2 Changes with nginx 0.7.42 16 Mar 2009
4 *) Change: now the "Invalid argument" error returned by
5 setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) on Solaris, is ignored.
7 *) Change: now if a file specified in a "auth_basic_user_file"
8 directive is absent, then the 405 error is returned instead of the
11 *) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports variables.
12 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
14 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ipv6only" parameter.
17 *) Bugfix: in an "alias" directive with references to captures of
18 regular expressions; the bug had appeared in 0.7.40.
20 *) Bugfix: compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
21 Thanks to Dustin Marquess.
23 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
27 Changes with nginx 0.7.41 11 Mar 2009
29 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if a
30 "server_name" or a "location" directives had captures in regular
31 expressions; the issue had appeared in 0.7.40.
32 Thanks to Vladimir Sopot.
35 Changes with nginx 0.7.40 09 Mar 2009
37 *) Feature: the "location" directive supports captures in regular
40 *) Feature: an "alias" directive with capture references may be used
41 inside a location given by a regular expression with captures.
43 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports captures in regular
46 *) Workaround: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show the trailing
47 slash in directories on XFS filesystem; the issue had appeared in
49 Thanks to Dmitry Kuzmenko.
52 Changes with nginx 0.7.39 02 Mar 2009
54 *) Bugfix: large response with SSI might hang, if gzipping was enabled;
55 the bug had appeared in 0.7.28.
56 Thanks to Artem Bokhan.
58 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if short
59 static variants are used in a "try_files" directive.
62 Changes with nginx 0.7.38 23 Feb 2009
64 *) Feature: authentication failures logging.
66 *) Bugfix: name/password in auth_basic_user_file were ignored after odd
67 number of empty lines.
68 Thanks to Alexander Zagrebin.
70 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a master process, if long
71 path was used in unix domain socket; the bug had appeared in 0.7.36.
74 Changes with nginx 0.7.37 21 Feb 2009
76 *) Bugfix: directives using upstreams did not work; the bug had
80 Changes with nginx 0.7.36 21 Feb 2009
82 *) Feature: a preliminary IPv6 support; the "listen" directive of the
83 HTTP module supports IPv6.
85 *) Bugfix: the $ancient_browser variable did not work for browsers
86 preset by a "modern_browser" directives.
89 Changes with nginx 0.7.35 16 Feb 2009
91 *) Bugfix: a "ssl_engine" directive did not use a SSL-accelerator for
93 Thanks to Marcin Gozdalik.
95 *) Bugfix: a "try_files" directive set MIME type depending on an
96 original request extension.
98 *) Bugfix: "*domain.tld" names were handled incorrectly in
99 "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives, if an
100 ".domain.tld" and ".subdomain.domain.tld" wildcards were used;
101 the bug had appeared in 0.7.9.
104 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
106 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
108 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
110 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
112 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
113 in mail proxy server.
114 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
116 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
117 concatenated with new arguments by an "?" rather than an "&";
118 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
119 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
121 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
124 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
126 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
127 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with
131 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some
134 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
135 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
138 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
140 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
141 the "try_files" directive.
143 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
145 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
147 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
149 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
152 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
154 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
157 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
159 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
161 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
163 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
164 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
166 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
168 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
169 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
170 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
173 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
175 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
176 variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
177 and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
180 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
182 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
183 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
185 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
187 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0
189 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
191 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
195 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
197 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
199 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
200 changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
203 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
205 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
207 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
209 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
211 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
213 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
216 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
218 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
220 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
221 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
223 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
225 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
226 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
227 error_page directive.
228 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
231 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
233 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
236 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
238 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
240 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
242 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
245 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
248 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
250 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
252 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
253 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
255 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
259 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
261 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
263 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
265 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
268 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
270 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
271 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
273 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
275 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
277 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
281 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
283 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
285 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
286 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
288 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
289 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
291 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
295 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
297 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
299 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
301 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
302 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
303 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
305 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
306 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
308 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
311 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
312 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
314 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
317 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
319 *) Bugfix: version number update.
322 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
324 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
325 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
327 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
329 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
331 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
333 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
335 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
336 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
338 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
339 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
341 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" heaer line
344 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
347 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
349 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
351 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
353 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
354 not work with open_file_cache.
356 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
357 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
359 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
360 charset name received from backend.
363 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
365 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
369 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
371 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
373 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
374 requests starting from arbitrary position.
376 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
379 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
383 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
385 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
386 have not default values.
388 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
390 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
391 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
393 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
394 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
397 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
398 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
400 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
403 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
405 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
409 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
411 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
413 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
415 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
416 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
417 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
419 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
420 "error_page" directive.
422 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
423 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
425 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
426 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
427 had appeared in 0.7.0.
430 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
432 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
435 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
436 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
438 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
440 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
441 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
443 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
444 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
446 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
449 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
451 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
452 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
453 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
455 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
457 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
458 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
461 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
463 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
464 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
465 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
467 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
469 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
472 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
474 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
476 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
477 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
479 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
482 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
483 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
485 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
486 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
487 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bug had
491 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
493 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
495 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
497 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
498 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
500 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
501 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
502 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
505 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
507 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
510 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
511 with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
512 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
515 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
517 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
518 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
520 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
521 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
523 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
525 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
526 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
529 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
530 /dev/poll methods were used.
532 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
535 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
537 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
538 request root existence is always tested.
540 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
544 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
546 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
547 bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
549 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
550 had appeared in 0.7.3.
551 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
553 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
554 might were transferred incorrectly.
557 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
559 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
561 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
563 *) Feature: the -g switch.
565 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
567 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
570 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
572 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
573 "application/rss+xml".
575 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
576 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
578 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
579 if the "https://" protocol is used.
581 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
582 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
585 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
587 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
589 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
591 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
592 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
594 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
595 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
596 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
598 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
601 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
602 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
605 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
607 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
609 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
610 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
612 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
614 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
615 now this is default parameter.
616 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
618 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
621 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
625 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
627 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
628 \xXX in an access_log.
629 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
631 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
633 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
635 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
636 request processing stage.
638 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
639 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
641 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
642 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
644 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
645 if keepalive was enabled.
648 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
650 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
651 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
652 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
654 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
655 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
658 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
660 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
661 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
663 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
664 for example, "1h50m".
666 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
667 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
669 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
672 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
673 arguments in redirected URI.
675 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
677 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
681 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
683 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
685 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
686 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
689 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
691 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
695 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
697 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
700 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
701 named location via an "error_page" directive.
703 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
706 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
708 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
709 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
710 static named locations.
712 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
713 client certificate in first handshake.
714 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
716 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
717 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
720 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
722 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
724 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
725 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
726 static named locations.
728 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
729 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
731 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
732 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
733 name and without variables.
734 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
736 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
737 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
739 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
740 stub block was used second time in SSI.
742 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
745 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
747 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
748 check a response length.
750 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
751 value was used in a "expires" directive.
752 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
754 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
755 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
757 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
758 was used instead of the GET method.
760 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
761 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
763 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
764 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
766 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
767 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
770 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
772 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
773 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
775 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
776 "server_name" directive.
778 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
781 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
782 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
784 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
786 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
788 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
789 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
791 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
792 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
794 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
798 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
800 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
801 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
804 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
806 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
807 now this is default parameter.
809 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
810 "open_file_cache_valid".
812 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
814 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
816 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
818 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
821 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
822 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
824 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
825 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
826 auth directives were not tested;
828 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
829 inherited from previous level.
831 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
832 with 499 status code.
834 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
835 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
837 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
838 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
840 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
841 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
844 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
846 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
847 perl's allocated memory.
849 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
850 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
851 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
853 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
855 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
858 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
859 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
860 request body was already received.
862 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
864 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
866 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
867 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
869 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
870 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
871 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
873 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
874 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
876 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
879 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
881 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
882 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
884 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
885 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
888 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
889 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
890 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
892 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
893 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
894 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
897 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
898 server, then nginx returned usual response.
901 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
903 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
904 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
908 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
910 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
913 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
915 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
916 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
918 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
921 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
923 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
925 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
926 "Last-Modified" response header line.
928 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
929 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
932 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
934 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
935 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
937 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
938 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
940 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
943 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
944 subrequests were used.
946 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
949 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
950 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
953 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
955 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
956 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
958 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
959 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
961 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
964 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
966 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
967 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
969 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
971 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
973 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
975 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
977 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
978 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
979 "source_charset" directives.
981 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
982 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
983 Thanks to James Oakley.
985 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
986 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
987 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
989 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
990 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
991 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
994 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
996 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
998 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
1000 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
1001 "limit_except" block.
1003 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
1004 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
1007 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
1008 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
1009 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
1011 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
1013 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1015 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
1016 $upstream_response_time.
1017 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1019 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1022 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
1023 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
1026 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
1028 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
1031 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
1033 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
1035 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
1038 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
1040 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
1042 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
1043 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
1045 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
1046 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
1048 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
1051 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
1052 located in non-standard place was used.
1054 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
1055 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
1057 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
1060 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
1062 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
1065 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
1066 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
1068 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
1071 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
1072 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
1076 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
1078 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
1079 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
1081 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1083 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
1084 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
1086 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
1087 /dev/poll method was used.
1090 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
1092 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1093 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
1095 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
1096 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
1098 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
1101 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
1105 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
1107 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
1108 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
1109 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
1111 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
1112 authentication server.
1114 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
1116 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
1117 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
1118 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
1120 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
1123 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
1125 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
1126 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
1127 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
1128 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
1129 not to nginx prefix directory.
1131 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
1133 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
1134 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
1136 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
1137 regular expressions.
1139 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1140 the "backup" parameter.
1142 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
1143 $r->discard_request_body.
1145 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
1146 "Last-Modified" response header line.
1148 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
1149 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
1150 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
1152 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
1153 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
1155 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
1156 platforms except FreeBSD.
1157 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1159 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1160 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
1163 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
1164 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
1167 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
1169 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
1171 *) Feature: named locations.
1173 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
1175 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
1177 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
1179 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
1180 might not close connection to backend.
1182 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
1183 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
1185 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
1186 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1189 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
1191 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
1192 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
1194 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
1195 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1197 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
1198 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1200 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
1202 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
1204 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1206 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
1207 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
1210 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
1212 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
1213 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
1215 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
1218 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
1221 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1223 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1225 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
1226 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1229 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
1231 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
1233 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1234 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
1235 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1237 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1238 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
1240 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
1241 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1243 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1244 eventport method was used.
1246 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
1247 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
1251 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
1253 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
1254 passed garbage in the header to a client.
1257 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
1259 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
1261 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
1262 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
1264 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
1267 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
1268 to the master process identification number.
1271 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
1273 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
1274 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
1277 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
1279 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
1280 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
1284 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
1286 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
1287 was made using HTTP/0.9.
1289 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
1290 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
1293 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
1295 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
1298 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
1299 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
1301 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
1302 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
1304 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
1305 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
1306 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
1308 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1311 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
1313 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
1314 had appeared in 0.5.21.
1317 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
1319 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
1320 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
1322 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
1323 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
1324 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
1326 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
1328 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1330 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1333 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
1335 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
1337 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
1338 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
1340 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1341 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
1343 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
1344 transferred incorrectly.
1345 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1347 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1349 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1351 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
1353 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1356 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
1358 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
1360 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
1363 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
1365 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
1366 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
1367 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
1369 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1370 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
1372 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1373 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
1376 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
1378 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
1380 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
1382 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
1383 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
1385 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
1386 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
1387 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
1388 had appeared in 0.5.9.
1390 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
1391 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
1395 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
1397 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
1399 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
1402 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
1403 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
1405 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1407 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
1408 returned old cached value.
1411 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
1413 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
1414 "ip_hash" directive.
1415 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
1417 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1418 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
1419 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1421 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1422 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
1425 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
1426 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
1429 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
1431 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
1432 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
1433 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
1435 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
1436 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
1438 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
1439 and "pop3_auth" directives.
1441 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1442 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
1445 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
1446 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
1448 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
1449 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
1451 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1452 "ip_hash" directive was used.
1454 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
1458 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
1460 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
1464 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
1466 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
1468 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
1469 via keep-alive connection.
1471 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
1472 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1474 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
1475 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
1477 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1478 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1481 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1482 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1485 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
1487 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1488 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1490 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1491 temporarily files were used while working with FastCGI server; the
1492 bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1494 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1495 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
1497 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
1500 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
1502 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
1503 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
1505 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
1506 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
1508 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
1509 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
1510 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1512 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
1513 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
1515 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1516 was built with -O2 optimization.
1519 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
1521 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
1522 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
1524 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1525 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
1528 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
1530 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
1531 variable value as a key.
1533 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
1535 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
1538 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
1540 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1542 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
1543 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
1545 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
1549 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
1551 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
1552 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
1554 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1555 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
1556 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
1557 switched to a next upstream.
1559 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
1560 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
1561 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1563 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1564 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1567 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1570 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
1573 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
1575 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
1577 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
1579 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1580 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
1581 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
1583 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
1584 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
1585 "Content-Type" header line in response.
1587 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
1589 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
1591 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
1594 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
1596 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
1597 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
1599 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
1601 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
1603 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
1604 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
1606 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
1608 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
1609 $r->sendfile() was used.
1612 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
1614 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
1616 *) Feature: the -V switch.
1618 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
1621 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
1624 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
1625 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
1627 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
1630 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
1632 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
1635 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
1636 line for the DELETE method.
1638 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
1639 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
1641 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
1642 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
1645 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
1647 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
1648 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
1650 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
1651 exist in nginx configuration.
1653 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
1656 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
1658 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
1659 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
1663 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
1665 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
1666 unsuccessful completion of a request.
1668 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
1669 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
1671 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
1672 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
1675 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1676 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
1677 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1679 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1680 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
1681 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1683 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
1684 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
1685 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
1687 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
1688 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
1691 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
1693 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
1694 directive are not supported anymore.
1696 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
1697 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
1698 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
1699 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
1702 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1703 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
1705 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
1707 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
1708 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
1710 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
1714 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
1716 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
1718 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
1721 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
1722 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
1724 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
1727 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
1729 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1730 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
1732 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
1733 system time was changed backward.
1735 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
1736 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
1738 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
1739 proxy authentication server failed.
1742 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
1744 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
1745 "limit_except" block.
1747 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
1749 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
1750 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
1753 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
1754 the deferred accept() were used.
1756 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
1757 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1759 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1762 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
1763 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
1765 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
1766 had appeared in 0.3.50.
1769 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
1771 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
1773 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
1774 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
1776 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
1779 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
1781 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
1783 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
1786 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
1787 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
1790 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
1792 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
1794 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
1795 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
1798 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
1799 variable was used in the "map" directive.
1801 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
1802 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1804 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
1808 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
1810 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1812 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
1816 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
1818 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1819 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1822 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
1824 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
1827 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
1829 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
1831 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
1833 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
1836 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1837 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1840 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
1841 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
1844 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1848 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
1850 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1853 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
1854 if its length was set by text string in the
1855 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
1857 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
1858 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
1859 had appeared in 0.4.4.
1862 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
1864 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
1868 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
1870 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
1872 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
1874 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
1875 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
1877 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
1878 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
1880 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
1883 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
1884 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
1887 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
1889 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
1890 "error_page" directive.
1892 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
1894 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
1896 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
1897 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
1899 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
1900 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
1902 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
1904 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
1907 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
1909 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
1910 had appeared in 0.4.1.
1913 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
1915 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
1916 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
1918 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
1921 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
1923 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
1926 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
1928 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
1929 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
1931 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
1932 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
1933 $r->has_request_body method.
1935 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
1937 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
1938 line for the PUT method.
1940 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1942 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
1943 directive with variables and the first index name was without
1944 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
1947 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
1949 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
1951 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
1953 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
1955 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
1956 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
1959 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
1961 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
1962 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
1965 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
1967 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
1968 "error_page" directive.
1970 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
1972 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
1973 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
1974 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
1977 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
1979 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
1981 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
1983 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
1984 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
1986 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
1988 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
1989 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
1991 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
1994 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
1996 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
1998 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
1999 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
2001 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
2002 to a client the required certificates information.
2004 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
2005 the "root" directive.
2008 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
2010 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
2012 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
2013 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
2015 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
2016 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
2020 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
2022 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2024 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
2026 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
2028 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
2029 was relative to a server prefix.
2031 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
2032 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
2034 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
2035 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
2037 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
2038 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
2041 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
2042 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
2046 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
2048 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
2050 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
2051 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
2053 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
2056 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
2057 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
2059 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
2060 first request to a backend only.
2062 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
2066 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
2068 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
2071 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
2072 the "weight" parameter.
2074 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
2076 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
2078 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
2079 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
2082 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
2083 return the 409 code.
2085 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
2086 continued proxying anyway.
2089 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
2091 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
2092 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
2093 return the 405 error.
2095 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
2096 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
2098 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
2099 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2101 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
2102 temporary file was not removed.
2105 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
2107 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
2108 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2111 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
2113 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
2114 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
2115 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
2117 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
2118 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
2120 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
2121 proxy and FastCGI mode.
2123 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
2124 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
2126 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
2127 SSI after inclusion.
2129 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
2130 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
2133 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
2135 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
2137 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
2138 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
2142 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
2144 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
2145 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
2147 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
2148 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
2149 start of the rewritten redirect.
2151 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
2152 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2153 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
2156 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
2157 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
2160 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
2162 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
2164 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
2165 SSI command is always removed.
2168 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
2170 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
2171 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
2173 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
2174 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
2176 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
2179 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
2180 ngx_http_perl_module.
2183 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
2185 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
2186 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
2188 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
2191 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
2194 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
2197 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
2198 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
2199 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
2203 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
2205 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2207 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
2208 koi-win conversion table.
2210 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2213 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
2215 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2218 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
2220 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
2223 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
2226 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
2227 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
2228 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
2229 were not written to access log.
2231 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
2232 "Cache-Control" response header line.
2235 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
2237 *) Feature: the -v switch.
2239 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
2242 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
2244 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
2245 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
2246 segmentation fault was occurred.
2249 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
2251 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
2253 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
2255 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
2258 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
2260 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
2261 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
2264 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
2266 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
2267 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
2270 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
2271 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
2272 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2274 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
2278 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
2280 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
2282 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
2283 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
2285 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
2288 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
2290 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
2292 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2294 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
2295 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
2298 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
2299 login and password to pass authorization server.
2300 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2303 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
2305 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
2307 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
2310 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
2313 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2316 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
2318 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2320 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
2321 inside the "if" block.
2323 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
2324 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
2326 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
2328 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
2329 and $r->remote_addr.
2331 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
2333 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
2334 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
2336 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
2337 ngx_http_ssi_module.
2339 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
2340 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
2341 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
2342 a current path but not to a server prefix.
2345 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
2347 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
2348 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2350 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
2354 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
2356 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
2359 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
2361 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2362 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
2364 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
2365 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
2367 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
2370 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
2372 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
2373 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2376 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
2378 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
2380 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
2383 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
2385 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
2387 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2389 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
2390 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
2391 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
2394 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2395 and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
2398 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
2401 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
2403 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
2406 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
2407 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
2409 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
2410 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
2413 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
2415 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
2416 many warnings before the response.
2418 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
2419 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
2421 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
2422 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
2424 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
2425 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
2429 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
2431 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
2433 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
2435 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
2436 terminated prematurely.
2437 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
2439 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
2440 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2443 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
2444 completion of a request.
2446 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
2447 directive was transferred to a client.
2450 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
2452 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
2453 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2455 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
2456 "log_format" directive.
2458 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
2460 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
2463 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
2464 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
2466 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
2467 autoconfiguration directive.
2469 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2470 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
2473 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
2475 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
2476 "optimize_server_names".
2478 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
2479 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
2483 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
2485 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2486 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
2490 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
2492 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
2494 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
2495 not transferred to a client.
2497 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
2499 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
2502 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
2503 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
2504 had appeared in 0.3.18.
2507 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
2509 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
2511 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
2514 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
2518 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
2520 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
2521 $r->unescape methods.
2523 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
2526 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
2527 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
2531 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
2533 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
2535 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
2539 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
2541 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2543 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
2544 the "/usr?args" form.
2547 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
2549 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
2551 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
2553 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2556 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
2558 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
2561 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
2562 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
2564 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
2565 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2567 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
2568 directives were canceled.
2570 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
2572 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
2573 only without the URI part.
2575 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
2576 ngx_http_map_module.
2578 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
2579 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
2581 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
2582 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
2585 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
2587 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
2588 sendfile64() in kernel.
2590 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
2593 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
2596 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2598 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
2599 directive the port 80 was used by default.
2602 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
2604 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
2606 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
2609 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
2611 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
2613 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
2614 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
2617 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
2619 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
2620 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
2621 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2623 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
2624 had appeared in 0.3.13.
2627 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
2629 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
2632 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2634 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
2635 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
2638 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
2640 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
2644 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
2646 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
2648 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
2651 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2653 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2654 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2656 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
2657 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
2660 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
2662 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
2663 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
2664 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
2665 and is not built by default.
2667 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
2669 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
2670 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
2671 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
2673 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
2675 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
2677 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
2678 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2680 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
2681 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
2683 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
2684 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
2685 without the "Basic realm" text.
2687 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
2688 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
2689 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2691 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
2694 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
2695 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
2698 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
2700 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
2701 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
2704 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
2706 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
2707 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
2708 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
2710 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
2713 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
2715 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
2717 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
2719 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
2721 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
2723 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
2725 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
2727 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
2728 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
2731 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
2733 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
2734 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
2737 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
2739 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
2740 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2743 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
2745 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
2746 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
2749 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
2750 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
2752 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
2753 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2755 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
2756 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
2758 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
2760 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
2762 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
2763 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
2764 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
2765 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
2766 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
2767 will be canceled soon.
2769 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
2770 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
2772 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
2773 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
2775 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
2778 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
2779 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
2780 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
2783 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
2786 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
2787 several worker processes were used.
2789 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
2792 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
2793 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
2794 did not transferred at all.
2797 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
2799 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
2801 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2802 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
2805 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
2807 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
2808 authorization server.
2810 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
2812 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
2813 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
2816 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
2817 the 80 port was always used.
2820 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
2822 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
2823 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2825 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
2826 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
2828 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
2829 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
2832 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
2834 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
2835 had appeared in 0.3.3.
2838 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
2840 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
2841 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
2843 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
2846 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
2847 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
2849 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
2851 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
2852 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
2855 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
2856 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2858 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
2860 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
2862 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
2863 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
2865 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
2867 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
2869 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
2870 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2872 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
2876 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
2878 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
2880 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
2881 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
2882 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
2885 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
2887 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
2888 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
2891 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
2895 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
2897 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
2898 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
2902 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
2904 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
2905 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
2907 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
2908 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
2910 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
2911 more flexible to change an error code.
2913 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
2914 in proxied subrequests.
2916 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
2917 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
2920 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
2921 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
2922 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
2923 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2926 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
2928 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
2929 causes the warning and changes old value.
2931 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
2933 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
2934 the "include" command.
2936 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
2937 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
2940 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
2942 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
2943 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
2945 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
2948 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
2949 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2952 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
2954 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
2955 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2958 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
2960 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
2962 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
2965 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
2966 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2968 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
2971 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
2974 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
2976 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2978 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
2981 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
2983 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2984 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
2988 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
2990 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
2991 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
2992 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
2993 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
2994 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
2995 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
2998 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
2999 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
3000 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
3002 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
3004 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
3006 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
3007 not run for subrequests.
3009 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
3012 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
3013 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
3015 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
3016 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
3018 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3020 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3022 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
3023 from the 304 responses.
3024 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
3027 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
3029 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
3030 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
3032 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
3035 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3038 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
3040 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
3042 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
3044 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
3046 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
3047 of authorization use.
3050 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
3052 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
3053 changed using the -HUP signal.
3055 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
3057 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
3060 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
3061 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
3062 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
3063 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3066 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
3068 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
3069 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
3070 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
3072 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
3073 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3076 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
3078 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
3079 can not be used in SSI.
3082 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
3084 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
3085 information did not logged in the error log.
3087 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
3088 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
3090 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
3091 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
3093 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
3096 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
3097 became shorter in the "ps" command.
3100 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
3102 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
3103 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
3104 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
3106 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
3107 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
3109 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
3110 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
3111 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3113 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
3115 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
3116 the "include virtual" command.
3118 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
3119 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
3120 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3122 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
3123 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
3124 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3126 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
3129 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
3130 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3132 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
3136 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
3138 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
3141 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
3142 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
3144 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
3146 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
3148 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
3149 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
3151 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
3154 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
3155 than one remote subrequest.
3157 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
3158 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
3161 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
3163 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
3165 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
3168 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3171 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
3173 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
3175 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
3176 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
3178 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
3179 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3180 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
3181 request all backends again.
3184 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
3186 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
3187 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
3188 now returns the 400 error.
3190 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
3192 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
3193 parameters of the "listen" directive.
3195 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
3197 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
3199 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
3202 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
3203 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
3206 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
3208 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
3210 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
3212 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
3213 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3215 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
3216 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
3217 occurred on the start.
3219 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
3220 bigger than the temporary file.
3222 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
3223 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
3227 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
3229 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3230 big response part were include by SSI.
3232 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
3235 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
3237 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
3238 the client request header line passing.
3241 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
3243 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
3244 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3246 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
3247 level cause the bus fault on start up.
3249 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
3251 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
3252 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
3255 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
3257 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
3258 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3260 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
3263 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
3264 of regular expressions.
3266 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
3267 proxy and FastCGI mode.
3270 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
3272 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3274 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
3276 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3278 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
3279 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
3282 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
3284 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3287 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3289 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
3290 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
3291 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
3294 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
3297 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
3299 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
3302 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
3304 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
3306 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
3307 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
3310 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
3311 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
3313 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
3315 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
3316 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
3318 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
3320 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
3321 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
3323 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
3324 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
3326 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
3327 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
3328 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
3329 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
3331 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
3332 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
3334 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
3336 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
3339 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
3340 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
3343 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
3345 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
3346 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
3349 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
3351 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
3353 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
3355 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
3357 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
3359 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
3360 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
3361 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
3363 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
3364 headers or a backend response header.
3366 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
3367 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
3368 returned the 408 response.
3370 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
3371 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
3373 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
3374 tolerance configuration.
3376 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3377 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
3379 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
3382 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
3384 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
3387 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
3390 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
3392 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
3394 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
3397 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
3399 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
3401 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
3402 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
3405 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
3407 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
3408 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
3411 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
3412 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
3416 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
3418 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
3421 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
3423 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
3424 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
3427 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
3429 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
3431 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
3432 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
3434 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
3435 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
3436 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
3437 after request completion.
3439 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
3442 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
3443 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
3445 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
3446 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
3448 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
3449 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
3450 will be removed soon.
3452 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
3454 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
3456 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
3458 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
3461 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
3463 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
3464 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
3466 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
3467 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
3470 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
3473 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
3477 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
3479 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
3480 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
3481 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
3484 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
3486 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
3487 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
3488 server name of the "server_name" directive.
3490 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3491 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
3493 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
3494 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
3496 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
3497 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
3500 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
3502 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
3503 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
3505 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
3506 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
3509 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
3511 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
3512 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
3514 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
3515 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
3517 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3520 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
3522 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
3523 the fastcgi_params directive.
3525 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
3528 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
3530 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
3531 returned for the local requests.
3533 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3535 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
3536 request body via SSL connections.
3539 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
3541 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
3542 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
3545 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
3548 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
3549 with URI by an "&" rather than an "?".
3551 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
3552 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
3554 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
3556 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
3557 the segmentation fault.
3559 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
3562 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
3564 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
3565 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
3566 configuration to the request.
3569 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
3571 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
3572 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
3573 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
3574 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
3576 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
3578 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
3580 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
3583 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
3584 small caps letters in extension.
3586 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
3587 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
3588 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
3590 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
3591 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
3594 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
3597 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
3599 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
3600 request the final chunk was issued.
3602 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
3603 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
3605 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
3606 segmentation faults.
3608 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
3611 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
3612 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
3614 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
3616 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
3617 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
3620 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
3622 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
3625 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
3626 different number of the captures and substitutions.
3628 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
3631 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
3632 arguments and in the original state.
3634 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
3635 to use the regular expressions in locations.
3637 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
3638 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
3641 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
3642 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
3643 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
3644 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
3647 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
3649 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
3650 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
3651 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
3653 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
3654 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
3655 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
3657 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
3658 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
3659 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
3660 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
3661 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
3662 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
3663 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
3665 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
3668 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
3669 proxy_pass directive.
3671 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
3674 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
3675 ngx_http_proxy_module.
3677 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
3678 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
3681 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
3683 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
3686 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
3689 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
3693 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
3695 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
3697 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
3698 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
3699 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
3700 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
3702 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
3703 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
3706 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
3708 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
3710 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
3711 transferred response.
3713 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
3714 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
3716 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
3719 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
3720 broken symlink was in a directory.
3722 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
3725 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
3726 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
3729 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
3730 when the /dev/poll method was used.
3732 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
3734 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
3736 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
3738 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
3739 section in configuration.
3741 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
3743 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
3747 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
3749 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
3750 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
3751 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
3753 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
3757 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
3759 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
3760 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
3762 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
3765 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
3766 does not support sendfile64().
3768 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
3769 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
3773 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
3775 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
3778 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
3780 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
3783 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
3785 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
3786 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
3789 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
3791 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
3792 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
3795 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
3797 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
3798 returned not enough data" alerts.
3800 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
3801 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
3802 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
3805 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
3808 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
3810 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
3812 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
3813 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
3815 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
3817 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
3820 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
3822 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
3825 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
3827 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
3829 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
3831 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3835 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
3837 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
3838 options in configure.
3840 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
3842 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
3844 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
3845 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3847 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3850 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
3851 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3853 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
3855 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
3859 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
3861 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
3863 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
3865 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
3866 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
3868 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
3870 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
3872 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
3875 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
3877 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
3878 used while the proxying.
3880 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
3882 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
3883 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
3886 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
3888 *) The first public version.