With this change, dynamic modules using nginx regex interface can be used
regardless of the variant of the PCRE library nginx was compiled with.
If a module is compiled with different PCRE library variant, in case of
ngx_regex_exec() errors it will report wrong function name in error
messages. This is believed to be tolerable, given that fixing this will
require interface changes.
The PCRE2 library is now used by default if found, instead of the
original PCRE library. If needed for some reason, this can be disabled
with the --without-pcre2 configure option.
To make it possible to specify paths to the library and include files
via --with-cc-opt / --with-ld-opt, the library is first tested without
any additional paths and options. If this fails, the pcre2-config script
is used.
Similarly to the original PCRE library, it is now possible to build PCRE2
from sources with nginx configure, by using the --with-pcre= option.
It automatically detects if PCRE or PCRE2 sources are provided.
Note that compiling PCRE2 10.33 and later requires inttypes.h. When
compiling on Windows with MSVC, inttypes.h is only available starting
with MSVC 2013. In older versions some replacement needs to be provided
("echo '#include <stdint.h>' > pcre2-10.xx/src/inttypes.h" is good enough
for MSVC 2010).
The interface on nginx side remains unchanged.
*) 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.
*) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
segmentation fault.
*) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
different number of the captures and substitutions.
*) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
regular expression.
*) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
arguments and in the original state.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
to use the regular expressions in locations.
*) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
"Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
in 0.1.14.
*) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
--http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
