2 Changes with nginx 0.8.37 17 May 2010
4 *) Feature: the ngx_http_split_clients_module.
6 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports keys more than 255 characters.
8 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "private" and "no-store" values in the
9 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
11 *) Bugfix: a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was not
12 used, if empty response has 200 status code.
14 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
15 another proxied or FastCGI location, then a segmentation fault might
16 occur in a worker process; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
17 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
19 *) Bugfix: IMAP connections may hang until they timed out while talking
24 Changes with nginx 0.8.36 22 Apr 2010
26 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module handled incorrectly the DELETE,
27 COPY, and MOVE methods for symlinks.
29 *) Bugfix: values of the $query_string, $arg_..., etc. variables cached
30 in main request were used by the SSI module in subrequests.
32 *) Bugfix: a variable value was repeatedly encoded after each an "echo"
33 SSI-command output; the bug had appeared in 0.6.14.
35 *) Bugfix: a worker process hung if a FIFO file was requested.
36 Thanks to Vicente Aguilar and Maxim Dounin.
38 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL-1.0.0 compatibility on 64-bit Linux.
39 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
41 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
45 Changes with nginx 0.8.35 01 Apr 2010
47 *) Change: now the charset filter runs before the SSI filter.
49 *) Feature: the "chunked_transfer_encoding" directive.
51 *) Bugfix: an "&" character was not escaped when it was copied in
52 arguments part in a rewrite rule.
54 *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally while a signal
55 processing or if the directive "timer_resolution" was used on
56 platforms which do not support kqueue or eventport notification
58 Thanks to George Xie and Maxim Dounin.
60 *) Bugfix: if temporary files and permanent storage area resided at
61 different file systems, then permanent file modification times were
63 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
65 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module might issue the error message
66 "memcached sent invalid trailer".
67 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
69 *) Bugfix: nginx could not built zlib-1.2.4 library using the library
71 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
73 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process, if there
74 was large stderr output before FastCGI response; the bug had
76 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
79 Changes with nginx 0.8.34 03 Mar 2010
81 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support all ciphers and digests used in client
83 Thanks to Innocenty Enikeew.
85 *) Bugfix: nginx cached incorrectly FastCGI responses if there was
86 large stderr output before response.
88 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support HTTPS referrers.
90 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not find file if path in configuration
91 was given in other character case; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
93 *) Bugfix: the $date_local variable has an incorrect value, if the "%s"
95 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
97 *) Bugfix: if ssl_session_cache was not set or was set to "none", then
98 during client certificate verify the error "session id context
99 uninitialized" might occur; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
101 *) Bugfix: a geo range returned default value if the range included two
102 or more /16 networks and did not begin at /16 network boundary.
104 *) Bugfix: a block used in a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI
105 directive was output with "text/plain" MIME type.
107 *) Bugfix: $r->sleep() did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
110 Changes with nginx 0.8.33 01 Feb 2010
112 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing spaces in URI.
113 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
115 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores short files names.
116 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
118 *) Change: now keepalive connections after POST requests are not
119 disabled for MSIE 7.0+.
120 Thanks to Adam Lounds.
122 *) Workaround: now keepalive connections are disabled for Safari.
123 Thanks to Joshua Sierles.
125 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
126 another proxied or FastCGI location, then $upstream_response_time
127 variable may have abnormally large value; the bug had appeared in
130 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, while
131 discarding a request body; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
134 Changes with nginx 0.8.32 11 Jan 2010
136 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
137 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
139 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures worked for two names only.
140 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
142 *) Bugfix: now the "localhost" name is used in the "Host" request
143 header line, if an unix domain socket is defined in the "auth_http"
145 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
147 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support chunked transfer encoding for 201
149 Thanks to Julian Reich.
151 *) Bugfix: if the "expires modified" set date in the past, then a
152 negative number was set in the "Cache-Control" response header line.
153 Thanks to Alex Kapranoff.
156 Changes with nginx 0.8.31 23 Dec 2009
158 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive may redirect the 301 and 302
161 *) Feature: the $geoip_city_continent_code, $geoip_latitude, and
162 $geoip_longitude variables.
163 Thanks to Arvind Sundararajan.
165 *) Feature: now the ngx_http_image_filter_module deletes always EXIF
166 and other application specific data if the data consume more than 5%
169 *) Bugfix: nginx closed a connection if a cached response had an empty
171 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
173 *) Bugfix: nginx might not be built by gcc 4.x if the -O2 or higher
174 optimization option was used.
175 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Denis F. Latypoff.
177 *) Bugfix: regular expressions in location were always tested in
178 case-sensitive mode; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
180 *) Bugfix: nginx cached a 304 response if there was the "If-None-Match"
181 header line in a proxied request.
182 Thanks to Tim Dettrick and David Kostal.
184 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to delete a temporary file twice if the
185 file should replace an already existent file.
188 Changes with nginx 0.8.30 15 Dec 2009
190 *) Change: now the default buffer size of the
191 "large_client_header_buffers" directive is 8K.
192 Thanks to Andrew Cholakian.
194 *) Feature: the conf/fastcgi.conf for simple FastCGI configurations.
196 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to rename a temporary file twice if the
197 file should replace an already existent file.
199 *) Bugfix: of "double free or corruption" error issued if host could
200 not be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
201 Thanks to Konstantin Svist.
203 *) Bugfix: in libatomic usage on some platforms.
204 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
207 Changes with nginx 0.8.29 30 Nov 2009
209 *) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for
210 proxied HTTP/0.9 responses.
212 *) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
213 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support
216 *) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage.
217 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
219 *) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure.
220 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
222 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights.
224 *) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly.
226 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not
227 work in a "server_name" directive.
228 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
231 Changes with nginx 0.8.28 23 Nov 2009
233 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
234 the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
237 Changes with nginx 0.8.27 17 Nov 2009
239 *) Bugfix: regular expressions did not work in nginx/Windows; the bug
240 had appeared in 0.8.25.
243 Changes with nginx 0.8.26 16 Nov 2009
245 *) Bugfix: in captures usage in "rewrite" directive; the bug had
248 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
249 the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
252 Changes with nginx 0.8.25 16 Nov 2009
254 *) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is
255 not found by $r->variable() method.
257 *) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module.
259 *) Feature: regular expression named captures.
261 *) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if
264 *) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too.
266 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low
267 memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18.
269 *) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support
270 gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared
274 Changes with nginx 0.8.24 11 Nov 2009
276 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Content-Encoding: gzip" response header
277 line in 304 responses sent by ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
279 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
280 the bug had appeared in 0.8.23.
282 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
283 inherited incorrectly from previous level.
285 *) Bugfix: in resolving empty name.
288 Changes with nginx 0.8.23 11 Nov 2009
290 *) Security: now SSL/TLS renegotiation is disabled.
291 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
293 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket did not inherit while online
296 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
297 did not without yet another directive with any IP address.
299 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault and infinite looping in resolver.
301 *) Bugfix: in resolver.
302 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
305 Changes with nginx 0.8.22 03 Nov 2009
307 *) Feature: the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", and "memcached_bind"
310 *) Feature: the "access" and the "deny" directives support IPv6.
312 *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive supports IPv6 addresses in
315 *) Feature: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive.
317 *) Bugfix: nginx did not delete unix domain socket after configuration
320 *) Bugfix: nginx deleted unix domain socket while online upgrade.
322 *) Bugfix: the "!-x" operator did not work.
323 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
325 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
326 limit_rate was used in HTTPS server.
327 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
329 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while
331 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
333 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
334 there was no "listen" directive in "server" block; the bug had
338 Changes with nginx 0.8.21 26 Oct 2009
340 *) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support.
342 *) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix
344 Thanks to Hongli Lai.
346 *) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive.
348 *) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen
351 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms;
353 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
356 Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009
358 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5".
360 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
361 slash in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15.
363 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path
364 configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53.
366 *) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the
367 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
369 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file,
370 or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker had no enough access
371 rights for top level directories.
373 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines
374 were not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
375 were used with any parameters.
377 *) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size.
380 Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009
382 *) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default.
384 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM".
386 *) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared
390 Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009
392 *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive.
394 *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used.
396 *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level"
399 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket
401 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
403 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc.
404 Thanks to Marcus Ramberg.
406 *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on
408 Thanks to Xie Zhenye.
410 *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the
411 bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
413 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
416 Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009
418 *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header
421 *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case.
423 *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable.
425 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
428 Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009
430 *) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive.
432 *) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named
435 *) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning.
436 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
438 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
439 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
441 *) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in
442 access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level.
444 *) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the
445 ngx_http_image_filter_module.
447 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header
448 line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on.
450 *) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in
453 *) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in
455 Thanks to Igor Artemiev.
458 Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009
460 *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while
461 specially crafted request handling.
462 Thanks to Chris Ries.
464 *) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld
465 were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by
468 *) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
470 *) Bugfix: in file AIO.
472 *) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
474 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
477 Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009
479 *) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING"
482 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if
483 error_log was set to info or debug level.
484 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
486 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
488 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the
489 bug had appeared in 0.6.10.
492 Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009
494 *) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in
497 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option
498 on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12.
501 Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009
503 *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD.
505 *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
507 *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
510 Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009
512 *) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping
515 *) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux.
517 *) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive.
520 Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009
522 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used.
524 *) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the
525 bug had appeared in 0.8.9.
528 Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009
530 *) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this
531 should improve large caches handling.
533 *) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside
534 at different file systems.
537 Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009
539 *) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records.
541 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
542 request was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a
543 caching was enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in
547 Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009
549 *) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7.
551 *) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was
552 changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client
553 certificate if it was offered.
554 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
556 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable.
557 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
559 *) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive.
560 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
562 *) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive.
564 *) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting
567 *) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the
568 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
569 Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev.
571 *) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did
572 not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate",
573 "X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend
575 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
577 *) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend
578 response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
579 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
581 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an
582 empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5.
585 Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009
587 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module.
589 *) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML
590 document" for valid XML document.
591 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
593 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by
594 a regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode.
596 *) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI.
597 Thanks to Hugo Leisink.
599 *) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during
600 installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
601 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
604 Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009
606 *) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method.
608 *) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password
609 while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows.
611 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests.
613 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module.
614 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
617 Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009
619 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
623 Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009
625 *) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable.
627 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6.
629 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
632 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
633 backend 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the
634 "WWW-Authenticate" response header line.
635 Thanks to Eugene Mychlo.
638 Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009
640 *) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on
643 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long;
644 the bug had appeared in 0.7.4.
647 Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009
649 *) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
650 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives.
652 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
653 header lines were passed to backend while caching if no
654 "proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters.
656 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not
657 hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header"
658 directives were used with any parameters.
660 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a
662 Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh.
664 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early;
665 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
668 Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009
670 *) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive.
672 *) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive.
673 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
675 *) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests.
677 *) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows.
679 *) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and
680 fastcgi_cache in nginx/Windows.
682 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.
683 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy.
686 Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009
688 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods"
691 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
692 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
694 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process,
695 if a request had no body and the $request_body variable was used;
696 the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
698 *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux;
699 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
701 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by
702 SSI, charset, and gzip filters.
704 *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to
705 ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses.
708 Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009
710 *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6.
712 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive.
714 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive.
716 *) Feature: the $request_body variable.
718 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":"
721 *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared
723 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
726 Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009
728 *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the
729 ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named
730 location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
733 Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009
735 *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
738 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.
741 Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009
743 *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
744 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work.
746 *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses.
748 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in
749 nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
751 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
752 "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
755 *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors.
757 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using
759 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
762 Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009
764 *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
766 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
769 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
770 "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had
773 *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
774 had appeared in 0.7.39.
776 *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.
778 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
780 *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
784 Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009
786 *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very
789 *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an
790 error_log and stderr.
792 *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use
793 a directory where it was run as prefix.
795 *) Feature: the -p switch.
797 *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms.
799 *) Feature: the -? and -h switches.
800 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
802 *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form.
804 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given
807 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store",
808 "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used.
809 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
811 *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication
812 server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared
814 Thanks to Simon Lecaille.
816 *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux;
817 the bug had appeared in 0.7.45.
819 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work.
820 Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff.
823 Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009
825 *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release.
827 *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching.
829 *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc.
830 client request header lines while caching.
832 *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in
835 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a
836 perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the
837 message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued.
839 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
842 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
843 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
846 Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009
848 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the
851 *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive.
853 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without
854 query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
856 *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses,
857 then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39.
860 Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009
862 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
866 Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009
868 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
869 $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48.
872 Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009
874 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive.
876 *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires",
877 "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response.
879 *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only.
881 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited.
883 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests.
884 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
886 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library.
887 Thanks to Timothy Redaelli.
889 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had
893 Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009
895 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions;
896 the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
898 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had
901 *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager
902 might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
904 *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
905 "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/
906 "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had
909 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
910 request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page
911 or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
914 Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009
916 *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect.
919 Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009
921 *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives
922 can be set on different levels.
924 *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
925 directive is canceled.
927 *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
930 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support.
932 *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone
935 *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a
936 "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
938 *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive
939 given without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
941 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
943 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without
944 references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared
948 Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009
950 *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.
952 *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.
954 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server
957 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
958 in a fallback parameter.
960 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.
962 *) Bugfix: if there is the single server for given address:port pair,
963 then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive
967 Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009
969 *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive
970 used variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
972 *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the
973 $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in
977 Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
979 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
980 setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
982 *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file"
983 directive is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the
986 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
987 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
989 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
992 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
993 regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
995 *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
996 Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
998 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
1002 Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
1004 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
1005 "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
1006 expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
1007 Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
1010 Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
1012 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
1015 *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
1016 inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
1018 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
1021 *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
1022 slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
1024 Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
1027 Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
1029 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
1030 the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
1031 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
1033 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
1034 static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
1037 Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
1039 *) Feature: authentication failures logging.
1041 *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
1042 number of empty lines.
1043 Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
1045 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
1046 path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
1049 Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
1051 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had
1055 Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
1057 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
1058 HTTP module supports IPv6.
1060 *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
1061 preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
1064 Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
1066 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
1068 Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
1070 *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
1071 original request extension.
1073 *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
1074 "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if
1075 ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
1076 the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
1079 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
1081 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
1083 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
1085 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1087 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
1088 in mail proxy server.
1089 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1091 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
1092 concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&";
1093 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
1094 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1096 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
1099 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
1101 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
1102 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with
1106 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some
1109 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1110 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
1113 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
1115 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
1116 the "try_files" directive.
1118 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
1120 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
1122 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
1124 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
1127 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
1129 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
1132 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
1134 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
1136 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
1138 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
1139 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
1141 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1143 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
1144 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
1145 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1148 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
1150 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
1151 variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
1152 and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
1155 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
1157 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
1158 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
1160 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
1162 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0
1164 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1166 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
1170 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
1172 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
1174 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
1175 changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
1178 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
1180 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
1182 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
1184 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
1186 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1188 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
1191 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
1193 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
1195 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
1196 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1198 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
1200 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
1201 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
1202 error_page directive.
1203 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1206 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
1208 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1211 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
1213 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
1215 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
1217 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
1220 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
1223 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
1225 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
1227 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
1228 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
1230 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
1234 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
1236 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
1238 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
1240 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
1243 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
1245 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
1246 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1248 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
1250 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
1252 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
1256 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
1258 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
1260 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
1261 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
1263 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
1264 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
1266 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
1270 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
1272 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
1274 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
1276 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
1277 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
1278 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1280 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
1281 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
1283 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1286 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
1287 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
1289 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
1292 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
1294 *) Bugfix: version number update.
1297 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
1299 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
1300 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
1302 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
1304 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
1306 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
1308 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
1310 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
1311 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
1313 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
1314 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
1316 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" heaer line
1319 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
1322 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
1324 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
1326 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
1328 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
1329 not work with open_file_cache.
1331 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
1332 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
1334 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
1335 charset name received from backend.
1338 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
1340 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
1344 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
1346 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
1348 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
1349 requests starting from arbitrary position.
1351 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
1354 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
1358 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
1360 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
1361 have not default values.
1363 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
1365 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
1366 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
1368 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
1369 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
1372 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
1373 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
1375 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
1378 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
1380 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
1384 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
1386 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
1388 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
1390 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
1391 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
1392 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1394 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
1395 "error_page" directive.
1397 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
1398 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
1400 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
1401 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
1402 had appeared in 0.7.0.
1405 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
1407 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
1410 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
1411 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
1413 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
1415 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
1416 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
1418 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
1419 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
1421 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
1424 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
1426 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
1427 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
1428 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
1430 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
1432 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
1433 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
1436 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
1438 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
1439 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
1440 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
1442 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
1444 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
1445 directives use hash.
1447 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
1449 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
1451 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
1452 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
1454 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
1457 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
1458 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
1460 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
1461 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
1462 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
1466 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
1468 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
1470 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
1472 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
1473 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
1475 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
1476 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
1477 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1480 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
1482 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
1485 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
1486 with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
1487 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
1490 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
1492 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
1493 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1495 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
1496 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1498 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
1500 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
1501 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
1504 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
1505 /dev/poll methods were used.
1507 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
1510 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
1512 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
1513 request root existence is always tested.
1515 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
1519 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
1521 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
1522 bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
1524 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
1525 had appeared in 0.7.3.
1526 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
1528 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
1529 might were transferred incorrectly.
1532 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
1534 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
1536 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
1538 *) Feature: the -g switch.
1540 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
1542 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
1545 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
1547 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
1548 "application/rss+xml".
1550 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
1551 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
1553 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
1554 if the "https://" protocol is used.
1556 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
1557 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
1560 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
1562 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
1564 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
1566 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
1567 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1569 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
1570 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
1571 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1573 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
1576 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
1577 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
1580 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
1582 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
1584 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
1585 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
1587 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
1589 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
1590 now this is default parameter.
1591 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
1593 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
1596 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
1600 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
1602 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
1603 \xXX in an access_log.
1604 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1606 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
1608 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
1610 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
1611 request processing stage.
1613 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
1614 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1616 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
1617 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
1619 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
1620 if keepalive was enabled.
1623 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
1625 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
1626 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
1627 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
1629 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
1630 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
1633 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
1635 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
1636 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
1638 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
1639 for example, "1h50m".
1641 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
1642 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
1644 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
1647 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
1648 arguments in redirected URI.
1650 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
1652 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
1656 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
1658 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
1660 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
1661 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
1664 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
1666 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
1670 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
1672 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
1675 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
1676 named location via an "error_page" directive.
1678 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
1681 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
1683 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
1684 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
1685 static named locations.
1687 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
1688 client certificate in first handshake.
1689 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
1691 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
1692 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
1695 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
1697 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
1699 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
1700 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
1701 static named locations.
1703 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
1704 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1706 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
1707 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
1708 name and without variables.
1709 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1711 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
1712 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
1714 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
1715 stub block was used second time in SSI.
1717 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
1720 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
1722 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
1723 check a response length.
1725 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
1726 value was used in a "expires" directive.
1727 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
1729 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
1730 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
1732 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
1733 was used instead of the GET method.
1735 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
1736 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1738 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
1739 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1741 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1742 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1745 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
1747 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
1748 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
1750 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
1751 "server_name" directive.
1753 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
1756 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
1757 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
1759 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
1761 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
1763 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
1764 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1766 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
1767 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1769 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
1773 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
1775 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
1776 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1779 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
1781 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
1782 now this is default parameter.
1784 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
1785 "open_file_cache_valid".
1787 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
1789 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
1791 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
1793 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
1796 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
1797 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
1799 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
1800 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
1801 auth directives were not tested;
1803 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
1804 inherited from previous level.
1806 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
1807 with 499 status code.
1809 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
1810 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1812 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
1813 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
1815 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1816 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
1819 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
1821 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
1822 perl's allocated memory.
1824 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
1825 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
1826 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
1828 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
1830 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
1833 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
1834 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
1835 request body was already received.
1837 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
1839 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
1841 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
1842 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
1844 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
1845 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
1846 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
1848 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
1849 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
1851 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1854 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
1856 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
1857 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
1859 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1860 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
1863 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
1864 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
1865 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1867 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
1868 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
1869 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
1872 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
1873 server, then nginx returned usual response.
1876 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
1878 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1879 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
1883 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
1885 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
1888 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
1890 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
1891 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
1893 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
1896 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1898 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
1900 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
1901 "Last-Modified" response header line.
1903 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
1904 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
1907 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
1909 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
1910 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
1912 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
1913 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1915 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
1918 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1919 subrequests were used.
1921 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
1924 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
1925 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
1928 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
1930 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
1931 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
1933 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
1934 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
1936 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
1939 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
1941 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
1942 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
1944 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
1946 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
1948 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
1950 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
1952 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1953 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
1954 "source_charset" directives.
1956 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
1957 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
1958 Thanks to James Oakley.
1960 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
1961 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
1962 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1964 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
1965 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
1966 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1969 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
1971 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
1973 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
1975 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
1976 "limit_except" block.
1978 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
1979 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
1982 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
1983 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
1984 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
1986 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
1988 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1990 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
1991 $upstream_response_time.
1992 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1994 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1997 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
1998 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
2001 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
2003 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
2006 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
2008 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
2010 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
2013 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
2015 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
2017 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
2018 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
2020 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
2021 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
2023 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
2026 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
2027 located in non-standard place was used.
2029 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
2030 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
2032 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
2035 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
2037 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
2040 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
2041 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
2043 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
2046 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
2047 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
2051 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
2053 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
2054 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
2056 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
2058 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
2059 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
2061 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
2062 /dev/poll method was used.
2065 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
2067 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
2068 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
2070 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
2071 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
2073 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
2076 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
2080 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
2082 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
2083 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
2084 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
2086 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
2087 authentication server.
2089 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
2091 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
2092 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
2093 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
2095 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
2098 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
2100 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
2101 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
2102 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
2103 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
2104 not to nginx prefix directory.
2106 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
2108 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
2109 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
2111 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
2112 regular expressions.
2114 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2115 the "backup" parameter.
2117 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
2118 $r->discard_request_body.
2120 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
2121 "Last-Modified" response header line.
2123 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
2124 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
2125 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
2127 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
2128 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
2130 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
2131 platforms except FreeBSD.
2132 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2134 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
2135 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
2138 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2139 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2142 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
2144 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
2146 *) Feature: named locations.
2148 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
2150 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
2152 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
2154 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
2155 might not close connection to backend.
2157 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
2158 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
2160 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
2161 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
2164 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
2166 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
2167 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
2169 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
2170 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2172 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
2173 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2175 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
2177 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
2179 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2181 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
2182 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
2185 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
2187 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
2188 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
2190 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
2193 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
2196 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
2198 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2200 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
2201 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2204 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
2206 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
2208 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2209 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
2210 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2212 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
2213 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
2215 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
2216 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2218 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2219 eventport method was used.
2221 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
2222 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
2226 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
2228 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
2229 passed garbage in the header to a client.
2232 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
2234 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
2236 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
2237 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
2239 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
2242 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
2243 to the master process identification number.
2246 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
2248 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
2249 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
2252 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
2254 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
2255 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
2259 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
2261 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
2262 was made using HTTP/0.9.
2264 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
2265 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
2268 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
2270 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
2273 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
2274 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
2276 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
2277 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
2279 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
2280 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
2281 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
2283 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2286 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
2288 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
2289 had appeared in 0.5.21.
2292 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
2294 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
2295 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
2297 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
2298 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
2299 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
2301 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
2303 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2305 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2308 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
2310 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
2312 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
2313 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
2315 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2316 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
2318 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
2319 transferred incorrectly.
2320 Thanks to Evan Miller.
2322 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
2324 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2326 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
2328 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2331 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
2333 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
2335 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
2338 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
2340 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
2341 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2342 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
2344 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
2345 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
2347 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
2348 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
2351 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
2353 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
2355 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
2357 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
2358 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
2360 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
2361 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
2362 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
2363 had appeared in 0.5.9.
2365 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
2366 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
2370 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
2372 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
2374 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
2377 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
2378 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
2380 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2382 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
2383 returned old cached value.
2386 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
2388 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
2389 "ip_hash" directive.
2390 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
2392 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
2393 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
2394 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2396 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2397 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
2400 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
2401 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
2404 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
2406 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
2407 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
2408 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2410 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
2411 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
2413 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
2414 and "pop3_auth" directives.
2416 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
2417 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
2420 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
2421 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
2423 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
2424 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
2426 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
2427 "ip_hash" directive was used.
2429 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
2433 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
2435 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
2439 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
2441 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
2443 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
2444 via keep-alive connection.
2446 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
2447 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2449 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
2450 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
2452 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
2453 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
2456 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2457 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
2460 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
2462 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2463 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
2465 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2466 temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug
2467 had appeared in 0.5.8.
2469 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2470 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
2472 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
2475 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
2477 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
2478 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
2480 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
2481 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
2483 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
2484 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
2485 Thanks to Evan Miller.
2487 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
2488 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
2490 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
2491 was built with -O2 optimization.
2494 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
2496 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
2497 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
2499 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
2500 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
2503 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
2505 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
2506 variable value as a key.
2508 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
2510 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
2513 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
2515 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
2517 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
2518 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
2520 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
2524 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
2526 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
2527 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
2529 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
2530 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
2531 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
2532 switched to a next upstream.
2534 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
2535 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
2536 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
2538 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
2539 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
2542 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2545 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
2548 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
2550 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
2552 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
2554 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2555 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
2556 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
2558 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
2559 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
2560 "Content-Type" header line in response.
2562 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
2564 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
2566 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
2569 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
2571 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
2572 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
2574 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
2576 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
2578 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
2579 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2581 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
2583 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
2584 $r->sendfile() was used.
2587 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
2589 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
2591 *) Feature: the -V switch.
2593 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
2596 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
2599 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
2600 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
2602 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
2605 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
2607 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
2610 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
2611 line for the DELETE method.
2613 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
2614 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
2616 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
2617 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
2620 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
2622 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
2623 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
2625 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
2626 exist in nginx configuration.
2628 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
2631 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
2633 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
2634 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
2638 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
2640 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
2641 unsuccessful completion of a request.
2643 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
2644 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
2646 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
2647 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
2650 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
2651 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
2652 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
2654 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
2655 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
2656 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
2658 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
2659 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
2660 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
2662 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
2663 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
2666 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
2668 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
2669 directive are not supported anymore.
2671 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
2672 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
2673 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
2674 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
2677 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2678 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
2680 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
2682 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
2683 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
2685 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
2689 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
2691 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2693 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
2696 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
2697 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
2699 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
2702 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
2704 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
2705 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
2707 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
2708 system time was changed backward.
2710 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
2711 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
2713 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
2714 proxy authentication server failed.
2717 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
2719 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
2720 "limit_except" block.
2722 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
2724 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
2725 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
2728 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
2729 the deferred accept() were used.
2731 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
2732 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2734 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2737 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
2738 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
2740 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
2741 had appeared in 0.3.50.
2744 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
2746 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
2748 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
2749 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
2751 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
2754 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
2756 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
2758 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
2761 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
2762 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
2765 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
2767 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
2769 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
2770 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
2773 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
2774 variable was used in the "map" directive.
2776 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
2777 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
2779 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
2783 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
2785 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2787 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
2791 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
2793 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
2794 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
2797 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
2799 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
2802 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
2804 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
2806 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
2808 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
2811 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
2812 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
2815 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
2816 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
2819 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
2823 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
2825 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
2828 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
2829 if its length was set by text string in the
2830 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
2832 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
2833 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
2834 had appeared in 0.4.4.
2837 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
2839 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
2843 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
2845 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
2847 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
2849 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
2850 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
2852 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
2853 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
2855 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
2858 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
2859 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
2862 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
2864 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
2865 "error_page" directive.
2867 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
2869 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
2871 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
2872 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
2874 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
2875 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
2877 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
2879 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
2882 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
2884 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
2885 had appeared in 0.4.1.
2888 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
2890 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
2891 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
2893 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
2896 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
2898 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
2901 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
2903 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
2904 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
2906 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
2907 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
2908 $r->has_request_body method.
2910 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
2912 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
2913 line for the PUT method.
2915 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
2917 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
2918 directive with variables and the first index name was without
2919 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2922 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
2924 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
2926 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
2928 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
2930 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
2931 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
2934 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
2936 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
2937 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
2940 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
2942 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
2943 "error_page" directive.
2945 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
2947 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
2948 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
2949 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
2952 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
2954 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
2956 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
2958 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
2959 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
2961 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
2963 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
2964 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
2966 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
2969 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
2971 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
2973 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
2974 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
2976 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
2977 to a client the required certificates information.
2979 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
2980 the "root" directive.
2983 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
2985 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
2987 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
2988 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
2990 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
2991 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
2995 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
2997 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2999 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
3001 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
3003 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
3004 was relative to a server prefix.
3006 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
3007 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
3009 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
3010 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
3012 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
3013 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
3016 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
3017 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
3021 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
3023 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
3025 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
3026 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
3028 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
3031 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
3032 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
3034 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
3035 first request to a backend only.
3037 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
3041 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
3043 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
3046 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
3047 the "weight" parameter.
3049 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
3051 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
3053 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
3054 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
3057 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
3058 return the 409 code.
3060 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
3061 continued proxying anyway.
3064 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
3066 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
3067 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
3068 return the 405 error.
3070 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3071 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
3073 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
3074 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3076 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
3077 temporary file was not removed.
3080 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
3082 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
3083 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3086 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
3088 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
3089 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
3090 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
3092 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
3093 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
3095 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
3096 proxy and FastCGI mode.
3098 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
3099 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
3101 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
3102 SSI after inclusion.
3104 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
3105 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
3108 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
3110 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
3112 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
3113 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
3117 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
3119 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
3120 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
3122 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
3123 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
3124 start of the rewritten redirect.
3126 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
3127 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
3128 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
3131 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
3132 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
3135 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
3137 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
3139 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
3140 SSI command is always removed.
3143 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
3145 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
3146 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
3148 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
3149 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
3151 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
3154 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
3155 ngx_http_perl_module.
3158 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
3160 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
3161 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
3163 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
3166 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
3169 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
3172 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
3173 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
3174 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
3178 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
3180 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
3182 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
3183 koi-win conversion table.
3185 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
3188 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
3190 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
3193 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
3195 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
3198 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
3201 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
3202 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
3203 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
3204 were not written to access log.
3206 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
3207 "Cache-Control" response header line.
3210 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
3212 *) Feature: the -v switch.
3214 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
3217 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
3219 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
3220 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
3221 segmentation fault was occurred.
3224 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
3226 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
3228 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
3230 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
3233 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
3235 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
3236 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
3239 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
3241 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
3242 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
3245 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
3246 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
3247 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
3249 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
3253 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
3255 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
3257 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
3258 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
3260 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
3263 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
3265 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
3267 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
3269 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
3270 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
3273 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
3274 login and password to pass authorization server.
3275 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3278 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
3280 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
3282 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
3285 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
3288 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
3291 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
3293 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
3295 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
3296 inside the "if" block.
3298 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
3299 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
3301 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
3303 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
3304 and $r->remote_addr.
3306 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
3308 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
3309 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
3311 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
3312 ngx_http_ssi_module.
3314 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
3315 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
3316 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
3317 a current path but not to a server prefix.
3320 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
3322 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
3323 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
3325 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
3329 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
3331 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
3334 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
3336 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3337 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
3339 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
3340 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
3342 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
3345 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
3347 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
3348 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
3351 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
3353 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
3355 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
3358 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
3360 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
3362 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3364 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
3365 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
3366 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
3369 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
3370 and the request body was in temporary file then the request was not
3373 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
3376 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
3378 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
3381 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
3382 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
3384 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
3385 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
3388 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
3390 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
3391 many warnings before the response.
3393 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
3394 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
3396 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
3397 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
3399 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
3400 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
3404 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
3406 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
3408 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
3410 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
3411 terminated prematurely.
3412 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
3414 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
3415 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
3418 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
3419 completion of a request.
3421 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
3422 directive was transferred to a client.
3425 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
3427 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
3428 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
3430 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
3431 "log_format" directive.
3433 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
3435 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
3438 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
3439 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
3441 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
3442 autoconfiguration directive.
3444 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
3445 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
3448 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
3450 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
3451 "optimize_server_names".
3453 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
3454 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
3458 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
3460 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
3461 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
3465 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
3467 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
3469 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
3470 not transferred to a client.
3472 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
3474 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
3477 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
3478 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
3479 had appeared in 0.3.18.
3482 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
3484 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
3486 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
3489 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
3493 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
3495 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
3496 $r->unescape methods.
3498 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
3501 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
3502 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
3506 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
3508 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
3510 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
3514 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
3516 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
3518 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
3519 the "/usr?args" form.
3522 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
3524 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
3526 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
3528 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
3531 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
3533 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
3536 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
3537 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
3539 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
3540 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
3542 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
3543 directives were canceled.
3545 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
3547 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
3548 only without the URI part.
3550 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
3551 ngx_http_map_module.
3553 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
3554 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
3556 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
3557 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
3560 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
3562 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
3563 sendfile64() in kernel.
3565 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
3568 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
3571 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3573 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
3574 directive the port 80 was used by default.
3577 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
3579 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
3581 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
3584 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
3586 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
3588 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
3589 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
3592 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
3594 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
3595 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
3596 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3598 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
3599 had appeared in 0.3.13.
3602 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
3604 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
3607 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3609 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
3610 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
3613 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
3615 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
3619 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
3621 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
3623 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
3626 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
3628 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
3629 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
3631 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
3632 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
3635 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
3637 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
3638 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
3639 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
3640 and is not built by default.
3642 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
3644 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
3645 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
3646 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
3648 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
3650 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
3652 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
3653 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
3655 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
3656 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
3658 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
3659 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
3660 without the "Basic realm" text.
3662 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
3663 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
3664 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
3666 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
3669 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
3670 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
3673 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
3675 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
3676 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
3679 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
3681 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
3682 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
3683 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
3685 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
3688 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
3690 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
3692 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
3694 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
3696 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
3698 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
3700 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
3702 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
3703 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
3706 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
3708 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
3709 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
3712 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
3714 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
3715 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
3718 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
3720 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
3721 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
3724 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
3725 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
3727 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
3728 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3730 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
3731 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
3733 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
3735 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
3737 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
3738 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
3739 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
3740 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
3741 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
3742 will be canceled soon.
3744 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
3745 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
3747 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
3748 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
3750 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
3753 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
3754 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
3755 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
3758 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3761 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
3762 several worker processes were used.
3764 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
3767 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
3768 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
3769 did not transferred at all.
3772 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
3774 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
3776 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3777 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
3780 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
3782 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
3783 authorization server.
3785 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
3787 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
3788 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
3791 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
3792 the 80 port was always used.
3795 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
3797 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
3798 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3800 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
3801 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
3803 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
3804 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
3807 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
3809 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
3810 had appeared in 0.3.3.
3813 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
3815 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
3816 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
3818 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
3821 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
3822 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
3824 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
3826 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
3827 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
3830 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
3831 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
3833 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
3835 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
3837 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
3838 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
3840 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
3842 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
3844 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
3845 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3847 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
3851 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
3853 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
3855 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
3856 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
3857 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
3860 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
3862 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
3863 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
3866 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
3870 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
3872 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
3873 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
3877 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
3879 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
3880 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
3882 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
3883 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
3885 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
3886 more flexible to change an error code.
3888 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
3889 in proxied subrequests.
3891 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
3892 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
3895 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
3896 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
3897 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
3898 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3901 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
3903 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
3904 causes the warning and changes old value.
3906 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
3908 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
3909 the "include" command.
3911 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
3912 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
3915 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
3917 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
3918 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
3920 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
3923 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
3924 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
3927 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
3929 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
3930 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3933 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
3935 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
3937 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
3940 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
3941 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3943 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
3946 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
3949 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
3951 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3953 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
3956 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
3958 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
3959 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
3963 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
3965 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
3966 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
3967 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
3968 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
3969 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
3970 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
3973 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
3974 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
3975 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
3977 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
3979 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
3981 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
3982 not run for subrequests.
3984 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
3987 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
3988 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
3990 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
3991 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3993 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3995 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3997 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
3998 from the 304 responses.
3999 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
4002 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
4004 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
4005 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
4007 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
4010 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4013 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
4015 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
4017 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
4019 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
4021 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
4022 of authorization use.
4025 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
4027 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
4028 changed using the -HUP signal.
4030 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
4032 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
4035 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
4036 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
4037 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
4038 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4041 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
4043 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
4044 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
4045 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
4047 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
4048 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
4051 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
4053 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
4054 can not be used in SSI.
4057 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
4059 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
4060 information did not logged in the error log.
4062 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
4063 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
4065 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
4066 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
4068 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
4071 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
4072 became shorter in the "ps" command.
4075 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
4077 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
4078 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
4079 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
4081 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
4082 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
4084 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
4085 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
4086 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
4088 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
4090 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
4091 the "include virtual" command.
4093 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
4094 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
4095 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4097 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
4098 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
4099 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4101 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
4104 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
4105 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
4107 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
4111 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
4113 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
4116 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
4117 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
4119 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
4121 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
4123 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
4124 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
4126 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
4129 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
4130 than one remote subrequest.
4132 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
4133 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
4136 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
4138 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
4140 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
4143 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4146 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
4148 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
4150 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
4151 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
4153 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
4154 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
4155 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
4156 request all backends again.
4159 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
4161 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
4162 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
4163 now returns the 400 error.
4165 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
4167 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
4168 parameters of the "listen" directive.
4170 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
4172 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
4174 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
4177 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
4178 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
4181 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
4183 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
4185 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
4187 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
4188 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4190 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
4191 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
4192 occurred on the start.
4194 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
4195 bigger than the temporary file.
4197 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
4198 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
4202 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
4204 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
4205 big response part were include by SSI.
4207 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
4210 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
4212 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
4213 the client request header line passing.
4216 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
4218 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
4219 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4221 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
4222 level cause the bus fault on start up.
4224 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
4226 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
4227 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
4230 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
4232 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
4233 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4235 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
4238 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
4239 of regular expressions.
4241 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
4242 proxy and FastCGI mode.
4245 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
4247 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
4249 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
4251 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
4253 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
4254 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
4257 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
4259 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
4262 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
4264 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
4265 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
4266 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
4269 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
4272 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
4274 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
4277 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
4279 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
4281 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
4282 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
4285 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
4286 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
4288 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
4290 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
4291 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
4293 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
4295 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
4296 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
4298 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
4299 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
4301 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
4302 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
4303 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
4304 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
4306 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
4307 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
4309 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
4311 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
4314 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
4315 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
4318 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
4320 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
4321 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
4324 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
4326 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
4328 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
4330 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
4332 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
4334 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
4335 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
4336 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
4338 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
4339 headers or a backend response header.
4341 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
4342 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
4343 returned the 408 response.
4345 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
4346 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
4348 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
4349 tolerance configuration.
4351 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
4352 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
4354 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
4357 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
4359 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
4362 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
4365 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
4367 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
4369 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
4372 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
4374 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
4376 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
4377 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
4380 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
4382 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
4383 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
4386 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
4387 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
4391 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
4393 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
4396 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
4398 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
4399 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
4402 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
4404 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
4406 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
4407 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
4409 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
4410 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
4411 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
4412 after request completion.
4414 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
4417 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
4418 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
4420 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
4421 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
4423 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
4424 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
4425 will be removed soon.
4427 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
4429 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
4431 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
4433 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
4436 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
4438 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
4439 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
4441 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
4442 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
4445 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
4448 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
4452 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
4454 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
4455 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
4456 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
4459 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
4461 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
4462 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
4463 server name of the "server_name" directive.
4465 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
4466 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
4468 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
4469 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
4471 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
4472 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
4475 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
4477 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
4478 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
4480 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
4481 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
4484 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
4486 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
4487 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
4489 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
4490 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
4492 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
4495 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
4497 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
4498 the fastcgi_params directive.
4500 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
4503 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
4505 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
4506 returned for the local requests.
4508 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
4510 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
4511 request body via SSL connections.
4514 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
4516 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
4517 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
4520 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
4523 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
4524 with URI by an "&" rather than a "?".
4526 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
4527 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
4529 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
4531 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
4532 the segmentation fault.
4534 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
4537 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
4539 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
4540 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
4541 configuration to the request.
4544 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
4546 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
4547 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
4548 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
4549 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
4551 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
4553 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
4555 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
4558 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
4559 small caps letters in extension.
4561 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
4562 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
4563 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
4565 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
4566 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
4569 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
4572 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
4574 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
4575 request the final chunk was issued.
4577 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
4578 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
4580 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
4581 segmentation faults.
4583 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
4586 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
4587 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
4589 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
4591 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
4592 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
4595 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
4597 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
4600 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
4601 different number of the captures and substitutions.
4603 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
4606 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
4607 arguments and in the original state.
4609 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
4610 to use the regular expressions in locations.
4612 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
4613 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
4616 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
4617 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
4618 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
4619 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
4622 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
4624 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
4625 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
4626 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
4628 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
4629 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
4630 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
4632 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
4633 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
4634 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
4635 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
4636 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
4637 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
4638 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
4640 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
4643 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
4644 proxy_pass directive.
4646 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
4649 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
4650 ngx_http_proxy_module.
4652 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
4653 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
4656 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
4658 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
4661 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
4664 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
4668 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
4670 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
4672 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
4673 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
4674 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
4675 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
4677 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
4678 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
4681 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
4683 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
4685 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
4686 transferred response.
4688 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
4689 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
4691 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
4694 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
4695 broken symlink was in a directory.
4697 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
4700 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
4701 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
4704 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
4705 when the /dev/poll method was used.
4707 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
4709 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
4711 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
4713 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
4714 section in configuration.
4716 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
4718 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
4722 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
4724 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
4725 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
4726 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
4728 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
4732 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
4734 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
4735 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
4737 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
4740 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
4741 does not support sendfile64().
4743 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
4744 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
4748 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
4750 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
4753 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
4755 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
4758 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
4760 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
4761 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
4764 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
4766 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
4767 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
4770 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
4772 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
4773 returned not enough data" alerts.
4775 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
4776 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
4777 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
4780 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
4783 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
4785 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
4787 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
4788 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
4790 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
4792 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
4795 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
4797 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
4800 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
4802 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
4804 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
4806 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
4810 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
4812 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
4813 options in configure.
4815 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
4817 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
4819 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
4820 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
4822 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
4825 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
4826 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
4828 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
4830 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
4834 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
4836 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
4838 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
4840 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
4841 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
4843 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
4845 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
4847 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
4850 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
4852 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
4853 used while the proxying.
4855 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
4857 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
4858 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
4861 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
4863 *) The first public version.