2 Changes with nginx 1.4.0 24 Apr 2013
4 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the
5 --with-openssl option was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.16.
7 *) Bugfix: in a request body handling in the ngx_http_perl_module; the
8 bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
11 Changes with nginx 1.3.16 16 Apr 2013
13 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
14 subrequests were used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
16 *) Bugfix: the "tcp_nodelay" directive caused an error if a WebSocket
17 connection was proxied into a unix domain socket.
19 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_length variable has an incorrect value
20 "0" if buffering was not used.
21 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
23 *) Bugfix: in the eventport and /dev/poll methods.
26 Changes with nginx 1.3.15 26 Mar 2013
28 *) Change: opening and closing a connection without sending any data in
29 it is no longer logged to access_log with error code 400.
31 *) Feature: the ngx_http_spdy_module.
32 Thanks to Automattic for sponsoring this work.
34 *) Feature: the "limit_req_status" and "limit_conn_status" directives.
35 Thanks to Nick Marden.
37 *) Feature: the "image_filter_interlace" directive.
40 *) Feature: $connections_waiting variable in the
41 ngx_http_stub_status_module.
43 *) Feature: the mail proxy module now supports IPv6 backends.
45 *) Bugfix: request body might be transmitted incorrectly when retrying a
46 request to the next upstream server; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
47 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
49 *) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had
52 *) Bugfix: responses might hang if subrequests were used and a DNS error
53 happened during subrequest processing.
54 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
56 *) Bugfix: in backend usage accounting.
59 Changes with nginx 1.3.14 05 Mar 2013
61 *) Feature: $connections_active, $connections_reading, and
62 $connections_writing variables in the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
64 *) Feature: support of WebSocket connections in the
65 ngx_http_uwsgi_module and ngx_http_scgi_module.
67 *) Bugfix: in virtual servers handling with SNI.
69 *) Bugfix: new sessions were not always stored if the "ssl_session_cache
70 shared" directive was used and there was no free space in shared
72 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
74 *) Bugfix: multiple X-Forwarded-For headers were handled incorrectly.
75 Thanks to Neal Poole for sponsoring this work.
77 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
78 Thanks to Gernot Vormayr.
81 Changes with nginx 1.3.13 19 Feb 2013
83 *) Change: a compiler with name "cc" is now used by default.
85 *) Feature: support for proxying of WebSocket connections.
86 Thanks to Apcera and CloudBees for sponsoring this work.
88 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "{SHA}"
89 password encryption method.
90 Thanks to Louis Opter.
93 Changes with nginx 1.3.12 05 Feb 2013
95 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind",
96 "memcached_bind", "scgi_bind", and "uwsgi_bind" directives.
98 *) Feature: the $pipe, $request_length, $time_iso8601, and $time_local
99 variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive.
100 Thanks to Kiril Kalchev.
102 *) Feature: IPv6 support in the ngx_http_geoip_module.
103 Thanks to Gregor Kališnik.
105 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_method" directive.
107 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
108 resolver was used with the poll method.
110 *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU during SSL handshake with a backend if
111 the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used.
113 *) Bugfix: the "[crit] SSL_write() failed (SSL:)" error.
115 *) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had
118 *) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
121 Changes with nginx 1.3.11 10 Jan 2013
123 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if logging was used; the bug
124 had appeared in 1.3.10.
126 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with IP addresses
127 without port specified; the bug had appeared in 1.3.10.
129 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during
130 reconfiguration if the "keepalive" directive was specified more than
131 once in a single upstream block.
133 *) Bugfix: parameter "default" of the "geo" directive did not set
134 default value for IPv6 addresses.
137 Changes with nginx 1.3.10 25 Dec 2012
139 *) Change: domain names specified in configuration file are now resolved
140 to IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 ones.
142 *) Change: now if the "include" directive with mask is used on Unix
143 systems, included files are sorted in alphabetical order.
145 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds headers to 201 responses.
147 *) Feature: the "geo" directive now supports IPv6 addresses in CIDR
150 *) Feature: the "flush" and "gzip" parameters of the "access_log"
153 *) Feature: variables support in the "auth_basic" directive.
155 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module in
158 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
159 ngx_http_xslt_module was used.
161 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX in some cases.
162 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
164 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive with high rates might result in
165 truncated responses on 32-bit platforms.
166 Thanks to Alexey Antropov.
168 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
169 "if" directive was used.
170 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
172 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued with "413 Request Entity
173 Too Large" responses.
175 *) Bugfix: the "image_filter", "image_filter_jpeg_quality" and
176 "image_filter_sharpen" directives might be inherited incorrectly.
177 Thanks to Ian Babrou.
179 *) Bugfix: "crypt_r() failed" errors might appear if the "auth_basic"
180 directive was used on Linux.
182 *) Bugfix: in backup servers handling.
183 Thanks to Thomas Chen.
185 *) Bugfix: proxied HEAD requests might return incorrect response if the
186 "gzip" directive was used.
189 Changes with nginx 1.3.9 27 Nov 2012
191 *) Feature: support for chunked transfer encoding while reading client
194 *) Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not
195 only in the "log_format" directive.
197 *) Bugfix: cache manager and cache loader processes might not be able to
198 start if more than 512 listen sockets were used.
200 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module.
203 Changes with nginx 1.3.8 30 Oct 2012
205 *) Feature: the "optional_no_ca" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client"
207 Thanks to Mike Kazantsev and Eric O'Connor.
209 *) Feature: the $bytes_sent, $connection, and $connection_requests
210 variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive.
211 Thanks to Benjamin Grössing.
213 *) Feature: the "auto" parameter of the "worker_processes" directive.
215 *) Bugfix: "cache file ... has md5 collision" alert.
217 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module.
219 *) Bugfix: in the "ssl_stapling" directive.
222 Changes with nginx 1.3.7 02 Oct 2012
224 *) Feature: OCSP stapling support.
225 Thanks to Comodo, DigiCert and GlobalSign for sponsoring this work.
227 *) Feature: the "ssl_trusted_certificate" directive.
229 *) Feature: resolver now randomly rotates addresses returned from cache.
230 Thanks to Anton Jouline.
232 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.7 compatibility.
235 Changes with nginx 1.3.6 12 Sep 2012
237 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module.
239 *) Feature: the "memcached_gzip_flag" directive.
241 *) Feature: the "always" parameter of the "gzip_static" directive.
243 *) Bugfix: in the "limit_req" directive; the bug had appeared in 1.1.14.
244 Thanks to Charles Chen.
246 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.7 with -O2 optimization if
247 the --with-ipv6 option was used.
250 Changes with nginx 1.3.5 21 Aug 2012
252 *) Change: the ngx_http_mp4_module module no longer skips tracks in
253 formats other than H.264 and AAC.
255 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
256 "map" directive was used with variables as values.
258 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
259 "geo" directive was used with the "ranges" parameter but without the
260 "default" parameter; the bug had appeared in 0.8.43.
261 Thanks to Zhen Chen and Weibin Yao.
263 *) Bugfix: in the -p command-line parameter handling.
265 *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server.
267 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
270 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2005
272 Thanks to HAYASHI Kentaro.
275 Changes with nginx 1.3.4 31 Jul 2012
277 *) Change: the "ipv6only" parameter is now turned on by default for
278 listening IPv6 sockets.
280 *) Feature: the Clang compiler support.
282 *) Bugfix: extra listening sockets might be created.
283 Thanks to Roman Odaisky.
285 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might hog CPU if a worker process failed to
287 Thanks to Ricardo Villalobos Guevara.
289 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass_header", "fastcgi_pass_header",
290 "scgi_pass_header", "uwsgi_pass_header", "proxy_hide_header",
291 "fastcgi_hide_header", "scgi_hide_header", and "uwsgi_hide_header"
292 directives might be inherited incorrectly.
295 Changes with nginx 1.3.3 10 Jul 2012
297 *) Feature: entity tags support and the "etag" directive.
299 *) Bugfix: trailing dot in a source value was not ignored if the "map"
300 directive was used with the "hostnames" parameter.
302 *) Bugfix: incorrect location might be used to process a request if a
303 URI was changed via a "rewrite" directive before an internal redirect
307 Changes with nginx 1.3.2 26 Jun 2012
309 *) Change: the "single" parameter of the "keepalive" directive is now
312 *) Change: SSL compression is now disabled when using all versions of
313 OpenSSL, including ones prior to 1.0.0.
315 *) Feature: it is now possible to use the "ip_hash" directive to balance
318 *) Feature: the $status variable can now be used not only in the
319 "log_format" directive.
321 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process on
322 shutdown if the "resolver" directive was used.
324 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
325 ngx_http_mp4_module was used.
327 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
329 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
330 conflicting wildcard server names were used.
332 *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally on a SIGBUS signal on
335 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file number)" on HP-UX
336 while reconfiguration.
339 Changes with nginx 1.3.1 05 Jun 2012
341 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dot in URI path
342 component, and does not allow URIs with ":$" in it.
343 Thanks to Vladimir Kochetkov, Positive Research Center.
345 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass"
346 directives, and the "server" directive inside the "upstream" block,
347 now support IPv6 addresses.
349 *) Feature: the "resolver" directive now supports IPv6 addresses and an
350 optional port specification.
352 *) Feature: the "least_conn" directive inside the "upstream" block.
354 *) Feature: it is now possible to specify a weight for servers while
355 using the "ip_hash" directive.
357 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
358 "image_filter" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.0.
360 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with ngx_cpp_test_module; the bug
361 had appeared in 1.1.12.
363 *) Bugfix: access to variables from SSI and embedded perl module might
364 not work after reconfiguration.
365 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
367 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module.
368 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
370 *) Bugfix: memory leak if $geoip_org variable was used.
371 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
373 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path"
377 Changes with nginx 1.3.0 15 May 2012
379 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive now supports IPv6 addresses
380 and the "unix:" parameter.
382 *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive and the "proxy" parameter
383 of the "geo" directive now support IPv6 addresses.
385 *) Feature: the "real_ip_recursive", "geoip_proxy", and
386 "geoip_proxy_recursive" directives.
388 *) Feature: the "proxy_recursive" parameter of the "geo" directive.
390 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
391 "resolver" directive was used.
393 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
394 "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or "uwsgi_pass" directives were used and
395 backend returned incorrect response.
397 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
398 "rewrite" directive was used and new request arguments in a
399 replacement used variables.
401 *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU if the open file resource limit was
404 *) Bugfix: nginx might loop infinitely over backends if the
405 "proxy_next_upstream" directive with the "http_404" parameter was
406 used and there were backup servers specified in an upstream block.
408 *) Bugfix: adding the "down" parameter of the "server" directive might
409 cause unneeded client redistribution among backend servers if the
410 "ip_hash" directive was used.
412 *) Bugfix: socket leak.
413 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
415 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module.
418 Changes with nginx 1.2.0 23 Apr 2012
420 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
421 "try_files" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.19.
423 *) Bugfix: response might be truncated if there were more than IOV_MAX
426 *) Bugfix: in the "crop" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
427 Thanks to Maxim Bublis.
430 Changes with nginx 1.1.19 12 Apr 2012
432 *) Security: specially crafted mp4 file might allow to overwrite memory
433 locations in a worker process if the ngx_http_mp4_module was used,
434 potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2012-2089).
435 Thanks to Matthew Daley.
437 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might be terminated abnormally.
438 Thanks to Vincent Lee.
440 *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as
443 *) Bugfix: the "allow" and "deny" directives might be inherited
444 incorrectly if they were used with IPv6 addresses.
446 *) Bugfix: the "modern_browser" and "ancient_browser" directives might
447 be inherited incorrectly.
449 *) Bugfix: timeouts might be handled incorrectly on Solaris/SPARC.
451 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
454 Changes with nginx 1.1.18 28 Mar 2012
456 *) Change: keepalive connections are no longer disabled for Safari by
459 *) Feature: the $connection_requests variable.
461 *) Feature: $tcpinfo_rtt, $tcpinfo_rttvar, $tcpinfo_snd_cwnd and
462 $tcpinfo_rcv_space variables.
464 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive now works on FreeBSD.
466 *) Feature: the "xslt_param" and "xslt_string_param" directives.
467 Thanks to Samuel Behan.
469 *) Bugfix: in configure tests.
470 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
472 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module.
474 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian GNU/Hurd.
477 Changes with nginx 1.1.17 15 Mar 2012
479 *) Security: content of previously freed memory might be sent to a
480 client if backend returned specially crafted response.
481 Thanks to Matthew Daley.
483 *) Bugfix: in the embedded perl module if used from SSI.
484 Thanks to Matthew Daley.
486 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
489 Changes with nginx 1.1.16 29 Feb 2012
491 *) Change: the simultaneous subrequest limit has been raised to 200.
493 *) Feature: the "from" parameter of the "disable_symlinks" directive.
495 *) Feature: the "return" and "error_page" directives can now be used to
496 return 307 redirections.
498 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
499 "resolver" directive was used and there was no "error_log" directive
500 specified at global level.
501 Thanks to Roman Arutyunyan.
503 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
504 "proxy_http_version 1.1" or "fastcgi_keep_conn on" directives were
507 *) Bugfix: memory leaks.
508 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
510 *) Bugfix: in the "disable_symlinks" directive.
512 *) Bugfix: on ZFS filesystem disk cache size might be calculated
513 incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 1.0.1.
515 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 12.1 compiler.
517 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc on Solaris; the bug had
521 Changes with nginx 1.1.15 15 Feb 2012
523 *) Feature: the "disable_symlinks" directive.
525 *) Feature: the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path"
528 *) Bugfix: nginx might log incorrect error "upstream prematurely closed
529 connection" instead of correct "upstream sent too big header" one.
532 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the
533 --with-openssl option was used.
535 *) Bugfix: the number of internal redirects to named locations was not
538 *) Bugfix: calling $r->flush() multiple times might cause errors in the
539 ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
541 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store"
542 directive was used with SSI includes.
544 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cacheable variables (such as the $args
545 variable) returned old empty cached value.
547 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if too
548 many SSI subrequests were issued simultaneously; the bug had appeared
552 Changes with nginx 1.1.14 30 Jan 2012
554 *) Feature: multiple "limit_req" limits may be used simultaneously.
556 *) Bugfix: in error handling while connecting to a backend.
557 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
559 *) Bugfix: in AIO error handling on FreeBSD.
561 *) Bugfix: in the OpenSSL library initialization.
563 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directives might be inherited
566 *) Bugfix: memory leak during reconfiguration if the "pcre_jit"
570 Changes with nginx 1.1.13 16 Jan 2012
572 *) Feature: the "TLSv1.1" and "TLSv1.2" parameters of the
573 "ssl_protocols" directive.
575 *) Bugfix: the "limit_req" directive parameters were not inherited
576 correctly; the bug had appeared in 1.1.12.
578 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive incorrectly processed
579 "Refresh" header if regular expression were used.
581 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_use_stale" directive with "error" parameter
582 did not return answer from cache if there were no live upstreams.
584 *) Bugfix: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive might not work.
586 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
589 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
592 Changes with nginx 1.1.12 26 Dec 2011
594 *) Change: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part now uses changed
595 URI after redirection with the "error_page" directive.
596 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
598 *) Feature: the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock",
599 "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock_timeout" directives.
601 *) Feature: the "pcre_jit" directive.
603 *) Feature: the "if" SSI command supports captures in regular
606 *) Bugfix: the "if" SSI command did not work inside the "block" command.
608 *) Bugfix: the "limit_conn_log_level" and "limit_req_log_level"
609 directives might not work.
611 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
612 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
614 *) Bugfix: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive did not work, if the
615 "limit_rate" directive was used.
617 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part always used
618 original request URI if variables were used.
620 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
621 request after redirection with the "try_files" directive.
622 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
624 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_scgi_module.
626 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
628 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
632 Changes with nginx 1.1.11 12 Dec 2011
634 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" parameter of the "listen" directive.
635 Thanks to Vsevolod Stakhov.
637 *) Feature: the "if_not_empty" parameter of the
638 "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives.
640 *) Feature: the $https variable.
642 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports variables in the
645 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports regular expressions.
647 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control variable might contain a wrong
648 value if the "expires" directive was used.
649 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
651 *) Bugfix: the "read_ahead" directive might not work combined with
652 "try_files" and "open_file_cache".
654 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if small
655 time was used in the "inactive" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
658 *) Bugfix: responses from cache might hang.
661 Changes with nginx 1.1.10 30 Nov 2011
663 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occured in a worker process if AIO was
664 used on Linux; the bug had appeared in 1.1.9.
667 Changes with nginx 1.1.9 28 Nov 2011
669 *) Change: now double quotes are encoded in an "echo" SSI-command
671 Thanks to Zaur Abasmirzoev.
673 *) Feature: the "valid" parameter of the "resolver" directive. By
674 default TTL returned by a DNS server is used.
675 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
677 *) Bugfix: nginx might hang after a worker process abnormal termination.
679 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if SNI
680 was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.2.
682 *) Bugfix: in the "keepalive_disable" directive; the bug had appeared in
684 Thanks to Alexander Usov.
686 *) Bugfix: SIGWINCH signal did not work after first binary upgrade; the
687 bug had appeared in 1.1.1.
689 *) Bugfix: backend responses with length not matching "Content-Length"
690 header line are no longer cached.
692 *) Bugfix: in the "scgi_param" directive, if complex parameters were
695 *) Bugfix: in the "epoll" event method.
696 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
698 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_flv_module.
699 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
701 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
703 *) Bugfix: IPv6 addresses are now handled properly in a request line and
704 in a "Host" request header line.
706 *) Bugfix: "add_header" and "expires" directives did not work if a
707 request was proxied and response status code was 206.
709 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 10.
711 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
714 Changes with nginx 1.1.8 14 Nov 2011
716 *) Change: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module was renamed to the
717 ngx_http_limit_conn_module.
719 *) Change: the "limit_zone" directive was superseded by the
720 "limit_conn_zone" directive with a new syntax.
722 *) Feature: support for multiple "limit_conn" limits on the same level.
724 *) Feature: the "image_filter_sharpen" directive.
726 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
727 resolver got a big DNS response.
728 Thanks to Ben Hawkes.
730 *) Bugfix: in cache key calculation if internal MD5 implementation was
731 used; the bug had appeared in 1.0.4.
733 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
734 header lines might be passed to backend while caching; or not passed
735 without caching if caching was enabled in another part of the
738 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module sent incorrect
739 "Content-Length" response header line if the "start" argument was
741 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
744 Changes with nginx 1.1.7 31 Oct 2011
746 *) Feature: support of several DNS servers in the "resolver" directive.
747 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
749 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during
750 reconfiguration if the "ssl" directive was used at http level and
751 there was no "ssl_certificate" defined.
753 *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption while proxying big files if they
754 were buffered to disk.
756 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
757 "proxy_http_version 1.1" directive was used.
759 *) Bugfix: in the "expires @time" directive.
762 Changes with nginx 1.1.6 17 Oct 2011
764 *) Change in internal API: now module context data are cleared while
765 internal redirect to named location.
766 Requested by Yichun Zhang.
768 *) Change: if a server in an upstream failed, only one request will be
769 sent to it after fail_timeout; the server will be considered alive if
770 it will successfully respond to the request.
772 *) Change: now the 0x7F-0x1F characters are escaped as \xXX in an
775 *) Feature: "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_headers" directives support
776 the following additional values: X-Accel-Limit-Rate,
777 X-Accel-Buffering, X-Accel-Charset.
779 *) Feature: decrease of memory consumption if SSL is used.
781 *) Bugfix: some UTF-8 characters were processed incorrectly.
782 Thanks to Alexey Kuts.
784 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module directives specified at "server"
785 level were executed twice if no matching locations were defined.
787 *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if "aio sendfile" was used.
789 *) Bugfix: connections with fast clients might be closed after
790 send_timeout if file AIO was used.
792 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
794 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support seeking on
798 Changes with nginx 1.1.5 05 Oct 2011
800 *) Feature: the "uwsgi_buffering" and "scgi_buffering" directives.
801 Thanks to Peter Smit.
803 *) Bugfix: non-cacheable responses might be cached if
804 "proxy_cache_bypass" directive was used.
805 Thanks to John Ferlito.
807 *) Bugfix: in HTTP/1.1 support in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
809 *) Bugfix: cached responses with an empty body were returned
810 incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 0.8.31.
812 *) Bugfix: 201 responses of the ngx_http_dav_module were incorrect; the
813 bug had appeared in 0.8.32.
815 *) Bugfix: in the "return" directive.
817 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_session_cache builtin" directive caused segmentation
818 fault; the bug had appeared in 1.1.1.
821 Changes with nginx 1.1.4 20 Sep 2011
823 *) Feature: the ngx_http_upstream_keepalive module.
825 *) Feature: the "proxy_http_version" directive.
827 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
829 *) Feature: the "worker_aio_requests" directive.
831 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built --with-file-aio it could not be run on
832 Linux kernel which did not support AIO.
834 *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO error processing.
835 Thanks to Hagai Avrahami.
837 *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption for long-lived requests.
839 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support 64-bit MP4
843 Changes with nginx 1.1.3 14 Sep 2011
845 *) Feature: the module ngx_http_mp4_module.
847 *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO combined with open_file_cache.
849 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache did not update file info on retest if file
850 was not atomically changed.
852 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.7.
855 Changes with nginx 1.1.2 05 Sep 2011
857 *) Change: now if total size of all ranges is greater than source
858 response size, then nginx disables ranges and returns just the source
861 *) Feature: the "max_ranges" directive.
863 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
864 "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directives might work incorrectly if SNI
867 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_client_abort"
871 Changes with nginx 1.1.1 22 Aug 2011
873 *) Change: now cache loader processes either as many files as specified
874 by "loader_files" parameter or works no longer than time specified by
875 the "loader_threshold" parameter during each iteration.
877 *) Change: now SIGWINCH signal works only in daemon mode.
879 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Solaris.
880 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
882 *) Feature: accept filters are now supported on NetBSD.
884 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 3.0.
886 *) Bugfix: nginx did not use gzipping in some cases; the bug had
889 *) Bugfix: request body might be processed incorrectly if client used
892 *) Bugfix: in the "request_body_in_single_buf" directive.
894 *) Bugfix: in "proxy_set_body" and "proxy_pass_request_body" directives
895 if SSL connection to backend was used.
897 *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as
900 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur during reconfiguration if
901 ssl_session_cache was defined but not used in previous configuration.
903 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if many
904 backup servers were used in an upstream.
906 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
907 "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives were used with values starting
908 with "HTTP_"; the bug had appeared in 0.8.40.
911 Changes with nginx 1.1.0 01 Aug 2011
913 *) Feature: cache loader run time decrease.
915 *) Feature: "loader_files", "loader_sleep", and "loader_threshold"
916 options of the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_path" directives.
918 *) Feature: loading time decrease of configuration with large number of
921 *) Feature: now nginx supports ECDHE key exchange ciphers.
922 Thanks to Adrian Kotelba.
924 *) Feature: the "lingering_close" directive.
925 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
927 *) Bugfix: in closing connection for pipelined requests.
928 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
930 *) Bugfix: nginx did not disable gzipping if client sent "gzip;q=0" in
931 "Accept-Encoding" request header line.
933 *) Bugfix: in timeout in unbuffered proxied mode.
934 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
936 *) Bugfix: memory leaks when a "proxy_pass" directive contains variables
937 and proxies to an HTTPS backend.
938 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
940 *) Bugfix: in parameter validaiton of a "proxy_pass" directive with
942 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
944 *) Bugfix: SSL did not work on QNX.
945 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
947 *) Bugfix: SSL modules could not be built by gcc 4.6 without
951 Changes with nginx 1.0.5 19 Jul 2011
953 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5".
954 Thanks to Rob Stradling.
956 *) Feature: the "referer_hash_max_size" and "referer_hash_bucket_size"
958 Thanks to Witold Filipczyk.
960 *) Feature: $uid_reset variable.
962 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if a
964 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
966 *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during
967 reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in
969 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
971 *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert.
972 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
975 Changes with nginx 1.0.4 01 Jun 2011
977 *) Change: now regular expressions case sensitivity in the "map"
978 directive is given by prefixes "~" or "~*".
980 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Linux.
981 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
983 *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert.
985 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_auth_basic_module;
986 the bug had appeared in 1.0.3.
989 Changes with nginx 1.0.3 25 May 2011
991 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "$apr1",
992 "{PLAIN}", and "{SSHA}" password encryption methods.
993 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
995 *) Feature: the "geoip_org" directive and $geoip_org variable.
996 Thanks to Alexander Uskov, Arnaud Granal, and Denis F. Latypoff.
998 *) Feature: ngx_http_geo_module and ngx_http_geoip_module support IPv4
999 addresses mapped to IPv6 addresses.
1001 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process during
1002 testing IPv4 address mapped to IPv6 address, if access or deny rules
1003 were defined only for IPv6; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
1005 *) Bugfix: a cached response may be broken if "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/
1006 uwsgi_cache_bypass" and "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_no_cache" directive
1007 values were different; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
1010 Changes with nginx 1.0.2 10 May 2011
1012 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores.
1014 *) Bugfix: in the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
1015 Thanks to Adam Bocim.
1017 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
1021 Changes with nginx 1.0.1 03 May 2011
1023 *) Change: now the "split_clients" directive uses MurmurHash2 algorithm
1024 because of better distribution.
1025 Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.
1027 *) Change: now long strings starting with zero are not considered as
1029 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1031 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value 511 on Linux.
1033 *) Feature: the $upstream_... variables may be used in the SSI and perl
1036 *) Bugfix: now nginx limits better disk cache size.
1037 Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.
1039 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur while parsing incorrect IPv4
1040 address; the bug had appeared in 0.9.3.
1041 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1043 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.6 without --with-debug
1046 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris 9 and earlier; the bug
1047 had appeared in 0.9.3.
1048 Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen.
1050 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values if subrequests were
1051 used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.47.
1052 Thanks to Igor A. Valcov.
1055 Changes with nginx 1.0.0 12 Apr 2011
1057 *) Bugfix: a cache manager might hog CPU after reload.
1058 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1060 *) Bugfix: an "image_filter crop" directive worked incorrectly coupled
1061 with an "image_filter rotate 180" directive.
1063 *) Bugfix: a "satisfy any" directive disabled custom 401 error page.
1066 Changes with nginx 0.9.7 04 Apr 2011
1068 *) Feature: now keepalive connections may be closed premature, if there
1069 are no free worker connections.
1070 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1072 *) Feature: the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
1073 Thanks to Adam Bocim.
1075 *) Bugfix: a case when a backend in "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or
1076 "uwsgi_pass" directives is given by expression and refers to a
1080 Changes with nginx 0.9.6 21 Mar 2011
1082 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports regular expressions as value of
1083 the first parameter.
1085 *) Feature: $time_iso8601 access_log variable.
1086 Thanks to Michael Lustfield.
1089 Changes with nginx 0.9.5 21 Feb 2011
1091 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value -1 on Linux.
1092 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1094 *) Feature: the "utf8" parameter of "geoip_country" and "geoip_city"
1096 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
1098 *) Bugfix: in a default "proxy_redirect" directive if "proxy_pass"
1099 directive has no URI part.
1100 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1102 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not work with nonstandard error
1103 codes; the bug had appeared in 0.8.53.
1104 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1107 Changes with nginx 0.9.4 21 Jan 2011
1109 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the $hostname variable.
1111 *) Feature: 494 code for "Request Header Too Large" error.
1114 Changes with nginx 0.9.3 13 Dec 2010
1116 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given IPv6 address:port
1117 pair, then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name"
1118 directive did not work.
1120 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
1124 Changes with nginx 0.9.2 06 Dec 2010
1126 *) Feature: the "If-Unmodified-Since" client request header line
1129 *) Workaround: fallback to accept() syscall if accept4() was not
1130 implemented; the issue had appeared in 0.9.0.
1132 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Cygwin; the bug had appeared in
1135 *) Bugfix: for OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2010-4180.
1136 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1139 Changes with nginx 0.9.1 30 Nov 2010
1141 *) Bugfix: "return CODE message" directives did not work; the bug had
1145 Changes with nginx 0.9.0 29 Nov 2010
1147 *) Feature: the "keepalive_disable" directive.
1149 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports variables as value of a defined
1152 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports empty strings as value of the
1155 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports expressions as the first
1158 *) Feature: nginx(8) manual page.
1159 Thanks to Sergey Osokin.
1161 *) Feature: Linux accept4() support.
1162 Thanks to Simon Liu.
1164 *) Workaround: elimination of Linux linker warning about "sys_errlist"
1165 and "sys_nerr"; the warning had appeared in 0.8.35.
1167 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the
1168 "auth_basic" directive was used.
1169 Thanks to Michail Laletin.
1171 *) Bugfix: compatibility with ngx_http_eval_module; the bug had appeared
1175 Changes with nginx 0.8.53 18 Oct 2010
1177 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive allows to change a status
1180 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "degradation"
1183 *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if file AIO was used.
1184 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1186 *) Bugfix: if the first server had no "listen" directive and there was
1187 no explicit default server, then a next server with a "listen"
1188 directive became the default server; the bug had appeared in 0.8.21.
1191 Changes with nginx 0.8.52 28 Sep 2010
1193 *) Bugfix: nginx used SSL mode for a listen socket if any listen option
1194 was set; the bug had appeared in 0.8.51.
1197 Changes with nginx 0.8.51 27 Sep 2010
1199 *) Change: the "secure_link_expires" directive has been canceled.
1201 *) Change: a logging level of resolver errors has been lowered from
1204 *) Feature: now a listen socket "ssl" parameter may be set several
1208 Changes with nginx 0.8.50 02 Sep 2010
1210 *) Feature: the "secure_link", "secure_link_md5", and
1211 "secure_link_expires" directives of the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
1213 *) Feature: the -q switch.
1214 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
1216 *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during
1217 reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in
1220 *) Bugfix: in the "gzip_disable" directive.
1221 Thanks to Derrick Petzold.
1223 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not send stop, quit, reopen, and reload
1224 signals to a process run in other session.
1227 Changes with nginx 0.8.49 09 Aug 2010
1229 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive supports
1232 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the
1233 $geoip_region_name variables was used; the bug had appeared in
1236 *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page were cached only for next
1237 request; the bug had appeared in 0.8.48.
1240 Changes with nginx 0.8.48 03 Aug 2010
1242 *) Change: now the "server_name" directive default value is an empty
1244 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
1246 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive default value is
1249 *) Feature: the $geoip_dma_code, $geoip_area_code, and
1250 $geoip_region_name variables.
1251 Thanks to Christine McGonagle.
1253 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass", and
1254 "scgi_pass" directives were not inherited inside "limit_except"
1257 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_min_uses", "fastcgi_cache_min_uses"
1258 "uwsgi_cache_min_uses", and "scgi_cache_min_uses" directives did not
1259 work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
1261 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive used incorrectly
1262 captures, if only parts of an URI were captured.
1263 Thanks to Yuriy Taraday and Frank Enderle.
1265 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not escape a ";" character during
1266 copying from URI to query string.
1267 Thanks to Daisuke Murase.
1269 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module closed a connection, if an
1270 image was larger than "image_filter_buffer" size.
1273 Changes with nginx 0.8.47 28 Jul 2010
1275 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values for subrequests.
1277 *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page could not be cached.
1279 *) Bugfix: a cache manager process may got caught in an endless loop, if
1280 max_size parameter was used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
1283 Changes with nginx 0.8.46 19 Jul 2010
1285 *) Change: now the "proxy_no_cache", "fastcgi_no_cache",
1286 "uwsgi_no_cache", and "scgi_no_cache" directives affect on a cached
1287 response saving only.
1289 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_bypass", "fastcgi_cache_bypass",
1290 "uwsgi_cache_bypass", and "scgi_cache_bypass" directives.
1292 *) Bugfix: nginx did not free memory in cache keys zones if there was an
1293 error during working with backend: the memory was freed only after
1294 inactivity time or on memory low condition.
1297 Changes with nginx 0.8.45 13 Jul 2010
1299 *) Feature: ngx_http_xslt_filter improvements.
1300 Thanks to Laurence Rowe.
1302 *) Bugfix: SSI response might be truncated after include with
1303 wait="yes"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1304 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1306 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive did not support the "setfib=0"
1310 Changes with nginx 0.8.44 05 Jul 2010
1312 *) Change: now nginx does not cache by default backend responses, if
1313 they have a "Set-Cookie" header line.
1315 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "setfib" parameter.
1316 Thanks to Andrew Filonov.
1318 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might change character case on
1321 *) Bugfix: compatibility with HP/UX.
1323 *) Bugfix: compatibility with AIX xlC_r compiler.
1325 *) Bugfix: nginx treated large SSLv2 packets as plain requests.
1326 Thanks to Miroslaw Jaworski.
1329 Changes with nginx 0.8.43 30 Jun 2010
1331 *) Feature: large geo ranges base loading speed-up.
1333 *) Bugfix: an error_page redirection to "location /zero {return 204;}"
1334 without changing status code kept the error body; the bug had
1337 *) Bugfix: nginx might close IPv6 listen socket during reconfiguration.
1338 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1340 *) Bugfix: the $uid_set variable may be used at any request processing
1344 Changes with nginx 0.8.42 21 Jun 2010
1346 *) Change: now nginx tests locations given by regular expressions, if
1347 request was matched exactly by a location given by a prefix string.
1348 The previous behavior has been introduced in 0.7.1.
1350 *) Feature: the ngx_http_scgi_module.
1351 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1353 *) Feature: a text answer may be added to a "return" directive.
1356 Changes with nginx 0.8.41 15 Jun 2010
1358 *) Security: nginx/Windows worker might be terminated abnormally if a
1359 requested file name has invalid UTF-8 encoding.
1361 *) Change: now nginx allows to use spaces in a request line.
1363 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive changed incorrectly a backend
1364 "Refresh" response header line.
1365 Thanks to Andrey Andreew and Max Sogin.
1367 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support path without host name in "Destination"
1368 request header line.
1371 Changes with nginx 0.8.40 07 Jun 2010
1373 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores default file stream name.
1374 Thanks to Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez.
1376 *) Feature: the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
1377 Thanks to Roberto De Ioris.
1379 *) Feature: a "fastcgi_param" directive with value starting with "HTTP_"
1380 overrides a client request header line.
1382 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
1383 header lines were passed to FastCGI-server while caching.
1385 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket could not be changed during
1387 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1390 Changes with nginx 0.8.39 31 May 2010
1392 *) Bugfix: an inherited "alias" directive worked incorrectly in
1395 *) Bugfix: in "alias" with variables and "try_files" directives
1398 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain and IPv6 sockets did not inherit while
1400 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1403 Changes with nginx 0.8.38 24 May 2010
1405 *) Feature: the "proxy_no_cache" and "fastcgi_no_cache" directives.
1407 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if
1408 the $scheme variable is used.
1409 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
1411 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" delay directive conforms to the described
1413 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1415 *) Bugfix: the $uid_got variable might not be used in the SSI and perl
1419 Changes with nginx 0.8.37 17 May 2010
1421 *) Feature: the ngx_http_split_clients_module.
1423 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports keys more than 255 characters.
1425 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "private" and "no-store" values in the
1426 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
1428 *) Bugfix: a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was not
1429 used, if empty response has 200 status code.
1431 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
1432 another proxied or FastCGI location, then a segmentation fault might
1433 occur in a worker process; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
1434 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
1436 *) Bugfix: IMAP connections may hang until they timed out while talking
1438 Thanks to Alan Batie.
1441 Changes with nginx 0.8.36 22 Apr 2010
1443 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module handled incorrectly the DELETE, COPY,
1444 and MOVE methods for symlinks.
1446 *) Bugfix: values of the $query_string, $arg_..., etc. variables cached
1447 in main request were used by the SSI module in subrequests.
1449 *) Bugfix: a variable value was repeatedly encoded after each an "echo"
1450 SSI-command output; the bug had appeared in 0.6.14.
1452 *) Bugfix: a worker process hung if a FIFO file was requested.
1453 Thanks to Vicente Aguilar and Maxim Dounin.
1455 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL-1.0.0 compatibility on 64-bit Linux.
1456 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1458 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
1462 Changes with nginx 0.8.35 01 Apr 2010
1464 *) Change: now the charset filter runs before the SSI filter.
1466 *) Feature: the "chunked_transfer_encoding" directive.
1468 *) Bugfix: an "&" character was not escaped when it was copied in
1469 arguments part in a rewrite rule.
1471 *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally while a signal
1472 processing or if the directive "timer_resolution" was used on
1473 platforms which do not support kqueue or eventport notification
1475 Thanks to George Xie and Maxim Dounin.
1477 *) Bugfix: if temporary files and permanent storage area resided at
1478 different file systems, then permanent file modification times were
1480 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1482 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module might issue the error message
1483 "memcached sent invalid trailer".
1484 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1486 *) Bugfix: nginx could not built zlib-1.2.4 library using the library
1488 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1490 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process, if there
1491 was large stderr output before FastCGI response; the bug had appeared
1493 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1496 Changes with nginx 0.8.34 03 Mar 2010
1498 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support all ciphers and digests used in client
1500 Thanks to Innocenty Enikeew.
1502 *) Bugfix: nginx cached incorrectly FastCGI responses if there was large
1503 stderr output before response.
1505 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support HTTPS referrers.
1507 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not find file if path in configuration
1508 was given in other character case; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
1510 *) Bugfix: the $date_local variable has an incorrect value, if the "%s"
1512 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1514 *) Bugfix: if ssl_session_cache was not set or was set to "none", then
1515 during client certificate verify the error "session id context
1516 uninitialized" might occur; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
1518 *) Bugfix: a geo range returned default value if the range included two
1519 or more /16 networks and did not begin at /16 network boundary.
1521 *) Bugfix: a block used in a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI
1522 directive was output with "text/plain" MIME type.
1524 *) Bugfix: $r->sleep() did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1527 Changes with nginx 0.8.33 01 Feb 2010
1529 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing spaces in URI.
1530 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
1532 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores short files names.
1533 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
1535 *) Change: now keepalive connections after POST requests are not
1536 disabled for MSIE 7.0+.
1537 Thanks to Adam Lounds.
1539 *) Workaround: now keepalive connections are disabled for Safari.
1540 Thanks to Joshua Sierles.
1542 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
1543 another proxied or FastCGI location, then $upstream_response_time
1544 variable may have abnormally large value; the bug had appeared in
1547 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, while
1548 discarding a request body; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1551 Changes with nginx 0.8.32 11 Jan 2010
1553 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
1554 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1556 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures worked for two names only.
1557 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1559 *) Bugfix: now the "localhost" name is used in the "Host" request header
1560 line, if an unix domain socket is defined in the "auth_http"
1562 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1564 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support chunked transfer encoding for 201
1566 Thanks to Julian Reich.
1568 *) Bugfix: if the "expires modified" set date in the past, then a
1569 negative number was set in the "Cache-Control" response header line.
1570 Thanks to Alex Kapranoff.
1573 Changes with nginx 0.8.31 23 Dec 2009
1575 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive may redirect the 301 and 302
1578 *) Feature: the $geoip_city_continent_code, $geoip_latitude, and
1579 $geoip_longitude variables.
1580 Thanks to Arvind Sundararajan.
1582 *) Feature: now the ngx_http_image_filter_module deletes always EXIF and
1583 other application specific data if the data consume more than 5% of a
1586 *) Bugfix: nginx closed a connection if a cached response had an empty
1588 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
1590 *) Bugfix: nginx might not be built by gcc 4.x if the -O2 or higher
1591 optimization option was used.
1592 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Denis F. Latypoff.
1594 *) Bugfix: regular expressions in location were always tested in
1595 case-sensitive mode; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1597 *) Bugfix: nginx cached a 304 response if there was the "If-None-Match"
1598 header line in a proxied request.
1599 Thanks to Tim Dettrick and David Kostal.
1601 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to delete a temporary file twice if the
1602 file should replace an already existent file.
1605 Changes with nginx 0.8.30 15 Dec 2009
1607 *) Change: now the default buffer size of the
1608 "large_client_header_buffers" directive is 8K.
1609 Thanks to Andrew Cholakian.
1611 *) Feature: the conf/fastcgi.conf for simple FastCGI configurations.
1613 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to rename a temporary file twice if the
1614 file should replace an already existent file.
1616 *) Bugfix: of "double free or corruption" error issued if host could not
1617 be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
1618 Thanks to Konstantin Svist.
1620 *) Bugfix: in libatomic usage on some platforms.
1621 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1624 Changes with nginx 0.8.29 30 Nov 2009
1626 *) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for
1627 proxied HTTP/0.9 responses.
1629 *) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
1630 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support
1633 *) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage.
1634 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1636 *) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure.
1637 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1639 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights.
1641 *) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly.
1643 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not
1644 work in a "server_name" directive.
1645 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1648 Changes with nginx 0.8.28 23 Nov 2009
1650 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
1651 the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1654 Changes with nginx 0.8.27 17 Nov 2009
1656 *) Bugfix: regular expressions did not work in nginx/Windows; the bug
1657 had appeared in 0.8.25.
1660 Changes with nginx 0.8.26 16 Nov 2009
1662 *) Bugfix: in captures usage in "rewrite" directive; the bug had
1665 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
1666 bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1669 Changes with nginx 0.8.25 16 Nov 2009
1671 *) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is
1672 not found by $r->variable() method.
1674 *) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module.
1676 *) Feature: regular expression named captures.
1678 *) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if
1681 *) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too.
1683 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low
1684 memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18.
1686 *) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support
1687 gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared
1691 Changes with nginx 0.8.24 11 Nov 2009
1693 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Content-Encoding: gzip" response header
1694 line in 304 responses sent by ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
1696 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
1697 bug had appeared in 0.8.23.
1699 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
1700 inherited incorrectly from previous level.
1702 *) Bugfix: in resolving empty name.
1705 Changes with nginx 0.8.23 11 Nov 2009
1707 *) Security: now SSL/TLS renegotiation is disabled.
1708 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1710 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket did not inherit while online
1713 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive did
1714 not without yet another directive with any IP address.
1716 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault and infinite looping in resolver.
1718 *) Bugfix: in resolver.
1719 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
1722 Changes with nginx 0.8.22 03 Nov 2009
1724 *) Feature: the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", and "memcached_bind"
1727 *) Feature: the "access" and the "deny" directives support IPv6.
1729 *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive supports IPv6 addresses in
1732 *) Feature: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive.
1734 *) Bugfix: nginx did not delete unix domain socket after configuration
1737 *) Bugfix: nginx deleted unix domain socket while online upgrade.
1739 *) Bugfix: the "!-x" operator did not work.
1740 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1742 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
1743 limit_rate was used in HTTPS server.
1744 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1746 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while
1747 $limit_rate logging.
1748 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1750 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
1751 there was no "listen" directive in "server" block; the bug had
1755 Changes with nginx 0.8.21 26 Oct 2009
1757 *) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support.
1759 *) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix
1761 Thanks to Hongli Lai.
1763 *) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive.
1765 *) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen
1768 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms;
1770 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1773 Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009
1775 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5".
1777 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing slash
1778 in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15.
1780 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path
1781 configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53.
1783 *) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the
1784 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
1786 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file,
1787 or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker had no enough access
1788 rights for top level directories.
1790 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines were
1791 not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives were
1792 used with any parameters.
1794 *) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size.
1797 Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009
1799 *) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default.
1801 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM".
1803 *) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared in
1807 Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009
1809 *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive.
1811 *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used.
1813 *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level"
1816 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket
1818 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1820 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc.
1821 Thanks to Marcus Ramberg.
1823 *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on MKCOL
1825 Thanks to Xie Zhenye.
1827 *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the
1828 bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1830 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1833 Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009
1835 *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header
1838 *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case.
1840 *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable.
1842 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1845 Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009
1847 *) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive.
1849 *) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named
1852 *) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning.
1853 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
1855 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
1856 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
1858 *) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in
1859 access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level.
1861 *) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the
1862 ngx_http_image_filter_module.
1864 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header
1865 line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on.
1867 *) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in
1870 *) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in
1872 Thanks to Igor Artemiev.
1875 Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009
1877 *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while
1878 specially crafted request handling.
1879 Thanks to Chris Ries.
1881 *) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld
1882 were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by
1885 *) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
1887 *) Bugfix: in file AIO.
1889 *) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1891 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1894 Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009
1896 *) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING"
1899 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if
1900 error_log was set to info or debug level.
1901 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1903 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1905 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the
1906 bug had appeared in 0.6.10.
1909 Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009
1911 *) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in
1914 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option
1915 on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12.
1918 Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009
1920 *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD.
1922 *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1924 *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1927 Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009
1929 *) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping
1932 *) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux.
1934 *) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive.
1937 Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009
1939 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used.
1941 *) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the bug
1942 had appeared in 0.8.9.
1945 Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009
1947 *) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this
1948 should improve large caches handling.
1950 *) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside at
1951 different file systems.
1954 Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009
1956 *) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records.
1958 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
1959 was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a caching was
1960 enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in 0.8.7.
1963 Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009
1965 *) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7.
1967 *) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was
1968 changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client
1969 certificate if it was offered.
1970 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
1972 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable.
1973 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
1975 *) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive.
1976 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
1978 *) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive.
1980 *) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting
1983 *) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the bug
1984 had appeared in 0.7.7.
1985 Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev.
1987 *) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did
1988 not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate",
1989 "X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend
1991 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1993 *) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend
1994 response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
1995 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1997 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an
1998 empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5.
2001 Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009
2003 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module.
2005 *) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML
2006 document" for valid XML document.
2007 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
2009 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by a
2010 regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode.
2012 *) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI.
2013 Thanks to Hugo Leisink.
2015 *) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during
2016 installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
2017 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2020 Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009
2022 *) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method.
2024 *) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password
2025 while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows.
2027 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests.
2029 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module.
2030 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2033 Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009
2035 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
2039 Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009
2041 *) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable.
2043 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6.
2045 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
2048 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a backend
2049 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the
2050 "WWW-Authenticate" response header line.
2051 Thanks to Eugene Mychlo.
2054 Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009
2056 *) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on
2059 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long;
2060 the bug had appeared in 0.7.4.
2063 Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009
2065 *) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
2066 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives.
2068 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
2069 header lines were passed to backend while caching if no
2070 "proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters.
2072 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not
2073 hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header"
2074 directives were used with any parameters.
2076 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a
2078 Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh.
2080 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early; the
2081 bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
2084 Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009
2086 *) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive.
2088 *) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive.
2089 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
2091 *) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests.
2093 *) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows.
2095 *) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and fastcgi_cache
2098 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.
2099 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy.
2102 Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009
2104 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods"
2107 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
2108 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2110 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
2111 had no body and the $request_body variable was used;
2112 the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
2114 *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux;
2115 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
2117 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by
2118 SSI, charset, and gzip filters.
2120 *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to
2121 ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses.
2124 Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009
2126 *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6.
2128 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive.
2130 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive.
2132 *) Feature: the $request_body variable.
2134 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":"
2137 *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared
2139 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
2142 Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009
2144 *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the
2145 ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named
2146 location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
2149 Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009
2151 *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
2154 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.
2157 Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009
2159 *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
2160 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work.
2162 *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses.
2164 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in
2165 nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
2167 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
2168 "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
2171 *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors.
2173 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using
2175 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2178 Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009
2180 *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
2182 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
2185 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
2186 "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had appeared
2189 *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
2190 had appeared in 0.7.39.
2192 *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.
2194 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
2196 *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
2200 Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009
2202 *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very
2205 *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an
2206 error_log and stderr.
2208 *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use
2209 a directory where it was run as prefix.
2211 *) Feature: the -p switch.
2213 *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms.
2215 *) Feature: the -? and -h switches.
2216 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
2218 *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form.
2220 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given by
2223 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store",
2224 "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used.
2225 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2227 *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication
2228 server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared
2230 Thanks to Simon Lecaille.
2232 *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux;
2233 the bug had appeared in 0.7.45.
2235 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work.
2236 Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff.
2239 Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009
2241 *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release.
2243 *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching.
2245 *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc.
2246 client request header lines while caching.
2248 *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in
2249 cacheable responses.
2251 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a
2252 perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the
2253 message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued.
2255 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
2258 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2259 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
2262 Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009
2264 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the
2267 *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive.
2269 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without
2270 query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2272 *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses,
2273 then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39.
2276 Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009
2278 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
2282 Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009
2284 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
2285 $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48.
2288 Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009
2290 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive.
2292 *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires",
2293 "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response.
2295 *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only.
2297 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited.
2299 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests.
2300 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2302 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library.
2303 Thanks to Timothy Redaelli.
2305 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had
2309 Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009
2311 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions; the
2312 bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
2314 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had
2317 *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager
2318 might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
2320 *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
2321 "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/
2322 "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had
2325 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
2326 request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page
2327 or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2330 Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009
2332 *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect.
2335 Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009
2337 *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives
2338 can be set on different levels.
2340 *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
2341 directive is canceled.
2343 *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
2346 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support.
2348 *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone
2351 *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a
2352 "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2354 *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive given
2355 without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2356 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
2358 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without
2359 references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared
2363 Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009
2365 *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.
2367 *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.
2369 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server block
2372 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
2373 in a fallback parameter.
2375 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.
2377 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given address:port pair,
2378 then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive did
2382 Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009
2384 *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive used
2385 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
2387 *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the
2388 $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in
2392 Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
2394 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
2395 setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
2397 *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file" directive
2398 is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the 500 one.
2400 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
2401 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
2403 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
2404 Thanks to Zhang Hua.
2406 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
2407 regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
2409 *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
2410 Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
2412 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
2416 Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
2418 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
2419 "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
2420 expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
2421 Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
2424 Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
2426 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
2429 *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
2430 inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
2432 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
2435 *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
2436 slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
2438 Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
2441 Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
2443 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
2444 the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
2445 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
2447 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
2448 static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
2451 Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
2453 *) Feature: authentication failures logging.
2455 *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
2456 number of empty lines.
2457 Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
2459 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
2460 path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
2463 Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
2465 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had appeared
2469 Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
2471 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
2472 HTTP module supports IPv6.
2474 *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
2475 preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
2478 Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
2480 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
2482 Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
2484 *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
2485 original request extension.
2487 *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
2488 "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if
2489 ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
2490 the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
2493 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
2495 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
2497 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
2499 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2501 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
2502 in mail proxy server.
2503 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2505 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
2506 concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&";
2507 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
2508 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2510 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
2513 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
2515 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
2516 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with body.
2519 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some redirects
2522 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
2523 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
2526 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
2528 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
2529 the "try_files" directive.
2531 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
2533 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
2535 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
2537 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
2540 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
2542 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
2545 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
2547 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
2549 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
2551 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
2552 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
2554 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2556 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
2557 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
2558 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2561 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
2563 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if variables
2564 were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives and host
2565 name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
2568 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
2570 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
2571 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
2573 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
2575 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0 requests;
2576 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2578 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
2582 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
2584 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
2586 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been changed
2587 to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
2590 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
2592 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
2594 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
2596 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a variable.
2597 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2599 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
2602 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
2604 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
2606 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
2607 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
2609 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
2611 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
2612 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
2613 error_page directive.
2614 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
2617 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
2619 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
2622 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
2624 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
2626 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
2628 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
2631 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
2634 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
2636 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
2638 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
2639 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
2641 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
2645 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
2647 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
2649 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
2651 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
2654 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
2656 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
2657 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2659 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
2661 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
2663 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
2667 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
2669 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
2671 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
2672 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
2674 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
2675 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
2677 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
2681 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
2683 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
2685 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
2687 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
2688 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
2689 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2691 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
2692 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
2694 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
2697 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
2698 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
2700 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
2703 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
2705 *) Bugfix: version number update.
2708 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
2710 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
2711 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
2713 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
2715 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
2717 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
2719 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
2721 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
2722 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
2724 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2725 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
2727 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line
2730 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
2733 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
2735 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
2737 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
2739 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
2740 not work with open_file_cache.
2742 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
2743 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
2745 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted charset
2746 name received from backend.
2749 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
2751 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
2755 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
2757 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
2759 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
2760 requests starting from arbitrary position.
2762 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
2765 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header line
2769 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
2771 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
2772 have no default values.
2774 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
2776 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
2777 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
2779 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
2780 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
2783 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
2784 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
2786 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
2789 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
2791 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
2795 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
2797 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
2799 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
2801 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
2802 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
2803 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2805 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
2806 "error_page" directive.
2808 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
2809 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
2811 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
2812 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
2813 had appeared in 0.7.0.
2816 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
2818 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
2821 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
2822 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
2824 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
2826 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
2827 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
2829 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
2830 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
2832 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
2835 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
2837 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
2838 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
2839 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
2841 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
2843 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
2844 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
2847 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
2849 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
2850 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
2851 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
2853 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
2855 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
2856 directives use hash.
2858 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
2860 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
2862 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
2863 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
2865 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
2868 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
2869 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
2871 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
2872 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
2873 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
2877 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
2879 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
2881 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
2883 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
2884 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
2886 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
2887 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
2888 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2891 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
2893 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
2896 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate with
2897 TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
2898 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
2901 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
2903 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
2904 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2906 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
2907 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2909 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
2911 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
2912 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
2915 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
2916 /dev/poll methods were used.
2918 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
2921 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
2923 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
2924 request root existence is always tested.
2926 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
2930 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
2932 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the bugs
2933 had appeared in 0.7.4.
2935 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
2936 had appeared in 0.7.3.
2937 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
2939 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
2940 might were transferred incorrectly.
2943 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
2945 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
2947 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
2949 *) Feature: the -g switch.
2951 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
2953 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
2956 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
2958 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
2959 "application/rss+xml".
2961 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
2962 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
2964 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if
2965 the "https://" protocol is used.
2967 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
2968 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
2971 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
2973 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
2975 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
2977 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
2978 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
2980 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
2981 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
2982 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2984 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
2987 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
2988 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
2991 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
2993 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
2995 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to the
2996 "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
2998 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
3000 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
3001 now this is default parameter.
3002 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3004 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
3007 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
3011 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
3013 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as \xXX
3015 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3017 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
3019 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
3021 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
3022 request processing stage.
3024 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
3025 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3027 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
3028 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
3030 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
3031 if keepalive was enabled.
3034 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
3036 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
3037 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
3038 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
3040 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
3041 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
3044 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
3046 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
3047 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
3049 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
3050 for example, "1h50m".
3052 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
3053 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
3055 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
3058 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
3059 arguments in redirected URI.
3061 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
3063 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
3067 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
3069 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
3071 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
3072 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
3075 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
3077 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
3081 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
3083 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
3086 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
3087 named location via an "error_page" directive.
3089 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
3092 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
3094 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
3095 was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static
3098 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
3099 client certificate in first handshake.
3100 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
3102 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
3103 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
3106 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
3108 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
3110 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
3111 was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static
3114 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
3115 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
3117 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
3118 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
3119 name and without variables.
3120 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
3122 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
3123 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
3125 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
3126 stub block was used second time in SSI.
3128 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
3131 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
3133 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
3134 check a response length.
3136 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big value
3137 was used in a "expires" directive.
3138 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
3140 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
3141 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
3143 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
3144 was used instead of the GET method.
3146 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
3147 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
3149 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
3150 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3152 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
3153 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3156 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
3158 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
3159 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
3161 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
3162 "server_name" directive.
3164 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
3167 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
3168 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
3170 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
3172 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
3174 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
3175 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3177 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
3178 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
3180 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
3184 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
3186 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
3187 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3190 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
3192 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive; now
3193 this is default parameter.
3195 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
3196 "open_file_cache_valid".
3198 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
3200 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
3202 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
3204 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
3207 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
3208 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
3210 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
3211 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
3212 auth directives were not tested;
3214 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
3215 inherited from previous level.
3217 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
3218 with 499 status code.
3220 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
3221 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
3223 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
3224 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
3226 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
3227 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
3230 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
3232 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
3233 perl's allocated memory.
3235 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl before
3236 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
3237 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
3239 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
3241 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
3244 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
3245 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
3246 request body was already received.
3248 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
3250 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
3252 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
3253 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
3255 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
3256 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
3257 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
3259 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
3260 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
3262 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
3265 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
3267 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
3268 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
3270 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
3271 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
3274 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
3275 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
3276 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3278 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
3279 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
3280 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
3283 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
3284 server, then nginx returned usual response.
3287 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
3289 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
3290 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
3294 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
3296 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
3299 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
3301 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
3302 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
3304 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
3307 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3309 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
3311 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
3312 "Last-Modified" response header line.
3314 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
3315 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
3318 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
3320 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
3321 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
3323 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
3324 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
3326 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
3329 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
3330 subrequests were used.
3332 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
3335 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
3336 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
3339 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
3341 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
3342 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
3344 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then it
3345 was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
3347 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
3350 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
3352 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
3353 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
3355 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
3357 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
3359 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
3361 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
3363 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
3364 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
3365 "source_charset" directives.
3367 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
3368 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
3369 Thanks to James Oakley.
3371 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
3372 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
3373 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3375 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
3376 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request; the
3377 bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3380 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
3382 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
3384 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
3386 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
3387 "limit_except" block.
3389 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had got
3390 weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
3393 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
3394 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
3395 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
3397 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
3399 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3401 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
3402 $upstream_response_time.
3403 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3405 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
3408 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive" values
3409 in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared in
3412 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
3414 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
3417 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
3419 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
3421 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
3424 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
3426 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
3428 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
3429 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
3431 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
3432 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
3434 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
3437 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
3438 located in non-standard place was used.
3440 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
3441 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
3443 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
3446 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
3448 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
3451 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
3452 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
3454 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
3457 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
3458 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
3462 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
3464 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
3465 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
3467 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3469 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
3470 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
3472 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
3473 /dev/poll method was used.
3476 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
3478 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
3479 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3481 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
3482 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
3484 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
3487 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
3491 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
3493 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
3494 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
3495 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
3497 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
3498 authentication server.
3500 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
3502 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
3503 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
3504 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
3506 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
3509 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
3511 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
3512 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
3513 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
3514 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but not
3515 to nginx prefix directory.
3517 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
3519 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
3520 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
3522 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
3523 regular expressions.
3525 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
3526 the "backup" parameter.
3528 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
3529 $r->discard_request_body.
3531 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
3532 "Last-Modified" response header line.
3534 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
3535 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
3536 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
3538 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
3539 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
3541 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
3542 platforms except FreeBSD.
3543 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
3545 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
3546 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
3549 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
3550 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
3553 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
3555 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
3557 *) Feature: named locations.
3559 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
3561 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
3563 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
3565 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
3566 might not close connection to backend.
3568 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
3569 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
3571 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
3572 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
3575 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
3577 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
3578 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
3580 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
3581 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3583 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
3584 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3586 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
3588 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on Solaris/amd64.
3589 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
3591 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
3592 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
3595 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
3597 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
3598 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
3600 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
3603 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
3606 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
3608 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3610 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
3611 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
3614 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
3616 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
3618 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3619 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
3620 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3622 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
3623 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
3625 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
3626 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3628 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3629 eventport method was used.
3631 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
3632 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
3636 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
3638 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx passed
3639 garbage in the header to a client.
3642 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
3644 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
3646 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
3647 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
3649 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
3652 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
3653 to the master process identification number.
3656 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
3658 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
3659 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
3662 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
3664 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
3665 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
3669 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
3671 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
3672 was made using HTTP/0.9.
3674 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
3675 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
3678 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
3680 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
3683 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
3684 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
3686 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
3687 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
3689 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
3690 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
3691 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
3693 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3696 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
3698 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
3699 had appeared in 0.5.21.
3702 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
3704 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
3705 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
3707 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
3708 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
3709 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
3711 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
3713 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3715 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3718 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
3720 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
3722 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
3723 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
3725 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the SSI
3726 command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
3728 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was transferred
3730 Thanks to Evan Miller.
3732 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
3734 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3736 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris make.
3737 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3740 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
3742 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
3744 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
3747 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
3749 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
3750 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
3751 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
3753 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
3754 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
3756 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
3757 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
3760 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
3762 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
3764 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
3766 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
3767 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
3769 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
3770 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
3771 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
3772 had appeared in 0.5.9.
3774 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
3775 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
3779 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
3781 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
3783 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
3786 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
3787 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
3789 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3791 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
3792 returned old cached value.
3795 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
3797 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the "ip_hash"
3799 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
3801 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
3802 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
3803 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3805 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
3806 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
3809 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
3810 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
3813 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
3815 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
3816 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
3817 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
3819 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
3820 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
3822 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
3823 and "pop3_auth" directives.
3825 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
3826 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
3829 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
3830 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
3832 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
3833 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
3835 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
3836 "ip_hash" directive was used.
3838 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
3842 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
3844 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
3848 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
3850 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
3852 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
3853 via keep-alive connection.
3855 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
3856 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3858 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
3859 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
3861 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
3862 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send
3865 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3866 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
3869 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
3871 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3872 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
3874 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3875 temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug
3876 had appeared in 0.5.8.
3878 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3879 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
3881 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
3884 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
3886 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
3887 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
3889 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
3890 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
3892 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
3893 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
3894 Thanks to Evan Miller.
3896 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
3897 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
3899 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
3900 was built with -O2 optimization.
3903 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
3905 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
3906 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
3908 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
3909 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
3912 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
3914 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
3915 variable value as a key.
3917 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
3919 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
3922 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
3924 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
3926 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a message
3927 to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
3929 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
3933 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
3935 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
3936 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
3938 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
3939 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
3940 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
3941 switched to a next upstream.
3943 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
3944 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
3945 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
3947 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
3948 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send
3951 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
3954 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
3957 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
3959 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
3961 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
3963 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
3964 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone" directives
3965 were used on 64-bit platforms.
3967 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
3968 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no "Content-Type"
3969 header line in response.
3971 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
3973 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
3975 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
3978 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
3980 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
3981 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
3983 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
3985 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
3987 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
3988 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3990 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
3992 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
3993 $r->sendfile() was used.
3996 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
3998 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
4000 *) Feature: the -V switch.
4002 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
4005 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an unprivileged
4008 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
4009 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
4011 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
4014 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
4016 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
4019 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
4020 line for the DELETE method.
4022 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access" directive,
4023 then nginx might report about configuration error.
4025 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
4026 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
4029 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
4031 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
4032 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
4034 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not exist
4035 in nginx configuration.
4037 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
4040 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
4042 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the "upstream"
4043 block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had appeared in
4047 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
4049 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
4050 unsuccessful completion of a request.
4052 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
4053 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
4055 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
4056 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared in
4059 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
4060 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
4061 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
4063 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
4064 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
4065 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
4067 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
4068 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
4069 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
4071 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
4072 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
4075 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
4077 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
4078 directive are not supported anymore.
4080 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
4081 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
4082 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
4083 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
4086 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
4087 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
4089 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
4091 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
4092 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
4094 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
4098 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
4100 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4102 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD, Linux,
4105 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
4106 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
4108 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
4111 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
4113 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
4114 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
4116 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
4117 system time was changed backward.
4119 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
4120 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
4122 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
4123 proxy authentication server failed.
4126 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
4128 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
4129 "limit_except" block.
4131 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
4133 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
4134 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
4137 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
4138 the deferred accept() were used.
4140 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
4141 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
4143 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
4146 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
4147 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
4149 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug had
4153 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
4155 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
4157 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
4158 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
4160 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
4163 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
4165 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
4167 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
4170 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the USER/PASS
4171 commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
4174 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
4176 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
4178 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
4179 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
4182 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr variable
4183 was used in the "map" directive.
4185 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
4186 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
4188 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
4192 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
4194 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
4196 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
4200 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
4202 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI
4203 command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not
4206 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
4208 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
4211 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
4213 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
4215 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
4217 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
4220 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI
4221 command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not
4224 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
4225 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
4228 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
4232 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
4234 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
4237 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
4238 if its length was set by text string in the
4239 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
4241 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
4242 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
4243 had appeared in 0.4.4.
4246 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
4248 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
4252 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
4254 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
4256 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
4258 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
4259 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
4261 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
4262 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
4264 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
4267 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
4268 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
4271 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
4273 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
4274 "error_page" directive.
4276 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
4278 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
4280 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
4281 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
4283 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
4284 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
4286 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
4288 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
4291 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
4293 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug had
4297 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
4299 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
4300 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
4302 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more than
4305 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static requests.
4306 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
4309 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
4311 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
4312 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
4314 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
4315 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
4316 $r->has_request_body method.
4318 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
4320 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
4321 line for the PUT method.
4323 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
4325 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
4326 directive with variables and the first index name was without
4327 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4330 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
4332 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
4334 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
4336 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
4338 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
4339 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
4342 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
4344 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
4345 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
4348 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
4350 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
4351 "error_page" directive.
4353 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
4355 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the "Content-Type"
4356 header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had
4360 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
4362 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
4364 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
4366 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
4367 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
4369 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
4371 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
4372 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
4374 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
4377 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
4379 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
4381 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
4382 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
4384 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send to
4385 a client the required certificates information.
4387 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
4388 the "root" directive.
4391 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
4393 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
4395 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
4396 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
4398 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
4399 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
4403 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
4405 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
4407 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
4409 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
4411 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root was
4412 relative to a server prefix.
4414 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
4415 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
4417 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
4418 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
4420 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
4421 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
4424 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
4425 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had appeared
4429 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
4431 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
4433 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
4434 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
4436 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
4439 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
4440 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
4442 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
4443 first request to a backend only.
4445 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
4449 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
4451 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
4454 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
4455 the "weight" parameter.
4457 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
4459 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
4461 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
4462 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
4465 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and return
4468 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
4469 continued proxying anyway.
4472 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
4474 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
4475 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
4476 return the 405 error.
4478 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
4479 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
4481 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
4482 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
4484 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
4485 temporary file was not removed.
4488 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
4490 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the SSI;
4491 the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
4494 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
4496 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
4497 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
4498 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
4500 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
4501 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
4503 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
4504 proxy and FastCGI mode.
4506 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
4507 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
4509 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
4510 SSI after inclusion.
4512 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
4513 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
4516 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
4518 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
4520 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
4521 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
4525 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
4527 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if the
4528 response has no "Content-Type" header line.
4530 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
4531 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in start
4532 of the rewritten redirect.
4534 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
4535 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
4536 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared in
4539 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
4540 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
4543 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
4545 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
4547 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
4548 SSI command is always removed.
4551 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
4553 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
4554 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
4556 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
4557 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
4559 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported in
4562 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
4563 ngx_http_perl_module.
4566 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
4568 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
4569 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
4571 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
4574 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
4577 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
4580 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
4581 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
4582 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
4586 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
4588 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
4590 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
4591 koi-win conversion table.
4593 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
4596 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
4598 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
4601 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
4603 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
4606 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
4609 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
4610 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
4611 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
4612 were not written to access log.
4614 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
4615 "Cache-Control" response header line.
4618 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
4620 *) Feature: the -v switch.
4622 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
4625 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
4627 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
4628 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
4629 segmentation fault was occurred.
4632 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
4634 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
4636 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
4638 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
4641 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
4643 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
4644 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
4647 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
4649 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
4650 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
4653 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
4654 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections" directive;
4655 the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
4657 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
4661 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
4663 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
4665 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
4666 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
4668 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
4671 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
4673 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
4675 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
4677 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
4678 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
4681 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
4682 login and password to pass authorization server.
4683 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
4686 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
4688 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
4690 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and "!-f"
4693 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
4696 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
4699 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
4701 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
4703 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
4704 inside the "if" block.
4706 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
4707 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
4709 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
4711 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method and
4714 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
4716 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
4717 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
4719 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
4720 ngx_http_ssi_module.
4722 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
4723 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
4724 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
4725 a current path but not to a server prefix.
4728 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
4730 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
4731 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
4733 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
4737 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
4739 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
4742 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
4744 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
4745 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
4747 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
4748 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
4750 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
4753 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
4755 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
4756 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
4759 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
4761 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
4763 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
4766 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
4768 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout bug.
4769 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
4771 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
4772 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
4773 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared in
4776 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
4777 and the request body was in temporary file then the request was not
4780 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
4783 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
4785 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
4788 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
4789 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
4791 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
4792 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
4795 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
4797 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
4798 many warnings before the response.
4800 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
4801 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
4803 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
4804 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
4806 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
4807 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
4811 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
4813 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
4815 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
4817 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
4818 terminated prematurely.
4819 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
4821 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
4822 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
4825 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
4826 completion of a request.
4828 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
4829 directive was transferred to a client.
4832 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
4834 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
4835 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
4837 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
4838 "log_format" directive.
4840 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
4842 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
4845 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using fcntl(2)
4846 on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
4848 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
4849 autoconfiguration directive.
4851 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
4852 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
4855 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
4857 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
4858 "optimize_server_names".
4860 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
4861 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
4865 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
4867 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
4868 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
4872 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
4874 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
4876 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
4877 not transferred to a client.
4879 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
4881 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
4884 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
4885 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
4886 had appeared in 0.3.18.
4889 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
4891 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
4893 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
4896 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
4900 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
4902 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
4903 $r->unescape methods.
4905 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
4908 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
4909 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
4913 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
4915 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
4917 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
4921 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
4923 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
4925 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in the
4929 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
4931 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
4933 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
4935 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
4938 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
4940 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
4943 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
4944 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
4946 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
4947 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
4949 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
4950 directives were canceled.
4952 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
4954 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names only
4955 without the URI part.
4957 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
4958 ngx_http_map_module.
4960 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did not
4961 exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
4963 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start;
4964 the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
4967 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
4969 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
4970 sendfile64() in kernel.
4972 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
4975 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
4978 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
4980 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
4981 directive the port 80 was used by default.
4984 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
4986 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
4988 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
4991 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
4993 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
4995 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
4996 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
4999 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
5001 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
5002 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
5003 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
5005 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
5006 had appeared in 0.3.13.
5009 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
5011 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
5014 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5016 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort() only
5017 on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
5020 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
5022 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
5026 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
5028 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
5030 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
5033 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
5035 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
5036 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
5038 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the authorization;
5039 the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
5042 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
5044 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
5045 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
5046 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built and
5047 is not built by default.
5049 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
5051 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
5052 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
5053 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
5055 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
5057 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
5059 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
5060 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
5062 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
5063 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
5065 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
5066 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
5067 without the "Basic realm" text.
5069 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
5070 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
5071 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
5073 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
5076 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
5077 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
5080 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
5082 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
5083 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
5086 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
5088 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
5089 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
5090 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
5092 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
5095 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
5097 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
5099 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
5101 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
5103 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
5105 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
5107 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
5109 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
5110 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
5113 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
5115 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
5116 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
5119 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
5121 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was between
5122 two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
5125 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
5127 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
5128 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
5131 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
5132 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
5134 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
5135 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
5137 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
5138 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
5140 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
5142 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
5144 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
5145 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
5146 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
5147 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
5148 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
5149 will be canceled soon.
5151 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
5152 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
5154 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
5155 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
5157 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
5160 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive and
5161 the request was proxied in location given by regular expression, then
5162 the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
5165 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous "Expires"
5168 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
5169 several worker processes were used.
5171 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
5174 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
5175 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
5176 did not transferred at all.
5179 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
5181 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
5183 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
5184 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
5187 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
5189 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
5190 authorization server.
5192 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
5194 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive, then
5195 nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
5197 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the 80
5198 port was always used.
5201 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
5203 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
5204 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
5206 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
5207 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
5209 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
5210 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
5213 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
5215 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
5216 had appeared in 0.3.3.
5219 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
5221 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
5222 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
5224 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
5227 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the additional
5228 the gettimeofday() system call.
5230 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
5232 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
5233 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
5236 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
5237 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
5239 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
5241 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
5243 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed just
5244 after the response header was transferred to a client.
5246 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
5248 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
5250 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in the
5251 ngx_imap_ssl_module.
5253 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
5257 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
5259 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
5261 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
5262 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
5263 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
5266 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
5268 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
5269 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
5272 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
5276 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
5278 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was eliminated.
5279 The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers overflow.
5282 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
5284 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed backend
5285 retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
5287 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
5288 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
5290 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
5291 more flexible to change an error code.
5293 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
5294 in proxied subrequests.
5296 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
5297 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
5300 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
5301 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
5302 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
5303 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
5306 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
5308 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
5309 causes the warning and changes old value.
5311 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
5313 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in the
5316 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
5317 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
5320 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
5322 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
5323 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
5325 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
5328 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method was
5329 used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
5332 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
5334 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
5335 bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
5338 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
5340 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
5342 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
5345 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
5346 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
5348 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the long
5351 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
5354 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
5356 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
5358 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
5361 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
5363 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
5364 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
5368 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
5370 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
5371 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
5372 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
5373 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
5374 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
5375 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
5378 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
5379 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
5380 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
5382 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
5384 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
5386 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
5387 not run for subrequests.
5389 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
5392 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
5393 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
5395 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
5396 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
5398 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5400 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
5402 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
5403 from the 304 responses.
5404 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
5407 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
5409 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
5410 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
5412 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
5415 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5418 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
5420 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
5422 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
5424 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
5426 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
5427 of authorization use.
5430 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
5432 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
5433 changed using the -HUP signal.
5435 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
5437 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
5440 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may got
5441 caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent the
5442 "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was used; in
5443 the proxied mode the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5446 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
5448 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
5449 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
5450 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
5452 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
5453 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
5456 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
5458 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
5459 can not be used in SSI.
5462 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
5464 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
5465 information did not logged in the error log.
5467 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
5468 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
5470 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
5471 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
5473 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
5476 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
5477 became shorter in the "ps" command.
5480 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
5482 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
5483 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
5484 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
5486 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
5487 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
5489 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
5490 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
5491 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
5493 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
5495 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
5496 the "include virtual" command.
5498 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
5499 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
5500 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5502 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
5503 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
5504 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5506 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
5509 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the long
5510 file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
5512 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
5516 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
5518 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in proxy and FastCGI
5521 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
5522 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
5524 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
5526 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
5528 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
5529 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
5531 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used in
5534 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
5535 than one remote subrequest.
5537 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
5538 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
5541 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
5543 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
5545 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
5548 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5551 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
5553 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
5555 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
5556 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
5558 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
5559 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
5560 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
5561 request all backends again.
5564 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
5566 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host", "Connection",
5567 "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx now returns
5570 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
5572 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
5573 parameters of the "listen" directive.
5575 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
5577 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
5579 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
5582 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
5583 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
5586 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
5588 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
5590 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
5592 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
5593 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5595 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
5596 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
5597 occurred on the start.
5599 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was bigger
5600 than the temporary file.
5602 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
5603 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
5607 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
5609 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
5610 big response part were include by SSI.
5612 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
5615 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
5617 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
5618 the client request header line passing.
5621 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
5623 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
5624 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5626 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one level
5627 cause the bus fault on start up.
5629 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
5631 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
5632 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
5635 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
5637 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
5638 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5640 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
5643 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
5644 of regular expressions.
5646 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
5647 proxy and FastCGI mode.
5650 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
5652 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
5654 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
5656 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
5658 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
5659 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
5662 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
5664 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
5667 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
5669 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
5670 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
5671 500 response code; in proxy mode the bug had appeared in 0.1.29 only.
5673 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
5676 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
5678 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
5681 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
5683 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
5685 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
5686 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
5689 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and DATE_GMT
5690 variables and "config timefmt" command.
5692 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
5694 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
5695 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
5697 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
5699 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
5700 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
5702 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
5703 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
5705 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
5706 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
5707 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
5708 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
5710 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
5711 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
5713 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
5715 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
5718 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
5719 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
5722 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
5724 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
5725 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
5728 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
5730 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
5732 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
5734 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
5736 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
5738 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
5739 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
5740 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
5742 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
5743 headers or a backend response header.
5745 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
5746 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
5747 returned the 408 response.
5749 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
5750 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
5752 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
5753 tolerance configuration.
5755 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous "Expires"
5756 and "Cache-Control" headers.
5758 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host" header
5761 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
5763 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
5766 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
5769 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
5771 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
5773 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
5776 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
5778 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
5780 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
5781 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
5784 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
5786 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
5787 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
5790 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
5791 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
5795 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
5797 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged at
5800 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
5802 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic and
5803 auth_basic_user_file directives.
5806 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
5808 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
5810 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
5811 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
5813 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
5814 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
5815 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
5816 after request completion.
5818 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
5821 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
5822 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
5824 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
5825 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
5827 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
5828 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
5829 will be removed soon.
5831 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
5833 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
5835 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
5837 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
5840 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
5842 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING and
5843 DOCUMENT_URI variables.
5845 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
5846 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
5849 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
5852 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted as
5856 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
5858 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
5859 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
5860 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
5863 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
5865 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
5866 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
5867 server name of the "server_name" directive.
5869 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
5870 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
5872 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
5873 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
5875 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
5876 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
5879 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
5881 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
5882 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
5884 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
5885 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
5888 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
5890 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
5891 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
5893 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
5894 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
5896 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
5899 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
5901 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
5902 the fastcgi_params directive.
5904 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
5907 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
5909 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
5910 returned for the local requests.
5912 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
5914 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the client request
5915 body via SSL connections.
5918 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
5920 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
5921 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
5924 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
5927 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
5928 with URI by an "&" rather than a "?".
5930 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
5931 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
5933 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
5935 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused the
5938 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
5941 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
5943 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
5944 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current configuration
5948 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
5950 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
5951 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
5952 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
5953 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
5955 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
5957 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
5959 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
5962 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
5963 small caps letters in extension.
5965 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
5966 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
5967 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
5969 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
5970 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
5973 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
5976 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
5978 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
5979 request the final chunk was issued.
5981 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
5982 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
5984 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
5985 segmentation faults.
5987 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
5990 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
5991 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
5993 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
5995 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
5996 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
5999 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
6001 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
6004 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
6005 different number of the captures and substitutions.
6007 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
6010 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
6011 arguments and in the original state.
6013 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
6014 to use the regular expressions in locations.
6016 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
6017 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
6020 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
6021 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, or
6022 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
6023 caused segmentation fault.
6026 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
6028 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
6029 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
6030 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
6032 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
6033 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
6034 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
6036 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
6037 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
6038 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
6039 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
6040 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
6041 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
6042 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
6044 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
6047 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
6048 proxy_pass directive.
6050 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
6053 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
6054 ngx_http_proxy_module.
6056 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
6057 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
6060 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
6062 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
6065 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did not
6068 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
6072 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
6074 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
6076 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
6077 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
6078 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
6079 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
6081 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
6082 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
6085 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
6087 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
6089 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
6090 transferred response.
6092 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
6093 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
6095 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
6098 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
6099 broken symlink was in a directory.
6101 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
6104 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there was
6105 an error while the response waiting then process may got caught in an
6108 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
6109 when the /dev/poll method was used.
6111 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
6113 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
6115 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
6117 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
6118 section in configuration.
6120 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
6122 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
6126 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
6128 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./", "/../"
6129 or "%XX" then the last character in the request line was lost; the
6130 bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
6132 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
6136 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
6138 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the request
6139 contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
6141 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
6144 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
6145 does not support sendfile64().
6147 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the --with-poll_module
6148 parameter was required; the bug had appeared in 0.1.8.
6151 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
6153 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
6156 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
6158 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
6161 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
6163 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
6164 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
6167 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
6169 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
6170 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
6173 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
6175 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
6176 returned not enough data" alerts.
6178 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
6179 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
6180 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
6183 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
6186 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
6188 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
6190 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
6191 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
6193 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
6195 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
6198 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
6200 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
6203 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
6205 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
6207 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
6209 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
6213 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
6215 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
6216 options in configure.
6218 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
6220 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
6222 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
6223 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
6225 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
6228 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
6229 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
6231 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
6233 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
6237 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
6239 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
6241 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
6243 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
6244 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
6246 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
6248 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
6250 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
6253 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
6255 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
6256 used while the proxying.
6258 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
6260 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
6261 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
6264 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
6266 *) The first public version.