2 Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009
4 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5".
6 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
7 slash in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15.
9 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path
10 configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53.
12 *) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the
13 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
15 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file,
16 or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker has no enough access
17 rights for top level directories.
19 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines
20 were not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
21 were used with any parameters.
23 *) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size.
26 Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009
28 *) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default.
30 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM".
32 *) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared
36 Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009
38 *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive.
40 *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used.
42 *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level"
45 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket
47 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
49 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc.
50 Thanks to Marcus Ramberg.
52 *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on
56 *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the
57 bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
59 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
62 Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009
64 *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header
67 *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case.
69 *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable.
71 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
74 Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009
76 *) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive.
78 *) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named
81 *) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning.
82 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
84 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
85 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
87 *) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in
88 access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level.
90 *) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the
91 ngx_http_image_filter_module.
93 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header
94 line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on.
96 *) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in
99 *) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in
101 Thanks to Igor Artemiev.
104 Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009
106 *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while
107 specially crafted request handling.
108 Thanks to Chris Ries.
110 *) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld
111 were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by
114 *) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
116 *) Bugfix: in file AIO.
118 *) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
120 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
123 Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009
125 *) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING"
128 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if
129 error_log was set to info or debug level.
130 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
132 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
134 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the
135 bug had appeared in 0.6.10.
138 Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009
140 *) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in
143 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option
144 on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12.
147 Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009
149 *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD.
151 *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
153 *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
156 Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009
158 *) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping
161 *) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux.
163 *) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive.
166 Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009
168 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used.
170 *) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the
171 bug had appeared in 0.8.9.
174 Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009
176 *) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this
177 should improve large caches handling.
179 *) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside
180 at different file systems.
183 Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009
185 *) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records.
187 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
188 request was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a
189 caching was enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in
193 Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009
195 *) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7.
197 *) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was
198 changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client
199 certificate if it was offered.
200 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
202 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable.
203 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
205 *) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive.
206 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
208 *) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive.
210 *) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting
213 *) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the
214 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
215 Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev.
217 *) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did
218 not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate",
219 "X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend
221 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
223 *) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend
224 response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
225 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
227 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an
228 empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5.
231 Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009
233 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module.
235 *) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML
236 document" for valid XML document.
237 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
239 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by
240 a regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode.
242 *) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI.
243 Thanks to Hugo Leisink.
245 *) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during
246 installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
247 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
250 Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009
252 *) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method.
254 *) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password
255 while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows.
257 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests.
259 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module.
260 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
263 Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009
265 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
269 Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009
271 *) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable.
273 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6.
275 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
278 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
279 backend 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the
280 "WWW-Authenticate" response header line.
281 Thanks to Eugene Mychlo.
284 Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009
286 *) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on
289 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long;
290 the bug had appeared in 0.7.4.
293 Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009
295 *) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
296 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives.
298 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
299 header lines were passed to backend while caching if no
300 "proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters.
302 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not
303 hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header"
304 directives were used with any parameters.
306 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a
308 Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh.
310 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early;
311 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
314 Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009
316 *) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive.
318 *) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive.
319 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
321 *) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests.
323 *) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows.
325 *) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and
326 fastcgi_cache in nginx/Windows.
328 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.
329 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy.
332 Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009
334 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods"
337 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
338 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
340 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process,
341 if a request had no body and the $request_body variable was used;
342 the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
344 *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux;
345 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
347 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by
348 SSI, charset, and gzip filters.
350 *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to
351 ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses.
354 Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009
356 *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6.
358 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive.
360 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive.
362 *) Feature: the $request_body variable.
364 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":"
367 *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared
369 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
372 Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009
374 *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the
375 ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named
376 location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
379 Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009
381 *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
384 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.
387 Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009
389 *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
390 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work.
392 *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses.
394 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in
395 nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
397 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
398 "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
401 *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors.
403 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using
405 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
408 Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009
410 *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
412 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
415 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
416 "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had
419 *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
420 had appeared in 0.7.39.
422 *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.
424 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
426 *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
430 Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009
432 *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very
435 *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an
436 error_log and stderr.
438 *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use
439 a directory where it was run as prefix.
441 *) Feature: the -p switch.
443 *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms.
445 *) Feature: the -? and -h switches.
446 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
448 *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form.
450 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given
453 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store",
454 "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used.
455 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
457 *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication
458 server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared
460 Thanks to Simon Lecaille.
462 *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux;
463 the bug had appeared in 0.7.45.
465 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work.
466 Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff.
469 Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009
471 *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release.
473 *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching.
475 *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc.
476 client request header lines while caching.
478 *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in
481 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a
482 perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the
483 message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued.
485 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
488 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
489 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
492 Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009
494 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the
497 *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive.
499 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without
500 query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
502 *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses,
503 then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39.
506 Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009
508 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
512 Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009
514 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
515 $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48.
518 Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009
520 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive.
522 *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires",
523 "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response.
525 *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only.
527 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited.
529 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests.
530 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
532 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library.
533 Thanks to Timothy Redaelli.
535 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had
539 Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009
541 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions;
542 the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
544 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had
547 *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager
548 might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
550 *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
551 "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/
552 "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had
555 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
556 request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page
557 or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
560 Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009
562 *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect.
565 Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009
567 *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives
568 can be set on different levels.
570 *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
571 directive is canceled.
573 *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
576 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support.
578 *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone
581 *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a
582 "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
584 *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive
585 given without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
587 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
589 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without
590 references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared
594 Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009
596 *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.
598 *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.
600 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server
603 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
604 in a fallback parameter.
606 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.
608 *) Bugfix: if there is the single server for given address:port pair,
609 then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive
613 Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009
615 *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive
616 used variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
618 *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the
619 $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in
623 Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
625 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
626 setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
628 *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file"
629 directive is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the
632 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
633 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
635 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
638 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
639 regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
641 *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
642 Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
644 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
648 Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
650 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
651 "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
652 expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
653 Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
656 Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
658 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
661 *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
662 inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
664 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
667 *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
668 slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
670 Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
673 Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
675 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
676 the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
677 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
679 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
680 static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
683 Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
685 *) Feature: authentication failures logging.
687 *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
688 number of empty lines.
689 Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
691 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
692 path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
695 Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
697 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had
701 Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
703 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
704 HTTP module supports IPv6.
706 *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
707 preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
710 Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
712 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
714 Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
716 *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
717 original request extension.
719 *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
720 "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if
721 ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
722 the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
725 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
727 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
729 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
731 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
733 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
734 in mail proxy server.
735 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
737 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
738 concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&";
739 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
740 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
742 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
745 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
747 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
748 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with
752 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some
755 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
756 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
759 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
761 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
762 the "try_files" directive.
764 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
766 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
768 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
770 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
773 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
775 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
778 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
780 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
782 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
784 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
785 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
787 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
789 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
790 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
791 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
794 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
796 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
797 variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
798 and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
801 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
803 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
804 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
806 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
808 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0
810 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
812 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
816 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
818 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
820 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
821 changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
824 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
826 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
828 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
830 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
832 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
834 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
837 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
839 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
841 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
842 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
844 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
846 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
847 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
848 error_page directive.
849 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
852 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
854 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
857 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
859 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
861 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
863 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
866 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
869 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
871 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
873 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
874 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
876 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
880 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
882 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
884 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
886 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
889 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
891 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
892 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
894 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
896 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
898 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
902 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
904 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
906 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
907 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
909 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
910 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
912 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
916 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
918 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
920 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
922 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
923 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
924 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
926 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
927 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
929 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
932 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
933 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
935 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
938 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
940 *) Bugfix: version number update.
943 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
945 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
946 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
948 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
950 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
952 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
954 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
956 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
957 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
959 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
960 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
962 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" heaer line
965 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
968 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
970 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
972 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
974 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
975 not work with open_file_cache.
977 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
978 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
980 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
981 charset name received from backend.
984 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
986 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
990 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
992 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
994 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
995 requests starting from arbitrary position.
997 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
1000 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
1004 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
1006 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
1007 have not default values.
1009 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
1011 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
1012 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
1014 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
1015 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
1018 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
1019 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
1021 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
1024 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
1026 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
1030 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
1032 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
1034 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
1036 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
1037 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
1038 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1040 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
1041 "error_page" directive.
1043 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
1044 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
1046 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
1047 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
1048 had appeared in 0.7.0.
1051 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
1053 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
1056 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
1057 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
1059 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
1061 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
1062 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
1064 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
1065 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
1067 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
1070 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
1072 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
1073 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
1074 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
1076 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
1078 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
1079 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
1082 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
1084 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
1085 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
1086 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
1088 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
1090 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
1091 directives use hash.
1093 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
1095 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
1097 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
1098 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
1100 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
1103 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
1104 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
1106 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
1107 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
1108 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
1112 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
1114 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
1116 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
1118 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
1119 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
1121 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
1122 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
1123 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1126 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
1128 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
1131 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
1132 with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
1133 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
1136 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
1138 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
1139 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1141 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
1142 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1144 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
1146 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
1147 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
1150 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
1151 /dev/poll methods were used.
1153 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
1156 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
1158 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
1159 request root existence is always tested.
1161 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
1165 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
1167 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
1168 bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
1170 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
1171 had appeared in 0.7.3.
1172 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
1174 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
1175 might were transferred incorrectly.
1178 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
1180 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
1182 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
1184 *) Feature: the -g switch.
1186 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
1188 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
1191 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
1193 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
1194 "application/rss+xml".
1196 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
1197 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
1199 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
1200 if the "https://" protocol is used.
1202 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
1203 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
1206 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
1208 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
1210 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
1212 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
1213 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1215 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
1216 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
1217 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1219 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
1222 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
1223 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
1226 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
1228 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
1230 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
1231 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
1233 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
1235 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
1236 now this is default parameter.
1237 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
1239 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
1242 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
1246 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
1248 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
1249 \xXX in an access_log.
1250 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1252 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
1254 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
1256 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
1257 request processing stage.
1259 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
1260 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1262 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
1263 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
1265 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
1266 if keepalive was enabled.
1269 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
1271 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
1272 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
1273 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
1275 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
1276 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
1279 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
1281 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
1282 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
1284 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
1285 for example, "1h50m".
1287 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
1288 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
1290 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
1293 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
1294 arguments in redirected URI.
1296 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
1298 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
1302 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
1304 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
1306 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
1307 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
1310 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
1312 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
1316 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
1318 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
1321 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
1322 named location via an "error_page" directive.
1324 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
1327 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
1329 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
1330 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
1331 static named locations.
1333 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
1334 client certificate in first handshake.
1335 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
1337 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
1338 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
1341 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
1343 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
1345 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
1346 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
1347 static named locations.
1349 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
1350 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1352 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
1353 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
1354 name and without variables.
1355 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1357 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
1358 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
1360 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
1361 stub block was used second time in SSI.
1363 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
1366 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
1368 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
1369 check a response length.
1371 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
1372 value was used in a "expires" directive.
1373 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
1375 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
1376 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
1378 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
1379 was used instead of the GET method.
1381 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
1382 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1384 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
1385 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1387 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1388 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1391 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
1393 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
1394 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
1396 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
1397 "server_name" directive.
1399 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
1402 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
1403 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
1405 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
1407 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
1409 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
1410 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1412 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
1413 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1415 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
1419 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
1421 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
1422 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1425 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
1427 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
1428 now this is default parameter.
1430 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
1431 "open_file_cache_valid".
1433 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
1435 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
1437 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
1439 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
1442 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
1443 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
1445 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
1446 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
1447 auth directives were not tested;
1449 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
1450 inherited from previous level.
1452 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
1453 with 499 status code.
1455 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
1456 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1458 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
1459 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
1461 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1462 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
1465 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
1467 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
1468 perl's allocated memory.
1470 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
1471 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
1472 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
1474 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
1476 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
1479 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
1480 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
1481 request body was already received.
1483 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
1485 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
1487 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
1488 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
1490 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
1491 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
1492 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
1494 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
1495 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
1497 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1500 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
1502 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
1503 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
1505 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1506 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
1509 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
1510 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
1511 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1513 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
1514 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
1515 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
1518 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
1519 server, then nginx returned usual response.
1522 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
1524 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1525 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
1529 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
1531 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
1534 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
1536 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
1537 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
1539 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
1542 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1544 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
1546 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
1547 "Last-Modified" response header line.
1549 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
1550 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
1553 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
1555 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
1556 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
1558 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
1559 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1561 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
1564 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1565 subrequests were used.
1567 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
1570 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
1571 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
1574 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
1576 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
1577 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
1579 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
1580 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
1582 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
1585 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
1587 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
1588 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
1590 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
1592 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
1594 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
1596 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
1598 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1599 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
1600 "source_charset" directives.
1602 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
1603 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
1604 Thanks to James Oakley.
1606 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
1607 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
1608 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1610 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
1611 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
1612 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1615 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
1617 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
1619 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
1621 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
1622 "limit_except" block.
1624 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
1625 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
1628 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
1629 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
1630 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
1632 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
1634 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1636 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
1637 $upstream_response_time.
1638 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1640 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1643 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
1644 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
1647 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
1649 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
1652 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
1654 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
1656 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
1659 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
1661 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
1663 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
1664 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
1666 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
1667 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
1669 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
1672 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
1673 located in non-standard place was used.
1675 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
1676 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
1678 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1681 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
1683 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
1686 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
1687 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
1689 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
1692 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
1693 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
1697 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
1699 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
1700 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
1702 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1704 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
1705 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
1707 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1708 /dev/poll method was used.
1711 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
1713 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1714 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1716 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
1717 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
1719 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
1722 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
1726 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
1728 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
1729 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
1730 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
1732 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
1733 authentication server.
1735 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
1737 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
1738 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
1739 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
1741 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
1744 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
1746 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
1747 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
1748 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
1749 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
1750 not to nginx prefix directory.
1752 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
1754 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
1755 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
1757 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
1758 regular expressions.
1760 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1761 the "backup" parameter.
1763 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
1764 $r->discard_request_body.
1766 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
1767 "Last-Modified" response header line.
1769 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
1770 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
1771 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
1773 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
1774 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
1776 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
1777 platforms except FreeBSD.
1778 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1780 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1781 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
1784 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
1785 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
1788 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
1790 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
1792 *) Feature: named locations.
1794 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
1796 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
1798 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
1800 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
1801 might not close connection to backend.
1803 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
1804 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
1806 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
1807 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1810 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
1812 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
1813 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
1815 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
1816 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1818 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
1819 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1821 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
1823 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
1825 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1827 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
1828 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
1831 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
1833 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
1834 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
1836 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
1839 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
1842 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1844 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1846 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
1847 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1850 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
1852 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
1854 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1855 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
1856 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1858 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1859 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
1861 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
1862 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1864 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1865 eventport method was used.
1867 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
1868 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
1872 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
1874 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
1875 passed garbage in the header to a client.
1878 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
1880 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
1882 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
1883 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
1885 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
1888 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
1889 to the master process identification number.
1892 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
1894 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
1895 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
1898 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
1900 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
1901 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
1905 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
1907 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
1908 was made using HTTP/0.9.
1910 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
1911 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
1914 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
1916 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
1919 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
1920 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
1922 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
1923 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
1925 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
1926 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
1927 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
1929 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1932 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
1934 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
1935 had appeared in 0.5.21.
1938 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
1940 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
1941 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
1943 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
1944 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
1945 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
1947 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
1949 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1951 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1954 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
1956 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
1958 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
1959 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
1961 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1962 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
1964 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
1965 transferred incorrectly.
1966 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1968 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1970 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1972 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
1974 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1977 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
1979 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
1981 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
1984 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
1986 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
1987 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
1988 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
1990 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1991 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
1993 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1994 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
1997 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
1999 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
2001 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
2003 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
2004 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
2006 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
2007 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
2008 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
2009 had appeared in 0.5.9.
2011 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
2012 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
2016 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
2018 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
2020 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
2023 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
2024 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
2026 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2028 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
2029 returned old cached value.
2032 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
2034 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
2035 "ip_hash" directive.
2036 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
2038 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
2039 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
2040 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2042 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2043 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
2046 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
2047 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
2050 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
2052 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
2053 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
2054 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2056 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
2057 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
2059 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
2060 and "pop3_auth" directives.
2062 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
2063 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
2066 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
2067 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
2069 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
2070 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
2072 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
2073 "ip_hash" directive was used.
2075 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
2079 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
2081 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
2085 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
2087 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
2089 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
2090 via keep-alive connection.
2092 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
2093 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2095 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
2096 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
2098 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
2099 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
2102 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2103 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
2106 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
2108 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2109 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
2111 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2112 temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug
2113 had appeared in 0.5.8.
2115 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2116 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
2118 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
2121 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
2123 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
2124 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
2126 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
2127 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
2129 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
2130 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
2131 Thanks to Evan Miller.
2133 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
2134 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
2136 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
2137 was built with -O2 optimization.
2140 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
2142 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
2143 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
2145 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
2146 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
2149 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
2151 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
2152 variable value as a key.
2154 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
2156 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
2159 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
2161 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
2163 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
2164 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
2166 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
2170 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
2172 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
2173 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
2175 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
2176 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
2177 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
2178 switched to a next upstream.
2180 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
2181 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
2182 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
2184 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
2185 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
2188 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2191 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
2194 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
2196 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
2198 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
2200 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2201 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
2202 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
2204 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
2205 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
2206 "Content-Type" header line in response.
2208 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
2210 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
2212 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
2215 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
2217 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
2218 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
2220 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
2222 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
2224 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
2225 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2227 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
2229 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
2230 $r->sendfile() was used.
2233 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
2235 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
2237 *) Feature: the -V switch.
2239 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
2242 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
2245 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
2246 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
2248 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
2251 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
2253 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
2256 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
2257 line for the DELETE method.
2259 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
2260 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
2262 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
2263 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
2266 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
2268 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
2269 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
2271 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
2272 exist in nginx configuration.
2274 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
2277 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
2279 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
2280 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
2284 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
2286 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
2287 unsuccessful completion of a request.
2289 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
2290 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
2292 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
2293 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
2296 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
2297 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
2298 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
2300 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
2301 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
2302 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
2304 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
2305 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
2306 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
2308 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
2309 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
2312 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
2314 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
2315 directive are not supported anymore.
2317 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
2318 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
2319 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
2320 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
2323 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2324 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
2326 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
2328 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
2329 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
2331 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
2335 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
2337 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2339 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
2342 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
2343 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
2345 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
2348 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
2350 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
2351 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
2353 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
2354 system time was changed backward.
2356 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
2357 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
2359 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
2360 proxy authentication server failed.
2363 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
2365 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
2366 "limit_except" block.
2368 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
2370 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
2371 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
2374 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
2375 the deferred accept() were used.
2377 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
2378 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2380 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2383 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
2384 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
2386 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
2387 had appeared in 0.3.50.
2390 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
2392 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
2394 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
2395 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
2397 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
2400 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
2402 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
2404 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
2407 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
2408 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
2411 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
2413 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
2415 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
2416 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
2419 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
2420 variable was used in the "map" directive.
2422 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
2423 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
2425 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
2429 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
2431 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2433 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
2437 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
2439 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
2440 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
2443 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
2445 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
2448 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
2450 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
2452 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
2454 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
2457 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
2458 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
2461 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
2462 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
2465 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
2469 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
2471 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
2474 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
2475 if its length was set by text string in the
2476 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
2478 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
2479 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
2480 had appeared in 0.4.4.
2483 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
2485 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
2489 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
2491 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
2493 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
2495 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
2496 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
2498 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
2499 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
2501 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
2504 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
2505 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
2508 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
2510 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
2511 "error_page" directive.
2513 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
2515 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
2517 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
2518 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
2520 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
2521 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
2523 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
2525 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
2528 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
2530 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
2531 had appeared in 0.4.1.
2534 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
2536 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
2537 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
2539 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
2542 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
2544 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
2547 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
2549 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
2550 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
2552 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
2553 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
2554 $r->has_request_body method.
2556 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
2558 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
2559 line for the PUT method.
2561 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
2563 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
2564 directive with variables and the first index name was without
2565 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2568 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
2570 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
2572 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
2574 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
2576 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
2577 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
2580 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
2582 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
2583 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
2586 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
2588 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
2589 "error_page" directive.
2591 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
2593 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
2594 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
2595 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
2598 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
2600 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
2602 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
2604 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
2605 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
2607 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
2609 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
2610 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
2612 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
2615 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
2617 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
2619 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
2620 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
2622 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
2623 to a client the required certificates information.
2625 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
2626 the "root" directive.
2629 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
2631 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
2633 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
2634 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
2636 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
2637 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
2641 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
2643 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2645 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
2647 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
2649 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
2650 was relative to a server prefix.
2652 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
2653 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
2655 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
2656 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
2658 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
2659 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
2662 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
2663 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
2667 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
2669 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
2671 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
2672 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
2674 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
2677 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
2678 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
2680 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
2681 first request to a backend only.
2683 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
2687 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
2689 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
2692 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2693 the "weight" parameter.
2695 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
2697 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
2699 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
2700 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
2703 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
2704 return the 409 code.
2706 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
2707 continued proxying anyway.
2710 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
2712 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
2713 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
2714 return the 405 error.
2716 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
2717 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
2719 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
2720 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2722 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
2723 temporary file was not removed.
2726 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
2728 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
2729 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2732 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
2734 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
2735 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
2736 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
2738 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
2739 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
2741 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
2742 proxy and FastCGI mode.
2744 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
2745 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
2747 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
2748 SSI after inclusion.
2750 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
2751 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
2754 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
2756 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
2758 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
2759 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
2763 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
2765 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
2766 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
2768 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
2769 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
2770 start of the rewritten redirect.
2772 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
2773 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2774 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
2777 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
2778 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
2781 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
2783 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
2785 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
2786 SSI command is always removed.
2789 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
2791 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
2792 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
2794 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
2795 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
2797 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
2800 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
2801 ngx_http_perl_module.
2804 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
2806 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
2807 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
2809 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
2812 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
2815 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
2818 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
2819 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
2820 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
2824 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
2826 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2828 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
2829 koi-win conversion table.
2831 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2834 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
2836 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2839 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
2841 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
2844 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
2847 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
2848 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
2849 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
2850 were not written to access log.
2852 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
2853 "Cache-Control" response header line.
2856 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
2858 *) Feature: the -v switch.
2860 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
2863 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
2865 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
2866 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
2867 segmentation fault was occurred.
2870 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
2872 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
2874 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
2876 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
2879 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
2881 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
2882 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
2885 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
2887 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
2888 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
2891 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
2892 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
2893 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2895 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
2899 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
2901 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
2903 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
2904 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
2906 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
2909 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
2911 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
2913 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2915 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
2916 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
2919 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
2920 login and password to pass authorization server.
2921 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2924 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
2926 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
2928 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
2931 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
2934 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2937 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
2939 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2941 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
2942 inside the "if" block.
2944 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
2945 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
2947 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
2949 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
2950 and $r->remote_addr.
2952 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
2954 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
2955 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
2957 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
2958 ngx_http_ssi_module.
2960 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
2961 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
2962 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
2963 a current path but not to a server prefix.
2966 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
2968 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
2969 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2971 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
2975 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
2977 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
2980 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
2982 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2983 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
2985 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
2986 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
2988 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
2991 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
2993 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
2994 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2997 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
2999 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
3001 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
3004 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
3006 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
3008 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3010 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
3011 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
3012 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
3015 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
3016 and the request body was in temporary file then the request was not
3019 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
3022 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
3024 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
3027 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
3028 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
3030 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
3031 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
3034 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
3036 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
3037 many warnings before the response.
3039 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
3040 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
3042 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
3043 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
3045 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
3046 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
3050 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
3052 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
3054 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
3056 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
3057 terminated prematurely.
3058 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
3060 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
3061 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
3064 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
3065 completion of a request.
3067 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
3068 directive was transferred to a client.
3071 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
3073 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
3074 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
3076 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
3077 "log_format" directive.
3079 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
3081 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
3084 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
3085 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
3087 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
3088 autoconfiguration directive.
3090 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
3091 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
3094 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
3096 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
3097 "optimize_server_names".
3099 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
3100 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
3104 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
3106 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
3107 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
3111 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
3113 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
3115 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
3116 not transferred to a client.
3118 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
3120 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
3123 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
3124 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
3125 had appeared in 0.3.18.
3128 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
3130 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
3132 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
3135 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
3139 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
3141 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
3142 $r->unescape methods.
3144 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
3147 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
3148 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
3152 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
3154 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
3156 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
3160 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
3162 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
3164 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
3165 the "/usr?args" form.
3168 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
3170 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
3172 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
3174 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
3177 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
3179 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
3182 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
3183 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
3185 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
3186 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
3188 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
3189 directives were canceled.
3191 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
3193 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
3194 only without the URI part.
3196 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
3197 ngx_http_map_module.
3199 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
3200 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
3202 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
3203 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
3206 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
3208 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
3209 sendfile64() in kernel.
3211 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
3214 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
3217 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3219 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
3220 directive the port 80 was used by default.
3223 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
3225 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
3227 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
3230 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
3232 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
3234 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
3235 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
3238 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
3240 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
3241 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
3242 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3244 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
3245 had appeared in 0.3.13.
3248 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
3250 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
3253 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3255 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
3256 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
3259 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
3261 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
3265 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
3267 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
3269 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
3272 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
3274 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
3275 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
3277 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
3278 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
3281 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
3283 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
3284 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
3285 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
3286 and is not built by default.
3288 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
3290 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
3291 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
3292 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
3294 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
3296 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
3298 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
3299 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
3301 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
3302 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
3304 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
3305 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
3306 without the "Basic realm" text.
3308 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
3309 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
3310 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
3312 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
3315 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
3316 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
3319 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
3321 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
3322 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
3325 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
3327 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
3328 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
3329 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
3331 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
3334 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
3336 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
3338 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
3340 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
3342 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
3344 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
3346 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
3348 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
3349 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
3352 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
3354 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
3355 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
3358 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
3360 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
3361 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
3364 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
3366 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
3367 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
3370 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
3371 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
3373 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
3374 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3376 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
3377 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
3379 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
3381 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
3383 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
3384 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
3385 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
3386 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
3387 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
3388 will be canceled soon.
3390 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
3391 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
3393 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
3394 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
3396 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
3399 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
3400 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
3401 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
3404 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3407 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
3408 several worker processes were used.
3410 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
3413 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
3414 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
3415 did not transferred at all.
3418 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
3420 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
3422 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3423 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
3426 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
3428 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
3429 authorization server.
3431 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
3433 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
3434 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
3437 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
3438 the 80 port was always used.
3441 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
3443 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
3444 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3446 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
3447 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
3449 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
3450 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
3453 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
3455 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
3456 had appeared in 0.3.3.
3459 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
3461 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
3462 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
3464 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
3467 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
3468 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
3470 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
3472 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
3473 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
3476 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
3477 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
3479 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
3481 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
3483 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
3484 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
3486 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
3488 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
3490 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
3491 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3493 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
3497 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
3499 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
3501 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
3502 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
3503 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
3506 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
3508 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
3509 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
3512 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
3516 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
3518 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
3519 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
3523 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
3525 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
3526 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
3528 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
3529 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
3531 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
3532 more flexible to change an error code.
3534 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
3535 in proxied subrequests.
3537 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
3538 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
3541 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
3542 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
3543 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
3544 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3547 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
3549 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
3550 causes the warning and changes old value.
3552 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
3554 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
3555 the "include" command.
3557 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
3558 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
3561 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
3563 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
3564 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
3566 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
3569 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
3570 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
3573 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
3575 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
3576 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3579 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
3581 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
3583 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
3586 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
3587 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3589 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
3592 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
3595 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
3597 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3599 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
3602 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
3604 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
3605 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
3609 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
3611 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
3612 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
3613 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
3614 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
3615 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
3616 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
3619 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
3620 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
3621 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
3623 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
3625 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
3627 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
3628 not run for subrequests.
3630 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
3633 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
3634 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
3636 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
3637 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3639 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3641 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3643 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
3644 from the 304 responses.
3645 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
3648 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
3650 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
3651 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
3653 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
3656 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3659 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
3661 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
3663 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
3665 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
3667 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
3668 of authorization use.
3671 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
3673 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
3674 changed using the -HUP signal.
3676 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
3678 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
3681 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
3682 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
3683 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
3684 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3687 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
3689 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
3690 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
3691 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
3693 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
3694 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3697 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
3699 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
3700 can not be used in SSI.
3703 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
3705 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
3706 information did not logged in the error log.
3708 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
3709 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
3711 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
3712 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
3714 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
3717 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
3718 became shorter in the "ps" command.
3721 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
3723 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
3724 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
3725 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
3727 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
3728 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
3730 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
3731 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
3732 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3734 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
3736 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
3737 the "include virtual" command.
3739 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
3740 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
3741 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3743 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
3744 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
3745 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3747 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
3750 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
3751 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3753 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
3757 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
3759 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
3762 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
3763 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
3765 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
3767 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
3769 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
3770 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
3772 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
3775 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
3776 than one remote subrequest.
3778 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
3779 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
3782 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
3784 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
3786 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
3789 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3792 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
3794 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
3796 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
3797 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
3799 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
3800 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3801 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
3802 request all backends again.
3805 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
3807 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
3808 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
3809 now returns the 400 error.
3811 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
3813 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
3814 parameters of the "listen" directive.
3816 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
3818 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
3820 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
3823 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
3824 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
3827 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
3829 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
3831 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
3833 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
3834 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3836 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
3837 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
3838 occurred on the start.
3840 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
3841 bigger than the temporary file.
3843 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
3844 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
3848 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
3850 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3851 big response part were include by SSI.
3853 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
3856 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
3858 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
3859 the client request header line passing.
3862 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
3864 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
3865 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3867 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
3868 level cause the bus fault on start up.
3870 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
3872 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
3873 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
3876 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
3878 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
3879 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3881 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
3884 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
3885 of regular expressions.
3887 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
3888 proxy and FastCGI mode.
3891 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
3893 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3895 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
3897 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3899 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
3900 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
3903 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
3905 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3908 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3910 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
3911 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
3912 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
3915 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
3918 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
3920 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
3923 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
3925 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
3927 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
3928 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
3931 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
3932 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
3934 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
3936 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
3937 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
3939 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
3941 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
3942 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
3944 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
3945 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
3947 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
3948 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
3949 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
3950 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
3952 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
3953 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
3955 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
3957 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
3960 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
3961 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
3964 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
3966 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
3967 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
3970 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
3972 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
3974 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
3976 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
3978 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
3980 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
3981 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
3982 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
3984 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
3985 headers or a backend response header.
3987 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
3988 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
3989 returned the 408 response.
3991 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
3992 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
3994 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
3995 tolerance configuration.
3997 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3998 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
4000 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
4003 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
4005 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
4008 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
4011 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
4013 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
4015 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
4018 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
4020 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
4022 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
4023 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
4026 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
4028 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
4029 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
4032 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
4033 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
4037 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
4039 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
4042 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
4044 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
4045 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
4048 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
4050 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
4052 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
4053 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
4055 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
4056 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
4057 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
4058 after request completion.
4060 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
4063 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
4064 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
4066 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
4067 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
4069 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
4070 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
4071 will be removed soon.
4073 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
4075 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
4077 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
4079 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
4082 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
4084 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
4085 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
4087 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
4088 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
4091 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
4094 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
4098 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
4100 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
4101 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
4102 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
4105 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
4107 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
4108 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
4109 server name of the "server_name" directive.
4111 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
4112 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
4114 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
4115 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
4117 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
4118 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
4121 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
4123 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
4124 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
4126 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
4127 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
4130 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
4132 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
4133 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
4135 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
4136 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
4138 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
4141 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
4143 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
4144 the fastcgi_params directive.
4146 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
4149 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
4151 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
4152 returned for the local requests.
4154 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
4156 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
4157 request body via SSL connections.
4160 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
4162 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
4163 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
4166 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
4169 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
4170 with URI by an "&" rather than a "?".
4172 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
4173 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
4175 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
4177 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
4178 the segmentation fault.
4180 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
4183 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
4185 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
4186 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
4187 configuration to the request.
4190 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
4192 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
4193 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
4194 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
4195 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
4197 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
4199 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
4201 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
4204 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
4205 small caps letters in extension.
4207 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
4208 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
4209 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
4211 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
4212 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
4215 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
4218 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
4220 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
4221 request the final chunk was issued.
4223 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
4224 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
4226 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
4227 segmentation faults.
4229 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
4232 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
4233 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
4235 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
4237 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
4238 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
4241 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
4243 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
4246 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
4247 different number of the captures and substitutions.
4249 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
4252 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
4253 arguments and in the original state.
4255 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
4256 to use the regular expressions in locations.
4258 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
4259 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
4262 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
4263 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
4264 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
4265 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
4268 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
4270 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
4271 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
4272 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
4274 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
4275 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
4276 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
4278 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
4279 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
4280 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
4281 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
4282 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
4283 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
4284 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
4286 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
4289 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
4290 proxy_pass directive.
4292 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
4295 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
4296 ngx_http_proxy_module.
4298 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
4299 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
4302 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
4304 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
4307 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
4310 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
4314 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
4316 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
4318 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
4319 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
4320 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
4321 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
4323 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
4324 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
4327 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
4329 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
4331 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
4332 transferred response.
4334 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
4335 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
4337 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
4340 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
4341 broken symlink was in a directory.
4343 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
4346 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
4347 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
4350 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
4351 when the /dev/poll method was used.
4353 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
4355 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
4357 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
4359 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
4360 section in configuration.
4362 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
4364 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
4368 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
4370 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
4371 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
4372 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
4374 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
4378 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
4380 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
4381 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
4383 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
4386 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
4387 does not support sendfile64().
4389 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
4390 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
4394 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
4396 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
4399 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
4401 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
4404 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
4406 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
4407 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
4410 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
4412 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
4413 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
4416 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
4418 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
4419 returned not enough data" alerts.
4421 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
4422 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
4423 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
4426 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
4429 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
4431 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
4433 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
4434 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
4436 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
4438 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
4441 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
4443 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
4446 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
4448 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
4450 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
4452 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
4456 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
4458 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
4459 options in configure.
4461 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
4463 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
4465 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
4466 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
4468 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
4471 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
4472 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
4474 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
4476 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
4480 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
4482 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
4484 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
4486 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
4487 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
4489 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
4491 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
4493 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
4496 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
4498 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
4499 used while the proxying.
4501 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
4503 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
4504 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
4507 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
4509 *) The first public version.