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2 Changes with nginx 1.1.0 01 Aug 2011
4 *) Feature: cache loader run time decrease.
6 *) Feature: "loader_files", "loader_sleep", and "loader_threshold"
7 options of the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_path" directives.
9 *) Feature: loading time decrease of configuration with large number of
10 HTTPS sites.
12 *) Feature: now nginx supports ECDHE key exchange ciphers.
13 Thanks to Adrian Kotelba.
15 *) Feature: the "lingering_close" directive.
16 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
18 *) Bugfix: in closing connection for pipelined requests.
19 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
21 *) Bugfix: nginx did not disable gzipping if client sent "gzip;q=0" in
22 "Accept-Encoding" request header line.
24 *) Bugfix: in timeout in unbuffered proxied mode.
25 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
27 *) Bugfix: memory leaks when a "proxy_pass" directive contains
28 variables and proxies to an HTTPS backend.
29 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
31 *) Bugfix: in parameter validaiton of a "proxy_pass" directive with
32 variables.
33 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
35 *) Bugfix: SSL did not work on QNX.
36 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
38 *) Bugfix: SSL modules could not be built by gcc 4.6 without
39 --with-debug option.
42 Changes with nginx 1.0.5 19 Jul 2011
44 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5".
45 Thanks to Rob Stradling.
47 *) Feature: the "referer_hash_max_size" and "referer_hash_bucket_size"
48 directives.
49 Thanks to Witold Filipczyk.
51 *) Feature: $uid_reset variable.
53 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if a
54 caching was used.
55 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
57 *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during
58 reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in
59 0.8.48.
60 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
62 *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert.
63 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
66 Changes with nginx 1.0.4 01 Jun 2011
68 *) Change: now regular expressions case sensitivity in the "map"
69 directive is given by prefixes "~" or "~*".
71 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Linux.
72 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
74 *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert.
76 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_auth_basic_module;
77 the bug had appeared in 1.0.3.
80 Changes with nginx 1.0.3 25 May 2011
82 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "$apr1",
83 "{PLAIN}", and "{SSHA}" password encryption methods.
84 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
86 *) Feature: the "geoip_org" directive and $geoip_org variable.
87 Thanks to Alexander Uskov, Arnaud Granal, and Denis F. Latypoff.
89 *) Feature: ngx_http_geo_module and ngx_http_geoip_module support IPv4
90 addresses mapped to IPv6 addresses.
92 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process during
93 testing IPv4 address mapped to IPv6 address, if access or deny rules
94 were defined only for IPv6; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
96 *) Bugfix: a cached response may be broken if "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/
97 uwsgi_cache_bypass" and "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_no_cache"
98 directive values were different; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
101 Changes with nginx 1.0.2 10 May 2011
103 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores.
105 *) Bugfix: in the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
106 Thanks to Adam Bocim.
108 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
109 1.0.1.
112 Changes with nginx 1.0.1 03 May 2011
114 *) Change: now the "split_clients" directive uses MurmurHash2 algorithm
115 because of better distribution.
116 Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.
118 *) Change: now long strings starting with zero are not considered as
119 false values.
120 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
122 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value 511 on Linux.
124 *) Feature: the $upstream_... variables may be used in the SSI and perl
125 modules.
127 *) Bugfix: now nginx limits better disk cache size.
128 Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.
130 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur while parsing incorrect
131 IPv4 address; the bug had appeared in 0.9.3.
132 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
134 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.6 without --with-debug
135 option.
137 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris 9 and earlier; the bug
138 had appeared in 0.9.3.
139 Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen.
141 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values if subrequests
142 were used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.47.
143 Thanks to Igor A. Valcov.
146 Changes with nginx 1.0.0 12 Apr 2011
148 *) Bugfix: a cache manager might hog CPU after reload.
149 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
151 *) Bugfix: an "image_filter crop" directive worked incorrectly coupled
152 with an "image_filter rotate 180" directive.
154 *) Bugfix: a "satisfy any" directive disabled custom 401 error page.
157 Changes with nginx 0.9.7 04 Apr 2011
159 *) Feature: now keepalive connections may be closed premature, if there
160 are no free worker connections.
161 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
163 *) Feature: the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
164 Thanks to Adam Bocim.
166 *) Bugfix: a case when a backend in "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or
167 "uwsgi_pass" directives is given by expression and refers to a
168 defined upstream.
171 Changes with nginx 0.9.6 21 Mar 2011
173 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports regular expressions as value
174 of the first parameter.
176 *) Feature: $time_iso8601 access_log variable.
177 Thanks to Michael Lustfield.
180 Changes with nginx 0.9.5 21 Feb 2011
182 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value -1 on Linux.
183 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
185 *) Feature: the "utf8" parameter of "geoip_country" and "geoip_city"
186 directives.
187 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
189 *) Bugfix: in a default "proxy_redirect" directive if "proxy_pass"
190 directive has no URI part.
191 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
193 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not work with nonstandard
194 error codes; the bug had appeared in 0.8.53.
195 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
198 Changes with nginx 0.9.4 21 Jan 2011
200 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the $hostname variable.
202 *) Feature: 494 code for "Request Header Too Large" error.
205 Changes with nginx 0.9.3 13 Dec 2010
207 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given IPv6 address:port
208 pair, then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name"
209 directive did not work.
211 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
212 0.9.0.
215 Changes with nginx 0.9.2 06 Dec 2010
217 *) Feature: the "If-Unmodified-Since" client request header line
218 support.
220 *) Workaround: fallback to accept() syscall if accept4() was not
221 implemented; the issue had appeared in 0.9.0.
223 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Cygwin; the bug had appeared in
224 0.9.0.
226 *) Bugfix: for OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2010-4180.
227 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
230 Changes with nginx 0.9.1 30 Nov 2010
232 *) Bugfix: "return CODE message" directives did not work; the bug had
233 appeared in 0.9.0.
236 Changes with nginx 0.9.0 29 Nov 2010
238 *) Feature: the "keepalive_disable" directive.
240 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports variables as value of a
241 defined variable.
243 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports empty strings as value of the
244 first parameter.
246 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports expressions as the first
247 parameter.
249 *) Feature: nginx(8) manual page.
250 Thanks to Sergey Osokin.
252 *) Feature: Linux accept4() support.
253 Thanks to Simon Liu.
255 *) Workaround: elimination of Linux linker warning about "sys_errlist"
256 and "sys_nerr"; the warning had appeared in 0.8.35.
258 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the
259 "auth_basic" directive was used.
260 Thanks to Michail Laletin.
262 *) Bugfix: compatibility with ngx_http_eval_module; the bug had
263 appeared in 0.8.42.
266 Changes with nginx 0.8.53 18 Oct 2010
268 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive allows to change a status
269 code in a redirect.
271 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "degradation"
272 mask.
274 *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if file AIO was used.
275 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
277 *) Bugfix: if the first server had no "listen" directive and there was
278 no explicit default server, then a next server with a "listen"
279 directive became the default server; the bug had appeared in 0.8.21.
282 Changes with nginx 0.8.52 28 Sep 2010
284 *) Bugfix: nginx used SSL mode for a listen socket if any listen option
285 was set; the bug had appeared in 0.8.51.
288 Changes with nginx 0.8.51 27 Sep 2010
290 *) Change: the "secure_link_expires" directive has been canceled.
292 *) Change: a logging level of resolver errors has been lowered from
293 "alert" to "error".
295 *) Feature: now a listen socket "ssl" parameter may be set several
296 times.
299 Changes with nginx 0.8.50 02 Sep 2010
301 *) Feature: the "secure_link", "secure_link_md5", and
302 "secure_link_expires" directives of the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
304 *) Feature: the -q switch.
305 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
307 *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during
308 reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in
309 0.8.48.
311 *) Bugfix: in the "gzip_disable" directive.
312 Thanks to Derrick Petzold.
314 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not send stop, quit, reopen, and reload
315 signals to a process run in other session.
318 Changes with nginx 0.8.49 09 Aug 2010
320 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive supports
321 variables.
323 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the
324 $geoip_region_name variables was used; the bug had appeared in
325 0.8.48.
327 *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page were cached only for next
328 request; the bug had appeared in 0.8.48.
331 Changes with nginx 0.8.48 03 Aug 2010
333 *) Change: now the "server_name" directive default value is an empty
334 name "".
335 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
337 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive default value is
338 "off".
340 *) Feature: the $geoip_dma_code, $geoip_area_code, and
341 $geoip_region_name variables.
342 Thanks to Christine McGonagle.
344 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass", and
345 "scgi_pass" directives were not inherited inside "limit_except"
346 blocks.
348 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_min_uses", "fastcgi_cache_min_uses"
349 "uwsgi_cache_min_uses", and "scgi_cache_min_uses" directives did not
350 work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
352 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive used incorrectly
353 captures, if only parts of an URI were captured.
354 Thanks to Yuriy Taraday and Frank Enderle.
356 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not escape a ";" character
357 during copying from URI to query string.
358 Thanks to Daisuke Murase.
360 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module closed a connection, if an
361 image was larger than "image_filter_buffer" size.
364 Changes with nginx 0.8.47 28 Jul 2010
366 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values for subrequests.
368 *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page could not be cached.
370 *) Bugfix: a cache manager process may got caught in an endless loop,
371 if max_size parameter was used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
374 Changes with nginx 0.8.46 19 Jul 2010
376 *) Change: now the "proxy_no_cache", "fastcgi_no_cache",
377 "uwsgi_no_cache", and "scgi_no_cache" directives affect on a cached
378 response saving only.
380 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_bypass", "fastcgi_cache_bypass",
381 "uwsgi_cache_bypass", and "scgi_cache_bypass" directives.
383 *) Bugfix: nginx did not free memory in cache keys zones if there was
384 an error during working with backend: the memory was freed only
385 after inactivity time or on memory low condition.
388 Changes with nginx 0.8.45 13 Jul 2010
390 *) Feature: ngx_http_xslt_filter improvements.
391 Thanks to Laurence Rowe.
393 *) Bugfix: SSI response might be truncated after include with
394 wait="yes"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
395 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
397 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive did not support the "setfib=0"
398 parameter.
401 Changes with nginx 0.8.44 05 Jul 2010
403 *) Change: now nginx does not cache by default backend responses, if
404 they have a "Set-Cookie" header line.
406 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "setfib" parameter.
407 Thanks to Andrew Filonov.
409 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might change character case on
410 partial match.
412 *) Bugfix: compatibility with HP/UX.
414 *) Bugfix: compatibility with AIX xlC_r compiler.
416 *) Bugfix: nginx treated large SSLv2 packets as plain requests.
417 Thanks to Miroslaw Jaworski.
420 Changes with nginx 0.8.43 30 Jun 2010
422 *) Feature: large geo ranges base loading speed-up.
424 *) Bugfix: an error_page redirection to "location /zero {return 204;}"
425 without changing status code kept the error body; the bug had
426 appeared in 0.8.42.
428 *) Bugfix: nginx might close IPv6 listen socket during
429 reconfiguration.
430 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
432 *) Bugfix: the $uid_set variable may be used at any request processing
433 stage.
436 Changes with nginx 0.8.42 21 Jun 2010
438 *) Change: now nginx tests locations given by regular expressions, if
439 request was matched exactly by a location given by a prefix string.
440 The previous behavior has been introduced in 0.7.1.
442 *) Feature: the ngx_http_scgi_module.
443 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
445 *) Feature: a text answer may be added to a "return" directive.
448 Changes with nginx 0.8.41 15 Jun 2010
450 *) Security: nginx/Windows worker might be terminated abnormally if a
451 requested file name has invalid UTF-8 encoding.
453 *) Change: now nginx allows to use spaces in a request line.
455 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive changed incorrectly a backend
456 "Refresh" response header line.
457 Thanks to Andrey Andreew and Max Sogin.
459 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support path without host name in
460 "Destination" request header line.
463 Changes with nginx 0.8.40 07 Jun 2010
465 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores default file stream name.
466 Thanks to Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez.
468 *) Feature: the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
469 Thanks to Roberto De Ioris.
471 *) Feature: a "fastcgi_param" directive with value starting with
472 "HTTP_" overrides a client request header line.
474 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
475 header lines were passed to FastCGI-server while caching.
477 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket could not be changed during
478 reconfiguration.
479 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
482 Changes with nginx 0.8.39 31 May 2010
484 *) Bugfix: an inherited "alias" directive worked incorrectly in
485 inclusive location.
487 *) Bugfix: in "alias" with variables and "try_files" directives
488 combination.
490 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain and IPv6 sockets did not inherit while
491 online upgrade.
492 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
495 Changes with nginx 0.8.38 24 May 2010
497 *) Feature: the "proxy_no_cache" and "fastcgi_no_cache" directives.
499 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
500 if the $scheme variable is used.
501 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
503 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" delay directive conforms to the described
504 algorithm.
505 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
507 *) Bugfix: the $uid_got variable might not be used in the SSI and perl
508 modules.
511 Changes with nginx 0.8.37 17 May 2010
513 *) Feature: the ngx_http_split_clients_module.
515 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports keys more than 255 characters.
517 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "private" and "no-store" values in the
518 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
520 *) Bugfix: a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was not
521 used, if empty response has 200 status code.
523 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
524 another proxied or FastCGI location, then a segmentation fault might
525 occur in a worker process; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
526 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
528 *) Bugfix: IMAP connections may hang until they timed out while talking
529 to Zimbra server.
530 Thanks to Alan Batie.
533 Changes with nginx 0.8.36 22 Apr 2010
535 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module handled incorrectly the DELETE,
536 COPY, and MOVE methods for symlinks.
538 *) Bugfix: values of the $query_string, $arg_..., etc. variables cached
539 in main request were used by the SSI module in subrequests.
541 *) Bugfix: a variable value was repeatedly encoded after each an "echo"
542 SSI-command output; the bug had appeared in 0.6.14.
544 *) Bugfix: a worker process hung if a FIFO file was requested.
545 Thanks to Vicente Aguilar and Maxim Dounin.
547 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL-1.0.0 compatibility on 64-bit Linux.
548 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
550 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
551 appeared in 0.8.35.
554 Changes with nginx 0.8.35 01 Apr 2010
556 *) Change: now the charset filter runs before the SSI filter.
558 *) Feature: the "chunked_transfer_encoding" directive.
560 *) Bugfix: an "&" character was not escaped when it was copied in
561 arguments part in a rewrite rule.
563 *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally while a signal
564 processing or if the directive "timer_resolution" was used on
565 platforms which do not support kqueue or eventport notification
566 methods.
567 Thanks to George Xie and Maxim Dounin.
569 *) Bugfix: if temporary files and permanent storage area resided at
570 different file systems, then permanent file modification times were
571 incorrect.
572 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
574 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module might issue the error message
575 "memcached sent invalid trailer".
576 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
578 *) Bugfix: nginx could not built zlib-1.2.4 library using the library
579 sources.
580 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
582 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process, if there
583 was large stderr output before FastCGI response; the bug had
584 appeared in 0.8.34.
585 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
588 Changes with nginx 0.8.34 03 Mar 2010
590 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support all ciphers and digests used in client
591 certificates.
592 Thanks to Innocenty Enikeew.
594 *) Bugfix: nginx cached incorrectly FastCGI responses if there was
595 large stderr output before response.
597 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support HTTPS referrers.
599 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not find file if path in configuration
600 was given in other character case; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
602 *) Bugfix: the $date_local variable has an incorrect value, if the "%s"
603 format was used.
604 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
606 *) Bugfix: if ssl_session_cache was not set or was set to "none", then
607 during client certificate verify the error "session id context
608 uninitialized" might occur; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
610 *) Bugfix: a geo range returned default value if the range included two
611 or more /16 networks and did not begin at /16 network boundary.
613 *) Bugfix: a block used in a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI
614 directive was output with "text/plain" MIME type.
616 *) Bugfix: $r->sleep() did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
619 Changes with nginx 0.8.33 01 Feb 2010
621 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing spaces in URI.
622 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
624 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores short files names.
625 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
627 *) Change: now keepalive connections after POST requests are not
628 disabled for MSIE 7.0+.
629 Thanks to Adam Lounds.
631 *) Workaround: now keepalive connections are disabled for Safari.
632 Thanks to Joshua Sierles.
634 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
635 another proxied or FastCGI location, then $upstream_response_time
636 variable may have abnormally large value; the bug had appeared in
637 0.8.7.
639 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, while
640 discarding a request body; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
643 Changes with nginx 0.8.32 11 Jan 2010
645 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
646 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
648 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures worked for two names only.
649 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
651 *) Bugfix: now the "localhost" name is used in the "Host" request
652 header line, if an unix domain socket is defined in the "auth_http"
653 directive.
654 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
656 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support chunked transfer encoding for 201
657 responses.
658 Thanks to Julian Reich.
660 *) Bugfix: if the "expires modified" set date in the past, then a
661 negative number was set in the "Cache-Control" response header line.
662 Thanks to Alex Kapranoff.
665 Changes with nginx 0.8.31 23 Dec 2009
667 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive may redirect the 301 and 302
668 responses.
670 *) Feature: the $geoip_city_continent_code, $geoip_latitude, and
671 $geoip_longitude variables.
672 Thanks to Arvind Sundararajan.
674 *) Feature: now the ngx_http_image_filter_module deletes always EXIF
675 and other application specific data if the data consume more than 5%
676 of a JPEG file.
678 *) Bugfix: nginx closed a connection if a cached response had an empty
679 body.
680 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
682 *) Bugfix: nginx might not be built by gcc 4.x if the -O2 or higher
683 optimization option was used.
684 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Denis F. Latypoff.
686 *) Bugfix: regular expressions in location were always tested in
687 case-sensitive mode; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
689 *) Bugfix: nginx cached a 304 response if there was the "If-None-Match"
690 header line in a proxied request.
691 Thanks to Tim Dettrick and David Kostal.
693 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to delete a temporary file twice if the
694 file should replace an already existent file.
697 Changes with nginx 0.8.30 15 Dec 2009
699 *) Change: now the default buffer size of the
700 "large_client_header_buffers" directive is 8K.
701 Thanks to Andrew Cholakian.
703 *) Feature: the conf/fastcgi.conf for simple FastCGI configurations.
705 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to rename a temporary file twice if the
706 file should replace an already existent file.
708 *) Bugfix: of "double free or corruption" error issued if host could
709 not be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
710 Thanks to Konstantin Svist.
712 *) Bugfix: in libatomic usage on some platforms.
713 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
716 Changes with nginx 0.8.29 30 Nov 2009
718 *) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for
719 proxied HTTP/0.9 responses.
721 *) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
722 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support
723 an "*" parameter.
725 *) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage.
726 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
728 *) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure.
729 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
731 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights.
733 *) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly.
735 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not
736 work in a "server_name" directive.
737 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
740 Changes with nginx 0.8.28 23 Nov 2009
742 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
743 the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
746 Changes with nginx 0.8.27 17 Nov 2009
748 *) Bugfix: regular expressions did not work in nginx/Windows; the bug
749 had appeared in 0.8.25.
752 Changes with nginx 0.8.26 16 Nov 2009
754 *) Bugfix: in captures usage in "rewrite" directive; the bug had
755 appeared in 0.8.25.
757 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
758 the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
761 Changes with nginx 0.8.25 16 Nov 2009
763 *) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is
764 not found by $r->variable() method.
766 *) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module.
768 *) Feature: regular expression named captures.
770 *) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if
771 variables are used.
773 *) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too.
775 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low
776 memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18.
778 *) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support
779 gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared
780 in 0.8.16.
783 Changes with nginx 0.8.24 11 Nov 2009
785 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Content-Encoding: gzip" response header
786 line in 304 responses sent by ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
788 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
789 the bug had appeared in 0.8.23.
791 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
792 inherited incorrectly from previous level.
794 *) Bugfix: in resolving empty name.
797 Changes with nginx 0.8.23 11 Nov 2009
799 *) Security: now SSL/TLS renegotiation is disabled.
800 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
802 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket did not inherit while online
803 upgrade.
805 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
806 did not without yet another directive with any IP address.
808 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault and infinite looping in resolver.
810 *) Bugfix: in resolver.
811 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
814 Changes with nginx 0.8.22 03 Nov 2009
816 *) Feature: the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", and "memcached_bind"
817 directives.
819 *) Feature: the "access" and the "deny" directives support IPv6.
821 *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive supports IPv6 addresses in
822 request headers.
824 *) Feature: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive.
826 *) Bugfix: nginx did not delete unix domain socket after configuration
827 testing.
829 *) Bugfix: nginx deleted unix domain socket while online upgrade.
831 *) Bugfix: the "!-x" operator did not work.
832 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
834 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
835 limit_rate was used in HTTPS server.
836 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
838 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while
839 $limit_rate logging.
840 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
842 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
843 there was no "listen" directive in "server" block; the bug had
844 appeared in 0.8.21.
847 Changes with nginx 0.8.21 26 Oct 2009
849 *) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support.
851 *) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix
852 domain sockets.
853 Thanks to Hongli Lai.
855 *) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive.
857 *) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen
858 socket options.
860 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms;
862 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
865 Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009
867 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5".
869 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
870 slash in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15.
872 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path
873 configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53.
875 *) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the
876 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
878 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file,
879 or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker had no enough access
880 rights for top level directories.
882 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines
883 were not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
884 were used with any parameters.
886 *) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size.
889 Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009
891 *) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default.
893 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM".
895 *) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared
896 in 0.8.18.
899 Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009
901 *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive.
903 *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used.
905 *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level"
906 directives.
908 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket
909 algorithm.
910 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
912 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc.
913 Thanks to Marcus Ramberg.
915 *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on
916 MKCOL request.
917 Thanks to Xie Zhenye.
919 *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the
920 bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
922 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
925 Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009
927 *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header
928 line.
930 *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case.
932 *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable.
934 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
937 Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009
939 *) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive.
941 *) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named
942 "addtion_types".
944 *) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning.
945 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
947 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
948 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
950 *) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in
951 access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level.
953 *) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the
954 ngx_http_image_filter_module.
956 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header
957 line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on.
959 *) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in
960 nginx/Windows.
962 *) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in
963 0.8.11.
964 Thanks to Igor Artemiev.
967 Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009
969 *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while
970 specially crafted request handling.
971 Thanks to Chris Ries.
973 *) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld
974 were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by
975 .domain.tld.
977 *) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
979 *) Bugfix: in file AIO.
981 *) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
983 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
986 Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009
988 *) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING"
989 state.
991 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if
992 error_log was set to info or debug level.
993 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
995 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
997 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the
998 bug had appeared in 0.6.10.
1001 Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009
1003 *) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in
1004 0.8.12.
1006 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option
1007 on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12.
1010 Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009
1012 *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD.
1014 *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1016 *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1019 Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009
1021 *) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping
1022 for MSIE 6.0 SV1.
1024 *) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux.
1026 *) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive.
1029 Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009
1031 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used.
1033 *) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the
1034 bug had appeared in 0.8.9.
1037 Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009
1039 *) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this
1040 should improve large caches handling.
1042 *) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside
1043 at different file systems.
1046 Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009
1048 *) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records.
1050 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
1051 request was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a
1052 caching was enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in
1053 0.8.7.
1056 Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009
1058 *) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7.
1060 *) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was
1061 changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client
1062 certificate if it was offered.
1063 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
1065 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable.
1066 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
1068 *) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive.
1069 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
1071 *) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive.
1073 *) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting
1074 size.
1076 *) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the
1077 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
1078 Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev.
1080 *) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did
1081 not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate",
1082 "X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend
1083 response header.
1084 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1086 *) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend
1087 response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
1088 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1090 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an
1091 empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5.
1094 Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009
1096 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module.
1098 *) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML
1099 document" for valid XML document.
1100 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
1102 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by
1103 a regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode.
1105 *) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI.
1106 Thanks to Hugo Leisink.
1108 *) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during
1109 installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
1110 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1113 Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009
1115 *) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method.
1117 *) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password
1118 while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows.
1120 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests.
1122 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module.
1123 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1126 Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009
1128 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
1129 appeared in 0.8.3.
1132 Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009
1134 *) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable.
1136 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6.
1138 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
1139 appeared in 0.8.2.
1141 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
1142 backend 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the
1143 "WWW-Authenticate" response header line.
1144 Thanks to Eugene Mychlo.
1147 Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009
1149 *) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on
1150 start up.
1152 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long;
1153 the bug had appeared in 0.7.4.
1156 Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009
1158 *) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
1159 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives.
1161 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
1162 header lines were passed to backend while caching if no
1163 "proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters.
1165 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not
1166 hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header"
1167 directives were used with any parameters.
1169 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a
1170 format.
1171 Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh.
1173 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early;
1174 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
1177 Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009
1179 *) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive.
1181 *) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive.
1182 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
1184 *) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests.
1186 *) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows.
1188 *) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and
1189 fastcgi_cache in nginx/Windows.
1191 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.
1192 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy.
1195 Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009
1197 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods"
1198 directives.
1200 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1201 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1203 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process,
1204 if a request had no body and the $request_body variable was used;
1205 the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
1207 *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux;
1208 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
1210 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by
1211 SSI, charset, and gzip filters.
1213 *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to
1214 ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses.
1217 Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009
1219 *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6.
1221 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive.
1223 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive.
1225 *) Feature: the $request_body variable.
1227 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":"
1228 symbol in the name.
1230 *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared
1231 in 0.7.53.
1232 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
1235 Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009
1237 *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the
1238 ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named
1239 location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
1242 Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009
1244 *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
1245 HTTP module.
1247 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.
1250 Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009
1252 *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
1253 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work.
1255 *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses.
1257 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in
1258 nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
1260 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
1261 "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
1262 0.7.54.
1264 *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors.
1266 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using
1267 $r->sendfile.
1268 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1271 Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009
1273 *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
1275 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
1276 directives.
1278 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
1279 "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had
1280 appeared in 0.7.53.
1282 *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
1283 had appeared in 0.7.39.
1285 *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.
1287 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
1289 *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
1290 appeared in 0.7.53.
1293 Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009
1295 *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very
1296 start-up.
1298 *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an
1299 error_log and stderr.
1301 *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use
1302 a directory where it was run as prefix.
1304 *) Feature: the -p switch.
1306 *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms.
1308 *) Feature: the -? and -h switches.
1309 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
1311 *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form.
1313 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given
1314 by the -c switch.
1316 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store",
1317 "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used.
1318 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1320 *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication
1321 server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared
1322 in 0.7.34.
1323 Thanks to Simon Lecaille.
1325 *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux;
1326 the bug had appeared in 0.7.45.
1328 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work.
1329 Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff.
1332 Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009
1334 *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release.
1336 *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching.
1338 *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc.
1339 client request header lines while caching.
1341 *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in
1342 cacheable responses.
1344 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a
1345 perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the
1346 message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued.
1348 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
1349 appeared in 0.7.48.
1351 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1352 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
1355 Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009
1357 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the
1358 fallback parameter.
1360 *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive.
1362 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without
1363 query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
1365 *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses,
1366 then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39.
1369 Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009
1371 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
1372 0.7.49.
1375 Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009
1377 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
1378 $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48.
1381 Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009
1383 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive.
1385 *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires",
1386 "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response.
1388 *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only.
1390 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited.
1392 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests.
1393 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1395 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library.
1396 Thanks to Timothy Redaelli.
1398 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had
1399 appeared in 0.7.46.
1402 Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009
1404 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions;
1405 the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
1407 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had
1408 appeared in 0.7.46.
1410 *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager
1411 might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
1413 *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
1414 "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/
1415 "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had
1416 appeared in 0.7.46.
1418 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
1419 request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page
1420 or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
1423 Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009
1425 *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect.
1428 Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009
1430 *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives
1431 can be set on different levels.
1433 *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
1434 directive is canceled.
1436 *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
1437 directive.
1439 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support.
1441 *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone
1442 names are logged.
1444 *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a
1445 "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
1447 *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive
1448 given without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
1449 0.7.44.
1450 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
1452 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without
1453 references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared
1454 in 0.7.42.
1457 Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009
1459 *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.
1461 *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.
1463 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server
1464 block level.
1466 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
1467 in a fallback parameter.
1469 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.
1471 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given address:port pair,
1472 then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive
1473 did not work.
1476 Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009
1478 *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive
1479 used variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
1481 *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the
1482 $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in
1483 0.7.36.
1486 Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
1488 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
1489 setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
1491 *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file"
1492 directive is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the
1493 500 one.
1495 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
1496 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
1498 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
1499 Thanks to Zhang Hua.
1501 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
1502 regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
1504 *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
1505 Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
1507 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
1508 appeared in 0.7.41.
1511 Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
1513 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
1514 "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
1515 expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
1516 Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
1519 Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
1521 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
1522 expressions.
1524 *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
1525 inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
1527 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
1528 expressions.
1530 *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
1531 slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
1532 0.7.15.
1533 Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
1536 Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
1538 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
1539 the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
1540 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
1542 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
1543 static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
1546 Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
1548 *) Feature: authentication failures logging.
1550 *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
1551 number of empty lines.
1552 Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
1554 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
1555 path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
1558 Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
1560 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had
1561 appeared in 0.7.36.
1564 Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
1566 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
1567 HTTP module supports IPv6.
1569 *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
1570 preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
1573 Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
1575 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
1576 asymmetric ciphers.
1577 Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
1579 *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
1580 original request extension.
1582 *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
1583 "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if
1584 ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
1585 the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
1588 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
1590 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
1592 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
1593 command.
1594 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1596 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
1597 in mail proxy server.
1598 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1600 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
1601 concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&";
1602 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
1603 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1605 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
1608 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
1610 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
1611 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with
1612 body.
1613 Thanks to Eden Li.
1615 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some
1616 redirects types.
1618 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1619 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
1622 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
1624 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
1625 the "try_files" directive.
1627 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
1629 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
1631 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
1632 debugging.
1633 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
1636 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
1638 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
1639 directories.
1641 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
1643 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
1645 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
1647 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
1648 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
1649 appeared in 0.7.18.
1650 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1652 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
1653 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
1654 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1657 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
1659 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
1660 variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
1661 and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
1664 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
1666 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
1667 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
1669 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
1671 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0
1672 requests;
1673 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1675 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
1676 Cygwin.
1679 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
1681 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
1683 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
1684 changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
1687 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
1689 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
1691 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
1693 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
1694 variable.
1695 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1697 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
1698 name.
1700 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
1702 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
1704 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
1705 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1707 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
1709 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
1710 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
1711 error_page directive.
1712 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
1715 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
1717 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1720 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
1722 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
1724 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
1726 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
1727 prohibition reason.
1729 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
1732 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
1734 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
1736 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
1737 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
1739 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
1740 perl module.
1743 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
1745 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
1747 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
1749 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
1752 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
1754 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
1755 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1757 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
1759 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
1761 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
1762 Thanks to Zyb.
1765 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
1767 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
1769 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
1770 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
1772 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
1773 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
1775 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
1776 appeared in 0.7.6.
1779 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
1781 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
1783 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
1785 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
1786 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
1787 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1789 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
1790 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
1792 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
1793 error.
1795 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
1796 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
1798 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
1801 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
1803 *) Bugfix: version number update.
1806 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
1808 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
1809 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
1811 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
1813 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
1815 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
1817 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
1819 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
1820 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
1822 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
1823 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
1825 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line
1826 for HEAD requests.
1828 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
1831 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
1833 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
1835 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
1837 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
1838 not work with open_file_cache.
1840 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
1841 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
1843 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
1844 charset name received from backend.
1847 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
1849 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
1850 appeared in 0.7.15.
1853 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
1855 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
1857 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
1858 requests starting from arbitrary position.
1860 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
1861 necessary.
1863 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
1864 line names.
1867 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
1869 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
1870 have not default values.
1872 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
1874 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
1875 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
1877 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
1878 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
1879 one.
1881 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
1882 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
1884 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
1887 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
1889 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
1890 appeared in 0.7.12.
1893 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
1895 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
1897 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
1899 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
1900 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
1901 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1903 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
1904 "error_page" directive.
1906 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
1907 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
1909 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
1910 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
1911 had appeared in 0.7.0.
1914 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
1916 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
1917 text/css MIME type.
1919 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
1920 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
1922 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
1924 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
1925 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
1927 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
1928 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
1930 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
1933 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
1935 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
1936 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
1937 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
1939 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
1941 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
1942 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
1945 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
1947 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
1948 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
1949 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
1951 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
1953 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
1954 directives use hash.
1956 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
1958 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
1960 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
1961 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
1963 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
1964 tests.
1966 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
1967 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
1969 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
1970 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
1971 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
1972 appeared in 0.3.18.
1975 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
1977 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
1979 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
1981 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
1982 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
1984 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
1985 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
1986 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1989 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
1991 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
1992 as temporary error.
1994 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
1995 with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
1996 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
1997 variable.
1999 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
2001 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
2002 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2004 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
2005 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2007 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
2009 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
2010 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
2011 locales only.
2013 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
2014 /dev/poll methods were used.
2016 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
2019 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
2021 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
2022 request root existence is always tested.
2024 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
2025 query string.
2028 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
2030 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
2031 bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
2033 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
2034 had appeared in 0.7.3.
2035 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
2037 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
2038 might were transferred incorrectly.
2041 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
2043 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
2045 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
2047 *) Feature: the -g switch.
2049 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
2051 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
2054 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
2056 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
2057 "application/rss+xml".
2059 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
2060 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
2062 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
2063 if the "https://" protocol is used.
2065 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
2066 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
2069 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
2071 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
2073 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
2075 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
2076 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
2078 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
2079 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
2080 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2082 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
2083 appeared in 0.7.1.
2085 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
2086 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
2089 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
2091 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
2093 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
2094 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
2096 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
2098 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
2099 now this is default parameter.
2100 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2102 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
2103 rotation signals.
2105 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
2106 Thanks to Roxis.
2109 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
2111 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
2112 \xXX in an access_log.
2113 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2115 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
2117 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
2119 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
2120 request processing stage.
2122 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
2123 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2125 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
2126 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
2128 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
2129 if keepalive was enabled.
2132 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
2134 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
2135 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
2136 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
2138 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
2139 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
2142 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
2144 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
2145 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
2147 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
2148 for example, "1h50m".
2150 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
2151 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
2153 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
2154 output.
2156 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
2157 arguments in redirected URI.
2159 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
2161 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
2162 0.6.15.
2165 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
2167 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
2169 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
2170 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
2173 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
2175 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
2176 0.6.27.
2179 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
2181 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
2182 Linux 2.6.18+.
2184 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
2185 named location via an "error_page" directive.
2187 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
2188 proxy.
2190 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
2192 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
2193 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
2194 static named locations.
2196 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
2197 client certificate in first handshake.
2198 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
2200 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
2201 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
2202 memory.
2204 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
2206 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
2208 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
2209 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
2210 static named locations.
2212 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
2213 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
2215 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
2216 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
2217 name and without variables.
2218 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
2220 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
2221 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
2223 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
2224 stub block was used second time in SSI.
2226 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
2229 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
2231 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
2232 check a response length.
2234 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
2235 value was used in a "expires" directive.
2236 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
2238 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
2239 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
2241 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
2242 was used instead of the GET method.
2244 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
2245 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
2247 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
2248 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
2250 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
2251 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
2254 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
2256 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
2257 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
2259 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
2260 "server_name" directive.
2262 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
2263 directive.
2265 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
2266 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
2268 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
2270 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
2272 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
2273 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
2275 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
2276 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
2278 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
2279 appeared in 0.6.23.
2282 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
2284 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
2285 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
2288 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
2290 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
2291 now this is default parameter.
2293 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
2294 "open_file_cache_valid".
2296 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
2298 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
2300 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
2302 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
2303 block.
2305 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
2306 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
2308 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
2309 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
2310 auth directives were not tested;
2312 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
2313 inherited from previous level.
2315 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
2316 with 499 status code.
2318 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
2319 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
2321 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
2322 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
2324 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
2325 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
2328 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
2330 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
2331 perl's allocated memory.
2333 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
2334 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
2335 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
2336 0.5.9.
2337 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
2339 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
2340 the regex captures.
2342 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
2343 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
2344 request body was already received.
2346 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
2347 keep-alive state.
2348 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
2350 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
2351 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
2353 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
2354 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
2355 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
2357 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
2358 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
2359 0.6.10.
2360 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
2363 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
2365 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
2366 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
2368 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
2369 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
2370 in 0.6.19.
2372 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
2373 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
2374 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2376 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
2377 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
2378 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
2379 record is too big".
2381 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
2382 server, then nginx returned usual response.
2385 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
2387 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
2388 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
2389 in 0.6.19.
2392 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
2394 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
2397 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
2399 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
2400 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
2402 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
2403 error_log.
2405 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2407 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
2409 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
2410 "Last-Modified" response header line.
2412 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
2413 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
2416 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
2418 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
2419 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
2421 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
2422 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
2424 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
2425 directive.
2427 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
2428 subrequests were used.
2430 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
2431 gzip were used.
2433 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
2434 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
2437 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
2439 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
2440 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
2442 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
2443 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
2445 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
2448 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
2450 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
2451 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
2453 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
2455 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
2457 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
2459 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
2461 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2462 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
2463 "source_charset" directives.
2465 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
2466 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
2467 Thanks to James Oakley.
2469 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
2470 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
2471 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
2473 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
2474 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
2475 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
2478 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
2480 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
2482 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
2484 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
2485 "limit_except" block.
2487 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
2488 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
2489 appeared in 0.6.6.
2491 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
2492 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
2493 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
2495 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
2496 log was enabled.
2497 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2499 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
2500 $upstream_response_time.
2501 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2503 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
2504 memcached was used.
2506 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
2507 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
2508 in 0.6.11.
2510 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
2512 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
2515 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
2517 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
2518 autoindex was used.
2519 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
2522 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
2524 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
2526 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
2527 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
2529 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
2530 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
2532 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
2533 0.6.9.
2535 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
2536 located in non-standard place was used.
2538 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
2539 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
2540 characters.
2541 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
2544 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
2546 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
2547 used.
2549 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
2550 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
2552 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
2553 lines.
2555 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
2556 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
2557 0.6.6.
2560 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
2562 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
2563 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
2565 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
2567 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
2568 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
2570 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
2571 /dev/poll method was used.
2574 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
2576 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
2577 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
2579 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
2580 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
2582 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
2583 down.
2585 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
2586 0.6.8.
2589 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
2591 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
2592 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
2593 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
2595 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
2596 authentication server.
2598 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
2600 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
2601 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
2602 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
2604 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
2607 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
2609 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
2610 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
2611 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
2612 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
2613 not to nginx prefix directory.
2615 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
2617 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
2618 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
2620 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
2621 regular expressions.
2623 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2624 the "backup" parameter.
2626 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
2627 $r->discard_request_body.
2629 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
2630 "Last-Modified" response header line.
2632 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
2633 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
2634 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
2636 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
2637 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
2639 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
2640 platforms except FreeBSD.
2641 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2643 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
2644 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
2645 appeared in 0.6.6.
2647 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2648 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2651 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
2653 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
2655 *) Feature: named locations.
2657 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
2659 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
2661 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
2663 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
2664 might not close connection to backend.
2666 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
2667 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
2669 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
2670 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
2673 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
2675 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
2676 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
2678 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
2679 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2681 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
2682 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2684 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
2686 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
2687 Solaris/amd64.
2688 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2690 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
2691 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
2694 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
2696 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
2697 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
2699 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
2700 changed.
2702 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
2703 directives.
2705 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
2706 Studio.
2707 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2709 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
2710 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
2713 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
2715 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
2717 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2718 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
2719 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2721 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
2722 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
2724 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
2725 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2727 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2728 eventport method was used.
2730 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
2731 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
2732 appeared in 0.5.13.
2735 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
2737 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
2738 passed garbage in the header to a client.
2741 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
2743 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
2745 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
2746 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
2748 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
2749 truncated.
2751 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
2752 to the master process identification number.
2755 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
2757 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
2758 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
2761 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
2763 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
2764 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
2765 0.5.24.
2768 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
2770 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
2771 was made using HTTP/0.9.
2773 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
2774 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
2777 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
2779 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
2780 extension.
2782 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
2783 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
2785 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
2786 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
2788 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
2789 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
2790 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
2792 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2795 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
2797 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
2798 had appeared in 0.5.21.
2801 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
2803 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
2804 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
2806 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
2807 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
2808 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
2810 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
2811 library was used.
2812 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2814 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2817 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
2819 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
2821 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
2822 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
2824 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2825 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
2827 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
2828 transferred incorrectly.
2829 Thanks to Evan Miller.
2831 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
2832 Studio.
2833 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2835 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
2836 make.
2837 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2840 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
2842 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
2844 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
2845 the $r->flush.
2847 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
2849 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
2850 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2851 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
2853 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
2854 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
2856 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
2857 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
2860 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
2862 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
2864 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
2866 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
2867 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
2869 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
2870 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
2871 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
2872 had appeared in 0.5.9.
2874 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
2875 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
2876 0.3.38.
2879 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
2881 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
2883 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
2884 "types" block.
2886 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
2887 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
2889 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2891 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
2892 returned old cached value.
2895 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
2897 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
2898 "ip_hash" directive.
2899 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
2901 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
2902 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
2903 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2905 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
2906 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
2907 32K.
2909 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
2910 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
2913 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
2915 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
2916 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
2917 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2919 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
2920 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
2922 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
2923 and "pop3_auth" directives.
2925 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
2926 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
2927 disabled.
2929 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
2930 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
2932 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
2933 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
2935 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
2936 "ip_hash" directive was used.
2938 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
2939 methods are used.
2942 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
2944 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
2945 configuration file.
2948 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
2950 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
2952 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
2953 via keep-alive connection.
2955 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
2956 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2958 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
2959 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
2961 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
2962 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
2963 send timeout only.
2965 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2966 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
2969 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
2971 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2972 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
2974 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2975 temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug
2976 had appeared in 0.5.8.
2978 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
2979 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
2981 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
2984 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
2986 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
2987 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
2989 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
2990 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
2992 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
2993 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
2994 Thanks to Evan Miller.
2996 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
2997 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
2999 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
3000 was built with -O2 optimization.
3003 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
3005 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
3006 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
3008 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
3009 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
3012 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
3014 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
3015 variable value as a key.
3017 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
3019 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
3020 directive.
3022 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
3024 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
3026 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
3027 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
3029 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
3030 logging.
3033 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
3035 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
3036 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
3038 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
3039 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
3040 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
3041 switched to a next upstream.
3043 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
3044 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
3045 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
3047 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
3048 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
3049 send timeout only.
3051 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
3052 used.
3054 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
3057 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
3059 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
3061 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
3063 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
3064 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
3065 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
3067 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
3068 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
3069 "Content-Type" header line in response.
3071 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
3072 support.
3073 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
3075 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
3078 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
3080 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
3081 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
3083 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
3085 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
3087 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
3088 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
3090 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
3092 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
3093 $r->sendfile() was used.
3096 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
3098 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
3100 *) Feature: the -V switch.
3102 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
3103 and G.
3105 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
3106 unprivileged user.
3108 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
3109 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
3111 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
3114 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
3116 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
3117 block.
3119 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
3120 line for the DELETE method.
3122 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
3123 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
3125 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
3126 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
3129 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
3131 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
3132 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
3134 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
3135 exist in nginx configuration.
3137 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
3140 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
3142 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
3143 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
3144 appeared in 0.5.1.
3147 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
3149 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
3150 unsuccessful completion of a request.
3152 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
3153 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
3155 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
3156 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
3157 in 0.5.0.
3159 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
3160 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
3161 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
3163 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
3164 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
3165 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
3167 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
3168 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
3169 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
3171 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
3172 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
3175 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
3177 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
3178 directive are not supported anymore.
3180 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
3181 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
3182 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
3183 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
3184 anymore.
3186 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
3187 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
3189 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
3191 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
3192 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
3194 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
3195 appeared in 0.4.14.
3198 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
3200 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3202 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
3203 Linux, and NetBSD.
3205 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
3206 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
3208 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
3209 recursively.
3211 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
3213 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
3214 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
3216 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
3217 system time was changed backward.
3219 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
3220 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
3222 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
3223 proxy authentication server failed.
3226 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
3228 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
3229 "limit_except" block.
3231 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
3233 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
3234 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
3235 complete.
3237 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
3238 the deferred accept() were used.
3240 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
3241 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3243 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
3244 used;
3246 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
3247 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
3249 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
3250 had appeared in 0.3.50.
3253 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
3255 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
3257 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
3258 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
3260 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
3263 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
3265 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
3267 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
3268 method.
3270 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
3271 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
3274 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
3276 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
3278 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
3279 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
3280 hogged CPU.
3282 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
3283 variable was used in the "map" directive.
3285 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
3286 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
3288 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
3289 appeared in 0.4.9.
3292 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
3294 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
3296 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
3297 version.
3300 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
3302 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
3303 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
3304 not work.
3306 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
3307 responses.
3308 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
3311 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
3313 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
3315 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
3317 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
3318 variables.
3320 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
3321 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
3322 not work.
3324 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
3325 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
3326 timeout.
3328 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
3329 and ppc64.
3332 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
3334 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
3335 and ppc64.
3337 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
3338 if its length was set by text string in the
3339 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
3341 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
3342 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
3343 had appeared in 0.4.4.
3346 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
3348 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
3349 appeared in 0.4.4.
3352 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
3354 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
3356 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
3358 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
3359 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
3361 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
3362 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
3364 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
3365 method.
3367 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
3368 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
3371 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
3373 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
3374 "error_page" directive.
3376 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
3378 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
3380 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
3381 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
3383 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
3384 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
3386 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
3388 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
3391 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
3393 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
3394 had appeared in 0.4.1.
3397 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
3399 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
3400 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
3402 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
3403 than 2G.
3405 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
3406 requests.
3407 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
3410 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
3412 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
3413 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
3415 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
3416 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
3417 $r->has_request_body method.
3419 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
3421 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
3422 line for the PUT method.
3424 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
3426 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
3427 directive with variables and the first index name was without
3428 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3431 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
3433 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
3435 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
3437 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
3439 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
3440 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
3443 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
3445 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
3446 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
3449 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
3451 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
3452 "error_page" directive.
3454 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
3456 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
3457 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
3458 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
3461 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
3463 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
3465 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
3467 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
3468 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
3470 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
3472 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
3473 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
3475 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
3478 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
3480 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
3482 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
3483 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
3485 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
3486 to a client the required certificates information.
3488 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
3489 the "root" directive.
3492 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
3494 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
3496 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
3497 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
3499 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
3500 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
3501 access log.
3504 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
3506 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
3508 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
3510 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
3512 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
3513 was relative to a server prefix.
3515 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
3516 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
3518 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
3519 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
3521 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
3522 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
3523 upstream.
3525 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
3526 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
3527 appeared in 0.3.50.
3530 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
3532 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
3534 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
3535 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
3537 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
3538 form.
3540 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
3541 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
3543 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
3544 first request to a backend only.
3546 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
3547 appeared in 0.3.53.
3550 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
3552 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
3553 302 responses.
3555 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
3556 the "weight" parameter.
3558 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
3560 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
3562 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
3563 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
3564 in the log.
3566 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
3567 return the 409 code.
3569 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
3570 continued proxying anyway.
3573 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
3575 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
3576 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
3577 return the 405 error.
3579 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3580 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
3582 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
3583 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3585 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
3586 temporary file was not removed.
3589 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
3591 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
3592 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
3595 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
3597 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
3598 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
3599 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
3601 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
3602 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
3604 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
3605 proxy and FastCGI mode.
3607 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
3608 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
3610 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
3611 SSI after inclusion.
3613 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
3614 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
3617 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
3619 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
3621 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
3622 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
3623 subrequests.
3626 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
3628 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
3629 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
3631 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
3632 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
3633 start of the rewritten redirect.
3635 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
3636 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
3637 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
3638 in 0.3.42.
3640 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
3641 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
3644 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
3646 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
3648 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
3649 SSI command is always removed.
3652 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
3654 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
3655 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
3657 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
3658 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
3660 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
3661 in proxy mode.
3663 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
3664 ngx_http_perl_module.
3667 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
3669 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
3670 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
3672 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
3673 method.
3675 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
3676 table.
3678 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
3679 table.
3681 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
3682 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
3683 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
3684 the rest.
3687 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
3689 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
3691 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
3692 koi-win conversion table.
3694 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
3697 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
3699 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
3702 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
3704 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
3705 proxy.
3707 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
3708 then once.
3710 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
3711 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
3712 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
3713 were not written to access log.
3715 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
3716 "Cache-Control" response header line.
3719 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
3721 *) Feature: the -v switch.
3723 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
3724 remote subrequests.
3726 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
3728 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
3729 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
3730 segmentation fault was occurred.
3733 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
3735 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
3737 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
3739 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
3742 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
3744 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
3745 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
3746 "alert" to "warn".
3748 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
3750 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
3751 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
3752 not logged.
3754 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
3755 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
3756 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
3758 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
3759 appeared in 0.3.38.
3762 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
3764 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
3766 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
3767 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
3769 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
3770 method.
3772 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
3774 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
3775 once a second only.
3776 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
3778 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
3779 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
3780 Thanks to ForJest.
3782 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
3783 login and password to pass authorization server.
3784 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3787 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
3789 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
3791 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
3792 "!-f" operators.
3794 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
3795 method.
3797 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
3800 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
3802 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
3804 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
3805 inside the "if" block.
3807 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
3808 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
3810 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
3812 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
3813 and $r->remote_addr.
3815 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
3817 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
3818 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
3820 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
3821 ngx_http_ssi_module.
3823 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
3824 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
3825 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
3826 a current path but not to a server prefix.
3829 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
3831 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
3832 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
3834 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
3835 subrequest.
3838 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
3840 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
3843 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
3845 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3846 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
3848 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
3849 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
3851 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
3854 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
3856 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
3857 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
3860 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
3862 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
3864 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
3865 form.
3867 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
3869 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
3870 bug.
3871 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3873 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
3874 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
3875 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
3876 in 0.3.18.
3878 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
3879 and the request body was in temporary file then the request was not
3880 transferred.
3882 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
3885 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
3887 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
3888 "crit".
3890 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
3891 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
3893 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
3894 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
3897 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
3899 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
3900 many warnings before the response.
3902 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
3903 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
3905 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
3906 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
3908 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
3909 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
3910 request.
3913 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
3915 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
3917 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
3919 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
3920 terminated prematurely.
3921 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
3923 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
3924 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
3925 header line.
3927 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
3928 completion of a request.
3930 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
3931 directive was transferred to a client.
3934 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
3936 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
3937 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
3939 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
3940 "log_format" directive.
3942 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
3944 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
3945 time.
3947 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
3948 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
3950 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
3951 autoconfiguration directive.
3953 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
3954 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
3957 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
3959 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
3960 "optimize_server_names".
3962 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
3963 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
3964 SSI subrequest.
3967 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
3969 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
3970 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
3971 appeared in 0.3.24.
3974 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
3976 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
3978 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
3979 not transferred to a client.
3981 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
3983 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
3984 location.
3986 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
3987 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
3988 had appeared in 0.3.18.
3991 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
3993 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
3995 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
3996 directives.
3998 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
3999 Solaris.
4002 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
4004 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
4005 $r->unescape methods.
4007 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
4008 canceled.
4010 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
4011 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
4012 appeared in 0.3.18.
4015 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
4017 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
4019 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
4020 URI part.
4023 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
4025 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
4027 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
4028 the "/usr?args" form.
4031 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
4033 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
4035 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
4037 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
4040 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
4042 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
4043 names.
4045 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
4046 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
4048 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
4049 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
4051 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
4052 directives were canceled.
4054 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
4056 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
4057 only without the URI part.
4059 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
4060 ngx_http_map_module.
4062 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
4063 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
4065 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
4066 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
4069 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
4071 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
4072 sendfile64() in kernel.
4074 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
4075 ".domain.tld" form.
4077 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
4078 appeared in 0.2.4.
4080 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
4082 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
4083 directive the port 80 was used by default.
4086 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
4088 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
4090 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
4091 directives.
4093 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
4095 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
4097 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
4098 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
4099 Pentium 4.
4101 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
4103 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
4104 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
4105 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
4107 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
4108 had appeared in 0.3.13.
4111 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
4113 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
4114 connection.
4116 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4118 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
4119 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
4122 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
4124 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
4125 appeared in 0.3.13.
4128 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
4130 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
4132 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
4133 /dev/poll methods.
4135 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
4137 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
4138 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
4140 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
4141 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
4144 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
4146 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
4147 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
4148 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
4149 and is not built by default.
4151 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
4153 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
4154 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
4155 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
4157 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
4159 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
4161 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
4162 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
4164 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
4165 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
4167 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
4168 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
4169 without the "Basic realm" text.
4171 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
4172 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
4173 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
4175 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
4176 Solaris.
4178 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
4179 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
4182 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
4184 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
4185 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
4188 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
4190 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
4191 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
4192 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
4194 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
4195 "$body_bytes_sent".
4197 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
4199 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
4201 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
4203 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
4205 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
4207 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
4209 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
4211 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
4212 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
4213 characters.
4215 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
4217 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
4218 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
4221 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
4223 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
4224 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
4227 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
4229 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
4230 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
4231 and zeroes.
4233 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
4234 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
4236 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
4237 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
4239 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
4240 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
4242 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
4244 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
4246 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
4247 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
4248 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
4249 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
4250 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
4251 will be canceled soon.
4253 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
4254 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
4256 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
4257 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
4259 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
4260 graceful exit.
4262 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
4263 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
4264 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
4265 appeared in 0.2.6.
4267 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
4268 "Expires" header.
4270 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
4271 several worker processes were used.
4273 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
4274 SSI commands.
4276 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
4277 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
4278 did not transferred at all.
4281 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
4283 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
4285 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
4286 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
4289 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
4291 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
4292 authorization server.
4294 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
4296 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
4297 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
4298 0.3.3.
4300 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
4301 the 80 port was always used.
4304 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
4306 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
4307 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
4309 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
4310 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
4312 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
4313 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
4316 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
4318 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
4319 had appeared in 0.3.3.
4322 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
4324 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
4325 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
4327 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
4328 directive.
4330 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
4331 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
4333 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
4335 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
4336 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
4337 the CLOSED state.
4339 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
4340 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
4342 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
4344 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
4346 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
4347 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
4349 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
4351 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
4353 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
4354 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
4356 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
4357 protocol only.
4360 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
4362 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
4364 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
4365 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
4366 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
4369 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
4371 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
4372 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
4373 0.2.0.
4375 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
4376 SSI.
4379 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
4381 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
4382 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
4383 overflow.
4386 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
4388 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
4389 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
4391 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
4392 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
4394 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
4395 more flexible to change an error code.
4397 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
4398 in proxied subrequests.
4400 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
4401 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
4402 again.
4404 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
4405 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
4406 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
4407 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
4410 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
4412 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
4413 causes the warning and changes old value.
4415 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
4417 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
4418 the "include" command.
4420 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
4421 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
4424 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
4426 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
4427 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
4429 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
4430 appeared in 0.1.44.
4432 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
4433 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
4436 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
4438 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
4439 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
4442 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
4444 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
4446 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
4447 "set" directive.
4449 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
4450 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
4452 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
4453 long file names;
4455 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
4456 starting by dot.
4458 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
4459 closed too.
4460 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
4462 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
4465 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
4467 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
4468 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
4469 appeared in 0.2.0.
4472 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
4474 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
4475 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
4476 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
4477 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
4478 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
4479 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
4480 suffix.
4482 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
4483 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
4484 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
4486 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
4488 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
4490 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
4491 not run for subrequests.
4493 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
4494 directives.
4496 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
4497 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
4499 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
4500 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
4502 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4504 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
4506 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
4507 from the 304 responses.
4508 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
4511 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
4513 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
4514 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
4516 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
4517 SSL connection.
4519 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4522 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
4524 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
4526 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
4528 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
4530 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
4531 of authorization use.
4534 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
4536 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
4537 changed using the -HUP signal.
4539 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
4541 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
4542 to a server.
4544 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
4545 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
4546 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
4547 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4550 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
4552 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
4553 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
4554 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
4556 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
4557 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
4560 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
4562 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
4563 can not be used in SSI.
4566 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
4568 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
4569 information did not logged in the error log.
4571 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
4572 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
4574 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
4575 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
4577 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
4578 SIGQUIT signal.
4580 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
4581 became shorter in the "ps" command.
4584 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
4586 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
4587 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
4588 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
4590 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
4591 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
4593 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
4594 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
4595 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
4597 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
4599 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
4600 the "include virtual" command.
4602 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
4603 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
4604 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4606 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
4607 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
4608 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4610 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
4611 chain.
4613 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
4614 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
4616 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
4617 login state.
4620 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
4622 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
4623 FastCGI mode.
4625 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
4626 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
4628 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
4630 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
4632 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
4633 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
4635 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
4636 in SSI.
4638 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
4639 than one remote subrequest.
4641 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
4642 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
4643 appeared in 0.1.29.
4645 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
4647 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
4649 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
4650 names in UTF-8.
4652 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4655 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
4657 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
4659 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
4660 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
4662 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
4663 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
4664 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
4665 request all backends again.
4668 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
4670 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
4671 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
4672 now returns the 400 error.
4674 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
4676 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
4677 parameters of the "listen" directive.
4679 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
4681 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
4683 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
4684 in UTF-8.
4686 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
4687 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
4690 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
4692 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
4694 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
4696 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
4697 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4699 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
4700 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
4701 occurred on the start.
4703 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
4704 bigger than the temporary file.
4706 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
4707 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
4708 0.1.28.
4711 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
4713 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
4714 big response part were include by SSI.
4716 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
4717 in SSI.
4719 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
4721 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
4722 the client request header line passing.
4725 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
4727 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
4728 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4730 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
4731 level cause the bus fault on start up.
4733 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
4735 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
4736 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
4739 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
4741 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
4742 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4744 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
4745 expressions.
4747 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
4748 of regular expressions.
4750 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
4751 proxy and FastCGI mode.
4754 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
4756 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
4758 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
4760 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
4762 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
4763 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
4766 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
4768 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
4769 SSI was used.
4771 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
4773 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
4774 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
4775 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
4776 only.
4778 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
4779 as invalid.
4781 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
4783 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
4786 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
4788 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
4790 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
4791 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
4792 level is supported.
4794 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
4795 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
4797 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
4799 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
4800 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
4802 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
4804 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
4805 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
4807 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
4808 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
4810 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
4811 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
4812 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
4813 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
4815 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
4816 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
4818 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
4819 replaced with
4820 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
4821 directive.
4823 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
4824 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
4825 directive.
4827 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
4829 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
4830 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
4831 directives.
4833 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
4835 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
4837 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
4839 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
4841 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
4843 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
4844 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
4845 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
4847 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
4848 headers or a backend response header.
4850 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
4851 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
4852 returned the 408 response.
4854 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
4855 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
4857 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
4858 tolerance configuration.
4860 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
4861 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
4863 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
4864 header line.
4866 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
4868 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
4869 were in a request.
4871 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
4874 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
4876 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
4878 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
4881 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
4883 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
4885 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
4886 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
4887 lines also logged.
4889 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
4891 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
4892 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
4893 canceled.
4895 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
4896 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
4897 used.
4900 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
4902 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
4903 at the info level.
4905 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
4907 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
4908 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
4911 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
4913 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
4915 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
4916 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
4918 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
4919 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
4920 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
4921 after request completion.
4923 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
4924 expression.
4926 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
4927 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
4929 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
4930 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
4932 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
4933 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
4934 will be removed soon.
4936 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
4938 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
4940 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
4942 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
4945 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
4947 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
4948 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
4950 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
4951 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
4952 "alias" directive.
4954 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
4955 responses.
4957 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
4958 as valid referrer.
4961 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
4963 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
4964 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
4965 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
4966 supported.
4968 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
4970 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
4971 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
4972 server name of the "server_name" directive.
4974 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
4975 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
4977 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
4978 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
4980 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
4981 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
4984 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
4986 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
4987 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
4989 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
4990 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
4993 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
4995 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
4996 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
4998 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
4999 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
5001 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
5004 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
5006 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
5007 the fastcgi_params directive.
5009 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
5012 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
5014 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
5015 returned for the local requests.
5017 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
5019 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
5020 request body via SSL connections.
5023 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
5025 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
5026 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
5027 with Solaris 10.
5029 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
5030 inherited.
5032 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
5033 with URI by an "&" rather than a "?".
5035 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
5036 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
5038 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
5040 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
5041 the segmentation fault.
5043 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
5044 directive.
5046 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
5048 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
5049 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
5050 configuration to the request.
5053 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
5055 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
5056 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
5057 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
5058 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
5060 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
5062 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
5064 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
5065 another location.
5067 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
5068 small caps letters in extension.
5070 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
5071 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
5072 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
5074 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
5075 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
5076 0.1.14.
5078 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
5081 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
5083 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
5084 request the final chunk was issued.
5086 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
5087 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
5089 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
5090 segmentation faults.
5092 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
5093 complete.
5095 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
5096 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
5098 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
5100 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
5101 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
5104 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
5106 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
5107 segmentation fault.
5109 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
5110 different number of the captures and substitutions.
5112 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
5113 regular expression.
5115 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
5116 arguments and in the original state.
5118 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
5119 to use the regular expressions in locations.
5121 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
5122 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
5123 in 0.1.14.
5125 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
5126 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
5127 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
5128 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
5131 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
5133 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
5134 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
5135 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
5137 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
5138 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
5139 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
5141 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
5142 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
5143 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
5144 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
5145 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
5146 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
5147 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
5149 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
5150 0.1.3.
5152 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
5153 proxy_pass directive.
5155 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
5156 string start.
5158 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
5159 ngx_http_proxy_module.
5161 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
5162 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
5165 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
5167 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
5168 directives.
5170 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
5171 not work.
5173 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
5174 length.
5177 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
5179 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
5181 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
5182 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
5183 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
5184 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
5186 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
5187 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
5190 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
5192 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
5194 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
5195 transferred response.
5197 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
5198 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
5200 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
5201 bytes.
5203 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
5204 broken symlink was in a directory.
5206 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
5207 sendfile.
5209 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
5210 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
5211 in an endless loop.
5213 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
5214 when the /dev/poll method was used.
5216 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
5218 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
5220 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
5222 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
5223 section in configuration.
5225 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
5227 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
5228 ":/".
5231 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
5233 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
5234 "/../" or "%XX" then the last character in the request line was
5235 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
5237 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
5238 not work.
5241 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
5243 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
5244 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
5246 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
5247 completely.
5249 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
5250 does not support sendfile64().
5252 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
5253 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
5254 0.1.8.
5257 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
5259 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
5260 in the listing.
5262 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
5264 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
5267 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
5269 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
5270 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
5273 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
5275 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
5276 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
5279 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
5281 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
5282 returned not enough data" alerts.
5284 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
5285 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
5286 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
5287 endless loop.
5289 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
5290 sendfile.
5292 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
5294 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
5296 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
5297 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
5299 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
5301 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
5304 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
5306 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
5309 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
5311 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
5313 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
5315 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
5316 is not used.
5319 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
5321 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
5322 options in configure.
5324 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
5326 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
5328 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
5329 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
5331 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
5332 is not used.
5334 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
5335 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
5337 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
5339 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
5340 already compressed.
5343 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
5345 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
5347 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
5349 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
5350 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
5352 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
5354 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
5356 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
5357 endless loop.
5359 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
5361 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
5362 used while the proxying.
5364 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
5366 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
5367 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
5370 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
5372 *) The first public version.