In theory, this can provide a bit better distribution of latencies.
Also it simplifies the code, since ngx_queue_t is now used instead
of custom implementation.
Stale write event may happen if read and write events was reported both,
and processing of the read event closed descriptor.
In practice this might result in "sendfilev() failed (134: ..." or
"writev() failed (134: ..." errors when switching to next upstream server.
See report here:
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2013-April/038421.html
*) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
302 responses.
*) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
the "weight" parameter.
*) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
*) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
*) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
in the log.
*) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
return the 409 code.
*) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
continued proxying anyway.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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 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.
*) 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.
*) 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 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: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
*) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
completely.
*) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
does not support sendfile64().
*) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
--with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
0.1.8.
*) 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 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.
