2 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
4 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
5 locations may be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
7 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
8 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
9 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
11 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
13 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
15 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
18 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
20 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
22 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
23 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
25 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
26 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
28 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
29 transferred incorrectly.
30 Thanks to Evan Miller.
32 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
34 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
36 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not built by Solaris make.
37 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
40 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
42 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
44 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
47 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
49 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
50 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
51 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
53 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
54 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
56 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
57 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
60 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
62 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
64 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
66 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
67 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
69 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
70 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
71 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; bug
74 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
75 reconfiguration perl code did not work; bug appeared in 0.3.38.
78 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
80 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
82 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
85 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
86 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
88 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
90 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
91 returned old cached value.
94 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
96 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
98 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
100 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
101 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
102 trailing ";"; bug appeared in 0.3.50.
104 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
105 used and an request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
108 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
109 option; bug appeared in 0.5.15.
112 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
114 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
115 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
116 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
118 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
119 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
121 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
122 and "pop3_auth" directives.
124 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
125 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
128 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
129 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
131 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
132 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
134 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
135 "ip_hash" directive was used.
137 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
141 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
143 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
147 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
149 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
151 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
152 via keep-alive connection.
154 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
155 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
157 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
158 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
160 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
161 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
164 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
165 amd64, sparc É ppc; bug appeared in 0.5.8.
168 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
170 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
171 amd64, sparc É ppc; bug appeared in 0.5.8.
173 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
174 temporarily files were used while working with FastCGI server; bug
177 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
178 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
180 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
183 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
185 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
186 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
188 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
189 bug appeared in 0.5.6.
191 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
192 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
193 Thanks to Evan Miller.
195 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
196 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
198 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
199 was built with -O2 optimization.
202 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
204 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
205 did not inherit the listening sockets; bug appeared in 0.5.9.
207 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
208 was built with -O2 optimization; bug appeared in 0.5.1.
211 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
213 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
214 variable value as a key.
216 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
218 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
221 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
223 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
225 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
226 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
228 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
232 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
234 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
235 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
237 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
238 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
239 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
240 switched to a next upstream.
242 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
243 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
244 timeout; bug appeared in 0.4.7.
246 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
247 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
250 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
253 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
256 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
258 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
260 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
262 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
263 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
264 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
266 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
267 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
268 "Content-Type" header line in response.
270 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
272 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
274 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
277 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
279 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
280 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
282 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
284 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
286 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
287 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
289 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
291 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
292 $r->sendfile() was used.
295 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
297 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
299 *) Feature: the -V switch.
301 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
304 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
307 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
308 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
310 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
313 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
315 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
318 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
319 line for the DELETE method.
321 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
322 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
324 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
325 used; bug appeared in 0.4.14.
328 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
330 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
331 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
333 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
334 exist in nginx configuration.
336 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
339 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
341 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
342 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; bug appeared
346 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
348 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
349 unsuccessful completion of a request.
351 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; bug appeared in 0.4.11.
352 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
354 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
355 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; bug appeared in 0.5.0.
357 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
358 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
359 first described port; bug appeared in 0.5.0.
361 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
362 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
363 socket; bug appeared in 0.5.0.
365 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
366 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
367 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
369 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
370 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
373 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
375 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
376 directive are not supported anymore.
378 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
379 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
380 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
381 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
384 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
385 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
387 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
389 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
390 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
392 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; bug appeared
396 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
398 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
400 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
403 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
404 threads support; bug appeared in 0.3.38.
406 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
409 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in an request line.
411 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
412 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
414 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
415 system time was changed backward.
417 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
418 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
420 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
421 proxy authentication server failed.
424 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
426 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
427 "limit_except" block.
429 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
431 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
432 "add_after_body" directive, then an response did not transferred
435 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
436 the deferred accept() were used.
438 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
439 responses; bug appeared in 0.3.50.
441 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
444 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
445 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
447 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; bug
451 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
453 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
455 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
456 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
458 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
461 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
463 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
465 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
468 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
469 USER/PASS commands might not work; bug appeared in 0.4.10.
472 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
474 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
476 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
477 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
480 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
481 variable was used in the "map" directive.
483 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
484 full responses; bug appeared in 0.4.7.
486 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; bug appeared in
490 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
492 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
494 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
498 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
500 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
501 SSI command with an "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter
504 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
506 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
509 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
511 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
513 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
515 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
518 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
519 SSI command with an "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter
522 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
523 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
526 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
530 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
532 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
535 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
536 if its length was set by text string in the
537 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
539 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
540 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; bug
544 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
546 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; bug appeared
550 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
552 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
554 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
556 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
557 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
559 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
560 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
562 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
565 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
566 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
569 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
571 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
572 "error_page" directive.
574 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
576 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
578 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
579 error to the proxied server using an "proxy_pass" directive.
581 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
582 used in an "proxy_pass" directive; bug appeared in 0.3.47.
584 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
586 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
589 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
591 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; bug
595 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
597 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
598 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
600 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
603 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
605 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
608 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
610 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
611 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
613 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
614 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
615 $r->has_request_body method.
617 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
619 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
620 line for the PUT method.
622 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
624 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
625 directive with variables and the first index name was without
626 variables; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
629 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
631 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
633 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
635 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
637 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
638 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
641 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
643 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
644 error redirection; bug appeared in 0.3.59.
647 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
649 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
650 "error_page" directive.
652 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
654 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
655 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
656 bug appeared in 0.3.58.
659 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
661 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
663 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
665 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
666 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
668 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
670 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
671 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
673 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
676 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
678 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
680 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
681 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
683 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
684 to a client the required certificates information.
686 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
687 the "root" directive.
690 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
692 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
694 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
695 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
697 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an request returned an
698 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
702 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
704 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
706 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
708 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
710 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
711 was relative to a server prefix.
713 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
714 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
716 *) Bugfix: the $r->headers_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
717 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
719 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
720 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
723 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
724 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; bug appeared in
728 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
730 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
732 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
733 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
735 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
738 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
739 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
741 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
742 first request to a backend only.
744 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; bug appeared in
748 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
750 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
753 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
754 the "weight" parameter.
756 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
758 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
760 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
761 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
764 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
767 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
768 continued proxying anyway.
771 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
773 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
774 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
775 return the 405 error.
777 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
778 limit rate was used; bug appeared in 0.3.37.
780 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
781 if the recoding was not needed; bug appeared in 0.3.50.
783 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
784 temporary file was not removed.
787 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
789 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
790 SSI; bug appeared in 0.3.50.
793 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
795 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
796 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
797 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
799 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
800 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
802 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
803 proxy and FastCGI mode.
805 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
806 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
808 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
811 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
812 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
815 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
817 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
819 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
820 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
824 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
826 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
827 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
829 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
830 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
831 start of the rewritten redirect.
833 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
834 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
835 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; bug appeared in 0.3.42.
837 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
838 built with the threads support; bug appeared in 0.3.46.
841 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
843 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
845 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
846 SSI command is always removed.
849 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
851 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
852 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
854 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
855 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
857 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
860 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
861 ngx_http_perl_module.
864 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
866 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
867 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
869 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
872 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
875 *) Feature: the euro É N symbols were added to koi-win conversion table.
877 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
878 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
879 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
883 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
885 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
887 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
888 koi-win conversion table.
890 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
893 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
895 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
898 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
900 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
903 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
906 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
907 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
908 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
909 were not written to access log.
911 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
912 "Cache-Control" response header line.
915 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
917 *) Feature: the -v switch.
919 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
922 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
924 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
925 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
926 segmentation fault was occurred.
929 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
931 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
933 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
935 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
938 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
940 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
941 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
944 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
946 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
947 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
950 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
951 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
952 directive; bug appeared in 0.2.0.
954 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; bug
958 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
960 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
962 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
963 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
965 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
968 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
970 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
972 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
974 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
975 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
978 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
979 login and password to pass authorization server.
980 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
983 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
985 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
987 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
990 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
993 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
996 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
998 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
1000 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
1001 inside the "if" block.
1003 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
1004 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
1006 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
1008 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
1009 and $r->remote_addr.
1011 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
1013 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
1014 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
1016 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
1017 ngx_http_ssi_module.
1019 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
1020 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
1021 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
1022 a current path but not to a server prefix.
1025 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
1027 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
1028 for first "listen" directive only; bug appeared in 0.3.31.
1030 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
1034 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
1036 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
1039 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
1041 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
1042 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
1044 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
1045 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
1047 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
1050 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
1052 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
1053 removed; bug appeared in 0.3.31.
1056 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
1058 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
1060 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
1063 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
1065 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
1067 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1069 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
1070 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
1071 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; bug appeared in 0.3.18.
1073 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
1074 and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
1077 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
1080 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
1082 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
1085 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
1086 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
1088 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
1089 used; bug appeared in 0.3.27.
1092 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
1094 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
1095 many warnings before the response.
1097 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
1098 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
1100 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
1101 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
1103 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
1104 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
1108 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
1110 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
1112 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
1114 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
1115 terminated prematurely.
1116 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
1118 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
1119 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
1122 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
1123 completion of a request.
1125 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
1126 directive was transferred to a client.
1129 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
1131 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
1132 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
1134 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
1135 "log_format" directive.
1137 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
1139 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
1142 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
1143 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
1145 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
1146 autoconfiguration directive.
1148 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
1149 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
1152 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
1154 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
1155 "optimize_server_names".
1157 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
1158 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
1162 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
1164 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1165 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; bug appeared in
1169 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
1171 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
1173 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
1174 not transferred to a client.
1176 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
1178 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
1181 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
1182 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; bug
1186 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
1188 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
1190 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
1193 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
1197 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
1199 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
1200 $r->unescape methods.
1202 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
1205 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
1206 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; bug appeared
1210 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
1212 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
1214 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
1218 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
1220 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
1222 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
1223 the "/usr?args" form.
1226 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
1228 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
1230 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
1232 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
1235 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
1237 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
1240 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
1241 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
1243 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
1244 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
1246 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
1247 directives were canceled.
1249 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
1251 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
1252 only without the URI part.
1254 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
1255 ngx_http_map_module.
1257 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
1258 not exist; bug appeared in 0.3.12.
1260 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
1261 start; bug appeared in 0.3.16.
1264 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
1266 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
1267 sendfile64() in kernel.
1269 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
1272 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; bug appeared in
1275 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1277 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
1278 directive the port 80 was used by default.
1281 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
1283 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
1285 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
1288 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
1290 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
1292 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
1293 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
1296 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
1298 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
1299 SSL connections; bug appeared in 0.3.13.
1300 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
1302 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; bug
1306 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
1308 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
1311 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
1313 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
1314 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
1317 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
1319 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; bug appeared
1323 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
1325 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
1327 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
1330 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
1332 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
1333 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
1335 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
1336 authorization; bug appeared in 0.3.11.
1339 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
1341 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
1342 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
1343 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
1344 and is not built by default.
1346 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
1348 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
1349 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
1350 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
1352 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
1354 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
1356 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
1357 was used; bug appeared in 0.3.0.
1359 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
1360 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
1362 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
1363 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
1364 without the "Basic realm" text.
1366 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
1367 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
1368 bug appeared in 0.3.8.
1370 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
1373 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
1374 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
1377 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
1379 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
1380 proxying; bug appeared in 0.3.10.
1383 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
1385 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
1386 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
1387 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
1389 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
1392 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
1394 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
1396 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
1398 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
1400 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
1402 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
1404 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
1406 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
1407 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
1410 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
1412 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
1413 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
1416 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
1418 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
1419 between two slashes; bug appeared in 0.3.8.
1422 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
1424 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
1425 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
1428 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
1429 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
1431 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
1432 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
1434 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
1435 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
1437 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
1439 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
1441 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
1442 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
1443 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
1444 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
1445 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
1446 will be canceled soon.
1448 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
1449 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
1451 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
1452 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
1454 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
1457 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
1458 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
1459 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; bug appeared
1462 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
1465 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
1466 several worker processes were used.
1468 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
1471 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
1472 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
1473 did not transferred at all.
1476 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
1478 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
1480 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1481 amd64, sparc É ppc; bug appeared in 0.3.2.
1484 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
1486 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
1487 authorization server.
1489 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
1491 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
1492 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; bug appeared in 0.3.3.
1494 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
1495 the 80 port was always used.
1498 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
1500 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
1501 was changed by authorization server; bug appeared in 0.2.2.
1503 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
1504 handled by one process; bug appeared in 0.3.3.
1506 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
1507 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
1510 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
1512 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; bug
1516 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
1518 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
1519 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
1521 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
1524 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
1525 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
1527 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
1529 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
1530 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
1533 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
1534 index file with variable in the name; bug appeared in 0.3.0.
1536 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
1538 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
1540 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
1541 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
1543 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
1545 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
1547 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
1548 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
1550 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
1554 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
1556 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
1558 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
1559 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
1560 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
1563 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
1565 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
1566 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; bug appeared in 0.2.0.
1568 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
1572 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
1574 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
1575 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
1579 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
1581 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
1582 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
1584 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
1585 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
1587 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
1588 more flexible to change an error code.
1590 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
1591 in proxied subrequests.
1593 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
1594 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
1597 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
1598 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
1599 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
1600 error was occurred; bug appeared in 0.2.2.
1603 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
1605 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
1606 causes the warning and changes old value.
1608 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
1610 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
1611 the "include" command.
1613 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
1614 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
1617 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
1619 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
1620 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
1622 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; bug appeared in
1625 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
1626 was used; bug appeared in 0.2.0.
1629 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
1631 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
1632 bug appeared in 0.2.2.
1635 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
1637 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
1639 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
1642 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
1643 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
1645 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
1648 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
1651 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
1653 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
1655 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
1658 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
1660 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
1661 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; bug appeared in
1665 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
1667 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
1668 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
1669 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
1670 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
1671 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
1672 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
1675 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
1676 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
1677 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
1679 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
1681 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
1683 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
1684 not run for subrequests.
1686 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
1689 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
1690 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
1692 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
1693 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
1695 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
1697 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
1699 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
1700 from the 304 responses.
1701 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
1704 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
1706 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
1707 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
1709 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
1712 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
1715 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
1717 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
1719 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
1721 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
1723 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
1724 of authorization use.
1727 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
1729 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
1730 changed using the -HUP signal.
1732 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
1734 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
1737 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
1738 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
1739 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
1740 used; in the proxied mode the bug appeared in 0.1.29.
1743 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
1745 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
1746 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
1747 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
1749 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
1750 block; bug appeared in 0.1.38.
1753 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
1755 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
1756 can not be used in SSI.
1759 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
1761 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
1762 information did not logged in the error log.
1764 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
1765 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; bug appeared in 0.1.39.
1767 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
1768 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
1770 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
1773 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
1774 became shorter in the "ps" command.
1777 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
1779 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
1780 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
1781 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
1783 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
1784 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
1786 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
1787 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; bug
1790 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
1792 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
1793 the "include virtual" command.
1795 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
1796 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
1797 was transferred; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
1799 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
1800 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
1801 location level; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
1803 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
1806 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
1807 long file names; bug appeared in 0.1.38.
1809 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
1813 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
1815 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
1818 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
1819 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
1821 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
1823 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
1825 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
1826 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
1828 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
1831 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
1832 than one remote subrequest.
1834 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
1835 line in the header was transferred in two packets; bug appeared in
1838 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
1840 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
1842 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
1845 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
1848 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
1850 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
1852 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
1853 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
1855 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
1856 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
1857 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
1858 request all backends again.
1861 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
1863 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
1864 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
1865 now returns the 400 error.
1867 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
1869 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
1870 parameters of the "listen" directive.
1872 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
1874 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
1876 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
1879 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
1880 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
1883 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
1885 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
1887 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
1889 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
1890 header was in several packets; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
1892 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
1893 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
1894 occurred on the start.
1896 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
1897 bigger than the temporary file.
1899 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
1900 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; bug appeared in 0.1.28.
1903 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
1905 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
1906 big response part were include by SSI.
1908 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
1911 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
1913 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
1914 the client request header line passing.
1917 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
1919 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
1920 bug appeared in 0.1.29.
1922 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
1923 level cause the bus fault on start up.
1925 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
1927 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
1928 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
1931 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
1933 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
1934 "rewrite" directive; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
1936 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
1939 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
1940 of regular expressions.
1942 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
1943 proxy and FastCGI mode.
1946 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
1948 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
1950 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
1952 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
1954 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
1955 response body; bug appeared in 0.1.30.
1958 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
1960 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
1963 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
1965 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
1966 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
1967 500 response code; in proxy mode the bug appeared in 0.1.29 only.
1969 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
1972 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
1974 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
1977 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
1979 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
1981 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
1982 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
1985 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
1986 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
1988 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
1990 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
1991 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
1993 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
1995 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
1996 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
1998 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
1999 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
2001 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
2002 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
2003 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
2004 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
2006 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
2007 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
2009 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
2011 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
2014 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
2015 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
2018 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
2020 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
2021 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
2024 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
2026 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
2028 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
2030 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
2032 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
2034 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
2035 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
2036 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
2038 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
2039 headers or a backend response header.
2041 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
2042 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
2043 returned the 408 response.
2045 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
2046 invalid line in response header; bug appeared in 0.1.26.
2048 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
2049 tolerance configuration.
2051 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
2052 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
2054 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
2057 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
2059 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
2062 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
2065 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
2067 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
2069 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
2072 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
2074 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
2076 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
2077 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
2080 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
2082 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
2083 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
2086 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
2087 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
2091 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
2093 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
2096 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
2098 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
2099 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
2102 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
2104 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
2106 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
2107 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
2109 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
2110 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
2111 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
2112 after request completion.
2114 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
2117 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
2118 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
2120 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
2121 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
2123 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
2124 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
2125 will be removed soon.
2127 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
2129 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
2131 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
2133 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
2136 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
2138 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
2139 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
2141 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
2142 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
2145 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
2148 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
2152 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
2154 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
2155 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
2156 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
2159 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
2161 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
2162 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
2163 server name of the "server_name" directive.
2165 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2166 amd64, sparc É ppc; bug appeared in 0.1.22.
2168 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
2169 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
2171 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
2172 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
2175 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
2177 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
2178 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
2180 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
2181 Solaris; bug appeared in 0.1.21.
2184 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
2186 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
2187 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
2189 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
2190 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
2192 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
2195 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
2197 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
2198 the fastcgi_params directive.
2200 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
2203 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
2205 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
2206 returned for the local requests.
2208 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
2210 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
2211 request body via SSL connections.
2214 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
2216 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
2217 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
2220 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
2223 *) Bugfix: in the redirect rewrite directive the arguments were
2224 concatenated with URI by the "&" rather than the "?".
2226 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
2227 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
2229 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
2231 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
2232 the segmentation fault.
2234 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
2237 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
2239 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
2240 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
2241 configuration to the request.
2244 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
2246 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
2247 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
2248 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
2249 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
2251 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
2253 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
2255 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
2258 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
2259 small caps letters in extension.
2261 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
2262 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
2263 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
2265 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
2266 host name and a slash were added to them; bug appeared in 0.1.14.
2268 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
2271 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
2273 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
2274 request the final chunk was issued.
2276 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
2277 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
2279 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
2280 segmentation faults.
2282 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
2285 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
2286 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
2288 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
2290 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
2291 the "Content-Length: 0" header; bug appeared in 0.1.14.
2294 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
2296 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
2299 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
2300 different number of the captures and substitutions.
2302 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
2305 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
2306 arguments and in the original state.
2308 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
2309 to use the regular expressions in locations.
2311 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
2312 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; bug appeared in
2315 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
2316 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
2317 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
2318 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
2321 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
2323 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
2324 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
2325 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
2327 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
2328 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
2329 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
2331 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
2332 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
2333 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
2334 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
2335 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
2336 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
2337 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
2339 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; bug appeared in 0.1.3.
2341 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
2342 proxy_pass directive.
2344 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
2347 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
2348 ngx_http_proxy_module.
2350 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
2351 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
2354 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
2356 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
2359 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
2362 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
2366 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
2368 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
2370 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
2371 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
2372 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
2373 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
2375 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
2376 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
2379 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
2381 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
2383 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
2384 transferred response.
2386 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
2387 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
2389 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
2392 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
2393 broken symlink was in a directory.
2395 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
2398 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
2399 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
2402 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
2403 when the /dev/poll method was used.
2405 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
2407 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
2409 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
2411 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
2412 section in configuration.
2414 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
2416 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
2420 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
2422 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
2423 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
2424 lost; bug appeared in 0.1.9.
2426 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
2430 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
2432 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
2433 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
2435 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
2438 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
2439 does not support sendfile64().
2441 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
2442 --with-poll_module parameter was required; bug appeared in 0.1.8.
2445 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
2447 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
2450 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
2452 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
2455 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
2457 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
2458 the transferred file was changed; bug appeared in 0.1.5.
2461 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
2463 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
2464 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
2467 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
2469 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
2470 returned not enough data" alerts.
2472 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
2473 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
2474 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
2477 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
2480 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
2482 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
2484 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
2485 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
2487 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
2489 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
2492 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
2494 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
2497 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
2499 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
2501 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
2503 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
2507 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
2509 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
2510 options in configure.
2512 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
2514 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
2516 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
2517 reconfiguration was impossible; bug appeared in 0.1.1.
2519 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
2522 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
2523 charset module directives; bug appeared in 0.1.1.
2525 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
2527 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
2531 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
2533 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
2535 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
2537 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
2538 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
2540 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
2542 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
2544 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
2547 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
2549 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
2550 used while the proxying.
2552 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
2554 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
2555 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
2558 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
2560 *) The first public version.