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Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
*) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
*) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
"add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
"Content-Type" header line in response.
*) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
support.
Thanks to Den Ivanov.
*) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
*) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
*) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
*) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
*) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
*) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
$r->sendfile() was used.
Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
*) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
*) Feature: the -V switch.
*) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
and G.
*) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
unprivileged user.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
$r->request_body_file methods were used.
*) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
*) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
block.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
line for the DELETE method.
*) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
used; bug appeared in 0.4.14.
Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
$r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
*) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
exist in nginx configuration.
*) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did work.
Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
"upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; bug appeared
in 0.5.1.
Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
*) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
unsuccessful completion of a request.
*) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; bug appeared in 0.4.11.
Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
*) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
the message "no port in upstream" was issued; bug appeared in 0.5.0.
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
first described port; bug appeared in 0.5.0.
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
socket; bug appeared in 0.5.0.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
*) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
"0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
*) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
directive are not supported anymore.
*) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
"proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
"fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
"memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
anymore.
*) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
*) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
*) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; bug appeared
in 0.4.14.
Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
*) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
Linux, and NetBSD.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
threads support; bug appeared in 0.3.38.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
recursively.
*) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in an request line.
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
*) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
system time was changed backward.
*) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
proxy authentication server failed.
Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
"limit_except" block.
*) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
*) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
"add_after_body" directive, then an response did not transferred
complete.
*) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
the deferred accept() were used.
*) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
responses; bug appeared in 0.3.50.
*) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
used;
*) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
*) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; bug
appeared in 0.3.50.
Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
*) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
then the response may be transferred incomplete.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
method.
*) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
USER/PASS commands might not work; bug appeared in 0.4.10.
Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
*) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
hogged CPU.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
variable was used in the "map" directive.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
full responses; bug appeared in 0.4.7.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; bug appeared in
0.4.9.
Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
version.
Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
*) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
SSI command with an "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter
might not work.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
responses.
Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
*) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
*) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
variables.
*) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
SSI command with an "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter
might not work.
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
timeout.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
and ppc64.
Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
*) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
and ppc64.
*) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
if its length was set by text string in the
$r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
*) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; bug
appeared in 0.4.4.
Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; bug appeared
in 0.4.4.
Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the $scheme variable.
*) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
*) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
*) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
method.
*) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
*) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
"error_page" directive.
*) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
error to the proxied server using an "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
used in an "proxy_pass" directive; bug appeared in 0.3.47.
*) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
*) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
*) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; bug
appeared in 0.4.1.
Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
*) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
*) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
than 2G.
*) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
requests.
Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
*) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
*) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
$r->has_request_body method.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
line for the PUT method.
*) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
directive with variables and the first index name was without
variables; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
*) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
*) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
*) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
*) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
error redirection; bug appeared in 0.3.59.
Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
*) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
"error_page" directive.
*) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
*) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
"Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
bug appeared in 0.3.58.
Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
*) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
*) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
*) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
*) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
*) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
*) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
*) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
*) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
to a client the required certificates information.
*) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
the "root" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
*) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
*) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
"-x", and "!-x" operators.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an request returned an
redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
access log.
Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
*) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
*) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
*) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
*) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
was relative to a server prefix.
*) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
*) Bugfix: the $r->headers_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
returns all "Cookie" header lines.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
"client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx was switches to a
next upstream.
*) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; bug appeared in
0.3.50.
Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
*) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
*) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
"memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
*) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
form.
*) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
*) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
first request to a backend only.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; bug appeared in
0.3.53.
Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
*) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
302 responses.
*) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
the "weight" parameter.
*) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
*) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
*) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
in the log.
*) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
return the 409 code.
*) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
continued proxying anyway.
Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
*) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
return the 405 error.
*) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
limit rate was used; bug appeared in 0.3.37.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
if the recoding was not needed; bug appeared in 0.3.50.
*) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
temporary file was not removed.
Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
*) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
SSI; bug appeared in 0.3.50.
Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
*) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
"fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
*) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
proxy and FastCGI mode.
*) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
*) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
SSI after inclusion.
*) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
*) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
*) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
subrequest output was included instead of second and following
subrequests.
Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
*) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
"proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
start of the rewritten redirect.
*) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; bug appeared in 0.3.42.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
built with the threads support; bug appeared in 0.3.46.
Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
*) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
*) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
SSI command is always removed.
Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
*) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
"fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
*) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
"proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
*) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
in proxy mode.
*) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
ngx_http_perl_module.
Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
*) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
"ssl_client_certificate" directives.
*) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
method.
*) Change: the &deg; symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
table.
*) Feature: the euro É N symbols were added to koi-win conversion table.
*) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
the rest.
Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
*) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
*) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
koi-win conversion table.
*) Bugfix: in the SSI.
Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
*) Bugfix: in the SSI.
Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
*) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
proxy.
*) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
then once.
*) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
$sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
$sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
were not written to access log.
*) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
"Cache-Control" response header line.
Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
*) Feature: the -v switch.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
remote subrequests.
*) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
*) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
--with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
segmentation fault was occurred.
Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
*) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
*) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
*) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
"alert" to "warn".
*) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
*) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
not logged.
*) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
directive; bug appeared in 0.2.0.
*) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; bug
appeared in 0.3.38.
Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
*) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
method.
*) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
*) Workaround: no on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
once a second only.
Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
Thanks to ForJest.
*) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
login and password to pass authorization server.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
*) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
*) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
"!-f" operators.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
method.
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
inside the "if" block.
*) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
"fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
*) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
and $r->remote_addr.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
*) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
*) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
ngx_http_ssi_module.
*) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
"client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
"perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
a current path but not to a server prefix.
Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
*) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
for first "listen" directive only; bug appeared in 0.3.31.
*) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
subrequest.
Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
*) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
*) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
"fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
*) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
*) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
removed; bug appeared in 0.3.31.
Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
*) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
*) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
form.
*) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
*) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
bug.
Thanks Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
various addresses inside one server, then server names like
"*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; bug appeared in 0.3.18.
*) Bugfix: if the HTTP protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
not transferred.
*) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
*) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
"crit".
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
used; bug appeared in 0.3.27.
Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
*) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
many warnings before the response.
*) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
*) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
*) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
request.
Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
*) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
*) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
*) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
terminated prematurely.
Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
*) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
header line.
*) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
completion of a request.
*) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
directive was transferred to a client.
Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
*) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
"variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
*) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
"log_format" directive.
*) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
*) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
time.
*) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
*) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
autoconfiguration directive.
*) Bugfix: if the HTTP protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
then the requests with the body was not transferred.
Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
*) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
"optimize_server_names".
*) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
SSI subrequest.
Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; bug appeared in
0.3.24.
Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
*) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
*) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
not transferred to a client.
*) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
*) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
location.
*) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; bug
appeared in 0.3.18.
Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
*) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
*) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
directives.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
Solaris.
Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
$r->unescape methods.
*) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
canceled.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; bug appeared
in 0.3.18.
Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
*) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
URI part.
Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
*) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
the "/usr?args" form.
Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
*) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
*) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
*) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
*) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
names.
*) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
"*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
*) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
"server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
*) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
directives were canceled.
*) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
*) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
only without the URI part.
*) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
ngx_http_map_module.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
not exist; bug appeared in 0.3.12.
*) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
start; bug appeared in 0.3.16.
Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
*) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
sendfile64() in kernel.
*) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
".domain.tld" form.
*) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; bug appeared in
0.2.4.
*) Bugfix: in the HTTP protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Bugfix: when the HTTP protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
directive the port 80 was used by default.
Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
*) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
*) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
directives.
*) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
*) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
*) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
Pentium 4.
*) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
SSL connections; bug appeared in 0.3.13.
Thanks to Rob Mueller.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; bug
appeared in 0.3.13.
Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
*) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
connection.
*) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
*) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
*) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; bug appeared
in 0.3.13.
Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
*) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
*) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
/dev/poll methods.
*) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
*) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
*) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
authorization; bug appeared in 0.3.11.
Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
*) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
"satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
and is not built by default.
*) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
*) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
"fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
"proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
*) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
*) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
was used; bug appeared in 0.3.0.
*) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
*) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
without the "Basic realm" text.
*) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
"access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
bug appeared in 0.3.8.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
Solaris.
*) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
*) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
proxying; bug appeared in 0.3.10.
Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
*) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
ngx_http_rewrite_module.
*) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
"$body_bytes_sent".
*) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
*) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
*) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
*) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
*) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
*) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
characters.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
*) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
*) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
between two slashes; bug appeared in 0.3.8.
Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
*) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
"X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
and zeroes.
*) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
"Authorization" header line as valid one.
*) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
*) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
*) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
*) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
$bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
$request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
$upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
$connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
will be canceled soon.
*) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
empty string "" and string starting with "0".
*) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
*) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
graceful exit.
*) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; bug appeared
in 0.2.6.
*) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
"Expires" header.
*) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
several worker processes were used.
*) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
SSI commands.
*) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
did not transferred at all.
Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
*) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
amd64, sparc É ppc; bug appeared in 0.3.2.
Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
*) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
authorization server.
*) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
*) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; bug appeared in 0.3.3.
*) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
the 80 port was always used.
Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
was changed by authorization server; bug appeared in 0.2.2.
*) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
handled by one process; bug appeared in 0.3.3.
*) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
"timer_resolution" directive were used.
Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; bug
appeared in 0.3.3.
Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
*) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
*) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
directive.
*) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
additional the gettimeofday() system call.
*) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
*) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
the CLOSED state.
*) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
index file with variable in the name; bug appeared in 0.3.0.
*) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
*) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
*) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
just after the response header was transferred to a client.
*) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
*) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
*) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
*) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
protocol only.
Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
*) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
*) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
"proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
"fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; bug appeared in 0.2.0.
*) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
SSI.
Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
*) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
overflow.
Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
*) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
*) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
more flexible to change an error code.
*) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
in proxied subrequests.
*) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
again.
*) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
error was occurred; bug appeared in 0.2.2.
Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
*) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
causes the warning and changes old value.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
the "include" command.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
"$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
*) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; bug appeared in
0.1.44.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
was used; bug appeared in 0.2.0.
Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
bug appeared in 0.2.2.
Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
*) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
*) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
"set" directive.
*) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
long file names;
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
starting by dot.
*) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
closed too.
Thanks to Rob Mueller.
*) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
*) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; bug appeared in
0.2.0.
Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
*) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
suffix.
*) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
"connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
*) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
*) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
*) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
not run for subrequests.
*) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
directives.
*) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
*) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
Thanks to Rob Mueller.
*) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
*) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
*) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
from the 304 responses.
Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
*) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
*) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
SSL connection.
*) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
*) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
*) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
*) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
*) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
of authorization use.
Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
*) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
changed using the -HUP signal.
*) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
*) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
to a server.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
used; in the proxied mode the bug appeared in 0.1.29.
Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
*) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
*) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
block; bug appeared in 0.1.38.
Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
*) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
can not be used in SSI.
Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
*) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
information did not logged in the error log.
*) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
"X-Accel-Redirect" was used; bug appeared in 0.1.39.
*) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
*) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
SIGQUIT signal.
*) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
became shorter in the "ps" command.
Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
*) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
*) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; bug
appeared in 0.1.38.
*) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
the "include virtual" command.
*) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
was transferred; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
location level; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
chain.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
long file names; bug appeared in 0.1.38.
*) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
login state.
Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
*) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
FastCGI mode.
*) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
in proxy and FastCGI mode.
*) Feature: the "break" directive.
*) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
*) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
*) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
in SSI.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
than one remote subrequest.
*) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
line in the header was transferred in two packets; bug appeared in
0.1.29.
*) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
*) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
names in UTF-8.
*) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
*) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
*) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
*) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
"http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
"fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
request all backends again.
Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
*) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
"Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
now returns the 400 error.
*) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
*) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
parameters of the "listen" directive.
*) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
*) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
in UTF-8.
*) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
*) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
*) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
header was in several packets; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
occurred on the start.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
bigger than the temporary file.
*) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
"GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; bug appeared in 0.1.28.
Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
*) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
big response part were include by SSI.
*) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
in SSI.
*) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
*) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
the client request header line passing.
Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
bug appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
level cause the bus fault on start up.
*) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
*) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
*) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
"rewrite" directive; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
expressions.
*) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
of regular expressions.
*) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
proxy and FastCGI mode.
Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
*) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
*) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
*) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
*) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
response body; bug appeared in 0.1.30.
Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
*) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
SSI was used.
*) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
*) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
500 response code; in proxy mode the bug appeared in 0.1.29 only.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
as invalid.
*) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
*) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
level is supported.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
*) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
*) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
empty QUERY_STRING variable.
*) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
*) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
"proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
*) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
*) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
*) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
*) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
replaced with
the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
directive.
*) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
directive.
*) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
*) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
directives.
*) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
*) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
*) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
*) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
*) Feature: the "internal" directive.
*) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
*) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
headers or a backend response header.
*) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
returned the 408 response.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
invalid line in response header; bug appeared in 0.1.26.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
tolerance configuration.
*) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
"Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
header line.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
*) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
were in a request.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
*) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
*) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
*) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
"info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
lines also logged.
*) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
*) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
canceled.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
--without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
used.
Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
*) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
at the info level.
*) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
and auth_basic_user_file directives.
Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
*) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
*) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
*) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
after request completion.
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
expression.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
*) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
text values were used in the "geo" directive.
*) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
will be removed soon.
*) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
*) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
*) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
*) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
"alias" directive.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
responses.
*) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
as valid referrer.
Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
supported.
*) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
*) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
"proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
server name of the "server_name" directive.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
amd64, sparc É ppc; bug appeared in 0.1.22.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
*) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
*) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
Solaris; bug appeared in 0.1.21.
Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
*) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
the fastcgi_params directive.
*) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
*) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
returned for the local requests.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
*) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
request body via SSL connections.
Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
*) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
with Solaris 10.
*) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
inherited.
*) Bugfix: in the redirect rewrite directive the arguments were
concatenated with URI by the "&" rather than the "?".
*) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
*) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
the segmentation fault.
*) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
directive.
*) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
*) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
configuration to the request.
Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
*) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
*) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
*) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
another location.
*) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
small caps letters in extension.
*) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
*) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
host name and a slash were added to them; bug appeared in 0.1.14.
*) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
*) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
request the final chunk was issued.
*) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
*) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
segmentation faults.
*) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
complete.
*) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
*) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
*) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
the "Content-Length: 0" header; bug appeared in 0.1.14.
Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
*) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
segmentation fault.
*) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
different number of the captures and substitutions.
*) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
regular expression.
*) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
arguments and in the original state.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
to use the regular expressions in locations.
*) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
"Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; bug appeared in
0.1.14.
*) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
--http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
*) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
--http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
*) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
*) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; bug appeared in 0.1.3.
*) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
proxy_pass directive.
*) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
string start.
*) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
ngx_http_proxy_module.
*) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
*) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
directives.
*) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
not work.
*) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
length.
Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
*) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
*) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
*) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
*) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
*) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
transferred response.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
bytes.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
broken symlink was in a directory.
*) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
sendfile.
*) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
in an endless loop.
*) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
when the /dev/poll method was used.
*) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
*) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
*) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
section in configuration.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
*) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
":/".
Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
*) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
"/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
lost; bug appeared in 0.1.9.
*) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
not work.
Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
*) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
*) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
completely.
*) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
does not support sendfile64().
*) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
--with-poll_module parameter was required; bug appeared in 0.1.8.
Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
in the listing.
*) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
*) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
*) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
the transferred file was changed; bug appeared in 0.1.5.
Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
*) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
*) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
returned not enough data" alerts.
*) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
endless loop.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
sendfile.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
*) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
*) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
*) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
*) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
*) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
*) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
is not used.
Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
*) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
options in configure.
*) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
*) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
*) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
reconfiguration was impossible; bug appeared in 0.1.1.
*) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
is not used.
*) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
charset module directives; bug appeared in 0.1.1.
*) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
*) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
already compressed.
Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
*) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
*) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
*) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
*) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
*) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
endless loop.
*) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
*) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
used while the proxying.
*) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
*) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
--with-poll_module parameter was required.
Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
*) The first public version.