2 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
4 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
5 the "try_files" directive.
7 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
9 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
11 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
13 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
16 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
18 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
21 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
23 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
25 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
27 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
28 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
30 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
32 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
33 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
34 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
37 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
39 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
40 variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
41 and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
44 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
46 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
47 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
49 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
51 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0 requests;
52 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
54 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
58 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
60 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
62 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
63 changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
66 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
68 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
70 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
72 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
74 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
76 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
79 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
81 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
83 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
84 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
86 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
88 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
89 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
91 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
94 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
96 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
99 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
101 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
103 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
105 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
108 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
111 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
113 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
115 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
116 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
118 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
122 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
124 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
126 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
128 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
131 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
133 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
134 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
136 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
138 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
140 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
144 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
146 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
148 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
149 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
151 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
152 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
154 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
158 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
160 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
162 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
164 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
165 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
166 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
168 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
169 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
171 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
174 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
175 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
177 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
180 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
182 *) Bugfix: version number update.
185 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
187 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
188 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
190 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
192 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
194 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
196 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
198 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
199 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
201 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
202 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
204 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" heaer line
207 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
210 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
212 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
214 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
216 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
217 not work with open_file_cache.
219 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
220 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
222 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
223 charset name received from backend.
226 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
228 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
232 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
234 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
236 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
237 requests starting from arbitrary position.
239 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
242 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
246 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
248 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
249 have not default values.
251 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
253 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
254 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
256 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
257 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
260 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
261 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
263 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
266 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
268 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
272 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
274 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
276 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
278 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
279 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
280 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
282 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
283 "error_page" directive.
285 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
286 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
288 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
289 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
290 had appeared in 0.7.0.
293 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
295 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
298 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
299 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
301 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
303 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
304 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
306 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
307 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
309 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
312 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
314 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
315 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
316 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
318 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
320 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
321 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
324 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
326 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
327 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
328 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
330 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
332 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
335 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
337 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
339 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
340 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
342 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
345 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
346 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
348 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
349 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
350 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bugs had
354 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
356 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
358 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
360 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
361 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
363 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
364 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
365 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
368 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
370 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
373 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
374 with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
375 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
378 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
380 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
381 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
383 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
384 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
386 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
388 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
389 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
392 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
393 /dev/poll methods were used.
395 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
398 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
400 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
401 request root existence is always tested.
403 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
407 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
409 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
410 bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
412 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
413 had appeared in 0.7.3.
414 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
416 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
417 might were transferred incorrectly.
420 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
422 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
424 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
426 *) Feature: the -g switch.
428 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
430 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
433 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
435 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
436 "application/rss+xml".
438 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
439 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
441 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
442 if the "https://" protocol is used.
444 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
445 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
448 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
450 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
452 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
454 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
455 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
457 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
458 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
459 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
461 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
464 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
465 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
468 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
470 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
472 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
473 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
475 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
477 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
478 now this is default parameter.
479 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
481 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
484 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
488 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
490 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
491 \xXX in an access_log.
492 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
494 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
496 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
498 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
499 request processing stage.
501 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
502 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
504 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
505 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
507 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
508 if keepalive was enabled.
511 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
513 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
514 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
515 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
517 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
518 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
521 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
523 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
524 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
526 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
527 for example, "1h50m".
529 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
530 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
532 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
535 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
536 arguments in redirected URI.
538 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
540 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
544 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
546 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
548 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
549 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
552 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
554 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
558 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
560 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
563 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
564 named location via an "error_page" directive.
566 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
569 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
571 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
572 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
573 static named locations.
575 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
576 client certificate in first handshake.
577 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
579 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
580 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
583 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
585 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
587 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
588 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
589 static named locations.
591 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
592 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
594 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
595 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
596 name and without variables.
597 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
599 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
600 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
602 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
603 stub block was used second time in SSI.
605 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
608 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
610 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
611 check a response length.
613 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
614 value was used in a "expires" directive.
615 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
617 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
618 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
620 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
621 was used instead of the GET method.
623 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
624 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
626 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
627 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
629 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
630 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
633 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
635 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
636 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
638 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
639 "server_name" directive.
641 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
644 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
645 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
647 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
649 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
651 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
652 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
654 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
655 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
657 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
661 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
663 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
664 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
667 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
669 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
670 now this is default parameter.
672 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
673 "open_file_cache_valid".
675 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
677 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
679 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
681 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
684 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
685 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
687 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
688 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
689 auth directives were not tested;
691 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
692 inherited from previous level.
694 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
695 with 499 status code.
697 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
698 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
700 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
701 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
703 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
704 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
707 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
709 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
710 perl's allocated memory.
712 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
713 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
714 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
716 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
718 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
721 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
722 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
723 request body was already received.
725 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
727 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
729 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
730 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
732 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
733 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
734 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
736 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
737 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
739 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
742 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
744 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
745 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
747 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
748 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
751 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
752 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
753 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
755 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
756 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
757 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
760 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
761 server, then nginx returned usual response.
764 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
766 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
767 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
771 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
773 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
776 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
778 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
779 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
781 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
784 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
786 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
788 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
789 "Last-Modified" response header line.
791 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
792 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
795 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
797 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
798 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
800 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
801 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
803 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
806 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
807 subrequests were used.
809 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
812 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
813 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
816 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
818 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
819 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
821 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
822 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
824 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
827 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
829 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
830 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
832 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
834 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
836 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
838 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
840 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
841 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
842 "source_charset" directives.
844 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
845 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
846 Thanks to James Oakley.
848 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
849 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
850 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
852 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
853 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
854 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
857 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
859 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
861 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
863 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
864 "limit_except" block.
866 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
867 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
870 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
871 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
872 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
874 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
876 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
878 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
879 $upstream_response_time.
880 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
882 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
885 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
886 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
889 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
891 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
894 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
896 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
898 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
901 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
903 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
905 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
906 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
908 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
909 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
911 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
914 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
915 located in non-standard place was used.
917 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
918 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
920 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
923 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
925 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
928 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
929 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
931 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
934 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
935 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
939 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
941 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
942 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
944 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
946 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
947 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
949 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
950 /dev/poll method was used.
953 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
955 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
956 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
958 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
959 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
961 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
964 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
968 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
970 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
971 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
972 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
974 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
975 authentication server.
977 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
979 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
980 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
981 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
983 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
986 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
988 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
989 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
990 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
991 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
992 not to nginx prefix directory.
994 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
996 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
997 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
999 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
1000 regular expressions.
1002 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1003 the "backup" parameter.
1005 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
1006 $r->discard_request_body.
1008 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
1009 "Last-Modified" response header line.
1011 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
1012 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
1013 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
1015 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
1016 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
1018 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
1019 platforms except FreeBSD.
1020 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1022 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1023 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
1026 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
1027 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
1030 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
1032 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
1034 *) Feature: named locations.
1036 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
1038 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
1040 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
1042 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
1043 might not close connection to backend.
1045 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
1046 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
1048 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
1049 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1052 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
1054 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
1055 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
1057 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
1058 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1060 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
1061 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1063 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
1065 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
1067 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1069 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
1070 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
1073 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
1075 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
1076 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
1078 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
1081 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
1084 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1086 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1088 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
1089 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1092 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
1094 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
1096 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1097 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
1098 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1100 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1101 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
1103 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
1104 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1106 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1107 eventport method was used.
1109 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
1110 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
1114 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
1116 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
1117 passed garbage in the header to a client.
1120 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
1122 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
1124 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
1125 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
1127 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
1130 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
1131 to the master process identification number.
1134 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
1136 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
1137 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
1140 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
1142 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
1143 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
1147 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
1149 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
1150 was made using HTTP/0.9.
1152 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
1153 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
1156 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
1158 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
1161 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
1162 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
1164 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
1165 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
1167 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
1168 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
1169 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
1171 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1174 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
1176 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
1177 had appeared in 0.5.21.
1180 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
1182 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
1183 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
1185 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
1186 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
1187 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
1189 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
1191 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1193 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1196 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
1198 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
1200 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
1201 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
1203 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1204 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
1206 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
1207 transferred incorrectly.
1208 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1210 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1212 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1214 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
1216 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1219 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
1221 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
1223 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
1226 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
1228 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
1229 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
1230 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
1232 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1233 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
1235 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1236 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
1239 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
1241 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
1243 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
1245 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
1246 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
1248 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
1249 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
1250 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
1251 had appeared in 0.5.9.
1253 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
1254 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
1258 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
1260 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
1262 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
1265 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
1266 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
1268 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1270 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
1271 returned old cached value.
1274 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
1276 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
1277 "ip_hash" directive.
1278 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
1280 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1281 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
1282 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1284 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1285 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
1288 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
1289 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
1292 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
1294 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
1295 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
1296 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
1298 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
1299 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
1301 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
1302 and "pop3_auth" directives.
1304 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1305 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
1308 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
1309 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
1311 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
1312 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
1314 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1315 "ip_hash" directive was used.
1317 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
1321 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
1323 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
1327 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
1329 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
1331 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
1332 via keep-alive connection.
1334 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
1335 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1337 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
1338 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
1340 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1341 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1344 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1345 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1348 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
1350 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1351 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1353 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1354 temporarily files were used while working with FastCGI server; the
1355 bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1357 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1358 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
1360 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
1363 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
1365 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
1366 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
1368 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
1369 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
1371 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
1372 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
1373 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1375 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
1376 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
1378 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1379 was built with -O2 optimization.
1382 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
1384 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
1385 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
1387 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1388 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
1391 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
1393 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
1394 variable value as a key.
1396 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
1398 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
1401 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
1403 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1405 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
1406 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
1408 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
1412 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
1414 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
1415 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
1417 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1418 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
1419 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
1420 switched to a next upstream.
1422 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
1423 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
1424 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1426 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1427 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1430 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1433 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
1436 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
1438 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
1440 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
1442 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1443 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
1444 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
1446 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
1447 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
1448 "Content-Type" header line in response.
1450 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
1452 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
1454 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
1457 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
1459 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
1460 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
1462 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
1464 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
1466 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
1467 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
1469 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
1471 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
1472 $r->sendfile() was used.
1475 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
1477 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
1479 *) Feature: the -V switch.
1481 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
1484 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
1487 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
1488 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
1490 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
1493 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
1495 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
1498 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
1499 line for the DELETE method.
1501 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
1502 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
1504 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
1505 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
1508 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
1510 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
1511 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
1513 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
1514 exist in nginx configuration.
1516 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
1519 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
1521 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
1522 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
1526 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
1528 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
1529 unsuccessful completion of a request.
1531 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
1532 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
1534 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
1535 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
1538 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1539 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
1540 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1542 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1543 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
1544 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1546 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
1547 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
1548 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
1550 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
1551 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
1554 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
1556 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
1557 directive are not supported anymore.
1559 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
1560 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
1561 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
1562 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
1565 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1566 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
1568 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
1570 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
1571 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
1573 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
1577 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
1579 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
1581 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
1584 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
1585 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
1587 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
1590 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
1592 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1593 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
1595 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
1596 system time was changed backward.
1598 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
1599 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
1601 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
1602 proxy authentication server failed.
1605 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
1607 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
1608 "limit_except" block.
1610 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
1612 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
1613 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
1616 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
1617 the deferred accept() were used.
1619 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
1620 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1622 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1625 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
1626 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
1628 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
1629 had appeared in 0.3.50.
1632 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
1634 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
1636 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
1637 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
1639 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
1642 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
1644 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
1646 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
1649 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
1650 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
1653 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
1655 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
1657 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
1658 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
1661 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
1662 variable was used in the "map" directive.
1664 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
1665 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1667 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
1671 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
1673 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1675 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
1679 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
1681 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1682 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1685 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
1687 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
1690 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
1692 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
1694 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
1696 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
1699 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1700 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1703 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
1704 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
1707 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1711 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
1713 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1716 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
1717 if its length was set by text string in the
1718 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
1720 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
1721 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
1722 had appeared in 0.4.4.
1725 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
1727 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
1731 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
1733 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
1735 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
1737 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
1738 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
1740 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
1741 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
1743 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
1746 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
1747 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
1750 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
1752 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
1753 "error_page" directive.
1755 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
1757 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
1759 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
1760 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
1762 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
1763 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
1765 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
1767 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
1770 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
1772 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
1773 had appeared in 0.4.1.
1776 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
1778 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
1779 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
1781 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
1784 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
1786 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
1789 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
1791 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
1792 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
1794 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
1795 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
1796 $r->has_request_body method.
1798 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
1800 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
1801 line for the PUT method.
1803 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1805 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
1806 directive with variables and the first index name was without
1807 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
1810 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
1812 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
1814 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
1816 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
1818 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
1819 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
1822 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
1824 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
1825 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
1828 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
1830 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
1831 "error_page" directive.
1833 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
1835 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
1836 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
1837 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
1840 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
1842 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
1844 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
1846 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
1847 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
1849 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
1851 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
1852 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
1854 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
1857 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
1859 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
1861 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
1862 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
1864 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
1865 to a client the required certificates information.
1867 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
1868 the "root" directive.
1871 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
1873 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
1875 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
1876 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
1878 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
1879 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
1883 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
1885 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1887 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
1889 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
1891 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
1892 was relative to a server prefix.
1894 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
1895 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
1897 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
1898 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
1900 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1901 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
1904 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
1905 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
1909 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
1911 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
1913 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
1914 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
1916 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
1919 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
1920 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
1922 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
1923 first request to a backend only.
1925 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
1929 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
1931 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
1934 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1935 the "weight" parameter.
1937 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
1939 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
1941 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
1942 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
1945 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
1946 return the 409 code.
1948 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
1949 continued proxying anyway.
1952 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
1954 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
1955 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
1956 return the 405 error.
1958 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
1959 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
1961 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
1962 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1964 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
1965 temporary file was not removed.
1968 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
1970 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
1971 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1974 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
1976 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
1977 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
1978 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
1980 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
1981 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
1983 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
1984 proxy and FastCGI mode.
1986 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
1987 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
1989 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
1990 SSI after inclusion.
1992 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
1993 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
1996 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
1998 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
2000 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
2001 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
2005 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
2007 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
2008 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
2010 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
2011 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
2012 start of the rewritten redirect.
2014 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
2015 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2016 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
2019 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
2020 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
2023 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
2025 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
2027 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
2028 SSI command is always removed.
2031 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
2033 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
2034 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
2036 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
2037 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
2039 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
2042 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
2043 ngx_http_perl_module.
2046 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
2048 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
2049 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
2051 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
2054 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
2057 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
2060 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
2061 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
2062 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
2066 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
2068 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2070 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
2071 koi-win conversion table.
2073 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2076 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
2078 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2081 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
2083 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
2086 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
2089 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
2090 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
2091 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
2092 were not written to access log.
2094 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
2095 "Cache-Control" response header line.
2098 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
2100 *) Feature: the -v switch.
2102 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
2105 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
2107 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
2108 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
2109 segmentation fault was occurred.
2112 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
2114 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
2116 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
2118 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
2121 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
2123 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
2124 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
2127 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
2129 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
2130 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
2133 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
2134 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
2135 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2137 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
2141 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
2143 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
2145 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
2146 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
2148 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
2151 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
2153 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
2155 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2157 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
2158 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
2161 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
2162 login and password to pass authorization server.
2163 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2166 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
2168 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
2170 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
2173 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
2176 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2179 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
2181 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2183 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
2184 inside the "if" block.
2186 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
2187 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
2189 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
2191 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
2192 and $r->remote_addr.
2194 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
2196 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
2197 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
2199 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
2200 ngx_http_ssi_module.
2202 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
2203 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
2204 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
2205 a current path but not to a server prefix.
2208 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
2210 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
2211 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2213 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
2217 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
2219 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
2222 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
2224 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2225 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
2227 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
2228 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
2230 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
2233 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
2235 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
2236 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2239 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
2241 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
2243 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
2246 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
2248 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
2250 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2252 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
2253 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
2254 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
2257 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2258 and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
2261 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
2264 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
2266 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
2269 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
2270 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
2272 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
2273 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
2276 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
2278 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
2279 many warnings before the response.
2281 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
2282 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
2284 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
2285 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
2287 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
2288 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
2292 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
2294 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
2296 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
2298 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
2299 terminated prematurely.
2300 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
2302 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
2303 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2306 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
2307 completion of a request.
2309 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
2310 directive was transferred to a client.
2313 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
2315 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
2316 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2318 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
2319 "log_format" directive.
2321 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
2323 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
2326 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
2327 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
2329 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
2330 autoconfiguration directive.
2332 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2333 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
2336 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
2338 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
2339 "optimize_server_names".
2341 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
2342 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
2346 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
2348 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2349 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
2353 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
2355 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
2357 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
2358 not transferred to a client.
2360 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
2362 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
2365 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
2366 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
2367 had appeared in 0.3.18.
2370 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
2372 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
2374 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
2377 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
2381 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
2383 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
2384 $r->unescape methods.
2386 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
2389 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
2390 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
2394 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
2396 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
2398 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
2402 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
2404 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2406 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
2407 the "/usr?args" form.
2410 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
2412 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
2414 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
2416 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2419 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
2421 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
2424 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
2425 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
2427 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
2428 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2430 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
2431 directives were canceled.
2433 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
2435 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
2436 only without the URI part.
2438 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
2439 ngx_http_map_module.
2441 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
2442 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
2444 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
2445 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
2448 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
2450 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
2451 sendfile64() in kernel.
2453 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
2456 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
2459 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2461 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
2462 directive the port 80 was used by default.
2465 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
2467 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
2469 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
2472 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
2474 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
2476 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
2477 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
2480 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
2482 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
2483 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
2484 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2486 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
2487 had appeared in 0.3.13.
2490 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
2492 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
2495 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2497 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
2498 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
2501 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
2503 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
2507 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
2509 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
2511 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
2514 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2516 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2517 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2519 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
2520 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
2523 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
2525 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
2526 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
2527 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
2528 and is not built by default.
2530 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
2532 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
2533 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
2534 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
2536 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
2538 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
2540 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
2541 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2543 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
2544 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
2546 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
2547 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
2548 without the "Basic realm" text.
2550 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
2551 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
2552 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2554 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
2557 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
2558 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
2561 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
2563 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
2564 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
2567 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
2569 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
2570 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
2571 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
2573 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
2576 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
2578 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
2580 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
2582 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
2584 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
2586 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
2588 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
2590 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
2591 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
2594 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
2596 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
2597 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
2600 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
2602 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
2603 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2606 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
2608 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
2609 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
2612 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
2613 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
2615 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
2616 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2618 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
2619 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
2621 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
2623 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
2625 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
2626 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
2627 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
2628 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
2629 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
2630 will be canceled soon.
2632 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
2633 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
2635 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
2636 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
2638 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
2641 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
2642 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
2643 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
2646 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
2649 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
2650 several worker processes were used.
2652 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
2655 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
2656 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
2657 did not transferred at all.
2660 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
2662 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
2664 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2665 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
2668 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
2670 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
2671 authorization server.
2673 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
2675 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
2676 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
2679 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
2680 the 80 port was always used.
2683 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
2685 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
2686 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2688 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
2689 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
2691 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
2692 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
2695 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
2697 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
2698 had appeared in 0.3.3.
2701 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
2703 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
2704 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
2706 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
2709 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
2710 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
2712 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
2714 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
2715 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
2718 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
2719 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2721 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
2723 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
2725 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
2726 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
2728 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
2730 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
2732 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
2733 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2735 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
2739 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
2741 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
2743 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
2744 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
2745 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
2748 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
2750 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
2751 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
2754 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
2758 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
2760 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
2761 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
2765 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
2767 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
2768 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
2770 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
2771 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
2773 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
2774 more flexible to change an error code.
2776 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
2777 in proxied subrequests.
2779 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
2780 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
2783 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
2784 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
2785 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
2786 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2789 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
2791 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
2792 causes the warning and changes old value.
2794 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
2796 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
2797 the "include" command.
2799 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
2800 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
2803 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
2805 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
2806 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
2808 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
2811 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
2812 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2815 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
2817 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
2818 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2821 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
2823 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
2825 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
2828 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
2829 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2831 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
2834 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
2837 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
2839 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2841 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
2844 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
2846 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2847 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
2851 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
2853 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
2854 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
2855 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
2856 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
2857 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
2858 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
2861 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
2862 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
2863 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
2865 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
2867 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
2869 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
2870 not run for subrequests.
2872 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
2875 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2876 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
2878 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
2879 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2881 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2883 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
2885 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
2886 from the 304 responses.
2887 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
2890 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
2892 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
2893 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
2895 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
2898 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2901 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
2903 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
2905 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
2907 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
2909 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
2910 of authorization use.
2913 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
2915 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
2916 changed using the -HUP signal.
2918 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
2920 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
2923 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
2924 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
2925 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
2926 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2929 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
2931 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
2932 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
2933 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
2935 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
2936 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2939 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
2941 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
2942 can not be used in SSI.
2945 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
2947 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
2948 information did not logged in the error log.
2950 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
2951 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
2953 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
2954 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
2956 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
2959 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
2960 became shorter in the "ps" command.
2963 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
2965 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
2966 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
2967 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
2969 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
2970 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
2972 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
2973 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
2974 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2976 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
2978 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
2979 the "include virtual" command.
2981 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
2982 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
2983 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2985 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
2986 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
2987 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2989 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
2992 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
2993 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2995 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
2999 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
3001 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
3004 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
3005 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
3007 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
3009 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
3011 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
3012 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
3014 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
3017 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
3018 than one remote subrequest.
3020 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
3021 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
3024 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
3026 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
3028 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
3031 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3034 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
3036 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
3038 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
3039 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
3041 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
3042 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3043 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
3044 request all backends again.
3047 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
3049 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
3050 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
3051 now returns the 400 error.
3053 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
3055 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
3056 parameters of the "listen" directive.
3058 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
3060 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
3062 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
3065 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
3066 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
3069 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
3071 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
3073 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
3075 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
3076 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3078 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
3079 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
3080 occurred on the start.
3082 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
3083 bigger than the temporary file.
3085 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
3086 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
3090 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
3092 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3093 big response part were include by SSI.
3095 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
3098 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
3100 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
3101 the client request header line passing.
3104 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
3106 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
3107 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3109 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
3110 level cause the bus fault on start up.
3112 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
3114 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
3115 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
3118 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
3120 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
3121 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3123 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
3126 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
3127 of regular expressions.
3129 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
3130 proxy and FastCGI mode.
3133 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
3135 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3137 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
3139 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3141 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
3142 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
3145 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
3147 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3150 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3152 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
3153 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
3154 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
3157 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
3160 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
3162 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
3165 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
3167 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
3169 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
3170 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
3173 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
3174 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
3176 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
3178 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
3179 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
3181 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
3183 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
3184 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
3186 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
3187 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
3189 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
3190 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
3191 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
3192 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
3194 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
3195 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
3197 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
3199 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
3202 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
3203 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
3206 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
3208 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
3209 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
3212 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
3214 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
3216 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
3218 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
3220 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
3222 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
3223 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
3224 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
3226 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
3227 headers or a backend response header.
3229 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
3230 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
3231 returned the 408 response.
3233 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
3234 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
3236 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
3237 tolerance configuration.
3239 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3240 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
3242 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
3245 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
3247 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
3250 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
3253 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
3255 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
3257 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
3260 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
3262 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
3264 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
3265 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
3268 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
3270 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
3271 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
3274 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
3275 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
3279 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
3281 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
3284 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
3286 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
3287 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
3290 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
3292 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
3294 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
3295 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
3297 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
3298 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
3299 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
3300 after request completion.
3302 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
3305 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
3306 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
3308 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
3309 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
3311 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
3312 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
3313 will be removed soon.
3315 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
3317 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
3319 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
3321 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
3324 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
3326 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
3327 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
3329 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
3330 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
3333 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
3336 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
3340 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
3342 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
3343 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
3344 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
3347 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
3349 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
3350 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
3351 server name of the "server_name" directive.
3353 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3354 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
3356 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
3357 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
3359 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
3360 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
3363 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
3365 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
3366 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
3368 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
3369 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
3372 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
3374 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
3375 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
3377 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
3378 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
3380 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3383 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
3385 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
3386 the fastcgi_params directive.
3388 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
3391 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
3393 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
3394 returned for the local requests.
3396 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3398 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
3399 request body via SSL connections.
3402 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
3404 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
3405 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
3408 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
3411 *) Bugfix: in the redirect rewrite directive the arguments were
3412 concatenated with URI by the "&" rather than the "?".
3414 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
3415 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
3417 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
3419 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
3420 the segmentation fault.
3422 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
3425 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
3427 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
3428 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
3429 configuration to the request.
3432 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
3434 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
3435 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
3436 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
3437 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
3439 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
3441 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
3443 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
3446 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
3447 small caps letters in extension.
3449 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
3450 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
3451 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
3453 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
3454 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
3457 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
3460 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
3462 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
3463 request the final chunk was issued.
3465 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
3466 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
3468 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
3469 segmentation faults.
3471 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
3474 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
3475 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
3477 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
3479 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
3480 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
3483 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
3485 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
3488 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
3489 different number of the captures and substitutions.
3491 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
3494 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
3495 arguments and in the original state.
3497 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
3498 to use the regular expressions in locations.
3500 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
3501 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
3504 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
3505 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
3506 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
3507 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
3510 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
3512 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
3513 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
3514 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
3516 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
3517 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
3518 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
3520 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
3521 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
3522 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
3523 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
3524 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
3525 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
3526 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
3528 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
3531 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
3532 proxy_pass directive.
3534 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
3537 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
3538 ngx_http_proxy_module.
3540 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
3541 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
3544 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
3546 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
3549 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
3552 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
3556 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
3558 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
3560 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
3561 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
3562 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
3563 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
3565 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
3566 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
3569 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
3571 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
3573 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
3574 transferred response.
3576 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
3577 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
3579 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
3582 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
3583 broken symlink was in a directory.
3585 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
3588 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
3589 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
3592 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
3593 when the /dev/poll method was used.
3595 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
3597 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
3599 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
3601 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
3602 section in configuration.
3604 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
3606 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
3610 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
3612 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
3613 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
3614 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
3616 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
3620 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
3622 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
3623 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
3625 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
3628 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
3629 does not support sendfile64().
3631 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
3632 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
3636 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
3638 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
3641 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
3643 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
3646 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
3648 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
3649 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
3652 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
3654 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
3655 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
3658 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
3660 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
3661 returned not enough data" alerts.
3663 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
3664 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
3665 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
3668 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
3671 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
3673 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
3675 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
3676 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
3678 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
3680 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
3683 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
3685 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
3688 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
3690 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
3692 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
3694 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3698 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
3700 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
3701 options in configure.
3703 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
3705 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
3707 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
3708 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3710 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3713 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
3714 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3716 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
3718 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
3722 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
3724 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
3726 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
3728 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
3729 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
3731 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
3733 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
3735 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
3738 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
3740 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
3741 used while the proxying.
3743 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
3745 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
3746 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
3749 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
3751 *) The first public version.