Changes with nginx 1.6.0 24 Apr 2014 *) 1.6.x stable branch. Changes with nginx 1.5.13 08 Apr 2014 *) Change: improved hash table handling; the default values of the "variables_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size" were changed to 1024 and 64 respectively. *) Feature: the ngx_http_mp4_module now supports the "end" argument. *) Feature: byte ranges support in the ngx_http_mp4_module and while saving responses to cache. *) Bugfix: alerts "ngx_slab_alloc() failed: no memory" no longer logged when using shared memory in the "ssl_session_cache" directive and in the ngx_http_limit_req_module. *) Bugfix: the "underscores_in_headers" directive did not allow underscore as a first character of a header. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: cache manager might hog CPU on exit in nginx/Windows. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows terminated abnormally if the "ssl_session_cache" directive was used with the "shared" parameter. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. Changes with nginx 1.5.12 18 Mar 2014 *) Security: a heap memory buffer overflow might occur in a worker process while handling a specially crafted request by ngx_http_spdy_module, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2014-0133). Thanks to Lucas Molas, researcher at Programa STIC, Fundación Dr. Manuel Sadosky, Buenos Aires, Argentina. *) Feature: the "proxy_protocol" parameters of the "listen" and "real_ip_header" directives, the $proxy_protocol_addr variable. *) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_next_upstream" directive. Thanks to Lucas Molas. Changes with nginx 1.5.11 04 Mar 2014 *) Security: memory corruption might occur in a worker process on 32-bit platforms while handling a specially crafted request by ngx_http_spdy_module, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2014-0088); the bug had appeared in 1.5.10. Thanks to Lucas Molas, researcher at Programa STIC, Fundación Dr. Manuel Sadosky, Buenos Aires, Argentina. *) Feature: the $ssl_session_reused variable. *) Bugfix: the "client_max_body_size" directive might not work when reading a request body using chunked transfer encoding; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. Thanks to Lucas Molas. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when proxying WebSocket connections. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the ngx_http_spdy_module was used on 32-bit platforms; the bug had appeared in 1.5.10. *) Bugfix: the $upstream_status variable might contain wrong data if the "proxy_cache_use_stale" or "proxy_cache_revalidate" directives were used. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if errors with code 400 were redirected to a named location using the "error_page" directive. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2013. Changes with nginx 1.5.10 04 Feb 2014 *) Feature: the ngx_http_spdy_module now uses SPDY 3.1 protocol. Thanks to Automattic and MaxCDN for sponsoring this work. *) Feature: the ngx_http_mp4_module now skips tracks too short for a seek requested. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the $ssl_session_id variable was used in logs; the bug had appeared in 1.5.9. *) Bugfix: the $date_local and $date_gmt variables used wrong format outside of the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module. *) Bugfix: client connections might be immediately closed if deferred accept was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.15. *) Bugfix: alerts "getsockopt(TCP_FASTOPEN) ... failed" appeared in logs during binary upgrade on Linux; the bug had appeared in 1.5.8. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. Changes with nginx 1.5.9 22 Jan 2014 *) Change: now nginx expects escaped URIs in "X-Accel-Redirect" headers. *) Feature: the "ssl_buffer_size" directive. *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive can now be used to rate limit responses sent in SPDY connections. *) Feature: the "spdy_chunk_size" directive. *) Feature: the "ssl_session_tickets" directive. Thanks to Dirkjan Bussink. *) Bugfix: the $ssl_session_id variable contained full session serialized instead of just a session id. Thanks to Ivan Ristić. *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly handled escaped "?" character in the "include" SSI command. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module did not unescape destination URI of the COPY and MOVE methods. *) Bugfix: resolver did not understand domain names with a trailing dot. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: alerts "zero size buf in output" might appear in logs while proxying; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the ngx_http_spdy_module was used. *) Bugfix: proxied WebSocket connections might hang right after handshake if the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used. *) Bugfix: the "xclient" directive of the mail proxy module incorrectly handled IPv6 client addresses. Changes with nginx 1.5.8 17 Dec 2013 *) Feature: IPv6 support in resolver. *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "fastopen" parameter. Thanks to Mathew Rodley. *) Feature: SSL support in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module. Thanks to Roberto De Ioris. *) Feature: vim syntax highlighting scripts were added to contrib. Thanks to Evan Miller. *) Bugfix: a timeout might occur while reading client request body in an SSL connection using chunked transfer encoding. *) Bugfix: the "master_process" directive did not work correctly in nginx/Windows. *) Bugfix: the "setfib" parameter of the "listen" directive might not work. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. Changes with nginx 1.5.7 19 Nov 2013 *) Security: a character following an unescaped space in a request line was handled incorrectly (CVE-2013-4547); the bug had appeared in 0.8.41. Thanks to Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team. *) Change: a logging level of auth_basic errors about no user/password provided has been lowered from "error" to "info". *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_revalidate", "fastcgi_cache_revalidate", "scgi_cache_revalidate", and "uwsgi_cache_revalidate" directives. *) Feature: the "ssl_session_ticket_key" directive. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header Cache-Control ''" added a "Cache-Control" response header line with an empty value. *) Bugfix: the "satisfy any" directive might return 403 error instead of 401 if auth_request and auth_basic directives were used. Thanks to Jan Marc Hoffmann. *) Bugfix: the "accept_filter" and "deferred" parameters of the "listen" directive were ignored for listen sockets created during binary upgrade. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: some data received from a backend with unbufferred proxy might not be sent to a client immediately if "gzip" or "gunzip" directives were used. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: in error handling in ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module. *) Bugfix: responses might hang if the ngx_http_spdy_module was used with the "auth_request" directive. *) Bugfix: memory leak in nginx/Windows. Changes with nginx 1.5.6 01 Oct 2013 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_buffering" directive. *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_protocols" and "proxy_ssl_ciphers" directives. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Feature: optimization of SSL handshakes when using long certificate chains. *) Feature: the mail proxy supports SMTP pipelining. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_auth_basic_module when using "$apr1$" password encryption method. Thanks to Markus Linnala. *) Bugfix: in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows incorrect location might be used to process a request if locations were given using characters in different cases. *) Bugfix: automatic redirect with appended trailing slash for proxied locations might not work. *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. Changes with nginx 1.5.5 17 Sep 2013 *) Change: now nginx assumes HTTP/1.0 by default if it is not able to detect protocol reliably. *) Feature: the "disable_symlinks" directive now uses O_PATH on Linux. *) Feature: now nginx uses EPOLLRDHUP events to detect premature connection close by clients if the "epoll" method is used. *) Bugfix: in the "valid_referers" directive if the "server_names" parameter was used. *) Bugfix: the $request_time variable did not work in nginx/Windows. *) Bugfix: in the "image_filter" directive. Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 1.0.1f compatibility. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. Changes with nginx 1.5.4 27 Aug 2013 *) Change: the "js" extension MIME type has been changed to "application/javascript"; default value of the "charset_types" directive was changed accordingly. *) Change: now the "image_filter" directive with the "size" parameter returns responses with the "application/json" MIME type. *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_request_module. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur on start or during reconfiguration if the "try_files" directive was used with an empty parameter. *) Bugfix: memory leak if relative paths were specified using variables in the "root" or "auth_basic_user_file" directives. *) Bugfix: the "valid_referers" directive incorrectly executed regular expressions if a "Referer" header started with "https://". Thanks to Liangbin Li. *) Bugfix: responses might hang if subrequests were used and an SSL handshake error happened during subrequest processing. Thanks to Aviram Cohen. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. Changes with nginx 1.5.3 30 Jul 2013 *) Change in internal API: now u->length defaults to -1 if working with backends in unbuffered mode. *) Change: now after receiving an incomplete response from a backend server nginx tries to send an available part of the response to a client, and then closes client connection. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the ngx_http_spdy_module was used with the "client_body_in_file_only" directive. *) Bugfix: the "so_keepalive" parameter of the "listen" directive might be handled incorrectly on DragonFlyBSD. Thanks to Sepherosa Ziehau. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_sub_filter_module. Changes with nginx 1.5.2 02 Jul 2013 *) Feature: now several "error_log" directives can be used. *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() embedded perl method did not return value of the "Cookie" and "X-Forwarded-For" request header lines; the bug had appeared in 1.3.14. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module. Thanks to Jim Radford. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux with x32 ABI. Thanks to Serguei Ivantsov. Changes with nginx 1.5.1 04 Jun 2013 *) Feature: the "ssi_last_modified", "sub_filter_last_modified", and "xslt_last_modified" directives. Thanks to Alexey Kolpakov. *) Feature: the "http_403" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", "scgi_next_upstream", and "uwsgi_next_upstream" directives. *) Feature: the "allow" and "deny" directives now support unix domain sockets. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_mail_ssl_module, but without ngx_http_ssl_module; the bug had appeared in 1.3.14. *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_set_body" directive. Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. *) Bugfix: in the "lingering_time" directive. Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. *) Bugfix: the "fail_timeout" parameter of the "server" directive in the "upstream" context might not work if "max_fails" parameter was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.0. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "ssl_stapling" directive was used. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server. Thanks to Filipe Da Silva. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might stop accepting connections if several worker processes were used. Changes with nginx 1.5.0 07 May 2013 *) Security: a stack-based buffer overflow might occur in a worker process while handling a specially crafted request, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2013-2028); the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. Thanks to Greg MacManus, iSIGHT Partners Labs. Changes with nginx 1.4.0 24 Apr 2013 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the --with-openssl option was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.16. *) Bugfix: in a request body handling in the ngx_http_perl_module; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. Changes with nginx 1.3.16 16 Apr 2013 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if subrequests were used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. *) Bugfix: the "tcp_nodelay" directive caused an error if a WebSocket connection was proxied into a unix domain socket. *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_length variable has an incorrect value "0" if buffering was not used. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: in the eventport and /dev/poll methods. Changes with nginx 1.3.15 26 Mar 2013 *) Change: opening and closing a connection without sending any data in it is no longer logged to access_log with error code 400. *) Feature: the ngx_http_spdy_module. Thanks to Automattic for sponsoring this work. *) Feature: the "limit_req_status" and "limit_conn_status" directives. Thanks to Nick Marden. *) Feature: the "image_filter_interlace" directive. Thanks to Ian Babrou. *) Feature: $connections_waiting variable in the ngx_http_stub_status_module. *) Feature: the mail proxy module now supports IPv6 backends. *) Bugfix: request body might be transmitted incorrectly when retrying a request to the next upstream server; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. *) Bugfix: responses might hang if subrequests were used and a DNS error happened during subrequest processing. Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. *) Bugfix: in backend usage accounting. Changes with nginx 1.3.14 05 Mar 2013 *) Feature: $connections_active, $connections_reading, and $connections_writing variables in the ngx_http_stub_status_module. *) Feature: support of WebSocket connections in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module and ngx_http_scgi_module. *) Bugfix: in virtual servers handling with SNI. *) Bugfix: new sessions were not always stored if the "ssl_session_cache shared" directive was used and there was no free space in shared memory. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: multiple X-Forwarded-For headers were handled incorrectly. Thanks to Neal Poole for sponsoring this work. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. Thanks to Gernot Vormayr. Changes with nginx 1.3.13 19 Feb 2013 *) Change: a compiler with name "cc" is now used by default. *) Feature: support for proxying of WebSocket connections. Thanks to Apcera and CloudBees for sponsoring this work. *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "{SHA}" password encryption method. Thanks to Louis Opter. Changes with nginx 1.3.12 05 Feb 2013 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", "memcached_bind", "scgi_bind", and "uwsgi_bind" directives. *) Feature: the $pipe, $request_length, $time_iso8601, and $time_local variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. Thanks to Kiril Kalchev. *) Feature: IPv6 support in the ngx_http_geoip_module. Thanks to Gregor Kališnik. *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_method" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if resolver was used with the poll method. *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU during SSL handshake with a backend if the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used. *) Bugfix: the "[crit] SSL_write() failed (SSL:)" error. *) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. *) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive. Changes with nginx 1.3.11 10 Jan 2013 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if logging was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.10. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with IP addresses without port specified; the bug had appeared in 1.3.10. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during reconfiguration if the "keepalive" directive was specified more than once in a single upstream block. *) Bugfix: parameter "default" of the "geo" directive did not set default value for IPv6 addresses. Changes with nginx 1.3.10 25 Dec 2012 *) Change: domain names specified in configuration file are now resolved to IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 ones. *) Change: now if the "include" directive with mask is used on Unix systems, included files are sorted in alphabetical order. *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds headers to 201 responses. *) Feature: the "geo" directive now supports IPv6 addresses in CIDR notation. *) Feature: the "flush" and "gzip" parameters of the "access_log" directive. *) Feature: variables support in the "auth_basic" directive. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module in some cases. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the ngx_http_xslt_module was used. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX in some cases. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive with high rates might result in truncated responses on 32-bit platforms. Thanks to Alexey Antropov. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "if" directive was used. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued with "413 Request Entity Too Large" responses. *) Bugfix: the "image_filter", "image_filter_jpeg_quality" and "image_filter_sharpen" directives might be inherited incorrectly. Thanks to Ian Babrou. *) Bugfix: "crypt_r() failed" errors might appear if the "auth_basic" directive was used on Linux. *) Bugfix: in backup servers handling. Thanks to Thomas Chen. *) Bugfix: proxied HEAD requests might return incorrect response if the "gzip" directive was used. Changes with nginx 1.3.9 27 Nov 2012 *) Feature: support for chunked transfer encoding while reading client request body. *) Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. *) Bugfix: cache manager and cache loader processes might not be able to start if more than 512 listen sockets were used. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module. Changes with nginx 1.3.8 30 Oct 2012 *) Feature: the "optional_no_ca" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive. Thanks to Mike Kazantsev and Eric O'Connor. *) Feature: the $bytes_sent, $connection, and $connection_requests variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. Thanks to Benjamin Grössing. *) Feature: the "auto" parameter of the "worker_processes" directive. *) Bugfix: "cache file ... has md5 collision" alert. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module. *) Bugfix: in the "ssl_stapling" directive. Changes with nginx 1.3.7 02 Oct 2012 *) Feature: OCSP stapling support. Thanks to Comodo, DigiCert and GlobalSign for sponsoring this work. *) Feature: the "ssl_trusted_certificate" directive. *) Feature: resolver now randomly rotates addresses returned from cache. Thanks to Anton Jouline. *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.7 compatibility. Changes with nginx 1.3.6 12 Sep 2012 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module. *) Feature: the "memcached_gzip_flag" directive. *) Feature: the "always" parameter of the "gzip_static" directive. *) Bugfix: in the "limit_req" directive; the bug had appeared in 1.1.14. Thanks to Charles Chen. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.7 with -O2 optimization if the --with-ipv6 option was used. Changes with nginx 1.3.5 21 Aug 2012 *) Change: the ngx_http_mp4_module module no longer skips tracks in formats other than H.264 and AAC. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "map" directive was used with variables as values. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "geo" directive was used with the "ranges" parameter but without the "default" parameter; the bug had appeared in 0.8.43. Thanks to Zhen Chen and Weibin Yao. *) Bugfix: in the -p command-line parameter handling. *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server. *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs. Thanks to Coverity. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2005 Express. Thanks to HAYASHI Kentaro. Changes with nginx 1.3.4 31 Jul 2012 *) Change: the "ipv6only" parameter is now turned on by default for listening IPv6 sockets. *) Feature: the Clang compiler support. *) Bugfix: extra listening sockets might be created. Thanks to Roman Odaisky. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might hog CPU if a worker process failed to start. Thanks to Ricardo Villalobos Guevara. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass_header", "fastcgi_pass_header", "scgi_pass_header", "uwsgi_pass_header", "proxy_hide_header", "fastcgi_hide_header", "scgi_hide_header", and "uwsgi_hide_header" directives might be inherited incorrectly. Changes with nginx 1.3.3 10 Jul 2012 *) Feature: entity tags support and the "etag" directive. *) Bugfix: trailing dot in a source value was not ignored if the "map" directive was used with the "hostnames" parameter. *) Bugfix: incorrect location might be used to process a request if a URI was changed via a "rewrite" directive before an internal redirect to a named location. Changes with nginx 1.3.2 26 Jun 2012 *) Change: the "single" parameter of the "keepalive" directive is now ignored. *) Change: SSL compression is now disabled when using all versions of OpenSSL, including ones prior to 1.0.0. *) Feature: it is now possible to use the "ip_hash" directive to balance IPv6 clients. *) Feature: the $status variable can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process on shutdown if the "resolver" directive was used. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the ngx_http_mp4_module was used. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if conflicting wildcard server names were used. *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally on a SIGBUS signal on ARM platform. *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file number)" on HP-UX while reconfiguration. Changes with nginx 1.3.1 05 Jun 2012 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dot in URI path component, and does not allow URIs with ":$" in it. Thanks to Vladimir Kochetkov, Positive Research Center. *) Feature: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass" directives, and the "server" directive inside the "upstream" block, now support IPv6 addresses. *) Feature: the "resolver" directive now supports IPv6 addresses and an optional port specification. *) Feature: the "least_conn" directive inside the "upstream" block. *) Feature: it is now possible to specify a weight for servers while using the "ip_hash" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "image_filter" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.0. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with ngx_cpp_test_module; the bug had appeared in 1.1.12. *) Bugfix: access to variables from SSI and embedded perl module might not work after reconfiguration. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module. Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji. *) Bugfix: memory leak if $geoip_org variable was used. Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path" directives. Changes with nginx 1.3.0 15 May 2012 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive now supports IPv6 addresses and the "unix:" parameter. *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive and the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive now support IPv6 addresses. *) Feature: the "real_ip_recursive", "geoip_proxy", and "geoip_proxy_recursive" directives. *) Feature: the "proxy_recursive" parameter of the "geo" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "resolver" directive was used. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or "uwsgi_pass" directives were used and backend returned incorrect response. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "rewrite" directive was used and new request arguments in a replacement used variables. *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU if the open file resource limit was reached. *) Bugfix: nginx might loop infinitely over backends if the "proxy_next_upstream" directive with the "http_404" parameter was used and there were backup servers specified in an upstream block. *) Bugfix: adding the "down" parameter of the "server" directive might cause unneeded client redistribution among backend servers if the "ip_hash" directive was used. *) Bugfix: socket leak. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module. Changes with nginx 1.2.0 23 Apr 2012 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "try_files" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.19. *) Bugfix: response might be truncated if there were more than IOV_MAX buffers used. *) Bugfix: in the "crop" parameter of the "image_filter" directive. Thanks to Maxim Bublis. Changes with nginx 1.1.19 12 Apr 2012 *) Security: specially crafted mp4 file might allow to overwrite memory locations in a worker process if the ngx_http_mp4_module was used, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2012-2089). Thanks to Matthew Daley. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might be terminated abnormally. Thanks to Vincent Lee. *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as "backup". *) Bugfix: the "allow" and "deny" directives might be inherited incorrectly if they were used with IPv6 addresses. *) Bugfix: the "modern_browser" and "ancient_browser" directives might be inherited incorrectly. *) Bugfix: timeouts might be handled incorrectly on Solaris/SPARC. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. Changes with nginx 1.1.18 28 Mar 2012 *) Change: keepalive connections are no longer disabled for Safari by default. *) Feature: the $connection_requests variable. *) Feature: $tcpinfo_rtt, $tcpinfo_rttvar, $tcpinfo_snd_cwnd and $tcpinfo_rcv_space variables. *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive now works on FreeBSD. *) Feature: the "xslt_param" and "xslt_string_param" directives. Thanks to Samuel Behan. *) Bugfix: in configure tests. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian GNU/Hurd. Changes with nginx 1.1.17 15 Mar 2012 *) Security: content of previously freed memory might be sent to a client if backend returned specially crafted response. Thanks to Matthew Daley. *) Bugfix: in the embedded perl module if used from SSI. Thanks to Matthew Daley. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module. Changes with nginx 1.1.16 29 Feb 2012 *) Change: the simultaneous subrequest limit has been raised to 200. *) Feature: the "from" parameter of the "disable_symlinks" directive. *) Feature: the "return" and "error_page" directives can now be used to return 307 redirections. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "resolver" directive was used and there was no "error_log" directive specified at global level. Thanks to Roman Arutyunyan. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "proxy_http_version 1.1" or "fastcgi_keep_conn on" directives were used. *) Bugfix: memory leaks. Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. *) Bugfix: in the "disable_symlinks" directive. *) Bugfix: on ZFS filesystem disk cache size might be calculated incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 1.0.1. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 12.1 compiler. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc on Solaris; the bug had appeared in 1.1.15. Changes with nginx 1.1.15 15 Feb 2012 *) Feature: the "disable_symlinks" directive. *) Feature: the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path" directives. *) Bugfix: nginx might log incorrect error "upstream prematurely closed connection" instead of correct "upstream sent too big header" one. Thanks to Feibo Li. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the --with-openssl option was used. *) Bugfix: the number of internal redirects to named locations was not limited. *) Bugfix: calling $r->flush() multiple times might cause errors in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module. *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store" directive was used with SSI includes. *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cacheable variables (such as the $args variable) returned old empty cached value. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if too many SSI subrequests were issued simultaneously; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25. Changes with nginx 1.1.14 30 Jan 2012 *) Feature: multiple "limit_req" limits may be used simultaneously. *) Bugfix: in error handling while connecting to a backend. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: in AIO error handling on FreeBSD. *) Bugfix: in the OpenSSL library initialization. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directives might be inherited incorrectly. *) Bugfix: memory leak during reconfiguration if the "pcre_jit" directive was used. Changes with nginx 1.1.13 16 Jan 2012 *) Feature: the "TLSv1.1" and "TLSv1.2" parameters of the "ssl_protocols" directive. *) Bugfix: the "limit_req" directive parameters were not inherited correctly; the bug had appeared in 1.1.12. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive incorrectly processed "Refresh" header if regular expression were used. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_use_stale" directive with "error" parameter did not return answer from cache if there were no live upstreams. *) Bugfix: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive might not work. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in 1.1.12. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. Changes with nginx 1.1.12 26 Dec 2011 *) Change: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part now uses changed URI after redirection with the "error_page" directive. Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. *) Feature: the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock", "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock_timeout" directives. *) Feature: the "pcre_jit" directive. *) Feature: the "if" SSI command supports captures in regular expressions. *) Bugfix: the "if" SSI command did not work inside the "block" command. *) Bugfix: the "limit_conn_log_level" and "limit_req_log_level" directives might not work. *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full throughput, even if limit value was very high. *) Bugfix: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive did not work, if the "limit_rate" directive was used. *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part always used original request URI if variables were used. *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original request after redirection with the "try_files" directive. Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_scgi_module. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in 1.1.9. Changes with nginx 1.1.11 12 Dec 2011 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" parameter of the "listen" directive. Thanks to Vsevolod Stakhov. *) Feature: the "if_not_empty" parameter of the "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives. *) Feature: the $https variable. *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports variables in the first parameter. *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports regular expressions. *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control variable might contain a wrong value if the "expires" directive was used. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: the "read_ahead" directive might not work combined with "try_files" and "open_file_cache". *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if small time was used in the "inactive" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path" directive. *) Bugfix: responses from cache might hang. Changes with nginx 1.1.10 30 Nov 2011 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occured in a worker process if AIO was used on Linux; the bug had appeared in 1.1.9. Changes with nginx 1.1.9 28 Nov 2011 *) Change: now double quotes are encoded in an "echo" SSI-command output. Thanks to Zaur Abasmirzoev. *) Feature: the "valid" parameter of the "resolver" directive. By default TTL returned by a DNS server is used. Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy. *) Bugfix: nginx might hang after a worker process abnormal termination. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if SNI was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.2. *) Bugfix: in the "keepalive_disable" directive; the bug had appeared in 1.1.8. Thanks to Alexander Usov. *) Bugfix: SIGWINCH signal did not work after first binary upgrade; the bug had appeared in 1.1.1. *) Bugfix: backend responses with length not matching "Content-Length" header line are no longer cached. *) Bugfix: in the "scgi_param" directive, if complex parameters were used. *) Bugfix: in the "epoll" event method. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_flv_module. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. *) Bugfix: IPv6 addresses are now handled properly in a request line and in a "Host" request header line. *) Bugfix: "add_header" and "expires" directives did not work if a request was proxied and response status code was 206. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 10. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX. Changes with nginx 1.1.8 14 Nov 2011 *) Change: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module was renamed to the ngx_http_limit_conn_module. *) Change: the "limit_zone" directive was superseded by the "limit_conn_zone" directive with a new syntax. *) Feature: support for multiple "limit_conn" limits on the same level. *) Feature: the "image_filter_sharpen" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if resolver got a big DNS response. Thanks to Ben Hawkes. *) Bugfix: in cache key calculation if internal MD5 implementation was used; the bug had appeared in 1.0.4. *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request header lines might be passed to backend while caching; or not passed without caching if caching was enabled in another part of the configuration. *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module sent incorrect "Content-Length" response header line if the "start" argument was used. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. Changes with nginx 1.1.7 31 Oct 2011 *) Feature: support of several DNS servers in the "resolver" directive. Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during reconfiguration if the "ssl" directive was used at http level and there was no "ssl_certificate" defined. *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption while proxying big files if they were buffered to disk. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if "proxy_http_version 1.1" directive was used. *) Bugfix: in the "expires @time" directive. Changes with nginx 1.1.6 17 Oct 2011 *) Change in internal API: now module context data are cleared while internal redirect to named location. Requested by Yichun Zhang. *) Change: if a server in an upstream failed, only one request will be sent to it after fail_timeout; the server will be considered alive if it will successfully respond to the request. *) Change: now the 0x7F-0x1F characters are escaped as \xXX in an access_log. *) Feature: "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_headers" directives support the following additional values: X-Accel-Limit-Rate, X-Accel-Buffering, X-Accel-Charset. *) Feature: decrease of memory consumption if SSL is used. *) Bugfix: some UTF-8 characters were processed incorrectly. Thanks to Alexey Kuts. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module directives specified at "server" level were executed twice if no matching locations were defined. *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if "aio sendfile" was used. *) Bugfix: connections with fast clients might be closed after send_timeout if file AIO was used. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module. *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support seeking on 32-bit platforms. Changes with nginx 1.1.5 05 Oct 2011 *) Feature: the "uwsgi_buffering" and "scgi_buffering" directives. Thanks to Peter Smit. *) Bugfix: non-cacheable responses might be cached if "proxy_cache_bypass" directive was used. Thanks to John Ferlito. *) Bugfix: in HTTP/1.1 support in the ngx_http_proxy_module. *) Bugfix: cached responses with an empty body were returned incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 0.8.31. *) Bugfix: 201 responses of the ngx_http_dav_module were incorrect; the bug had appeared in 0.8.32. *) Bugfix: in the "return" directive. *) Bugfix: the "ssl_session_cache builtin" directive caused segmentation fault; the bug had appeared in 1.1.1. Changes with nginx 1.1.4 20 Sep 2011 *) Feature: the ngx_http_upstream_keepalive module. *) Feature: the "proxy_http_version" directive. *) Feature: the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive. *) Feature: the "worker_aio_requests" directive. *) Bugfix: if nginx was built --with-file-aio it could not be run on Linux kernel which did not support AIO. *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO error processing. Thanks to Hagai Avrahami. *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption for long-lived requests. *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support 64-bit MP4 "co64" atom. Changes with nginx 1.1.3 14 Sep 2011 *) Feature: the module ngx_http_mp4_module. *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO combined with open_file_cache. *) Bugfix: open_file_cache did not update file info on retest if file was not atomically changed. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.7. Changes with nginx 1.1.2 05 Sep 2011 *) Change: now if total size of all ranges is greater than source response size, then nginx disables ranges and returns just the source response. *) Feature: the "max_ranges" directive. *) Bugfix: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directives might work incorrectly if SNI was used. *) Bugfix: in the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_client_abort" directives. Changes with nginx 1.1.1 22 Aug 2011 *) Change: now cache loader processes either as many files as specified by "loader_files" parameter or works no longer than time specified by the "loader_threshold" parameter during each iteration. *) Change: now SIGWINCH signal works only in daemon mode. *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Solaris. Thanks to Den Ivanov. *) Feature: accept filters are now supported on NetBSD. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 3.0. *) Bugfix: nginx did not use gzipping in some cases; the bug had appeared in 1.1.0. *) Bugfix: request body might be processed incorrectly if client used pipelining. *) Bugfix: in the "request_body_in_single_buf" directive. *) Bugfix: in "proxy_set_body" and "proxy_pass_request_body" directives if SSL connection to backend was used. *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as "down". *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur during reconfiguration if ssl_session_cache was defined but not used in previous configuration. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if many backup servers were used in an upstream. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives were used with values starting with "HTTP_"; the bug had appeared in 0.8.40. Changes with nginx 1.1.0 01 Aug 2011 *) Feature: cache loader run time decrease. *) Feature: "loader_files", "loader_sleep", and "loader_threshold" options of the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_path" directives. *) Feature: loading time decrease of configuration with large number of HTTPS sites. *) Feature: now nginx supports ECDHE key exchange ciphers. Thanks to Adrian Kotelba. *) Feature: the "lingering_close" directive. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: in closing connection for pipelined requests. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: nginx did not disable gzipping if client sent "gzip;q=0" in "Accept-Encoding" request header line. *) Bugfix: in timeout in unbuffered proxied mode. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: memory leaks when a "proxy_pass" directive contains variables and proxies to an HTTPS backend. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: in parameter validaiton of a "proxy_pass" directive with variables. Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. *) Bugfix: SSL did not work on QNX. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: SSL modules could not be built by gcc 4.6 without --with-debug option. Changes with nginx 1.0.5 19 Jul 2011 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5". Thanks to Rob Stradling. *) Feature: the "referer_hash_max_size" and "referer_hash_bucket_size" directives. Thanks to Witold Filipczyk. *) Feature: $uid_reset variable. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if a caching was used. Thanks to Lanshun Zhou. *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.48. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 1.0.4 01 Jun 2011 *) Change: now regular expressions case sensitivity in the "map" directive is given by prefixes "~" or "~*". *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Linux. Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_auth_basic_module; the bug had appeared in 1.0.3. Changes with nginx 1.0.3 25 May 2011 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "$apr1", "{PLAIN}", and "{SSHA}" password encryption methods. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Feature: the "geoip_org" directive and $geoip_org variable. Thanks to Alexander Uskov, Arnaud Granal, and Denis F. Latypoff. *) Feature: ngx_http_geo_module and ngx_http_geoip_module support IPv4 addresses mapped to IPv6 addresses. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process during testing IPv4 address mapped to IPv6 address, if access or deny rules were defined only for IPv6; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22. *) Bugfix: a cached response may be broken if "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/ uwsgi_cache_bypass" and "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_no_cache" directive values were different; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46. Changes with nginx 1.0.2 10 May 2011 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores. *) Bugfix: in the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive. Thanks to Adam Bocim. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in 1.0.1. Changes with nginx 1.0.1 03 May 2011 *) Change: now the "split_clients" directive uses MurmurHash2 algorithm because of better distribution. Thanks to Oleg Mamontov. *) Change: now long strings starting with zero are not considered as false values. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value 511 on Linux. *) Feature: the $upstream_... variables may be used in the SSI and perl modules. *) Bugfix: now nginx limits better disk cache size. Thanks to Oleg Mamontov. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur while parsing incorrect IPv4 address; the bug had appeared in 0.9.3. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.6 without --with-debug option. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris 9 and earlier; the bug had appeared in 0.9.3. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values if subrequests were used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.47. Thanks to Igor A. Valcov. Changes with nginx 1.0.0 12 Apr 2011 *) Bugfix: a cache manager might hog CPU after reload. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: an "image_filter crop" directive worked incorrectly coupled with an "image_filter rotate 180" directive. *) Bugfix: a "satisfy any" directive disabled custom 401 error page. Changes with nginx 0.9.7 04 Apr 2011 *) Feature: now keepalive connections may be closed premature, if there are no free worker connections. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Feature: the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive. Thanks to Adam Bocim. *) Bugfix: a case when a backend in "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or "uwsgi_pass" directives is given by expression and refers to a defined upstream. Changes with nginx 0.9.6 21 Mar 2011 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports regular expressions as value of the first parameter. *) Feature: $time_iso8601 access_log variable. Thanks to Michael Lustfield. Changes with nginx 0.9.5 21 Feb 2011 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value -1 on Linux. Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. *) Feature: the "utf8" parameter of "geoip_country" and "geoip_city" directives. Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. *) Bugfix: in a default "proxy_redirect" directive if "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not work with nonstandard error codes; the bug had appeared in 0.8.53. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.9.4 21 Jan 2011 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the $hostname variable. *) Feature: 494 code for "Request Header Too Large" error. Changes with nginx 0.9.3 13 Dec 2010 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given IPv6 address:port pair, then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive did not work. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.9.0. Changes with nginx 0.9.2 06 Dec 2010 *) Feature: the "If-Unmodified-Since" client request header line support. *) Workaround: fallback to accept() syscall if accept4() was not implemented; the issue had appeared in 0.9.0. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Cygwin; the bug had appeared in 0.9.0. *) Bugfix: for OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2010-4180. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.9.1 30 Nov 2010 *) Bugfix: "return CODE message" directives did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.9.0. Changes with nginx 0.9.0 29 Nov 2010 *) Feature: the "keepalive_disable" directive. *) Feature: the "map" directive supports variables as value of a defined variable. *) Feature: the "map" directive supports empty strings as value of the first parameter. *) Feature: the "map" directive supports expressions as the first parameter. *) Feature: nginx(8) manual page. Thanks to Sergey Osokin. *) Feature: Linux accept4() support. Thanks to Simon Liu. *) Workaround: elimination of Linux linker warning about "sys_errlist" and "sys_nerr"; the warning had appeared in 0.8.35. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the "auth_basic" directive was used. Thanks to Michail Laletin. *) Bugfix: compatibility with ngx_http_eval_module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.42. Changes with nginx 0.8.53 18 Oct 2010 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive allows to change a status code in a redirect. *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "degradation" mask. *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if file AIO was used. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: if the first server had no "listen" directive and there was no explicit default server, then a next server with a "listen" directive became the default server; the bug had appeared in 0.8.21. Changes with nginx 0.8.52 28 Sep 2010 *) Bugfix: nginx used SSL mode for a listen socket if any listen option was set; the bug had appeared in 0.8.51. Changes with nginx 0.8.51 27 Sep 2010 *) Change: the "secure_link_expires" directive has been canceled. *) Change: a logging level of resolver errors has been lowered from "alert" to "error". *) Feature: now a listen socket "ssl" parameter may be set several times. Changes with nginx 0.8.50 02 Sep 2010 *) Feature: the "secure_link", "secure_link_md5", and "secure_link_expires" directives of the ngx_http_secure_link_module. *) Feature: the -q switch. Thanks to Gena Makhomed. *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.48. *) Bugfix: in the "gzip_disable" directive. Thanks to Derrick Petzold. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not send stop, quit, reopen, and reload signals to a process run in other session. Changes with nginx 0.8.49 09 Aug 2010 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive supports variables. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the $geoip_region_name variables was used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.48. *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page were cached only for next request; the bug had appeared in 0.8.48. Changes with nginx 0.8.48 03 Aug 2010 *) Change: now the "server_name" directive default value is an empty name "". Thanks to Gena Makhomed. *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive default value is "off". *) Feature: the $geoip_dma_code, $geoip_area_code, and $geoip_region_name variables. Thanks to Christine McGonagle. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass", and "scgi_pass" directives were not inherited inside "limit_except" blocks. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_min_uses", "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" "uwsgi_cache_min_uses", and "scgi_cache_min_uses" directives did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46. *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive used incorrectly captures, if only parts of an URI were captured. Thanks to Yuriy Taraday and Frank Enderle. *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not escape a ";" character during copying from URI to query string. Thanks to Daisuke Murase. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module closed a connection, if an image was larger than "image_filter_buffer" size. Changes with nginx 0.8.47 28 Jul 2010 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values for subrequests. *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page could not be cached. *) Bugfix: a cache manager process may got caught in an endless loop, if max_size parameter was used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46. Changes with nginx 0.8.46 19 Jul 2010 *) Change: now the "proxy_no_cache", "fastcgi_no_cache", "uwsgi_no_cache", and "scgi_no_cache" directives affect on a cached response saving only. *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_bypass", "fastcgi_cache_bypass", "uwsgi_cache_bypass", and "scgi_cache_bypass" directives. *) Bugfix: nginx did not free memory in cache keys zones if there was an error during working with backend: the memory was freed only after inactivity time or on memory low condition. Changes with nginx 0.8.45 13 Jul 2010 *) Feature: ngx_http_xslt_filter improvements. Thanks to Laurence Rowe. *) Bugfix: SSI response might be truncated after include with wait="yes"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive did not support the "setfib=0" parameter. Changes with nginx 0.8.44 05 Jul 2010 *) Change: now nginx does not cache by default backend responses, if they have a "Set-Cookie" header line. *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "setfib" parameter. Thanks to Andrew Filonov. *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might change character case on partial match. *) Bugfix: compatibility with HP/UX. *) Bugfix: compatibility with AIX xlC_r compiler. *) Bugfix: nginx treated large SSLv2 packets as plain requests. Thanks to Miroslaw Jaworski. Changes with nginx 0.8.43 30 Jun 2010 *) Feature: large geo ranges base loading speed-up. *) Bugfix: an error_page redirection to "location /zero {return 204;}" without changing status code kept the error body; the bug had appeared in 0.8.42. *) Bugfix: nginx might close IPv6 listen socket during reconfiguration. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: the $uid_set variable may be used at any request processing stage. Changes with nginx 0.8.42 21 Jun 2010 *) Change: now nginx tests locations given by regular expressions, if request was matched exactly by a location given by a prefix string. The previous behavior has been introduced in 0.7.1. *) Feature: the ngx_http_scgi_module. Thanks to Manlio Perillo. *) Feature: a text answer may be added to a "return" directive. Changes with nginx 0.8.41 15 Jun 2010 *) Security: nginx/Windows worker might be terminated abnormally if a requested file name has invalid UTF-8 encoding. *) Change: now nginx allows to use spaces in a request line. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive changed incorrectly a backend "Refresh" response header line. Thanks to Andrey Andreew and Max Sogin. *) Bugfix: nginx did not support path without host name in "Destination" request header line. Changes with nginx 0.8.40 07 Jun 2010 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores default file stream name. Thanks to Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez. *) Feature: the ngx_http_uwsgi_module. Thanks to Roberto De Ioris. *) Feature: a "fastcgi_param" directive with value starting with "HTTP_" overrides a client request header line. *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request header lines were passed to FastCGI-server while caching. *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket could not be changed during reconfiguration. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.8.39 31 May 2010 *) Bugfix: an inherited "alias" directive worked incorrectly in inclusive location. *) Bugfix: in "alias" with variables and "try_files" directives combination. *) Bugfix: listen unix domain and IPv6 sockets did not inherit while online upgrade. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.8.38 24 May 2010 *) Feature: the "proxy_no_cache" and "fastcgi_no_cache" directives. *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if the $scheme variable is used. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" delay directive conforms to the described algorithm. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: the $uid_got variable might not be used in the SSI and perl modules. Changes with nginx 0.8.37 17 May 2010 *) Feature: the ngx_http_split_clients_module. *) Feature: the "map" directive supports keys more than 255 characters. *) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "private" and "no-store" values in the "Cache-Control" backend response header line. *) Bugfix: a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was not used, if empty response has 200 status code. *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to another proxied or FastCGI location, then a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: IMAP connections may hang until they timed out while talking to Zimbra server. Thanks to Alan Batie. Changes with nginx 0.8.36 22 Apr 2010 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module handled incorrectly the DELETE, COPY, and MOVE methods for symlinks. *) Bugfix: values of the $query_string, $arg_..., etc. variables cached in main request were used by the SSI module in subrequests. *) Bugfix: a variable value was repeatedly encoded after each an "echo" SSI-command output; the bug had appeared in 0.6.14. *) Bugfix: a worker process hung if a FIFO file was requested. Thanks to Vicente Aguilar and Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: OpenSSL-1.0.0 compatibility on 64-bit Linux. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had appeared in 0.8.35. Changes with nginx 0.8.35 01 Apr 2010 *) Change: now the charset filter runs before the SSI filter. *) Feature: the "chunked_transfer_encoding" directive. *) Bugfix: an "&" character was not escaped when it was copied in arguments part in a rewrite rule. *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally while a signal processing or if the directive "timer_resolution" was used on platforms which do not support kqueue or eventport notification methods. Thanks to George Xie and Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: if temporary files and permanent storage area resided at different file systems, then permanent file modification times were incorrect. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module might issue the error message "memcached sent invalid trailer". Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: nginx could not built zlib-1.2.4 library using the library sources. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process, if there was large stderr output before FastCGI response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.34. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.8.34 03 Mar 2010 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support all ciphers and digests used in client certificates. Thanks to Innocenty Enikeew. *) Bugfix: nginx cached incorrectly FastCGI responses if there was large stderr output before response. *) Bugfix: nginx did not support HTTPS referrers. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not find file if path in configuration was given in other character case; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33. *) Bugfix: the $date_local variable has an incorrect value, if the "%s" format was used. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: if ssl_session_cache was not set or was set to "none", then during client certificate verify the error "session id context uninitialized" might occur; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1. *) Bugfix: a geo range returned default value if the range included two or more /16 networks and did not begin at /16 network boundary. *) Bugfix: a block used in a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was output with "text/plain" MIME type. *) Bugfix: $r->sleep() did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. Changes with nginx 0.8.33 01 Feb 2010 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing spaces in URI. Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies. *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores short files names. Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies. *) Change: now keepalive connections after POST requests are not disabled for MSIE 7.0+. Thanks to Adam Lounds. *) Workaround: now keepalive connections are disabled for Safari. Thanks to Joshua Sierles. *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to another proxied or FastCGI location, then $upstream_response_time variable may have abnormally large value; the bug had appeared in 0.8.7. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, while discarding a request body; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. Changes with nginx 0.8.32 11 Jan 2010 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures worked for two names only. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: now the "localhost" name is used in the "Host" request header line, if an unix domain socket is defined in the "auth_http" directive. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: nginx did not support chunked transfer encoding for 201 responses. Thanks to Julian Reich. *) Bugfix: if the "expires modified" set date in the past, then a negative number was set in the "Cache-Control" response header line. Thanks to Alex Kapranoff. Changes with nginx 0.8.31 23 Dec 2009 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive may redirect the 301 and 302 responses. *) Feature: the $geoip_city_continent_code, $geoip_latitude, and $geoip_longitude variables. Thanks to Arvind Sundararajan. *) Feature: now the ngx_http_image_filter_module deletes always EXIF and other application specific data if the data consume more than 5% of a JPEG file. *) Bugfix: nginx closed a connection if a cached response had an empty body. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: nginx might not be built by gcc 4.x if the -O2 or higher optimization option was used. Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Denis F. Latypoff. *) Bugfix: regular expressions in location were always tested in case-sensitive mode; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25. *) Bugfix: nginx cached a 304 response if there was the "If-None-Match" header line in a proxied request. Thanks to Tim Dettrick and David Kostal. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to delete a temporary file twice if the file should replace an already existent file. Changes with nginx 0.8.30 15 Dec 2009 *) Change: now the default buffer size of the "large_client_header_buffers" directive is 8K. Thanks to Andrew Cholakian. *) Feature: the conf/fastcgi.conf for simple FastCGI configurations. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to rename a temporary file twice if the file should replace an already existent file. *) Bugfix: of "double free or corruption" error issued if host could not be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22. Thanks to Konstantin Svist. *) Bugfix: in libatomic usage on some platforms. Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki. Changes with nginx 0.8.29 30 Nov 2009 *) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for proxied HTTP/0.9 responses. *) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types", "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support an "*" parameter. *) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage. Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki. *) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure. Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki. *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights. *) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly. *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not work in a "server_name" directive. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.8.28 23 Nov 2009 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25. Changes with nginx 0.8.27 17 Nov 2009 *) Bugfix: regular expressions did not work in nginx/Windows; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25. Changes with nginx 0.8.26 16 Nov 2009 *) Bugfix: in captures usage in "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25. Changes with nginx 0.8.25 16 Nov 2009 *) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is not found by $r->variable() method. *) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module. *) Feature: regular expression named captures. *) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if variables are used. *) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18. *) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared in 0.8.16. Changes with nginx 0.8.24 11 Nov 2009 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Content-Encoding: gzip" response header line in 304 responses sent by ngx_http_gzip_static_module. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the bug had appeared in 0.8.23. *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive inherited incorrectly from previous level. *) Bugfix: in resolving empty name. Changes with nginx 0.8.23 11 Nov 2009 *) Security: now SSL/TLS renegotiation is disabled. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket did not inherit while online upgrade. *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive did not without yet another directive with any IP address. *) Bugfix: segmentation fault and infinite looping in resolver. *) Bugfix: in resolver. Thanks to Artem Bokhan. Changes with nginx 0.8.22 03 Nov 2009 *) Feature: the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", and "memcached_bind" directives. *) Feature: the "access" and the "deny" directives support IPv6. *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive supports IPv6 addresses in request headers. *) Feature: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive. *) Bugfix: nginx did not delete unix domain socket after configuration testing. *) Bugfix: nginx deleted unix domain socket while online upgrade. *) Bugfix: the "!-x" operator did not work. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if limit_rate was used in HTTPS server. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while $limit_rate logging. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if there was no "listen" directive in "server" block; the bug had appeared in 0.8.21. Changes with nginx 0.8.21 26 Oct 2009 *) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support. *) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix domain sockets. Thanks to Hongli Lai. *) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive. *) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen socket options. *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms; *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5". *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing slash in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15. *) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53. *) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the "Cache-Control" backend response header line. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file, or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker had no enough access rights for top level directories. *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines were not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives were used with any parameters. *) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size. Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009 *) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default. *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM". *) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18. Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009 *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive. *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used. *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level" directives. *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket algorithm. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc. Thanks to Marcus Ramberg. *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on MKCOL request. Thanks to Xie Zhenye. *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009 *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header line. *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case. *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable. *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009 *) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive. *) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named "addtion_types". *) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning. Thanks to Matthew Dempsky. *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver. Thanks to Matthew Dempsky. *) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level. *) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module. *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on. *) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in nginx/Windows. *) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. Thanks to Igor Artemiev. Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009 *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while specially crafted request handling. Thanks to Chris Ries. *) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by .domain.tld. *) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module. *) Bugfix: in file AIO. *) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009 *) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING" state. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if error_log was set to info or debug level. Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov. *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.10. Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009 *) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12. Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009 *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD. *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11. Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009 *) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping for MSIE 6.0 SV1. *) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux. *) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive. Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used. *) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the bug had appeared in 0.8.9. Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009 *) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this should improve large caches handling. *) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside at different file systems. Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009 *) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a caching was enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in 0.8.7. Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009 *) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7. *) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client certificate if it was offered. Thanks to Brice Figureau. *) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable. Thanks to Brice Figureau. *) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive. Thanks to Brice Figureau. *) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive. *) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting size. *) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7. Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev. *) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate", "X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend response header. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5. Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module. *) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML document" for valid XML document. Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji. *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by a regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode. *) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI. Thanks to Hugo Leisink. *) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009 *) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method. *) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows. *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests. *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had appeared in 0.8.3. Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009 *) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had appeared in 0.8.2. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a backend 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the "WWW-Authenticate" response header line. Thanks to Eugene Mychlo. Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009 *) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on start up. *) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long; the bug had appeared in 0.7.4. Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009 *) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives. *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request header lines were passed to backend while caching if no "proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters. *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header" directives were used with any parameters. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a format. Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56. Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009 *) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive. *) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive. Thanks to Ivan Debnar. *) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests. *) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows. *) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and fastcgi_cache in nginx/Windows. *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling. Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy. Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods" directives. *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request had no body and the $request_body variable was used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.58. *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56. *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by SSI, charset, and gzip filters. *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses. Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009 *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6. *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive. *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive. *) Feature: the $request_body variable. *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":" symbol in the name. *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53. Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009 *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56. Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009 *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the HTTP module. *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module. Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009 *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work. *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses. *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.54. *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors. *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using $r->sendfile. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009 *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module. *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers" directives. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53. *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39. *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors. *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows. *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53. Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009 *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very start-up. *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an error_log and stderr. *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use a directory where it was run as prefix. *) Feature: the -p switch. *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms. *) Feature: the -? and -h switches. Thanks to Jerome Loyet. *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given by the -c switch. *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store", "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.34. Thanks to Simon Lecaille. *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux; the bug had appeared in 0.7.45. *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work. Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff. Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009 *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release. *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching. *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request header lines while caching. *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in cacheable responses. *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42. Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the fallback parameter. *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive. *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44. *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses, then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39. Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.49. Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48. Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive. *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires", "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response. *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only. *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited. *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library. Thanks to Timothy Redaelli. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46. Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46. *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46. *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/ "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44. Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009 *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect. Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009 *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives can be set on different levels. *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path" directive is canceled. *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path" directive. *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support. *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone names are logged. *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44. *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive given without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44. Thanks to Jerome Loyet. *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42. Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009 *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support. *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure. *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server block level. *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string in a fallback parameter. *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories. *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given address:port pair, then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive did not work. Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009 *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive used variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42. *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36. Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored. *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file" directive is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the 500 one. *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables. Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy. *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter. Thanks to Zhang Hua. *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40. *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX. Thanks to Dustin Marquess. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had appeared in 0.7.41. Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40. Thanks to Vladimir Sopot. Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular expressions. *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used inside a location given by a regular expression with captures. *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular expressions. *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in 0.7.15. Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko. Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled; the bug had appeared in 0.7.28. Thanks to Artem Bokhan. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short static variants are used in a "try_files" directive. Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009 *) Feature: authentication failures logging. *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd number of empty lines. Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36. Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36. Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports IPv6. *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers preset by a "modern_browser" directives. Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for asymmetric ciphers. Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik. *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an original request extension. *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.9. Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive. *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT command. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support in mail proxy server. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&"; the bug had appeared in 0.1.18. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX. Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with body. Thanks to Eden Li. *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some redirects types. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy. Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in the "try_files" directive. *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always. *) Bugfix: in geo ranges. *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without debugging. Thanks to Andrey Kvasov. Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores directories. *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive. *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support. *) Bugfixes in geo ranges. *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END" line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had appeared in 0.7.18. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK" instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29. Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not support variables if unix domain sockets were used. *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25. *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0 requests; Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on Cygwin. Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module. *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k. Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive. *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive. *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a variable. Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before name. *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable. *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value. *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25. *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an error_page directive. Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov. Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25. Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008 *) Change: in subrequest processing. *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed. *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a prohibition reason. *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive. Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive. *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the server send too many messages to stderr before response. *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the perl module. Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive. *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values. *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load. Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables. *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem. *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses. Thanks to Zyb. Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module. *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module. Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3. Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had appeared in 0.7.6. Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module. *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module. *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12. *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry" error. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside locations, whose names are less than 3 characters. *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value. Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008 *) Bugfix: version number update. Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not allows underscores in a client request header line names. *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module. *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header. *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive. *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable. *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the "proxy_next_upstream" directive. *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work. *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line for HEAD requests. *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections. Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux. *) Feature: the $pid variable. *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did not work with open_file_cache. *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted charset name received from backend. Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15. Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module. *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file requests starting from arbitrary position. *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is necessary. *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header line names. Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives have no default values. *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter. *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux. *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog", "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first one. *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a query string, then the query string was not escaped. *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements. Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12. Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "". *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask. *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an "error_page" directive. *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while redirection via an "error_page" directive. *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.0. Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with text/css MIME type. *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method requesting a static file only if the file exists. *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive. *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used; *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code. *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1. Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types", "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.9. *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code. *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection. Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain, text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml. *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives. *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types" directives use hash. *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module. *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time. *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing. Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files tests. *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7. *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had appeared in 0.3.18. Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module. *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables. *) Feature: Solaris directio support. Thanks to Ivan Debnar. *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without status line, then nginx uses 302 status code. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered as temporary error. *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert variable. *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive. *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Feature: the "directio" directive. Thanks to Jiang Hong. *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support. *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte locales only. *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used. *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module. Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a request root existence is always tested. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a query string. Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.4. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3. Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy. *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses might were transferred incorrectly. Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive. *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive. *) Feature: the -g switch. *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support. *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated. Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to "application/rss+xml". *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too. *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if the "https://" protocol is used. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9. Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers. *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive. *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable. Thanks to Manlio Perillo. *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1. *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request. Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree. *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction. *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore. *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive; now this is default parameter. Thanks to Rob Mueller. *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log rotation signals. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux. Thanks to Roxis. Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as \xXX in an access_log. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line. *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive. *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any request processing stage. *) Feature: the $hostname variable. Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. *) Feature: DESTDIR support. Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux, if keepalive was enabled. Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2. Thanks to Sergey Serov. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off. Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any file, then nginx does not issue an error. *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces, for example, "1h50m". *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on. Thanks to Chavelle Vincent. *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into output. *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account arguments in redirected URI. *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.6.15. Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27. Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27. Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on Linux 2.6.18+. *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a named location via an "error_page" directive. *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP proxy. *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static named locations. *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid client certificate in first handshake. Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin. *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page" directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many memory. *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections. *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static named locations. *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching. Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov. *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host name and without variables. Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov. *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty stub block was used second time in SSI. *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments. Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not check a response length. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big value was used in a "expires" directive. Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela. *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4. Thanks to Gena Makhomed. *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method was used instead of the GET method. *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used. Thanks to Ben Maurer. *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23. *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry" error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23. Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter. *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a "server_name" directive. *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy" directive. *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration if they was run under Linux OpenVZ. *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive. *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23. *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used. Thanks to Ben Maurer. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23. Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23. Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive; now this is default parameter. *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the "open_file_cache_valid". *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive. *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module. *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive. *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if" block. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location. *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and auth directives were not tested; *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not inherited from previous level. *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed with 499 status code. *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection. Thanks to Ben Maurer. *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work. Thanks to Oleg Motienko. *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry" error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13. Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to perl's allocated memory. *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9. Thanks to Boris Zhmurov. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of the regex captures. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small request body was already received. *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to keep-alive state. Thanks to Olexander Shtepa. *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable; the bug had appeared in 0.6.18. *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code; now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.10. Thanks to Manlio Perillo. Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.19. *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response". Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size" directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request record is too big". *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS server, then nginx returned usual response. Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.19. Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built. Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds to the cookie field contains a pid value. *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to error_log. *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive. *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives. *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a "Last-Modified" response header line. *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full throughput, even if limit value was very high. Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support. Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin. *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4. *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if subrequests were used. *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and gzip were used. *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server returned response in HTTP/0.9 version. Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs. Thanks to Ilya Novikov. *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11. *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget. Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility. Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov. *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive. *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive. *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive. *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command. *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or "source_charset" directives. *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0". Thanks to James Oakley. *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7. Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding. *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command. *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the "limit_except" block. *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug log was enabled. Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set $upstream_response_time. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the memcached was used. *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive" values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11. *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution. *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing. Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if autoindex was used. Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk. Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp. *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module, and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters. *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer" directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module. *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9. *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library located in non-standard place was used. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32 characters. Thanks to Manlio Perillo. Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was used. *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout. *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header lines. *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6. Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and "open_file_cache_errors" directives. *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7. *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header(). *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if /dev/poll method was used. Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7. *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing wildcard was used, then nginx did not run. *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as down. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in 0.6.8. Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority", "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges. *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy authentication server. *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable. *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6. *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64. Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include", "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate", "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but not to nginx prefix directory. *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled. *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online upgrade of 0.1.x versions. *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support regular expressions. *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports the "backup" parameter. *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->discard_request_body. *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the "Last-Modified" response header line. *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid address was set in the "auth_http" directive. *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all platforms except FreeBSD. Thanks to Jiang Hong. *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6. *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket. Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure. *) Feature: named locations. *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive. *) Feature: the $is_args variable. *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer. *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx might not close connection to backend. *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443. *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4. Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable. Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh. *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable. *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on Solaris/amd64. Thanks to Jiang Hong. *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs. Thanks to Coverity's Scan. Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS. Thanks to Maxim Boguk. *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were changed. *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access" directives. *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun Studio. Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12. Thanks to Jiang Hong. Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the "auth_http_header" directive was used. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the eventport method was used. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13. Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx passed garbage in the header to a client. Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing. *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order. *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were truncated. *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal to the master process identification number. Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives support the "www.example.*" wildcards. Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in 0.5.24. Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request was made using HTTP/0.9. *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23. Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS extension. *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive. Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports. *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued. *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive. Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug had appeared in 0.5.21. Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified. *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed. Thanks to Anton Povarov. *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE library was used. Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive. Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive. *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..." variables may be changed using the "set" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used. *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was transferred incorrectly. Thanks to Evan Miller. *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun Studio. Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris make. Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision. *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to the $r->flush. *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable. *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives. Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko. *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms. *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using sendfile on 64-bit Linux. Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module. *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables. *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9. *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38. Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method. *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the "types" block. *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias" directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow. *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive. *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable) returned old cached value. Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the "ip_hash" directive. Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50. *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of 32K. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15. Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives. Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin. *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after receiving the reconfiguration signal. *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail" and "pop3_auth" directives. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was disabled. *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol, then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode. *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did not rotate logs if the eventport method was used. *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the "ip_hash" directive was used. *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll methods are used. Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of configuration file. Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed via keep-alive connection. *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux. Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes the connection right away, but not after timeout. *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send timeout only. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8. Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged. *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris. Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts. Thanks to Chris McGrath. *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested; the bug had appeared in 0.5.6. *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set. Thanks to Evan Miller. *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log instead of the "400" and "408" error codes. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx was built with -O2 optimization. Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1. Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key variable value as a key. *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable. *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive. *) Feature: the "env" directive. *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block. *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute. *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the logging. Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx switched to a next upstream. *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7. *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send timeout only. *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was used. *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive. Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization. *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives. *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone" directives were used on 64-bit platforms. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no "Content-Type" header line in response. *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads support. Thanks to Den Ivanov. *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility. Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the GET, HEAD, and POST methods. *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module. *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable. *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module. *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal. *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the $r->sendfile() was used. Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more. *) Feature: the -V switch. *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M, and G. *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an unprivileged user. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or $r->request_body_file methods were used. *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs. Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except" block. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header line for the DELETE method. *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access" directive, then nginx might report about configuration error. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14. Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status, $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods. *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not exist in nginx configuration. *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work. Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1. Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a unsuccessful completion of a request. *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11. Thanks to Bron Gondwana. *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0. *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0. *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0. *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return, the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password. *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond. Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format" directive are not supported anymore. *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails", "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported anymore. *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters. *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block. *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14. Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy. *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD, Linux, and NetBSD. *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38. *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called recursively. *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line. *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr. *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the system time was changed backward. *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server failed. Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the "limit_except" block. *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods. *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred complete. *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and the deferred accept() were used. *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50. *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was used; *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored. Thanks to Thomas Moschny. *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50. Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method. *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response, then the response may be transferred incomplete. *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI. Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5. *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges method. *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10. Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command. *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy hogged CPU. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr variable was used in the "map" directive. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had appeared in 0.4.9. Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command. *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module version. Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not work. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full responses. Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin. Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module. *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable. *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the variables. *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not work. *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while working with memcached the connections might not be closed on timeout. *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64, and ppc64. Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64, and ppc64. *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request, if its length was set by text string in the $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method. *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug had appeared in 0.4.4. Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.4.4. Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006 *) Feature: the $scheme variable. *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter. *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask. Thanks to Jonathan Dance. *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page" response code redirected by the "error_page" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT method. *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were used in the "proxy_redirect" directive. Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an "error_page" directive. *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support. *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47. *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses. *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug. Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug had appeared in 0.4.1. Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility. Thanks to Pavel Nazarov. *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more than 2G. *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static requests. Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas. Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase. *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the $r->has_request_body method. *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code. *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header line for the PUT method. *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index" directive with variables and the first index name was without variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29. Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default. *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive. *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive. *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI. Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59. Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the "error_page" directive. *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters. *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.58. Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables. *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux. *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used. *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error. *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new arguments were added to a rewritten URI. *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT. Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable. *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive. Thanks to Andrian Budanstov. *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send to a client the required certificates information. *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in the "root" directive. Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive. *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e", "-x", and "!-x" operators. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the access log. Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command. *) Feature: the "block" SSI command. *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib. *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root was relative to a server prefix. *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped. *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now returns all "Cookie" header lines. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next upstream. *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50. Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log. *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter. *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address form. *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete. *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the first request to a backend only. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had appeared in 0.3.53. Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and 302 responses. *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports the "weight" parameter. *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard. *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G. *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written in the log. *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and return the 409 code. *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx continued proxying anyway. Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not return the 405 error. *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37. *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50. *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a temporary file was not removed. Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50. Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors" directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives. *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back. *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in proxy and FastCGI mode. *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol. *) Bugfix: the "