*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
"ssl_client_certificate" directives.
*) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
method.
*) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
table.
*) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
table.
*) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
the rest.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
*) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
*) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
*) 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 $r->request_body_file
method.
*) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
*) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
once a second only.
Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
Thanks to ForJest.
*) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
login and password to pass authorization server.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
*) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
*) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
terminated prematurely.
Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
*) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
header line.
*) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
completion of a request.
*) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
directive was transferred to a client.
*) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
connection.
*) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
*) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
*) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
"satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
and is not built by default.
*) Change: the "$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.
*) 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 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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 the redirect rewrite directive the arguments were
concatenated with URI by the "&" rather than the "?".
*) 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.
