*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
authorization server.
*) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
*) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
0.3.3.
*) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
the 80 port was always used.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
*) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
*) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
"timer_resolution" directive were used.
*) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
*) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
directive.
*) Change: the "$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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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: 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
the fastcgi_params directive.
*) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
*) 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.
