2 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
4 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
5 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with
9 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some
12 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
13 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
16 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
18 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
19 the "try_files" directive.
21 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
23 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
25 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
27 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
30 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
32 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
35 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
37 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
39 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
41 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
42 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
44 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
46 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
47 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
48 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
51 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
53 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
54 variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
55 and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
58 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
60 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
61 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
63 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
65 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0 requests;
66 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
68 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
72 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
74 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
76 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
77 changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
80 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
82 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
84 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
86 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
88 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
90 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
93 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
95 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
97 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
98 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
100 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
102 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
103 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
104 error_page directive.
105 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
108 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
110 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
113 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
115 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
117 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
119 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
122 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
125 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
127 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
129 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
130 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
132 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
136 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
138 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
140 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
142 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
145 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
147 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
148 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
150 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
152 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
154 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
158 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
160 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
162 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
163 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
165 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
166 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
168 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
172 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
174 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
176 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
178 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
179 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
180 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
182 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
183 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
185 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
188 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
189 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
191 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
194 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
196 *) Bugfix: version number update.
199 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
201 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
202 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
204 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
206 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
208 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
210 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
212 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
213 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
215 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
216 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
218 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" heaer line
221 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
224 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
226 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
228 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
230 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
231 not work with open_file_cache.
233 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
234 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
236 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
237 charset name received from backend.
240 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
242 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
246 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
248 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
250 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
251 requests starting from arbitrary position.
253 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
256 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
260 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
262 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
263 have not default values.
265 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
267 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
268 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
270 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
271 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
274 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
275 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
277 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
280 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
282 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
286 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
288 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
290 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
292 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
293 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
294 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
296 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
297 "error_page" directive.
299 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
300 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
302 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
303 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
304 had appeared in 0.7.0.
307 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
309 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
312 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
313 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
315 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
317 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
318 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
320 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
321 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
323 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
326 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
328 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
329 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
330 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
332 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
334 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
335 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
338 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
340 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
341 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
342 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
344 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
346 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
349 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
351 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
353 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
354 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
356 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
359 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
360 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
362 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
363 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
364 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bugs had
368 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
370 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
372 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
374 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
375 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
377 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
378 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
379 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
382 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
384 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
387 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
388 with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
389 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
392 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
394 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
395 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
397 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
398 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
400 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
402 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
403 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
406 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
407 /dev/poll methods were used.
409 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
412 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
414 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
415 request root existence is always tested.
417 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
421 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
423 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
424 bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
426 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
427 had appeared in 0.7.3.
428 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
430 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
431 might were transferred incorrectly.
434 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
436 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
438 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
440 *) Feature: the -g switch.
442 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
444 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
447 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
449 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
450 "application/rss+xml".
452 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
453 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
455 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
456 if the "https://" protocol is used.
458 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
459 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
462 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
464 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
466 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
468 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
469 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
471 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
472 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
473 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
475 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
478 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
479 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
482 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
484 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
486 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
487 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
489 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
491 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
492 now this is default parameter.
493 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
495 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
498 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
502 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
504 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
505 \xXX in an access_log.
506 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
508 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
510 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
512 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
513 request processing stage.
515 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
516 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
518 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
519 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
521 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
522 if keepalive was enabled.
525 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
527 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
528 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
529 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
531 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
532 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
535 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
537 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
538 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
540 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
541 for example, "1h50m".
543 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
544 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
546 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
549 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
550 arguments in redirected URI.
552 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
554 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
558 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
560 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
562 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
563 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
566 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
568 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
572 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
574 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
577 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
578 named location via an "error_page" directive.
580 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
583 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
585 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
586 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
587 static named locations.
589 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
590 client certificate in first handshake.
591 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
593 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
594 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
597 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
599 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
601 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
602 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
603 static named locations.
605 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
606 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
608 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
609 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
610 name and without variables.
611 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
613 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
614 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
616 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
617 stub block was used second time in SSI.
619 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
622 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
624 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
625 check a response length.
627 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
628 value was used in a "expires" directive.
629 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
631 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
632 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
634 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
635 was used instead of the GET method.
637 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
638 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
640 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
641 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
643 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
644 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
647 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
649 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
650 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
652 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
653 "server_name" directive.
655 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
658 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
659 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
661 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
663 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
665 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
666 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
668 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
669 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
671 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
675 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
677 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
678 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
681 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
683 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
684 now this is default parameter.
686 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
687 "open_file_cache_valid".
689 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
691 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
693 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
695 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
698 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
699 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
701 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
702 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
703 auth directives were not tested;
705 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
706 inherited from previous level.
708 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
709 with 499 status code.
711 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
712 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
714 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
715 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
717 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
718 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
721 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
723 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
724 perl's allocated memory.
726 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
727 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
728 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
730 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
732 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
735 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
736 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
737 request body was already received.
739 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
741 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
743 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
744 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
746 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
747 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
748 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
750 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
751 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
753 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
756 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
758 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
759 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
761 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
762 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
765 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
766 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
767 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
769 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
770 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
771 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
774 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
775 server, then nginx returned usual response.
778 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
780 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
781 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
785 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
787 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
790 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
792 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
793 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
795 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
798 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
800 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
802 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
803 "Last-Modified" response header line.
805 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
806 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
809 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
811 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
812 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
814 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
815 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
817 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
820 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
821 subrequests were used.
823 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
826 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
827 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
830 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
832 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
833 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
835 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
836 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
838 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
841 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
843 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
844 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
846 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
848 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
850 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
852 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
854 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
855 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
856 "source_charset" directives.
858 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
859 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
860 Thanks to James Oakley.
862 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
863 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
864 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
866 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
867 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
868 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
871 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
873 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
875 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
877 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
878 "limit_except" block.
880 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
881 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
884 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
885 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
886 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
888 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
890 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
892 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
893 $upstream_response_time.
894 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
896 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
899 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
900 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
903 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
905 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
908 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
910 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
912 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
915 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
917 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
919 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
920 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
922 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
923 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
925 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
928 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
929 located in non-standard place was used.
931 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
932 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
934 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
937 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
939 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
942 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
943 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
945 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
948 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
949 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
953 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
955 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
956 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
958 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
960 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
961 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
963 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
964 /dev/poll method was used.
967 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
969 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
970 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
972 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
973 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
975 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
978 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
982 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
984 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
985 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
986 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
988 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
989 authentication server.
991 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
993 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
994 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
995 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
997 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
1000 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
1002 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
1003 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
1004 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
1005 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
1006 not to nginx prefix directory.
1008 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
1010 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
1011 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
1013 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
1014 regular expressions.
1016 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1017 the "backup" parameter.
1019 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
1020 $r->discard_request_body.
1022 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
1023 "Last-Modified" response header line.
1025 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
1026 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
1027 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
1029 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
1030 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
1032 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
1033 platforms except FreeBSD.
1034 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1036 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1037 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
1040 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
1041 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
1044 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
1046 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
1048 *) Feature: named locations.
1050 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
1052 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
1054 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
1056 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
1057 might not close connection to backend.
1059 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
1060 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
1062 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
1063 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1066 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
1068 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
1069 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
1071 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
1072 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1074 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
1075 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1077 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
1079 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
1081 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1083 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
1084 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
1087 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
1089 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
1090 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
1092 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
1095 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
1098 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1100 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1102 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
1103 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1106 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
1108 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
1110 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1111 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
1112 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1114 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1115 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
1117 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
1118 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1120 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1121 eventport method was used.
1123 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
1124 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
1128 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
1130 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
1131 passed garbage in the header to a client.
1134 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
1136 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
1138 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
1139 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
1141 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
1144 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
1145 to the master process identification number.
1148 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
1150 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
1151 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
1154 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
1156 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
1157 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
1161 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
1163 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
1164 was made using HTTP/0.9.
1166 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
1167 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
1170 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
1172 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
1175 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
1176 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
1178 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
1179 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
1181 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
1182 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
1183 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
1185 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1188 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
1190 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
1191 had appeared in 0.5.21.
1194 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
1196 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
1197 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
1199 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
1200 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
1201 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
1203 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
1205 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1207 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1210 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
1212 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
1214 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
1215 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
1217 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1218 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
1220 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
1221 transferred incorrectly.
1222 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1224 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1226 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1228 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
1230 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1233 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
1235 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
1237 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
1240 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
1242 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
1243 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
1244 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
1246 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1247 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
1249 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1250 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
1253 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
1255 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
1257 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
1259 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
1260 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
1262 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
1263 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
1264 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
1265 had appeared in 0.5.9.
1267 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
1268 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
1272 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
1274 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
1276 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
1279 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
1280 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
1282 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1284 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
1285 returned old cached value.
1288 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
1290 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
1291 "ip_hash" directive.
1292 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
1294 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1295 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
1296 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1298 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1299 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
1302 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
1303 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
1306 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
1308 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
1309 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
1310 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
1312 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
1313 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
1315 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
1316 and "pop3_auth" directives.
1318 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1319 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
1322 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
1323 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
1325 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
1326 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
1328 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1329 "ip_hash" directive was used.
1331 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
1335 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
1337 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
1341 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
1343 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
1345 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
1346 via keep-alive connection.
1348 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
1349 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1351 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
1352 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
1354 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1355 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1358 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1359 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1362 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
1364 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1365 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1367 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1368 temporarily files were used while working with FastCGI server; the
1369 bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1371 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1372 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
1374 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
1377 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
1379 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
1380 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
1382 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
1383 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
1385 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
1386 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
1387 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1389 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
1390 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
1392 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1393 was built with -O2 optimization.
1396 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
1398 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
1399 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
1401 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1402 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
1405 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
1407 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
1408 variable value as a key.
1410 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
1412 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
1415 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
1417 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1419 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
1420 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
1422 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
1426 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
1428 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
1429 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
1431 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1432 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
1433 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
1434 switched to a next upstream.
1436 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
1437 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
1438 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1440 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1441 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1444 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1447 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
1450 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
1452 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
1454 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
1456 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1457 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
1458 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
1460 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
1461 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
1462 "Content-Type" header line in response.
1464 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
1466 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
1468 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
1471 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
1473 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
1474 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
1476 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
1478 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
1480 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
1481 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
1483 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
1485 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
1486 $r->sendfile() was used.
1489 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
1491 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
1493 *) Feature: the -V switch.
1495 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
1498 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
1501 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
1502 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
1504 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
1507 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
1509 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
1512 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
1513 line for the DELETE method.
1515 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
1516 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
1518 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
1519 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
1522 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
1524 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
1525 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
1527 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
1528 exist in nginx configuration.
1530 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
1533 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
1535 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
1536 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
1540 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
1542 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
1543 unsuccessful completion of a request.
1545 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
1546 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
1548 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
1549 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
1552 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1553 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
1554 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1556 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1557 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
1558 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1560 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
1561 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
1562 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
1564 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
1565 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
1568 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
1570 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
1571 directive are not supported anymore.
1573 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
1574 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
1575 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
1576 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
1579 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1580 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
1582 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
1584 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
1585 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
1587 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
1591 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
1593 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
1595 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
1598 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
1599 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
1601 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
1604 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
1606 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1607 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
1609 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
1610 system time was changed backward.
1612 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
1613 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
1615 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
1616 proxy authentication server failed.
1619 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
1621 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
1622 "limit_except" block.
1624 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
1626 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
1627 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
1630 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
1631 the deferred accept() were used.
1633 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
1634 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1636 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1639 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
1640 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
1642 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
1643 had appeared in 0.3.50.
1646 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
1648 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
1650 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
1651 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
1653 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
1656 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
1658 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
1660 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
1663 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
1664 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
1667 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
1669 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
1671 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
1672 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
1675 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
1676 variable was used in the "map" directive.
1678 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
1679 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1681 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
1685 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
1687 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1689 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
1693 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
1695 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1696 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1699 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
1701 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
1704 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
1706 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
1708 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
1710 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
1713 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1714 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1717 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
1718 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
1721 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1725 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
1727 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1730 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
1731 if its length was set by text string in the
1732 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
1734 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
1735 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
1736 had appeared in 0.4.4.
1739 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
1741 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
1745 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
1747 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
1749 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
1751 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
1752 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
1754 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
1755 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
1757 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
1760 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
1761 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
1764 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
1766 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
1767 "error_page" directive.
1769 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
1771 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
1773 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
1774 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
1776 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
1777 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
1779 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
1781 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
1784 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
1786 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
1787 had appeared in 0.4.1.
1790 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
1792 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
1793 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
1795 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
1798 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
1800 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
1803 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
1805 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
1806 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
1808 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
1809 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
1810 $r->has_request_body method.
1812 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
1814 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
1815 line for the PUT method.
1817 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1819 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
1820 directive with variables and the first index name was without
1821 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
1824 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
1826 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
1828 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
1830 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
1832 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
1833 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
1836 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
1838 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
1839 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
1842 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
1844 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
1845 "error_page" directive.
1847 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
1849 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
1850 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
1851 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
1854 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
1856 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
1858 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
1860 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
1861 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
1863 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
1865 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
1866 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
1868 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
1871 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
1873 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
1875 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
1876 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
1878 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
1879 to a client the required certificates information.
1881 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
1882 the "root" directive.
1885 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
1887 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
1889 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
1890 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
1892 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
1893 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
1897 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
1899 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1901 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
1903 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
1905 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
1906 was relative to a server prefix.
1908 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
1909 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
1911 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
1912 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
1914 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1915 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
1918 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
1919 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
1923 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
1925 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
1927 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
1928 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
1930 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
1933 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
1934 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
1936 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
1937 first request to a backend only.
1939 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
1943 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
1945 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
1948 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1949 the "weight" parameter.
1951 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
1953 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
1955 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
1956 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
1959 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
1960 return the 409 code.
1962 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
1963 continued proxying anyway.
1966 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
1968 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
1969 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
1970 return the 405 error.
1972 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
1973 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
1975 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
1976 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1978 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
1979 temporary file was not removed.
1982 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
1984 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
1985 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1988 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
1990 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
1991 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
1992 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
1994 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
1995 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
1997 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
1998 proxy and FastCGI mode.
2000 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
2001 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
2003 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
2004 SSI after inclusion.
2006 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
2007 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
2010 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
2012 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
2014 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
2015 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
2019 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
2021 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
2022 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
2024 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
2025 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
2026 start of the rewritten redirect.
2028 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
2029 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2030 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
2033 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
2034 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
2037 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
2039 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
2041 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
2042 SSI command is always removed.
2045 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
2047 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
2048 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
2050 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
2051 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
2053 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
2056 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
2057 ngx_http_perl_module.
2060 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
2062 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
2063 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
2065 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
2068 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
2071 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
2074 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
2075 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
2076 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
2080 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
2082 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2084 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
2085 koi-win conversion table.
2087 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2090 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
2092 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2095 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
2097 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
2100 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
2103 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
2104 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
2105 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
2106 were not written to access log.
2108 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
2109 "Cache-Control" response header line.
2112 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
2114 *) Feature: the -v switch.
2116 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
2119 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
2121 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
2122 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
2123 segmentation fault was occurred.
2126 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
2128 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
2130 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
2132 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
2135 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
2137 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
2138 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
2141 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
2143 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
2144 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
2147 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
2148 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
2149 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2151 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
2155 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
2157 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
2159 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
2160 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
2162 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
2165 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
2167 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
2169 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2171 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
2172 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
2175 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
2176 login and password to pass authorization server.
2177 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2180 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
2182 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
2184 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
2187 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
2190 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2193 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
2195 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2197 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
2198 inside the "if" block.
2200 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
2201 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
2203 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
2205 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
2206 and $r->remote_addr.
2208 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
2210 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
2211 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
2213 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
2214 ngx_http_ssi_module.
2216 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
2217 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
2218 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
2219 a current path but not to a server prefix.
2222 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
2224 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
2225 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2227 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
2231 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
2233 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
2236 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
2238 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2239 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
2241 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
2242 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
2244 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
2247 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
2249 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
2250 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2253 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
2255 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
2257 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
2260 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
2262 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
2264 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2266 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
2267 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
2268 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
2271 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2272 and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
2275 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
2278 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
2280 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
2283 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
2284 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
2286 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
2287 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
2290 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
2292 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
2293 many warnings before the response.
2295 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
2296 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
2298 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
2299 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
2301 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
2302 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
2306 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
2308 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
2310 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
2312 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
2313 terminated prematurely.
2314 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
2316 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
2317 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2320 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
2321 completion of a request.
2323 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
2324 directive was transferred to a client.
2327 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
2329 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
2330 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2332 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
2333 "log_format" directive.
2335 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
2337 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
2340 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
2341 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
2343 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
2344 autoconfiguration directive.
2346 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2347 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
2350 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
2352 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
2353 "optimize_server_names".
2355 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
2356 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
2360 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
2362 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2363 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
2367 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
2369 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
2371 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
2372 not transferred to a client.
2374 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
2376 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
2379 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
2380 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
2381 had appeared in 0.3.18.
2384 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
2386 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
2388 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
2391 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
2395 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
2397 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
2398 $r->unescape methods.
2400 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
2403 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
2404 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
2408 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
2410 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
2412 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
2416 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
2418 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2420 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
2421 the "/usr?args" form.
2424 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
2426 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
2428 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
2430 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2433 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
2435 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
2438 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
2439 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
2441 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
2442 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2444 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
2445 directives were canceled.
2447 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
2449 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
2450 only without the URI part.
2452 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
2453 ngx_http_map_module.
2455 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
2456 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
2458 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
2459 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
2462 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
2464 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
2465 sendfile64() in kernel.
2467 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
2470 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
2473 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2475 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
2476 directive the port 80 was used by default.
2479 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
2481 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
2483 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
2486 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
2488 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
2490 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
2491 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
2494 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
2496 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
2497 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
2498 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2500 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
2501 had appeared in 0.3.13.
2504 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
2506 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
2509 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2511 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
2512 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
2515 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
2517 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
2521 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
2523 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
2525 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
2528 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2530 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2531 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2533 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
2534 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
2537 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
2539 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
2540 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
2541 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
2542 and is not built by default.
2544 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
2546 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
2547 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
2548 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
2550 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
2552 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
2554 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
2555 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2557 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
2558 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
2560 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
2561 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
2562 without the "Basic realm" text.
2564 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
2565 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
2566 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2568 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
2571 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
2572 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
2575 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
2577 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
2578 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
2581 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
2583 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
2584 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
2585 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
2587 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
2590 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
2592 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
2594 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
2596 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
2598 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
2600 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
2602 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
2604 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
2605 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
2608 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
2610 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
2611 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
2614 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
2616 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
2617 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2620 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
2622 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
2623 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
2626 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
2627 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
2629 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
2630 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2632 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
2633 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
2635 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
2637 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
2639 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
2640 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
2641 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
2642 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
2643 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
2644 will be canceled soon.
2646 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
2647 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
2649 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
2650 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
2652 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
2655 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
2656 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
2657 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
2660 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
2663 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
2664 several worker processes were used.
2666 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
2669 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
2670 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
2671 did not transferred at all.
2674 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
2676 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
2678 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2679 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
2682 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
2684 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
2685 authorization server.
2687 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
2689 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
2690 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
2693 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
2694 the 80 port was always used.
2697 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
2699 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
2700 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2702 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
2703 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
2705 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
2706 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
2709 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
2711 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
2712 had appeared in 0.3.3.
2715 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
2717 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
2718 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
2720 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
2723 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
2724 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
2726 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
2728 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
2729 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
2732 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
2733 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2735 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
2737 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
2739 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
2740 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
2742 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
2744 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
2746 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
2747 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2749 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
2753 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
2755 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
2757 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
2758 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
2759 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
2762 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
2764 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
2765 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
2768 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
2772 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
2774 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
2775 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
2779 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
2781 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
2782 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
2784 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
2785 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
2787 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
2788 more flexible to change an error code.
2790 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
2791 in proxied subrequests.
2793 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
2794 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
2797 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
2798 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
2799 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
2800 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2803 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
2805 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
2806 causes the warning and changes old value.
2808 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
2810 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
2811 the "include" command.
2813 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
2814 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
2817 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
2819 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
2820 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
2822 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
2825 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
2826 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2829 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
2831 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
2832 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2835 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
2837 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
2839 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
2842 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
2843 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2845 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
2848 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
2851 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
2853 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2855 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
2858 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
2860 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2861 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
2865 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
2867 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
2868 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
2869 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
2870 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
2871 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
2872 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
2875 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
2876 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
2877 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
2879 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
2881 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
2883 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
2884 not run for subrequests.
2886 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
2889 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2890 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
2892 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
2893 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2895 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2897 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
2899 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
2900 from the 304 responses.
2901 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
2904 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
2906 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
2907 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
2909 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
2912 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2915 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
2917 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
2919 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
2921 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
2923 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
2924 of authorization use.
2927 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
2929 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
2930 changed using the -HUP signal.
2932 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
2934 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
2937 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
2938 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
2939 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
2940 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2943 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
2945 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
2946 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
2947 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
2949 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
2950 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2953 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
2955 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
2956 can not be used in SSI.
2959 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
2961 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
2962 information did not logged in the error log.
2964 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
2965 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
2967 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
2968 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
2970 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
2973 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
2974 became shorter in the "ps" command.
2977 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
2979 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
2980 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
2981 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
2983 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
2984 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
2986 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
2987 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
2988 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2990 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
2992 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
2993 the "include virtual" command.
2995 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
2996 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
2997 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2999 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
3000 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
3001 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3003 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
3006 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
3007 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3009 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
3013 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
3015 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
3018 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
3019 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
3021 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
3023 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
3025 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
3026 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
3028 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
3031 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
3032 than one remote subrequest.
3034 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
3035 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
3038 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
3040 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
3042 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
3045 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3048 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
3050 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
3052 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
3053 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
3055 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
3056 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3057 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
3058 request all backends again.
3061 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
3063 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
3064 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
3065 now returns the 400 error.
3067 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
3069 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
3070 parameters of the "listen" directive.
3072 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
3074 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
3076 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
3079 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
3080 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
3083 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
3085 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
3087 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
3089 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
3090 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3092 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
3093 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
3094 occurred on the start.
3096 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
3097 bigger than the temporary file.
3099 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
3100 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
3104 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
3106 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3107 big response part were include by SSI.
3109 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
3112 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
3114 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
3115 the client request header line passing.
3118 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
3120 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
3121 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3123 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
3124 level cause the bus fault on start up.
3126 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
3128 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
3129 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
3132 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
3134 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
3135 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3137 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
3140 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
3141 of regular expressions.
3143 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
3144 proxy and FastCGI mode.
3147 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
3149 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3151 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
3153 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3155 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
3156 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
3159 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
3161 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3164 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3166 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
3167 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
3168 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
3171 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
3174 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
3176 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
3179 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
3181 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
3183 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
3184 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
3187 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
3188 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
3190 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
3192 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
3193 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
3195 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
3197 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
3198 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
3200 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
3201 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
3203 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
3204 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
3205 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
3206 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
3208 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
3209 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
3211 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
3213 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
3216 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
3217 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
3220 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
3222 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
3223 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
3226 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
3228 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
3230 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
3232 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
3234 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
3236 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
3237 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
3238 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
3240 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
3241 headers or a backend response header.
3243 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
3244 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
3245 returned the 408 response.
3247 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
3248 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
3250 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
3251 tolerance configuration.
3253 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3254 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
3256 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
3259 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
3261 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
3264 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
3267 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
3269 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
3271 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
3274 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
3276 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
3278 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
3279 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
3282 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
3284 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
3285 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
3288 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
3289 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
3293 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
3295 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
3298 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
3300 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
3301 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
3304 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
3306 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
3308 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
3309 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
3311 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
3312 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
3313 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
3314 after request completion.
3316 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
3319 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
3320 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
3322 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
3323 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
3325 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
3326 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
3327 will be removed soon.
3329 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
3331 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
3333 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
3335 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
3338 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
3340 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
3341 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
3343 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
3344 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
3347 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
3350 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
3354 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
3356 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
3357 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
3358 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
3361 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
3363 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
3364 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
3365 server name of the "server_name" directive.
3367 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3368 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
3370 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
3371 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
3373 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
3374 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
3377 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
3379 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
3380 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
3382 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
3383 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
3386 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
3388 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
3389 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
3391 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
3392 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
3394 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3397 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
3399 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
3400 the fastcgi_params directive.
3402 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
3405 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
3407 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
3408 returned for the local requests.
3410 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3412 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
3413 request body via SSL connections.
3416 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
3418 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
3419 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
3422 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
3425 *) Bugfix: in the redirect rewrite directive the arguments were
3426 concatenated with URI by the "&" rather than the "?".
3428 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
3429 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
3431 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
3433 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
3434 the segmentation fault.
3436 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
3439 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
3441 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
3442 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
3443 configuration to the request.
3446 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
3448 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
3449 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
3450 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
3451 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
3453 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
3455 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
3457 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
3460 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
3461 small caps letters in extension.
3463 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
3464 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
3465 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
3467 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
3468 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
3471 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
3474 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
3476 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
3477 request the final chunk was issued.
3479 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
3480 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
3482 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
3483 segmentation faults.
3485 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
3488 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
3489 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
3491 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
3493 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
3494 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
3497 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
3499 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
3502 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
3503 different number of the captures and substitutions.
3505 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
3508 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
3509 arguments and in the original state.
3511 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
3512 to use the regular expressions in locations.
3514 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
3515 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
3518 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
3519 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
3520 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
3521 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
3524 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
3526 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
3527 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
3528 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
3530 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
3531 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
3532 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
3534 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
3535 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
3536 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
3537 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
3538 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
3539 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
3540 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
3542 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
3545 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
3546 proxy_pass directive.
3548 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
3551 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
3552 ngx_http_proxy_module.
3554 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
3555 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
3558 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
3560 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
3563 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
3566 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
3570 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
3572 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
3574 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
3575 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
3576 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
3577 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
3579 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
3580 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
3583 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
3585 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
3587 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
3588 transferred response.
3590 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
3591 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
3593 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
3596 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
3597 broken symlink was in a directory.
3599 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
3602 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
3603 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
3606 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
3607 when the /dev/poll method was used.
3609 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
3611 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
3613 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
3615 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
3616 section in configuration.
3618 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
3620 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
3624 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
3626 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
3627 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
3628 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
3630 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
3634 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
3636 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
3637 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
3639 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
3642 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
3643 does not support sendfile64().
3645 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
3646 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
3650 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
3652 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
3655 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
3657 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
3660 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
3662 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
3663 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
3666 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
3668 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
3669 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
3672 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
3674 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
3675 returned not enough data" alerts.
3677 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
3678 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
3679 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
3682 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
3685 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
3687 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
3689 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
3690 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
3692 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
3694 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
3697 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
3699 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
3702 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
3704 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
3706 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
3708 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3712 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
3714 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
3715 options in configure.
3717 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
3719 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
3721 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
3722 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3724 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3727 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
3728 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3730 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
3732 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
3736 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
3738 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
3740 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
3742 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
3743 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
3745 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
3747 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
3749 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
3752 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
3754 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
3755 used while the proxying.
3757 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
3759 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
3760 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
3763 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
3765 *) The first public version.
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