3123 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
3124 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
3126 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
3127 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
3130 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
3132 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
3134 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
3136 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
3137 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
3139 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
3140 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
3141 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
3142 had appeared in 0.5.9.
3144 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
3145 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
3146 0.3.38.
3149 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
3151 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
3153 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
3154 "types" block.
3156 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
3157 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
3159 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3161 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
3162 returned old cached value.
3165 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
3167 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the "ip_hash"
3168 directive.
3169 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
3171 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
3172 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
3173 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3175 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
3176 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
3177 32K.
3179 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
3180 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
3183 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
3185 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
3186 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
3187 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
3189 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
3190 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
3192 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
3193 and "pop3_auth" directives.
3195 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
3196 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
3197 disabled.
3199 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
3200 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
3202 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
3203 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
3205 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
3206 "ip_hash" directive was used.
3208 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
3209 methods are used.
3212 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
3214 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
3215 configuration file.
3218 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
3220 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
3222 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
3223 via keep-alive connection.
3225 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
3226 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3228 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
3229 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
3231 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
3232 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send
3233 timeout only.
3235 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3236 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
3239 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
3241 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3242 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
3244 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3245 temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug
3246 had appeared in 0.5.8.
3248 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3249 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
3251 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
3254 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
3256 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
3257 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
3259 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
3260 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
3262 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
3263 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
3264 Thanks to Evan Miller.
3266 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
3267 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
3269 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
3270 was built with -O2 optimization.
3273 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
3275 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
3276 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
3278 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
3279 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
3282 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
3284 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
3285 variable value as a key.
3287 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
3289 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
3290 directive.
3292 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
3294 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
3296 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a message
3297 to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
3299 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
3300 logging.
3303 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
3305 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
3306 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
3308 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
3309 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
3310 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
3311 switched to a next upstream.
3313 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
3314 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
3315 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
3317 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
3318 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send
3319 timeout only.
3321 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
3322 used.
3324 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
3327 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
3329 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
3331 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
3333 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
3334 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone" directives
3335 were used on 64-bit platforms.
3337 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
3338 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no "Content-Type"
3339 header line in response.
3341 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
3342 support.
3343 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
3345 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
3348 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
3350 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
3351 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
3353 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
3355 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
3357 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
3358 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3360 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
3362 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
3363 $r->sendfile() was used.
3366 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
3368 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
3370 *) Feature: the -V switch.
3372 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
3373 and G.
3375 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an unprivileged
3376 user.
3378 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
3379 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
3381 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
3384 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
3386 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
3387 block.
3389 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
3390 line for the DELETE method.
3392 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access" directive,
3393 then nginx might report about configuration error.
3395 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
3396 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
3399 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
3401 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
3402 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
3404 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not exist
3405 in nginx configuration.
3407 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
3410 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
3412 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the "upstream"
3413 block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had appeared in
3414 0.5.1.
3417 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
3419 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
3420 unsuccessful completion of a request.
3422 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
3423 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
3425 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
3426 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared in
3427 0.5.0.
3429 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
3430 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
3431 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
3433 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
3434 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
3435 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
3437 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
3438 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
3439 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
3441 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
3442 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
3445 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
3447 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
3448 directive are not supported anymore.
3450 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
3451 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
3452 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
3453 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
3454 anymore.
3456 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
3457 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
3459 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
3461 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
3462 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
3464 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
3465 appeared in 0.4.14.
3468 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
3470 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3472 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD, Linux,
3473 and NetBSD.
3475 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
3476 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
3478 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
3479 recursively.
3481 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
3483 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
3484 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
3486 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
3487 system time was changed backward.
3489 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
3490 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
3492 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
3493 proxy authentication server failed.
3496 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
3498 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
3499 "limit_except" block.
3501 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
3503 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
3504 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
3505 complete.
3507 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
3508 the deferred accept() were used.
3510 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
3511 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3513 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
3514 used;
3516 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
3517 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
3519 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug had
3520 appeared in 0.3.50.
3523 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
3525 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
3527 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
3528 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
3530 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
3533 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
3535 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
3537 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
3538 method.
3540 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the USER/PASS
3541 commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
3544 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
3546 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
3548 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
3549 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
3550 hogged CPU.
3552 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr variable
3553 was used in the "map" directive.
3555 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
3556 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
3558 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
3559 appeared in 0.4.9.
3562 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
3564 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
3566 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
3567 version.
3570 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
3572 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI
3573 command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not
3574 work.
3576 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
3577 responses.
3578 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
3581 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
3583 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
3585 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
3587 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
3588 variables.
3590 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI
3591 command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not
3592 work.
3594 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
3595 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
3596 timeout.
3598 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
3599 and ppc64.
3602 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
3604 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
3605 and ppc64.
3607 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
3608 if its length was set by text string in the
3609 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
3611 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
3612 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
3613 had appeared in 0.4.4.
3616 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
3618 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
3619 appeared in 0.4.4.
3622 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
3624 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
3626 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
3628 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
3629 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
3631 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
3632 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
3634 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
3635 method.
3637 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
3638 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
3641 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
3643 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
3644 "error_page" directive.
3646 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
3648 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
3650 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
3651 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
3653 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
3654 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
3656 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
3658 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
3661 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
3663 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug had
3664 appeared in 0.4.1.
3667 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
3669 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
3670 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
3672 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more than
3673 2G.
3675 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static requests.
3676 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
3679 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
3681 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
3682 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
3684 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
3685 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
3686 $r->has_request_body method.
3688 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
3690 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
3691 line for the PUT method.
3693 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
3695 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
3696 directive with variables and the first index name was without
3697 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3700 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
3702 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
3704 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
3706 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
3708 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
3709 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
3712 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
3714 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
3715 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
3718 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
3720 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
3721 "error_page" directive.
3723 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
3725 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the "Content-Type"
3726 header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had
3727 appeared in 0.3.58.
3730 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
3732 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
3734 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
3736 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
3737 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
3739 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
3741 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
3742 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
3744 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
3747 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
3749 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
3751 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
3752 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
3754 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send to
3755 a client the required certificates information.
3757 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
3758 the "root" directive.
3761 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
3763 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
3765 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
3766 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
3768 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
3769 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
3770 access log.
3773 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
3775 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
3777 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
3779 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
3781 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root was
3782 relative to a server prefix.
3784 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
3785 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
3787 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
3788 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
3790 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
3791 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
3792 upstream.
3794 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
3795 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had appeared
3796 in 0.3.50.
3799 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
3801 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
3803 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
3804 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
3806 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
3807 form.
3809 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
3810 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
3812 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
3813 first request to a backend only.
3815 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
3816 appeared in 0.3.53.
3819 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
3821 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
3822 302 responses.
3824 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
3825 the "weight" parameter.
3827 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
3829 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
3831 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
3832 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
3833 in the log.
3835 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and return
3836 the 409 code.
3838 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
3839 continued proxying anyway.
3842 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
3844 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
3845 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
3846 return the 405 error.
3848 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3849 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
3851 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
3852 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3854 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
3855 temporary file was not removed.
3858 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
3860 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the SSI;
3861 the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3864 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
3866 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
3867 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
3868 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
3870 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
3871 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
3873 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
3874 proxy and FastCGI mode.
3876 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
3877 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
3879 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
3880 SSI after inclusion.
3882 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
3883 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
3886 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
3888 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
3890 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
3891 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
3892 subrequests.
3895 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
3897 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if the
3898 response has no "Content-Type" header line.
3900 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
3901 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in start
3902 of the rewritten redirect.
3904 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
3905 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
3906 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared in
3907 0.3.42.
3909 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
3910 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
3913 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
3915 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
3917 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
3918 SSI command is always removed.
3921 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
3923 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
3924 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
3926 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
3927 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
3929 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported in
3930 proxy mode.
3932 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
3933 ngx_http_perl_module.
3936 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
3938 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
3939 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
3941 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
3942 method.
3944 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
3945 table.
3947 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
3948 table.
3950 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
3951 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
3952 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
3953 the rest.
3956 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
3958 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
3960 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
3961 koi-win conversion table.
3963 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
3966 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
3968 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
3971 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
3973 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
3974 proxy.
3976 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
3977 then once.
3979 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
3980 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
3981 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
3982 were not written to access log.
3984 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
3985 "Cache-Control" response header line.
3988 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
3990 *) Feature: the -v switch.
3992 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
3993 remote subrequests.
3995 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
3997 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
3998 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
3999 segmentation fault was occurred.
4002 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
4004 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
4006 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
4008 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
4011 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
4013 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
4014 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
4015 "alert" to "warn".
4017 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
4019 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
4020 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
4021 not logged.
4023 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
4024 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections" directive;
4025 the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
4027 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
4028 appeared in 0.3.38.
4031 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
4033 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
4035 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
4036 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
4038 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
4039 method.
4041 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
4043 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
4044 once a second only.
4045 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
4047 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
4048 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
4049 Thanks to ForJest.
4051 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
4052 login and password to pass authorization server.
4053 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
4056 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
4058 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
4060 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and "!-f"
4061 operators.
4063 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
4064 method.
4066 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
4069 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
4071 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
4073 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
4074 inside the "if" block.
4076 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
4077 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
4079 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
4081 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method and
4082 $r->remote_addr.
4084 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
4086 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
4087 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
4089 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
4090 ngx_http_ssi_module.
4092 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
4093 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
4094 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
4095 a current path but not to a server prefix.
4098 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
4100 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
4101 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
4103 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
4104 subrequest.
4107 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
4109 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
4112 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
4114 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
4115 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
4117 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
4118 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
4120 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
4123 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
4125 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
4126 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
4129 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
4131 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
4133 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
4134 form.
4136 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
4138 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout bug.
4139 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
4141 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
4142 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
4143 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared in
4144 0.3.18.
4146 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
4147 and the request body was in temporary file then the request was not
4148 transferred.
4150 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
4153 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
4155 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
4156 "crit".
4158 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
4159 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
4161 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
4162 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
4165 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
4167 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
4168 many warnings before the response.
4170 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
4171 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
4173 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
4174 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
4176 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
4177 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
4178 request.
4181 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
4183 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
4185 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
4187 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
4188 terminated prematurely.
4189 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
4191 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
4192 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
4193 header line.
4195 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
4196 completion of a request.
4198 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
4199 directive was transferred to a client.
4202 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
4204 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
4205 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
4207 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
4208 "log_format" directive.
4210 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
4212 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
4213 time.
4215 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using fcntl(2)
4216 on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
4218 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
4219 autoconfiguration directive.
4221 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
4222 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
4225 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
4227 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
4228 "optimize_server_names".
4230 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
4231 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
4232 SSI subrequest.
4235 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
4237 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
4238 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
4239 appeared in 0.3.24.
4242 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
4244 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
4246 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
4247 not transferred to a client.
4249 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
4251 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
4252 location.
4254 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
4255 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
4256 had appeared in 0.3.18.
4259 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
4261 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
4263 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
4264 directives.
4266 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
4267 Solaris.
4270 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
4272 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
4273 $r->unescape methods.
4275 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
4276 canceled.
4278 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
4279 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
4280 appeared in 0.3.18.
4283 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
4285 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
4287 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
4288 URI part.
4291 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
4293 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
4295 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in the
4296 "/usr?args" form.
4299 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
4301 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
4303 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
4305 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
4308 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
4310 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
4311 names.
4313 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
4314 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
4316 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
4317 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
4319 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
4320 directives were canceled.
4322 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
4324 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names only
4325 without the URI part.
4327 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
4328 ngx_http_map_module.
4330 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did not
4331 exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
4333 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start;
4334 the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
4337 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
4339 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
4340 sendfile64() in kernel.
4342 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
4343 ".domain.tld" form.
4345 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
4346 appeared in 0.2.4.
4348 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
4350 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
4351 directive the port 80 was used by default.
4354 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
4356 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
4358 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
4359 directives.
4361 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
4363 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
4365 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
4366 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
4367 Pentium 4.
4369 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
4371 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
4372 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
4373 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
4375 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
4376 had appeared in 0.3.13.
4379 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
4381 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
4382 connection.
4384 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4386 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort() only
4387 on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
4390 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
4392 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
4393 appeared in 0.3.13.
4396 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
4398 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
4400 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
4401 /dev/poll methods.
4403 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
4405 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
4406 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
4408 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the authorization;
4409 the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
4412 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
4414 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
4415 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
4416 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built and
4417 is not built by default.
4419 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
4421 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
4422 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
4423 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
4425 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
4427 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
4429 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
4430 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
4432 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
4433 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
4435 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
4436 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
4437 without the "Basic realm" text.
4439 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
4440 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
4441 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
4443 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
4444 Solaris.
4446 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
4447 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
4450 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
4452 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
4453 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
4456 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
4458 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
4459 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
4460 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
4462 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
4463 "$body_bytes_sent".
4465 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
4467 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
4469 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
4471 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
4473 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
4475 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
4477 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
4479 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
4480 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
4481 characters.
4483 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
4485 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
4486 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
4489 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
4491 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was between
4492 two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
4495 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
4497 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
4498 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
4499 and zeroes.
4501 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
4502 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
4504 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
4505 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
4507 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
4508 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
4510 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
4512 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
4514 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
4515 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
4516 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
4517 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
4518 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
4519 will be canceled soon.
4521 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
4522 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
4524 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
4525 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
4527 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
4528 graceful exit.
4530 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive and
4531 the request was proxied in location given by regular expression, then
4532 the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
4533 appeared in 0.2.6.
4535 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous "Expires"
4536 header.
4538 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
4539 several worker processes were used.
4541 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
4542 SSI commands.
4544 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
4545 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
4546 did not transferred at all.
4549 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
4551 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
4553 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
4554 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
4557 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
4559 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
4560 authorization server.
4562 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
4564 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive, then
4565 nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
4567 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the the
4568 80 port was always used.
4571 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
4573 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
4574 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
4576 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
4577 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
4579 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
4580 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
4583 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
4585 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
4586 had appeared in 0.3.3.
4589 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
4591 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
4592 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
4594 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
4595 directive.
4597 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the additional
4598 the gettimeofday() system call.
4600 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
4602 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
4603 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
4604 the CLOSED state.
4606 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
4607 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
4609 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
4611 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
4613 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed just
4614 after the response header was transferred to a client.
4616 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
4618 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
4620 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in the
4621 ngx_imap_ssl_module.
4623 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
4624 protocol only.
4627 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
4629 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
4631 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
4632 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
4633 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
4636 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
4638 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
4639 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
4640 0.2.0.
4642 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
4643 SSI.
4646 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
4648 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was eliminated.
4649 The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers overflow.
4652 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
4654 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed backend
4655 retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
4657 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
4658 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
4660 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
4661 more flexible to change an error code.
4663 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
4664 in proxied subrequests.
4666 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
4667 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
4668 again.
4670 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
4671 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
4672 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
4673 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
4676 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
4678 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
4679 causes the warning and changes old value.
4681 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
4683 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in the
4684 "include" command.
4686 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
4687 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
4690 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
4692 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
4693 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
4695 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
4696 appeared in 0.1.44.
4698 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method was
4699 used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
4702 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
4704 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
4705 bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
4708 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
4710 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
4712 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
4713 "set" directive.
4715 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
4716 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
4718 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the long
4719 file names;
4721 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
4722 starting by dot.
4724 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
4725 closed too.
4726 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
4728 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
4731 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
4733 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
4734 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
4735 appeared in 0.2.0.
4738 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
4740 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
4741 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
4742 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
4743 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
4744 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
4745 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
4746 suffix.
4748 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
4749 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
4750 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
4752 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
4754 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
4756 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
4757 not run for subrequests.
4759 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
4760 directives.
4762 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
4763 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
4765 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
4766 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
4768 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4770 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
4772 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
4773 from the 304 responses.
4774 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
4777 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
4779 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
4780 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
4782 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
4783 SSL connection.
4785 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4788 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
4790 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
4792 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
4794 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
4796 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
4797 of authorization use.
4800 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
4802 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
4803 changed using the -HUP signal.
4805 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
4807 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
4808 to a server.
4810 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may got
4811 caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent the
4812 "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was used; in
4813 the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4816 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
4818 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
4819 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
4820 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
4822 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
4823 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
4826 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
4828 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
4829 can not be used in SSI.
4832 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
4834 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
4835 information did not logged in the error log.
4837 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
4838 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
4840 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
4841 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
4843 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
4844 SIGQUIT signal.
4846 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
4847 became shorter in the "ps" command.
4850 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
4852 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
4853 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
4854 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
4856 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
4857 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
4859 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
4860 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
4861 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
4863 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
4865 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
4866 the "include virtual" command.
4868 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
4869 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
4870 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4872 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
4873 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
4874 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4876 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
4877 chain.
4879 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the long
4880 file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
4882 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
4883 login state.
4886 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
4888 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
4889 FastCGI mode.
4891 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
4892 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
4894 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
4896 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
4898 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
4899 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
4901 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used in
4902 SSI.
4904 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
4905 than one remote subrequest.
4907 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
4908 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
4909 appeared in 0.1.29.
4911 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
4913 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
4915 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
4916 names in UTF-8.
4918 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4921 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
4923 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
4925 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
4926 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
4928 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
4929 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
4930 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
4931 request all backends again.
4934 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
4936 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host", "Connection",
4937 "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx now returns
4938 the 400 error.
4940 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
4942 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
4943 parameters of the "listen" directive.
4945 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
4947 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
4949 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
4950 in UTF-8.
4952 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
4953 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
4956 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
4958 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
4960 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
4962 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
4963 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4965 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
4966 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
4967 occurred on the start.
4969 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was bigger
4970 than the temporary file.
4972 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
4973 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
4974 0.1.28.
4977 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
4979 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
4980 big response part were include by SSI.
4982 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
4983 in SSI.
4985 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
4987 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
4988 the client request header line passing.
4991 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
4993 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
4994 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4996 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one level
4997 cause the bus fault on start up.
4999 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
5001 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
5002 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
5005 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
5007 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
5008 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5010 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
5011 expressions.
5013 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
5014 of regular expressions.
5016 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
5017 proxy and FastCGI mode.
5020 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
5022 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
5024 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
5026 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
5028 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
5029 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
5032 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
5034 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
5035 SSI was used.
5037 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
5039 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
5040 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
5041 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
5042 only.
5044 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
5045 as invalid.
5047 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
5049 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
5052 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
5054 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
5056 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
5057 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
5058 level is supported.
5060 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and DATE_GMT
5061 variables and "config timefmt" command.
5063 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
5065 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
5066 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
5068 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
5070 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
5071 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
5073 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
5074 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
5076 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
5077 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
5078 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
5079 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
5081 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
5082 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
5084 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
5085 replaced with
5086 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
5087 directive.
5089 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
5090 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
5091 directive.
5093 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
5095 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
5096 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
5097 directives.
5099 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
5101 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
5103 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
5105 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
5107 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
5109 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
5110 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
5111 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
5113 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
5114 headers or a backend response header.
5116 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
5117 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
5118 returned the 408 response.
5120 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
5121 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
5123 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
5124 tolerance configuration.
5126 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous "Expires"
5127 and "Cache-Control" headers.
5129 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host" header
5130 line.
5132 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
5134 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
5135 were in a request.
5137 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
5140 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
5142 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
5144 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
5147 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
5149 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
5151 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
5152 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
5153 lines also logged.
5155 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
5157 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
5158 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
5159 canceled.
5161 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
5162 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
5163 used.
5166 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
5168 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged at
5169 the info level.
5171 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
5173 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic and
5174 auth_basic_user_file directives.
5177 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
5179 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
5181 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
5182 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
5184 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
5185 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
5186 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
5187 after request completion.
5189 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
5190 expression.
5192 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
5193 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
5195 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
5196 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
5198 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
5199 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
5200 will be removed soon.
5202 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
5204 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
5206 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
5208 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
5211 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
5213 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING and
5214 DOCUMENT_URI variables.
5216 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
5217 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
5218 "alias" directive.
5220 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
5221 responses.
5223 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted as
5224 valid referrer.
5227 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
5229 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
5230 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
5231 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
5232 supported.
5234 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
5236 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
5237 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
5238 server name of the "server_name" directive.
5240 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
5241 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
5243 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
5244 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
5246 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
5247 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
5250 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
5252 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
5253 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
5255 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
5256 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
5259 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
5261 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
5262 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
5264 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
5265 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
5267 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
5270 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
5272 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
5273 the fastcgi_params directive.
5275 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
5278 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
5280 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
5281 returned for the local requests.
5283 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
5285 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client request
5286 body via SSL connections.
5289 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
5291 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
5292 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
5293 with Solaris 10.
5295 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
5296 inherited.
5298 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
5299 with URI by an "&" rather than a "?".
5301 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
5302 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
5304 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
5306 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused the
5307 segmentation fault.
5309 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
5310 directive.
5312 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
5314 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
5315 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current configuration
5316 to the request.
5319 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
5321 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
5322 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
5323 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
5324 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
5326 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
5328 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
5330 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
5331 another location.
5333 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
5334 small caps letters in extension.
5336 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
5337 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
5338 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
5340 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
5341 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
5342 0.1.14.
5344 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
5347 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
5349 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
5350 request the final chunk was issued.
5352 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
5353 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
5355 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
5356 segmentation faults.
5358 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
5359 complete.
5361 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
5362 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
5364 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
5366 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
5367 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
5370 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
5372 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
5373 segmentation fault.
5375 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
5376 different number of the captures and substitutions.
5378 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
5379 regular expression.
5381 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
5382 arguments and in the original state.
5384 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
5385 to use the regular expressions in locations.
5387 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
5388 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
5389 in 0.1.14.
5391 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
5392 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, or
5393 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
5394 caused segmentation fault.
5397 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
5399 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
5400 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
5401 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
5403 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
5404 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
5405 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
5407 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
5408 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
5409 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
5410 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
5411 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
5412 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
5413 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
5415 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
5416 0.1.3.
5418 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
5419 proxy_pass directive.
5421 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
5422 string start.
5424 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
5425 ngx_http_proxy_module.
5427 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
5428 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
5431 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
5433 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
5434 directives.
5436 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did not
5437 work.
5439 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
5440 length.
5443 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
5445 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
5447 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
5448 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
5449 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
5450 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
5452 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
5453 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
5456 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
5458 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
5460 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
5461 transferred response.
5463 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
5464 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
5466 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
5467 bytes.
5469 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
5470 broken symlink was in a directory.
5472 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
5473 sendfile.
5475 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there was
5476 an error while the response waiting then process may got caught in an
5477 endless loop.
5479 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
5480 when the /dev/poll method was used.
5482 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
5484 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
5486 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
5488 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
5489 section in configuration.
5491 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
5493 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
5494 ":/".
5497 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
5499 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./", "/../"
5500 or "%XX" then the last character in the request line was lost; the
5501 bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
5503 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
5504 not work.
5507 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
5509 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the request
5510 contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
5512 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
5513 completely.
5515 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
5516 does not support sendfile64().
5518 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the --with-poll_module
5519 parameter was required; the bug had appeared in 0.1.8.
5522 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
5524 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
5525 in the listing.
5527 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
5529 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
5532 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
5534 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
5535 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
5538 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
5540 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
5541 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
5544 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
5546 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
5547 returned not enough data" alerts.
5549 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
5550 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
5551 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
5552 endless loop.
5554 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
5555 sendfile.
5557 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
5559 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
5561 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
5562 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
5564 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
5566 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
5569 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
5571 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
5574 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
5576 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
5578 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
5580 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
5581 is not used.
5584 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
5586 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
5587 options in configure.
5589 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
5591 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
5593 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
5594 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
5596 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
5597 is not used.
5599 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
5600 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
5602 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
5604 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
5605 already compressed.
5608 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
5610 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
5612 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
5614 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
5615 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
5617 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
5619 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
5621 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
5622 endless loop.
5624 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
5626 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
5627 used while the proxying.
5629 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
5631 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
5632 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
5635 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
5637 *) The first public version.