The REQUEST_SCHEME parameter was introduced in Apache 2.3.11 and seems
to be used by some scripts now. It looks more logical than previously
used HTTPS.
a) ssl as listen parameter is preferable.
b) ssl_protocols defaults are better because they do not forbid TLS versions
1.1 and 1.2.
c) ssl_session_timeout has sense only with SSL cache.
Though there are several MIME types commonly used for JavaScript nowadays,
the most common being "text/javascript", "application/javascript", and
currently used by nginx "application/x-javascript", RFC 4329 prefers
"application/javascript".
The "charset_types" directive's default value was adjusted accordingly.
*) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
*) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
*) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
*) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
was relative to a server prefix.
*) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
*) Bugfix: the $r->headers_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
returns all "Cookie" header lines.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
"client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
upstream.
*) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.50.
*) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
"fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
*) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
proxy and FastCGI mode.
*) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
command was removed only if the command also has the "$" 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.
*) 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.
*) 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 ° 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
