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2 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
4 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
6 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
8 *) Feature: the -g switch.
10 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
12 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
15 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
17 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
18 "application/rss+xml".
20 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
21 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
23 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
24 if the "https://" protocol is used.
26 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
27 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
30 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
32 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
34 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
36 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
37 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
39 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
40 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
41 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
43 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
44 appeared in 0.7.1.
46 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
47 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
50 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
52 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
54 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
55 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
57 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
59 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
60 now this is default parameter.
61 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
63 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
64 rotation signals.
66 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
67 Thanks to Roxis.
70 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
72 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
73 \xXX in an access_log.
74 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
76 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
78 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
80 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
81 request processing stage.
83 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
84 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
86 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
87 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
89 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
90 if keepalive was enabled.
93 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
95 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
96 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
97 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
99 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
100 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
103 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
105 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
106 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
108 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
109 for example, "1h50m".
111 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
112 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
114 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
115 output.
117 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
118 arguments in redirected URI.
120 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
122 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
123 0.6.15.
126 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
128 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
130 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
131 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
134 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
136 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
137 0.6.27.
140 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
142 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
143 Linux 2.6.18+.
145 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
146 named location via an "error_page" directive.
148 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
149 proxy.
151 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
153 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
154 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
155 static named locations.
157 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
158 client certificate in first handshake.
159 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
161 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
162 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
163 memory.
165 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
167 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
169 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
170 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
171 static named locations.
173 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
174 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
176 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
177 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
178 name and without variables.
179 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
181 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
182 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
184 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
185 stub block was used second time in SSI.
187 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
190 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
192 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
193 check a response length.
195 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
196 value was used in a "expires" directive.
197 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
199 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
200 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
202 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
203 was used instead of the GET method.
205 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
206 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
208 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
209 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
211 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
212 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
215 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
217 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
218 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
220 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
221 "server_name" directive.
223 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
224 directive.
226 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
227 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
229 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
231 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
233 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
234 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
236 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
237 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
239 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
240 appeared in 0.6.23.
243 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
245 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
246 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
249 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
251 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
252 now this is default parameter.
254 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
255 "open_file_cache_valid".
257 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
259 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
261 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
263 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
264 block.
266 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
267 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
269 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
270 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
271 auth directives were not tested;
273 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
274 inherited from previous level.
276 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
277 with 499 status code.
279 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
280 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
282 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
283 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
285 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
286 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
289 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
291 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
292 perl's allocated memory.
294 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
295 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
296 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
297 0.5.9.
298 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
300 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
301 the regex captures.
303 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
304 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
305 request body was already received.
307 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
308 keep-alive state.
309 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
311 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
312 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
314 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
315 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
316 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
318 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
319 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
320 0.6.10.
321 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
324 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
326 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
327 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
328 resolver
330 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
331 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
332 in 0.6.19.
334 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
335 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
336 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
338 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
339 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
340 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
341 record is too big".
343 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
344 server, then nginx returned usual response.
347 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
349 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
350 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
351 in 0.6.19.
354 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
356 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
359 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
361 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
362 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
364 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
365 error_log.
367 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
369 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
371 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
372 "Last-Modified" response header line.
374 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
375 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
378 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
380 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
381 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
383 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
384 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
386 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
387 directive.
389 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
390 subrequests were used.
392 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
393 gzip were used.
395 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
396 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
399 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
401 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
402 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
404 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
405 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
407 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
410 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
412 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
413 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
415 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
417 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
419 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
421 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
423 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
424 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
425 "source_charset" directives.
427 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
428 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
429 Thanks to James Oakley.
431 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
432 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
433 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
435 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
436 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
437 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
440 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
442 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
444 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
446 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
447 "limit_except" block.
449 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
450 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
451 appeared in 0.6.6.
453 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
454 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
455 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
457 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
458 log was enabled.
459 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
461 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
462 $upstream_response_time.
463 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
465 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
466 memcached was used.
468 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
469 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
470 in 0.6.11.
472 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
474 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
477 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
479 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
480 autoindex was used.
481 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
484 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
486 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
488 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
489 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
491 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
492 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
494 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
495 0.6.9.
497 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
498 located in non-standard place was used.
500 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
501 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
502 characters.
503 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
506 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
508 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
509 used.
511 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
512 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
514 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
515 lines.
517 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
518 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
519 0.6.6.
522 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
524 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
525 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
527 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
529 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
530 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
532 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
533 /dev/poll method was used.
536 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
538 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
539 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
541 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
542 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
544 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
545 down.
547 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
548 0.6.8.
551 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
553 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
554 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
555 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
557 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
558 authentication server.
560 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
562 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
563 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
564 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
566 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
569 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
571 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
572 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
573 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
574 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
575 not to nginx prefix directory.
577 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
579 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
580 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
582 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
583 regular expressions.
585 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
586 the "backup" parameter.
588 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
589 $r->discard_request_body.
591 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
592 "Last-Modified" response header line.
594 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
595 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
596 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
598 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
599 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
601 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
602 platforms except FreeBSD.
603 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
605 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
606 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
607 appeared in 0.6.6.
609 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
610 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
613 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
615 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
617 *) Feature: named locations.
619 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
621 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
623 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
625 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
626 might not close connection to backend.
628 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
629 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
631 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
632 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
635 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
637 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
638 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
640 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
641 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
643 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
644 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
646 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
648 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
649 Solaris/amd64.
650 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
652 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
653 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
656 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
658 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
659 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
661 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
662 changed.
664 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
665 directives.
667 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
668 Studio.
669 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
671 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
672 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
675 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
677 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
679 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
680 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
681 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
683 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
684 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
686 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
687 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
689 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
690 eventport method was used.
692 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
693 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
694 appeared in 0.5.13.
697 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
699 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
700 passed garbage in the header to a client.
703 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
705 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
707 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
708 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
710 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
711 truncated.
713 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
714 to the master process identification number.
717 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
719 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
720 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
723 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
725 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
726 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
727 0.5.24.
730 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
732 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
733 was made using HTTP/0.9.
735 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
736 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
739 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
741 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
742 extension.
744 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
745 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
747 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
748 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
750 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
751 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
752 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
754 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
757 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
759 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
760 had appeared in 0.5.21.
763 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
765 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
766 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
768 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
769 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
770 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
772 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
773 library was used.
774 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
776 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
779 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
781 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
783 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
784 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
786 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
787 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
789 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
790 transferred incorrectly.
791 Thanks to Evan Miller.
793 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
794 Studio.
795 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
797 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
798 make.
799 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
802 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
804 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
806 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
807 the $r->flush.
809 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
811 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
812 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
813 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
815 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
816 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
818 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
819 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
822 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
824 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
826 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
828 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
829 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
831 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
832 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
833 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
834 had appeared in 0.5.9.
836 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
837 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
838 0.3.38.
841 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
843 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
845 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
846 "types" block.
848 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
849 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
851 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
853 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
854 returned old cached value.
857 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
859 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
860 "ip_hash" directive.
861 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
863 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
864 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
865 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
867 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
868 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
869 32K.
871 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
872 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
875 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
877 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
878 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
879 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
881 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
882 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
884 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
885 and "pop3_auth" directives.
887 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
888 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
889 disabled.
891 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
892 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
894 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
895 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
897 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
898 "ip_hash" directive was used.
900 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
901 methods are used.
904 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
906 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
907 configuration file.
910 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
912 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
914 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
915 via keep-alive connection.
917 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
918 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
920 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
921 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
923 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
924 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
925 send timeout only.
927 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
928 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
931 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
933 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
934 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
936 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
937 temporarily files were used while working with FastCGI server; the
938 bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
940 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
941 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
943 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
946 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
948 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
949 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
951 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
952 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
954 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
955 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
956 Thanks to Evan Miller.
958 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
959 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
961 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
962 was built with -O2 optimization.
965 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
967 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
968 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
970 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
971 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
974 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
976 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
977 variable value as a key.
979 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
981 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
982 directive.
984 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
986 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
988 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
989 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
991 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
992 logging.
995 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
997 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
998 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
1000 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1001 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
1002 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
1003 switched to a next upstream.
1005 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
1006 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
1007 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1009 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1010 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1011 send timeout only.
1013 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1014 used.
1016 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
1019 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
1021 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
1023 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
1025 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1026 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
1027 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
1029 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
1030 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
1031 "Content-Type" header line in response.
1033 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
1034 support.
1035 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
1037 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
1040 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
1042 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
1043 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
1045 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
1047 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
1049 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
1050 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
1052 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
1054 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
1055 $r->sendfile() was used.
1058 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
1060 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
1062 *) Feature: the -V switch.
1064 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
1065 and G.
1067 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
1068 unprivileged user.
1070 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
1071 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
1073 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
1076 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
1078 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
1079 block.
1081 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
1082 line for the DELETE method.
1084 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
1085 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
1087 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
1088 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
1091 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
1093 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
1094 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
1096 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
1097 exist in nginx configuration.
1099 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
1102 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
1104 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
1105 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
1106 appeared in 0.5.1.
1109 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
1111 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
1112 unsuccessful completion of a request.
1114 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
1115 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
1117 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
1118 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
1119 in 0.5.0.
1121 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1122 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
1123 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1125 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1126 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
1127 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1129 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
1130 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
1131 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
1133 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
1134 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
1137 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
1139 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
1140 directive are not supported anymore.
1142 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
1143 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
1144 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
1145 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
1146 anymore.
1148 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1149 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
1151 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
1153 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
1154 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
1156 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
1157 appeared in 0.4.14.
1160 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
1162 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
1164 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
1165 Linux, and NetBSD.
1167 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
1168 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
1170 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
1171 recursively.
1173 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
1175 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1176 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
1178 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
1179 system time was changed backward.
1181 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
1182 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
1184 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
1185 proxy authentication server failed.
1188 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
1190 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
1191 "limit_except" block.
1193 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
1195 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
1196 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
1197 complete.
1199 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
1200 the deferred accept() were used.
1202 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
1203 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1205 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1206 used;
1208 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
1209 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
1211 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
1212 had appeared in 0.3.50.
1215 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
1217 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
1219 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
1220 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
1222 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
1225 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
1227 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
1229 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
1230 method.
1232 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
1233 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
1236 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
1238 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
1240 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
1241 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
1242 hogged CPU.
1244 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
1245 variable was used in the "map" directive.
1247 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
1248 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1250 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
1251 appeared in 0.4.9.
1254 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
1256 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1258 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
1259 version.
1262 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
1264 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1265 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1266 not work.
1268 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
1269 responses.
1270 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
1273 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
1275 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
1277 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
1279 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
1280 variables.
1282 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1283 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1284 not work.
1286 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
1287 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
1288 timeout.
1290 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1291 and ppc64.
1294 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
1296 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1297 and ppc64.
1299 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
1300 if its length was set by text string in the
1301 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
1303 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
1304 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
1305 had appeared in 0.4.4.
1308 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
1310 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
1311 appeared in 0.4.4.
1314 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
1316 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
1318 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
1320 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
1321 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
1323 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
1324 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
1326 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
1327 method.
1329 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
1330 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
1333 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
1335 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
1336 "error_page" directive.
1338 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
1340 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
1342 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
1343 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
1345 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
1346 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
1348 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
1350 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
1353 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
1355 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
1356 had appeared in 0.4.1.
1359 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
1361 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
1362 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
1364 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
1365 than 2G.
1367 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
1368 requests.
1369 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
1372 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
1374 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
1375 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
1377 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
1378 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
1379 $r->has_request_body method.
1381 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
1383 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
1384 line for the PUT method.
1386 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1388 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
1389 directive with variables and the first index name was without
1390 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
1393 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
1395 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
1397 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
1399 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
1401 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
1402 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
1405 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
1407 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
1408 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
1411 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
1413 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
1414 "error_page" directive.
1416 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
1418 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
1419 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
1420 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
1423 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
1425 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
1427 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
1429 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
1430 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
1432 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
1434 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
1435 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
1437 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
1440 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
1442 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
1444 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
1445 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
1447 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
1448 to a client the required certificates information.
1450 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
1451 the "root" directive.
1454 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
1456 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
1458 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
1459 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
1461 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
1462 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
1463 access log.
1466 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
1468 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1470 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
1472 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
1474 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
1475 was relative to a server prefix.
1477 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
1478 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
1480 *) Bugfix: the $r->headers_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
1481 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
1483 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1484 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
1485 upstream.
1487 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
1488 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
1489 appeared in 0.3.50.
1492 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
1494 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
1496 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
1497 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
1499 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
1500 form.
1502 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
1503 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
1505 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
1506 first request to a backend only.
1508 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
1509 appeared in 0.3.53.
1512 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
1514 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
1515 302 responses.
1517 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1518 the "weight" parameter.
1520 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
1522 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
1524 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
1525 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
1526 in the log.
1528 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
1529 return the 409 code.
1531 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
1532 continued proxying anyway.
1535 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
1537 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
1538 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
1539 return the 405 error.
1541 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
1542 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
1544 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
1545 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1547 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
1548 temporary file was not removed.
1551 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
1553 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
1554 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1557 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
1559 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
1560 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
1561 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
1563 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
1564 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
1566 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
1567 proxy and FastCGI mode.
1569 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
1570 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
1572 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
1573 SSI after inclusion.
1575 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
1576 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
1579 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
1581 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
1583 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
1584 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
1585 subrequests.
1588 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
1590 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
1591 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
1593 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
1594 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
1595 start of the rewritten redirect.
1597 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
1598 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
1599 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
1600 in 0.3.42.
1602 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
1603 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
1606 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
1608 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
1610 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
1611 SSI command is always removed.
1614 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
1616 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
1617 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
1619 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
1620 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
1622 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
1623 in proxy mode.
1625 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
1626 ngx_http_perl_module.
1629 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
1631 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
1632 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
1634 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
1635 method.
1637 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
1638 table.
1640 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
1641 table.
1643 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
1644 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
1645 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
1646 the rest.
1649 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
1651 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1653 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
1654 koi-win conversion table.
1656 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
1659 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
1661 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
1664 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
1666 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
1667 proxy.
1669 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
1670 then once.
1672 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
1673 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
1674 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
1675 were not written to access log.
1677 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
1678 "Cache-Control" response header line.
1681 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
1683 *) Feature: the -v switch.
1685 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
1686 remote subrequests.
1688 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
1690 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
1691 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
1692 segmentation fault was occurred.
1695 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
1697 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
1699 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
1701 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
1704 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
1706 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
1707 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
1708 "alert" to "warn".
1710 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
1712 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
1713 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
1714 not logged.
1716 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
1717 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
1718 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
1720 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
1721 appeared in 0.3.38.
1724 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
1726 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
1728 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
1729 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
1731 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
1732 method.
1734 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
1736 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
1737 once a second only.
1738 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
1740 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
1741 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
1742 Thanks to ForJest.
1744 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
1745 login and password to pass authorization server.
1746 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1749 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
1751 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
1753 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
1754 "!-f" operators.
1756 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
1757 method.
1759 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
1762 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
1764 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
1766 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
1767 inside the "if" block.
1769 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
1770 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
1772 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
1774 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
1775 and $r->remote_addr.
1777 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
1779 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
1780 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
1782 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
1783 ngx_http_ssi_module.
1785 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
1786 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
1787 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
1788 a current path but not to a server prefix.
1791 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
1793 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
1794 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
1796 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
1797 subrequest.
1800 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
1802 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
1805 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
1807 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
1808 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
1810 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
1811 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
1813 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
1816 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
1818 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
1819 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
1822 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
1824 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
1826 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
1827 form.
1829 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
1831 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
1832 bug.
1833 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1835 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
1836 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
1837 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
1838 in 0.3.18.
1840 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
1841 and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
1842 not transferred.
1844 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
1847 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
1849 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
1850 "crit".
1852 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
1853 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
1855 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
1856 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
1859 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
1861 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
1862 many warnings before the response.
1864 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
1865 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
1867 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
1868 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
1870 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
1871 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
1872 request.
1875 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
1877 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
1879 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
1881 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
1882 terminated prematurely.
1883 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
1885 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
1886 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
1887 header line.
1889 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
1890 completion of a request.
1892 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
1893 directive was transferred to a client.
1896 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
1898 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
1899 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
1901 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
1902 "log_format" directive.
1904 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
1906 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
1907 time.
1909 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
1910 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
1912 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
1913 autoconfiguration directive.
1915 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
1916 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
1919 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
1921 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
1922 "optimize_server_names".
1924 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
1925 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
1926 SSI subrequest.
1929 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
1931 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1932 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
1933 appeared in 0.3.24.
1936 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
1938 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
1940 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
1941 not transferred to a client.
1943 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
1945 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
1946 location.
1948 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
1949 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
1950 had appeared in 0.3.18.
1953 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
1955 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
1957 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
1958 directives.
1960 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
1961 Solaris.
1964 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
1966 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
1967 $r->unescape methods.
1969 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
1970 canceled.
1972 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
1973 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
1974 appeared in 0.3.18.
1977 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
1979 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
1981 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
1982 URI part.
1985 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
1987 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
1989 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
1990 the "/usr?args" form.
1993 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
1995 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
1997 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
1999 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2002 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
2004 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
2005 names.
2007 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
2008 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
2010 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
2011 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2013 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
2014 directives were canceled.
2016 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
2018 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
2019 only without the URI part.
2021 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
2022 ngx_http_map_module.
2024 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
2025 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
2027 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
2028 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
2031 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
2033 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
2034 sendfile64() in kernel.
2036 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
2037 ".domain.tld" form.
2039 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
2040 appeared in 0.2.4.
2042 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2044 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
2045 directive the port 80 was used by default.
2048 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
2050 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
2052 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
2053 directives.
2055 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
2057 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
2059 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
2060 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
2061 Pentium 4.
2063 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
2065 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
2066 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
2067 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2069 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
2070 had appeared in 0.3.13.
2073 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
2075 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
2076 connection.
2078 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2080 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
2081 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
2084 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
2086 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
2087 appeared in 0.3.13.
2090 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
2092 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
2094 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
2095 /dev/poll methods.
2097 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2099 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2100 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2102 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
2103 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
2106 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
2108 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
2109 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
2110 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
2111 and is not built by default.
2113 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
2115 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
2116 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
2117 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
2119 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
2121 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
2123 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
2124 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2126 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
2127 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
2129 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
2130 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
2131 without the "Basic realm" text.
2133 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
2134 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
2135 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2137 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
2138 Solaris.
2140 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
2141 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
2144 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
2146 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
2147 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
2150 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
2152 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
2153 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
2154 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
2156 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
2157 "$body_bytes_sent".
2159 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
2161 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
2163 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
2165 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
2167 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
2169 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
2171 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
2173 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
2174 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
2175 characters.
2177 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
2179 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
2180 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
2183 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
2185 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
2186 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2189 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
2191 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
2192 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
2193 and zeroes.
2195 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
2196 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
2198 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
2199 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2201 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
2202 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
2204 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
2206 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
2208 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
2209 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
2210 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
2211 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
2212 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
2213 will be canceled soon.
2215 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
2216 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
2218 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
2219 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
2221 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
2222 graceful exit.
2224 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
2225 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
2226 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
2227 appeared in 0.2.6.
2229 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
2230 "Expires" header.
2232 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
2233 several worker processes were used.
2235 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
2236 SSI commands.
2238 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
2239 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
2240 did not transferred at all.
2243 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
2245 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
2247 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2248 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
2251 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
2253 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
2254 authorization server.
2256 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
2258 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
2259 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
2260 0.3.3.
2262 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
2263 the 80 port was always used.
2266 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
2268 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
2269 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2271 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
2272 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
2274 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
2275 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
2278 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
2280 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
2281 had appeared in 0.3.3.
2284 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
2286 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
2287 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
2289 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
2290 directive.
2292 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
2293 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
2295 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
2297 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
2298 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
2299 the CLOSED state.
2301 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
2302 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2304 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
2306 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
2308 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
2309 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
2311 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
2313 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
2315 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
2316 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2318 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
2319 protocol only.
2322 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
2324 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
2326 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
2327 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
2328 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
2331 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
2333 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
2334 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
2335 0.2.0.
2337 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
2338 SSI.
2341 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
2343 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
2344 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
2345 overflow.
2348 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
2350 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
2351 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
2353 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
2354 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
2356 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
2357 more flexible to change an error code.
2359 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
2360 in proxied subrequests.
2362 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
2363 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
2364 again.
2366 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
2367 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
2368 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
2369 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2372 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
2374 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
2375 causes the warning and changes old value.
2377 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
2379 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
2380 the "include" command.
2382 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
2383 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
2386 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
2388 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
2389 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
2391 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
2392 appeared in 0.1.44.
2394 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
2395 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2398 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
2400 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
2401 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2404 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
2406 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
2408 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
2409 "set" directive.
2411 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
2412 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2414 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
2415 long file names;
2417 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
2418 starting by dot.
2420 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
2421 closed too.
2422 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2424 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
2427 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
2429 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2430 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
2431 appeared in 0.2.0.
2434 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
2436 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
2437 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
2438 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
2439 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
2440 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
2441 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
2442 suffix.
2444 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
2445 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
2446 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
2448 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
2450 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
2452 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
2453 not run for subrequests.
2455 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
2456 directives.
2458 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2459 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
2461 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
2462 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2464 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2466 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
2468 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
2469 from the 304 responses.
2470 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
2473 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
2475 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
2476 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
2478 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
2479 SSL connection.
2481 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2484 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
2486 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
2488 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
2490 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
2492 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
2493 of authorization use.
2496 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
2498 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
2499 changed using the -HUP signal.
2501 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
2503 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
2504 to a server.
2506 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
2507 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
2508 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
2509 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2512 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
2514 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
2515 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
2516 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
2518 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
2519 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2522 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
2524 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
2525 can not be used in SSI.
2528 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
2530 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
2531 information did not logged in the error log.
2533 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
2534 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
2536 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
2537 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
2539 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
2540 SIGQUIT signal.
2542 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
2543 became shorter in the "ps" command.
2546 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
2548 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
2549 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
2550 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
2552 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
2553 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
2555 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
2556 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
2557 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2559 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
2561 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
2562 the "include virtual" command.
2564 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
2565 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
2566 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2568 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
2569 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
2570 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2572 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
2573 chain.
2575 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
2576 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2578 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
2579 login state.
2582 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
2584 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
2585 FastCGI mode.
2587 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
2588 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
2590 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
2592 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
2594 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
2595 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
2597 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
2598 in SSI.
2600 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
2601 than one remote subrequest.
2603 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
2604 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
2605 appeared in 0.1.29.
2607 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
2609 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
2611 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
2612 names in UTF-8.
2614 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2617 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
2619 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
2621 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
2622 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
2624 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
2625 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2626 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
2627 request all backends again.
2630 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
2632 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
2633 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
2634 now returns the 400 error.
2636 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
2638 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
2639 parameters of the "listen" directive.
2641 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
2643 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
2645 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
2646 in UTF-8.
2648 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
2649 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
2652 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
2654 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
2656 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
2658 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
2659 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2661 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
2662 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
2663 occurred on the start.
2665 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
2666 bigger than the temporary file.
2668 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
2669 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
2670 0.1.28.
2673 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
2675 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
2676 big response part were include by SSI.
2678 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
2679 in SSI.
2681 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
2683 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
2684 the client request header line passing.
2687 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
2689 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
2690 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2692 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
2693 level cause the bus fault on start up.
2695 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
2697 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
2698 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
2701 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
2703 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
2704 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2706 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
2707 expressions.
2709 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
2710 of regular expressions.
2712 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
2713 proxy and FastCGI mode.
2716 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
2718 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
2720 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
2722 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
2724 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
2725 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
2728 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
2730 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
2731 SSI was used.
2733 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
2735 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
2736 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
2737 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
2738 only.
2740 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
2741 as invalid.
2743 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
2745 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
2748 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
2750 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
2752 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
2753 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
2754 level is supported.
2756 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
2757 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
2759 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
2761 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
2762 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
2764 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
2766 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
2767 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
2769 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
2770 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
2772 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
2773 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
2774 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
2775 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
2777 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
2778 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
2780 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
2781 replaced with
2782 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
2783 directive.
2785 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
2786 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
2787 directive.
2789 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
2791 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
2792 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
2793 directives.
2795 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
2797 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
2799 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
2801 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
2803 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
2805 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
2806 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
2807 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
2809 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
2810 headers or a backend response header.
2812 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
2813 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
2814 returned the 408 response.
2816 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
2817 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
2819 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
2820 tolerance configuration.
2822 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
2823 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
2825 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
2826 header line.
2828 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
2830 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
2831 were in a request.
2833 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
2836 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
2838 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
2840 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
2843 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
2845 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
2847 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
2848 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
2849 lines also logged.
2851 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
2853 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
2854 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
2855 canceled.
2857 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
2858 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
2859 used.
2862 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
2864 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
2865 at the info level.
2867 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
2869 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
2870 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
2873 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
2875 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
2877 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
2878 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
2880 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
2881 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
2882 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
2883 after request completion.
2885 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
2886 expression.
2888 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
2889 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
2891 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
2892 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
2894 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
2895 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
2896 will be removed soon.
2898 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
2900 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
2902 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
2904 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
2907 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
2909 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
2910 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
2912 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
2913 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
2914 "alias" directive.
2916 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
2917 responses.
2919 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
2920 as valid referrer.
2923 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
2925 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
2926 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
2927 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
2928 supported.
2930 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
2932 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
2933 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
2934 server name of the "server_name" directive.
2936 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2937 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
2939 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
2940 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
2942 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
2943 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
2946 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
2948 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
2949 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
2951 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
2952 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
2955 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
2957 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
2958 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
2960 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
2961 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
2963 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
2966 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
2968 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
2969 the fastcgi_params directive.
2971 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
2974 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
2976 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
2977 returned for the local requests.
2979 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
2981 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
2982 request body via SSL connections.
2985 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
2987 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
2988 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
2989 with Solaris 10.
2991 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
2992 inherited.
2994 *) Bugfix: in the redirect rewrite directive the arguments were
2995 concatenated with URI by the "&" rather than the "?".
2997 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
2998 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
3000 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
3002 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
3003 the segmentation fault.
3005 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
3006 directive.
3008 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
3010 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
3011 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
3012 configuration to the request.
3015 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
3017 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
3018 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
3019 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
3020 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
3022 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
3024 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
3026 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
3027 another location.
3029 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
3030 small caps letters in extension.
3032 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
3033 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
3034 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
3036 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
3037 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
3038 0.1.14.
3040 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
3043 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
3045 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
3046 request the final chunk was issued.
3048 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
3049 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
3051 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
3052 segmentation faults.
3054 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
3055 complete.
3057 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
3058 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
3060 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
3062 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
3063 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
3066 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
3068 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
3069 segmentation fault.
3071 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
3072 different number of the captures and substitutions.
3074 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
3075 regular expression.
3077 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
3078 arguments and in the original state.
3080 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
3081 to use the regular expressions in locations.
3083 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
3084 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
3085 in 0.1.14.
3087 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
3088 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
3089 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
3090 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
3093 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
3095 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
3096 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
3097 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
3099 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
3100 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
3101 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
3103 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
3104 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
3105 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
3106 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
3107 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
3108 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
3109 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
3111 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
3112 0.1.3.
3114 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
3115 proxy_pass directive.
3117 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
3118 string start.
3120 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
3121 ngx_http_proxy_module.
3123 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
3124 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
3127 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
3129 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
3130 directives.
3132 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
3133 not work.
3135 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
3136 length.
3139 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
3141 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
3143 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
3144 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
3145 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
3146 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
3148 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
3149 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
3152 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
3154 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
3156 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
3157 transferred response.
3159 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
3160 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
3162 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
3163 bytes.
3165 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
3166 broken symlink was in a directory.
3168 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
3169 sendfile.
3171 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
3172 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
3173 in an endless loop.
3175 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
3176 when the /dev/poll method was used.
3178 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
3180 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
3182 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
3184 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
3185 section in configuration.
3187 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
3189 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
3190 ":/".
3193 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
3195 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
3196 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
3197 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
3199 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
3200 not work.
3203 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
3205 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
3206 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
3208 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
3209 completely.
3211 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
3212 does not support sendfile64().
3214 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
3215 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
3216 0.1.8.
3219 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
3221 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
3222 in the listing.
3224 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
3226 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
3229 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
3231 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
3232 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
3235 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
3237 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
3238 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
3241 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
3243 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
3244 returned not enough data" alerts.
3246 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
3247 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
3248 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
3249 endless loop.
3251 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
3252 sendfile.
3254 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
3256 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
3258 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
3259 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
3261 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
3263 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
3266 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
3268 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
3271 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
3273 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
3275 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
3277 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3278 is not used.
3281 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
3283 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
3284 options in configure.
3286 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
3288 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
3290 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
3291 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3293 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3294 is not used.
3296 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
3297 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3299 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
3301 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
3302 already compressed.
3305 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
3307 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
3309 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
3311 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
3312 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
3314 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
3316 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
3318 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
3319 endless loop.
3321 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
3323 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
3324 used while the proxying.
3326 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
3328 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
3329 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
3332 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
3334 *) The first public version.