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.
Use of accept mutex on win32 may result in a deadlock if there are multiple
worker_processes configured and the mutex is grabbed by a process which
can't accept connections.
And corresponding variable $connections_waiting was added.
Previously, waiting connections were counted as the difference between
active connections and the sum of reading and writing connections.
That made it impossible to count more than one request in one connection
as reading or writing (as is the case for SPDY).
Also, we no longer count connections in handshake state as waiting.
We don't have strong reason to inform about any errors
reported by close() call here, and there are no other things
to do with its return value.
Prodded by Coverity.
Instead of checking if there is events{} section present in configuration
in init_module handler we now do the same in init_conf handler. This
allows master process to detect incorrect configuration early and
reject it.
It is currently used from master process on abnormal worker termination to
unlock accept mutex (unlocking of accept mutex was broken in 1.0.2). It is
expected to be used in the future to unlock other mutexes as well.
Shared mutex code was rewritten to make this possible in a safe way, i.e.
with a check if lock was actually held by the exited process. We again use
pid to lock mutex, and use separate atomic variable for a count of processes
waiting in sem_wait().
*) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
*) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
*) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
*) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
was relative to a server prefix.
*) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
*) Bugfix: the $r->headers_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
returns all "Cookie" header lines.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
"client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
upstream.
*) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.50.
*) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
*) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
"memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
*) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
form.
*) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
*) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
first request to a backend only.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.53.
*) 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.
*) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
proxy.
*) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
then once.
*) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
$sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
$sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
were not written to access log.
*) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
"Cache-Control" response header line.
*) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
"variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
*) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
"log_format" directive.
*) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
*) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
time.
*) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
*) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
autoconfiguration directive.
*) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
then the requests with the body was not transferred.
*) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
*) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
not transferred to a client.
*) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
*) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
location.
*) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
had appeared in 0.3.18.
*) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
"satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
and is not built by default.
*) Change: the "$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 $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
will be canceled soon.
*) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
empty string "" and string starting with "0".
*) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
*) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
graceful exit.
*) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
appeared in 0.2.6.
*) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
"Expires" header.
*) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
several worker processes were used.
*) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
SSI commands.
*) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
did not transferred at all.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
*) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
*) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
"timer_resolution" directive were used.
*) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
*) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
directive.
*) Change: the "$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.
