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2 Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009
4 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods"
5 directives.
7 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
8 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
10 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process,
11 if a request had no body and the $request_body variable was used;
12 the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
14 *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux;
15 the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
17 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by
18 SSI, charset, and gzip filters.
20 *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to
21 ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses.
24 Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009
26 *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6.
28 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive.
30 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive.
32 *) Feature: the $request_body variable.
34 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":"
35 symbol in the name.
37 *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared
38 in 0.7.53.
39 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
42 Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009
44 *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the
45 ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named
46 location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
49 Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009
51 *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
52 HTTP module.
54 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.
57 Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009
59 *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
60 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work.
62 *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses.
64 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in
65 nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
67 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
68 "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
69 0.7.54.
71 *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors.
73 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using
74 $r->sendfile.
75 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
78 Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009
80 *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
82 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
83 directives.
85 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
86 "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had
87 appeared in 0.7.53.
89 *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
90 had appeared in 0.7.39.
92 *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.
94 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
96 *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
97 appeared in 0.7.53.
100 Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009
102 *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very
103 start-up.
105 *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an
106 error_log and stderr.
108 *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use
109 a directory where it was run as prefix.
111 *) Feature: the -p switch.
113 *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms.
115 *) Feature: the -? and -h switches.
116 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
118 *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form.
120 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given
121 by the -c switch.
123 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store",
124 "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used.
125 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
127 *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication
128 server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared
129 in 0.7.34.
130 Thanks to Simon Lecaille.
132 *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux;
133 the bug had appeared in 0.7.45.
135 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work.
136 Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff.
139 Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009
141 *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release.
143 *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching.
145 *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc.
146 client request header lines while caching.
148 *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in
149 cacheable responses.
151 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a
152 perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the
153 message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued.
155 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
156 appeared in 0.7.48.
158 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
159 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
162 Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009
164 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the
165 fallback parameter.
167 *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive.
169 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without
170 query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
172 *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses,
173 then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39.
176 Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009
178 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
179 0.7.49.
182 Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009
184 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
185 $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48.
188 Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009
190 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive.
192 *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires",
193 "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response.
195 *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only.
197 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited.
199 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests.
200 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
202 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library.
203 Thanks to Timothy Redaelli.
205 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had
206 appeared in 0.7.46.
209 Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009
211 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions;
212 the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
214 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had
215 appeared in 0.7.46.
217 *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager
218 might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
220 *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
221 "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/
222 "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had
223 appeared in 0.7.46.
225 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
226 request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page
227 or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
230 Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009
232 *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect.
235 Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009
237 *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives
238 can be set on different levels.
240 *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
241 directive is canceled.
243 *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
244 directive.
246 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support.
248 *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone
249 names are logged.
251 *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a
252 "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
254 *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive
255 given without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
256 0.7.44.
257 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
259 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without
260 references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared
261 in 0.7.42.
264 Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009
266 *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.
268 *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.
270 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server
271 block level.
273 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
274 in a fallback parameter.
276 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.
278 *) Bugfix: if there is the single server for given address:port pair,
279 then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive
280 did not work.
283 Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009
285 *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive
286 used variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
288 *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the
289 $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in
290 0.7.36.
293 Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
295 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
296 setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
298 *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file"
299 directive is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the
300 500 one.
302 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
303 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
305 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
306 Thanks to Zhang Hua.
308 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
309 regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
311 *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
312 Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
314 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
315 appeared in 0.7.41.
318 Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
320 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
321 "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
322 expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
323 Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
326 Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
328 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
329 expressions.
331 *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
332 inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
334 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
335 expressions.
337 *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
338 slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
339 0.7.15.
340 Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
343 Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
345 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
346 the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
347 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
349 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
350 static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
353 Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
355 *) Feature: authentication failures logging.
357 *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
358 number of empty lines.
359 Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
361 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
362 path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
365 Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
367 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had
368 appeared in 0.7.36.
371 Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
373 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
374 HTTP module supports IPv6.
376 *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
377 preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
380 Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
382 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
383 asymmetric ciphers.
384 Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
386 *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
387 original request extension.
389 *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
390 "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if
391 ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
392 the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
395 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
397 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
399 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
400 command.
401 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
403 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
404 in mail proxy server.
405 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
407 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
408 concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&";
409 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
410 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
412 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
415 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
417 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
418 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with
419 body.
420 Thanks to Eden Li.
422 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some
423 redirects types.
425 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
426 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
429 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
431 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
432 the "try_files" directive.
434 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
436 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
438 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
439 debugging.
440 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
443 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
445 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
446 directories.
448 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
450 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
452 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
454 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
455 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
456 appeared in 0.7.18.
457 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
459 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
460 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
461 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
464 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
466 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
467 variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
468 and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
471 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
473 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
474 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
476 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
478 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0
479 requests;
480 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
482 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
483 Cygwin.
486 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
488 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
490 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
491 changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
494 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
496 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
498 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
500 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
501 variable.
502 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
504 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
505 name.
507 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
509 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
511 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
512 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
514 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
516 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
517 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
518 error_page directive.
519 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
522 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
524 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
527 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
529 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
531 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
533 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
534 prohibition reason.
536 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
539 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
541 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
543 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
544 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
546 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
547 perl module.
550 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
552 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
554 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
556 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
559 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
561 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
562 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
564 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
566 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
568 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
569 Thanks to Zyb.
572 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
574 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
576 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
577 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
579 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
580 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
582 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
583 appeared in 0.7.6.
586 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
588 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
590 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
592 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
593 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
594 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
596 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
597 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
599 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
600 error.
602 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
603 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
605 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
608 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
610 *) Bugfix: version number update.
613 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
615 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
616 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
618 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
620 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
622 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
624 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
626 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
627 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
629 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
630 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
632 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" heaer line
633 for HEAD requests.
635 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
638 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
640 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
642 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
644 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
645 not work with open_file_cache.
647 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
648 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
650 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
651 charset name received from backend.
654 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
656 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
657 appeared in 0.7.15.
660 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
662 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
664 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
665 requests starting from arbitrary position.
667 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
668 necessary.
670 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
671 line names.
674 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
676 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
677 have not default values.
679 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
681 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
682 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
684 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
685 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
686 one.
688 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
689 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
691 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
694 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
696 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
697 appeared in 0.7.12.
700 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
702 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
704 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
706 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
707 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
708 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
710 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
711 "error_page" directive.
713 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
714 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
716 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
717 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
718 had appeared in 0.7.0.
721 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
723 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
724 text/css MIME type.
726 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
727 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
729 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
731 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
732 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
734 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
735 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
737 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
740 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
742 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
743 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
744 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
746 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
748 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
749 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
752 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
754 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
755 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
756 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
758 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
760 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
761 directives use hash.
763 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
765 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
767 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
768 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
770 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
771 tests.
773 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
774 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
776 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
777 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
778 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
779 appeared in 0.3.18.
782 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
784 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
786 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
788 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
789 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
791 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
792 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
793 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
796 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
798 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
799 as temporary error.
801 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
802 with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
803 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
804 variable.
806 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
808 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
809 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
811 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
812 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
814 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
816 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
817 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
818 locales only.
820 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
821 /dev/poll methods were used.
823 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
826 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
828 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
829 request root existence is always tested.
831 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
832 query string.
835 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
837 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
838 bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
840 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
841 had appeared in 0.7.3.
842 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
844 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
845 might were transferred incorrectly.
848 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
850 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
852 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
854 *) Feature: the -g switch.
856 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
858 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
861 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
863 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
864 "application/rss+xml".
866 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
867 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
869 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
870 if the "https://" protocol is used.
872 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
873 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
876 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
878 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
880 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
882 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
883 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
885 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
886 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
887 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
889 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
890 appeared in 0.7.1.
892 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
893 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
896 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
898 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
900 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
901 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
903 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
905 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
906 now this is default parameter.
907 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
909 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
910 rotation signals.
912 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
913 Thanks to Roxis.
916 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
918 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
919 \xXX in an access_log.
920 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
922 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
924 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
926 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
927 request processing stage.
929 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
930 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
932 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
933 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
935 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
936 if keepalive was enabled.
939 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
941 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
942 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
943 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
945 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
946 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
949 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
951 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
952 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
954 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
955 for example, "1h50m".
957 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
958 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
960 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
961 output.
963 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
964 arguments in redirected URI.
966 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
968 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
969 0.6.15.
972 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
974 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
976 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
977 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
980 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
982 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
983 0.6.27.
986 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
988 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
989 Linux 2.6.18+.
991 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
992 named location via an "error_page" directive.
994 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
995 proxy.
997 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
999 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
1000 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
1001 static named locations.
1003 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
1004 client certificate in first handshake.
1005 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
1007 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
1008 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
1009 memory.
1011 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
1013 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
1015 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
1016 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
1017 static named locations.
1019 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
1020 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1022 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
1023 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
1024 name and without variables.
1025 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1027 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
1028 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
1030 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
1031 stub block was used second time in SSI.
1033 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
1036 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
1038 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
1039 check a response length.
1041 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
1042 value was used in a "expires" directive.
1043 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
1045 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
1046 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
1048 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
1049 was used instead of the GET method.
1051 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
1052 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1054 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
1055 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1057 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1058 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1061 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
1063 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
1064 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
1066 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
1067 "server_name" directive.
1069 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
1070 directive.
1072 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
1073 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
1075 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
1077 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
1079 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
1080 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1082 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
1083 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1085 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
1086 appeared in 0.6.23.
1089 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
1091 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
1092 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
1095 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
1097 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
1098 now this is default parameter.
1100 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
1101 "open_file_cache_valid".
1103 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
1105 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
1107 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
1109 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
1110 block.
1112 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
1113 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
1115 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
1116 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
1117 auth directives were not tested;
1119 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
1120 inherited from previous level.
1122 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
1123 with 499 status code.
1125 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
1126 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
1128 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
1129 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
1131 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1132 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
1135 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
1137 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
1138 perl's allocated memory.
1140 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
1141 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
1142 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
1143 0.5.9.
1144 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
1146 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
1147 the regex captures.
1149 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
1150 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
1151 request body was already received.
1153 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
1154 keep-alive state.
1155 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
1157 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
1158 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
1160 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
1161 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
1162 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
1164 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
1165 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
1166 0.6.10.
1167 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1170 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
1172 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
1173 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
1175 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1176 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
1177 in 0.6.19.
1179 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
1180 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
1181 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1183 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
1184 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
1185 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
1186 record is too big".
1188 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
1189 server, then nginx returned usual response.
1192 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
1194 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1195 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
1196 in 0.6.19.
1199 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
1201 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
1204 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
1206 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
1207 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
1209 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
1210 error_log.
1212 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1214 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
1216 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
1217 "Last-Modified" response header line.
1219 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
1220 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
1223 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
1225 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
1226 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
1228 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
1229 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1231 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
1232 directive.
1234 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1235 subrequests were used.
1237 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
1238 gzip were used.
1240 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
1241 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
1244 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
1246 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
1247 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
1249 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
1250 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
1252 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
1255 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
1257 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
1258 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
1260 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
1262 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
1264 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
1266 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
1268 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1269 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
1270 "source_charset" directives.
1272 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
1273 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
1274 Thanks to James Oakley.
1276 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
1277 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
1278 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1280 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
1281 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
1282 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1285 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
1287 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
1289 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
1291 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
1292 "limit_except" block.
1294 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
1295 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
1296 appeared in 0.6.6.
1298 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
1299 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
1300 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
1302 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
1303 log was enabled.
1304 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1306 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
1307 $upstream_response_time.
1308 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1310 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1311 memcached was used.
1313 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
1314 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
1315 in 0.6.11.
1317 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
1319 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
1322 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
1324 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
1325 autoindex was used.
1326 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
1329 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
1331 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
1333 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
1334 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
1336 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
1337 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
1339 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
1340 0.6.9.
1342 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
1343 located in non-standard place was used.
1345 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
1346 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
1347 characters.
1348 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1351 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
1353 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
1354 used.
1356 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
1357 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
1359 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
1360 lines.
1362 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
1363 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
1364 0.6.6.
1367 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
1369 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
1370 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
1372 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1374 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
1375 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
1377 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1378 /dev/poll method was used.
1381 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
1383 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1384 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1386 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
1387 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
1389 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
1390 down.
1392 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
1393 0.6.8.
1396 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
1398 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
1399 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
1400 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
1402 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
1403 authentication server.
1405 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
1407 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
1408 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
1409 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
1411 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
1414 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
1416 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
1417 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
1418 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
1419 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
1420 not to nginx prefix directory.
1422 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
1424 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
1425 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
1427 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
1428 regular expressions.
1430 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1431 the "backup" parameter.
1433 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
1434 $r->discard_request_body.
1436 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
1437 "Last-Modified" response header line.
1439 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
1440 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
1441 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
1443 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
1444 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
1446 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
1447 platforms except FreeBSD.
1448 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1450 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1451 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
1452 appeared in 0.6.6.
1454 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
1455 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
1458 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
1460 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
1462 *) Feature: named locations.
1464 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
1466 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
1468 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
1470 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
1471 might not close connection to backend.
1473 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
1474 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
1476 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
1477 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1480 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
1482 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
1483 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
1485 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
1486 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1488 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
1489 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1491 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
1493 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
1494 Solaris/amd64.
1495 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1497 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
1498 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
1501 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
1503 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
1504 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
1506 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
1507 changed.
1509 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
1510 directives.
1512 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1513 Studio.
1514 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1516 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
1517 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1520 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
1522 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
1524 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1525 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
1526 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1528 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1529 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
1531 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
1532 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1534 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1535 eventport method was used.
1537 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
1538 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
1539 appeared in 0.5.13.
1542 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
1544 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
1545 passed garbage in the header to a client.
1548 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
1550 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
1552 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
1553 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
1555 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
1556 truncated.
1558 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
1559 to the master process identification number.
1562 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
1564 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
1565 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
1568 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
1570 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
1571 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
1572 0.5.24.
1575 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
1577 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
1578 was made using HTTP/0.9.
1580 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
1581 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
1584 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
1586 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
1587 extension.
1589 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
1590 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
1592 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
1593 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
1595 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
1596 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
1597 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
1599 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1602 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
1604 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
1605 had appeared in 0.5.21.
1608 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
1610 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
1611 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
1613 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
1614 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
1615 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
1617 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
1618 library was used.
1619 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1621 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1624 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
1626 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
1628 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
1629 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
1631 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1632 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
1634 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
1635 transferred incorrectly.
1636 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1638 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1639 Studio.
1640 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1642 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
1643 make.
1644 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1647 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
1649 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
1651 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
1652 the $r->flush.
1654 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
1656 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
1657 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
1658 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
1660 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1661 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
1663 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1664 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
1667 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
1669 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
1671 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
1673 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
1674 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
1676 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
1677 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
1678 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
1679 had appeared in 0.5.9.
1681 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
1682 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
1683 0.3.38.
1686 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
1688 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
1690 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
1691 "types" block.
1693 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
1694 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
1696 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1698 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
1699 returned old cached value.
1702 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
1704 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
1705 "ip_hash" directive.
1706 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
1708 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1709 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
1710 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1712 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1713 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
1714 32K.
1716 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
1717 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
1720 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
1722 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
1723 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
1724 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
1726 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
1727 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
1729 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
1730 and "pop3_auth" directives.
1732 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1733 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
1734 disabled.
1736 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
1737 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
1739 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
1740 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
1742 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1743 "ip_hash" directive was used.
1745 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
1746 methods are used.
1749 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
1751 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
1752 configuration file.
1755 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
1757 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
1759 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
1760 via keep-alive connection.
1762 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
1763 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1765 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
1766 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
1768 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1769 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1770 send timeout only.
1772 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1773 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1776 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
1778 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1779 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1781 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1782 temporarily files were used while working with FastCGI server; the
1783 bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1785 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1786 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
1788 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
1791 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
1793 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
1794 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
1796 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
1797 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
1799 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
1800 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
1801 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1803 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
1804 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
1806 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1807 was built with -O2 optimization.
1810 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
1812 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
1813 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
1815 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1816 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
1819 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
1821 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
1822 variable value as a key.
1824 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
1826 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
1827 directive.
1829 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
1831 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1833 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
1834 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
1836 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
1837 logging.
1840 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
1842 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
1843 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
1845 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1846 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
1847 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
1848 switched to a next upstream.
1850 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
1851 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
1852 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1854 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1855 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1856 send timeout only.
1858 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1859 used.
1861 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
1864 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
1866 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
1868 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
1870 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1871 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
1872 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
1874 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
1875 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
1876 "Content-Type" header line in response.
1878 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
1879 support.
1880 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
1882 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
1885 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
1887 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
1888 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
1890 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
1892 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
1894 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
1895 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
1897 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
1899 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
1900 $r->sendfile() was used.
1903 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
1905 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
1907 *) Feature: the -V switch.
1909 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
1910 and G.
1912 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
1913 unprivileged user.
1915 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
1916 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
1918 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
1921 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
1923 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
1924 block.
1926 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
1927 line for the DELETE method.
1929 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
1930 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
1932 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
1933 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
1936 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
1938 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
1939 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
1941 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
1942 exist in nginx configuration.
1944 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
1947 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
1949 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
1950 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
1951 appeared in 0.5.1.
1954 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
1956 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
1957 unsuccessful completion of a request.
1959 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
1960 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
1962 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
1963 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
1964 in 0.5.0.
1966 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1967 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
1968 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1970 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1971 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
1972 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1974 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
1975 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
1976 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
1978 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
1979 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
1982 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
1984 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
1985 directive are not supported anymore.
1987 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
1988 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
1989 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
1990 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
1991 anymore.
1993 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1994 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
1996 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
1998 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
1999 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
2001 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
2002 appeared in 0.4.14.
2005 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
2007 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2009 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
2010 Linux, and NetBSD.
2012 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
2013 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
2015 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
2016 recursively.
2018 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
2020 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
2021 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
2023 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
2024 system time was changed backward.
2026 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
2027 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
2029 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
2030 proxy authentication server failed.
2033 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
2035 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
2036 "limit_except" block.
2038 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
2040 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
2041 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
2042 complete.
2044 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
2045 the deferred accept() were used.
2047 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
2048 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2050 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2051 used;
2053 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
2054 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
2056 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
2057 had appeared in 0.3.50.
2060 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
2062 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
2064 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
2065 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
2067 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
2070 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
2072 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
2074 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
2075 method.
2077 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
2078 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
2081 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
2083 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
2085 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
2086 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
2087 hogged CPU.
2089 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
2090 variable was used in the "map" directive.
2092 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
2093 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
2095 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
2096 appeared in 0.4.9.
2099 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
2101 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2103 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
2104 version.
2107 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
2109 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
2110 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
2111 not work.
2113 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
2114 responses.
2115 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
2118 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
2120 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
2122 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
2124 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
2125 variables.
2127 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
2128 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
2129 not work.
2131 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
2132 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
2133 timeout.
2135 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
2136 and ppc64.
2139 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
2141 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
2142 and ppc64.
2144 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
2145 if its length was set by text string in the
2146 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
2148 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
2149 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
2150 had appeared in 0.4.4.
2153 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
2155 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
2156 appeared in 0.4.4.
2159 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
2161 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
2163 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
2165 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
2166 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
2168 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
2169 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
2171 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
2172 method.
2174 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
2175 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
2178 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
2180 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
2181 "error_page" directive.
2183 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
2185 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
2187 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
2188 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
2190 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
2191 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
2193 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
2195 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
2198 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
2200 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
2201 had appeared in 0.4.1.
2204 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
2206 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
2207 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
2209 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
2210 than 2G.
2212 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
2213 requests.
2214 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
2217 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
2219 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
2220 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
2222 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
2223 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
2224 $r->has_request_body method.
2226 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
2228 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
2229 line for the PUT method.
2231 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
2233 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
2234 directive with variables and the first index name was without
2235 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2238 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
2240 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
2242 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
2244 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
2246 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
2247 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
2250 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
2252 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
2253 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
2256 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
2258 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
2259 "error_page" directive.
2261 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
2263 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
2264 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
2265 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
2268 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
2270 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
2272 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
2274 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
2275 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
2277 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
2279 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
2280 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
2282 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
2285 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
2287 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
2289 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
2290 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
2292 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
2293 to a client the required certificates information.
2295 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
2296 the "root" directive.
2299 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
2301 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
2303 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
2304 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
2306 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
2307 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
2308 access log.
2311 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
2313 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2315 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
2317 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
2319 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
2320 was relative to a server prefix.
2322 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
2323 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
2325 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
2326 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
2328 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
2329 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
2330 upstream.
2332 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
2333 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
2334 appeared in 0.3.50.
2337 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
2339 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
2341 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
2342 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
2344 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
2345 form.
2347 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
2348 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
2350 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
2351 first request to a backend only.
2353 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
2354 appeared in 0.3.53.
2357 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
2359 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
2360 302 responses.
2362 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2363 the "weight" parameter.
2365 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
2367 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
2369 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
2370 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
2371 in the log.
2373 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
2374 return the 409 code.
2376 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
2377 continued proxying anyway.
2380 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
2382 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
2383 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
2384 return the 405 error.
2386 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
2387 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
2389 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
2390 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2392 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
2393 temporary file was not removed.
2396 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
2398 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
2399 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2402 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
2404 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
2405 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
2406 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
2408 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
2409 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
2411 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
2412 proxy and FastCGI mode.
2414 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
2415 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
2417 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
2418 SSI after inclusion.
2420 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
2421 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
2424 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
2426 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
2428 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
2429 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
2430 subrequests.
2433 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
2435 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
2436 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
2438 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
2439 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
2440 start of the rewritten redirect.
2442 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
2443 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2444 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
2445 in 0.3.42.
2447 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
2448 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
2451 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
2453 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
2455 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
2456 SSI command is always removed.
2459 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
2461 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
2462 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
2464 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
2465 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
2467 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
2468 in proxy mode.
2470 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
2471 ngx_http_perl_module.
2474 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
2476 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
2477 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
2479 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
2480 method.
2482 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
2483 table.
2485 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
2486 table.
2488 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
2489 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
2490 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
2491 the rest.
2494 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
2496 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2498 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
2499 koi-win conversion table.
2501 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2504 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
2506 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2509 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
2511 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
2512 proxy.
2514 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
2515 then once.
2517 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
2518 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
2519 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
2520 were not written to access log.
2522 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
2523 "Cache-Control" response header line.
2526 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
2528 *) Feature: the -v switch.
2530 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
2531 remote subrequests.
2533 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
2535 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
2536 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
2537 segmentation fault was occurred.
2540 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
2542 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
2544 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
2546 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
2549 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
2551 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
2552 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
2553 "alert" to "warn".
2555 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
2557 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
2558 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
2559 not logged.
2561 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
2562 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
2563 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2565 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
2566 appeared in 0.3.38.
2569 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
2571 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
2573 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
2574 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
2576 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
2577 method.
2579 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
2581 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
2582 once a second only.
2583 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2585 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
2586 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
2587 Thanks to ForJest.
2589 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
2590 login and password to pass authorization server.
2591 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2594 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
2596 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
2598 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
2599 "!-f" operators.
2601 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
2602 method.
2604 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2607 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
2609 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2611 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
2612 inside the "if" block.
2614 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
2615 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
2617 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
2619 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
2620 and $r->remote_addr.
2622 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
2624 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
2625 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
2627 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
2628 ngx_http_ssi_module.
2630 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
2631 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
2632 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
2633 a current path but not to a server prefix.
2636 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
2638 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
2639 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2641 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
2642 subrequest.
2645 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
2647 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
2650 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
2652 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2653 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
2655 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
2656 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
2658 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
2661 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
2663 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
2664 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2667 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
2669 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
2671 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
2672 form.
2674 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
2676 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
2677 bug.
2678 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2680 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
2681 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
2682 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
2683 in 0.3.18.
2685 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2686 and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
2687 not transferred.
2689 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
2692 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
2694 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
2695 "crit".
2697 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
2698 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
2700 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
2701 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
2704 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
2706 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
2707 many warnings before the response.
2709 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
2710 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
2712 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
2713 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
2715 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
2716 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
2717 request.
2720 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
2722 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
2724 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
2726 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
2727 terminated prematurely.
2728 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
2730 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
2731 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2732 header line.
2734 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
2735 completion of a request.
2737 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
2738 directive was transferred to a client.
2741 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
2743 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
2744 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2746 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
2747 "log_format" directive.
2749 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
2751 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
2752 time.
2754 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
2755 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
2757 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
2758 autoconfiguration directive.
2760 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2761 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
2764 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
2766 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
2767 "optimize_server_names".
2769 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
2770 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
2771 SSI subrequest.
2774 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
2776 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2777 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
2778 appeared in 0.3.24.
2781 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
2783 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
2785 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
2786 not transferred to a client.
2788 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
2790 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
2791 location.
2793 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
2794 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
2795 had appeared in 0.3.18.
2798 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
2800 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
2802 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
2803 directives.
2805 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
2806 Solaris.
2809 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
2811 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
2812 $r->unescape methods.
2814 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
2815 canceled.
2817 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
2818 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
2819 appeared in 0.3.18.
2822 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
2824 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
2826 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
2827 URI part.
2830 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
2832 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2834 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
2835 the "/usr?args" form.
2838 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
2840 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
2842 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
2844 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2847 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
2849 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
2850 names.
2852 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
2853 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
2855 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
2856 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2858 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
2859 directives were canceled.
2861 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
2863 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
2864 only without the URI part.
2866 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
2867 ngx_http_map_module.
2869 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
2870 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
2872 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
2873 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
2876 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
2878 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
2879 sendfile64() in kernel.
2881 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
2882 ".domain.tld" form.
2884 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
2885 appeared in 0.2.4.
2887 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2889 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
2890 directive the port 80 was used by default.
2893 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
2895 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
2897 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
2898 directives.
2900 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
2902 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
2904 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
2905 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
2906 Pentium 4.
2908 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
2910 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
2911 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
2912 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2914 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
2915 had appeared in 0.3.13.
2918 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
2920 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
2921 connection.
2923 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2925 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
2926 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
2929 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
2931 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
2932 appeared in 0.3.13.
2935 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
2937 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
2939 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
2940 /dev/poll methods.
2942 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2944 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2945 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2947 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
2948 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
2951 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
2953 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
2954 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
2955 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
2956 and is not built by default.
2958 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
2960 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
2961 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
2962 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
2964 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
2966 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
2968 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
2969 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2971 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
2972 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
2974 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
2975 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
2976 without the "Basic realm" text.
2978 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
2979 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
2980 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2982 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
2983 Solaris.
2985 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
2986 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
2989 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
2991 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
2992 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
2995 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
2997 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
2998 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
2999 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
3001 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
3002 "$body_bytes_sent".
3004 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
3006 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
3008 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
3010 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
3012 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
3014 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
3016 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
3018 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
3019 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
3020 characters.
3022 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
3024 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
3025 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
3028 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
3030 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
3031 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
3034 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
3036 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
3037 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
3038 and zeroes.
3040 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
3041 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
3043 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
3044 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3046 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
3047 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
3049 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
3051 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
3053 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
3054 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
3055 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
3056 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
3057 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
3058 will be canceled soon.
3060 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
3061 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
3063 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
3064 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
3066 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
3067 graceful exit.
3069 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
3070 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
3071 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
3072 appeared in 0.2.6.
3074 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3075 "Expires" header.
3077 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
3078 several worker processes were used.
3080 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
3081 SSI commands.
3083 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
3084 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
3085 did not transferred at all.
3088 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
3090 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
3092 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3093 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
3096 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
3098 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
3099 authorization server.
3101 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
3103 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
3104 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
3105 0.3.3.
3107 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
3108 the 80 port was always used.
3111 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
3113 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
3114 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3116 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
3117 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
3119 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
3120 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
3123 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
3125 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
3126 had appeared in 0.3.3.
3129 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
3131 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
3132 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
3134 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
3135 directive.
3137 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
3138 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
3140 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
3142 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
3143 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
3144 the CLOSED state.
3146 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
3147 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
3149 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
3151 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
3153 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
3154 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
3156 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
3158 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
3160 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
3161 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3163 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
3164 protocol only.
3167 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
3169 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
3171 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
3172 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
3173 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
3176 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
3178 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
3179 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
3180 0.2.0.
3182 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
3183 SSI.
3186 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
3188 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
3189 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
3190 overflow.
3193 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
3195 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
3196 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
3198 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
3199 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
3201 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
3202 more flexible to change an error code.
3204 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
3205 in proxied subrequests.
3207 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
3208 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
3209 again.
3211 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
3212 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
3213 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
3214 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3217 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
3219 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
3220 causes the warning and changes old value.
3222 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
3224 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
3225 the "include" command.
3227 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
3228 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
3231 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
3233 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
3234 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
3236 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
3237 appeared in 0.1.44.
3239 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
3240 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
3243 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
3245 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
3246 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
3249 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
3251 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
3253 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
3254 "set" directive.
3256 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
3257 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3259 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
3260 long file names;
3262 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
3263 starting by dot.
3265 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
3266 closed too.
3267 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3269 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
3272 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
3274 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
3275 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
3276 appeared in 0.2.0.
3279 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
3281 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
3282 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
3283 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
3284 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
3285 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
3286 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
3287 suffix.
3289 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
3290 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
3291 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
3293 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
3295 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
3297 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
3298 not run for subrequests.
3300 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
3301 directives.
3303 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
3304 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
3306 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
3307 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3309 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3311 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3313 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
3314 from the 304 responses.
3315 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
3318 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
3320 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
3321 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
3323 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
3324 SSL connection.
3326 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3329 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
3331 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
3333 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
3335 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
3337 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
3338 of authorization use.
3341 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
3343 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
3344 changed using the -HUP signal.
3346 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
3348 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
3349 to a server.
3351 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
3352 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
3353 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
3354 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3357 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
3359 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
3360 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
3361 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
3363 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
3364 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3367 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
3369 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
3370 can not be used in SSI.
3373 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
3375 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
3376 information did not logged in the error log.
3378 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
3379 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
3381 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
3382 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
3384 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
3385 SIGQUIT signal.
3387 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
3388 became shorter in the "ps" command.
3391 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
3393 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
3394 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
3395 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
3397 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
3398 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
3400 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
3401 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
3402 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3404 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
3406 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
3407 the "include virtual" command.
3409 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
3410 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
3411 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3413 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
3414 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
3415 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3417 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
3418 chain.
3420 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
3421 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3423 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
3424 login state.
3427 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
3429 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
3430 FastCGI mode.
3432 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
3433 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
3435 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
3437 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
3439 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
3440 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
3442 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
3443 in SSI.
3445 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
3446 than one remote subrequest.
3448 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
3449 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
3450 appeared in 0.1.29.
3452 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
3454 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
3456 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
3457 names in UTF-8.
3459 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3462 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
3464 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
3466 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
3467 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
3469 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
3470 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3471 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
3472 request all backends again.
3475 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
3477 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
3478 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
3479 now returns the 400 error.
3481 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
3483 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
3484 parameters of the "listen" directive.
3486 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
3488 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
3490 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
3491 in UTF-8.
3493 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
3494 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
3497 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
3499 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
3501 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
3503 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
3504 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3506 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
3507 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
3508 occurred on the start.
3510 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
3511 bigger than the temporary file.
3513 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
3514 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
3515 0.1.28.
3518 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
3520 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3521 big response part were include by SSI.
3523 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
3524 in SSI.
3526 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
3528 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
3529 the client request header line passing.
3532 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
3534 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
3535 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3537 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
3538 level cause the bus fault on start up.
3540 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
3542 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
3543 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
3546 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
3548 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
3549 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3551 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
3552 expressions.
3554 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
3555 of regular expressions.
3557 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
3558 proxy and FastCGI mode.
3561 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
3563 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3565 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
3567 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3569 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
3570 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
3573 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
3575 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3576 SSI was used.
3578 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3580 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
3581 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
3582 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
3583 only.
3585 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
3586 as invalid.
3588 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
3590 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
3593 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
3595 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
3597 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
3598 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
3599 level is supported.
3601 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
3602 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
3604 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
3606 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
3607 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
3609 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
3611 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
3612 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
3614 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
3615 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
3617 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
3618 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
3619 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
3620 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
3622 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
3623 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
3625 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
3626 replaced with
3627 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
3628 directive.
3630 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
3631 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
3632 directive.
3634 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
3636 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
3637 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
3638 directives.
3640 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
3642 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
3644 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
3646 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
3648 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
3650 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
3651 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
3652 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
3654 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
3655 headers or a backend response header.
3657 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
3658 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
3659 returned the 408 response.
3661 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
3662 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
3664 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
3665 tolerance configuration.
3667 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3668 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
3670 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
3671 header line.
3673 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
3675 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
3676 were in a request.
3678 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
3681 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
3683 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
3685 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
3688 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
3690 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
3692 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
3693 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
3694 lines also logged.
3696 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
3698 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
3699 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
3700 canceled.
3702 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
3703 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
3704 used.
3707 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
3709 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
3710 at the info level.
3712 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
3714 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
3715 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
3718 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
3720 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
3722 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
3723 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
3725 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
3726 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
3727 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
3728 after request completion.
3730 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
3731 expression.
3733 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
3734 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
3736 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
3737 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
3739 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
3740 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
3741 will be removed soon.
3743 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
3745 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
3747 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
3749 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
3752 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
3754 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
3755 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
3757 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
3758 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
3759 "alias" directive.
3761 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
3762 responses.
3764 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
3765 as valid referrer.
3768 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
3770 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
3771 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
3772 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
3773 supported.
3775 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
3777 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
3778 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
3779 server name of the "server_name" directive.
3781 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3782 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
3784 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
3785 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
3787 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
3788 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
3791 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
3793 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
3794 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
3796 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
3797 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
3800 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
3802 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
3803 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
3805 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
3806 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
3808 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3811 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
3813 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
3814 the fastcgi_params directive.
3816 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
3819 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
3821 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
3822 returned for the local requests.
3824 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3826 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
3827 request body via SSL connections.
3830 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
3832 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
3833 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
3834 with Solaris 10.
3836 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
3837 inherited.
3839 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
3840 with URI by an "&" rather than a "?".
3842 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
3843 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
3845 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
3847 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
3848 the segmentation fault.
3850 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
3851 directive.
3853 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
3855 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
3856 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
3857 configuration to the request.
3860 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
3862 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
3863 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
3864 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
3865 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
3867 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
3869 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
3871 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
3872 another location.
3874 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
3875 small caps letters in extension.
3877 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
3878 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
3879 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
3881 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
3882 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
3883 0.1.14.
3885 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
3888 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
3890 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
3891 request the final chunk was issued.
3893 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
3894 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
3896 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
3897 segmentation faults.
3899 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
3900 complete.
3902 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
3903 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
3905 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
3907 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
3908 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
3911 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
3913 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
3914 segmentation fault.
3916 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
3917 different number of the captures and substitutions.
3919 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
3920 regular expression.
3922 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
3923 arguments and in the original state.
3925 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
3926 to use the regular expressions in locations.
3928 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
3929 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
3930 in 0.1.14.
3932 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
3933 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
3934 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
3935 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
3938 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
3940 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
3941 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
3942 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
3944 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
3945 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
3946 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
3948 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
3949 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
3950 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
3951 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
3952 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
3953 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
3954 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
3956 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
3957 0.1.3.
3959 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
3960 proxy_pass directive.
3962 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
3963 string start.
3965 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
3966 ngx_http_proxy_module.
3968 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
3969 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
3972 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
3974 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
3975 directives.
3977 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
3978 not work.
3980 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
3981 length.
3984 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
3986 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
3988 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
3989 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
3990 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
3991 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
3993 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
3994 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
3997 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
3999 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
4001 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
4002 transferred response.
4004 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
4005 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
4007 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
4008 bytes.
4010 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
4011 broken symlink was in a directory.
4013 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
4014 sendfile.
4016 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
4017 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
4018 in an endless loop.
4020 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
4021 when the /dev/poll method was used.
4023 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
4025 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
4027 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
4029 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
4030 section in configuration.
4032 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
4034 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
4035 ":/".
4038 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
4040 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
4041 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
4042 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
4044 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
4045 not work.
4048 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
4050 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
4051 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
4053 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
4054 completely.
4056 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
4057 does not support sendfile64().
4059 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
4060 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
4061 0.1.8.
4064 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
4066 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
4067 in the listing.
4069 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
4071 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
4074 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
4076 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
4077 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
4080 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
4082 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
4083 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
4086 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
4088 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
4089 returned not enough data" alerts.
4091 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
4092 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
4093 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
4094 endless loop.
4096 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
4097 sendfile.
4099 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
4101 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
4103 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
4104 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
4106 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
4108 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
4111 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
4113 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
4116 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
4118 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
4120 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
4122 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
4123 is not used.
4126 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
4128 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
4129 options in configure.
4131 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
4133 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
4135 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
4136 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
4138 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
4139 is not used.
4141 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
4142 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
4144 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
4146 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
4147 already compressed.
4150 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
4152 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
4154 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
4156 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
4157 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
4159 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
4161 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
4163 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
4164 endless loop.
4166 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
4168 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
4169 used while the proxying.
4171 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
4173 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
4174 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
4177 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
4179 *) The first public version.