2 Changes with nginx 1.4.4 19 Nov 2013
4 *) Security: a character following an unescaped space in a request line
5 was handled incorrectly (CVE-2013-4547); the bug had appeared in
7 Thanks to Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team.
10 Changes with nginx 1.4.3 08 Oct 2013
12 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
13 ngx_http_spdy_module was used with the "client_body_in_file_only"
16 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur on start or during
17 reconfiguration if the "try_files" directive was used with an empty
20 *) Bugfix: the $request_time variable did not work in nginx/Windows.
22 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_auth_basic_module when using "$apr1$"
23 password encryption method.
24 Thanks to Markus Linnala.
26 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
28 *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server.
31 Changes with nginx 1.4.2 17 Jul 2013
33 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() embedded perl method did not return value
34 of the "Cookie" and "X-Forwarded-For" request header lines; the bug
35 had appeared in 1.3.14.
37 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_mail_ssl_module, but
38 without ngx_http_ssl_module; the bug had appeared in 1.3.14.
40 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_set_body" directive.
41 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
43 *) Bugfix: the "fail_timeout" parameter of the "server" directive in the
44 "upstream" context might not work if "max_fails" parameter was used;
45 the bug had appeared in 1.3.0.
47 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
48 "ssl_stapling" directive was used.
49 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
51 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might stop accepting connections if several
52 worker processes were used.
55 Changes with nginx 1.4.1 07 May 2013
57 *) Security: a stack-based buffer overflow might occur in a worker
58 process while handling a specially crafted request, potentially
59 resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2013-2028); the bug had
61 Thanks to Greg MacManus, iSIGHT Partners Labs.
64 Changes with nginx 1.4.0 24 Apr 2013
66 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the
67 --with-openssl option was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.16.
69 *) Bugfix: in a request body handling in the ngx_http_perl_module; the
70 bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
73 Changes with nginx 1.3.16 16 Apr 2013
75 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
76 subrequests were used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
78 *) Bugfix: the "tcp_nodelay" directive caused an error if a WebSocket
79 connection was proxied into a unix domain socket.
81 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_length variable has an incorrect value
82 "0" if buffering was not used.
83 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
85 *) Bugfix: in the eventport and /dev/poll methods.
88 Changes with nginx 1.3.15 26 Mar 2013
90 *) Change: opening and closing a connection without sending any data in
91 it is no longer logged to access_log with error code 400.
93 *) Feature: the ngx_http_spdy_module.
94 Thanks to Automattic for sponsoring this work.
96 *) Feature: the "limit_req_status" and "limit_conn_status" directives.
97 Thanks to Nick Marden.
99 *) Feature: the "image_filter_interlace" directive.
100 Thanks to Ian Babrou.
102 *) Feature: $connections_waiting variable in the
103 ngx_http_stub_status_module.
105 *) Feature: the mail proxy module now supports IPv6 backends.
107 *) Bugfix: request body might be transmitted incorrectly when retrying a
108 request to the next upstream server; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
109 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
111 *) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had
114 *) Bugfix: responses might hang if subrequests were used and a DNS error
115 happened during subrequest processing.
116 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
118 *) Bugfix: in backend usage accounting.
121 Changes with nginx 1.3.14 05 Mar 2013
123 *) Feature: $connections_active, $connections_reading, and
124 $connections_writing variables in the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
126 *) Feature: support of WebSocket connections in the
127 ngx_http_uwsgi_module and ngx_http_scgi_module.
129 *) Bugfix: in virtual servers handling with SNI.
131 *) Bugfix: new sessions were not always stored if the "ssl_session_cache
132 shared" directive was used and there was no free space in shared
134 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
136 *) Bugfix: multiple X-Forwarded-For headers were handled incorrectly.
137 Thanks to Neal Poole for sponsoring this work.
139 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
140 Thanks to Gernot Vormayr.
143 Changes with nginx 1.3.13 19 Feb 2013
145 *) Change: a compiler with name "cc" is now used by default.
147 *) Feature: support for proxying of WebSocket connections.
148 Thanks to Apcera and CloudBees for sponsoring this work.
150 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "{SHA}"
151 password encryption method.
152 Thanks to Louis Opter.
155 Changes with nginx 1.3.12 05 Feb 2013
157 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind",
158 "memcached_bind", "scgi_bind", and "uwsgi_bind" directives.
160 *) Feature: the $pipe, $request_length, $time_iso8601, and $time_local
161 variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive.
162 Thanks to Kiril Kalchev.
164 *) Feature: IPv6 support in the ngx_http_geoip_module.
165 Thanks to Gregor Kališnik.
167 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_method" directive.
169 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
170 resolver was used with the poll method.
172 *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU during SSL handshake with a backend if
173 the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used.
175 *) Bugfix: the "[crit] SSL_write() failed (SSL:)" error.
177 *) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had
180 *) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
183 Changes with nginx 1.3.11 10 Jan 2013
185 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if logging was used; the bug
186 had appeared in 1.3.10.
188 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with IP addresses
189 without port specified; the bug had appeared in 1.3.10.
191 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during
192 reconfiguration if the "keepalive" directive was specified more than
193 once in a single upstream block.
195 *) Bugfix: parameter "default" of the "geo" directive did not set
196 default value for IPv6 addresses.
199 Changes with nginx 1.3.10 25 Dec 2012
201 *) Change: domain names specified in configuration file are now resolved
202 to IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 ones.
204 *) Change: now if the "include" directive with mask is used on Unix
205 systems, included files are sorted in alphabetical order.
207 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds headers to 201 responses.
209 *) Feature: the "geo" directive now supports IPv6 addresses in CIDR
212 *) Feature: the "flush" and "gzip" parameters of the "access_log"
215 *) Feature: variables support in the "auth_basic" directive.
217 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module in
220 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
221 ngx_http_xslt_module was used.
223 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX in some cases.
224 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
226 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive with high rates might result in
227 truncated responses on 32-bit platforms.
228 Thanks to Alexey Antropov.
230 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
231 "if" directive was used.
232 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
234 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued with "413 Request Entity
235 Too Large" responses.
237 *) Bugfix: the "image_filter", "image_filter_jpeg_quality" and
238 "image_filter_sharpen" directives might be inherited incorrectly.
239 Thanks to Ian Babrou.
241 *) Bugfix: "crypt_r() failed" errors might appear if the "auth_basic"
242 directive was used on Linux.
244 *) Bugfix: in backup servers handling.
245 Thanks to Thomas Chen.
247 *) Bugfix: proxied HEAD requests might return incorrect response if the
248 "gzip" directive was used.
251 Changes with nginx 1.3.9 27 Nov 2012
253 *) Feature: support for chunked transfer encoding while reading client
256 *) Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not
257 only in the "log_format" directive.
259 *) Bugfix: cache manager and cache loader processes might not be able to
260 start if more than 512 listen sockets were used.
262 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module.
265 Changes with nginx 1.3.8 30 Oct 2012
267 *) Feature: the "optional_no_ca" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client"
269 Thanks to Mike Kazantsev and Eric O'Connor.
271 *) Feature: the $bytes_sent, $connection, and $connection_requests
272 variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive.
273 Thanks to Benjamin Grössing.
275 *) Feature: the "auto" parameter of the "worker_processes" directive.
277 *) Bugfix: "cache file ... has md5 collision" alert.
279 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module.
281 *) Bugfix: in the "ssl_stapling" directive.
284 Changes with nginx 1.3.7 02 Oct 2012
286 *) Feature: OCSP stapling support.
287 Thanks to Comodo, DigiCert and GlobalSign for sponsoring this work.
289 *) Feature: the "ssl_trusted_certificate" directive.
291 *) Feature: resolver now randomly rotates addresses returned from cache.
292 Thanks to Anton Jouline.
294 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.7 compatibility.
297 Changes with nginx 1.3.6 12 Sep 2012
299 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module.
301 *) Feature: the "memcached_gzip_flag" directive.
303 *) Feature: the "always" parameter of the "gzip_static" directive.
305 *) Bugfix: in the "limit_req" directive; the bug had appeared in 1.1.14.
306 Thanks to Charles Chen.
308 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.7 with -O2 optimization if
309 the --with-ipv6 option was used.
312 Changes with nginx 1.3.5 21 Aug 2012
314 *) Change: the ngx_http_mp4_module module no longer skips tracks in
315 formats other than H.264 and AAC.
317 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
318 "map" directive was used with variables as values.
320 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
321 "geo" directive was used with the "ranges" parameter but without the
322 "default" parameter; the bug had appeared in 0.8.43.
323 Thanks to Zhen Chen and Weibin Yao.
325 *) Bugfix: in the -p command-line parameter handling.
327 *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server.
329 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
332 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2005
334 Thanks to HAYASHI Kentaro.
337 Changes with nginx 1.3.4 31 Jul 2012
339 *) Change: the "ipv6only" parameter is now turned on by default for
340 listening IPv6 sockets.
342 *) Feature: the Clang compiler support.
344 *) Bugfix: extra listening sockets might be created.
345 Thanks to Roman Odaisky.
347 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might hog CPU if a worker process failed to
349 Thanks to Ricardo Villalobos Guevara.
351 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass_header", "fastcgi_pass_header",
352 "scgi_pass_header", "uwsgi_pass_header", "proxy_hide_header",
353 "fastcgi_hide_header", "scgi_hide_header", and "uwsgi_hide_header"
354 directives might be inherited incorrectly.
357 Changes with nginx 1.3.3 10 Jul 2012
359 *) Feature: entity tags support and the "etag" directive.
361 *) Bugfix: trailing dot in a source value was not ignored if the "map"
362 directive was used with the "hostnames" parameter.
364 *) Bugfix: incorrect location might be used to process a request if a
365 URI was changed via a "rewrite" directive before an internal redirect
369 Changes with nginx 1.3.2 26 Jun 2012
371 *) Change: the "single" parameter of the "keepalive" directive is now
374 *) Change: SSL compression is now disabled when using all versions of
375 OpenSSL, including ones prior to 1.0.0.
377 *) Feature: it is now possible to use the "ip_hash" directive to balance
380 *) Feature: the $status variable can now be used not only in the
381 "log_format" directive.
383 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process on
384 shutdown if the "resolver" directive was used.
386 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
387 ngx_http_mp4_module was used.
389 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
391 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
392 conflicting wildcard server names were used.
394 *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally on a SIGBUS signal on
397 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file number)" on HP-UX
398 while reconfiguration.
401 Changes with nginx 1.3.1 05 Jun 2012
403 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dot in URI path
404 component, and does not allow URIs with ":$" in it.
405 Thanks to Vladimir Kochetkov, Positive Research Center.
407 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass"
408 directives, and the "server" directive inside the "upstream" block,
409 now support IPv6 addresses.
411 *) Feature: the "resolver" directive now supports IPv6 addresses and an
412 optional port specification.
414 *) Feature: the "least_conn" directive inside the "upstream" block.
416 *) Feature: it is now possible to specify a weight for servers while
417 using the "ip_hash" directive.
419 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
420 "image_filter" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.0.
422 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with ngx_cpp_test_module; the bug
423 had appeared in 1.1.12.
425 *) Bugfix: access to variables from SSI and embedded perl module might
426 not work after reconfiguration.
427 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
429 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module.
430 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
432 *) Bugfix: memory leak if $geoip_org variable was used.
433 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
435 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path"
439 Changes with nginx 1.3.0 15 May 2012
441 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive now supports IPv6 addresses
442 and the "unix:" parameter.
444 *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive and the "proxy" parameter
445 of the "geo" directive now support IPv6 addresses.
447 *) Feature: the "real_ip_recursive", "geoip_proxy", and
448 "geoip_proxy_recursive" directives.
450 *) Feature: the "proxy_recursive" parameter of the "geo" directive.
452 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
453 "resolver" directive was used.
455 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
456 "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or "uwsgi_pass" directives were used and
457 backend returned incorrect response.
459 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
460 "rewrite" directive was used and new request arguments in a
461 replacement used variables.
463 *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU if the open file resource limit was
466 *) Bugfix: nginx might loop infinitely over backends if the
467 "proxy_next_upstream" directive with the "http_404" parameter was
468 used and there were backup servers specified in an upstream block.
470 *) Bugfix: adding the "down" parameter of the "server" directive might
471 cause unneeded client redistribution among backend servers if the
472 "ip_hash" directive was used.
474 *) Bugfix: socket leak.
475 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
477 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module.
480 Changes with nginx 1.2.0 23 Apr 2012
482 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
483 "try_files" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.19.
485 *) Bugfix: response might be truncated if there were more than IOV_MAX
488 *) Bugfix: in the "crop" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
489 Thanks to Maxim Bublis.
492 Changes with nginx 1.1.19 12 Apr 2012
494 *) Security: specially crafted mp4 file might allow to overwrite memory
495 locations in a worker process if the ngx_http_mp4_module was used,
496 potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2012-2089).
497 Thanks to Matthew Daley.
499 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might be terminated abnormally.
500 Thanks to Vincent Lee.
502 *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as
505 *) Bugfix: the "allow" and "deny" directives might be inherited
506 incorrectly if they were used with IPv6 addresses.
508 *) Bugfix: the "modern_browser" and "ancient_browser" directives might
509 be inherited incorrectly.
511 *) Bugfix: timeouts might be handled incorrectly on Solaris/SPARC.
513 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
516 Changes with nginx 1.1.18 28 Mar 2012
518 *) Change: keepalive connections are no longer disabled for Safari by
521 *) Feature: the $connection_requests variable.
523 *) Feature: $tcpinfo_rtt, $tcpinfo_rttvar, $tcpinfo_snd_cwnd and
524 $tcpinfo_rcv_space variables.
526 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive now works on FreeBSD.
528 *) Feature: the "xslt_param" and "xslt_string_param" directives.
529 Thanks to Samuel Behan.
531 *) Bugfix: in configure tests.
532 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
534 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module.
536 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian GNU/Hurd.
539 Changes with nginx 1.1.17 15 Mar 2012
541 *) Security: content of previously freed memory might be sent to a
542 client if backend returned specially crafted response.
543 Thanks to Matthew Daley.
545 *) Bugfix: in the embedded perl module if used from SSI.
546 Thanks to Matthew Daley.
548 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
551 Changes with nginx 1.1.16 29 Feb 2012
553 *) Change: the simultaneous subrequest limit has been raised to 200.
555 *) Feature: the "from" parameter of the "disable_symlinks" directive.
557 *) Feature: the "return" and "error_page" directives can now be used to
558 return 307 redirections.
560 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
561 "resolver" directive was used and there was no "error_log" directive
562 specified at global level.
563 Thanks to Roman Arutyunyan.
565 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
566 "proxy_http_version 1.1" or "fastcgi_keep_conn on" directives were
569 *) Bugfix: memory leaks.
570 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
572 *) Bugfix: in the "disable_symlinks" directive.
574 *) Bugfix: on ZFS filesystem disk cache size might be calculated
575 incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 1.0.1.
577 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 12.1 compiler.
579 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc on Solaris; the bug had
583 Changes with nginx 1.1.15 15 Feb 2012
585 *) Feature: the "disable_symlinks" directive.
587 *) Feature: the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path"
590 *) Bugfix: nginx might log incorrect error "upstream prematurely closed
591 connection" instead of correct "upstream sent too big header" one.
594 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the
595 --with-openssl option was used.
597 *) Bugfix: the number of internal redirects to named locations was not
600 *) Bugfix: calling $r->flush() multiple times might cause errors in the
601 ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
603 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store"
604 directive was used with SSI includes.
606 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cacheable variables (such as the $args
607 variable) returned old empty cached value.
609 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if too
610 many SSI subrequests were issued simultaneously; the bug had appeared
614 Changes with nginx 1.1.14 30 Jan 2012
616 *) Feature: multiple "limit_req" limits may be used simultaneously.
618 *) Bugfix: in error handling while connecting to a backend.
619 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
621 *) Bugfix: in AIO error handling on FreeBSD.
623 *) Bugfix: in the OpenSSL library initialization.
625 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directives might be inherited
628 *) Bugfix: memory leak during reconfiguration if the "pcre_jit"
632 Changes with nginx 1.1.13 16 Jan 2012
634 *) Feature: the "TLSv1.1" and "TLSv1.2" parameters of the
635 "ssl_protocols" directive.
637 *) Bugfix: the "limit_req" directive parameters were not inherited
638 correctly; the bug had appeared in 1.1.12.
640 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive incorrectly processed
641 "Refresh" header if regular expression were used.
643 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_use_stale" directive with "error" parameter
644 did not return answer from cache if there were no live upstreams.
646 *) Bugfix: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive might not work.
648 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
651 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
654 Changes with nginx 1.1.12 26 Dec 2011
656 *) Change: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part now uses changed
657 URI after redirection with the "error_page" directive.
658 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
660 *) Feature: the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock",
661 "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock_timeout" directives.
663 *) Feature: the "pcre_jit" directive.
665 *) Feature: the "if" SSI command supports captures in regular
668 *) Bugfix: the "if" SSI command did not work inside the "block" command.
670 *) Bugfix: the "limit_conn_log_level" and "limit_req_log_level"
671 directives might not work.
673 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
674 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
676 *) Bugfix: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive did not work, if the
677 "limit_rate" directive was used.
679 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part always used
680 original request URI if variables were used.
682 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
683 request after redirection with the "try_files" directive.
684 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
686 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_scgi_module.
688 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
690 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
694 Changes with nginx 1.1.11 12 Dec 2011
696 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" parameter of the "listen" directive.
697 Thanks to Vsevolod Stakhov.
699 *) Feature: the "if_not_empty" parameter of the
700 "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives.
702 *) Feature: the $https variable.
704 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports variables in the
707 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports regular expressions.
709 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control variable might contain a wrong
710 value if the "expires" directive was used.
711 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
713 *) Bugfix: the "read_ahead" directive might not work combined with
714 "try_files" and "open_file_cache".
716 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if small
717 time was used in the "inactive" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
720 *) Bugfix: responses from cache might hang.
723 Changes with nginx 1.1.10 30 Nov 2011
725 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occured in a worker process if AIO was
726 used on Linux; the bug had appeared in 1.1.9.
729 Changes with nginx 1.1.9 28 Nov 2011
731 *) Change: now double quotes are encoded in an "echo" SSI-command
733 Thanks to Zaur Abasmirzoev.
735 *) Feature: the "valid" parameter of the "resolver" directive. By
736 default TTL returned by a DNS server is used.
737 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
739 *) Bugfix: nginx might hang after a worker process abnormal termination.
741 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if SNI
742 was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.2.
744 *) Bugfix: in the "keepalive_disable" directive; the bug had appeared in
746 Thanks to Alexander Usov.
748 *) Bugfix: SIGWINCH signal did not work after first binary upgrade; the
749 bug had appeared in 1.1.1.
751 *) Bugfix: backend responses with length not matching "Content-Length"
752 header line are no longer cached.
754 *) Bugfix: in the "scgi_param" directive, if complex parameters were
757 *) Bugfix: in the "epoll" event method.
758 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
760 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_flv_module.
761 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
763 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
765 *) Bugfix: IPv6 addresses are now handled properly in a request line and
766 in a "Host" request header line.
768 *) Bugfix: "add_header" and "expires" directives did not work if a
769 request was proxied and response status code was 206.
771 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 10.
773 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
776 Changes with nginx 1.1.8 14 Nov 2011
778 *) Change: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module was renamed to the
779 ngx_http_limit_conn_module.
781 *) Change: the "limit_zone" directive was superseded by the
782 "limit_conn_zone" directive with a new syntax.
784 *) Feature: support for multiple "limit_conn" limits on the same level.
786 *) Feature: the "image_filter_sharpen" directive.
788 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
789 resolver got a big DNS response.
790 Thanks to Ben Hawkes.
792 *) Bugfix: in cache key calculation if internal MD5 implementation was
793 used; the bug had appeared in 1.0.4.
795 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
796 header lines might be passed to backend while caching; or not passed
797 without caching if caching was enabled in another part of the
800 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module sent incorrect
801 "Content-Length" response header line if the "start" argument was
803 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
806 Changes with nginx 1.1.7 31 Oct 2011
808 *) Feature: support of several DNS servers in the "resolver" directive.
809 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
811 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during
812 reconfiguration if the "ssl" directive was used at http level and
813 there was no "ssl_certificate" defined.
815 *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption while proxying big files if they
816 were buffered to disk.
818 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
819 "proxy_http_version 1.1" directive was used.
821 *) Bugfix: in the "expires @time" directive.
824 Changes with nginx 1.1.6 17 Oct 2011
826 *) Change in internal API: now module context data are cleared while
827 internal redirect to named location.
828 Requested by Yichun Zhang.
830 *) Change: if a server in an upstream failed, only one request will be
831 sent to it after fail_timeout; the server will be considered alive if
832 it will successfully respond to the request.
834 *) Change: now the 0x7F-0x1F characters are escaped as \xXX in an
837 *) Feature: "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_headers" directives support
838 the following additional values: X-Accel-Limit-Rate,
839 X-Accel-Buffering, X-Accel-Charset.
841 *) Feature: decrease of memory consumption if SSL is used.
843 *) Bugfix: some UTF-8 characters were processed incorrectly.
844 Thanks to Alexey Kuts.
846 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module directives specified at "server"
847 level were executed twice if no matching locations were defined.
849 *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if "aio sendfile" was used.
851 *) Bugfix: connections with fast clients might be closed after
852 send_timeout if file AIO was used.
854 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
856 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support seeking on
860 Changes with nginx 1.1.5 05 Oct 2011
862 *) Feature: the "uwsgi_buffering" and "scgi_buffering" directives.
863 Thanks to Peter Smit.
865 *) Bugfix: non-cacheable responses might be cached if
866 "proxy_cache_bypass" directive was used.
867 Thanks to John Ferlito.
869 *) Bugfix: in HTTP/1.1 support in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
871 *) Bugfix: cached responses with an empty body were returned
872 incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 0.8.31.
874 *) Bugfix: 201 responses of the ngx_http_dav_module were incorrect; the
875 bug had appeared in 0.8.32.
877 *) Bugfix: in the "return" directive.
879 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_session_cache builtin" directive caused segmentation
880 fault; the bug had appeared in 1.1.1.
883 Changes with nginx 1.1.4 20 Sep 2011
885 *) Feature: the ngx_http_upstream_keepalive module.
887 *) Feature: the "proxy_http_version" directive.
889 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
891 *) Feature: the "worker_aio_requests" directive.
893 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built --with-file-aio it could not be run on
894 Linux kernel which did not support AIO.
896 *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO error processing.
897 Thanks to Hagai Avrahami.
899 *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption for long-lived requests.
901 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support 64-bit MP4
905 Changes with nginx 1.1.3 14 Sep 2011
907 *) Feature: the module ngx_http_mp4_module.
909 *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO combined with open_file_cache.
911 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache did not update file info on retest if file
912 was not atomically changed.
914 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.7.
917 Changes with nginx 1.1.2 05 Sep 2011
919 *) Change: now if total size of all ranges is greater than source
920 response size, then nginx disables ranges and returns just the source
923 *) Feature: the "max_ranges" directive.
925 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
926 "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directives might work incorrectly if SNI
929 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_client_abort"
933 Changes with nginx 1.1.1 22 Aug 2011
935 *) Change: now cache loader processes either as many files as specified
936 by "loader_files" parameter or works no longer than time specified by
937 the "loader_threshold" parameter during each iteration.
939 *) Change: now SIGWINCH signal works only in daemon mode.
941 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Solaris.
942 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
944 *) Feature: accept filters are now supported on NetBSD.
946 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 3.0.
948 *) Bugfix: nginx did not use gzipping in some cases; the bug had
951 *) Bugfix: request body might be processed incorrectly if client used
954 *) Bugfix: in the "request_body_in_single_buf" directive.
956 *) Bugfix: in "proxy_set_body" and "proxy_pass_request_body" directives
957 if SSL connection to backend was used.
959 *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as
962 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur during reconfiguration if
963 ssl_session_cache was defined but not used in previous configuration.
965 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if many
966 backup servers were used in an upstream.
968 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
969 "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives were used with values starting
970 with "HTTP_"; the bug had appeared in 0.8.40.
973 Changes with nginx 1.1.0 01 Aug 2011
975 *) Feature: cache loader run time decrease.
977 *) Feature: "loader_files", "loader_sleep", and "loader_threshold"
978 options of the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_path" directives.
980 *) Feature: loading time decrease of configuration with large number of
983 *) Feature: now nginx supports ECDHE key exchange ciphers.
984 Thanks to Adrian Kotelba.
986 *) Feature: the "lingering_close" directive.
987 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
989 *) Bugfix: in closing connection for pipelined requests.
990 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
992 *) Bugfix: nginx did not disable gzipping if client sent "gzip;q=0" in
993 "Accept-Encoding" request header line.
995 *) Bugfix: in timeout in unbuffered proxied mode.
996 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
998 *) Bugfix: memory leaks when a "proxy_pass" directive contains variables
999 and proxies to an HTTPS backend.
1000 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1002 *) Bugfix: in parameter validaiton of a "proxy_pass" directive with
1004 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
1006 *) Bugfix: SSL did not work on QNX.
1007 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1009 *) Bugfix: SSL modules could not be built by gcc 4.6 without
1010 --with-debug option.
1013 Changes with nginx 1.0.5 19 Jul 2011
1015 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5".
1016 Thanks to Rob Stradling.
1018 *) Feature: the "referer_hash_max_size" and "referer_hash_bucket_size"
1020 Thanks to Witold Filipczyk.
1022 *) Feature: $uid_reset variable.
1024 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if a
1026 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
1028 *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during
1029 reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in
1031 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1033 *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert.
1034 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1037 Changes with nginx 1.0.4 01 Jun 2011
1039 *) Change: now regular expressions case sensitivity in the "map"
1040 directive is given by prefixes "~" or "~*".
1042 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Linux.
1043 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
1045 *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert.
1047 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_auth_basic_module;
1048 the bug had appeared in 1.0.3.
1051 Changes with nginx 1.0.3 25 May 2011
1053 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "$apr1",
1054 "{PLAIN}", and "{SSHA}" password encryption methods.
1055 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1057 *) Feature: the "geoip_org" directive and $geoip_org variable.
1058 Thanks to Alexander Uskov, Arnaud Granal, and Denis F. Latypoff.
1060 *) Feature: ngx_http_geo_module and ngx_http_geoip_module support IPv4
1061 addresses mapped to IPv6 addresses.
1063 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process during
1064 testing IPv4 address mapped to IPv6 address, if access or deny rules
1065 were defined only for IPv6; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
1067 *) Bugfix: a cached response may be broken if "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/
1068 uwsgi_cache_bypass" and "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_no_cache" directive
1069 values were different; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
1072 Changes with nginx 1.0.2 10 May 2011
1074 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores.
1076 *) Bugfix: in the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
1077 Thanks to Adam Bocim.
1079 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
1083 Changes with nginx 1.0.1 03 May 2011
1085 *) Change: now the "split_clients" directive uses MurmurHash2 algorithm
1086 because of better distribution.
1087 Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.
1089 *) Change: now long strings starting with zero are not considered as
1091 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1093 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value 511 on Linux.
1095 *) Feature: the $upstream_... variables may be used in the SSI and perl
1098 *) Bugfix: now nginx limits better disk cache size.
1099 Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.
1101 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur while parsing incorrect IPv4
1102 address; the bug had appeared in 0.9.3.
1103 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1105 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.6 without --with-debug
1108 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris 9 and earlier; the bug
1109 had appeared in 0.9.3.
1110 Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen.
1112 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values if subrequests were
1113 used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.47.
1114 Thanks to Igor A. Valcov.
1117 Changes with nginx 1.0.0 12 Apr 2011
1119 *) Bugfix: a cache manager might hog CPU after reload.
1120 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1122 *) Bugfix: an "image_filter crop" directive worked incorrectly coupled
1123 with an "image_filter rotate 180" directive.
1125 *) Bugfix: a "satisfy any" directive disabled custom 401 error page.
1128 Changes with nginx 0.9.7 04 Apr 2011
1130 *) Feature: now keepalive connections may be closed premature, if there
1131 are no free worker connections.
1132 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1134 *) Feature: the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
1135 Thanks to Adam Bocim.
1137 *) Bugfix: a case when a backend in "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or
1138 "uwsgi_pass" directives is given by expression and refers to a
1142 Changes with nginx 0.9.6 21 Mar 2011
1144 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports regular expressions as value of
1145 the first parameter.
1147 *) Feature: $time_iso8601 access_log variable.
1148 Thanks to Michael Lustfield.
1151 Changes with nginx 0.9.5 21 Feb 2011
1153 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value -1 on Linux.
1154 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1156 *) Feature: the "utf8" parameter of "geoip_country" and "geoip_city"
1158 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
1160 *) Bugfix: in a default "proxy_redirect" directive if "proxy_pass"
1161 directive has no URI part.
1162 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1164 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not work with nonstandard error
1165 codes; the bug had appeared in 0.8.53.
1166 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1169 Changes with nginx 0.9.4 21 Jan 2011
1171 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the $hostname variable.
1173 *) Feature: 494 code for "Request Header Too Large" error.
1176 Changes with nginx 0.9.3 13 Dec 2010
1178 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given IPv6 address:port
1179 pair, then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name"
1180 directive did not work.
1182 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
1186 Changes with nginx 0.9.2 06 Dec 2010
1188 *) Feature: the "If-Unmodified-Since" client request header line
1191 *) Workaround: fallback to accept() syscall if accept4() was not
1192 implemented; the issue had appeared in 0.9.0.
1194 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Cygwin; the bug had appeared in
1197 *) Bugfix: for OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2010-4180.
1198 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1201 Changes with nginx 0.9.1 30 Nov 2010
1203 *) Bugfix: "return CODE message" directives did not work; the bug had
1207 Changes with nginx 0.9.0 29 Nov 2010
1209 *) Feature: the "keepalive_disable" directive.
1211 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports variables as value of a defined
1214 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports empty strings as value of the
1217 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports expressions as the first
1220 *) Feature: nginx(8) manual page.
1221 Thanks to Sergey Osokin.
1223 *) Feature: Linux accept4() support.
1224 Thanks to Simon Liu.
1226 *) Workaround: elimination of Linux linker warning about "sys_errlist"
1227 and "sys_nerr"; the warning had appeared in 0.8.35.
1229 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the
1230 "auth_basic" directive was used.
1231 Thanks to Michail Laletin.
1233 *) Bugfix: compatibility with ngx_http_eval_module; the bug had appeared
1237 Changes with nginx 0.8.53 18 Oct 2010
1239 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive allows to change a status
1242 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "degradation"
1245 *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if file AIO was used.
1246 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1248 *) Bugfix: if the first server had no "listen" directive and there was
1249 no explicit default server, then a next server with a "listen"
1250 directive became the default server; the bug had appeared in 0.8.21.
1253 Changes with nginx 0.8.52 28 Sep 2010
1255 *) Bugfix: nginx used SSL mode for a listen socket if any listen option
1256 was set; the bug had appeared in 0.8.51.
1259 Changes with nginx 0.8.51 27 Sep 2010
1261 *) Change: the "secure_link_expires" directive has been canceled.
1263 *) Change: a logging level of resolver errors has been lowered from
1266 *) Feature: now a listen socket "ssl" parameter may be set several
1270 Changes with nginx 0.8.50 02 Sep 2010
1272 *) Feature: the "secure_link", "secure_link_md5", and
1273 "secure_link_expires" directives of the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
1275 *) Feature: the -q switch.
1276 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
1278 *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during
1279 reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in
1282 *) Bugfix: in the "gzip_disable" directive.
1283 Thanks to Derrick Petzold.
1285 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not send stop, quit, reopen, and reload
1286 signals to a process run in other session.
1289 Changes with nginx 0.8.49 09 Aug 2010
1291 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive supports
1294 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the
1295 $geoip_region_name variables was used; the bug had appeared in
1298 *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page were cached only for next
1299 request; the bug had appeared in 0.8.48.
1302 Changes with nginx 0.8.48 03 Aug 2010
1304 *) Change: now the "server_name" directive default value is an empty
1306 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
1308 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive default value is
1311 *) Feature: the $geoip_dma_code, $geoip_area_code, and
1312 $geoip_region_name variables.
1313 Thanks to Christine McGonagle.
1315 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass", and
1316 "scgi_pass" directives were not inherited inside "limit_except"
1319 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_min_uses", "fastcgi_cache_min_uses"
1320 "uwsgi_cache_min_uses", and "scgi_cache_min_uses" directives did not
1321 work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
1323 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive used incorrectly
1324 captures, if only parts of an URI were captured.
1325 Thanks to Yuriy Taraday and Frank Enderle.
1327 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not escape a ";" character during
1328 copying from URI to query string.
1329 Thanks to Daisuke Murase.
1331 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module closed a connection, if an
1332 image was larger than "image_filter_buffer" size.
1335 Changes with nginx 0.8.47 28 Jul 2010
1337 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values for subrequests.
1339 *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page could not be cached.
1341 *) Bugfix: a cache manager process may got caught in an endless loop, if
1342 max_size parameter was used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
1345 Changes with nginx 0.8.46 19 Jul 2010
1347 *) Change: now the "proxy_no_cache", "fastcgi_no_cache",
1348 "uwsgi_no_cache", and "scgi_no_cache" directives affect on a cached
1349 response saving only.
1351 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_bypass", "fastcgi_cache_bypass",
1352 "uwsgi_cache_bypass", and "scgi_cache_bypass" directives.
1354 *) Bugfix: nginx did not free memory in cache keys zones if there was an
1355 error during working with backend: the memory was freed only after
1356 inactivity time or on memory low condition.
1359 Changes with nginx 0.8.45 13 Jul 2010
1361 *) Feature: ngx_http_xslt_filter improvements.
1362 Thanks to Laurence Rowe.
1364 *) Bugfix: SSI response might be truncated after include with
1365 wait="yes"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1366 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1368 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive did not support the "setfib=0"
1372 Changes with nginx 0.8.44 05 Jul 2010
1374 *) Change: now nginx does not cache by default backend responses, if
1375 they have a "Set-Cookie" header line.
1377 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "setfib" parameter.
1378 Thanks to Andrew Filonov.
1380 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might change character case on
1383 *) Bugfix: compatibility with HP/UX.
1385 *) Bugfix: compatibility with AIX xlC_r compiler.
1387 *) Bugfix: nginx treated large SSLv2 packets as plain requests.
1388 Thanks to Miroslaw Jaworski.
1391 Changes with nginx 0.8.43 30 Jun 2010
1393 *) Feature: large geo ranges base loading speed-up.
1395 *) Bugfix: an error_page redirection to "location /zero {return 204;}"
1396 without changing status code kept the error body; the bug had
1399 *) Bugfix: nginx might close IPv6 listen socket during reconfiguration.
1400 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1402 *) Bugfix: the $uid_set variable may be used at any request processing
1406 Changes with nginx 0.8.42 21 Jun 2010
1408 *) Change: now nginx tests locations given by regular expressions, if
1409 request was matched exactly by a location given by a prefix string.
1410 The previous behavior has been introduced in 0.7.1.
1412 *) Feature: the ngx_http_scgi_module.
1413 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1415 *) Feature: a text answer may be added to a "return" directive.
1418 Changes with nginx 0.8.41 15 Jun 2010
1420 *) Security: nginx/Windows worker might be terminated abnormally if a
1421 requested file name has invalid UTF-8 encoding.
1423 *) Change: now nginx allows to use spaces in a request line.
1425 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive changed incorrectly a backend
1426 "Refresh" response header line.
1427 Thanks to Andrey Andreew and Max Sogin.
1429 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support path without host name in "Destination"
1430 request header line.
1433 Changes with nginx 0.8.40 07 Jun 2010
1435 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores default file stream name.
1436 Thanks to Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez.
1438 *) Feature: the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
1439 Thanks to Roberto De Ioris.
1441 *) Feature: a "fastcgi_param" directive with value starting with "HTTP_"
1442 overrides a client request header line.
1444 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
1445 header lines were passed to FastCGI-server while caching.
1447 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket could not be changed during
1449 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1452 Changes with nginx 0.8.39 31 May 2010
1454 *) Bugfix: an inherited "alias" directive worked incorrectly in
1457 *) Bugfix: in "alias" with variables and "try_files" directives
1460 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain and IPv6 sockets did not inherit while
1462 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1465 Changes with nginx 0.8.38 24 May 2010
1467 *) Feature: the "proxy_no_cache" and "fastcgi_no_cache" directives.
1469 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if
1470 the $scheme variable is used.
1471 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
1473 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" delay directive conforms to the described
1475 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1477 *) Bugfix: the $uid_got variable might not be used in the SSI and perl
1481 Changes with nginx 0.8.37 17 May 2010
1483 *) Feature: the ngx_http_split_clients_module.
1485 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports keys more than 255 characters.
1487 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "private" and "no-store" values in the
1488 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
1490 *) Bugfix: a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was not
1491 used, if empty response has 200 status code.
1493 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
1494 another proxied or FastCGI location, then a segmentation fault might
1495 occur in a worker process; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
1496 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
1498 *) Bugfix: IMAP connections may hang until they timed out while talking
1500 Thanks to Alan Batie.
1503 Changes with nginx 0.8.36 22 Apr 2010
1505 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module handled incorrectly the DELETE, COPY,
1506 and MOVE methods for symlinks.
1508 *) Bugfix: values of the $query_string, $arg_..., etc. variables cached
1509 in main request were used by the SSI module in subrequests.
1511 *) Bugfix: a variable value was repeatedly encoded after each an "echo"
1512 SSI-command output; the bug had appeared in 0.6.14.
1514 *) Bugfix: a worker process hung if a FIFO file was requested.
1515 Thanks to Vicente Aguilar and Maxim Dounin.
1517 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL-1.0.0 compatibility on 64-bit Linux.
1518 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1520 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
1524 Changes with nginx 0.8.35 01 Apr 2010
1526 *) Change: now the charset filter runs before the SSI filter.
1528 *) Feature: the "chunked_transfer_encoding" directive.
1530 *) Bugfix: an "&" character was not escaped when it was copied in
1531 arguments part in a rewrite rule.
1533 *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally while a signal
1534 processing or if the directive "timer_resolution" was used on
1535 platforms which do not support kqueue or eventport notification
1537 Thanks to George Xie and Maxim Dounin.
1539 *) Bugfix: if temporary files and permanent storage area resided at
1540 different file systems, then permanent file modification times were
1542 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1544 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module might issue the error message
1545 "memcached sent invalid trailer".
1546 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1548 *) Bugfix: nginx could not built zlib-1.2.4 library using the library
1550 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1552 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process, if there
1553 was large stderr output before FastCGI response; the bug had appeared
1555 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1558 Changes with nginx 0.8.34 03 Mar 2010
1560 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support all ciphers and digests used in client
1562 Thanks to Innocenty Enikeew.
1564 *) Bugfix: nginx cached incorrectly FastCGI responses if there was large
1565 stderr output before response.
1567 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support HTTPS referrers.
1569 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not find file if path in configuration
1570 was given in other character case; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
1572 *) Bugfix: the $date_local variable has an incorrect value, if the "%s"
1574 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1576 *) Bugfix: if ssl_session_cache was not set or was set to "none", then
1577 during client certificate verify the error "session id context
1578 uninitialized" might occur; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
1580 *) Bugfix: a geo range returned default value if the range included two
1581 or more /16 networks and did not begin at /16 network boundary.
1583 *) Bugfix: a block used in a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI
1584 directive was output with "text/plain" MIME type.
1586 *) Bugfix: $r->sleep() did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1589 Changes with nginx 0.8.33 01 Feb 2010
1591 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing spaces in URI.
1592 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
1594 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores short files names.
1595 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
1597 *) Change: now keepalive connections after POST requests are not
1598 disabled for MSIE 7.0+.
1599 Thanks to Adam Lounds.
1601 *) Workaround: now keepalive connections are disabled for Safari.
1602 Thanks to Joshua Sierles.
1604 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
1605 another proxied or FastCGI location, then $upstream_response_time
1606 variable may have abnormally large value; the bug had appeared in
1609 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, while
1610 discarding a request body; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1613 Changes with nginx 0.8.32 11 Jan 2010
1615 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
1616 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1618 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures worked for two names only.
1619 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1621 *) Bugfix: now the "localhost" name is used in the "Host" request header
1622 line, if an unix domain socket is defined in the "auth_http"
1624 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1626 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support chunked transfer encoding for 201
1628 Thanks to Julian Reich.
1630 *) Bugfix: if the "expires modified" set date in the past, then a
1631 negative number was set in the "Cache-Control" response header line.
1632 Thanks to Alex Kapranoff.
1635 Changes with nginx 0.8.31 23 Dec 2009
1637 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive may redirect the 301 and 302
1640 *) Feature: the $geoip_city_continent_code, $geoip_latitude, and
1641 $geoip_longitude variables.
1642 Thanks to Arvind Sundararajan.
1644 *) Feature: now the ngx_http_image_filter_module deletes always EXIF and
1645 other application specific data if the data consume more than 5% of a
1648 *) Bugfix: nginx closed a connection if a cached response had an empty
1650 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
1652 *) Bugfix: nginx might not be built by gcc 4.x if the -O2 or higher
1653 optimization option was used.
1654 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Denis F. Latypoff.
1656 *) Bugfix: regular expressions in location were always tested in
1657 case-sensitive mode; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1659 *) Bugfix: nginx cached a 304 response if there was the "If-None-Match"
1660 header line in a proxied request.
1661 Thanks to Tim Dettrick and David Kostal.
1663 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to delete a temporary file twice if the
1664 file should replace an already existent file.
1667 Changes with nginx 0.8.30 15 Dec 2009
1669 *) Change: now the default buffer size of the
1670 "large_client_header_buffers" directive is 8K.
1671 Thanks to Andrew Cholakian.
1673 *) Feature: the conf/fastcgi.conf for simple FastCGI configurations.
1675 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to rename a temporary file twice if the
1676 file should replace an already existent file.
1678 *) Bugfix: of "double free or corruption" error issued if host could not
1679 be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
1680 Thanks to Konstantin Svist.
1682 *) Bugfix: in libatomic usage on some platforms.
1683 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1686 Changes with nginx 0.8.29 30 Nov 2009
1688 *) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for
1689 proxied HTTP/0.9 responses.
1691 *) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
1692 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support
1695 *) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage.
1696 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1698 *) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure.
1699 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1701 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights.
1703 *) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly.
1705 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not
1706 work in a "server_name" directive.
1707 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1710 Changes with nginx 0.8.28 23 Nov 2009
1712 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
1713 the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1716 Changes with nginx 0.8.27 17 Nov 2009
1718 *) Bugfix: regular expressions did not work in nginx/Windows; the bug
1719 had appeared in 0.8.25.
1722 Changes with nginx 0.8.26 16 Nov 2009
1724 *) Bugfix: in captures usage in "rewrite" directive; the bug had
1727 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
1728 bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1731 Changes with nginx 0.8.25 16 Nov 2009
1733 *) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is
1734 not found by $r->variable() method.
1736 *) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module.
1738 *) Feature: regular expression named captures.
1740 *) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if
1743 *) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too.
1745 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low
1746 memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18.
1748 *) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support
1749 gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared
1753 Changes with nginx 0.8.24 11 Nov 2009
1755 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Content-Encoding: gzip" response header
1756 line in 304 responses sent by ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
1758 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
1759 bug had appeared in 0.8.23.
1761 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
1762 inherited incorrectly from previous level.
1764 *) Bugfix: in resolving empty name.
1767 Changes with nginx 0.8.23 11 Nov 2009
1769 *) Security: now SSL/TLS renegotiation is disabled.
1770 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1772 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket did not inherit while online
1775 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive did
1776 not without yet another directive with any IP address.
1778 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault and infinite looping in resolver.
1780 *) Bugfix: in resolver.
1781 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
1784 Changes with nginx 0.8.22 03 Nov 2009
1786 *) Feature: the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", and "memcached_bind"
1789 *) Feature: the "access" and the "deny" directives support IPv6.
1791 *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive supports IPv6 addresses in
1794 *) Feature: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive.
1796 *) Bugfix: nginx did not delete unix domain socket after configuration
1799 *) Bugfix: nginx deleted unix domain socket while online upgrade.
1801 *) Bugfix: the "!-x" operator did not work.
1802 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1804 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
1805 limit_rate was used in HTTPS server.
1806 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1808 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while
1809 $limit_rate logging.
1810 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1812 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
1813 there was no "listen" directive in "server" block; the bug had
1817 Changes with nginx 0.8.21 26 Oct 2009
1819 *) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support.
1821 *) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix
1823 Thanks to Hongli Lai.
1825 *) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive.
1827 *) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen
1830 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms;
1832 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1835 Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009
1837 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5".
1839 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing slash
1840 in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15.
1842 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path
1843 configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53.
1845 *) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the
1846 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
1848 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file,
1849 or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker had no enough access
1850 rights for top level directories.
1852 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines were
1853 not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives were
1854 used with any parameters.
1856 *) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size.
1859 Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009
1861 *) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default.
1863 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM".
1865 *) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared in
1869 Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009
1871 *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive.
1873 *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used.
1875 *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level"
1878 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket
1880 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1882 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc.
1883 Thanks to Marcus Ramberg.
1885 *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on MKCOL
1887 Thanks to Xie Zhenye.
1889 *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the
1890 bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1892 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1895 Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009
1897 *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header
1900 *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case.
1902 *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable.
1904 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1907 Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009
1909 *) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive.
1911 *) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named
1914 *) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning.
1915 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
1917 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
1918 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
1920 *) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in
1921 access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level.
1923 *) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the
1924 ngx_http_image_filter_module.
1926 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header
1927 line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on.
1929 *) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in
1932 *) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in
1934 Thanks to Igor Artemiev.
1937 Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009
1939 *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while
1940 specially crafted request handling.
1941 Thanks to Chris Ries.
1943 *) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld
1944 were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by
1947 *) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
1949 *) Bugfix: in file AIO.
1951 *) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1953 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1956 Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009
1958 *) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING"
1961 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if
1962 error_log was set to info or debug level.
1963 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1965 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1967 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the
1968 bug had appeared in 0.6.10.
1971 Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009
1973 *) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in
1976 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option
1977 on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12.
1980 Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009
1982 *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD.
1984 *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1986 *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1989 Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009
1991 *) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping
1994 *) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux.
1996 *) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive.
1999 Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009
2001 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used.
2003 *) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the bug
2004 had appeared in 0.8.9.
2007 Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009
2009 *) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this
2010 should improve large caches handling.
2012 *) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside at
2013 different file systems.
2016 Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009
2018 *) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records.
2020 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
2021 was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a caching was
2022 enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in 0.8.7.
2025 Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009
2027 *) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7.
2029 *) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was
2030 changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client
2031 certificate if it was offered.
2032 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
2034 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable.
2035 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
2037 *) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive.
2038 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
2040 *) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive.
2042 *) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting
2045 *) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the bug
2046 had appeared in 0.7.7.
2047 Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev.
2049 *) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did
2050 not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate",
2051 "X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend
2053 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2055 *) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend
2056 response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2057 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2059 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an
2060 empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5.
2063 Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009
2065 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module.
2067 *) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML
2068 document" for valid XML document.
2069 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
2071 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by a
2072 regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode.
2074 *) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI.
2075 Thanks to Hugo Leisink.
2077 *) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during
2078 installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
2079 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2082 Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009
2084 *) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method.
2086 *) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password
2087 while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows.
2089 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests.
2091 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module.
2092 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2095 Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009
2097 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
2101 Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009
2103 *) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable.
2105 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6.
2107 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
2110 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a backend
2111 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the
2112 "WWW-Authenticate" response header line.
2113 Thanks to Eugene Mychlo.
2116 Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009
2118 *) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on
2121 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long;
2122 the bug had appeared in 0.7.4.
2125 Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009
2127 *) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
2128 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives.
2130 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
2131 header lines were passed to backend while caching if no
2132 "proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters.
2134 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not
2135 hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header"
2136 directives were used with any parameters.
2138 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a
2140 Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh.
2142 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early; the
2143 bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
2146 Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009
2148 *) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive.
2150 *) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive.
2151 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
2153 *) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests.
2155 *) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows.
2157 *) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and fastcgi_cache
2160 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.
2161 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy.
2164 Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009
2166 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods"
2169 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
2170 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2172 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
2173 had no body and the $request_body variable was used;
2174 the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
2176 *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux;
2177 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
2179 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by
2180 SSI, charset, and gzip filters.
2182 *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to
2183 ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses.
2186 Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009
2188 *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6.
2190 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive.
2192 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive.
2194 *) Feature: the $request_body variable.
2196 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":"
2199 *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared
2201 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
2204 Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009
2206 *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the
2207 ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named
2208 location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
2211 Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009
2213 *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
2216 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.
2219 Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009
2221 *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
2222 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work.
2224 *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses.
2226 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in
2227 nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
2229 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
2230 "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
2233 *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors.
2235 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using
2237 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2240 Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009
2242 *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
2244 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
2247 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
2248 "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had appeared
2251 *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
2252 had appeared in 0.7.39.
2254 *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.
2256 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
2258 *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
2262 Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009
2264 *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very
2267 *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an
2268 error_log and stderr.
2270 *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use
2271 a directory where it was run as prefix.
2273 *) Feature: the -p switch.
2275 *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms.
2277 *) Feature: the -? and -h switches.
2278 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
2280 *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form.
2282 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given by
2285 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store",
2286 "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used.
2287 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2289 *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication
2290 server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared
2292 Thanks to Simon Lecaille.
2294 *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux;
2295 the bug had appeared in 0.7.45.
2297 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work.
2298 Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff.
2301 Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009
2303 *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release.
2305 *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching.
2307 *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc.
2308 client request header lines while caching.
2310 *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in
2311 cacheable responses.
2313 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a
2314 perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the
2315 message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued.
2317 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
2320 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2321 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
2324 Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009
2326 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the
2329 *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive.
2331 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without
2332 query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2334 *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses,
2335 then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39.
2338 Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009
2340 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
2344 Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009
2346 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
2347 $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48.
2350 Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009
2352 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive.
2354 *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires",
2355 "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response.
2357 *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only.
2359 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited.
2361 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests.
2362 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2364 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library.
2365 Thanks to Timothy Redaelli.
2367 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had
2371 Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009
2373 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions; the
2374 bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
2376 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had
2379 *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager
2380 might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
2382 *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
2383 "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/
2384 "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had
2387 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
2388 request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page
2389 or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2392 Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009
2394 *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect.
2397 Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009
2399 *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives
2400 can be set on different levels.
2402 *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
2403 directive is canceled.
2405 *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
2408 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support.
2410 *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone
2413 *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a
2414 "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2416 *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive given
2417 without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2418 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
2420 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without
2421 references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared
2425 Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009
2427 *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.
2429 *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.
2431 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server block
2434 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
2435 in a fallback parameter.
2437 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.
2439 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given address:port pair,
2440 then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive did
2444 Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009
2446 *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive used
2447 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
2449 *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the
2450 $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in
2454 Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
2456 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
2457 setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
2459 *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file" directive
2460 is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the 500 one.
2462 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
2463 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
2465 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
2466 Thanks to Zhang Hua.
2468 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
2469 regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
2471 *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
2472 Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
2474 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
2478 Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
2480 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
2481 "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
2482 expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
2483 Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
2486 Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
2488 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
2491 *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
2492 inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
2494 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
2497 *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
2498 slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
2500 Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
2503 Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
2505 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
2506 the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
2507 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
2509 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
2510 static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
2513 Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
2515 *) Feature: authentication failures logging.
2517 *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
2518 number of empty lines.
2519 Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
2521 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
2522 path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
2525 Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
2527 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had appeared
2531 Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
2533 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
2534 HTTP module supports IPv6.
2536 *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
2537 preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
2540 Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
2542 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
2544 Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
2546 *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
2547 original request extension.
2549 *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
2550 "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if
2551 ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
2552 the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
2555 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
2557 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
2559 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
2561 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2563 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
2564 in mail proxy server.
2565 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2567 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
2568 concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&";
2569 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
2570 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2572 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
2575 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
2577 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
2578 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with body.
2581 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some redirects
2584 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
2585 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
2588 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
2590 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
2591 the "try_files" directive.
2593 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
2595 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
2597 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
2599 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
2602 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
2604 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
2607 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
2609 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
2611 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
2613 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
2614 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
2616 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2618 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
2619 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
2620 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2623 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
2625 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if variables
2626 were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives and host
2627 name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
2630 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
2632 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
2633 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
2635 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
2637 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0 requests;
2638 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2640 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
2644 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
2646 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
2648 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been changed
2649 to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
2652 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
2654 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
2656 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
2658 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a variable.
2659 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2661 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
2664 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
2666 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
2668 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
2669 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
2671 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
2673 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
2674 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
2675 error_page directive.
2676 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
2679 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
2681 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
2684 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
2686 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
2688 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
2690 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
2693 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
2696 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
2698 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
2700 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
2701 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
2703 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
2707 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
2709 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
2711 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
2713 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
2716 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
2718 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
2719 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2721 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
2723 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
2725 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
2729 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
2731 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
2733 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
2734 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
2736 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
2737 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
2739 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
2743 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
2745 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
2747 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
2749 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
2750 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
2751 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2753 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
2754 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
2756 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
2759 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
2760 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
2762 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
2765 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
2767 *) Bugfix: version number update.
2770 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
2772 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
2773 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
2775 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
2777 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
2779 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
2781 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
2783 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
2784 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
2786 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2787 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
2789 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line
2792 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
2795 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
2797 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
2799 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
2801 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
2802 not work with open_file_cache.
2804 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
2805 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
2807 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted charset
2808 name received from backend.
2811 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
2813 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
2817 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
2819 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
2821 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
2822 requests starting from arbitrary position.
2824 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
2827 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header line
2831 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
2833 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
2834 have no default values.
2836 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
2838 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
2839 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
2841 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
2842 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
2845 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
2846 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
2848 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
2851 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
2853 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
2857 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
2859 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
2861 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
2863 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
2864 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
2865 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2867 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
2868 "error_page" directive.
2870 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
2871 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
2873 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
2874 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
2875 had appeared in 0.7.0.
2878 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
2880 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
2883 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
2884 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
2886 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
2888 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
2889 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
2891 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
2892 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
2894 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
2897 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
2899 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
2900 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
2901 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
2903 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
2905 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
2906 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
2909 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
2911 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
2912 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
2913 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
2915 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
2917 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
2918 directives use hash.
2920 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
2922 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
2924 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
2925 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
2927 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
2930 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
2931 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
2933 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
2934 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
2935 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
2939 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
2941 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
2943 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
2945 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
2946 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
2948 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
2949 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
2950 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2953 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
2955 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
2958 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate with
2959 TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
2960 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
2963 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
2965 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
2966 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2968 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
2969 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2971 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
2973 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
2974 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
2977 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
2978 /dev/poll methods were used.
2980 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
2983 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
2985 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
2986 request root existence is always tested.
2988 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
2992 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
2994 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the bugs
2995 had appeared in 0.7.4.
2997 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
2998 had appeared in 0.7.3.
2999 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
3001 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
3002 might were transferred incorrectly.
3005 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
3007 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
3009 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
3011 *) Feature: the -g switch.
3013 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
3015 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
3018 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
3020 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
3021 "application/rss+xml".
3023 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
3024 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
3026 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if
3027 the "https://" protocol is used.
3029 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
3030 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
3033 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
3035 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
3037 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
3039 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
3040 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
3042 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
3043 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
3044 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3046 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
3049 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
3050 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
3053 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
3055 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
3057 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to the
3058 "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
3060 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
3062 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
3063 now this is default parameter.
3064 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3066 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
3069 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
3073 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
3075 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as \xXX
3077 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3079 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
3081 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
3083 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
3084 request processing stage.
3086 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
3087 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3089 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
3090 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
3092 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
3093 if keepalive was enabled.
3096 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
3098 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
3099 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
3100 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
3102 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
3103 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
3106 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
3108 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
3109 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
3111 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
3112 for example, "1h50m".
3114 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
3115 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
3117 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
3120 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
3121 arguments in redirected URI.
3123 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
3125 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
3129 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
3131 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
3133 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
3134 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
3137 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
3139 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
3143 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
3145 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
3148 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
3149 named location via an "error_page" directive.
3151 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
3154 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
3156 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
3157 was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static
3160 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
3161 client certificate in first handshake.
3162 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
3164 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
3165 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
3168 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
3170 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
3172 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
3173 was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static
3176 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
3177 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
3179 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
3180 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
3181 name and without variables.
3182 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
3184 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
3185 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
3187 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
3188 stub block was used second time in SSI.
3190 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
3193 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
3195 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
3196 check a response length.
3198 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big value
3199 was used in a "expires" directive.
3200 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
3202 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
3203 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
3205 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
3206 was used instead of the GET method.
3208 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
3209 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
3211 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
3212 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3214 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
3215 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3218 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
3220 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
3221 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
3223 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
3224 "server_name" directive.
3226 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
3229 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
3230 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
3232 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
3234 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
3236 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
3237 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3239 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
3240 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
3242 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
3246 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
3248 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
3249 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3252 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
3254 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive; now
3255 this is default parameter.
3257 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
3258 "open_file_cache_valid".
3260 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
3262 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
3264 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
3266 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
3269 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
3270 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
3272 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
3273 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
3274 auth directives were not tested;
3276 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
3277 inherited from previous level.
3279 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
3280 with 499 status code.
3282 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
3283 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
3285 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
3286 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
3288 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
3289 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
3292 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
3294 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
3295 perl's allocated memory.
3297 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl before
3298 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
3299 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
3301 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
3303 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
3306 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
3307 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
3308 request body was already received.
3310 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
3312 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
3314 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
3315 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
3317 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
3318 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
3319 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
3321 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
3322 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
3324 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
3327 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
3329 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
3330 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
3332 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
3333 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
3336 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
3337 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
3338 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3340 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
3341 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
3342 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
3345 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
3346 server, then nginx returned usual response.
3349 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
3351 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
3352 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
3356 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
3358 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
3361 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
3363 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
3364 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
3366 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
3369 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3371 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
3373 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
3374 "Last-Modified" response header line.
3376 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
3377 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
3380 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
3382 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
3383 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
3385 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
3386 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
3388 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
3391 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
3392 subrequests were used.
3394 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
3397 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
3398 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
3401 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
3403 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
3404 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
3406 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then it
3407 was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
3409 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
3412 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
3414 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
3415 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
3417 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
3419 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
3421 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
3423 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
3425 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
3426 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
3427 "source_charset" directives.
3429 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
3430 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
3431 Thanks to James Oakley.
3433 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
3434 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
3435 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3437 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
3438 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request; the
3439 bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3442 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
3444 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
3446 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
3448 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
3449 "limit_except" block.
3451 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had got
3452 weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
3455 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
3456 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
3457 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
3459 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
3461 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3463 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
3464 $upstream_response_time.
3465 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3467 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
3470 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive" values
3471 in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared in
3474 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
3476 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
3479 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
3481 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
3483 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
3486 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
3488 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
3490 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
3491 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
3493 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
3494 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
3496 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
3499 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
3500 located in non-standard place was used.
3502 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
3503 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
3505 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
3508 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
3510 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
3513 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
3514 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
3516 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
3519 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
3520 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
3524 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
3526 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
3527 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
3529 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3531 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
3532 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
3534 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
3535 /dev/poll method was used.
3538 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
3540 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
3541 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3543 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
3544 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
3546 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
3549 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
3553 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
3555 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
3556 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
3557 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
3559 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
3560 authentication server.
3562 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
3564 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
3565 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
3566 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
3568 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
3571 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
3573 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
3574 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
3575 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
3576 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but not
3577 to nginx prefix directory.
3579 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
3581 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
3582 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
3584 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
3585 regular expressions.
3587 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
3588 the "backup" parameter.
3590 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
3591 $r->discard_request_body.
3593 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
3594 "Last-Modified" response header line.
3596 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
3597 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
3598 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
3600 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
3601 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
3603 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
3604 platforms except FreeBSD.
3605 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
3607 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
3608 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
3611 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
3612 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
3615 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
3617 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
3619 *) Feature: named locations.
3621 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
3623 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
3625 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
3627 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
3628 might not close connection to backend.
3630 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
3631 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
3633 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
3634 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
3637 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
3639 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
3640 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
3642 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
3643 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3645 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
3646 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3648 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
3650 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on Solaris/amd64.
3651 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
3653 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
3654 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
3657 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
3659 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
3660 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
3662 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
3665 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
3668 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
3670 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3672 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
3673 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
3676 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
3678 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
3680 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3681 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
3682 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3684 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
3685 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
3687 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
3688 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3690 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3691 eventport method was used.
3693 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
3694 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
3698 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
3700 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx passed
3701 garbage in the header to a client.
3704 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
3706 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
3708 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
3709 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
3711 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
3714 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
3715 to the master process identification number.
3718 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
3720 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
3721 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
3724 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
3726 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
3727 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
3731 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
3733 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
3734 was made using HTTP/0.9.
3736 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
3737 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
3740 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
3742 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
3745 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
3746 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
3748 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
3749 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
3751 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
3752 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
3753 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
3755 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3758 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
3760 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
3761 had appeared in 0.5.21.
3764 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
3766 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
3767 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
3769 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
3770 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
3771 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
3773 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
3775 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3777 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3780 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
3782 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
3784 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
3785 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
3787 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the SSI
3788 command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
3790 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was transferred
3792 Thanks to Evan Miller.
3794 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
3796 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3798 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris make.
3799 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3802 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
3804 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
3806 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
3809 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
3811 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
3812 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
3813 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
3815 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
3816 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
3818 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
3819 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
3822 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
3824 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
3826 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
3828 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
3829 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
3831 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
3832 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
3833 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
3834 had appeared in 0.5.9.
3836 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
3837 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
3841 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
3843 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
3845 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
3848 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
3849 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
3851 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3853 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
3854 returned old cached value.
3857 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
3859 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the "ip_hash"
3861 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
3863 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
3864 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
3865 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3867 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
3868 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
3871 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
3872 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
3875 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
3877 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
3878 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
3879 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
3881 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
3882 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
3884 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
3885 and "pop3_auth" directives.
3887 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
3888 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
3891 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
3892 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
3894 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
3895 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
3897 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
3898 "ip_hash" directive was used.
3900 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
3904 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
3906 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
3910 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
3912 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
3914 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
3915 via keep-alive connection.
3917 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
3918 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3920 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
3921 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
3923 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
3924 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send
3927 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3928 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
3931 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
3933 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3934 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
3936 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3937 temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug
3938 had appeared in 0.5.8.
3940 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3941 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
3943 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
3946 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
3948 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
3949 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
3951 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
3952 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
3954 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
3955 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
3956 Thanks to Evan Miller.
3958 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
3959 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
3961 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
3962 was built with -O2 optimization.
3965 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
3967 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
3968 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
3970 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
3971 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
3974 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
3976 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
3977 variable value as a key.
3979 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
3981 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
3984 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
3986 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
3988 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a message
3989 to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
3991 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
3995 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
3997 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
3998 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
4000 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
4001 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
4002 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
4003 switched to a next upstream.
4005 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
4006 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
4007 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
4009 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
4010 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send
4013 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
4016 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
4019 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
4021 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
4023 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
4025 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
4026 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone" directives
4027 were used on 64-bit platforms.
4029 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
4030 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no "Content-Type"
4031 header line in response.
4033 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
4035 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
4037 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
4040 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
4042 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
4043 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
4045 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
4047 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
4049 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
4050 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
4052 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
4054 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
4055 $r->sendfile() was used.
4058 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
4060 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
4062 *) Feature: the -V switch.
4064 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
4067 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an unprivileged
4070 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
4071 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
4073 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
4076 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
4078 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
4081 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
4082 line for the DELETE method.
4084 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access" directive,
4085 then nginx might report about configuration error.
4087 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
4088 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
4091 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
4093 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
4094 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
4096 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not exist
4097 in nginx configuration.
4099 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
4102 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
4104 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the "upstream"
4105 block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had appeared in
4109 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
4111 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
4112 unsuccessful completion of a request.
4114 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
4115 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
4117 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
4118 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared in
4121 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
4122 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
4123 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
4125 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
4126 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
4127 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
4129 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
4130 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
4131 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
4133 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
4134 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
4137 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
4139 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
4140 directive are not supported anymore.
4142 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
4143 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
4144 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
4145 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
4148 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
4149 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
4151 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
4153 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
4154 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
4156 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
4160 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
4162 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4164 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD, Linux,
4167 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
4168 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
4170 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
4173 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
4175 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
4176 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
4178 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
4179 system time was changed backward.
4181 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
4182 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
4184 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
4185 proxy authentication server failed.
4188 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
4190 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
4191 "limit_except" block.
4193 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
4195 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
4196 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
4199 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
4200 the deferred accept() were used.
4202 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
4203 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
4205 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
4208 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
4209 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
4211 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug had
4215 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
4217 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
4219 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
4220 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
4222 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
4225 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
4227 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
4229 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
4232 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the USER/PASS
4233 commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
4236 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
4238 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
4240 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
4241 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
4244 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr variable
4245 was used in the "map" directive.
4247 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
4248 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
4250 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
4254 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
4256 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
4258 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
4262 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
4264 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI
4265 command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not
4268 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
4270 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
4273 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
4275 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
4277 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
4279 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
4282 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI
4283 command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not
4286 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
4287 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
4290 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
4294 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
4296 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
4299 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
4300 if its length was set by text string in the
4301 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
4303 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
4304 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
4305 had appeared in 0.4.4.
4308 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
4310 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
4314 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
4316 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
4318 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
4320 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
4321 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
4323 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
4324 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
4326 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
4329 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
4330 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
4333 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
4335 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
4336 "error_page" directive.
4338 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
4340 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
4342 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
4343 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
4345 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
4346 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
4348 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
4350 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
4353 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
4355 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug had
4359 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
4361 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
4362 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
4364 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more than
4367 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static requests.
4368 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
4371 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
4373 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
4374 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
4376 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
4377 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
4378 $r->has_request_body method.
4380 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
4382 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
4383 line for the PUT method.
4385 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
4387 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
4388 directive with variables and the first index name was without
4389 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4392 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
4394 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
4396 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
4398 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
4400 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
4401 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
4404 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
4406 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
4407 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
4410 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
4412 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
4413 "error_page" directive.
4415 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
4417 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the "Content-Type"
4418 header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had
4422 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
4424 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
4426 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
4428 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
4429 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
4431 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
4433 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
4434 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
4436 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
4439 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
4441 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
4443 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
4444 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
4446 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send to
4447 a client the required certificates information.
4449 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
4450 the "root" directive.
4453 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
4455 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
4457 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
4458 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
4460 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
4461 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
4465 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
4467 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
4469 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
4471 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
4473 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root was
4474 relative to a server prefix.
4476 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
4477 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
4479 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
4480 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
4482 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
4483 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
4486 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
4487 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had appeared
4491 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
4493 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
4495 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
4496 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
4498 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
4501 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
4502 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
4504 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
4505 first request to a backend only.
4507 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
4511 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
4513 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
4516 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
4517 the "weight" parameter.
4519 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
4521 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
4523 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
4524 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
4527 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and return
4530 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
4531 continued proxying anyway.
4534 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
4536 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
4537 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
4538 return the 405 error.
4540 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
4541 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
4543 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
4544 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
4546 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
4547 temporary file was not removed.
4550 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
4552 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the SSI;
4553 the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
4556 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
4558 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
4559 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
4560 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
4562 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
4563 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
4565 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
4566 proxy and FastCGI mode.
4568 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
4569 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
4571 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
4572 SSI after inclusion.
4574 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
4575 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
4578 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
4580 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
4582 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
4583 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
4587 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
4589 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if the
4590 response has no "Content-Type" header line.
4592 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
4593 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in start
4594 of the rewritten redirect.
4596 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
4597 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
4598 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared in
4601 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
4602 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
4605 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
4607 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
4609 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
4610 SSI command is always removed.
4613 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
4615 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
4616 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
4618 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
4619 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
4621 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported in
4624 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
4625 ngx_http_perl_module.
4628 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
4630 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
4631 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
4633 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
4636 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
4639 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
4642 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
4643 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
4644 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
4648 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
4650 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
4652 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
4653 koi-win conversion table.
4655 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
4658 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
4660 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
4663 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
4665 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
4668 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
4671 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
4672 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
4673 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
4674 were not written to access log.
4676 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
4677 "Cache-Control" response header line.
4680 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
4682 *) Feature: the -v switch.
4684 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
4687 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
4689 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
4690 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
4691 segmentation fault was occurred.
4694 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
4696 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
4698 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
4700 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
4703 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
4705 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
4706 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
4709 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
4711 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
4712 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
4715 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
4716 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections" directive;
4717 the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
4719 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
4723 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
4725 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
4727 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
4728 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
4730 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
4733 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
4735 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
4737 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
4739 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
4740 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
4743 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
4744 login and password to pass authorization server.
4745 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
4748 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
4750 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
4752 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and "!-f"
4755 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
4758 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
4761 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
4763 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
4765 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
4766 inside the "if" block.
4768 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
4769 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
4771 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
4773 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method and
4776 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
4778 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
4779 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
4781 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
4782 ngx_http_ssi_module.
4784 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
4785 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
4786 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
4787 a current path but not to a server prefix.
4790 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
4792 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
4793 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
4795 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
4799 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
4801 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
4804 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
4806 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
4807 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
4809 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
4810 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
4812 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
4815 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
4817 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
4818 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
4821 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
4823 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
4825 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
4828 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
4830 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout bug.
4831 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
4833 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
4834 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
4835 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared in
4838 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
4839 and the request body was in temporary file then the request was not
4842 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
4845 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
4847 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
4850 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
4851 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
4853 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
4854 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
4857 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
4859 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
4860 many warnings before the response.
4862 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
4863 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
4865 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
4866 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
4868 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
4869 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
4873 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
4875 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
4877 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
4879 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
4880 terminated prematurely.
4881 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
4883 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
4884 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
4887 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
4888 completion of a request.
4890 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
4891 directive was transferred to a client.
4894 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
4896 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
4897 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
4899 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
4900 "log_format" directive.
4902 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
4904 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
4907 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using fcntl(2)
4908 on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
4910 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
4911 autoconfiguration directive.
4913 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
4914 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
4917 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
4919 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
4920 "optimize_server_names".
4922 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
4923 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
4927 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
4929 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
4930 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
4934 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
4936 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
4938 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
4939 not transferred to a client.
4941 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
4943 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
4946 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
4947 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
4948 had appeared in 0.3.18.
4951 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
4953 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
4955 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
4958 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
4962 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
4964 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
4965 $r->unescape methods.
4967 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
4970 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
4971 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
4975 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
4977 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
4979 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
4983 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
4985 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
4987 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in the
4991 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
4993 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
4995 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
4997 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
5000 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
5002 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
5005 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
5006 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
5008 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
5009 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
5011 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
5012 directives were canceled.
5014 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
5016 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names only
5017 without the URI part.
5019 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
5020 ngx_http_map_module.
5022 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did not
5023 exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
5025 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start;
5026 the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
5029 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
5031 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
5032 sendfile64() in kernel.
5034 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
5037 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
5040 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
5042 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
5043 directive the port 80 was used by default.
5046 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
5048 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
5050 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
5053 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
5055 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
5057 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
5058 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
5061 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
5063 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
5064 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
5065 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
5067 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
5068 had appeared in 0.3.13.
5071 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
5073 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
5076 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5078 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort() only
5079 on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
5082 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
5084 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
5088 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
5090 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
5092 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
5095 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
5097 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
5098 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
5100 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the authorization;
5101 the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
5104 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
5106 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
5107 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
5108 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built and
5109 is not built by default.
5111 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
5113 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
5114 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
5115 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
5117 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
5119 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
5121 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
5122 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
5124 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
5125 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
5127 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
5128 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
5129 without the "Basic realm" text.
5131 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
5132 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
5133 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
5135 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
5138 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
5139 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
5142 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
5144 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
5145 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
5148 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
5150 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
5151 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
5152 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
5154 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
5157 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
5159 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
5161 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
5163 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
5165 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
5167 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
5169 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
5171 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
5172 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
5175 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
5177 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
5178 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
5181 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
5183 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was between
5184 two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
5187 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
5189 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
5190 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
5193 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
5194 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
5196 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
5197 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
5199 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
5200 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
5202 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
5204 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
5206 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
5207 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
5208 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
5209 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
5210 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
5211 will be canceled soon.
5213 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
5214 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
5216 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
5217 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
5219 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
5222 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive and
5223 the request was proxied in location given by regular expression, then
5224 the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
5227 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous "Expires"
5230 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
5231 several worker processes were used.
5233 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
5236 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
5237 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
5238 did not transferred at all.
5241 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
5243 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
5245 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
5246 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
5249 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
5251 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
5252 authorization server.
5254 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
5256 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive, then
5257 nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
5259 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the 80
5260 port was always used.
5263 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
5265 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
5266 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
5268 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
5269 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
5271 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
5272 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
5275 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
5277 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
5278 had appeared in 0.3.3.
5281 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
5283 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
5284 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
5286 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
5289 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the additional
5290 the gettimeofday() system call.
5292 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
5294 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
5295 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
5298 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
5299 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
5301 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
5303 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
5305 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed just
5306 after the response header was transferred to a client.
5308 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
5310 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
5312 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in the
5313 ngx_imap_ssl_module.
5315 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
5319 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
5321 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
5323 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
5324 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
5325 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
5328 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
5330 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
5331 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
5334 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
5338 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
5340 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was eliminated.
5341 The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers overflow.
5344 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
5346 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed backend
5347 retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
5349 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
5350 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
5352 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
5353 more flexible to change an error code.
5355 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
5356 in proxied subrequests.
5358 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
5359 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
5362 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
5363 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
5364 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
5365 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
5368 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
5370 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
5371 causes the warning and changes old value.
5373 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
5375 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in the
5378 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
5379 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
5382 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
5384 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
5385 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
5387 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
5390 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method was
5391 used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
5394 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
5396 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
5397 bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
5400 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
5402 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
5404 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
5407 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
5408 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
5410 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the long
5413 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
5416 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
5418 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
5420 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
5423 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
5425 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
5426 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
5430 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
5432 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
5433 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
5434 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
5435 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
5436 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
5437 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
5440 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
5441 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
5442 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
5444 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
5446 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
5448 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
5449 not run for subrequests.
5451 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
5454 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
5455 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
5457 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
5458 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
5460 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5462 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
5464 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
5465 from the 304 responses.
5466 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
5469 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
5471 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
5472 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
5474 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
5477 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5480 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
5482 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
5484 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
5486 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
5488 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
5489 of authorization use.
5492 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
5494 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
5495 changed using the -HUP signal.
5497 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
5499 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
5502 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may got
5503 caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent the
5504 "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was used; in
5505 the proxied mode the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5508 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
5510 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
5511 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
5512 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
5514 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
5515 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
5518 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
5520 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
5521 can not be used in SSI.
5524 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
5526 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
5527 information did not logged in the error log.
5529 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
5530 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
5532 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
5533 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
5535 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
5538 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
5539 became shorter in the "ps" command.
5542 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
5544 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
5545 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
5546 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
5548 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
5549 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
5551 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
5552 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
5553 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
5555 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
5557 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
5558 the "include virtual" command.
5560 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
5561 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
5562 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5564 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
5565 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
5566 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5568 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
5571 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the long
5572 file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
5574 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
5578 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
5580 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in proxy and FastCGI
5583 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
5584 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
5586 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
5588 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
5590 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
5591 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
5593 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used in
5596 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
5597 than one remote subrequest.
5599 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
5600 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
5603 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
5605 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
5607 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
5610 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5613 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
5615 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
5617 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
5618 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
5620 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
5621 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
5622 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
5623 request all backends again.
5626 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
5628 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host", "Connection",
5629 "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx now returns
5632 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
5634 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
5635 parameters of the "listen" directive.
5637 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
5639 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
5641 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
5644 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
5645 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
5648 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
5650 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
5652 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
5654 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
5655 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5657 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
5658 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
5659 occurred on the start.
5661 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was bigger
5662 than the temporary file.
5664 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
5665 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
5669 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
5671 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
5672 big response part were include by SSI.
5674 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
5677 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
5679 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
5680 the client request header line passing.
5683 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
5685 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
5686 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5688 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one level
5689 cause the bus fault on start up.
5691 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
5693 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
5694 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
5697 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
5699 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
5700 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5702 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
5705 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
5706 of regular expressions.
5708 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
5709 proxy and FastCGI mode.
5712 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
5714 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
5716 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
5718 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
5720 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
5721 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
5724 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
5726 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
5729 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
5731 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
5732 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
5733 500 response code; in proxy mode the bug had appeared in 0.1.29 only.
5735 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
5738 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
5740 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
5743 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
5745 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
5747 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
5748 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
5751 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and DATE_GMT
5752 variables and "config timefmt" command.
5754 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
5756 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
5757 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
5759 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
5761 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
5762 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
5764 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
5765 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
5767 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
5768 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
5769 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
5770 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
5772 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
5773 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
5775 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
5777 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
5780 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
5781 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
5784 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
5786 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
5787 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
5790 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
5792 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
5794 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
5796 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
5798 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
5800 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
5801 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
5802 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
5804 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
5805 headers or a backend response header.
5807 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
5808 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
5809 returned the 408 response.
5811 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
5812 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
5814 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
5815 tolerance configuration.
5817 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous "Expires"
5818 and "Cache-Control" headers.
5820 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host" header
5823 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
5825 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
5828 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
5831 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
5833 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
5835 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
5838 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
5840 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
5842 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
5843 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
5846 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
5848 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
5849 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
5852 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
5853 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
5857 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
5859 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged at
5862 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
5864 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic and
5865 auth_basic_user_file directives.
5868 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
5870 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
5872 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
5873 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
5875 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
5876 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
5877 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
5878 after request completion.
5880 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
5883 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
5884 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
5886 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
5887 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
5889 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
5890 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
5891 will be removed soon.
5893 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
5895 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
5897 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
5899 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
5902 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
5904 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING and
5905 DOCUMENT_URI variables.
5907 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
5908 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
5911 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
5914 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted as
5918 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
5920 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
5921 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
5922 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
5925 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
5927 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
5928 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
5929 server name of the "server_name" directive.
5931 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
5932 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
5934 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
5935 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
5937 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
5938 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
5941 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
5943 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
5944 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
5946 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
5947 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
5950 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
5952 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
5953 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
5955 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
5956 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
5958 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
5961 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
5963 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
5964 the fastcgi_params directive.
5966 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
5969 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
5971 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
5972 returned for the local requests.
5974 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
5976 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the client request
5977 body via SSL connections.
5980 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
5982 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
5983 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
5986 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
5989 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
5990 with URI by an "&" rather than a "?".
5992 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
5993 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
5995 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
5997 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused the
6000 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
6003 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
6005 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
6006 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current configuration
6010 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
6012 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
6013 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
6014 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
6015 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
6017 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
6019 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
6021 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
6024 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
6025 small caps letters in extension.
6027 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
6028 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
6029 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
6031 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
6032 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
6035 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
6038 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
6040 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
6041 request the final chunk was issued.
6043 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
6044 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
6046 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
6047 segmentation faults.
6049 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
6052 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
6053 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
6055 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
6057 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
6058 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
6061 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
6063 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
6066 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
6067 different number of the captures and substitutions.
6069 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
6072 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
6073 arguments and in the original state.
6075 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
6076 to use the regular expressions in locations.
6078 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
6079 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
6082 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
6083 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, or
6084 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
6085 caused segmentation fault.
6088 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
6090 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
6091 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
6092 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
6094 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
6095 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
6096 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
6098 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
6099 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
6100 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
6101 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
6102 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
6103 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
6104 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
6106 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
6109 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
6110 proxy_pass directive.
6112 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
6115 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
6116 ngx_http_proxy_module.
6118 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
6119 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
6122 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
6124 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
6127 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did not
6130 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
6134 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
6136 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
6138 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
6139 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
6140 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
6141 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
6143 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
6144 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
6147 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
6149 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
6151 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
6152 transferred response.
6154 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
6155 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
6157 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
6160 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
6161 broken symlink was in a directory.
6163 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
6166 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there was
6167 an error while the response waiting then process may got caught in an
6170 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
6171 when the /dev/poll method was used.
6173 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
6175 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
6177 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
6179 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
6180 section in configuration.
6182 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
6184 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
6188 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
6190 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./", "/../"
6191 or "%XX" then the last character in the request line was lost; the
6192 bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
6194 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
6198 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
6200 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the request
6201 contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
6203 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
6206 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
6207 does not support sendfile64().
6209 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the --with-poll_module
6210 parameter was required; the bug had appeared in 0.1.8.
6213 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
6215 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
6218 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
6220 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
6223 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
6225 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
6226 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
6229 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
6231 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
6232 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
6235 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
6237 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
6238 returned not enough data" alerts.
6240 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
6241 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
6242 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
6245 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
6248 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
6250 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
6252 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
6253 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
6255 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
6257 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
6260 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
6262 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
6265 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
6267 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
6269 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
6271 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
6275 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
6277 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
6278 options in configure.
6280 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
6282 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
6284 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
6285 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
6287 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
6290 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
6291 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
6293 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
6295 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
6299 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
6301 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
6303 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
6305 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
6306 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
6308 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
6310 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
6312 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
6315 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
6317 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
6318 used while the proxying.
6320 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
6322 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
6323 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
6326 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
6328 *) The first public version.