2 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
4 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
7 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
9 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
11 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
13 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
14 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
16 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
18 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
19 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
20 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
23 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
25 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
26 variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
27 and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
30 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
32 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
33 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
35 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
37 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0 requests;
38 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
40 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
44 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
46 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
48 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
49 changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
52 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
54 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
56 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
58 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
60 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
62 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
65 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
67 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
69 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
70 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
72 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
74 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
75 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
77 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
80 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
82 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
85 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
87 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
89 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
91 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
94 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
97 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
99 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
101 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
102 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
104 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
108 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
110 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
112 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
114 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
117 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
119 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
120 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
122 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
124 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
126 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
130 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
132 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
134 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
135 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
137 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
138 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
140 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
144 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
146 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
148 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
150 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
151 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
152 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
154 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
155 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
157 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
160 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
161 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
163 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
166 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
168 *) Bugfix: version number update.
171 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
173 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
174 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
176 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
178 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
180 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
182 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
184 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
185 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
187 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
188 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
190 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" heaer line
193 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
196 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
198 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
200 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
202 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
203 not work with open_file_cache.
205 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
206 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
208 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
209 charset name received from backend.
212 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
214 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
218 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
220 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
222 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
223 requests starting from arbitrary position.
225 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
228 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
232 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
234 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
235 have not default values.
237 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
239 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
240 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
242 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
243 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
246 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
247 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
249 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
252 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
254 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
258 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
260 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
262 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
264 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
265 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
266 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
268 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
269 "error_page" directive.
271 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
272 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
274 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
275 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
276 had appeared in 0.7.0.
279 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
281 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
284 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
285 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
287 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
289 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
290 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
292 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
293 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
295 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
298 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
300 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
301 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
302 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
304 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
306 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
307 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
310 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
312 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
313 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
314 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
316 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
318 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
321 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
323 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
325 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
326 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
328 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
331 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
332 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
334 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
335 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
336 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bugs had
340 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
342 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
344 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
346 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
347 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
349 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
350 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
351 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
354 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
356 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
359 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
360 with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
361 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
364 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
366 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
367 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
369 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
370 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
372 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
374 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
375 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
378 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
379 /dev/poll methods were used.
381 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
384 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
386 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
387 request root existence is always tested.
389 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
393 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
395 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
396 bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
398 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
399 had appeared in 0.7.3.
400 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
402 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
403 might were transferred incorrectly.
406 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
408 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
410 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
412 *) Feature: the -g switch.
414 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
416 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
419 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
421 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
422 "application/rss+xml".
424 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
425 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
427 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
428 if the "https://" protocol is used.
430 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
431 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
434 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
436 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
438 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
440 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
441 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
443 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
444 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
445 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
447 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
450 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
451 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
454 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
456 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
458 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
459 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
461 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
463 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
464 now this is default parameter.
465 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
467 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
470 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
474 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
476 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
477 \xXX in an access_log.
478 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
480 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
482 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
484 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
485 request processing stage.
487 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
488 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
490 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
491 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
493 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
494 if keepalive was enabled.
497 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
499 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
500 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
501 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
503 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
504 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
507 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
509 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
510 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
512 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
513 for example, "1h50m".
515 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
516 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
518 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
521 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
522 arguments in redirected URI.
524 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
526 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
530 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
532 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
534 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
535 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
538 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
540 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
544 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
546 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
549 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
550 named location via an "error_page" directive.
552 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
555 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
557 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
558 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
559 static named locations.
561 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
562 client certificate in first handshake.
563 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
565 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
566 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
569 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
571 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
573 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
574 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
575 static named locations.
577 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
578 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
580 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
581 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
582 name and without variables.
583 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
585 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
586 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
588 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
589 stub block was used second time in SSI.
591 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
594 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
596 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
597 check a response length.
599 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
600 value was used in a "expires" directive.
601 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
603 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
604 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
606 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
607 was used instead of the GET method.
609 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
610 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
612 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
613 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
615 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
616 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
619 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
621 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
622 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
624 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
625 "server_name" directive.
627 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
630 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
631 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
633 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
635 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
637 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
638 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
640 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
641 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
643 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
647 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
649 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
650 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
653 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
655 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
656 now this is default parameter.
658 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
659 "open_file_cache_valid".
661 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
663 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
665 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
667 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
670 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
671 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
673 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
674 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
675 auth directives were not tested;
677 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
678 inherited from previous level.
680 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
681 with 499 status code.
683 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
684 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
686 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
687 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
689 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
690 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
693 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
695 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
696 perl's allocated memory.
698 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
699 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
700 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
702 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
704 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
707 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
708 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
709 request body was already received.
711 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
713 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
715 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
716 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
718 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
719 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
720 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
722 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
723 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
725 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
728 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
730 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
731 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
733 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
734 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
737 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
738 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
739 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
741 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
742 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
743 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
746 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
747 server, then nginx returned usual response.
750 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
752 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
753 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
757 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
759 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
762 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
764 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
765 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
767 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
770 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
772 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
774 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
775 "Last-Modified" response header line.
777 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
778 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
781 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
783 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
784 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
786 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
787 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
789 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
792 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
793 subrequests were used.
795 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
798 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
799 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
802 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
804 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
805 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
807 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
808 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
810 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
813 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
815 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
816 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
818 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
820 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
822 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
824 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
826 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
827 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
828 "source_charset" directives.
830 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
831 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
832 Thanks to James Oakley.
834 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
835 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
836 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
838 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
839 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
840 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
843 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
845 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
847 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
849 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
850 "limit_except" block.
852 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
853 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
856 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
857 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
858 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
860 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
862 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
864 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
865 $upstream_response_time.
866 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
868 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
871 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
872 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
875 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
877 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
880 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
882 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
884 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
887 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
889 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
891 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
892 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
894 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
895 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
897 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
900 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
901 located in non-standard place was used.
903 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
904 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
906 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
909 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
911 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
914 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
915 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
917 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
920 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
921 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
925 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
927 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
928 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
930 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
932 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
933 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
935 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
936 /dev/poll method was used.
939 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
941 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
942 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
944 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
945 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
947 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
950 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
954 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
956 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
957 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
958 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
960 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
961 authentication server.
963 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
965 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
966 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
967 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
969 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
972 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
974 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
975 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
976 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
977 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
978 not to nginx prefix directory.
980 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
982 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
983 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
985 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
988 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
989 the "backup" parameter.
991 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
992 $r->discard_request_body.
994 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
995 "Last-Modified" response header line.
997 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
998 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
999 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
1001 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
1002 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
1004 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
1005 platforms except FreeBSD.
1006 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1008 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1009 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
1012 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
1013 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
1016 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
1018 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
1020 *) Feature: named locations.
1022 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
1024 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
1026 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
1028 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
1029 might not close connection to backend.
1031 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
1032 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
1034 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
1035 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1038 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
1040 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
1041 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
1043 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
1044 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1046 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
1047 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1049 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
1051 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
1053 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1055 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
1056 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
1059 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
1061 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
1062 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
1064 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
1067 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
1070 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1072 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1074 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
1075 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1078 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
1080 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
1082 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1083 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
1084 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1086 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1087 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
1089 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
1090 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1092 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1093 eventport method was used.
1095 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
1096 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
1100 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
1102 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
1103 passed garbage in the header to a client.
1106 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
1108 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
1110 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
1111 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
1113 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
1116 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
1117 to the master process identification number.
1120 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
1122 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
1123 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
1126 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
1128 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
1129 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
1133 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
1135 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
1136 was made using HTTP/0.9.
1138 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
1139 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
1142 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
1144 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
1147 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
1148 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
1150 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
1151 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
1153 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
1154 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
1155 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
1157 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1160 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
1162 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
1163 had appeared in 0.5.21.
1166 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
1168 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
1169 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
1171 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
1172 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
1173 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
1175 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
1177 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1179 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1182 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
1184 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
1186 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
1187 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
1189 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1190 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
1192 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
1193 transferred incorrectly.
1194 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1196 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1198 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1200 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
1202 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1205 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
1207 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
1209 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
1212 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
1214 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
1215 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
1216 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
1218 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1219 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
1221 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1222 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
1225 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
1227 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
1229 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
1231 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
1232 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
1234 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
1235 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
1236 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
1237 had appeared in 0.5.9.
1239 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
1240 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
1244 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
1246 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
1248 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
1251 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
1252 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
1254 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1256 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
1257 returned old cached value.
1260 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
1262 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
1263 "ip_hash" directive.
1264 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
1266 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1267 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
1268 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1270 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1271 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
1274 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
1275 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
1278 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
1280 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
1281 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
1282 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
1284 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
1285 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
1287 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
1288 and "pop3_auth" directives.
1290 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1291 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
1294 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
1295 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
1297 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
1298 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
1300 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1301 "ip_hash" directive was used.
1303 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
1307 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
1309 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
1313 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
1315 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
1317 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
1318 via keep-alive connection.
1320 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
1321 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1323 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
1324 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
1326 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1327 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1330 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1331 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1334 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
1336 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1337 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1339 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1340 temporarily files were used while working with FastCGI server; the
1341 bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1343 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1344 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
1346 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
1349 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
1351 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
1352 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
1354 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
1355 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
1357 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
1358 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
1359 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1361 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
1362 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
1364 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1365 was built with -O2 optimization.
1368 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
1370 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
1371 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
1373 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1374 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
1377 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
1379 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
1380 variable value as a key.
1382 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
1384 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
1387 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
1389 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1391 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
1392 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
1394 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
1398 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
1400 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
1401 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
1403 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1404 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
1405 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
1406 switched to a next upstream.
1408 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
1409 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
1410 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1412 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1413 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1416 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1419 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
1422 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
1424 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
1426 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
1428 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1429 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
1430 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
1432 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
1433 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
1434 "Content-Type" header line in response.
1436 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
1438 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
1440 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
1443 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
1445 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
1446 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
1448 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
1450 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
1452 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
1453 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
1455 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
1457 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
1458 $r->sendfile() was used.
1461 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
1463 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
1465 *) Feature: the -V switch.
1467 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
1470 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
1473 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
1474 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
1476 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
1479 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
1481 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
1484 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
1485 line for the DELETE method.
1487 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
1488 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
1490 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
1491 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
1494 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
1496 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
1497 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
1499 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
1500 exist in nginx configuration.
1502 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
1505 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
1507 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
1508 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
1512 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
1514 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
1515 unsuccessful completion of a request.
1517 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
1518 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
1520 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
1521 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
1524 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1525 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
1526 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1528 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1529 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
1530 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1532 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
1533 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
1534 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
1536 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
1537 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
1540 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
1542 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
1543 directive are not supported anymore.
1545 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
1546 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
1547 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
1548 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
1551 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1552 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
1554 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
1556 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
1557 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
1559 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
1563 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
1565 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
1567 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
1570 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
1571 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
1573 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
1576 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
1578 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1579 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
1581 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
1582 system time was changed backward.
1584 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
1585 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
1587 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
1588 proxy authentication server failed.
1591 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
1593 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
1594 "limit_except" block.
1596 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
1598 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
1599 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
1602 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
1603 the deferred accept() were used.
1605 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
1606 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1608 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1611 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
1612 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
1614 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
1615 had appeared in 0.3.50.
1618 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
1620 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
1622 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
1623 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
1625 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
1628 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
1630 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
1632 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
1635 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
1636 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
1639 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
1641 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
1643 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
1644 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
1647 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
1648 variable was used in the "map" directive.
1650 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
1651 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1653 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
1657 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
1659 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1661 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
1665 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
1667 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1668 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1671 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
1673 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
1676 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
1678 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
1680 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
1682 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
1685 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1686 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1689 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
1690 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
1693 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1697 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
1699 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1702 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
1703 if its length was set by text string in the
1704 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
1706 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
1707 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
1708 had appeared in 0.4.4.
1711 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
1713 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
1717 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
1719 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
1721 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
1723 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
1724 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
1726 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
1727 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
1729 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
1732 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
1733 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
1736 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
1738 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
1739 "error_page" directive.
1741 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
1743 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
1745 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
1746 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
1748 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
1749 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
1751 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
1753 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
1756 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
1758 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
1759 had appeared in 0.4.1.
1762 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
1764 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
1765 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
1767 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
1770 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
1772 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
1775 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
1777 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
1778 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
1780 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
1781 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
1782 $r->has_request_body method.
1784 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
1786 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
1787 line for the PUT method.
1789 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1791 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
1792 directive with variables and the first index name was without
1793 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
1796 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
1798 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
1800 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
1802 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
1804 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
1805 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
1808 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
1810 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
1811 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
1814 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
1816 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
1817 "error_page" directive.
1819 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
1821 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
1822 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
1823 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
1826 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
1828 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
1830 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
1832 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
1833 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
1835 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
1837 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
1838 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
1840 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
1843 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
1845 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
1847 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
1848 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
1850 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
1851 to a client the required certificates information.
1853 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
1854 the "root" directive.
1857 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
1859 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
1861 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
1862 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
1864 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
1865 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
1869 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
1871 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1873 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
1875 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
1877 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
1878 was relative to a server prefix.
1880 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
1881 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
1883 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
1884 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
1886 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1887 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
1890 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
1891 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
1895 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
1897 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
1899 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
1900 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
1902 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
1905 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
1906 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
1908 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
1909 first request to a backend only.
1911 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
1915 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
1917 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
1920 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1921 the "weight" parameter.
1923 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
1925 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
1927 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
1928 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
1931 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
1932 return the 409 code.
1934 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
1935 continued proxying anyway.
1938 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
1940 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
1941 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
1942 return the 405 error.
1944 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
1945 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
1947 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
1948 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1950 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
1951 temporary file was not removed.
1954 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
1956 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
1957 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1960 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
1962 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
1963 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
1964 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
1966 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
1967 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
1969 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
1970 proxy and FastCGI mode.
1972 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
1973 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
1975 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
1976 SSI after inclusion.
1978 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
1979 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
1982 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
1984 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
1986 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
1987 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
1991 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
1993 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
1994 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
1996 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
1997 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
1998 start of the rewritten redirect.
2000 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
2001 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2002 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
2005 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
2006 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
2009 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
2011 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
2013 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
2014 SSI command is always removed.
2017 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
2019 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
2020 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
2022 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
2023 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
2025 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
2028 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
2029 ngx_http_perl_module.
2032 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
2034 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
2035 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
2037 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
2040 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
2043 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
2046 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
2047 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
2048 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
2052 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
2054 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2056 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
2057 koi-win conversion table.
2059 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2062 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
2064 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2067 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
2069 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
2072 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
2075 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
2076 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
2077 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
2078 were not written to access log.
2080 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
2081 "Cache-Control" response header line.
2084 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
2086 *) Feature: the -v switch.
2088 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
2091 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
2093 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
2094 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
2095 segmentation fault was occurred.
2098 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
2100 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
2102 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
2104 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
2107 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
2109 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
2110 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
2113 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
2115 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
2116 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
2119 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
2120 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
2121 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2123 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
2127 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
2129 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
2131 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
2132 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
2134 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
2137 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
2139 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
2141 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2143 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
2144 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
2147 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
2148 login and password to pass authorization server.
2149 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2152 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
2154 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
2156 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
2159 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
2162 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2165 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
2167 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2169 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
2170 inside the "if" block.
2172 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
2173 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
2175 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
2177 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
2178 and $r->remote_addr.
2180 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
2182 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
2183 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
2185 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
2186 ngx_http_ssi_module.
2188 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
2189 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
2190 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
2191 a current path but not to a server prefix.
2194 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
2196 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
2197 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2199 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
2203 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
2205 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
2208 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
2210 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2211 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
2213 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
2214 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
2216 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
2219 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
2221 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
2222 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2225 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
2227 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
2229 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
2232 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
2234 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
2236 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2238 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
2239 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
2240 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
2243 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2244 and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
2247 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
2250 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
2252 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
2255 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
2256 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
2258 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
2259 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
2262 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
2264 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
2265 many warnings before the response.
2267 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
2268 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
2270 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
2271 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
2273 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
2274 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
2278 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
2280 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
2282 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
2284 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
2285 terminated prematurely.
2286 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
2288 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
2289 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2292 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
2293 completion of a request.
2295 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
2296 directive was transferred to a client.
2299 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
2301 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
2302 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2304 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
2305 "log_format" directive.
2307 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
2309 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
2312 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
2313 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
2315 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
2316 autoconfiguration directive.
2318 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2319 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
2322 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
2324 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
2325 "optimize_server_names".
2327 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
2328 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
2332 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
2334 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2335 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
2339 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
2341 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
2343 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
2344 not transferred to a client.
2346 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
2348 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
2351 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
2352 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
2353 had appeared in 0.3.18.
2356 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
2358 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
2360 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
2363 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
2367 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
2369 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
2370 $r->unescape methods.
2372 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
2375 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
2376 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
2380 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
2382 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
2384 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
2388 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
2390 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2392 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
2393 the "/usr?args" form.
2396 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
2398 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
2400 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
2402 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2405 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
2407 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
2410 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
2411 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
2413 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
2414 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2416 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
2417 directives were canceled.
2419 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
2421 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
2422 only without the URI part.
2424 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
2425 ngx_http_map_module.
2427 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
2428 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
2430 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
2431 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
2434 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
2436 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
2437 sendfile64() in kernel.
2439 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
2442 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
2445 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2447 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
2448 directive the port 80 was used by default.
2451 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
2453 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
2455 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
2458 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
2460 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
2462 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
2463 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
2466 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
2468 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
2469 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
2470 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2472 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
2473 had appeared in 0.3.13.
2476 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
2478 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
2481 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2483 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
2484 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
2487 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
2489 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
2493 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
2495 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
2497 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
2500 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2502 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2503 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2505 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
2506 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
2509 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
2511 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
2512 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
2513 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
2514 and is not built by default.
2516 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
2518 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
2519 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
2520 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
2522 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
2524 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
2526 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
2527 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2529 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
2530 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
2532 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
2533 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
2534 without the "Basic realm" text.
2536 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
2537 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
2538 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2540 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
2543 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
2544 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
2547 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
2549 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
2550 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
2553 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
2555 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
2556 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
2557 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
2559 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
2562 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
2564 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
2566 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
2568 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
2570 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
2572 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
2574 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
2576 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
2577 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
2580 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
2582 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
2583 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
2586 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
2588 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
2589 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2592 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
2594 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
2595 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
2598 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
2599 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
2601 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
2602 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2604 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
2605 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
2607 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
2609 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
2611 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
2612 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
2613 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
2614 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
2615 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
2616 will be canceled soon.
2618 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
2619 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
2621 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
2622 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
2624 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
2627 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
2628 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
2629 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
2632 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
2635 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
2636 several worker processes were used.
2638 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
2641 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
2642 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
2643 did not transferred at all.
2646 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
2648 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
2650 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2651 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
2654 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
2656 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
2657 authorization server.
2659 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
2661 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
2662 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
2665 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
2666 the 80 port was always used.
2669 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
2671 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
2672 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2674 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
2675 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
2677 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
2678 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
2681 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
2683 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
2684 had appeared in 0.3.3.
2687 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
2689 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
2690 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
2692 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
2695 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
2696 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
2698 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
2700 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
2701 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
2704 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
2705 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2707 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
2709 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
2711 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
2712 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
2714 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
2716 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
2718 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
2719 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2721 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
2725 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
2727 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
2729 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
2730 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
2731 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
2734 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
2736 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
2737 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
2740 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
2744 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
2746 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
2747 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
2751 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
2753 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
2754 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
2756 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
2757 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
2759 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
2760 more flexible to change an error code.
2762 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
2763 in proxied subrequests.
2765 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
2766 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
2769 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
2770 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
2771 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
2772 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2775 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
2777 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
2778 causes the warning and changes old value.
2780 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
2782 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
2783 the "include" command.
2785 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
2786 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
2789 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
2791 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
2792 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
2794 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
2797 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
2798 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2801 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
2803 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
2804 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2807 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
2809 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
2811 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
2814 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
2815 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2817 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
2820 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
2823 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
2825 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2827 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
2830 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
2832 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2833 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
2837 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
2839 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
2840 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
2841 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
2842 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
2843 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
2844 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
2847 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
2848 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
2849 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
2851 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
2853 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
2855 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
2856 not run for subrequests.
2858 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
2861 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2862 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
2864 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
2865 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2867 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2869 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
2871 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
2872 from the 304 responses.
2873 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
2876 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
2878 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
2879 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
2881 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
2884 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2887 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
2889 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
2891 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
2893 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
2895 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
2896 of authorization use.
2899 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
2901 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
2902 changed using the -HUP signal.
2904 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
2906 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
2909 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
2910 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
2911 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
2912 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2915 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
2917 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
2918 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
2919 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
2921 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
2922 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2925 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
2927 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
2928 can not be used in SSI.
2931 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
2933 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
2934 information did not logged in the error log.
2936 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
2937 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
2939 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
2940 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
2942 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
2945 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
2946 became shorter in the "ps" command.
2949 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
2951 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
2952 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
2953 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
2955 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
2956 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
2958 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
2959 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
2960 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2962 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
2964 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
2965 the "include virtual" command.
2967 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
2968 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
2969 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2971 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
2972 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
2973 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2975 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
2978 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
2979 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2981 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
2985 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
2987 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
2990 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
2991 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
2993 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
2995 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
2997 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
2998 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
3000 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
3003 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
3004 than one remote subrequest.
3006 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
3007 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
3010 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
3012 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
3014 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
3017 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3020 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
3022 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
3024 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
3025 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
3027 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
3028 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3029 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
3030 request all backends again.
3033 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
3035 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
3036 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
3037 now returns the 400 error.
3039 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
3041 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
3042 parameters of the "listen" directive.
3044 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
3046 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
3048 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
3051 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
3052 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
3055 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
3057 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
3059 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
3061 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
3062 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3064 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
3065 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
3066 occurred on the start.
3068 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
3069 bigger than the temporary file.
3071 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
3072 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
3076 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
3078 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3079 big response part were include by SSI.
3081 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
3084 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
3086 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
3087 the client request header line passing.
3090 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
3092 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
3093 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3095 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
3096 level cause the bus fault on start up.
3098 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
3100 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
3101 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
3104 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
3106 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
3107 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3109 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
3112 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
3113 of regular expressions.
3115 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
3116 proxy and FastCGI mode.
3119 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
3121 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3123 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
3125 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3127 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
3128 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
3131 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
3133 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3136 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3138 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
3139 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
3140 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
3143 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
3146 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
3148 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
3151 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
3153 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
3155 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
3156 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
3159 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
3160 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
3162 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
3164 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
3165 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
3167 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
3169 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
3170 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
3172 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
3173 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
3175 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
3176 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
3177 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
3178 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
3180 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
3181 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
3183 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
3185 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
3188 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
3189 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
3192 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
3194 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
3195 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
3198 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
3200 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
3202 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
3204 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
3206 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
3208 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
3209 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
3210 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
3212 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
3213 headers or a backend response header.
3215 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
3216 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
3217 returned the 408 response.
3219 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
3220 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
3222 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
3223 tolerance configuration.
3225 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3226 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
3228 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
3231 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
3233 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
3236 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
3239 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
3241 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
3243 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
3246 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
3248 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
3250 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
3251 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
3254 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
3256 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
3257 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
3260 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
3261 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
3265 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
3267 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
3270 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
3272 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
3273 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
3276 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
3278 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
3280 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
3281 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
3283 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
3284 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
3285 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
3286 after request completion.
3288 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
3291 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
3292 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
3294 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
3295 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
3297 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
3298 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
3299 will be removed soon.
3301 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
3303 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
3305 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
3307 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
3310 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
3312 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
3313 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
3315 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
3316 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
3319 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
3322 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
3326 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
3328 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
3329 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
3330 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
3333 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
3335 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
3336 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
3337 server name of the "server_name" directive.
3339 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3340 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
3342 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
3343 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
3345 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
3346 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
3349 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
3351 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
3352 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
3354 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
3355 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
3358 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
3360 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
3361 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
3363 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
3364 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
3366 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3369 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
3371 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
3372 the fastcgi_params directive.
3374 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
3377 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
3379 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
3380 returned for the local requests.
3382 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3384 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
3385 request body via SSL connections.
3388 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
3390 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
3391 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
3394 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
3397 *) Bugfix: in the redirect rewrite directive the arguments were
3398 concatenated with URI by the "&" rather than the "?".
3400 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
3401 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
3403 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
3405 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
3406 the segmentation fault.
3408 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
3411 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
3413 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
3414 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
3415 configuration to the request.
3418 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
3420 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
3421 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
3422 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
3423 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
3425 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
3427 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
3429 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
3432 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
3433 small caps letters in extension.
3435 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
3436 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
3437 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
3439 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
3440 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
3443 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
3446 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
3448 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
3449 request the final chunk was issued.
3451 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
3452 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
3454 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
3455 segmentation faults.
3457 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
3460 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
3461 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
3463 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
3465 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
3466 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
3469 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
3471 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
3474 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
3475 different number of the captures and substitutions.
3477 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
3480 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
3481 arguments and in the original state.
3483 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
3484 to use the regular expressions in locations.
3486 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
3487 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
3490 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
3491 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
3492 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
3493 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
3496 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
3498 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
3499 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
3500 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
3502 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
3503 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
3504 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
3506 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
3507 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
3508 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
3509 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
3510 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
3511 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
3512 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
3514 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
3517 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
3518 proxy_pass directive.
3520 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
3523 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
3524 ngx_http_proxy_module.
3526 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
3527 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
3530 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
3532 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
3535 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
3538 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
3542 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
3544 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
3546 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
3547 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
3548 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
3549 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
3551 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
3552 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
3555 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
3557 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
3559 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
3560 transferred response.
3562 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
3563 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
3565 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
3568 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
3569 broken symlink was in a directory.
3571 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
3574 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
3575 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
3578 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
3579 when the /dev/poll method was used.
3581 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
3583 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
3585 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
3587 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
3588 section in configuration.
3590 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
3592 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
3596 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
3598 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
3599 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
3600 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
3602 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
3606 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
3608 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
3609 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
3611 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
3614 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
3615 does not support sendfile64().
3617 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
3618 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
3622 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
3624 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
3627 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
3629 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
3632 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
3634 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
3635 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
3638 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
3640 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
3641 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
3644 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
3646 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
3647 returned not enough data" alerts.
3649 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
3650 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
3651 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
3654 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
3657 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
3659 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
3661 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
3662 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
3664 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
3666 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
3669 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
3671 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
3674 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
3676 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
3678 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
3680 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3684 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
3686 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
3687 options in configure.
3689 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
3691 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
3693 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
3694 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3696 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3699 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
3700 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3702 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
3704 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
3708 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
3710 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
3712 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
3714 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
3715 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
3717 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
3719 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
3721 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
3724 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
3726 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
3727 used while the proxying.
3729 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
3731 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
3732 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
3735 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
3737 *) The first public version.
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