2 Changes with nginx 1.5.11 04 Mar 2014
4 *) Security: memory corruption might occur in a worker process on 32-bit
5 platforms while handling a specially crafted request by
6 ngx_http_spdy_module, potentially resulting in arbitrary code
7 execution (CVE-2014-0088); the bug had appeared in 1.5.10.
8 Thanks to Lucas Molas, researcher at Programa STIC, Fundación Dr.
9 Manuel Sadosky, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
11 *) Feature: the $ssl_session_reused variable.
13 *) Bugfix: the "client_max_body_size" directive might not work when
14 reading a request body using chunked transfer encoding; the bug had
16 Thanks to Lucas Molas.
18 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when
19 proxying WebSocket connections.
21 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
22 ngx_http_spdy_module was used on 32-bit platforms; the bug had
25 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_status variable might contain wrong data if the
26 "proxy_cache_use_stale" or "proxy_cache_revalidate" directives were
28 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
30 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
31 errors with code 400 were redirected to a named location using the
32 "error_page" directive.
34 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2013.
37 Changes with nginx 1.5.10 04 Feb 2014
39 *) Feature: the ngx_http_spdy_module now uses SPDY 3.1 protocol.
40 Thanks to Automattic and MaxCDN for sponsoring this work.
42 *) Feature: the ngx_http_mp4_module now skips tracks too short for a
45 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
46 $ssl_session_id variable was used in logs; the bug had appeared in
49 *) Bugfix: the $date_local and $date_gmt variables used wrong format
50 outside of the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
52 *) Bugfix: client connections might be immediately closed if deferred
53 accept was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.15.
55 *) Bugfix: alerts "getsockopt(TCP_FASTOPEN) ... failed" appeared in logs
56 during binary upgrade on Linux; the bug had appeared in 1.5.8.
57 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
60 Changes with nginx 1.5.9 22 Jan 2014
62 *) Change: now nginx expects escaped URIs in "X-Accel-Redirect" headers.
64 *) Feature: the "ssl_buffer_size" directive.
66 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive can now be used to rate limit
67 responses sent in SPDY connections.
69 *) Feature: the "spdy_chunk_size" directive.
71 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_tickets" directive.
72 Thanks to Dirkjan Bussink.
74 *) Bugfix: the $ssl_session_id variable contained full session
75 serialized instead of just a session id.
76 Thanks to Ivan Ristić.
78 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly handled escaped "?" character in the
79 "include" SSI command.
81 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module did not unescape destination URI of
82 the COPY and MOVE methods.
84 *) Bugfix: resolver did not understand domain names with a trailing dot.
85 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
87 *) Bugfix: alerts "zero size buf in output" might appear in logs while
88 proxying; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
90 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
91 ngx_http_spdy_module was used.
93 *) Bugfix: proxied WebSocket connections might hang right after
94 handshake if the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used.
96 *) Bugfix: the "xclient" directive of the mail proxy module incorrectly
97 handled IPv6 client addresses.
100 Changes with nginx 1.5.8 17 Dec 2013
102 *) Feature: IPv6 support in resolver.
104 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "fastopen" parameter.
105 Thanks to Mathew Rodley.
107 *) Feature: SSL support in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
108 Thanks to Roberto De Ioris.
110 *) Feature: vim syntax highlighting scripts were added to contrib.
111 Thanks to Evan Miller.
113 *) Bugfix: a timeout might occur while reading client request body in an
114 SSL connection using chunked transfer encoding.
116 *) Bugfix: the "master_process" directive did not work correctly in
119 *) Bugfix: the "setfib" parameter of the "listen" directive might not
122 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module.
125 Changes with nginx 1.5.7 19 Nov 2013
127 *) Security: a character following an unescaped space in a request line
128 was handled incorrectly (CVE-2013-4547); the bug had appeared in
130 Thanks to Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team.
132 *) Change: a logging level of auth_basic errors about no user/password
133 provided has been lowered from "error" to "info".
135 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_revalidate", "fastcgi_cache_revalidate",
136 "scgi_cache_revalidate", and "uwsgi_cache_revalidate" directives.
138 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_ticket_key" directive.
139 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
141 *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header Cache-Control ''" added a
142 "Cache-Control" response header line with an empty value.
144 *) Bugfix: the "satisfy any" directive might return 403 error instead of
145 401 if auth_request and auth_basic directives were used.
146 Thanks to Jan Marc Hoffmann.
148 *) Bugfix: the "accept_filter" and "deferred" parameters of the "listen"
149 directive were ignored for listen sockets created during binary
151 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
153 *) Bugfix: some data received from a backend with unbufferred proxy
154 might not be sent to a client immediately if "gzip" or "gunzip"
155 directives were used.
156 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
158 *) Bugfix: in error handling in ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module.
160 *) Bugfix: responses might hang if the ngx_http_spdy_module was used
161 with the "auth_request" directive.
163 *) Bugfix: memory leak in nginx/Windows.
166 Changes with nginx 1.5.6 01 Oct 2013
168 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_buffering" directive.
170 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_protocols" and "proxy_ssl_ciphers"
172 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
174 *) Feature: optimization of SSL handshakes when using long certificate
177 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports SMTP pipelining.
179 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_auth_basic_module when using "$apr1$"
180 password encryption method.
181 Thanks to Markus Linnala.
183 *) Bugfix: in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows incorrect location might
184 be used to process a request if locations were given using characters
187 *) Bugfix: automatic redirect with appended trailing slash for proxied
188 locations might not work.
190 *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server.
192 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module.
195 Changes with nginx 1.5.5 17 Sep 2013
197 *) Change: now nginx assumes HTTP/1.0 by default if it is not able to
198 detect protocol reliably.
200 *) Feature: the "disable_symlinks" directive now uses O_PATH on Linux.
202 *) Feature: now nginx uses EPOLLRDHUP events to detect premature
203 connection close by clients if the "epoll" method is used.
205 *) Bugfix: in the "valid_referers" directive if the "server_names"
208 *) Bugfix: the $request_time variable did not work in nginx/Windows.
210 *) Bugfix: in the "image_filter" directive.
211 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
213 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 1.0.1f compatibility.
214 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
217 Changes with nginx 1.5.4 27 Aug 2013
219 *) Change: the "js" extension MIME type has been changed to
220 "application/javascript"; default value of the "charset_types"
221 directive was changed accordingly.
223 *) Change: now the "image_filter" directive with the "size" parameter
224 returns responses with the "application/json" MIME type.
226 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_request_module.
228 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur on start or during
229 reconfiguration if the "try_files" directive was used with an empty
232 *) Bugfix: memory leak if relative paths were specified using variables
233 in the "root" or "auth_basic_user_file" directives.
235 *) Bugfix: the "valid_referers" directive incorrectly executed regular
236 expressions if a "Referer" header started with "https://".
237 Thanks to Liangbin Li.
239 *) Bugfix: responses might hang if subrequests were used and an SSL
240 handshake error happened during subrequest processing.
241 Thanks to Aviram Cohen.
243 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
245 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module.
248 Changes with nginx 1.5.3 30 Jul 2013
250 *) Change in internal API: now u->length defaults to -1 if working with
251 backends in unbuffered mode.
253 *) Change: now after receiving an incomplete response from a backend
254 server nginx tries to send an available part of the response to a
255 client, and then closes client connection.
257 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
258 ngx_http_spdy_module was used with the "client_body_in_file_only"
261 *) Bugfix: the "so_keepalive" parameter of the "listen" directive might
262 be handled incorrectly on DragonFlyBSD.
263 Thanks to Sepherosa Ziehau.
265 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module.
267 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
270 Changes with nginx 1.5.2 02 Jul 2013
272 *) Feature: now several "error_log" directives can be used.
274 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() embedded perl method did not return value
275 of the "Cookie" and "X-Forwarded-For" request header lines; the bug
276 had appeared in 1.3.14.
278 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module.
279 Thanks to Jim Radford.
281 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux with x32 ABI.
282 Thanks to Serguei Ivantsov.
285 Changes with nginx 1.5.1 04 Jun 2013
287 *) Feature: the "ssi_last_modified", "sub_filter_last_modified", and
288 "xslt_last_modified" directives.
289 Thanks to Alexey Kolpakov.
291 *) Feature: the "http_403" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream",
292 "fastcgi_next_upstream", "scgi_next_upstream", and
293 "uwsgi_next_upstream" directives.
295 *) Feature: the "allow" and "deny" directives now support unix domain
298 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_mail_ssl_module, but
299 without ngx_http_ssl_module; the bug had appeared in 1.3.14.
301 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_set_body" directive.
302 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
304 *) Bugfix: in the "lingering_time" directive.
305 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
307 *) Bugfix: the "fail_timeout" parameter of the "server" directive in the
308 "upstream" context might not work if "max_fails" parameter was used;
309 the bug had appeared in 1.3.0.
311 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
312 "ssl_stapling" directive was used.
313 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
315 *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server.
316 Thanks to Filipe Da Silva.
318 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might stop accepting connections if several
319 worker processes were used.
322 Changes with nginx 1.5.0 07 May 2013
324 *) Security: a stack-based buffer overflow might occur in a worker
325 process while handling a specially crafted request, potentially
326 resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2013-2028); the bug had
328 Thanks to Greg MacManus, iSIGHT Partners Labs.
331 Changes with nginx 1.4.0 24 Apr 2013
333 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the
334 --with-openssl option was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.16.
336 *) Bugfix: in a request body handling in the ngx_http_perl_module; the
337 bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
340 Changes with nginx 1.3.16 16 Apr 2013
342 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
343 subrequests were used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
345 *) Bugfix: the "tcp_nodelay" directive caused an error if a WebSocket
346 connection was proxied into a unix domain socket.
348 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_length variable has an incorrect value
349 "0" if buffering was not used.
350 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
352 *) Bugfix: in the eventport and /dev/poll methods.
355 Changes with nginx 1.3.15 26 Mar 2013
357 *) Change: opening and closing a connection without sending any data in
358 it is no longer logged to access_log with error code 400.
360 *) Feature: the ngx_http_spdy_module.
361 Thanks to Automattic for sponsoring this work.
363 *) Feature: the "limit_req_status" and "limit_conn_status" directives.
364 Thanks to Nick Marden.
366 *) Feature: the "image_filter_interlace" directive.
367 Thanks to Ian Babrou.
369 *) Feature: $connections_waiting variable in the
370 ngx_http_stub_status_module.
372 *) Feature: the mail proxy module now supports IPv6 backends.
374 *) Bugfix: request body might be transmitted incorrectly when retrying a
375 request to the next upstream server; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
376 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
378 *) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had
381 *) Bugfix: responses might hang if subrequests were used and a DNS error
382 happened during subrequest processing.
383 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
385 *) Bugfix: in backend usage accounting.
388 Changes with nginx 1.3.14 05 Mar 2013
390 *) Feature: $connections_active, $connections_reading, and
391 $connections_writing variables in the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
393 *) Feature: support of WebSocket connections in the
394 ngx_http_uwsgi_module and ngx_http_scgi_module.
396 *) Bugfix: in virtual servers handling with SNI.
398 *) Bugfix: new sessions were not always stored if the "ssl_session_cache
399 shared" directive was used and there was no free space in shared
401 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
403 *) Bugfix: multiple X-Forwarded-For headers were handled incorrectly.
404 Thanks to Neal Poole for sponsoring this work.
406 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
407 Thanks to Gernot Vormayr.
410 Changes with nginx 1.3.13 19 Feb 2013
412 *) Change: a compiler with name "cc" is now used by default.
414 *) Feature: support for proxying of WebSocket connections.
415 Thanks to Apcera and CloudBees for sponsoring this work.
417 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "{SHA}"
418 password encryption method.
419 Thanks to Louis Opter.
422 Changes with nginx 1.3.12 05 Feb 2013
424 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind",
425 "memcached_bind", "scgi_bind", and "uwsgi_bind" directives.
427 *) Feature: the $pipe, $request_length, $time_iso8601, and $time_local
428 variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive.
429 Thanks to Kiril Kalchev.
431 *) Feature: IPv6 support in the ngx_http_geoip_module.
432 Thanks to Gregor Kališnik.
434 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_method" directive.
436 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
437 resolver was used with the poll method.
439 *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU during SSL handshake with a backend if
440 the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used.
442 *) Bugfix: the "[crit] SSL_write() failed (SSL:)" error.
444 *) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had
447 *) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
450 Changes with nginx 1.3.11 10 Jan 2013
452 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if logging was used; the bug
453 had appeared in 1.3.10.
455 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with IP addresses
456 without port specified; the bug had appeared in 1.3.10.
458 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during
459 reconfiguration if the "keepalive" directive was specified more than
460 once in a single upstream block.
462 *) Bugfix: parameter "default" of the "geo" directive did not set
463 default value for IPv6 addresses.
466 Changes with nginx 1.3.10 25 Dec 2012
468 *) Change: domain names specified in configuration file are now resolved
469 to IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 ones.
471 *) Change: now if the "include" directive with mask is used on Unix
472 systems, included files are sorted in alphabetical order.
474 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds headers to 201 responses.
476 *) Feature: the "geo" directive now supports IPv6 addresses in CIDR
479 *) Feature: the "flush" and "gzip" parameters of the "access_log"
482 *) Feature: variables support in the "auth_basic" directive.
484 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module in
487 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
488 ngx_http_xslt_module was used.
490 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX in some cases.
491 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
493 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive with high rates might result in
494 truncated responses on 32-bit platforms.
495 Thanks to Alexey Antropov.
497 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
498 "if" directive was used.
499 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
501 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued with "413 Request Entity
502 Too Large" responses.
504 *) Bugfix: the "image_filter", "image_filter_jpeg_quality" and
505 "image_filter_sharpen" directives might be inherited incorrectly.
506 Thanks to Ian Babrou.
508 *) Bugfix: "crypt_r() failed" errors might appear if the "auth_basic"
509 directive was used on Linux.
511 *) Bugfix: in backup servers handling.
512 Thanks to Thomas Chen.
514 *) Bugfix: proxied HEAD requests might return incorrect response if the
515 "gzip" directive was used.
518 Changes with nginx 1.3.9 27 Nov 2012
520 *) Feature: support for chunked transfer encoding while reading client
523 *) Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not
524 only in the "log_format" directive.
526 *) Bugfix: cache manager and cache loader processes might not be able to
527 start if more than 512 listen sockets were used.
529 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module.
532 Changes with nginx 1.3.8 30 Oct 2012
534 *) Feature: the "optional_no_ca" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client"
536 Thanks to Mike Kazantsev and Eric O'Connor.
538 *) Feature: the $bytes_sent, $connection, and $connection_requests
539 variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive.
540 Thanks to Benjamin Grössing.
542 *) Feature: the "auto" parameter of the "worker_processes" directive.
544 *) Bugfix: "cache file ... has md5 collision" alert.
546 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module.
548 *) Bugfix: in the "ssl_stapling" directive.
551 Changes with nginx 1.3.7 02 Oct 2012
553 *) Feature: OCSP stapling support.
554 Thanks to Comodo, DigiCert and GlobalSign for sponsoring this work.
556 *) Feature: the "ssl_trusted_certificate" directive.
558 *) Feature: resolver now randomly rotates addresses returned from cache.
559 Thanks to Anton Jouline.
561 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.7 compatibility.
564 Changes with nginx 1.3.6 12 Sep 2012
566 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module.
568 *) Feature: the "memcached_gzip_flag" directive.
570 *) Feature: the "always" parameter of the "gzip_static" directive.
572 *) Bugfix: in the "limit_req" directive; the bug had appeared in 1.1.14.
573 Thanks to Charles Chen.
575 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.7 with -O2 optimization if
576 the --with-ipv6 option was used.
579 Changes with nginx 1.3.5 21 Aug 2012
581 *) Change: the ngx_http_mp4_module module no longer skips tracks in
582 formats other than H.264 and AAC.
584 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
585 "map" directive was used with variables as values.
587 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
588 "geo" directive was used with the "ranges" parameter but without the
589 "default" parameter; the bug had appeared in 0.8.43.
590 Thanks to Zhen Chen and Weibin Yao.
592 *) Bugfix: in the -p command-line parameter handling.
594 *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server.
596 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
599 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2005
601 Thanks to HAYASHI Kentaro.
604 Changes with nginx 1.3.4 31 Jul 2012
606 *) Change: the "ipv6only" parameter is now turned on by default for
607 listening IPv6 sockets.
609 *) Feature: the Clang compiler support.
611 *) Bugfix: extra listening sockets might be created.
612 Thanks to Roman Odaisky.
614 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might hog CPU if a worker process failed to
616 Thanks to Ricardo Villalobos Guevara.
618 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass_header", "fastcgi_pass_header",
619 "scgi_pass_header", "uwsgi_pass_header", "proxy_hide_header",
620 "fastcgi_hide_header", "scgi_hide_header", and "uwsgi_hide_header"
621 directives might be inherited incorrectly.
624 Changes with nginx 1.3.3 10 Jul 2012
626 *) Feature: entity tags support and the "etag" directive.
628 *) Bugfix: trailing dot in a source value was not ignored if the "map"
629 directive was used with the "hostnames" parameter.
631 *) Bugfix: incorrect location might be used to process a request if a
632 URI was changed via a "rewrite" directive before an internal redirect
636 Changes with nginx 1.3.2 26 Jun 2012
638 *) Change: the "single" parameter of the "keepalive" directive is now
641 *) Change: SSL compression is now disabled when using all versions of
642 OpenSSL, including ones prior to 1.0.0.
644 *) Feature: it is now possible to use the "ip_hash" directive to balance
647 *) Feature: the $status variable can now be used not only in the
648 "log_format" directive.
650 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process on
651 shutdown if the "resolver" directive was used.
653 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
654 ngx_http_mp4_module was used.
656 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
658 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
659 conflicting wildcard server names were used.
661 *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally on a SIGBUS signal on
664 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file number)" on HP-UX
665 while reconfiguration.
668 Changes with nginx 1.3.1 05 Jun 2012
670 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dot in URI path
671 component, and does not allow URIs with ":$" in it.
672 Thanks to Vladimir Kochetkov, Positive Research Center.
674 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass"
675 directives, and the "server" directive inside the "upstream" block,
676 now support IPv6 addresses.
678 *) Feature: the "resolver" directive now supports IPv6 addresses and an
679 optional port specification.
681 *) Feature: the "least_conn" directive inside the "upstream" block.
683 *) Feature: it is now possible to specify a weight for servers while
684 using the "ip_hash" directive.
686 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
687 "image_filter" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.0.
689 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with ngx_cpp_test_module; the bug
690 had appeared in 1.1.12.
692 *) Bugfix: access to variables from SSI and embedded perl module might
693 not work after reconfiguration.
694 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
696 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module.
697 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
699 *) Bugfix: memory leak if $geoip_org variable was used.
700 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
702 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path"
706 Changes with nginx 1.3.0 15 May 2012
708 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive now supports IPv6 addresses
709 and the "unix:" parameter.
711 *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive and the "proxy" parameter
712 of the "geo" directive now support IPv6 addresses.
714 *) Feature: the "real_ip_recursive", "geoip_proxy", and
715 "geoip_proxy_recursive" directives.
717 *) Feature: the "proxy_recursive" parameter of the "geo" directive.
719 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
720 "resolver" directive was used.
722 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
723 "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or "uwsgi_pass" directives were used and
724 backend returned incorrect response.
726 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
727 "rewrite" directive was used and new request arguments in a
728 replacement used variables.
730 *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU if the open file resource limit was
733 *) Bugfix: nginx might loop infinitely over backends if the
734 "proxy_next_upstream" directive with the "http_404" parameter was
735 used and there were backup servers specified in an upstream block.
737 *) Bugfix: adding the "down" parameter of the "server" directive might
738 cause unneeded client redistribution among backend servers if the
739 "ip_hash" directive was used.
741 *) Bugfix: socket leak.
742 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
744 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module.
747 Changes with nginx 1.2.0 23 Apr 2012
749 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
750 "try_files" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.19.
752 *) Bugfix: response might be truncated if there were more than IOV_MAX
755 *) Bugfix: in the "crop" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
756 Thanks to Maxim Bublis.
759 Changes with nginx 1.1.19 12 Apr 2012
761 *) Security: specially crafted mp4 file might allow to overwrite memory
762 locations in a worker process if the ngx_http_mp4_module was used,
763 potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2012-2089).
764 Thanks to Matthew Daley.
766 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might be terminated abnormally.
767 Thanks to Vincent Lee.
769 *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as
772 *) Bugfix: the "allow" and "deny" directives might be inherited
773 incorrectly if they were used with IPv6 addresses.
775 *) Bugfix: the "modern_browser" and "ancient_browser" directives might
776 be inherited incorrectly.
778 *) Bugfix: timeouts might be handled incorrectly on Solaris/SPARC.
780 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
783 Changes with nginx 1.1.18 28 Mar 2012
785 *) Change: keepalive connections are no longer disabled for Safari by
788 *) Feature: the $connection_requests variable.
790 *) Feature: $tcpinfo_rtt, $tcpinfo_rttvar, $tcpinfo_snd_cwnd and
791 $tcpinfo_rcv_space variables.
793 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive now works on FreeBSD.
795 *) Feature: the "xslt_param" and "xslt_string_param" directives.
796 Thanks to Samuel Behan.
798 *) Bugfix: in configure tests.
799 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
801 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module.
803 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian GNU/Hurd.
806 Changes with nginx 1.1.17 15 Mar 2012
808 *) Security: content of previously freed memory might be sent to a
809 client if backend returned specially crafted response.
810 Thanks to Matthew Daley.
812 *) Bugfix: in the embedded perl module if used from SSI.
813 Thanks to Matthew Daley.
815 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
818 Changes with nginx 1.1.16 29 Feb 2012
820 *) Change: the simultaneous subrequest limit has been raised to 200.
822 *) Feature: the "from" parameter of the "disable_symlinks" directive.
824 *) Feature: the "return" and "error_page" directives can now be used to
825 return 307 redirections.
827 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
828 "resolver" directive was used and there was no "error_log" directive
829 specified at global level.
830 Thanks to Roman Arutyunyan.
832 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
833 "proxy_http_version 1.1" or "fastcgi_keep_conn on" directives were
836 *) Bugfix: memory leaks.
837 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
839 *) Bugfix: in the "disable_symlinks" directive.
841 *) Bugfix: on ZFS filesystem disk cache size might be calculated
842 incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 1.0.1.
844 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 12.1 compiler.
846 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc on Solaris; the bug had
850 Changes with nginx 1.1.15 15 Feb 2012
852 *) Feature: the "disable_symlinks" directive.
854 *) Feature: the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path"
857 *) Bugfix: nginx might log incorrect error "upstream prematurely closed
858 connection" instead of correct "upstream sent too big header" one.
861 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the
862 --with-openssl option was used.
864 *) Bugfix: the number of internal redirects to named locations was not
867 *) Bugfix: calling $r->flush() multiple times might cause errors in the
868 ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
870 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store"
871 directive was used with SSI includes.
873 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cacheable variables (such as the $args
874 variable) returned old empty cached value.
876 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if too
877 many SSI subrequests were issued simultaneously; the bug had appeared
881 Changes with nginx 1.1.14 30 Jan 2012
883 *) Feature: multiple "limit_req" limits may be used simultaneously.
885 *) Bugfix: in error handling while connecting to a backend.
886 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
888 *) Bugfix: in AIO error handling on FreeBSD.
890 *) Bugfix: in the OpenSSL library initialization.
892 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directives might be inherited
895 *) Bugfix: memory leak during reconfiguration if the "pcre_jit"
899 Changes with nginx 1.1.13 16 Jan 2012
901 *) Feature: the "TLSv1.1" and "TLSv1.2" parameters of the
902 "ssl_protocols" directive.
904 *) Bugfix: the "limit_req" directive parameters were not inherited
905 correctly; the bug had appeared in 1.1.12.
907 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive incorrectly processed
908 "Refresh" header if regular expression were used.
910 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_use_stale" directive with "error" parameter
911 did not return answer from cache if there were no live upstreams.
913 *) Bugfix: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive might not work.
915 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
918 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
921 Changes with nginx 1.1.12 26 Dec 2011
923 *) Change: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part now uses changed
924 URI after redirection with the "error_page" directive.
925 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
927 *) Feature: the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock",
928 "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_lock_timeout" directives.
930 *) Feature: the "pcre_jit" directive.
932 *) Feature: the "if" SSI command supports captures in regular
935 *) Bugfix: the "if" SSI command did not work inside the "block" command.
937 *) Bugfix: the "limit_conn_log_level" and "limit_req_log_level"
938 directives might not work.
940 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
941 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
943 *) Bugfix: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive did not work, if the
944 "limit_rate" directive was used.
946 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part always used
947 original request URI if variables were used.
949 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
950 request after redirection with the "try_files" directive.
951 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
953 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_scgi_module.
955 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
957 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
961 Changes with nginx 1.1.11 12 Dec 2011
963 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" parameter of the "listen" directive.
964 Thanks to Vsevolod Stakhov.
966 *) Feature: the "if_not_empty" parameter of the
967 "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives.
969 *) Feature: the $https variable.
971 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports variables in the
974 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect" directive supports regular expressions.
976 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control variable might contain a wrong
977 value if the "expires" directive was used.
978 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
980 *) Bugfix: the "read_ahead" directive might not work combined with
981 "try_files" and "open_file_cache".
983 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if small
984 time was used in the "inactive" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
987 *) Bugfix: responses from cache might hang.
990 Changes with nginx 1.1.10 30 Nov 2011
992 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occured in a worker process if AIO was
993 used on Linux; the bug had appeared in 1.1.9.
996 Changes with nginx 1.1.9 28 Nov 2011
998 *) Change: now double quotes are encoded in an "echo" SSI-command
1000 Thanks to Zaur Abasmirzoev.
1002 *) Feature: the "valid" parameter of the "resolver" directive. By
1003 default TTL returned by a DNS server is used.
1004 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
1006 *) Bugfix: nginx might hang after a worker process abnormal termination.
1008 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if SNI
1009 was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.2.
1011 *) Bugfix: in the "keepalive_disable" directive; the bug had appeared in
1013 Thanks to Alexander Usov.
1015 *) Bugfix: SIGWINCH signal did not work after first binary upgrade; the
1016 bug had appeared in 1.1.1.
1018 *) Bugfix: backend responses with length not matching "Content-Length"
1019 header line are no longer cached.
1021 *) Bugfix: in the "scgi_param" directive, if complex parameters were
1024 *) Bugfix: in the "epoll" event method.
1025 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
1027 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_flv_module.
1028 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
1030 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
1032 *) Bugfix: IPv6 addresses are now handled properly in a request line and
1033 in a "Host" request header line.
1035 *) Bugfix: "add_header" and "expires" directives did not work if a
1036 request was proxied and response status code was 206.
1038 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 10.
1040 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
1043 Changes with nginx 1.1.8 14 Nov 2011
1045 *) Change: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module was renamed to the
1046 ngx_http_limit_conn_module.
1048 *) Change: the "limit_zone" directive was superseded by the
1049 "limit_conn_zone" directive with a new syntax.
1051 *) Feature: support for multiple "limit_conn" limits on the same level.
1053 *) Feature: the "image_filter_sharpen" directive.
1055 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
1056 resolver got a big DNS response.
1057 Thanks to Ben Hawkes.
1059 *) Bugfix: in cache key calculation if internal MD5 implementation was
1060 used; the bug had appeared in 1.0.4.
1062 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
1063 header lines might be passed to backend while caching; or not passed
1064 without caching if caching was enabled in another part of the
1067 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module sent incorrect
1068 "Content-Length" response header line if the "start" argument was
1070 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
1073 Changes with nginx 1.1.7 31 Oct 2011
1075 *) Feature: support of several DNS servers in the "resolver" directive.
1076 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
1078 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during
1079 reconfiguration if the "ssl" directive was used at http level and
1080 there was no "ssl_certificate" defined.
1082 *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption while proxying big files if they
1083 were buffered to disk.
1085 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
1086 "proxy_http_version 1.1" directive was used.
1088 *) Bugfix: in the "expires @time" directive.
1091 Changes with nginx 1.1.6 17 Oct 2011
1093 *) Change in internal API: now module context data are cleared while
1094 internal redirect to named location.
1095 Requested by Yichun Zhang.
1097 *) Change: if a server in an upstream failed, only one request will be
1098 sent to it after fail_timeout; the server will be considered alive if
1099 it will successfully respond to the request.
1101 *) Change: now the 0x7F-0x1F characters are escaped as \xXX in an
1104 *) Feature: "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_headers" directives support
1105 the following additional values: X-Accel-Limit-Rate,
1106 X-Accel-Buffering, X-Accel-Charset.
1108 *) Feature: decrease of memory consumption if SSL is used.
1110 *) Bugfix: some UTF-8 characters were processed incorrectly.
1111 Thanks to Alexey Kuts.
1113 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module directives specified at "server"
1114 level were executed twice if no matching locations were defined.
1116 *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if "aio sendfile" was used.
1118 *) Bugfix: connections with fast clients might be closed after
1119 send_timeout if file AIO was used.
1121 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
1123 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support seeking on
1127 Changes with nginx 1.1.5 05 Oct 2011
1129 *) Feature: the "uwsgi_buffering" and "scgi_buffering" directives.
1130 Thanks to Peter Smit.
1132 *) Bugfix: non-cacheable responses might be cached if
1133 "proxy_cache_bypass" directive was used.
1134 Thanks to John Ferlito.
1136 *) Bugfix: in HTTP/1.1 support in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
1138 *) Bugfix: cached responses with an empty body were returned
1139 incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 0.8.31.
1141 *) Bugfix: 201 responses of the ngx_http_dav_module were incorrect; the
1142 bug had appeared in 0.8.32.
1144 *) Bugfix: in the "return" directive.
1146 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_session_cache builtin" directive caused segmentation
1147 fault; the bug had appeared in 1.1.1.
1150 Changes with nginx 1.1.4 20 Sep 2011
1152 *) Feature: the ngx_http_upstream_keepalive module.
1154 *) Feature: the "proxy_http_version" directive.
1156 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
1158 *) Feature: the "worker_aio_requests" directive.
1160 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built --with-file-aio it could not be run on
1161 Linux kernel which did not support AIO.
1163 *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO error processing.
1164 Thanks to Hagai Avrahami.
1166 *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption for long-lived requests.
1168 *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support 64-bit MP4
1172 Changes with nginx 1.1.3 14 Sep 2011
1174 *) Feature: the module ngx_http_mp4_module.
1176 *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO combined with open_file_cache.
1178 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache did not update file info on retest if file
1179 was not atomically changed.
1181 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.7.
1184 Changes with nginx 1.1.2 05 Sep 2011
1186 *) Change: now if total size of all ranges is greater than source
1187 response size, then nginx disables ranges and returns just the source
1190 *) Feature: the "max_ranges" directive.
1192 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
1193 "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directives might work incorrectly if SNI
1196 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_client_abort"
1200 Changes with nginx 1.1.1 22 Aug 2011
1202 *) Change: now cache loader processes either as many files as specified
1203 by "loader_files" parameter or works no longer than time specified by
1204 the "loader_threshold" parameter during each iteration.
1206 *) Change: now SIGWINCH signal works only in daemon mode.
1208 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Solaris.
1209 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
1211 *) Feature: accept filters are now supported on NetBSD.
1213 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 3.0.
1215 *) Bugfix: nginx did not use gzipping in some cases; the bug had
1218 *) Bugfix: request body might be processed incorrectly if client used
1221 *) Bugfix: in the "request_body_in_single_buf" directive.
1223 *) Bugfix: in "proxy_set_body" and "proxy_pass_request_body" directives
1224 if SSL connection to backend was used.
1226 *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as
1229 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur during reconfiguration if
1230 ssl_session_cache was defined but not used in previous configuration.
1232 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if many
1233 backup servers were used in an upstream.
1235 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
1236 "fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_param" directives were used with values starting
1237 with "HTTP_"; the bug had appeared in 0.8.40.
1240 Changes with nginx 1.1.0 01 Aug 2011
1242 *) Feature: cache loader run time decrease.
1244 *) Feature: "loader_files", "loader_sleep", and "loader_threshold"
1245 options of the "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_cache_path" directives.
1247 *) Feature: loading time decrease of configuration with large number of
1250 *) Feature: now nginx supports ECDHE key exchange ciphers.
1251 Thanks to Adrian Kotelba.
1253 *) Feature: the "lingering_close" directive.
1254 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1256 *) Bugfix: in closing connection for pipelined requests.
1257 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1259 *) Bugfix: nginx did not disable gzipping if client sent "gzip;q=0" in
1260 "Accept-Encoding" request header line.
1262 *) Bugfix: in timeout in unbuffered proxied mode.
1263 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1265 *) Bugfix: memory leaks when a "proxy_pass" directive contains variables
1266 and proxies to an HTTPS backend.
1267 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1269 *) Bugfix: in parameter validaiton of a "proxy_pass" directive with
1271 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
1273 *) Bugfix: SSL did not work on QNX.
1274 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1276 *) Bugfix: SSL modules could not be built by gcc 4.6 without
1277 --with-debug option.
1280 Changes with nginx 1.0.5 19 Jul 2011
1282 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5".
1283 Thanks to Rob Stradling.
1285 *) Feature: the "referer_hash_max_size" and "referer_hash_bucket_size"
1287 Thanks to Witold Filipczyk.
1289 *) Feature: $uid_reset variable.
1291 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if a
1293 Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
1295 *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during
1296 reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in
1298 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1300 *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert.
1301 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1304 Changes with nginx 1.0.4 01 Jun 2011
1306 *) Change: now regular expressions case sensitivity in the "map"
1307 directive is given by prefixes "~" or "~*".
1309 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores on Linux.
1310 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
1312 *) Bugfix: "stalled cache updating" alert.
1314 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_auth_basic_module;
1315 the bug had appeared in 1.0.3.
1318 Changes with nginx 1.0.3 25 May 2011
1320 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "$apr1",
1321 "{PLAIN}", and "{SSHA}" password encryption methods.
1322 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1324 *) Feature: the "geoip_org" directive and $geoip_org variable.
1325 Thanks to Alexander Uskov, Arnaud Granal, and Denis F. Latypoff.
1327 *) Feature: ngx_http_geo_module and ngx_http_geoip_module support IPv4
1328 addresses mapped to IPv6 addresses.
1330 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process during
1331 testing IPv4 address mapped to IPv6 address, if access or deny rules
1332 were defined only for IPv6; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
1334 *) Bugfix: a cached response may be broken if "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/
1335 uwsgi_cache_bypass" and "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_no_cache" directive
1336 values were different; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
1339 Changes with nginx 1.0.2 10 May 2011
1341 *) Feature: now shared zones and caches use POSIX semaphores.
1343 *) Bugfix: in the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
1344 Thanks to Adam Bocim.
1346 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
1350 Changes with nginx 1.0.1 03 May 2011
1352 *) Change: now the "split_clients" directive uses MurmurHash2 algorithm
1353 because of better distribution.
1354 Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.
1356 *) Change: now long strings starting with zero are not considered as
1358 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1360 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value 511 on Linux.
1362 *) Feature: the $upstream_... variables may be used in the SSI and perl
1365 *) Bugfix: now nginx limits better disk cache size.
1366 Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.
1368 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur while parsing incorrect IPv4
1369 address; the bug had appeared in 0.9.3.
1370 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1372 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.6 without --with-debug
1375 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris 9 and earlier; the bug
1376 had appeared in 0.9.3.
1377 Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen.
1379 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values if subrequests were
1380 used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.47.
1381 Thanks to Igor A. Valcov.
1384 Changes with nginx 1.0.0 12 Apr 2011
1386 *) Bugfix: a cache manager might hog CPU after reload.
1387 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1389 *) Bugfix: an "image_filter crop" directive worked incorrectly coupled
1390 with an "image_filter rotate 180" directive.
1392 *) Bugfix: a "satisfy any" directive disabled custom 401 error page.
1395 Changes with nginx 0.9.7 04 Apr 2011
1397 *) Feature: now keepalive connections may be closed premature, if there
1398 are no free worker connections.
1399 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1401 *) Feature: the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
1402 Thanks to Adam Bocim.
1404 *) Bugfix: a case when a backend in "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or
1405 "uwsgi_pass" directives is given by expression and refers to a
1409 Changes with nginx 0.9.6 21 Mar 2011
1411 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports regular expressions as value of
1412 the first parameter.
1414 *) Feature: $time_iso8601 access_log variable.
1415 Thanks to Michael Lustfield.
1418 Changes with nginx 0.9.5 21 Feb 2011
1420 *) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value -1 on Linux.
1421 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1423 *) Feature: the "utf8" parameter of "geoip_country" and "geoip_city"
1425 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
1427 *) Bugfix: in a default "proxy_redirect" directive if "proxy_pass"
1428 directive has no URI part.
1429 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1431 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not work with nonstandard error
1432 codes; the bug had appeared in 0.8.53.
1433 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1436 Changes with nginx 0.9.4 21 Jan 2011
1438 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the $hostname variable.
1440 *) Feature: 494 code for "Request Header Too Large" error.
1443 Changes with nginx 0.9.3 13 Dec 2010
1445 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given IPv6 address:port
1446 pair, then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name"
1447 directive did not work.
1449 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in
1453 Changes with nginx 0.9.2 06 Dec 2010
1455 *) Feature: the "If-Unmodified-Since" client request header line
1458 *) Workaround: fallback to accept() syscall if accept4() was not
1459 implemented; the issue had appeared in 0.9.0.
1461 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Cygwin; the bug had appeared in
1464 *) Bugfix: for OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2010-4180.
1465 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1468 Changes with nginx 0.9.1 30 Nov 2010
1470 *) Bugfix: "return CODE message" directives did not work; the bug had
1474 Changes with nginx 0.9.0 29 Nov 2010
1476 *) Feature: the "keepalive_disable" directive.
1478 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports variables as value of a defined
1481 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports empty strings as value of the
1484 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports expressions as the first
1487 *) Feature: nginx(8) manual page.
1488 Thanks to Sergey Osokin.
1490 *) Feature: Linux accept4() support.
1491 Thanks to Simon Liu.
1493 *) Workaround: elimination of Linux linker warning about "sys_errlist"
1494 and "sys_nerr"; the warning had appeared in 0.8.35.
1496 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the
1497 "auth_basic" directive was used.
1498 Thanks to Michail Laletin.
1500 *) Bugfix: compatibility with ngx_http_eval_module; the bug had appeared
1504 Changes with nginx 0.8.53 18 Oct 2010
1506 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive allows to change a status
1509 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "degradation"
1512 *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if file AIO was used.
1513 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1515 *) Bugfix: if the first server had no "listen" directive and there was
1516 no explicit default server, then a next server with a "listen"
1517 directive became the default server; the bug had appeared in 0.8.21.
1520 Changes with nginx 0.8.52 28 Sep 2010
1522 *) Bugfix: nginx used SSL mode for a listen socket if any listen option
1523 was set; the bug had appeared in 0.8.51.
1526 Changes with nginx 0.8.51 27 Sep 2010
1528 *) Change: the "secure_link_expires" directive has been canceled.
1530 *) Change: a logging level of resolver errors has been lowered from
1533 *) Feature: now a listen socket "ssl" parameter may be set several
1537 Changes with nginx 0.8.50 02 Sep 2010
1539 *) Feature: the "secure_link", "secure_link_md5", and
1540 "secure_link_expires" directives of the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
1542 *) Feature: the -q switch.
1543 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
1545 *) Bugfix: worker processes may got caught in an endless loop during
1546 reconfiguration, if a caching was used; the bug had appeared in
1549 *) Bugfix: in the "gzip_disable" directive.
1550 Thanks to Derrick Petzold.
1552 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not send stop, quit, reopen, and reload
1553 signals to a process run in other session.
1556 Changes with nginx 0.8.49 09 Aug 2010
1558 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive supports
1561 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the
1562 $geoip_region_name variables was used; the bug had appeared in
1565 *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page were cached only for next
1566 request; the bug had appeared in 0.8.48.
1569 Changes with nginx 0.8.48 03 Aug 2010
1571 *) Change: now the "server_name" directive default value is an empty
1573 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
1575 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive default value is
1578 *) Feature: the $geoip_dma_code, $geoip_area_code, and
1579 $geoip_region_name variables.
1580 Thanks to Christine McGonagle.
1582 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass", and
1583 "scgi_pass" directives were not inherited inside "limit_except"
1586 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_min_uses", "fastcgi_cache_min_uses"
1587 "uwsgi_cache_min_uses", and "scgi_cache_min_uses" directives did not
1588 work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
1590 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive used incorrectly
1591 captures, if only parts of an URI were captured.
1592 Thanks to Yuriy Taraday and Frank Enderle.
1594 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not escape a ";" character during
1595 copying from URI to query string.
1596 Thanks to Daisuke Murase.
1598 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module closed a connection, if an
1599 image was larger than "image_filter_buffer" size.
1602 Changes with nginx 0.8.47 28 Jul 2010
1604 *) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values for subrequests.
1606 *) Bugfix: errors intercepted by error_page could not be cached.
1608 *) Bugfix: a cache manager process may got caught in an endless loop, if
1609 max_size parameter was used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.
1612 Changes with nginx 0.8.46 19 Jul 2010
1614 *) Change: now the "proxy_no_cache", "fastcgi_no_cache",
1615 "uwsgi_no_cache", and "scgi_no_cache" directives affect on a cached
1616 response saving only.
1618 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_bypass", "fastcgi_cache_bypass",
1619 "uwsgi_cache_bypass", and "scgi_cache_bypass" directives.
1621 *) Bugfix: nginx did not free memory in cache keys zones if there was an
1622 error during working with backend: the memory was freed only after
1623 inactivity time or on memory low condition.
1626 Changes with nginx 0.8.45 13 Jul 2010
1628 *) Feature: ngx_http_xslt_filter improvements.
1629 Thanks to Laurence Rowe.
1631 *) Bugfix: SSI response might be truncated after include with
1632 wait="yes"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
1633 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1635 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive did not support the "setfib=0"
1639 Changes with nginx 0.8.44 05 Jul 2010
1641 *) Change: now nginx does not cache by default backend responses, if
1642 they have a "Set-Cookie" header line.
1644 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "setfib" parameter.
1645 Thanks to Andrew Filonov.
1647 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might change character case on
1650 *) Bugfix: compatibility with HP/UX.
1652 *) Bugfix: compatibility with AIX xlC_r compiler.
1654 *) Bugfix: nginx treated large SSLv2 packets as plain requests.
1655 Thanks to Miroslaw Jaworski.
1658 Changes with nginx 0.8.43 30 Jun 2010
1660 *) Feature: large geo ranges base loading speed-up.
1662 *) Bugfix: an error_page redirection to "location /zero {return 204;}"
1663 without changing status code kept the error body; the bug had
1666 *) Bugfix: nginx might close IPv6 listen socket during reconfiguration.
1667 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1669 *) Bugfix: the $uid_set variable may be used at any request processing
1673 Changes with nginx 0.8.42 21 Jun 2010
1675 *) Change: now nginx tests locations given by regular expressions, if
1676 request was matched exactly by a location given by a prefix string.
1677 The previous behavior has been introduced in 0.7.1.
1679 *) Feature: the ngx_http_scgi_module.
1680 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1682 *) Feature: a text answer may be added to a "return" directive.
1685 Changes with nginx 0.8.41 15 Jun 2010
1687 *) Security: nginx/Windows worker might be terminated abnormally if a
1688 requested file name has invalid UTF-8 encoding.
1690 *) Change: now nginx allows to use spaces in a request line.
1692 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_redirect" directive changed incorrectly a backend
1693 "Refresh" response header line.
1694 Thanks to Andrey Andreew and Max Sogin.
1696 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support path without host name in "Destination"
1697 request header line.
1700 Changes with nginx 0.8.40 07 Jun 2010
1702 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores default file stream name.
1703 Thanks to Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez.
1705 *) Feature: the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
1706 Thanks to Roberto De Ioris.
1708 *) Feature: a "fastcgi_param" directive with value starting with "HTTP_"
1709 overrides a client request header line.
1711 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
1712 header lines were passed to FastCGI-server while caching.
1714 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket could not be changed during
1716 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1719 Changes with nginx 0.8.39 31 May 2010
1721 *) Bugfix: an inherited "alias" directive worked incorrectly in
1724 *) Bugfix: in "alias" with variables and "try_files" directives
1727 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain and IPv6 sockets did not inherit while
1729 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1732 Changes with nginx 0.8.38 24 May 2010
1734 *) Feature: the "proxy_no_cache" and "fastcgi_no_cache" directives.
1736 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if
1737 the $scheme variable is used.
1738 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
1740 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" delay directive conforms to the described
1742 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1744 *) Bugfix: the $uid_got variable might not be used in the SSI and perl
1748 Changes with nginx 0.8.37 17 May 2010
1750 *) Feature: the ngx_http_split_clients_module.
1752 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports keys more than 255 characters.
1754 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "private" and "no-store" values in the
1755 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
1757 *) Bugfix: a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was not
1758 used, if empty response has 200 status code.
1760 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
1761 another proxied or FastCGI location, then a segmentation fault might
1762 occur in a worker process; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
1763 Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
1765 *) Bugfix: IMAP connections may hang until they timed out while talking
1767 Thanks to Alan Batie.
1770 Changes with nginx 0.8.36 22 Apr 2010
1772 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module handled incorrectly the DELETE, COPY,
1773 and MOVE methods for symlinks.
1775 *) Bugfix: values of the $query_string, $arg_..., etc. variables cached
1776 in main request were used by the SSI module in subrequests.
1778 *) Bugfix: a variable value was repeatedly encoded after each an "echo"
1779 SSI-command output; the bug had appeared in 0.6.14.
1781 *) Bugfix: a worker process hung if a FIFO file was requested.
1782 Thanks to Vicente Aguilar and Maxim Dounin.
1784 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL-1.0.0 compatibility on 64-bit Linux.
1785 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1787 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
1791 Changes with nginx 0.8.35 01 Apr 2010
1793 *) Change: now the charset filter runs before the SSI filter.
1795 *) Feature: the "chunked_transfer_encoding" directive.
1797 *) Bugfix: an "&" character was not escaped when it was copied in
1798 arguments part in a rewrite rule.
1800 *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally while a signal
1801 processing or if the directive "timer_resolution" was used on
1802 platforms which do not support kqueue or eventport notification
1804 Thanks to George Xie and Maxim Dounin.
1806 *) Bugfix: if temporary files and permanent storage area resided at
1807 different file systems, then permanent file modification times were
1809 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1811 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module might issue the error message
1812 "memcached sent invalid trailer".
1813 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1815 *) Bugfix: nginx could not built zlib-1.2.4 library using the library
1817 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1819 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process, if there
1820 was large stderr output before FastCGI response; the bug had appeared
1822 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1825 Changes with nginx 0.8.34 03 Mar 2010
1827 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support all ciphers and digests used in client
1829 Thanks to Innocenty Enikeew.
1831 *) Bugfix: nginx cached incorrectly FastCGI responses if there was large
1832 stderr output before response.
1834 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support HTTPS referrers.
1836 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not find file if path in configuration
1837 was given in other character case; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
1839 *) Bugfix: the $date_local variable has an incorrect value, if the "%s"
1841 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1843 *) Bugfix: if ssl_session_cache was not set or was set to "none", then
1844 during client certificate verify the error "session id context
1845 uninitialized" might occur; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
1847 *) Bugfix: a geo range returned default value if the range included two
1848 or more /16 networks and did not begin at /16 network boundary.
1850 *) Bugfix: a block used in a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI
1851 directive was output with "text/plain" MIME type.
1853 *) Bugfix: $r->sleep() did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1856 Changes with nginx 0.8.33 01 Feb 2010
1858 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing spaces in URI.
1859 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
1861 *) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores short files names.
1862 Thanks to Dan Crowley, Core Security Technologies.
1864 *) Change: now keepalive connections after POST requests are not
1865 disabled for MSIE 7.0+.
1866 Thanks to Adam Lounds.
1868 *) Workaround: now keepalive connections are disabled for Safari.
1869 Thanks to Joshua Sierles.
1871 *) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
1872 another proxied or FastCGI location, then $upstream_response_time
1873 variable may have abnormally large value; the bug had appeared in
1876 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, while
1877 discarding a request body; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
1880 Changes with nginx 0.8.32 11 Jan 2010
1882 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
1883 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1885 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures worked for two names only.
1886 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1888 *) Bugfix: now the "localhost" name is used in the "Host" request header
1889 line, if an unix domain socket is defined in the "auth_http"
1891 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1893 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support chunked transfer encoding for 201
1895 Thanks to Julian Reich.
1897 *) Bugfix: if the "expires modified" set date in the past, then a
1898 negative number was set in the "Cache-Control" response header line.
1899 Thanks to Alex Kapranoff.
1902 Changes with nginx 0.8.31 23 Dec 2009
1904 *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive may redirect the 301 and 302
1907 *) Feature: the $geoip_city_continent_code, $geoip_latitude, and
1908 $geoip_longitude variables.
1909 Thanks to Arvind Sundararajan.
1911 *) Feature: now the ngx_http_image_filter_module deletes always EXIF and
1912 other application specific data if the data consume more than 5% of a
1915 *) Bugfix: nginx closed a connection if a cached response had an empty
1917 Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
1919 *) Bugfix: nginx might not be built by gcc 4.x if the -O2 or higher
1920 optimization option was used.
1921 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Denis F. Latypoff.
1923 *) Bugfix: regular expressions in location were always tested in
1924 case-sensitive mode; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1926 *) Bugfix: nginx cached a 304 response if there was the "If-None-Match"
1927 header line in a proxied request.
1928 Thanks to Tim Dettrick and David Kostal.
1930 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to delete a temporary file twice if the
1931 file should replace an already existent file.
1934 Changes with nginx 0.8.30 15 Dec 2009
1936 *) Change: now the default buffer size of the
1937 "large_client_header_buffers" directive is 8K.
1938 Thanks to Andrew Cholakian.
1940 *) Feature: the conf/fastcgi.conf for simple FastCGI configurations.
1942 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to rename a temporary file twice if the
1943 file should replace an already existent file.
1945 *) Bugfix: of "double free or corruption" error issued if host could not
1946 be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.
1947 Thanks to Konstantin Svist.
1949 *) Bugfix: in libatomic usage on some platforms.
1950 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1953 Changes with nginx 0.8.29 30 Nov 2009
1955 *) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for
1956 proxied HTTP/0.9 responses.
1958 *) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
1959 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support
1962 *) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage.
1963 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1965 *) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure.
1966 Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
1968 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights.
1970 *) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly.
1972 *) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not
1973 work in a "server_name" directive.
1974 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1977 Changes with nginx 0.8.28 23 Nov 2009
1979 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
1980 the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1983 Changes with nginx 0.8.27 17 Nov 2009
1985 *) Bugfix: regular expressions did not work in nginx/Windows; the bug
1986 had appeared in 0.8.25.
1989 Changes with nginx 0.8.26 16 Nov 2009
1991 *) Bugfix: in captures usage in "rewrite" directive; the bug had
1994 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
1995 bug had appeared in 0.8.25.
1998 Changes with nginx 0.8.25 16 Nov 2009
2000 *) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is
2001 not found by $r->variable() method.
2003 *) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module.
2005 *) Feature: regular expression named captures.
2007 *) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if
2010 *) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too.
2012 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low
2013 memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18.
2015 *) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support
2016 gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared
2020 Changes with nginx 0.8.24 11 Nov 2009
2022 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Content-Encoding: gzip" response header
2023 line in 304 responses sent by ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
2025 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
2026 bug had appeared in 0.8.23.
2028 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
2029 inherited incorrectly from previous level.
2031 *) Bugfix: in resolving empty name.
2034 Changes with nginx 0.8.23 11 Nov 2009
2036 *) Security: now SSL/TLS renegotiation is disabled.
2037 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2039 *) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket did not inherit while online
2042 *) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive did
2043 not without yet another directive with any IP address.
2045 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault and infinite looping in resolver.
2047 *) Bugfix: in resolver.
2048 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
2051 Changes with nginx 0.8.22 03 Nov 2009
2053 *) Feature: the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", and "memcached_bind"
2056 *) Feature: the "access" and the "deny" directives support IPv6.
2058 *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive supports IPv6 addresses in
2061 *) Feature: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive.
2063 *) Bugfix: nginx did not delete unix domain socket after configuration
2066 *) Bugfix: nginx deleted unix domain socket while online upgrade.
2068 *) Bugfix: the "!-x" operator did not work.
2069 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2071 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
2072 limit_rate was used in HTTPS server.
2073 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2075 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while
2076 $limit_rate logging.
2077 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2079 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
2080 there was no "listen" directive in "server" block; the bug had
2084 Changes with nginx 0.8.21 26 Oct 2009
2086 *) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support.
2088 *) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix
2090 Thanks to Hongli Lai.
2092 *) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive.
2094 *) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen
2097 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms;
2099 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
2102 Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009
2104 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5".
2106 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing slash
2107 in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15.
2109 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path
2110 configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53.
2112 *) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the
2113 "Cache-Control" backend response header line.
2115 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file,
2116 or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker had no enough access
2117 rights for top level directories.
2119 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines were
2120 not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives were
2121 used with any parameters.
2123 *) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size.
2126 Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009
2128 *) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default.
2130 *) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM".
2132 *) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared in
2136 Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009
2138 *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive.
2140 *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used.
2142 *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level"
2145 *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket
2147 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2149 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc.
2150 Thanks to Marcus Ramberg.
2152 *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on MKCOL
2154 Thanks to Xie Zhenye.
2156 *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the
2157 bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
2159 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
2162 Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009
2164 *) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header
2167 *) Change: now $host variable value is always low case.
2169 *) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable.
2171 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
2174 Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009
2176 *) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive.
2178 *) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named
2181 *) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning.
2182 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
2184 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
2185 Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
2187 *) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in
2188 access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level.
2190 *) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the
2191 ngx_http_image_filter_module.
2193 *) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header
2194 line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on.
2196 *) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in
2199 *) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in
2201 Thanks to Igor Artemiev.
2204 Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009
2206 *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while
2207 specially crafted request handling.
2208 Thanks to Chris Ries.
2210 *) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld
2211 were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by
2214 *) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
2216 *) Bugfix: in file AIO.
2218 *) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
2220 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
2223 Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009
2225 *) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING"
2228 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if
2229 error_log was set to info or debug level.
2230 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
2232 *) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
2234 *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the
2235 bug had appeared in 0.6.10.
2238 Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009
2240 *) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in
2243 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option
2244 on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12.
2247 Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009
2249 *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD.
2251 *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
2253 *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
2256 Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009
2258 *) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping
2261 *) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux.
2263 *) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive.
2266 Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009
2268 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used.
2270 *) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the bug
2271 had appeared in 0.8.9.
2274 Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009
2276 *) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this
2277 should improve large caches handling.
2279 *) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside at
2280 different file systems.
2283 Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009
2285 *) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records.
2287 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
2288 was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a caching was
2289 enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in 0.8.7.
2292 Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009
2294 *) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7.
2296 *) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was
2297 changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client
2298 certificate if it was offered.
2299 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
2301 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable.
2302 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
2304 *) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive.
2305 Thanks to Brice Figureau.
2307 *) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive.
2309 *) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting
2312 *) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the bug
2313 had appeared in 0.7.7.
2314 Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev.
2316 *) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did
2317 not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate",
2318 "X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend
2320 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2322 *) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend
2323 response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2324 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2326 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an
2327 empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5.
2330 Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009
2332 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module.
2334 *) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML
2335 document" for valid XML document.
2336 Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
2338 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by a
2339 regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode.
2341 *) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI.
2342 Thanks to Hugo Leisink.
2344 *) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during
2345 installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
2346 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2349 Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009
2351 *) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method.
2353 *) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password
2354 while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows.
2356 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests.
2358 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module.
2359 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2362 Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009
2364 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
2368 Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009
2370 *) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable.
2372 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6.
2374 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
2377 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a backend
2378 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the
2379 "WWW-Authenticate" response header line.
2380 Thanks to Eugene Mychlo.
2383 Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009
2385 *) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on
2388 *) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long;
2389 the bug had appeared in 0.7.4.
2392 Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009
2394 *) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
2395 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives.
2397 *) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
2398 header lines were passed to backend while caching if no
2399 "proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters.
2401 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not
2402 hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header"
2403 directives were used with any parameters.
2405 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a
2407 Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh.
2409 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early; the
2410 bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
2413 Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009
2415 *) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive.
2417 *) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive.
2418 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
2420 *) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests.
2422 *) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows.
2424 *) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and fastcgi_cache
2427 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.
2428 Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy.
2431 Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009
2433 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods"
2436 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
2437 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2439 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
2440 had no body and the $request_body variable was used;
2441 the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
2443 *) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux;
2444 the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
2446 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by
2447 SSI, charset, and gzip filters.
2449 *) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to
2450 ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses.
2453 Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009
2455 *) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6.
2457 *) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive.
2459 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive.
2461 *) Feature: the $request_body variable.
2463 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":"
2466 *) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared
2468 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
2471 Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009
2473 *) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the
2474 ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named
2475 location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
2478 Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009
2480 *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
2483 *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.
2486 Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009
2488 *) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
2489 "fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work.
2491 *) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses.
2493 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in
2494 nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
2496 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
2497 "debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
2500 *) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors.
2502 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using
2504 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2507 Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009
2509 *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
2511 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
2514 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
2515 "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had appeared
2518 *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
2519 had appeared in 0.7.39.
2521 *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.
2523 *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
2525 *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
2529 Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009
2531 *) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very
2534 *) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an
2535 error_log and stderr.
2537 *) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use
2538 a directory where it was run as prefix.
2540 *) Feature: the -p switch.
2542 *) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms.
2544 *) Feature: the -? and -h switches.
2545 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
2547 *) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form.
2549 *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given by
2552 *) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store",
2553 "fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used.
2554 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2556 *) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication
2557 server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared
2559 Thanks to Simon Lecaille.
2561 *) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux;
2562 the bug had appeared in 0.7.45.
2564 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work.
2565 Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff.
2568 Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009
2570 *) Feature: the first native Windows binary release.
2572 *) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching.
2574 *) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc.
2575 client request header lines while caching.
2577 *) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in
2578 cacheable responses.
2580 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a
2581 perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the
2582 message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued.
2584 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
2587 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2588 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
2591 Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009
2593 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the
2596 *) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive.
2598 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without
2599 query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2601 *) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses,
2602 then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39.
2605 Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009
2607 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
2611 Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009
2613 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
2614 $arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48.
2617 Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009
2619 *) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive.
2621 *) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires",
2622 "Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response.
2624 *) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only.
2626 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited.
2628 *) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests.
2629 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2631 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library.
2632 Thanks to Timothy Redaelli.
2634 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had
2638 Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009
2640 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions; the
2641 bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
2643 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had
2646 *) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager
2647 might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
2649 *) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
2650 "proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/
2651 "fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had
2654 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
2655 request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page
2656 or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2659 Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009
2661 *) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect.
2664 Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009
2666 *) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives
2667 can be set on different levels.
2669 *) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
2670 directive is canceled.
2672 *) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
2675 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support.
2677 *) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone
2680 *) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a
2681 "Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2683 *) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive given
2684 without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
2685 Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
2687 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without
2688 references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared
2692 Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009
2694 *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.
2696 *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.
2698 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server block
2701 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
2702 in a fallback parameter.
2704 *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.
2706 *) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given address:port pair,
2707 then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive did
2711 Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009
2713 *) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive used
2714 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
2716 *) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the
2717 $server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in
2721 Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
2723 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
2724 setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
2726 *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file" directive
2727 is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the 500 one.
2729 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
2730 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
2732 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
2733 Thanks to Zhang Hua.
2735 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
2736 regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
2738 *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
2739 Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
2741 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
2745 Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
2747 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
2748 "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
2749 expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
2750 Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
2753 Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
2755 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
2758 *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
2759 inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
2761 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
2764 *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
2765 slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
2767 Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
2770 Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
2772 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
2773 the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
2774 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
2776 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
2777 static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
2780 Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
2782 *) Feature: authentication failures logging.
2784 *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
2785 number of empty lines.
2786 Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
2788 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
2789 path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
2792 Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
2794 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had appeared
2798 Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
2800 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
2801 HTTP module supports IPv6.
2803 *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
2804 preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
2807 Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
2809 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
2811 Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
2813 *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
2814 original request extension.
2816 *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
2817 "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if
2818 ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
2819 the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
2822 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
2824 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
2826 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
2828 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2830 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
2831 in mail proxy server.
2832 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2834 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
2835 concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&";
2836 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
2837 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2839 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
2842 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
2844 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
2845 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with body.
2848 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some redirects
2851 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
2852 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
2855 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
2857 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
2858 the "try_files" directive.
2860 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
2862 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
2864 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
2866 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
2869 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
2871 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
2874 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
2876 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
2878 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
2880 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
2881 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
2883 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2885 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
2886 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
2887 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2890 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
2892 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if variables
2893 were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives and host
2894 name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
2897 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
2899 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
2900 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
2902 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
2904 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0 requests;
2905 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2907 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
2911 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
2913 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
2915 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been changed
2916 to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
2919 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
2921 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
2923 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
2925 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a variable.
2926 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2928 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
2931 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
2933 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
2935 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
2936 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
2938 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
2940 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
2941 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
2942 error_page directive.
2943 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
2946 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
2948 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
2951 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
2953 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
2955 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
2957 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
2960 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
2963 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
2965 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
2967 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
2968 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
2970 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
2974 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
2976 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
2978 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
2980 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
2983 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
2985 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
2986 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2988 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
2990 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
2992 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
2996 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
2998 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
3000 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
3001 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
3003 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
3004 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
3006 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
3010 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
3012 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
3014 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
3016 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
3017 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
3018 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3020 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
3021 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
3023 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
3026 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
3027 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
3029 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
3032 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
3034 *) Bugfix: version number update.
3037 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
3039 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
3040 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
3042 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
3044 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
3046 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
3048 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
3050 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
3051 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
3053 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3054 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
3056 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line
3059 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
3062 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
3064 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
3066 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
3068 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
3069 not work with open_file_cache.
3071 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
3072 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
3074 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted charset
3075 name received from backend.
3078 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
3080 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
3084 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
3086 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
3088 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
3089 requests starting from arbitrary position.
3091 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
3094 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header line
3098 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
3100 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
3101 have no default values.
3103 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
3105 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
3106 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
3108 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
3109 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
3112 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
3113 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
3115 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
3118 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
3120 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
3124 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
3126 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
3128 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
3130 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
3131 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
3132 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3134 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
3135 "error_page" directive.
3137 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
3138 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
3140 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
3141 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
3142 had appeared in 0.7.0.
3145 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
3147 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
3150 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
3151 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
3153 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
3155 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
3156 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
3158 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
3159 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
3161 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
3164 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
3166 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
3167 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
3168 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
3170 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
3172 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
3173 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
3176 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
3178 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
3179 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
3180 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
3182 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
3184 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
3185 directives use hash.
3187 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
3189 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
3191 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
3192 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
3194 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
3197 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
3198 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
3200 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
3201 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
3202 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
3206 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
3208 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
3210 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
3212 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
3213 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
3215 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
3216 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
3217 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3220 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
3222 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
3225 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate with
3226 TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
3227 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
3230 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
3232 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
3233 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3235 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
3236 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
3238 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
3240 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
3241 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
3244 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
3245 /dev/poll methods were used.
3247 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
3250 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
3252 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
3253 request root existence is always tested.
3255 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
3259 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
3261 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the bugs
3262 had appeared in 0.7.4.
3264 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
3265 had appeared in 0.7.3.
3266 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
3268 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
3269 might were transferred incorrectly.
3272 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
3274 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
3276 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
3278 *) Feature: the -g switch.
3280 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
3282 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
3285 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
3287 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
3288 "application/rss+xml".
3290 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
3291 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
3293 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically if
3294 the "https://" protocol is used.
3296 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
3297 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
3300 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
3302 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
3304 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
3306 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
3307 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
3309 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
3310 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
3311 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3313 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
3316 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
3317 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
3320 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
3322 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
3324 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to the
3325 "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
3327 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
3329 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
3330 now this is default parameter.
3331 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3333 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
3336 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
3340 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
3342 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as \xXX
3344 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3346 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
3348 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
3350 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
3351 request processing stage.
3353 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
3354 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3356 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
3357 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
3359 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
3360 if keepalive was enabled.
3363 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
3365 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
3366 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
3367 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
3369 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
3370 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
3373 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
3375 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
3376 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
3378 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
3379 for example, "1h50m".
3381 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
3382 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
3384 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
3387 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
3388 arguments in redirected URI.
3390 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
3392 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
3396 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
3398 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
3400 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
3401 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
3404 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
3406 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
3410 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
3412 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
3415 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
3416 named location via an "error_page" directive.
3418 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
3421 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
3423 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
3424 was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static
3427 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
3428 client certificate in first handshake.
3429 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
3431 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
3432 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
3435 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
3437 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
3439 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a request
3440 was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to static
3443 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
3444 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
3446 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
3447 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
3448 name and without variables.
3449 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
3451 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
3452 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
3454 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
3455 stub block was used second time in SSI.
3457 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
3460 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
3462 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
3463 check a response length.
3465 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big value
3466 was used in a "expires" directive.
3467 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
3469 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
3470 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
3472 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
3473 was used instead of the GET method.
3475 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
3476 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
3478 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
3479 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3481 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
3482 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3485 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
3487 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
3488 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
3490 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
3491 "server_name" directive.
3493 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
3496 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
3497 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
3499 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
3501 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
3503 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
3504 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3506 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
3507 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
3509 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
3513 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
3515 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
3516 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
3519 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
3521 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive; now
3522 this is default parameter.
3524 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
3525 "open_file_cache_valid".
3527 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
3529 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
3531 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
3533 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
3536 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
3537 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
3539 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
3540 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
3541 auth directives were not tested;
3543 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
3544 inherited from previous level.
3546 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
3547 with 499 status code.
3549 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
3550 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
3552 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
3553 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
3555 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
3556 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
3559 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
3561 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
3562 perl's allocated memory.
3564 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl before
3565 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
3566 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
3568 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
3570 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
3573 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
3574 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
3575 request body was already received.
3577 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
3579 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
3581 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
3582 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
3584 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
3585 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
3586 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
3588 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
3589 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
3591 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
3594 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
3596 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
3597 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
3599 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
3600 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
3603 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
3604 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
3605 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3607 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
3608 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
3609 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
3612 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
3613 server, then nginx returned usual response.
3616 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
3618 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
3619 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
3623 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
3625 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
3628 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
3630 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
3631 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
3633 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
3636 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3638 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
3640 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
3641 "Last-Modified" response header line.
3643 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
3644 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
3647 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
3649 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
3650 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
3652 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
3653 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
3655 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
3658 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
3659 subrequests were used.
3661 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
3664 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
3665 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
3668 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
3670 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
3671 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
3673 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then it
3674 was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
3676 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
3679 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
3681 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
3682 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
3684 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
3686 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
3688 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
3690 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
3692 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
3693 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
3694 "source_charset" directives.
3696 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
3697 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
3698 Thanks to James Oakley.
3700 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
3701 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
3702 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3704 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
3705 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request; the
3706 bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3709 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
3711 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
3713 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
3715 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
3716 "limit_except" block.
3718 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had got
3719 weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
3722 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
3723 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
3724 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
3726 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
3728 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3730 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
3731 $upstream_response_time.
3732 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3734 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
3737 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive" values
3738 in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared in
3741 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
3743 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
3746 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
3748 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
3750 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
3753 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
3755 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
3757 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
3758 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
3760 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
3761 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
3763 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
3766 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
3767 located in non-standard place was used.
3769 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
3770 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
3772 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
3775 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
3777 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
3780 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
3781 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
3783 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
3786 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
3787 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
3791 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
3793 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
3794 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
3796 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3798 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
3799 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
3801 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
3802 /dev/poll method was used.
3805 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
3807 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
3808 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
3810 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
3811 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
3813 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
3816 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
3820 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
3822 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
3823 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
3824 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
3826 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
3827 authentication server.
3829 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
3831 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
3832 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
3833 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
3835 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
3838 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
3840 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
3841 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
3842 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
3843 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but not
3844 to nginx prefix directory.
3846 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
3848 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
3849 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
3851 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
3852 regular expressions.
3854 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
3855 the "backup" parameter.
3857 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
3858 $r->discard_request_body.
3860 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
3861 "Last-Modified" response header line.
3863 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
3864 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
3865 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
3867 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
3868 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
3870 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
3871 platforms except FreeBSD.
3872 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
3874 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
3875 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
3878 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
3879 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
3882 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
3884 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
3886 *) Feature: named locations.
3888 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
3890 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
3892 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
3894 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
3895 might not close connection to backend.
3897 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
3898 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
3900 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
3901 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
3904 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
3906 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
3907 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
3909 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
3910 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3912 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
3913 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3915 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
3917 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on Solaris/amd64.
3918 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
3920 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
3921 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
3924 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
3926 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
3927 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
3929 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
3932 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
3935 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
3937 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
3939 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
3940 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
3943 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
3945 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
3947 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3948 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
3949 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
3951 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
3952 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
3954 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
3955 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
3957 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
3958 eventport method was used.
3960 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
3961 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
3965 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
3967 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx passed
3968 garbage in the header to a client.
3971 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
3973 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
3975 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
3976 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
3978 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
3981 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
3982 to the master process identification number.
3985 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
3987 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
3988 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
3991 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
3993 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
3994 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
3998 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
4000 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
4001 was made using HTTP/0.9.
4003 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
4004 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
4007 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
4009 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
4012 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
4013 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
4015 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
4016 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
4018 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
4019 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
4020 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
4022 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
4025 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
4027 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
4028 had appeared in 0.5.21.
4031 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
4033 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
4034 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
4036 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
4037 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
4038 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
4040 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
4042 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
4044 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
4047 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
4049 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
4051 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
4052 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
4054 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the SSI
4055 command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
4057 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was transferred
4059 Thanks to Evan Miller.
4061 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
4063 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
4065 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris make.
4066 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
4069 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
4071 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
4073 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
4076 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
4078 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
4079 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
4080 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
4082 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
4083 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
4085 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
4086 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
4089 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
4091 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
4093 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
4095 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
4096 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
4098 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
4099 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
4100 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
4101 had appeared in 0.5.9.
4103 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
4104 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
4108 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
4110 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
4112 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
4115 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
4116 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
4118 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
4120 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
4121 returned old cached value.
4124 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
4126 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the "ip_hash"
4128 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
4130 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
4131 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
4132 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
4134 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
4135 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
4138 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
4139 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
4142 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
4144 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
4145 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
4146 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
4148 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
4149 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
4151 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
4152 and "pop3_auth" directives.
4154 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
4155 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
4158 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
4159 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
4161 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
4162 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
4164 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
4165 "ip_hash" directive was used.
4167 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
4171 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
4173 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
4177 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
4179 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
4181 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
4182 via keep-alive connection.
4184 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
4185 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
4187 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
4188 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
4190 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
4191 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send
4194 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
4195 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
4198 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
4200 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
4201 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
4203 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
4204 temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug
4205 had appeared in 0.5.8.
4207 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
4208 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
4210 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
4213 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
4215 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
4216 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
4218 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
4219 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
4221 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
4222 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
4223 Thanks to Evan Miller.
4225 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
4226 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
4228 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
4229 was built with -O2 optimization.
4232 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
4234 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
4235 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
4237 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
4238 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
4241 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
4243 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
4244 variable value as a key.
4246 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
4248 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
4251 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
4253 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
4255 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a message
4256 to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
4258 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
4262 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
4264 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
4265 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
4267 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
4268 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
4269 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
4270 switched to a next upstream.
4272 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
4273 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
4274 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
4276 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
4277 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a send
4280 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
4283 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
4286 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
4288 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
4290 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
4292 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
4293 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone" directives
4294 were used on 64-bit platforms.
4296 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
4297 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no "Content-Type"
4298 header line in response.
4300 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
4302 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
4304 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
4307 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
4309 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
4310 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
4312 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
4314 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
4316 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
4317 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
4319 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
4321 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
4322 $r->sendfile() was used.
4325 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
4327 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
4329 *) Feature: the -V switch.
4331 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
4334 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an unprivileged
4337 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
4338 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
4340 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
4343 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
4345 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
4348 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
4349 line for the DELETE method.
4351 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access" directive,
4352 then nginx might report about configuration error.
4354 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
4355 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
4358 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
4360 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
4361 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
4363 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not exist
4364 in nginx configuration.
4366 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
4369 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
4371 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the "upstream"
4372 block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had appeared in
4376 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
4378 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
4379 unsuccessful completion of a request.
4381 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
4382 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
4384 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
4385 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared in
4388 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
4389 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
4390 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
4392 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
4393 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
4394 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
4396 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
4397 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
4398 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
4400 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
4401 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
4404 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
4406 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
4407 directive are not supported anymore.
4409 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
4410 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
4411 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
4412 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
4415 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
4416 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
4418 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
4420 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
4421 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
4423 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
4427 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
4429 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
4431 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD, Linux,
4434 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
4435 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
4437 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
4440 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
4442 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
4443 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
4445 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
4446 system time was changed backward.
4448 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
4449 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
4451 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
4452 proxy authentication server failed.
4455 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
4457 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
4458 "limit_except" block.
4460 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
4462 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
4463 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
4466 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
4467 the deferred accept() were used.
4469 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
4470 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
4472 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
4475 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
4476 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
4478 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug had
4482 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
4484 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
4486 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
4487 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
4489 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
4492 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
4494 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
4496 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
4499 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the USER/PASS
4500 commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
4503 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
4505 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
4507 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
4508 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
4511 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr variable
4512 was used in the "map" directive.
4514 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
4515 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
4517 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
4521 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
4523 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
4525 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
4529 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
4531 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI
4532 command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not
4535 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
4537 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
4540 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
4542 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
4544 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
4546 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
4549 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include" SSI
4550 command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might not
4553 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
4554 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
4557 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
4561 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
4563 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
4566 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
4567 if its length was set by text string in the
4568 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
4570 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
4571 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
4572 had appeared in 0.4.4.
4575 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
4577 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
4581 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
4583 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
4585 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
4587 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
4588 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
4590 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
4591 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
4593 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
4596 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
4597 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
4600 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
4602 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
4603 "error_page" directive.
4605 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
4607 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
4609 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
4610 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
4612 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
4613 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
4615 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
4617 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
4620 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
4622 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug had
4626 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
4628 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
4629 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
4631 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more than
4634 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static requests.
4635 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
4638 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
4640 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
4641 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
4643 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
4644 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
4645 $r->has_request_body method.
4647 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
4649 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
4650 line for the PUT method.
4652 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
4654 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
4655 directive with variables and the first index name was without
4656 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
4659 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
4661 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
4663 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
4665 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
4667 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
4668 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
4671 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
4673 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
4674 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
4677 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
4679 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
4680 "error_page" directive.
4682 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
4684 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the "Content-Type"
4685 header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had
4689 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
4691 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
4693 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
4695 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
4696 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
4698 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
4700 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
4701 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
4703 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
4706 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
4708 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
4710 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
4711 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
4713 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send to
4714 a client the required certificates information.
4716 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
4717 the "root" directive.
4720 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
4722 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
4724 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
4725 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
4727 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
4728 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
4732 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
4734 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
4736 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
4738 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
4740 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root was
4741 relative to a server prefix.
4743 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
4744 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
4746 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
4747 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
4749 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
4750 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
4753 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
4754 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had appeared
4758 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
4760 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
4762 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
4763 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
4765 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
4768 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
4769 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
4771 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
4772 first request to a backend only.
4774 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
4778 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
4780 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
4783 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
4784 the "weight" parameter.
4786 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
4788 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
4790 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
4791 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
4794 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and return
4797 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
4798 continued proxying anyway.
4801 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
4803 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
4804 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
4805 return the 405 error.
4807 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
4808 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
4810 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
4811 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
4813 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
4814 temporary file was not removed.
4817 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
4819 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the SSI;
4820 the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
4823 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
4825 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
4826 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
4827 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
4829 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
4830 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
4832 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
4833 proxy and FastCGI mode.
4835 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
4836 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
4838 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
4839 SSI after inclusion.
4841 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
4842 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
4845 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
4847 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
4849 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
4850 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
4854 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
4856 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if the
4857 response has no "Content-Type" header line.
4859 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
4860 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in start
4861 of the rewritten redirect.
4863 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
4864 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
4865 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared in
4868 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
4869 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
4872 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
4874 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
4876 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
4877 SSI command is always removed.
4880 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
4882 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
4883 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
4885 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
4886 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
4888 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported in
4891 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
4892 ngx_http_perl_module.
4895 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
4897 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
4898 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
4900 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
4903 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
4906 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
4909 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
4910 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
4911 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
4915 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
4917 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
4919 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
4920 koi-win conversion table.
4922 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
4925 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
4927 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
4930 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
4932 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
4935 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
4938 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
4939 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
4940 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
4941 were not written to access log.
4943 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
4944 "Cache-Control" response header line.
4947 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
4949 *) Feature: the -v switch.
4951 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
4954 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
4956 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
4957 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
4958 segmentation fault was occurred.
4961 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
4963 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
4965 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
4967 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
4970 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
4972 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
4973 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
4976 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
4978 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
4979 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
4982 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
4983 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections" directive;
4984 the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
4986 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
4990 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
4992 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
4994 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
4995 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
4997 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
5000 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
5002 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
5004 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
5006 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
5007 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
5010 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
5011 login and password to pass authorization server.
5012 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
5015 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
5017 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
5019 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and "!-f"
5022 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
5025 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
5028 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
5030 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
5032 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
5033 inside the "if" block.
5035 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
5036 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
5038 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
5040 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method and
5043 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
5045 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
5046 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
5048 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
5049 ngx_http_ssi_module.
5051 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
5052 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
5053 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
5054 a current path but not to a server prefix.
5057 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
5059 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
5060 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
5062 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
5066 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
5068 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
5071 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
5073 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
5074 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
5076 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
5077 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
5079 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
5082 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
5084 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
5085 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
5088 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
5090 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
5092 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
5095 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
5097 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout bug.
5098 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
5100 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
5101 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
5102 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared in
5105 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
5106 and the request body was in temporary file then the request was not
5109 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
5112 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
5114 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
5117 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
5118 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
5120 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
5121 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
5124 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
5126 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
5127 many warnings before the response.
5129 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
5130 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
5132 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
5133 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
5135 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
5136 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
5140 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
5142 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
5144 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
5146 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
5147 terminated prematurely.
5148 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
5150 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
5151 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
5154 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
5155 completion of a request.
5157 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
5158 directive was transferred to a client.
5161 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
5163 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
5164 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
5166 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
5167 "log_format" directive.
5169 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
5171 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
5174 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using fcntl(2)
5175 on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
5177 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
5178 autoconfiguration directive.
5180 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
5181 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
5184 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
5186 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
5187 "optimize_server_names".
5189 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
5190 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
5194 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
5196 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
5197 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
5201 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
5203 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
5205 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
5206 not transferred to a client.
5208 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
5210 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
5213 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
5214 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
5215 had appeared in 0.3.18.
5218 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
5220 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
5222 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
5225 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
5229 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
5231 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
5232 $r->unescape methods.
5234 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
5237 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
5238 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
5242 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
5244 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
5246 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
5250 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
5252 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
5254 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in the
5258 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
5260 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
5262 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
5264 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
5267 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
5269 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
5272 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
5273 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
5275 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
5276 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
5278 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
5279 directives were canceled.
5281 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
5283 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names only
5284 without the URI part.
5286 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
5287 ngx_http_map_module.
5289 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did not
5290 exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
5292 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start;
5293 the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
5296 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
5298 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
5299 sendfile64() in kernel.
5301 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
5304 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
5307 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
5309 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
5310 directive the port 80 was used by default.
5313 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
5315 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
5317 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
5320 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
5322 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
5324 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
5325 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
5328 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
5330 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
5331 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
5332 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
5334 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
5335 had appeared in 0.3.13.
5338 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
5340 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
5343 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5345 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort() only
5346 on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
5349 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
5351 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
5355 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
5357 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
5359 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
5362 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
5364 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
5365 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
5367 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the authorization;
5368 the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
5371 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
5373 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
5374 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
5375 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built and
5376 is not built by default.
5378 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
5380 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
5381 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
5382 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
5384 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
5386 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
5388 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
5389 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
5391 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
5392 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
5394 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
5395 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
5396 without the "Basic realm" text.
5398 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
5399 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
5400 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
5402 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
5405 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
5406 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
5409 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
5411 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
5412 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
5415 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
5417 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
5418 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
5419 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
5421 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
5424 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
5426 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
5428 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
5430 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
5432 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
5434 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
5436 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
5438 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
5439 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
5442 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
5444 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
5445 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
5448 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
5450 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was between
5451 two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
5454 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
5456 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
5457 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
5460 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
5461 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
5463 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
5464 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
5466 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
5467 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
5469 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
5471 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
5473 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
5474 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
5475 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
5476 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
5477 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
5478 will be canceled soon.
5480 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
5481 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
5483 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
5484 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
5486 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
5489 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive and
5490 the request was proxied in location given by regular expression, then
5491 the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
5494 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous "Expires"
5497 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
5498 several worker processes were used.
5500 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
5503 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
5504 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
5505 did not transferred at all.
5508 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
5510 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
5512 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
5513 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
5516 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
5518 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
5519 authorization server.
5521 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
5523 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive, then
5524 nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
5526 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the 80
5527 port was always used.
5530 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
5532 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
5533 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
5535 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
5536 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
5538 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
5539 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
5542 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
5544 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
5545 had appeared in 0.3.3.
5548 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
5550 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
5551 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
5553 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
5556 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the additional
5557 the gettimeofday() system call.
5559 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
5561 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
5562 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
5565 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
5566 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
5568 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
5570 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
5572 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed just
5573 after the response header was transferred to a client.
5575 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
5577 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
5579 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in the
5580 ngx_imap_ssl_module.
5582 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
5586 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
5588 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
5590 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
5591 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
5592 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
5595 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
5597 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
5598 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
5601 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
5605 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
5607 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was eliminated.
5608 The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers overflow.
5611 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
5613 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed backend
5614 retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
5616 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
5617 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
5619 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
5620 more flexible to change an error code.
5622 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
5623 in proxied subrequests.
5625 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
5626 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
5629 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
5630 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
5631 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
5632 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
5635 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
5637 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
5638 causes the warning and changes old value.
5640 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
5642 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in the
5645 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
5646 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
5649 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
5651 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
5652 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
5654 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
5657 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method was
5658 used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
5661 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
5663 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option; the
5664 bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
5667 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
5669 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
5671 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
5674 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
5675 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
5677 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the long
5680 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
5683 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
5685 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
5687 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
5690 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
5692 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
5693 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
5697 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
5699 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
5700 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
5701 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
5702 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
5703 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
5704 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
5707 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
5708 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
5709 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
5711 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
5713 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
5715 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
5716 not run for subrequests.
5718 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
5721 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
5722 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
5724 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
5725 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
5727 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5729 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
5731 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
5732 from the 304 responses.
5733 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
5736 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
5738 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
5739 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
5741 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
5744 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5747 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
5749 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
5751 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
5753 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
5755 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
5756 of authorization use.
5759 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
5761 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
5762 changed using the -HUP signal.
5764 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
5766 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
5769 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may got
5770 caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent the
5771 "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was used; in
5772 the proxied mode the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5775 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
5777 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
5778 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
5779 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
5781 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
5782 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
5785 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
5787 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
5788 can not be used in SSI.
5791 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
5793 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
5794 information did not logged in the error log.
5796 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
5797 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
5799 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
5800 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
5802 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
5805 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
5806 became shorter in the "ps" command.
5809 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
5811 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
5812 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
5813 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
5815 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
5816 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
5818 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
5819 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
5820 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
5822 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
5824 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
5825 the "include virtual" command.
5827 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
5828 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
5829 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5831 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
5832 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
5833 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5835 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
5838 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the long
5839 file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
5841 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
5845 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
5847 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in proxy and FastCGI
5850 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
5851 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
5853 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
5855 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
5857 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
5858 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
5860 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used in
5863 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
5864 than one remote subrequest.
5866 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
5867 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
5870 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
5872 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
5874 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
5877 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
5880 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
5882 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
5884 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
5885 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
5887 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
5888 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
5889 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
5890 request all backends again.
5893 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
5895 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host", "Connection",
5896 "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx now returns
5899 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
5901 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
5902 parameters of the "listen" directive.
5904 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
5906 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
5908 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
5911 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
5912 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
5915 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
5917 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
5919 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
5921 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
5922 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5924 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
5925 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
5926 occurred on the start.
5928 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was bigger
5929 than the temporary file.
5931 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
5932 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
5936 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
5938 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
5939 big response part were include by SSI.
5941 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
5944 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
5946 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
5947 the client request header line passing.
5950 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
5952 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
5953 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5955 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one level
5956 cause the bus fault on start up.
5958 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
5960 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
5961 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
5964 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
5966 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
5967 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
5969 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
5972 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
5973 of regular expressions.
5975 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
5976 proxy and FastCGI mode.
5979 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
5981 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
5983 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
5985 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
5987 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
5988 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
5991 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
5993 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
5996 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
5998 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
5999 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
6000 500 response code; in proxy mode the bug had appeared in 0.1.29 only.
6002 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
6005 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
6007 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
6010 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
6012 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
6014 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
6015 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
6018 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and DATE_GMT
6019 variables and "config timefmt" command.
6021 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
6023 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
6024 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
6026 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
6028 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
6029 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
6031 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
6032 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
6034 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
6035 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
6036 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
6037 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
6039 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
6040 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
6042 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
6044 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
6047 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
6048 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
6051 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
6053 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
6054 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
6057 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
6059 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
6061 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
6063 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
6065 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
6067 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
6068 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
6069 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
6071 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
6072 headers or a backend response header.
6074 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
6075 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
6076 returned the 408 response.
6078 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
6079 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
6081 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
6082 tolerance configuration.
6084 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous "Expires"
6085 and "Cache-Control" headers.
6087 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host" header
6090 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
6092 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
6095 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
6098 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
6100 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
6102 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
6105 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
6107 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
6109 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
6110 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
6113 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
6115 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
6116 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
6119 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
6120 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
6124 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
6126 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged at
6129 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
6131 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic and
6132 auth_basic_user_file directives.
6135 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
6137 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
6139 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
6140 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
6142 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
6143 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
6144 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
6145 after request completion.
6147 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
6150 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
6151 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
6153 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
6154 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
6156 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
6157 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
6158 will be removed soon.
6160 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
6162 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
6164 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
6166 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
6169 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
6171 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING and
6172 DOCUMENT_URI variables.
6174 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
6175 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
6178 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
6181 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted as
6185 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
6187 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
6188 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
6189 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
6192 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
6194 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
6195 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
6196 server name of the "server_name" directive.
6198 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
6199 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
6201 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
6202 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
6204 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
6205 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
6208 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
6210 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
6211 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
6213 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
6214 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
6217 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
6219 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
6220 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
6222 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
6223 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
6225 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
6228 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
6230 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
6231 the fastcgi_params directive.
6233 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
6236 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
6238 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
6239 returned for the local requests.
6241 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
6243 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the client request
6244 body via SSL connections.
6247 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
6249 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
6250 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
6253 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
6256 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
6257 with URI by an "&" rather than a "?".
6259 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
6260 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
6262 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
6264 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused the
6267 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
6270 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
6272 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
6273 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current configuration
6277 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
6279 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
6280 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
6281 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
6282 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
6284 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
6286 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
6288 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
6291 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
6292 small caps letters in extension.
6294 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
6295 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
6296 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
6298 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
6299 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
6302 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
6305 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
6307 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
6308 request the final chunk was issued.
6310 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
6311 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
6313 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
6314 segmentation faults.
6316 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
6319 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPUSH, and TCP_CORK
6320 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
6322 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
6324 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
6325 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
6328 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
6330 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
6333 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
6334 different number of the captures and substitutions.
6336 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
6339 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
6340 arguments and in the original state.
6342 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
6343 to use the regular expressions in locations.
6345 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
6346 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
6349 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
6350 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, or
6351 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
6352 caused segmentation fault.
6355 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
6357 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
6358 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
6359 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
6361 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
6362 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
6363 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
6365 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
6366 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
6367 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
6368 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
6369 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
6370 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
6371 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
6373 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
6376 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
6377 proxy_pass directive.
6379 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
6382 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
6383 ngx_http_proxy_module.
6385 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
6386 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
6389 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
6391 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
6394 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did not
6397 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
6401 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
6403 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
6405 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
6406 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
6407 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
6408 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
6410 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
6411 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
6414 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
6416 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
6418 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
6419 transferred response.
6421 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
6422 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
6424 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
6427 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
6428 broken symlink was in a directory.
6430 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
6433 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there was
6434 an error while the response waiting then process may got caught in an
6437 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
6438 when the /dev/poll method was used.
6440 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
6442 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
6444 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
6446 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
6447 section in configuration.
6449 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
6451 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
6455 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
6457 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./", "/../"
6458 or "%XX" then the last character in the request line was lost; the
6459 bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
6461 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
6465 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
6467 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the request
6468 contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
6470 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
6473 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
6474 does not support sendfile64().
6476 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the --with-poll_module
6477 parameter was required; the bug had appeared in 0.1.8.
6480 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
6482 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
6485 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
6487 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
6490 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
6492 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
6493 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
6496 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
6498 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
6499 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
6502 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
6504 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
6505 returned not enough data" alerts.
6507 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
6508 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
6509 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
6512 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
6515 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
6517 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
6519 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
6520 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
6522 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
6524 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
6527 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
6529 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
6532 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
6534 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
6536 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
6538 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
6542 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
6544 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
6545 options in configure.
6547 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
6549 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
6551 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
6552 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
6554 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
6557 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
6558 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
6560 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
6562 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
6566 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
6568 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
6570 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
6572 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
6573 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
6575 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
6577 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
6579 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
6582 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
6584 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
6585 used while the proxying.
6587 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
6589 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
6590 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
6593 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
6595 *) The first public version.