*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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
":/".
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
The first code that uses "ngx_" prefix, the previous one used "gx_" prefix.
At that point the code is not yet usable. The first draft ideas are dated
back to 23.10.2001.
