2 Changes with nginx 0.8.33 01 Feb 2010
4 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing spaces in URI.
5 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
7 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores short files names.
8 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
10 *) Change: now keepalive connections after POST requests are not
11 disabled for MSIE 7.0+. Thanks to Adam Lounds.
13 *) Workaround: now keepalive connections are disabled for Safari.
14 Thanks to Joshua Sierles.
16 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
17 another proxied or FastCGI location, then $upstream_response_time
18 variable may have abnormally large value; the bug had appeared in
21 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, while
22 discarding a request body; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
25 Changes with nginx 0.8.32 11 Jan 2010
27 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
28 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
30 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures worked for two names only.
31 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
33 *) Bugfix: now the "localhost" name is used in the "Host" request
34 header line, if an unix domain socket is defined in the "auth_http"
36 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
38 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support chunked transfer encoding for 201
40 Thanks to Julian Reich.
42 *) Bugfix: if the "expires modified" set date in the past, then a
43 negative number was set in the "Cache-Control" response header
45 Thanks to Alex Kapranoff.
48 Changes with nginx 0.8.31 23 Dec 2009
50 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive may redirect the 301 and 302
53 *) Feature: the $geoip_city_continent_code, $geoip_latitude, and
54 $geoip_longitude variables.
55 Thanks to Arvind Sundararajan.
57 *) Feature: now the ngx_http_image_filter_module deletes always EXIF
58 and other application specific data if the data consume more than 5%
61 *) Bugfix: nginx closed a connection if a cached response had an empty
63 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
65 *) Bugfix: nginx might not be built by gcc 4.x if the -O2 or higher
66 optimization option was used.
67 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Denis F. Latypoff.
69 *) Bugfix: regular expressions in location were always tested in
70 case-sensitive mode; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
72 *) Bugfix: nginx cached a 304 response if there was the "If-None-Match"
73 header line in a proxied request.
74 Thanks to Tim Dettrick and David Kostal.
76 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to delete a temporary file twice if the
77 file should replace an already existent file.
80 Changes with nginx 0.8.30 15 Dec 2009
82 *) Change: now the default buffer size of the
83 "large_client_header_buffers" directive is 8K.
84 Thanks to Andrew Cholakian.
86 *) Feature: the conf/fastcgi.conf for simple FastCGI configurations.
88 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to rename a temporary file twice if the
89 file should replace an already existent file.
91 *) Bugfix: of "double free or corruption" error issued if host could
92 not be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
93 Thanks to Konstantin Svist.
95 *) Bugfix: in libatomic usage on some platforms.
96 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
99 Changes with nginx 0.8.29 30 Nov 2009
101 *) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for
102 proxied HTTP/0.9 responses.
104 *) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
105 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support
108 *) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage.
109 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
111 *) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure.
112 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
114 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights.
116 *) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly.
118 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not
119 work in a "server_name" directive.
120 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
123 Changes with nginx 0.8.28 23 Nov 2009
125 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
126 the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
129 Changes with nginx 0.8.27 17 Nov 2009
131 *) Bugfix: regular expressions did not work in nginx/Windows; the bug
132 had appeared in 0.8.25.
135 Changes with nginx 0.8.26 16 Nov 2009
137 *) Bugfix: in captures usage in "rewrite" directive; the bug had
140 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
141 the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
144 Changes with nginx 0.8.25 16 Nov 2009
146 *) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is
147 not found by $r->variable() method.
149 *) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module.
151 *) Feature: regular expression named captures.
153 *) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if
156 *) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too.
158 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low
159 memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18.
161 *) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support
162 gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared
166 Changes with nginx 0.8.24 11 Nov 2009
168 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Content-Encoding: gzip" response header
169 line in 304 responses sent by ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
171 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
172 the bug had appeared in 0.8.23.
174 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
175 inherited incorrectly from previous level.
177 *) Bugfix: in resolving empty name.
180 Changes with nginx 0.8.23 11 Nov 2009
182 *) Security: now SSL/TLS renegotiation is disabled.
183 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
185 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket did not inherit while online
188 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
189 did not without yet another directive with any IP address.
191 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault and infinite looping in resolver.
193 *) Bugfix: in resolver.
194 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
197 Changes with nginx 0.8.22 03 Nov 2009
199 *) Feature: the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", and "memcached_bind"
202 *) Feature: the "access" and the "deny" directives support IPv6.
204 *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive supports IPv6 addresses in
207 *) Feature: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive.
209 *) Bugfix: nginx did not delete unix domain socket after configuration
212 *) Bugfix: nginx deleted unix domain socket while online upgrade.
214 *) Bugfix: the "!-x" operator did not work.
215 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
217 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
218 limit_rate was used in HTTPS server.
219 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
221 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while
223 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
225 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
226 there was no "listen" directive in "server" block; the bug had
230 Changes with nginx 0.8.21 26 Oct 2009
232 *) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support.
234 *) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix
236 Thanks to Hongli Lai.
238 *) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive.
240 *) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen
243 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms;
245 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
248 Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009
250 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5".
252 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
253 slash in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15.
255 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path
256 configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53.
258 *) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the
259 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
261 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file,
262 or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker had no enough access
263 rights for top level directories.
265 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines
266 were not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
267 were used with any parameters.
269 *) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size.
272 Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009
274 *) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default.
276 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM".
278 *) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared
282 Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009
284 *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive.
286 *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used.
288 *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level"
291 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket
293 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
295 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc.
296 Thanks to Marcus Ramberg.
298 *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on
300 Thanks to Xie Zhenye.
302 *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the
303 bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
305 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
308 Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009
310 *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header
313 *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case.
315 *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable.
317 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
320 Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009
322 *) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive.
324 *) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named
327 *) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning.
328 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
330 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
331 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
333 *) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in
334 access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level.
336 *) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the
337 ngx_http_image_filter_module.
339 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header
340 line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on.
342 *) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in
345 *) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in
347 Thanks to Igor Artemiev.
350 Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009
352 *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while
353 specially crafted request handling.
354 Thanks to Chris Ries.
356 *) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld
357 were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by
360 *) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
362 *) Bugfix: in file AIO.
364 *) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
366 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
369 Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009
371 *) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING"
374 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if
375 error_log was set to info or debug level.
376 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
378 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
380 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the
381 bug had appeared in 0.6.10.
384 Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009
386 *) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in
389 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option
390 on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12.
393 Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009
395 *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD.
397 *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
399 *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
402 Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009
404 *) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping
407 *) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux.
409 *) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive.
412 Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009
414 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used.
416 *) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the
417 bug had appeared in 0.8.9.
420 Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009
422 *) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this
423 should improve large caches handling.
425 *) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside
426 at different file systems.
429 Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009
431 *) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records.
433 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
434 request was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a
435 caching was enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in
439 Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009
441 *) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7.
443 *) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was
444 changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client
445 certificate if it was offered.
446 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
448 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable.
449 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
451 *) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive.
452 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
454 *) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive.
456 *) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting
459 *) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the
460 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
461 Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev.
463 *) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did
464 not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate",
465 "X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend
467 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
469 *) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend
470 response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
471 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
473 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an
474 empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5.
477 Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009
479 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module.
481 *) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML
482 document" for valid XML document.
483 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
485 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by
486 a regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode.
488 *) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI.
489 Thanks to Hugo Leisink.
491 *) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during
492 installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
493 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
496 Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009
498 *) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method.
500 *) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password
501 while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows.
503 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests.
505 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module.
506 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
509 Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009
511 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
515 Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009
517 *) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable.
519 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6.
521 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
524 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
525 backend 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the
526 "WWW-Authenticate" response header line.
527 Thanks to Eugene Mychlo.
530 Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009
532 *) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on
535 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long;
536 the bug had appeared in 0.7.4.
539 Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009
541 *) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
542 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives.
544 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
545 header lines were passed to backend while caching if no
546 "proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters.
548 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not
549 hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header"
550 directives were used with any parameters.
552 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a
554 Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh.
556 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early;
557 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
560 Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009
562 *) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive.
564 *) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive.
565 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
567 *) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests.
569 *) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows.
571 *) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and
572 fastcgi_cache in nginx/Windows.
574 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.
575 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy.
578 Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009
580 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods"
583 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
584 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
586 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process,
587 if a request had no body and the $request_body variable was used;
588 the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
590 *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux;
591 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
593 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by
594 SSI, charset, and gzip filters.
596 *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to
597 ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses.
600 Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009
602 *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6.
604 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive.
606 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive.
608 *) Feature: the $request_body variable.
610 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":"
613 *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared
615 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
618 Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009
620 *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the
621 ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named
622 location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
625 Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009
627 *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
630 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.
633 Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009
635 *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
636 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work.
638 *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses.
640 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in
641 nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
643 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
644 "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
647 *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors.
649 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using
651 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
654 Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009
656 *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
658 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
661 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
662 "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had
665 *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
666 had appeared in 0.7.39.
668 *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.
670 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
672 *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
676 Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009
678 *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very
681 *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an
682 error_log and stderr.
684 *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use
685 a directory where it was run as prefix.
687 *) Feature: the -p switch.
689 *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms.
691 *) Feature: the -? and -h switches.
692 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
694 *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form.
696 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given
699 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store",
700 "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used.
701 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
703 *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication
704 server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared
706 Thanks to Simon Lecaille.
708 *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux;
709 the bug had appeared in 0.7.45.
711 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work.
712 Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff.
715 Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009
717 *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release.
719 *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching.
721 *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc.
722 client request header lines while caching.
724 *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in
727 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a
728 perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the
729 message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued.
731 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
734 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
735 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
738 Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009
740 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the
743 *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive.
745 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without
746 query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
748 *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses,
749 then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39.
752 Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009
754 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
758 Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009
760 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
761 $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48.
764 Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009
766 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive.
768 *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires",
769 "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response.
771 *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only.
773 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited.
775 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests.
776 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
778 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library.
779 Thanks to Timothy Redaelli.
781 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had
785 Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009
787 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions;
788 the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
790 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had
793 *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager
794 might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
796 *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
797 "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/
798 "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had
801 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
802 request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page
803 or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
806 Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009
808 *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect.
811 Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009
813 *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives
814 can be set on different levels.
816 *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
817 directive is canceled.
819 *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
822 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support.
824 *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone
827 *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a
828 "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
830 *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive
831 given without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
833 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
835 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without
836 references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared
840 Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009
842 *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.
844 *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.
846 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server
849 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
850 in a fallback parameter.
852 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.
854 *) Bugfix: if there is the single server for given address:port pair,
855 then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive
859 Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009
861 *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive
862 used variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
864 *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the
865 $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in
869 Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
871 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
872 setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
874 *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file"
875 directive is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the
878 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
879 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
881 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
884 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
885 regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
887 *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
888 Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
890 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
894 Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
896 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
897 "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
898 expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
899 Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
902 Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
904 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
907 *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
908 inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
910 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
913 *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
914 slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
916 Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
919 Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
921 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
922 the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
923 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
925 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
926 static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
929 Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
931 *) Feature: authentication failures logging.
933 *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
934 number of empty lines.
935 Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
937 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
938 path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
941 Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
943 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had
947 Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
949 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
950 HTTP module supports IPv6.
952 *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
953 preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
956 Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
958 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
960 Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
962 *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
963 original request extension.
965 *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
966 "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if
967 ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
968 the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
971 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
973 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
975 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
977 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
979 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
980 in mail proxy server.
981 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
983 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
984 concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&";
985 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
986 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
988 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
991 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
993 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
994 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with
998 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some
1001 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1002 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
1005 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
1007 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
1008 the "try_files" directive.
1010 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
1012 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
1014 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
1016 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
1019 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
1021 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
1024 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
1026 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
1028 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
1030 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
1031 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
1033 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1035 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
1036 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
1037 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1040 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
1042 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
1043 variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
1044 and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
1047 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
1049 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
1050 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
1052 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
1054 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0
1056 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1058 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
1062 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
1064 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
1066 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
1067 changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
1070 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
1072 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
1074 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
1076 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
1078 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1080 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
1083 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
1085 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
1087 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
1088 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1090 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
1092 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
1093 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
1094 error_page directive.
1095 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1098 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
1100 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1103 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
1105 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
1107 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
1109 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
1112 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
1115 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
1117 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
1119 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
1120 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
1122 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
1126 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
1128 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
1130 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
1132 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
1135 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
1137 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
1138 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1140 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
1142 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
1144 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
1148 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
1150 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
1152 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
1153 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
1155 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
1156 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
1158 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
1162 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
1164 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
1166 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
1168 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
1169 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
1170 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1172 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
1173 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
1175 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1178 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
1179 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
1181 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
1184 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
1186 *) Bugfix: version number update.
1189 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
1191 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
1192 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
1194 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
1196 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
1198 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
1200 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
1202 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
1203 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
1205 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
1206 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
1208 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" heaer line
1211 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
1214 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
1216 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
1218 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
1220 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
1221 not work with open_file_cache.
1223 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
1224 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
1226 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
1227 charset name received from backend.
1230 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
1232 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
1236 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
1238 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
1240 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
1241 requests starting from arbitrary position.
1243 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
1246 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
1250 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
1252 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
1253 have not default values.
1255 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
1257 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
1258 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
1260 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
1261 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
1264 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
1265 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
1267 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
1270 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
1272 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
1276 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
1278 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
1280 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
1282 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
1283 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
1284 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1286 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
1287 "error_page" directive.
1289 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
1290 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
1292 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
1293 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
1294 had appeared in 0.7.0.
1297 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
1299 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
1302 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
1303 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
1305 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
1307 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
1308 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
1310 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
1311 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
1313 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
1316 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
1318 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
1319 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
1320 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
1322 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
1324 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
1325 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
1328 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
1330 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
1331 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
1332 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
1334 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
1336 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
1337 directives use hash.
1339 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
1341 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
1343 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
1344 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
1346 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
1349 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
1350 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
1352 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
1353 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
1354 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
1358 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
1360 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
1362 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
1364 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
1365 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
1367 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
1368 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
1369 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1372 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
1374 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
1377 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
1378 with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
1379 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
1382 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
1384 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
1385 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1387 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
1388 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1390 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
1392 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
1393 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
1396 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
1397 /dev/poll methods were used.
1399 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
1402 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
1404 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
1405 request root existence is always tested.
1407 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
1411 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
1413 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
1414 bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
1416 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
1417 had appeared in 0.7.3.
1418 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
1420 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
1421 might were transferred incorrectly.
1424 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
1426 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
1428 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
1430 *) Feature: the -g switch.
1432 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
1434 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
1437 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
1439 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
1440 "application/rss+xml".
1442 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
1443 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
1445 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
1446 if the "https://" protocol is used.
1448 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
1449 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
1452 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
1454 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
1456 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
1458 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
1459 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1461 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
1462 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
1463 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1465 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
1468 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
1469 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
1472 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
1474 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
1476 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
1477 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
1479 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
1481 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
1482 now this is default parameter.
1483 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
1485 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
1488 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
1492 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
1494 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
1495 \xXX in an access_log.
1496 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1498 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
1500 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
1502 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
1503 request processing stage.
1505 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
1506 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1508 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
1509 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
1511 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
1512 if keepalive was enabled.
1515 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
1517 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
1518 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
1519 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
1521 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
1522 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
1525 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
1527 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
1528 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
1530 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
1531 for example, "1h50m".
1533 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
1534 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
1536 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
1539 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
1540 arguments in redirected URI.
1542 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
1544 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
1548 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
1550 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
1552 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
1553 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
1556 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
1558 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
1562 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
1564 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
1567 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
1568 named location via an "error_page" directive.
1570 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
1573 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
1575 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
1576 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
1577 static named locations.
1579 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
1580 client certificate in first handshake.
1581 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
1583 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
1584 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
1587 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
1589 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
1591 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
1592 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
1593 static named locations.
1595 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
1596 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1598 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
1599 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
1600 name and without variables.
1601 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1603 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
1604 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
1606 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
1607 stub block was used second time in SSI.
1609 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
1612 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
1614 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
1615 check a response length.
1617 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
1618 value was used in a "expires" directive.
1619 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
1621 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
1622 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
1624 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
1625 was used instead of the GET method.
1627 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
1628 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1630 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
1631 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1633 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1634 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1637 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
1639 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
1640 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
1642 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
1643 "server_name" directive.
1645 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
1648 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
1649 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
1651 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
1653 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
1655 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
1656 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1658 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
1659 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1661 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
1665 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
1667 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
1668 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1671 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
1673 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
1674 now this is default parameter.
1676 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
1677 "open_file_cache_valid".
1679 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
1681 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
1683 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
1685 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
1688 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
1689 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
1691 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
1692 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
1693 auth directives were not tested;
1695 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
1696 inherited from previous level.
1698 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
1699 with 499 status code.
1701 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
1702 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1704 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
1705 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
1707 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1708 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
1711 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
1713 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
1714 perl's allocated memory.
1716 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
1717 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
1718 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
1720 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
1722 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
1725 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
1726 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
1727 request body was already received.
1729 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
1731 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
1733 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
1734 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
1736 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
1737 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
1738 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
1740 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
1741 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
1743 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1746 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
1748 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
1749 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
1751 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1752 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
1755 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
1756 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
1757 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1759 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
1760 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
1761 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
1764 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
1765 server, then nginx returned usual response.
1768 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
1770 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1771 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
1775 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
1777 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
1780 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
1782 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
1783 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
1785 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
1788 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1790 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
1792 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
1793 "Last-Modified" response header line.
1795 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
1796 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
1799 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
1801 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
1802 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
1804 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
1805 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1807 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
1810 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1811 subrequests were used.
1813 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
1816 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
1817 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
1820 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
1822 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
1823 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
1825 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
1826 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
1828 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
1831 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
1833 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
1834 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
1836 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
1838 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
1840 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
1842 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
1844 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1845 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
1846 "source_charset" directives.
1848 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
1849 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
1850 Thanks to James Oakley.
1852 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
1853 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
1854 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1856 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
1857 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
1858 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1861 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
1863 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
1865 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
1867 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
1868 "limit_except" block.
1870 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
1871 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
1874 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
1875 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
1876 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
1878 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
1880 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1882 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
1883 $upstream_response_time.
1884 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1886 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1889 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
1890 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
1893 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
1895 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
1898 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
1900 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
1902 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
1905 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
1907 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
1909 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
1910 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
1912 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
1913 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
1915 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
1918 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
1919 located in non-standard place was used.
1921 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
1922 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
1924 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1927 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
1929 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
1932 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
1933 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
1935 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
1938 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
1939 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
1943 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
1945 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
1946 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
1948 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1950 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
1951 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
1953 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1954 /dev/poll method was used.
1957 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
1959 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1960 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1962 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
1963 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
1965 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
1968 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
1972 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
1974 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
1975 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
1976 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
1978 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
1979 authentication server.
1981 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
1983 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
1984 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
1985 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
1987 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
1990 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
1992 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
1993 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
1994 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
1995 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
1996 not to nginx prefix directory.
1998 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
2000 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
2001 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
2003 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
2004 regular expressions.
2006 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2007 the "backup" parameter.
2009 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
2010 $r->discard_request_body.
2012 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
2013 "Last-Modified" response header line.
2015 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
2016 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
2017 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
2019 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
2020 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
2022 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
2023 platforms except FreeBSD.
2024 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2026 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
2027 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
2030 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2031 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2034 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
2036 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
2038 *) Feature: named locations.
2040 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
2042 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
2044 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
2046 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
2047 might not close connection to backend.
2049 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
2050 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
2052 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
2053 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
2056 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
2058 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
2059 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
2061 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
2062 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2064 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
2065 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2067 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
2069 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
2071 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2073 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
2074 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
2077 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
2079 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
2080 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
2082 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
2085 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
2088 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
2090 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2092 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
2093 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2096 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
2098 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
2100 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2101 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
2102 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2104 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
2105 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
2107 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
2108 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2110 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2111 eventport method was used.
2113 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
2114 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
2118 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
2120 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
2121 passed garbage in the header to a client.
2124 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
2126 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
2128 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
2129 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
2131 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
2134 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
2135 to the master process identification number.
2138 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
2140 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
2141 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
2144 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
2146 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
2147 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
2151 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
2153 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
2154 was made using HTTP/0.9.
2156 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
2157 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
2160 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
2162 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
2165 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
2166 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
2168 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
2169 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
2171 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
2172 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
2173 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
2175 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2178 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
2180 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
2181 had appeared in 0.5.21.
2184 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
2186 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
2187 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
2189 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
2190 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
2191 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
2193 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
2195 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2197 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2200 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
2202 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
2204 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
2205 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
2207 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2208 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
2210 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
2211 transferred incorrectly.
2212 Thanks to Evan Miller.
2214 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
2216 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2218 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
2220 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2223 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
2225 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
2227 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
2230 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
2232 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
2233 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2234 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
2236 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
2237 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
2239 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
2240 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
2243 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
2245 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
2247 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
2249 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
2250 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
2252 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
2253 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
2254 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
2255 had appeared in 0.5.9.
2257 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
2258 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
2262 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
2264 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
2266 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
2269 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
2270 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
2272 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2274 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
2275 returned old cached value.
2278 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
2280 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
2281 "ip_hash" directive.
2282 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
2284 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
2285 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
2286 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2288 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2289 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
2292 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
2293 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
2296 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
2298 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
2299 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
2300 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2302 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
2303 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
2305 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
2306 and "pop3_auth" directives.
2308 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
2309 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
2312 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
2313 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
2315 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
2316 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
2318 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
2319 "ip_hash" directive was used.
2321 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
2325 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
2327 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
2331 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
2333 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
2335 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
2336 via keep-alive connection.
2338 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
2339 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2341 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
2342 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
2344 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
2345 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
2348 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2349 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
2352 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
2354 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2355 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
2357 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2358 temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug
2359 had appeared in 0.5.8.
2361 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2362 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
2364 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
2367 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
2369 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
2370 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
2372 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
2373 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
2375 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
2376 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
2377 Thanks to Evan Miller.
2379 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
2380 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
2382 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
2383 was built with -O2 optimization.
2386 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
2388 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
2389 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
2391 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
2392 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
2395 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
2397 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
2398 variable value as a key.
2400 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
2402 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
2405 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
2407 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
2409 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
2410 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
2412 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
2416 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
2418 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
2419 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
2421 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
2422 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
2423 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
2424 switched to a next upstream.
2426 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
2427 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
2428 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
2430 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
2431 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
2434 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2437 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
2440 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
2442 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
2444 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
2446 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2447 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
2448 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
2450 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
2451 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
2452 "Content-Type" header line in response.
2454 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
2456 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
2458 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
2461 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
2463 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
2464 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
2466 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
2468 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
2470 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
2471 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2473 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
2475 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
2476 $r->sendfile() was used.
2479 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
2481 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
2483 *) Feature: the -V switch.
2485 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
2488 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
2491 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
2492 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
2494 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
2497 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
2499 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
2502 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
2503 line for the DELETE method.
2505 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
2506 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
2508 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
2509 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
2512 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
2514 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
2515 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
2517 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
2518 exist in nginx configuration.
2520 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
2523 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
2525 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
2526 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
2530 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
2532 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
2533 unsuccessful completion of a request.
2535 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
2536 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
2538 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
2539 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
2542 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
2543 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
2544 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
2546 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
2547 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
2548 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
2550 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
2551 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
2552 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
2554 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
2555 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
2558 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
2560 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
2561 directive are not supported anymore.
2563 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
2564 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
2565 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
2566 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
2569 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2570 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
2572 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
2574 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
2575 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
2577 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
2581 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
2583 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2585 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
2588 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
2589 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
2591 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
2594 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
2596 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
2597 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
2599 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
2600 system time was changed backward.
2602 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
2603 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
2605 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
2606 proxy authentication server failed.
2609 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
2611 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
2612 "limit_except" block.
2614 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
2616 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
2617 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
2620 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
2621 the deferred accept() were used.
2623 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
2624 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2626 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2629 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
2630 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
2632 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
2633 had appeared in 0.3.50.
2636 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
2638 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
2640 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
2641 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
2643 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
2646 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
2648 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
2650 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
2653 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
2654 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
2657 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
2659 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
2661 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
2662 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
2665 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
2666 variable was used in the "map" directive.
2668 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
2669 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
2671 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
2675 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
2677 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2679 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
2683 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
2685 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
2686 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
2689 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
2691 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
2694 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
2696 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
2698 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
2700 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
2703 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
2704 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
2707 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
2708 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
2711 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
2715 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
2717 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
2720 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
2721 if its length was set by text string in the
2722 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
2724 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
2725 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
2726 had appeared in 0.4.4.
2729 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
2731 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
2735 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
2737 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
2739 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
2741 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
2742 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
2744 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
2745 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
2747 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
2750 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
2751 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
2754 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
2756 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
2757 "error_page" directive.
2759 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
2761 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
2763 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
2764 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
2766 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
2767 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
2769 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
2771 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
2774 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
2776 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
2777 had appeared in 0.4.1.
2780 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
2782 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
2783 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
2785 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
2788 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
2790 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
2793 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
2795 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
2796 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
2798 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
2799 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
2800 $r->has_request_body method.
2802 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
2804 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
2805 line for the PUT method.
2807 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
2809 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
2810 directive with variables and the first index name was without
2811 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2814 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
2816 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
2818 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
2820 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
2822 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
2823 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
2826 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
2828 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
2829 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
2832 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
2834 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
2835 "error_page" directive.
2837 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
2839 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
2840 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
2841 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
2844 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
2846 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
2848 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
2850 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
2851 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
2853 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
2855 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
2856 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
2858 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
2861 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
2863 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
2865 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
2866 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
2868 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
2869 to a client the required certificates information.
2871 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
2872 the "root" directive.
2875 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
2877 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
2879 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
2880 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
2882 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
2883 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
2887 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
2889 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2891 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
2893 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
2895 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
2896 was relative to a server prefix.
2898 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
2899 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
2901 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
2902 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
2904 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
2905 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
2908 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
2909 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
2913 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
2915 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
2917 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
2918 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
2920 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
2923 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
2924 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
2926 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
2927 first request to a backend only.
2929 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
2933 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
2935 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
2938 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2939 the "weight" parameter.
2941 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
2943 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
2945 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
2946 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
2949 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
2950 return the 409 code.
2952 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
2953 continued proxying anyway.
2956 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
2958 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
2959 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
2960 return the 405 error.
2962 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
2963 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
2965 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
2966 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2968 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
2969 temporary file was not removed.
2972 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
2974 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
2975 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2978 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
2980 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
2981 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
2982 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
2984 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
2985 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
2987 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
2988 proxy and FastCGI mode.
2990 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
2991 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
2993 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
2994 SSI after inclusion.
2996 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
2997 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
3000 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
3002 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
3004 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
3005 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
3009 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
3011 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
3012 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
3014 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
3015 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
3016 start of the rewritten redirect.
3018 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
3019 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
3020 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
3023 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
3024 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
3027 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
3029 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
3031 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
3032 SSI command is always removed.
3035 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
3037 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
3038 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
3040 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
3041 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
3043 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
3046 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
3047 ngx_http_perl_module.
3050 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
3052 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
3053 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
3055 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
3058 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
3061 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
3064 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
3065 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
3066 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
3070 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
3072 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
3074 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
3075 koi-win conversion table.
3077 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
3080 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
3082 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
3085 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
3087 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
3090 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
3093 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
3094 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
3095 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
3096 were not written to access log.
3098 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
3099 "Cache-Control" response header line.
3102 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
3104 *) Feature: the -v switch.
3106 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
3109 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
3111 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
3112 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
3113 segmentation fault was occurred.
3116 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
3118 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
3120 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
3122 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
3125 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
3127 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
3128 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
3131 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
3133 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
3134 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
3137 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
3138 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
3139 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
3141 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
3145 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
3147 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
3149 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
3150 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
3152 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
3155 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
3157 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
3159 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
3161 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
3162 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
3165 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
3166 login and password to pass authorization server.
3167 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3170 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
3172 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
3174 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
3177 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
3180 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
3183 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
3185 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
3187 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
3188 inside the "if" block.
3190 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
3191 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
3193 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
3195 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
3196 and $r->remote_addr.
3198 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
3200 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
3201 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
3203 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
3204 ngx_http_ssi_module.
3206 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
3207 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
3208 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
3209 a current path but not to a server prefix.
3212 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
3214 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
3215 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
3217 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
3221 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
3223 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
3226 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
3228 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3229 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
3231 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
3232 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
3234 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
3237 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
3239 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
3240 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
3243 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
3245 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
3247 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
3250 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
3252 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
3254 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3256 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
3257 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
3258 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
3261 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
3262 and the request body was in temporary file then the request was not
3265 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
3268 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
3270 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
3273 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
3274 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
3276 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
3277 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
3280 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
3282 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
3283 many warnings before the response.
3285 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
3286 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
3288 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
3289 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
3291 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
3292 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
3296 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
3298 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
3300 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
3302 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
3303 terminated prematurely.
3304 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
3306 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
3307 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
3310 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
3311 completion of a request.
3313 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
3314 directive was transferred to a client.
3317 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
3319 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
3320 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
3322 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
3323 "log_format" directive.
3325 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
3327 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
3330 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
3331 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
3333 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
3334 autoconfiguration directive.
3336 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
3337 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
3340 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
3342 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
3343 "optimize_server_names".
3345 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
3346 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
3350 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
3352 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
3353 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
3357 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
3359 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
3361 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
3362 not transferred to a client.
3364 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
3366 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
3369 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
3370 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
3371 had appeared in 0.3.18.
3374 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
3376 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
3378 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
3381 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
3385 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
3387 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
3388 $r->unescape methods.
3390 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
3393 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
3394 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
3398 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
3400 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
3402 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
3406 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
3408 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
3410 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
3411 the "/usr?args" form.
3414 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
3416 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
3418 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
3420 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
3423 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
3425 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
3428 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
3429 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
3431 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
3432 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
3434 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
3435 directives were canceled.
3437 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
3439 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
3440 only without the URI part.
3442 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
3443 ngx_http_map_module.
3445 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
3446 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
3448 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
3449 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
3452 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
3454 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
3455 sendfile64() in kernel.
3457 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
3460 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
3463 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3465 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
3466 directive the port 80 was used by default.
3469 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
3471 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
3473 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
3476 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
3478 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
3480 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
3481 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
3484 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
3486 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
3487 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
3488 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3490 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
3491 had appeared in 0.3.13.
3494 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
3496 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
3499 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3501 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
3502 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
3505 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
3507 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
3511 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
3513 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
3515 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
3518 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
3520 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
3521 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
3523 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
3524 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
3527 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
3529 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
3530 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
3531 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
3532 and is not built by default.
3534 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
3536 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
3537 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
3538 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
3540 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
3542 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
3544 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
3545 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
3547 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
3548 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
3550 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
3551 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
3552 without the "Basic realm" text.
3554 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
3555 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
3556 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
3558 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
3561 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
3562 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
3565 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
3567 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
3568 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
3571 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
3573 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
3574 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
3575 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
3577 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
3580 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
3582 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
3584 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
3586 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
3588 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
3590 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
3592 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
3594 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
3595 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
3598 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
3600 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
3601 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
3604 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
3606 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
3607 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
3610 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
3612 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
3613 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
3616 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
3617 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
3619 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
3620 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3622 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
3623 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
3625 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
3627 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
3629 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
3630 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
3631 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
3632 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
3633 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
3634 will be canceled soon.
3636 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
3637 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
3639 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
3640 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
3642 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
3645 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
3646 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
3647 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
3650 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3653 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
3654 several worker processes were used.
3656 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
3659 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
3660 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
3661 did not transferred at all.
3664 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
3666 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
3668 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3669 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
3672 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
3674 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
3675 authorization server.
3677 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
3679 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
3680 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
3683 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
3684 the 80 port was always used.
3687 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
3689 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
3690 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3692 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
3693 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
3695 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
3696 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
3699 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
3701 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
3702 had appeared in 0.3.3.
3705 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
3707 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
3708 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
3710 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
3713 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
3714 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
3716 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
3718 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
3719 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
3722 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
3723 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
3725 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
3727 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
3729 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
3730 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
3732 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
3734 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
3736 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
3737 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3739 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
3743 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
3745 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
3747 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
3748 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
3749 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
3752 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
3754 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
3755 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
3758 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
3762 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
3764 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
3765 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
3769 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
3771 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
3772 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
3774 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
3775 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
3777 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
3778 more flexible to change an error code.
3780 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
3781 in proxied subrequests.
3783 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
3784 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
3787 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
3788 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
3789 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
3790 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3793 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
3795 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
3796 causes the warning and changes old value.
3798 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
3800 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
3801 the "include" command.
3803 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
3804 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
3807 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
3809 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
3810 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
3812 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
3815 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
3816 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
3819 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
3821 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
3822 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3825 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
3827 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
3829 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
3832 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
3833 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3835 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
3838 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
3841 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
3843 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3845 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
3848 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
3850 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
3851 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
3855 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
3857 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
3858 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
3859 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
3860 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
3861 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
3862 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
3865 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
3866 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
3867 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
3869 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
3871 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
3873 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
3874 not run for subrequests.
3876 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
3879 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
3880 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
3882 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
3883 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3885 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3887 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3889 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
3890 from the 304 responses.
3891 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
3894 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
3896 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
3897 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
3899 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
3902 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3905 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
3907 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
3909 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
3911 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
3913 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
3914 of authorization use.
3917 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
3919 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
3920 changed using the -HUP signal.
3922 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
3924 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
3927 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
3928 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
3929 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
3930 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3933 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
3935 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
3936 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
3937 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
3939 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
3940 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3943 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
3945 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
3946 can not be used in SSI.
3949 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
3951 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
3952 information did not logged in the error log.
3954 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
3955 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
3957 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
3958 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
3960 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
3963 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
3964 became shorter in the "ps" command.
3967 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
3969 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
3970 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
3971 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
3973 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
3974 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
3976 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
3977 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
3978 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3980 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
3982 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
3983 the "include virtual" command.
3985 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
3986 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
3987 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3989 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
3990 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
3991 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3993 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
3996 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
3997 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3999 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
4003 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
4005 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
4008 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
4009 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
4011 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
4013 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
4015 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
4016 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
4018 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
4021 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
4022 than one remote subrequest.
4024 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
4025 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
4028 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
4030 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
4032 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
4035 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4038 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
4040 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
4042 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
4043 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
4045 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
4046 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
4047 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
4048 request all backends again.
4051 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
4053 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
4054 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
4055 now returns the 400 error.
4057 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
4059 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
4060 parameters of the "listen" directive.
4062 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
4064 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
4066 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
4069 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
4070 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
4073 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
4075 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
4077 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
4079 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
4080 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4082 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
4083 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
4084 occurred on the start.
4086 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
4087 bigger than the temporary file.
4089 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
4090 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
4094 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
4096 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
4097 big response part were include by SSI.
4099 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
4102 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
4104 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
4105 the client request header line passing.
4108 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
4110 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
4111 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4113 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
4114 level cause the bus fault on start up.
4116 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
4118 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
4119 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
4122 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
4124 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
4125 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4127 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
4130 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
4131 of regular expressions.
4133 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
4134 proxy and FastCGI mode.
4137 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
4139 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
4141 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
4143 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
4145 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
4146 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
4149 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
4151 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
4154 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
4156 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
4157 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
4158 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
4161 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
4164 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
4166 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
4169 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
4171 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
4173 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
4174 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
4177 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
4178 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
4180 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
4182 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
4183 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
4185 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
4187 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
4188 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
4190 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
4191 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
4193 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
4194 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
4195 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
4196 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
4198 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
4199 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
4201 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
4203 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
4206 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
4207 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
4210 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
4212 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
4213 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
4216 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
4218 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
4220 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
4222 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
4224 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
4226 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
4227 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
4228 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
4230 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
4231 headers or a backend response header.
4233 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
4234 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
4235 returned the 408 response.
4237 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
4238 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
4240 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
4241 tolerance configuration.
4243 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
4244 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
4246 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
4249 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
4251 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
4254 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
4257 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
4259 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
4261 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
4264 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
4266 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
4268 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
4269 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
4272 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
4274 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
4275 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
4278 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
4279 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
4283 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
4285 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
4288 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
4290 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
4291 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
4294 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
4296 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
4298 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
4299 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
4301 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
4302 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
4303 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
4304 after request completion.
4306 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
4309 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
4310 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
4312 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
4313 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
4315 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
4316 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
4317 will be removed soon.
4319 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
4321 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
4323 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
4325 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
4328 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
4330 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
4331 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
4333 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
4334 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
4337 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
4340 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
4344 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
4346 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
4347 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
4348 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
4351 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
4353 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
4354 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
4355 server name of the "server_name" directive.
4357 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
4358 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
4360 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
4361 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
4363 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
4364 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
4367 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
4369 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
4370 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
4372 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
4373 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
4376 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
4378 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
4379 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
4381 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
4382 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
4384 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
4387 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
4389 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
4390 the fastcgi_params directive.
4392 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
4395 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
4397 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
4398 returned for the local requests.
4400 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
4402 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
4403 request body via SSL connections.
4406 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
4408 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
4409 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
4412 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
4415 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
4416 with URI by an "&" rather than a "?".
4418 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
4419 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
4421 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
4423 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
4424 the segmentation fault.
4426 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
4429 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
4431 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
4432 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
4433 configuration to the request.
4436 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
4438 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
4439 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
4440 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
4441 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
4443 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
4445 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
4447 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
4450 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
4451 small caps letters in extension.
4453 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
4454 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
4455 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
4457 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
4458 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
4461 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
4464 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
4466 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
4467 request the final chunk was issued.
4469 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
4470 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
4472 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
4473 segmentation faults.
4475 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
4478 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
4479 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
4481 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
4483 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
4484 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
4487 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
4489 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
4492 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
4493 different number of the captures and substitutions.
4495 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
4498 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
4499 arguments and in the original state.
4501 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
4502 to use the regular expressions in locations.
4504 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
4505 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
4508 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
4509 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
4510 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
4511 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
4514 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
4516 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
4517 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
4518 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
4520 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
4521 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
4522 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
4524 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
4525 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
4526 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
4527 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
4528 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
4529 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
4530 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
4532 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
4535 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
4536 proxy_pass directive.
4538 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
4541 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
4542 ngx_http_proxy_module.
4544 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
4545 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
4548 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
4550 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
4553 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
4556 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
4560 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
4562 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
4564 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
4565 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
4566 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
4567 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
4569 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
4570 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
4573 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
4575 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
4577 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
4578 transferred response.
4580 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
4581 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
4583 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
4586 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
4587 broken symlink was in a directory.
4589 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
4592 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
4593 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
4596 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
4597 when the /dev/poll method was used.
4599 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
4601 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
4603 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
4605 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
4606 section in configuration.
4608 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
4610 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
4614 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
4616 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
4617 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
4618 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
4620 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
4624 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
4626 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
4627 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
4629 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
4632 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
4633 does not support sendfile64().
4635 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
4636 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
4640 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
4642 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
4645 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
4647 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
4650 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
4652 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
4653 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
4656 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
4658 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
4659 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
4662 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
4664 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
4665 returned not enough data" alerts.
4667 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
4668 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
4669 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
4672 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
4675 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
4677 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
4679 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
4680 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
4682 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
4684 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
4687 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
4689 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
4692 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
4694 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
4696 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
4698 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
4702 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
4704 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
4705 options in configure.
4707 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
4709 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
4711 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
4712 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
4714 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
4717 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
4718 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
4720 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
4722 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
4726 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
4728 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
4730 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
4732 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
4733 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
4735 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
4737 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
4739 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
4742 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
4744 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
4745 used while the proxying.
4747 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
4749 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
4750 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
4753 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
4755 *) The first public version.