*) 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.
*) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
authorization server.
*) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
*) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
0.3.3.
*) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
the 80 port was always used.
*) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
*) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
directive.
*) Change: the "$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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
request the final chunk was issued.
*) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
*) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
segmentation faults.
*) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
complete.
*) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
*) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
*) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
*) 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.
