*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
*) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
*) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
*) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
"alert" to "warn".
*) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
*) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
expr='$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.
*) 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 $ssl_cipher variables.
*) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
time.
*) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
*) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
autoconfiguration directive.
*) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
then the requests with the body was not transferred.
*) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
*) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
/dev/poll methods.
*) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
*) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
*) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
*) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$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 $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
will be canceled soon.
*) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
empty string "" and string starting with "0".
*) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
*) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
graceful exit.
*) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
appeared in 0.2.6.
*) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
"Expires" header.
*) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
several worker processes were used.
*) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
SSI commands.
*) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
did not transferred at all.
*) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
big response part were include by SSI.
*) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
in SSI.
*) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
*) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
the client request header line passing.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
'if expr="$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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
