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Changes with nginx 0.8.25 16 Nov 2009
*) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is
not found by $r->variable() method.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module.
*) Feature: regular expression named captures.
*) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if
variables are used.
*) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low
memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18.
*) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support
gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared
in 0.8.16.
Changes with nginx 0.8.24 11 Nov 2009
*) Bugfix: nginx always added "Content-Encoding: gzip" response header
line in 304 responses sent by ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
the bug had appeared in 0.8.23.
*) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
inherited incorrectly from previous level.
*) Bugfix: in resolving empty name.
Changes with nginx 0.8.23 11 Nov 2009
*) Security: now SSL/TLS renegotiation is disabled.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket did not inherit while online
upgrade.
*) Bugfix: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive
did not without yet another directive with any IP address.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault and infinite looping in resolver.
*) Bugfix: in resolver.
Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
Changes with nginx 0.8.22 03 Nov 2009
*) Feature: the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", and "memcached_bind"
directives.
*) Feature: the "access" and the "deny" directives support IPv6.
*) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive supports IPv6 addresses in
request headers.
*) Feature: the "unix:" parameter of the "set_real_ip_from" directive.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not delete unix domain socket after configuration
testing.
*) Bugfix: nginx deleted unix domain socket while online upgrade.
*) Bugfix: the "!-x" operator did not work.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
limit_rate was used in HTTPS server.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process while
$limit_rate logging.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if
there was no "listen" directive in "server" block; the bug had
appeared in 0.8.21.
Changes with nginx 0.8.21 26 Oct 2009
*) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support.
*) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix
domain sockets.
Thanks to Hongli Lai.
*) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive.
*) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen
socket options.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms;
*) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
Changes with nginx 0.8.20 14 Oct 2009
*) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "HIGH:!ADH:!MD5".
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
slash in links to a directory; the bug had appeared in 0.7.15.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not close a log file set by the --error-log-path
configuration option; the bug had appeared in 0.7.53.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not treat a comma as separator in the
"Cache-Control" backend response header line.
*) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not create temporary file, a cache file,
or "proxy/fastcgi_store"d file if a worker had no enough access
rights for top level directories.
*) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" FastCGI response header lines
were not hidden while caching if no "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
were used with any parameters.
*) Bugfix: nginx counted incorrectly disk cache size.
Changes with nginx 0.8.19 06 Oct 2009
*) Change: now SSLv2 protocol is disabled by default.
*) Change: now default SSL ciphers are "ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM".
*) Bugfix: a "limit_req" directive did not work; the bug had appeared
in 0.8.18.
Changes with nginx 0.8.18 06 Oct 2009
*) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive.
*) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directives may be used.
*) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level"
directives.
*) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket
algorithm.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc.
Thanks to Marcus Ramberg.
*) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line on
MKCOL request.
Thanks to Xie Zhenye.
*) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status code; the
bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
*) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
Changes with nginx 0.8.17 28 Sep 2009
*) Security: now "/../" are disabled in "Destination" request header
line.
*) Change: now $host variable value is always low case.
*) Feature: the $ssl_session_id variable.
*) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
Changes with nginx 0.8.16 22 Sep 2009
*) Feature: the "image_filter_transparency" directive.
*) Bugfix: "addition_types" directive was incorrectly named
"addtion_types".
*) Bugfix: resolver cache poisoning.
Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
*) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
Thanks to Matthew Dempsky.
*) Bugfix: invalid request line in $request variable was written in
access_log only if error_log was set to "info" or "debug" level.
*) Bugfix: in PNG alpha-channel support in the
ngx_http_image_filter_module.
*) Bugfix: nginx always added "Vary: Accept-Encoding" response header
line, if both "gzip_static" and "gzip_vary" were on.
*) Bugfix: in UTF-8 encoding support by "try_files" directive in
nginx/Windows.
*) Bugfix: in "post_action" directive usage; the bug had appeared in
0.8.11.
Thanks to Igor Artemiev.
Changes with nginx 0.8.15 14 Sep 2009
*) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process while
specially crafted request handling.
Thanks to Chris Ries.
*) Bugfix: if names .domain.tld, .sub.domain.tld, and .domain-some.tld
were defined, then the name .sub.domain.tld was matched by
.domain.tld.
*) Bugfix: in transparency support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
*) Bugfix: in file AIO.
*) Bugfix: in X-Accel-Redirect usage; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
*) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
Changes with nginx 0.8.14 07 Sep 2009
*) Bugfix: an expired cached response might stick in the "UPDATING"
state.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if
error_log was set to info or debug level.
Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
*) Bugfix: in embedded perl module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
*) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not redirect a 413 error; the
bug had appeared in 0.6.10.
Changes with nginx 0.8.13 31 Aug 2009
*) Bugfix: in the "aio sendfile" directive; the bug had appeared in
0.8.12.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-file-aio option
on FreeBSD; the bug had appeared in 0.8.12.
Changes with nginx 0.8.12 31 Aug 2009
*) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD.
*) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
*) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
Changes with nginx 0.8.11 28 Aug 2009
*) Change: now directive "gzip_disable msie6" does not disable gzipping
for MSIE 6.0 SV1.
*) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux.
*) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.8.10 24 Aug 2009
*) Bugfix: memory leaks if GeoIP City database was used.
*) Bugfix: in copying temporary files to permanent storage area; the
bug had appeared in 0.8.9.
Changes with nginx 0.8.9 17 Aug 2009
*) Feature: now the start cache loader runs in a separate process; this
should improve large caches handling.
*) Feature: now temporary files and permanent storage area may reside
at different file systems.
Changes with nginx 0.8.8 10 Aug 2009
*) Bugfix: in handling FastCGI headers split in records.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
request was handled in two proxied or FastCGIed locations and a
caching was enabled in the first location; the bug had appeared in
0.8.7.
Changes with nginx 0.8.7 27 Jul 2009
*) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7.
*) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was
changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client
certificate if it was offered.
Thanks to Brice Figureau.
*) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable.
Thanks to Brice Figureau.
*) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive.
Thanks to Brice Figureau.
*) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive.
*) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting
size.
*) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the
bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev.
*) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did
not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate",
"X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend
response header.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend
response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an
empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5.
Changes with nginx 0.8.6 20 Jul 2009
*) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module.
*) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML
document" for valid XML document.
Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
*) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by
a regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode.
*) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI.
Thanks to Hugo Leisink.
*) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during
installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
Changes with nginx 0.8.5 13 Jul 2009
*) Bugfix: now nginx allows underscores in a request method.
*) Bugfix: a 500 error code was returned for invalid login/password
while HTTP Basic authentication on Windows.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module responses did not work in subrequests.
*) Bugfix: in ngx_http_limit_req_module.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
Changes with nginx 0.8.4 22 Jun 2009
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
appeared in 0.8.3.
Changes with nginx 0.8.3 19 Jun 2009
*) Feature: the $upstream_cache_status variable.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.6.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
appeared in 0.8.2.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
backend 401 error was intercepted and the backend did not set the
"WWW-Authenticate" response header line.
Thanks to Eugene Mychlo.
Changes with nginx 0.8.2 15 Jun 2009
*) Bugfix: in open_file_cache and proxy/fastcgi cache interaction on
start up.
*) Bugfix: open_file_cache might cache open file descriptors too long;
the bug had appeared in 0.7.4.
Changes with nginx 0.8.1 08 Jun 2009
*) Feature: the "updating" parameter in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
"fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives.
*) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
header lines were passed to backend while caching if no
"proxy_set_header" directive was used with any parameters.
*) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" response header lines were not
hidden while caching if no "proxy_hide_header/fastcgi_hide_header"
directives were used with any parameters.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_image_filter_module did not support GIF87a
format.
Thanks to Denis Ilyinyh.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built modules on Solaris 10 and early;
the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
Changes with nginx 0.8.0 02 Jun 2009
*) Feature: the "keepalive_requests" directive.
*) Feature: the "limit_rate_after" directive.
Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
*) Bugfix: XLST filter did not work in subrequests.
*) Bugfix: in relative paths handling in nginx/Windows.
*) Bugfix: in proxy_store, fastcgi_store, proxy_cache, and
fastcgi_cache in nginx/Windows.
*) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Kirill A. Korinskiy.
Changes with nginx 0.7.59 25 May 2009
*) Feature: the "proxy_cache_methods" and "fastcgi_cache_methods"
directives.
*) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process,
if a request had no body and the $request_body variable was used;
the bug had appeared in 0.7.58.
*) Bugfix: the SSL modules might not built on Solaris and Linux;
the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_xslt_filter_module responses were not handled by
SSI, charset, and gzip filters.
*) Bugfix: a "charset" directive did not set a charset to
ngx_http_gzip_static_module responses.
Changes with nginx 0.7.58 18 May 2009
*) Feature: a "listen" directive of the mail proxy module supports IPv6.
*) Feature: the "image_filter_jpeg_quality" directive.
*) Feature: the "client_body_in_single_buffer" directive.
*) Feature: the $request_body variable.
*) Bugfix: in ngx_http_autoindex_module in file name links having a ":"
symbol in the name.
*) Bugfix: "make upgrade" procedure did not work; the bug had appeared
in 0.7.53.
Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
Changes with nginx 0.7.57 12 May 2009
*) Bugfix: a floating-point fault occurred in worker process, if the
ngx_http_image_filter_module errors were redirected to named
location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.56.
Changes with nginx 0.7.56 11 May 2009
*) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
HTTP module.
*) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.
Changes with nginx 0.7.55 06 May 2009
*) Bugfix: the http_XXX parameters in "proxy_cache_use_stale" and
"fastcgi_cache_use_stale" directives did not work.
*) Bugfix: fastcgi cache did not cache header only responses.
*) Bugfix: of "select() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" error in
nginx/Unix and "select() failed (10038: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
"debug_connection" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
0.7.54.
*) Bugfix: fix ngx_http_image_filter_module building errors.
*) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G could not be transferred using
$r->sendfile.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
Changes with nginx 0.7.54 01 May 2009
*) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.
*) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
directives.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
"open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.53.
*) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
had appeared in 0.7.39.
*) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.
*) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.
*) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.53.
Changes with nginx 0.7.53 27 Apr 2009
*) Change: now a log set by --error-log-path is created from the very
start-up.
*) Feature: now the start up errors and warnings are outputted to an
error_log and stderr.
*) Feature: the empty --prefix= configure parameter forces nginx to use
a directory where it was run as prefix.
*) Feature: the -p switch.
*) Feature: the -s switch on Unix platforms.
*) Feature: the -? and -h switches.
Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
*) Feature: now switches may be set in condensed form.
*) Bugfix: nginx/Windows did not work if configuration file was given
by the -c switch.
*) Bugfix: temporary files might be not removed if the "proxy_store",
"fastcgi_store", "proxy_cache", or "fastcgi_cache" were used.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: an incorrect value was passed to mail proxy authentication
server in "Auth-Method" header line; the bug had appeared
in 0.7.34.
Thanks to Simon Lecaille.
*) Bugfix: system error text descriptions were not logged on Linux;
the bug had appeared in 0.7.45.
*) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_min_uses" directive did not work.
Thanks to Andrew Vorobyoff.
Changes with nginx 0.7.52 20 Apr 2009
*) Feature: the first native Windows binary release.
*) Bugfix: in processing HEAD method while caching.
*) Bugfix: in processing the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc.
client request header lines while caching.
*) Bugfix: now the "Set-Cookie" and "P3P" header lines are hidden in
cacheable responses.
*) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_perl_module and with a
perl which supports threads, then during a master process exit the
message "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" might be issued.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http-cache; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.48.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
Changes with nginx 0.7.51 12 Apr 2009
*) Feature: the "try_files" directive supports a response code in the
fallback parameter.
*) Feature: now any response code can be used in the "return" directive.
*) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive made an external redirect without
query string; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
*) Bugfix: if servers listened on several defined explicitly addresses,
then virtual servers might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.39.
Changes with nginx 0.7.50 06 Apr 2009
*) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
0.7.49.
Changes with nginx 0.7.49 06 Apr 2009
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
$arg_... variables were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.48.
Changes with nginx 0.7.48 06 Apr 2009
*) Feature: the "proxy_cache_key" directive.
*) Bugfix: now nginx takes into account the "X-Accel-Expires",
"Expires", and "Cache-Control" header lines in a backend response.
*) Bugfix: now nginx caches responses for the GET requests only.
*) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_cache_key" directive was not inherited.
*) Bugfix: the $arg_... variables did not work with SSI subrequests.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with uclibc library.
Thanks to Timothy Redaelli.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.46.
Changes with nginx 0.7.47 01 Apr 2009
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD 6 and early versions;
the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.46.
*) Bugfix: if the "max_size" parameter was set, then the cache manager
might purge a whole cache; the bug had appeared in 0.7.46.
*) Change: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if the
"proxy_cache"/"fastcgi_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid"/
"fastcgi_cache_valid" were set on different levels; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.46.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
request was redirected to a proxied or FastCGI server via error_page
or try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
Changes with nginx 0.7.46 30 Mar 2009
*) Bugfix: the previous release tarball was incorrect.
Changes with nginx 0.7.45 30 Mar 2009
*) Change: now the "proxy_cache" and the "proxy_cache_valid" directives
can be set on different levels.
*) Change: the "clean_time" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
directive is canceled.
*) Feature: the "max_size" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path"
directive.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module preliminary cache support.
*) Feature: now on shared memory allocation errors directive and zone
names are logged.
*) Bugfix: the directive "add_header last-modified ''" did not delete a
"Last-Modified" response header line; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
*) Bugfix: a relative path in the "auth_basic_user_file" directive
given without variables did not work; the bug had appeared in
0.7.44.
Thanks to Jerome Loyet.
*) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive given using variables without
references to captures of regular expressions; the bug had appeared
in 0.7.42.
Changes with nginx 0.7.44 23 Mar 2009
*) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.
*) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.
*) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server
block level.
*) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
in a fallback parameter.
*) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.
*) Bugfix: if there is the single server for given address:port pair,
then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive
did not work.
Changes with nginx 0.7.43 18 Mar 2009
*) Bugfix: a request was handled incorrectly, if a "root" directive
used variables; the bug had appeared in 0.7.42.
*) Bugfix: if a server listened on wildcard address, then the
$server_addr variable value was "0.0.0.0"; the bug had appeared in
0.7.36.
Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
*) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
*) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file"
directive is absent, then the 403 error is returned instead of the
500 one.
*) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
*) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
Thanks to Zhang Hua.
*) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
*) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.41.
Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
"server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
*) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
expressions.
*) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
*) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
expressions.
*) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
0.7.15.
Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
*) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
*) Feature: authentication failures logging.
*) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
number of empty lines.
Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
*) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.36.
Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
*) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
HTTP module supports IPv6.
*) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
*) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
asymmetric ciphers.
Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
*) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
original request extension.
*) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
"server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if
".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
*) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
*) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
command.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
in mail proxy server.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
concatenated with new arguments by a "?" rather than an "&";
the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
*) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with
body.
Thanks to Eden Li.
*) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some
redirects types.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
"resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
*) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
the "try_files" directive.
*) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
*) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
*) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
debugging.
Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
*) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
directories.
*) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
*) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
*) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
*) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.18.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
*) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
*) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
*) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0
requests;
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
Cygwin.
Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
*) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
*) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
*) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
*) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
*) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
variable.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
name.
*) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
*) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
*) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
*) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
error_page directive.
Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
*) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
*) Change: in subrequest processing.
*) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
*) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
prohibition reason.
*) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
*) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
server send too many messages to stderr before response.
*) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
perl module.
Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
*) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
*) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
*) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
*) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
*) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
*) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
Thanks to Zyb.
Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
*) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
*) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
*) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.6.
Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
*) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
*) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
*) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
error.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
*) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
*) Bugfix: version number update.
Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
*) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
allows underscores in a client request header line names.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
*) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
*) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
*) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
*) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
"proxy_next_upstream" directive.
*) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
"fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
*) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" heaer line
for HEAD requests.
*) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
*) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
*) Feature: the $pid variable.
*) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
not work with open_file_cache.
*) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
charset name received from backend.
Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.15.
Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
*) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
*) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
requests starting from arbitrary position.
*) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
necessary.
*) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
line names.
Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
*) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
have not default values.
*) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
*) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
*) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
"rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
one.
*) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
query string, then the query string was not escaped.
*) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.12.
Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
*) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
*) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
*) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
"error_page" directive.
*) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
redirection via an "error_page" directive.
*) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
"Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
had appeared in 0.7.0.
Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
*) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
text/css MIME type.
*) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
requesting a static file only if the file exists.
*) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
*) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
*) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
*) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
*) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
"ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
*) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
*) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
*) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
*) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
*) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
directives use hash.
*) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
*) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
tests.
*) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
*) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.18.
Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
*) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
*) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
*) Feature: Solaris directio support.
Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
*) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
*) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
as temporary error.
*) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
variable.
*) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
*) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Feature: the "directio" directive.
Thanks to Jiang Hong.
*) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
*) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
locales only.
*) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
/dev/poll methods were used.
*) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
*) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
request root existence is always tested.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
query string.
Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
*) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
had appeared in 0.7.3.
Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
*) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
might were transferred incorrectly.
Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
*) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
*) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
*) Feature: the -g switch.
*) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
*) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
*) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
"application/rss+xml".
*) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
"Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
*) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
if the "https://" protocol is used.
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
*) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
*) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
*) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
*) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
appeared in 0.7.1.
*) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
*) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
*) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
*) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
*) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
now this is default parameter.
Thanks to Rob Mueller.
*) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
rotation signals.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
Thanks to Roxis.
Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
*) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
\xXX in an access_log.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
*) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
*) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
request processing stage.
*) Feature: the $hostname variable.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Feature: DESTDIR support.
Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
if keepalive was enabled.
Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
*) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
Thanks to Sergey Serov.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
*) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
file, then nginx does not issue an error.
*) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
for example, "1h50m".
*) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
*) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
output.
*) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
arguments in redirected URI.
*) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
0.6.15.
Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
*) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
*) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
0.6.27.
Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
*) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
Linux 2.6.18+.
*) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
named location via an "error_page" directive.
*) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
proxy.
*) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
static named locations.
*) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
client certificate in first handshake.
Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
*) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
memory.
*) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
*) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
static named locations.
*) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
*) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
name and without variables.
Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
*) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
stub block was used second time in SSI.
*) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
check a response length.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
value was used in a "expires" directive.
Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
*) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
*) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
was used instead of the GET method.
*) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
Thanks to Ben Maurer.
*) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
(SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
*) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
*) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
*) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
"server_name" directive.
*) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
directive.
*) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
*) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
*) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
*) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
Thanks to Ben Maurer.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
appeared in 0.6.23.
Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
*) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
now this is default parameter.
*) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
"open_file_cache_valid".
*) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
*) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
*) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
block.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
"memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
*) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
auth directives were not tested;
*) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
inherited from previous level.
*) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
with 499 status code.
*) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
Thanks to Ben Maurer.
*) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
*) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
*) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
perl's allocated memory.
*) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
0.5.9.
Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
the regex captures.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
$r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
request body was already received.
*) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
keep-alive state.
Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
*) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
*) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
"fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
0.6.10.
Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
*) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
"proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
in 0.6.19.
*) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
record is too big".
*) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
server, then nginx returned usual response.
Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
"proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
in 0.6.19.
Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
*) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
*) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
to the cookie field contains a pid value.
*) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
error_log.
*) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
*) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
"Last-Modified" response header line.
*) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
throughput, even if limit value was very high.
Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
*) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
*) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
*) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
subrequests were used.
*) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
gzip were used.
*) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
*) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
*) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
*) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
*) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
*) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
*) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
*) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
"source_charset" directives.
*) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
"GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
Thanks to James Oakley.
*) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
"error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
*) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
*) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
*) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
"limit_except" block.
*) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
appeared in 0.6.6.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
$date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
log was enabled.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
$upstream_response_time.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
memcached was used.
*) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
in 0.6.11.
*) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
*) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
*) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
autoindex was used.
Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
*) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
*) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
*) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
*) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
0.6.9.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
located in non-standard place was used.
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
characters.
Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
*) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
used.
*) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
lines.
*) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
0.6.6.
Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
*) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
"open_file_cache_errors" directives.
*) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
*) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
/dev/poll method was used.
Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
*) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
*) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
down.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
0.6.8.
Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
*) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
"worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
"worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
*) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
authentication server.
*) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
*) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
*) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
"auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
"ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
not to nginx prefix directory.
*) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
*) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
*) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
regular expressions.
*) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
the "backup" parameter.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
$r->discard_request_body.
*) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
"Last-Modified" response header line.
*) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
*) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
platforms except FreeBSD.
Thanks to Jiang Hong.
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
"server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
appeared in 0.6.6.
*) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
*) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
*) Feature: named locations.
*) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
*) Feature: the $is_args variable.
*) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
*) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
might not close connection to backend.
*) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
*) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
*) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
*) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
*) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
Solaris/amd64.
Thanks to Jiang Hong.
*) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
*) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
*) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
changed.
*) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
directives.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
Studio.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
Thanks to Jiang Hong.
Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
*) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
"auth_http_header" directive was used.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
eventport method was used.
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
"fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
appeared in 0.5.13.
Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
*) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
passed garbage in the header to a client.
Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
*) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
*) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
*) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
truncated.
*) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
to the master process identification number.
Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
*) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
--without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
0.5.24.
Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
*) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
was made using HTTP/0.9.
*) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
extension.
*) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
*) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
*) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
*) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
had appeared in 0.5.21.
Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
*) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
Thanks to Anton Povarov.
*) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
library was used.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
*) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
*) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
*) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
transferred incorrectly.
Thanks to Evan Miller.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
Studio.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
make.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
*) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
*) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
the $r->flush.
*) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
*) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
"proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
*) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
*) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
*) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
*) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
*) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
had appeared in 0.5.9.
*) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
0.3.38.
Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
*) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
*) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
"types" block.
*) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
*) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
returned old cached value.
Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
*) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
"ip_hash" directive.
Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
*) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
32K.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
*) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
"smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
*) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
receiving the reconfiguration signal.
*) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
and "pop3_auth" directives.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
disabled.
*) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
*) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
"ip_hash" directive was used.
*) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
methods are used.
Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
*) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
configuration file.
Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
*) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
via keep-alive connection.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
the connection right away, but not after timeout.
*) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
send timeout only.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
temporary files were used while working with FastCGI server; the bug
had appeared in 0.5.8.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
$fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
*) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
Thanks to Chris McGrath.
*) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
*) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
Thanks to Evan Miller.
*) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
was built with -O2 optimization.
Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
*) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
*) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
variable value as a key.
*) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
*) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
directive.
*) Feature: the "env" directive.
*) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
*) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
*) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
logging.
Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
"client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
"client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
"fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
switched to a next upstream.
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
*) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
send timeout only.
*) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
used.
*) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
*) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
*) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
"add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
"Content-Type" header line in response.
*) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
support.
Thanks to Den Ivanov.
*) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
*) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
*) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
*) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
*) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
*) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
$r->sendfile() was used.
Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
*) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
*) Feature: the -V switch.
*) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
and G.
*) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
unprivileged user.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
$r->request_body_file methods were used.
*) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
*) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
block.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
line for the DELETE method.
*) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
$r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
*) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
exist in nginx configuration.
*) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
"upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
appeared in 0.5.1.
Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
*) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
unsuccessful completion of a request.
*) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
*) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
in 0.5.0.
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
*) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
"0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
*) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
directive are not supported anymore.
*) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
"proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
"fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
"memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
anymore.
*) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
*) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
*) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
appeared in 0.4.14.
Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
*) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
Linux, and NetBSD.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
recursively.
*) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
*) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
system time was changed backward.
*) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
proxy authentication server failed.
Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
"limit_except" block.
*) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
*) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
"add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
complete.
*) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
the deferred accept() were used.
*) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
*) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
used;
*) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
*) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
had appeared in 0.3.50.
Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
*) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
then the response may be transferred incomplete.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
method.
*) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
*) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
hogged CPU.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
variable was used in the "map" directive.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
appeared in 0.4.9.
Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
version.
Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
*) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
not work.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
responses.
Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
*) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
*) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
variables.
*) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
not work.
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
timeout.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
and ppc64.
Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
*) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
and ppc64.
*) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
if its length was set by text string in the
$r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
*) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
had appeared in 0.4.4.
Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
appeared in 0.4.4.
Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
*) Feature: the $scheme variable.
*) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
*) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
*) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
method.
*) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
*) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
"error_page" directive.
*) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
*) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
*) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
*) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
had appeared in 0.4.1.
Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
*) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
*) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
than 2G.
*) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
requests.
Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
*) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
*) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
$r->has_request_body method.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
line for the PUT method.
*) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
directive with variables and the first index name was without
variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
*) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
*) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
*) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
*) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
*) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
"error_page" directive.
*) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
*) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
"Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
*) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
*) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
*) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
*) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
*) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
*) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
*) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
*) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
to a client the required certificates information.
*) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
the "root" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
*) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
*) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
"-x", and "!-x" operators.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
access log.
Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
*) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
*) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
*) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
*) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
was relative to a server prefix.
*) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
*) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
returns all "Cookie" header lines.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
"client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
upstream.
*) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.50.
Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
*) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
*) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
"memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
*) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
form.
*) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
*) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
first request to a backend only.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.53.
Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
*) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
302 responses.
*) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
the "weight" parameter.
*) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
*) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
*) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
in the log.
*) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
return the 409 code.
*) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
continued proxying anyway.
Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
*) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
return the 405 error.
*) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
*) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
temporary file was not removed.
Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
*) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
*) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
"fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
*) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
proxy and FastCGI mode.
*) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
*) Bugfix: the "<!--" 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; the bug had appeared
in 0.3.42.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
built with the threads support; the bug had 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 and 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; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
*) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
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: now 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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 to 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; the bug had appeared
in 0.3.18.
*) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
and the request body was in temporary 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; the bug had 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 HTTPS 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; the bug had
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; the bug
had 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; the bug had
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; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
*) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
start; the bug had 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; the bug had
appeared in 0.2.4.
*) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Bugfix: when the HTTPS 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; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
Thanks to Rob Mueller.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
had 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; the bug had
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; the bug had 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 "$time_local".
*) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
"fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
"proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
*) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
*) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
*) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
*) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
without the "Basic realm" text.
*) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
"access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
Solaris.
*) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
*) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
*) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$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; the bug had 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; the bug had
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, and ppc; the bug had 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 $name form.
*) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
0.3.3.
*) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
the 80 port was always used.
Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
*) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
*) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
"timer_resolution" directive were used.
Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
had appeared in 0.3.3.
Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
*) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
*) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
directive.
*) Change: the "$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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had
appeared in 0.1.44.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
was used; the bug had 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;
the bug had 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; the bug had
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 the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the
bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had
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; the bug had 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"; the bug had 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;
the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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 the bug had 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; the bug had 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, and ppc; the bug had 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; the bug had 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 a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
with URI by an "&" rather than a "?".
*) 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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; the bug had 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.