2 Changes with nginx 0.7.34 10 Feb 2009
4 *) Feature: the "off" parameter of the "if_modified_since" directive.
6 *) Feature: now nginx sends an HELO/EHLO command after a XCLIENT
8 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
10 *) Feature: Microsoft specific "AUTH LOGIN with User Name" mode support
12 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
14 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive original arguments were
15 concatenated with new arguments by an "?" rather than an "&";
16 the bug had appeared in 0.1.18.
17 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
19 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on AIX.
22 Changes with nginx 0.7.33 02 Feb 2009
24 *) Bugfix: a double response might be returned if the epoll or rtsig
25 methods are used and a redirect was returned to a request with
29 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_location variable was empty for some
32 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
33 "resolver" directive was used in SMTP proxy.
36 Changes with nginx 0.7.32 26 Jan 2009
38 *) Feature: now a directory existence testing can be set explicitly in
39 the "try_files" directive.
41 *) Bugfix: fastcgi_store stored files not always.
43 *) Bugfix: in geo ranges.
45 *) Bugfix: in shared memory allocations if nginx was built without
47 Thanks to Andrey Kvasov.
50 Changes with nginx 0.7.31 19 Jan 2009
52 *) Change: now the "try_files" directive tests files only and ignores
55 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_split_path_info" directive.
57 *) Bugfixes in an "Expect" request header line support.
59 *) Bugfixes in geo ranges.
61 *) Bugfix: in a miss case ngx_http_memcached_module returned the "END"
62 line as response body instead of default 404 page body; the bug had
64 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
66 *) Bugfix: while SMTP proxying nginx issued message "250 2.0.0 OK"
67 instead of "235 2.0.0 OK"; the bug had appeared in 0.7.22.
68 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
71 Changes with nginx 0.7.30 24 Dec 2008
73 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if
74 variables were used in the "fastcgi_pass" or "proxy_pass" directives
75 and host name must be resolved; the bug had appeared in 0.7.29.
78 Changes with nginx 0.7.29 24 Dec 2008
80 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_pass" and "proxy_pass" directives did not
81 support variables if unix domain sockets were used.
83 *) Bugfixes in subrequest processing; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.25.
85 *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued for HTTP/1.0
87 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
89 *) Bugfix: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module on
93 Changes with nginx 0.7.28 22 Dec 2008
95 *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
97 *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
98 changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.
101 Changes with nginx 0.7.27 15 Dec 2008
103 *) Feature: the "try_files" directive.
105 *) Feature: variables support in the "fastcgi_pass" directive.
107 *) Feature: now the $geo variable may get an address from a
109 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
111 *) Feature: now a location's modifier may be used without space before
114 *) Feature: the $upstream_response_length variable.
116 *) Bugfix: now a "add_header" directive does not add an empty value.
118 *) Bugfix: if zero length static file was requested, then nginx just
119 closed connection; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
121 *) Bugfix: a MOVE method could not move file in non-existent directory.
123 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if no one
124 named location was defined in server, but some one was used in an
125 error_page directive.
126 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
129 Changes with nginx 0.7.26 08 Dec 2008
131 *) Bugfix: in subrequest processing; the bug had appeared in 0.7.25.
134 Changes with nginx 0.7.25 08 Dec 2008
136 *) Change: in subrequest processing.
138 *) Change: now POSTs without "Content-Length" header line are allowed.
140 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_req" and "limit_conn" directives log a
143 *) Bugfix: in the "delete" parameter of the "geo" directive.
146 Changes with nginx 0.7.24 01 Dec 2008
148 *) Feature: the "if_modified_since" directive.
150 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process a FastCGI server response, if the
151 server send too many messages to stderr before response.
153 *) Bugfix: the "$cookie_..." variables did not work in the SSI and the
157 Changes with nginx 0.7.23 27 Nov 2008
159 *) Feature: the "delete" and "ranges" parameters in the "geo" directive.
161 *) Feature: speeding up loading of geo base with large number of values.
163 *) Feature: decrease of memory required for geo base load.
166 Changes with nginx 0.7.22 20 Nov 2008
168 *) Feature: the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive.
169 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
171 *) Feature: the "$cookie_..." variables.
173 *) Bugfix: the "directio" directive did not work in XFS filesystem.
175 *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses.
179 Changes with nginx 0.7.21 11 Nov 2008
181 *) Changes in the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
183 *) Feature: the EXSLT support in the ngx_http_xslt_module.
184 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff.
186 *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3.
187 Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin.
189 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on MacOSX 10.4 and earlier; the bug had
193 Changes with nginx 0.7.20 10 Nov 2008
195 *) Changes in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.
197 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_req_module.
199 *) Bugfix: worker processes might exit on a SIGBUS signal on sparc and
200 ppc platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.7.3.
201 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
203 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass http://host/some:uri" directives did not
204 work; the bug had appeared in 0.7.12.
206 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
209 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_secure_link_module did not work inside
210 locations, whose names are less than 3 characters.
212 *) Bugfix: $server_addr variable might have no value.
215 Changes with nginx 0.7.19 13 Oct 2008
217 *) Bugfix: version number update.
220 Changes with nginx 0.7.18 13 Oct 2008
222 *) Change: the "underscores_in_headers" directive; now nginx does not
223 allows underscores in a client request header line names.
225 *) Feature: the ngx_http_secure_link_module.
227 *) Feature: the "real_ip_header" directive supports any header.
229 *) Feature: the "log_subrequest" directive.
231 *) Feature: the $realpath_root variable.
233 *) Feature: the "http_502" and "http_504" parameters of the
234 "proxy_next_upstream" directive.
236 *) Bugfix: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
237 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives did not work.
239 *) Bugfix: nginx might send a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" heaer line
242 *) Bugfix: now accept threshold depends on worker_connections.
245 Changes with nginx 0.7.17 15 Sep 2008
247 *) Feature: now the "directio" directive works on Linux.
249 *) Feature: the $pid variable.
251 *) Bugfix: the "directio" optimization that had appeared in 0.7.15 did
252 not work with open_file_cache.
254 *) Bugfix: the "access_log" with variables did not work on Linux; the
255 bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
257 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted
258 charset name received from backend.
261 Changes with nginx 0.7.16 08 Sep 2008
263 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
267 Changes with nginx 0.7.15 08 Sep 2008
269 *) Feature: the ngx_http_random_index_module.
271 *) Feature: the "directio" directive has been optimized for file
272 requests starting from arbitrary position.
274 *) Feature: the "directio" directive turns off sendfile if it is
277 *) Feature: now nginx allows underscores in a client request header
281 Changes with nginx 0.7.14 01 Sep 2008
283 *) Change: now the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives
284 have not default values.
286 *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "ssl" parameter.
288 *) Feature: now nginx takes into account a time zone change while
289 reconfiguration on FreeBSD and Linux.
291 *) Bugfix: the "listen" directive parameters such as "backlog",
292 "rcvbuf", etc. were not set, if a default server was not the first
295 *) Bugfix: if URI part captured by a "rewrite" directive was used as a
296 query string, then the query string was not escaped.
298 *) Bugfix: configuration file validity test improvements.
301 Changes with nginx 0.7.13 26 Aug 2008
303 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
307 Changes with nginx 0.7.12 26 Aug 2008
309 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "".
311 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask.
313 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with
314 several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal.
315 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
317 *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an
318 "error_page" directive.
320 *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while
321 redirection via an "error_page" directive.
323 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the
324 "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug
325 had appeared in 0.7.0.
328 Changes with nginx 0.7.11 18 Aug 2008
330 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module does not work by default with
333 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method
334 requesting a static file only if the file exists.
336 *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_session_reuse" directive.
338 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
339 request after the "X-Accel-Redirect" redirection was used;
341 *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index
342 file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code.
344 *) Bugfix: in inclusive locations; the bugs had appeared in 0.7.1.
347 Changes with nginx 0.7.10 13 Aug 2008
349 *) Bugfix: in the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
350 "ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives; the
351 bugs had appeared in 0.7.9.
353 *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.
355 *) Bugfix: now the ngx_http_realip_module sets address not for whole
356 keepalive connection, but for each request passed via the connection.
359 Changes with nginx 0.7.9 12 Aug 2008
361 *) Change: now ngx_http_charset_module works by default with following
362 MIME types: text/html, text/css, text/xml, text/plain,
363 text/vnd.wap.wml, application/x-javascript, and application/rss+xml.
365 *) Feature: the "charset_types" and "addition_types" directives.
367 *) Feature: now the "gzip_types", "ssi_types", and "sub_filter_types"
370 *) Feature: the ngx_cpp_test_module.
372 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports daily time.
374 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module improvements and bug fixing.
375 Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff and Maxim Dounin.
377 *) Bugfix: the "log_not_found" directive did not work for index files
380 *) Bugfix: HTTPS connections might hang, if kqueue, epoll, rtsig, or
381 eventport methods were used; the bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
383 *) Bugfix: if the "server_name", "valid_referers", and "map" directives
384 used an "*.domain.tld" wildcard and exact name "domain.tld" was not
385 set, then the exact name was matched by the wildcard; the bugs had
389 Changes with nginx 0.7.8 04 Aug 2008
391 *) Feature: the ngx_http_xslt_module.
393 *) Feature: the "$arg_..." variables.
395 *) Feature: Solaris directio support.
396 Thanks to Ivan Debnar.
398 *) Bugfix: now if FastCGI server sends a "Location" header line without
399 status line, then nginx uses 302 status code.
400 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
403 Changes with nginx 0.7.7 30 Jul 2008
405 *) Change: now the EAGAIN error returned by connect() is not considered
408 *) Change: now the $ssl_client_cert variable value is a certificate
409 with TAB character intended before each line except first one; an
410 unchanged certificate is available in the $ssl_client_raw_cert
413 *) Feature: the "ask" parameter in the "ssl_verify_client" directive.
415 *) Feature: byte-range processing improvements.
416 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
418 *) Feature: the "directio" directive.
419 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
421 *) Feature: MacOSX 10.5 sendfile() support.
423 *) Bugfix: now in MacOSX and Cygwin locations are tested in case
424 insensitive mode; however, the compare is provided by single-byte
427 *) Bugfix: mail proxy SSL connections hanged, if select, poll, or
428 /dev/poll methods were used.
430 *) Bugfix: UTF-8 encoding usage in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
433 Changes with nginx 0.7.6 07 Jul 2008
435 *) Bugfix: now if variables are used in the "access_log" directive a
436 request root existence is always tested.
438 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support several values in a
442 Changes with nginx 0.7.5 01 Jul 2008
444 *) Bugfixes in variables support in the "access_log" directive; the
445 bugs had appeared in 0.7.4.
447 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built --without-http_gzip_module; the bug
448 had appeared in 0.7.3.
449 Thanks to Kirill A. Korinskiy.
451 *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
452 might were transferred incorrectly.
455 Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008
457 *) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.
459 *) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.
461 *) Feature: the -g switch.
463 *) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.
465 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
468 Changes with nginx 0.7.3 23 Jun 2008
470 *) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
471 "application/rss+xml".
473 *) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
474 "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
476 *) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
477 if the "https://" protocol is used.
479 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
480 protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
483 Changes with nginx 0.7.2 16 Jun 2008
485 *) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
487 *) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
489 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
490 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
492 *) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
493 search a new location; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1.
494 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
496 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
499 *) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
500 added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
503 Changes with nginx 0.7.1 26 May 2008
505 *) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
507 *) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
508 the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
510 *) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
512 *) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
513 now this is default parameter.
514 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
516 *) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
519 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
523 Changes with nginx 0.7.0 19 May 2008
525 *) Change: now the 0x00-0x1F, '"' and '\' characters are escaped as
526 \xXX in an access_log.
527 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
529 *) Change: now nginx allows several "Host" request header line.
531 *) Feature: the "modified" flag in the "expires" directive.
533 *) Feature: the $uid_got and $uid_set variables may be used at any
534 request processing stage.
536 *) Feature: the $hostname variable.
537 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
539 *) Feature: DESTDIR support.
540 Thanks to Todd A. Fisher and Andras Voroskoi.
542 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process on Linux,
543 if keepalive was enabled.
546 Changes with nginx 0.6.31 12 May 2008
548 *) Bugfix: nginx did not process FastCGI response if header was at the
549 end of FastCGI record; the bug had appeared in 0.6.2.
550 Thanks to Sergey Serov.
552 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a file
553 was deleted and the "open_file_cache_errors" directive was off.
556 Changes with nginx 0.6.30 29 Apr 2008
558 *) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
559 file, then nginx does not issue an error.
561 *) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
562 for example, "1h50m".
564 *) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
565 Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
567 *) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
570 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
571 arguments in redirected URI.
573 *) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
575 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; the bug had appeared in
579 Changes with nginx 0.6.29 18 Mar 2008
581 *) Feature: the ngx_google_perftools_module.
583 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on 64-bit
584 platforms; the bug had appeared in 0.6.27.
587 Changes with nginx 0.6.28 13 Mar 2008
589 *) Bugfix: the rtsig method could not be built; the bug had appeared in
593 Changes with nginx 0.6.27 12 Mar 2008
595 *) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
598 *) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
599 named location via an "error_page" directive.
601 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
604 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
606 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
607 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
608 static named locations.
610 *) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
611 client certificate in first handshake.
612 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
614 *) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
615 directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
618 *) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
620 *) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
622 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
623 request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
624 static named locations.
626 *) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
627 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
629 *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
630 same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
631 name and without variables.
632 Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
634 *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
635 64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
637 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
638 stub block was used second time in SSI.
640 *) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
643 Changes with nginx 0.6.26 11 Feb 2008
645 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives did not
646 check a response length.
648 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if big
649 value was used in a "expires" directive.
650 Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela.
652 *) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly detected cache line size on Pentium 4.
653 Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
655 *) Bugfix: in proxied or FastCGI subrequests a client original method
656 was used instead of the GET method.
658 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
659 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
661 *) Bugfix: nginx issued the bogus error message "SSL_shutdown() failed
662 (SSL: )"; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
664 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
665 error; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
668 Changes with nginx 0.6.25 08 Jan 2008
670 *) Change: now the "server_name_in_redirect" directive is used instead
671 of the "server_name" directive's special "*" parameter.
673 *) Change: now wildcard and regex names can be used as main name in a
674 "server_name" directive.
676 *) Change: the "satisfy_any" directive was replaced by the "satisfy"
679 *) Workaround: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration
680 if they was run under Linux OpenVZ.
682 *) Feature: the "min_delete_depth" directive.
684 *) Bugfix: the COPY and MOVE methods did not work with single files.
686 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module did not allow the
687 ngx_http_dav_module to work; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
689 *) Bugfix: socket leak in HTTPS mode if deferred accept was used.
690 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
692 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; the bug had
696 Changes with nginx 0.6.24 27 Dec 2007
698 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if HTTPS
699 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.23.
702 Changes with nginx 0.6.23 27 Dec 2007
704 *) Change: the "off" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
705 now this is default parameter.
707 *) Change: the "open_file_cache_retest" directive was renamed to the
708 "open_file_cache_valid".
710 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache_min_uses" directive.
712 *) Feature: the ngx_http_gzip_static_module.
714 *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive.
716 *) Feature: the "memcached_pass" directive may be used inside the "if"
719 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
720 "memcached_pass" and "if" directives were used in the same location.
722 *) Bugfix: if a "satisfy_any on" directive was used and not all access
723 and auth modules directives were set, then other given access and
724 auth directives were not tested;
726 *) Bugfix: regex parameters in a "valid_referers" directive were not
727 inherited from previous level.
729 *) Bugfix: a "post_action" directive did run if a request was completed
730 with 499 status code.
732 *) Bugfix: optimization of 16K buffer usage in a SSL connection.
733 Thanks to Ben Maurer.
735 *) Bugfix: the STARTTLS in SMTP mode did not work.
736 Thanks to Oleg Motienko.
738 *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry"
739 error; the bug had appeared in 0.5.13.
742 Changes with nginx 0.6.22 19 Dec 2007
744 *) Change: now all ngx_http_perl_module methods return values copied to
745 perl's allocated memory.
747 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module, the perl
748 before 5.8.6 was used, and perl supported threads, then during
749 reconfiguration the master process aborted; the bug had appeared in
751 Thanks to Boris Zhmurov.
753 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module methods may get invalid values of
756 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if the
757 $r->has_request_body() method was called for a request whose small
758 request body was already received.
760 *) Bugfix: large_client_header_buffers did not freed before going to
762 Thanks to Olexander Shtepa.
764 *) Bugfix: the last address was missed in the $upstream_addr variable;
765 the bug had appeared in 0.6.18.
767 *) Bugfix: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive did return error code;
768 now it returns 502 code, that can be rerouted to a next server using
769 the "fastcgi_next_upstream invalid_header" directive.
771 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if the
772 "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive was used; the bug had appeared in
774 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
777 Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
779 *) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
780 IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
782 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
783 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
786 *) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
787 kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
788 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
790 *) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
791 request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
792 directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
795 *) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
796 server, then nginx returned usual response.
799 Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
801 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
802 "proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; the bug had appeared
806 Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
808 *) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
811 Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
813 *) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
814 to the cookie field contains a pid value.
816 *) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
819 *) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
821 *) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
823 *) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
824 "Last-Modified" response header line.
826 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
827 throughput, even if limit value was very high.
830 Changes with nginx 0.6.17 15 Nov 2007
832 *) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
833 Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
835 *) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
836 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
838 *) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
841 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
842 subrequests were used.
844 *) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
847 *) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
848 returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
851 Changes with nginx 0.6.16 29 Oct 2007
853 *) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
854 Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
856 *) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
857 it was escaped in a proxied request; the bug had appeared in 0.6.11.
859 *) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
862 Changes with nginx 0.6.15 22 Oct 2007
864 *) Feature: Cygwin compatibility.
865 Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
867 *) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
869 *) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
871 *) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
873 *) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
875 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
876 reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
877 "source_charset" directives.
879 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
880 "GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
881 Thanks to James Oakley.
883 *) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
884 "error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
885 again; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
887 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
888 server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
889 the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
892 Changes with nginx 0.6.14 15 Oct 2007
894 *) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
896 *) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
898 *) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
899 "limit_except" block.
901 *) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
902 got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; the bug had
905 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
906 $date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
907 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
909 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
911 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
913 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
914 $upstream_response_time.
915 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
917 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
920 *) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
921 values in the "Connection" request header line; the bug had appeared
924 *) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
926 *) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
929 Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
931 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
933 Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
936 Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
938 *) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
940 *) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
941 and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
943 *) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
944 directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
946 *) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; the bug had appeared in
949 *) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
950 located in non-standard place was used.
952 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
953 did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
955 Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
958 Changes with nginx 0.6.11 11 Sep 2007
960 *) Bugfix: active connection counter always increased if mail proxy was
963 *) Bugfix: if backend returned response header only using non-buffered
964 proxy, then nginx closed backend connection on timeout.
966 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support several "Connection" request header
969 *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails" was set for upstream server, then after
970 first failure server weight was always one; the bug had appeared in
974 Changes with nginx 0.6.10 03 Sep 2007
976 *) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
977 "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
979 *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
981 *) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not appended to
982 the "Content-Type" header set by $r->send_http_header().
984 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
985 /dev/poll method was used.
988 Changes with nginx 0.6.9 28 Aug 2007
990 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
991 HTTPS protocol was used; the bug had appeared in 0.6.7.
993 *) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports and trailing
994 wildcard was used, then nginx did not run.
996 *) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark servers as
999 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; the bug had appeared in
1003 Changes with nginx 0.6.8 20 Aug 2007
1005 *) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
1006 "worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
1007 "worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
1009 *) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to a mail proxy
1010 authentication server.
1012 *) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
1014 *) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix for
1015 non-absolute configuration file path specified in the "-c" key; the
1016 bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
1018 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
1021 Changes with nginx 0.6.7 15 Aug 2007
1023 *) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
1024 "auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
1025 "ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
1026 relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but
1027 not to nginx prefix directory.
1029 *) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
1031 *) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
1032 upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
1034 *) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
1035 regular expressions.
1037 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1038 the "backup" parameter.
1040 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
1041 $r->discard_request_body.
1043 *) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
1044 "Last-Modified" response header line.
1046 *) Bugfix: if a response different than 200 was returned to a request
1047 with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
1048 request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
1050 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
1051 address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
1053 *) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
1054 platforms except FreeBSD.
1055 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1057 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1058 "server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; the bug had
1061 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
1062 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
1065 Changes with nginx 0.6.6 30 Jul 2007
1067 *) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
1069 *) Feature: named locations.
1071 *) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
1073 *) Feature: the $is_args variable.
1075 *) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
1077 *) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
1078 might not close connection to backend.
1080 *) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
1081 for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
1083 *) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
1084 versions; the bug had appeared in 0.6.4.
1087 Changes with nginx 0.6.5 23 Jul 2007
1089 *) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
1090 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
1092 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
1093 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1095 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
1096 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1098 *) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
1100 *) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
1102 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1104 *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
1105 Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
1108 Changes with nginx 0.6.4 17 Jul 2007
1110 *) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
1111 Thanks to Maxim Boguk.
1113 *) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
1116 *) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
1119 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1121 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1123 *) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
1124 Thanks to Jiang Hong.
1127 Changes with nginx 0.6.3 12 Jul 2007
1129 *) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
1131 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1132 "auth_http_header" directive was used.
1133 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
1135 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1136 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not enabled.
1138 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process when the
1139 HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1141 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1142 eventport method was used.
1144 *) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
1145 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; the bug had
1149 Changes with nginx 0.6.2 09 Jul 2007
1151 *) Bugfix: if the FastCGI header was split in records, then nginx
1152 passed garbage in the header to a client.
1155 Changes with nginx 0.6.1 17 Jun 2007
1157 *) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
1159 *) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
1160 subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
1162 *) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
1165 *) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
1166 to the master process identification number.
1169 Changes with nginx 0.6.0 14 Jun 2007
1171 *) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers" directives
1172 support the "www.example.*" wildcards.
1175 Changes with nginx 0.5.25 11 Jun 2007
1177 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the
1178 --without-http_rewrite_module parameter; the bug had appeared in
1182 Changes with nginx 0.5.24 06 Jun 2007
1184 *) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
1185 was made using HTTP/0.9.
1187 *) Bugfix: a part of response body might be passed uncompressed if gzip
1188 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.5.23.
1191 Changes with nginx 0.5.23 04 Jun 2007
1193 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS
1196 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
1197 Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
1199 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two
1200 virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping ports.
1202 *) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module and perl
1203 supported threads, then during second reconfiguration the error
1204 messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK" and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
1206 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1209 Changes with nginx 0.5.22 29 May 2007
1211 *) Bugfix: a big request body might not be passed to backend; the bug
1212 had appeared in 0.5.21.
1215 Changes with nginx 0.5.21 28 May 2007
1217 *) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex
1218 locations might be choosen not in that order as they were specified.
1220 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit
1221 platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession backend has failed.
1222 Thanks to Anton Povarov.
1224 *) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the PCRE
1226 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1228 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1231 Changes with nginx 0.5.20 07 May 2007
1233 *) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
1235 *) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and "$upstream_http_..."
1236 variables may be changed using the "set" directive.
1238 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1239 SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"' was used.
1241 *) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range response was
1242 transferred incorrectly.
1243 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1245 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
1247 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1249 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built by Solaris
1251 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1254 Changes with nginx 0.5.19 24 Apr 2007
1256 *) Change: now the $request_time variable has millisecond precision.
1258 *) Change: the method $r->rflush of ngx_http_perl_module was renamed to
1261 *) Feature: the $upstream_addr variable.
1263 *) Feature: the "proxy_headers_hash_max_size" and
1264 "proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size" directives.
1265 Thanks to Volodymyr Kostyrko.
1267 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1268 sendfile and limit_rate on 64-bit platforms.
1270 *) Bugfix: the files more than 2G could not be transferred using
1271 sendfile on 64-bit Linux.
1274 Changes with nginx 0.5.18 19 Apr 2007
1276 *) Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module.
1278 *) Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables.
1280 *) Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time
1281 variables keep data about all upstreams before X-Accel-Redirect.
1283 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process after first
1284 reconfiguration and receiving any signal if nginx was built with
1285 ngx_http_perl_module and perl did not support multiplicity; the bug
1286 had appeared in 0.5.9.
1288 *) Bugfix: if perl did not support multiplicity, then after
1289 reconfiguration perl code did not work; the bug had appeared in
1293 Changes with nginx 0.5.17 02 Apr 2007
1295 *) Change: now nginx always returns the 405 status for the TRACE method.
1297 *) Feature: now nginx supports the "include" directive inside the
1300 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable usage in the "root" and "alias"
1301 directives is disabled: this caused recursive stack overflow.
1303 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
1305 *) Bugfix: in some cases non-cachable variables (such as $uri variable)
1306 returned old cached value.
1309 Changes with nginx 0.5.16 26 Mar 2007
1311 *) Bugfix: the C-class network was not used as hash key in the
1312 "ip_hash" directive.
1313 Thanks to Pavel Yarkovoy.
1315 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
1316 charset was set in the "Content-Type" header line and the line has
1317 trailing ";"; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1319 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1320 used and a request body written in a temporary file was multiple of
1323 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris without the --with-debug
1324 option; the bug had appeared in 0.5.15.
1327 Changes with nginx 0.5.15 19 Mar 2007
1329 *) Feature: the mail proxy supports authenticated SMTP proxying and the
1330 "smtp_auth", "smtp_capablities", and "xclient" directives.
1331 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
1333 *) Feature: now the keep-alive connections are closed just after
1334 receiving the reconfiguration signal.
1336 *) Change: the "imap" and "auth" directives were renamed to the "mail"
1337 and "pop3_auth" directives.
1339 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if the
1340 CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used and the APOP method was
1343 *) Bugfix: if the "starttls only" directive was used in POP3 protocol,
1344 then nginx allowed authentication without switching to the SSL mode.
1346 *) Bugfix: worker processes did not exit after reconfiguration and did
1347 not rotate logs if the eventport method was used.
1349 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
1350 "ip_hash" directive was used.
1352 *) Bugfix: now nginx does not log some alerts if eventport or /dev/poll
1356 Changes with nginx 0.5.14 23 Feb 2007
1358 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored superfluous closing "}" in the end of
1362 Changes with nginx 0.5.13 19 Feb 2007
1364 *) Feature: the COPY and MOVE methods.
1366 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_realip_module set garbage for requests passed
1367 via keep-alive connection.
1369 *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on big-endian 64-bit Linux.
1370 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
1372 *) Bugfix: now when IMAP/POP3 proxy receives too long command it closes
1373 the connection right away, but not after timeout.
1375 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1376 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1379 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1380 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1383 Changes with nginx 0.5.12 12 Feb 2007
1385 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
1386 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1388 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1389 temporarily files were used while working with FastCGI server; the
1390 bug had appeared in 0.5.8.
1392 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if the
1393 $fastcgi_script_name variable was logged.
1395 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module could not be built on Solaris.
1398 Changes with nginx 0.5.11 05 Feb 2007
1400 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library in MacPorts.
1401 Thanks to Chris McGrath.
1403 *) Bugfix: the response was incorrect if several ranges were requested;
1404 the bug had appeared in 0.5.6.
1406 *) Bugfix: the "create_full_put_path" directive could not create the
1407 intermediate directories if no "dav_access" directive was set.
1408 Thanks to Evan Miller.
1410 *) Bugfix: the "0" response code might be logged in the access_log
1411 instead of the "400" and "408" error codes.
1413 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1414 was built with -O2 optimization.
1417 Changes with nginx 0.5.10 26 Jan 2007
1419 *) Bugfix: while online executable file upgrade the new master process
1420 did not inherit the listening sockets; the bug had appeared in 0.5.9.
1422 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if nginx
1423 was built with -O2 optimization; the bug had appeared in 0.5.1.
1426 Changes with nginx 0.5.9 25 Jan 2007
1428 *) Change: now the ngx_http_memcached_module uses the $memcached_key
1429 variable value as a key.
1431 *) Feature: the $memcached_key variable.
1433 *) Feature: the "clean" parameter in the "client_body_in_file_only"
1436 *) Feature: the "env" directive.
1438 *) Feature: the "sendfile" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1440 *) Feature: now on failure of the writing to access nginx logs a
1441 message to error_log, but not more often than once a minute.
1443 *) Bugfix: the "access_log off" directive did not always turn off the
1447 Changes with nginx 0.5.8 19 Jan 2007
1449 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if
1450 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and a request body was small.
1452 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1453 "client_body_in_file_only on" and "proxy_pass_request_body off" or
1454 "fastcgi_pass_request_body off" directives were used, and nginx
1455 switched to a next upstream.
1457 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used and a client
1458 connection was non-active, then the connection was closed after send
1459 timeout; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1461 *) Bugfix: if the "epoll" method was used and a client closed a
1462 connection prematurely, then nginx closed the connection after a
1465 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1468 *) Bugfixes in the "limit_zone" directive.
1471 Changes with nginx 0.5.7 15 Jan 2007
1473 *) Feature: the ssl_session_cache storage optimization.
1475 *) Bugfixes in the "ssl_session_cache" and "limit_zone" directives.
1477 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
1478 reconfiguration if the "ssl_session_cache" or "limit_zone"
1479 directives were used on 64-bit platforms.
1481 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if the "add_before_body" or
1482 "add_after_body" directives were used and there was no
1483 "Content-Type" header line in response.
1485 *) Bugfix: the OpenSSL library was always built with the threads
1487 Thanks to Den Ivanov.
1489 *) Bugfix: the PCRE-6.5+ library and the icc compiler compatibility.
1492 Changes with nginx 0.5.6 09 Jan 2007
1494 *) Change: now the ngx_http_index_module ignores all methods except the
1495 GET, HEAD, and POST methods.
1497 *) Feature: the ngx_http_limit_zone_module.
1499 *) Feature: the $binary_remote_addr variable.
1501 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_cache" directives of the
1502 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
1504 *) Feature: the DELETE method supports recursive removal.
1506 *) Bugfix: the byte-ranges were transferred incorrectly if the
1507 $r->sendfile() was used.
1510 Changes with nginx 0.5.5 24 Dec 2006
1512 *) Change: the -v switch does not show compiler information any more.
1514 *) Feature: the -V switch.
1516 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive supports size in K, M,
1519 *) Bugfix: the nginx.pm module now could be installed by an
1522 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $r->request_body or
1523 $r->request_body_file methods were used.
1525 *) Bugfix: the ppc platform specific bugs.
1528 Changes with nginx 0.5.4 15 Dec 2006
1530 *) Feature: the "perl" directive may be used inside the "limit_except"
1533 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module required the "Date" request header
1534 line for the DELETE method.
1536 *) Bugfix: if one only parameter was used in the "dav_access"
1537 directive, then nginx might report about configuration error.
1539 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $host variable was
1540 used; the bug had appeared in 0.4.14.
1543 Changes with nginx 0.5.3 13 Dec 2006
1545 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->status,
1546 $r->log_error, and $r->sleep methods.
1548 *) Feature: the $r->variable method supports variables that do not
1549 exist in nginx configuration.
1551 *) Bugfix: the $r->has_request_body method did not work.
1554 Changes with nginx 0.5.2 11 Dec 2006
1556 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive used the name of the
1557 "upstream" block, then nginx tried to resolve the name; the bug had
1561 Changes with nginx 0.5.1 11 Dec 2006
1563 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive might not run after a
1564 unsuccessful completion of a request.
1566 *) Workaround: for Eudora for Mac; the bug had appeared in 0.4.11.
1567 Thanks to Bron Gondwana.
1569 *) Bugfix: if the "upstream" name was used in the "fastcgi_pass", then
1570 the message "no port in upstream" was issued; the bug had appeared
1573 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1574 same servers but different ports, then these directives uses the
1575 first described port; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1577 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives used the
1578 unix domain sockets, then these directives used first described
1579 socket; the bug had appeared in 0.5.0.
1581 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_auth_basic_module ignored the user if it was in the
1582 last line in the password file and there was no the carriage return,
1583 the line feed, or the ":" symbol after the password.
1585 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might be equal to
1586 "0.000", although response time was more than 1 millisecond.
1589 Changes with nginx 0.5.0 04 Dec 2006
1591 *) Change: the parameters in the "%name" form in the "log_format"
1592 directive are not supported anymore.
1594 *) Change: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
1595 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails",
1596 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout", "memcached_upstream_max_fails", and
1597 "memcached_upstream_fail_timeout" directives are not supported
1600 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1601 the "max_fails", "fail_timeout", and "down" parameters.
1603 *) Feature: the "ip_hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.
1605 *) Feature: the WAIT status in the "Auth-Status" header line of the
1606 IMAP/POP3 proxy authentication server response.
1608 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on 64-bit platforms; the bug had
1612 Changes with nginx 0.4.14 27 Nov 2006
1614 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass_error_message" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
1616 *) Feature: now configure detects system PCRE library on FreeBSD,
1619 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with perl built with the
1620 threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.38.
1622 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work if perl was called
1625 *) Bugfix: nginx ignored a host name in a request line.
1627 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if a
1628 FastCGI server sent too many data to the stderr.
1630 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable may be negative if the
1631 system time was changed backward.
1633 *) Bugfix: the "Auth-Login-Attempt" parameter was not sent to IMAP/POP3
1634 proxy authentication server when POP3 was used.
1636 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if connect to IMAP/POP3
1637 proxy authentication server failed.
1640 Changes with nginx 0.4.13 15 Nov 2006
1642 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive may be used inside the
1643 "limit_except" block.
1645 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive supports all WebDAV methods.
1647 *) Bugfix: if the "add_before_body" directive was used without the
1648 "add_after_body" directive, then a response did not transferred
1651 *) Bugfix: a large request body did not receive if the epoll method and
1652 the deferred accept() were used.
1654 *) Bugfix: a charset could not be set for ngx_http_autoindex_module
1655 responses; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1657 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error when FastCGI server was
1660 *) Bugfix: the --group= configuration parameter was ignored.
1661 Thanks to Thomas Moschny.
1663 *) Bugfix: the 50th subrequest in SSI response did not work; the bug
1664 had appeared in 0.3.50.
1667 Changes with nginx 0.4.12 31 Oct 2006
1669 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->variable method.
1671 *) Bugfix: if a big static file was included using SSI in a response,
1672 then the response may be transferred incomplete.
1674 *) Bugfix: nginx did not omit the "#fragment" part in URI.
1677 Changes with nginx 0.4.11 25 Oct 2006
1679 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN and CRAM-MD5.
1681 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->allow_ranges
1684 *) Bugfix: if the APOP was enabled in the POP3 proxy, then the
1685 USER/PASS commands might not work; the bug had appeared in 0.4.10.
1688 Changes with nginx 0.4.10 23 Oct 2006
1690 *) Feature: the POP3 proxy supports the APOP command.
1692 *) Bugfix: if the select, poll or /dev/poll methods were used, then
1693 while waiting authentication server response the IMAP/POP3 proxy
1696 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if the $server_addr
1697 variable was used in the "map" directive.
1699 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module did not support the byte ranges for
1700 full responses; the bug had appeared in 0.4.7.
1702 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian amd64; the bug had
1706 Changes with nginx 0.4.9 13 Oct 2006
1708 *) Feature: the "set" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1710 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module now tests the nginx.pm module
1714 Changes with nginx 0.4.8 11 Oct 2006
1716 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1717 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1720 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_flv_module added the FLV header to the full
1722 Thanks to Alexey Kovyrin.
1725 Changes with nginx 0.4.7 10 Oct 2006
1727 *) Feature: the ngx_http_flv_module.
1729 *) Feature: the $request_body_file variable.
1731 *) Feature: the "charset" and "source_charset" directives support the
1734 *) Bugfix: if an "include" SSI command were before another "include"
1735 SSI command with a "wait" parameter, then the "wait" parameter might
1738 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_buffering off" directive was used or while
1739 working with memcached the connections might not be closed on
1742 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1746 Changes with nginx 0.4.6 06 Oct 2006
1748 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on 64-bit platforms except amd64, sparc64,
1751 *) Bugfix: nginx sent the chunked response for HTTP/1.1 request,
1752 if its length was set by text string in the
1753 $r->headers_out("Content-Length", ...) method.
1755 *) Bugfix: after redirecting error by an "error_page" directive any
1756 ngx_http_rewrite_module directive returned this error code; the bug
1757 had appeared in 0.4.4.
1760 Changes with nginx 0.4.5 02 Oct 2006
1762 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux and Solaris; the bug had
1766 Changes with nginx 0.4.4 02 Oct 2006
1768 *) Feature: the $scheme variable.
1770 *) Feature: the "expires" directive supports the "max" parameter.
1772 *) Feature: the "include" directive supports the "*" mask.
1773 Thanks to Jonathan Dance.
1775 *) Bugfix: the "return" directive always overrode the "error_page"
1776 response code redirected by the "error_page" directive.
1778 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if zero-length body was in PUT
1781 *) Bugfix: the redirect was changed incorrectly if the variables were
1782 used in the "proxy_redirect" directive.
1785 Changes with nginx 0.4.3 26 Sep 2006
1787 *) Change: now the 499 error could not be redirected using an
1788 "error_page" directive.
1790 *) Feature: the Solaris 10 event ports support.
1792 *) Feature: the ngx_http_browser_module.
1794 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault may occur while redirecting the 400
1795 error to the proxied server using a "proxy_pass" directive.
1797 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if an unix domain socket was
1798 used in a "proxy_pass" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.3.47.
1800 *) Bugfix: SSI did work with memcached and nonbuffered responses.
1802 *) Workaround: of the Sun Studio PAUSE hardware capability bug.
1805 Changes with nginx 0.4.2 14 Sep 2006
1807 *) Bugfix: the O_NOATIME flag support on Linux was canceled; the bug
1808 had appeared in 0.4.1.
1811 Changes with nginx 0.4.1 14 Sep 2006
1813 *) Bugfix: the DragonFlyBSD compatibility.
1814 Thanks to Pavel Nazarov.
1816 *) Workaround: of bug in 64-bit Linux sendfile(), when file is more
1819 *) Feature: now on Linux nginx uses O_NOATIME flag for static
1821 Thanks to Yusuf Goolamabbas.
1824 Changes with nginx 0.4.0 30 Aug 2006
1826 *) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
1827 from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
1829 *) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
1830 ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
1831 $r->has_request_body method.
1833 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
1835 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
1836 line for the PUT method.
1838 *) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
1840 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
1841 directive with variables and the first index name was without
1842 variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
1845 Changes with nginx 0.3.61 28 Aug 2006
1847 *) Change: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive is turned on by default.
1849 *) Feature: the "msie_refresh" directive.
1851 *) Feature: the "recursive_error_pages" directive.
1853 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive returned incorrect redirect, if the
1854 redirect had the captured escaped symbols from original URI.
1857 Changes with nginx 0.3.60 18 Aug 2006
1859 *) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop while an
1860 error redirection; the bug had appeared in 0.3.59.
1863 Changes with nginx 0.3.59 16 Aug 2006
1865 *) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
1866 "error_page" directive.
1868 *) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
1870 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
1871 "Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
1872 the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
1875 Changes with nginx 0.3.58 14 Aug 2006
1877 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports the variables.
1879 *) Change: now the procfs interface instead of sysctl is used on Linux.
1881 *) Change: now the "Content-Type" header line is inherited from first
1882 response when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
1884 *) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not redirect the 413 error.
1886 *) Bugfix: the trailing "?" did not remove old arguments if no new
1887 arguments were added to a rewritten URI.
1889 *) Bugfix: nginx could not run on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.
1892 Changes with nginx 0.3.57 09 Aug 2006
1894 *) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.
1896 *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
1897 Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.
1899 *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
1900 to a client the required certificates information.
1902 *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
1903 the "root" directive.
1906 Changes with nginx 0.3.56 04 Aug 2006
1908 *) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
1910 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
1911 "-x", and "!-x" operators.
1913 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
1914 redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
1918 Changes with nginx 0.3.55 28 Jul 2006
1920 *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
1922 *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
1924 *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
1926 *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
1927 was relative to a server prefix.
1929 *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
1930 after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
1932 *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
1933 returns all "Cookie" header lines.
1935 *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
1936 "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
1939 *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
1940 inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
1944 Changes with nginx 0.3.54 11 Jul 2006
1946 *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
1948 *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
1949 "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
1951 *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
1954 *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
1955 converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
1957 *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
1958 first request to a backend only.
1960 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
1964 Changes with nginx 0.3.53 07 Jul 2006
1966 *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
1969 *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
1970 the "weight" parameter.
1972 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.
1974 *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.
1976 *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
1977 on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
1980 *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
1981 return the 409 code.
1983 *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
1984 continued proxying anyway.
1987 Changes with nginx 0.3.52 03 Jul 2006
1989 *) Change: the ngx_http_index_module behavior for the "POST /" requests
1990 is reverted to the 0.3.40 version state: the module now does not
1991 return the 405 error.
1993 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
1994 limit rate was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.37.
1996 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_charset_module logged "unknown charset" alert, even
1997 if the recoding was not needed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
1999 *) Bugfix: if a code response of the PUT request was 409, then a
2000 temporary file was not removed.
2003 Changes with nginx 0.3.51 30 Jun 2006
2005 *) Bugfix: the "<" symbols might disappeared some conditions in the
2006 SSI; the bug had appeared in 0.3.50.
2009 Changes with nginx 0.3.50 28 Jun 2006
2011 *) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
2012 directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
2013 "fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
2015 *) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
2016 single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
2018 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
2019 proxy and FastCGI mode.
2021 *) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
2022 command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
2024 *) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
2025 SSI after inclusion.
2027 *) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
2028 in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
2031 Changes with nginx 0.3.49 31 May 2006
2033 *) Bugfix: in the "set" directive.
2035 *) Bugfix: if two or more FastCGI subrequests was in SSI, then first
2036 subrequest output was included instead of second and following
2040 Changes with nginx 0.3.48 29 May 2006
2042 *) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
2043 the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
2045 *) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
2046 "proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
2047 start of the rewritten redirect.
2049 *) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
2050 to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2051 redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
2054 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
2055 built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
2058 Changes with nginx 0.3.47 23 May 2006
2060 *) Feature: the "upstream" directive.
2062 *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
2063 SSI command is always removed.
2066 Changes with nginx 0.3.46 11 May 2006
2068 *) Feature: the "proxy_hide_header", "proxy_pass_header",
2069 "fastcgi_hide_header", and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives.
2071 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_x_powered_by", "fastcgi_x_powered_by", and
2072 "proxy_pass_server" directives were canceled.
2074 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Buffering" response header line is supported
2077 *) Bugfix: the reconfiguration bug and memory leaks in the
2078 ngx_http_perl_module.
2081 Changes with nginx 0.3.45 06 May 2006
2083 *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
2084 "ssl_client_certificate" directives.
2086 *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
2089 *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
2092 *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
2095 *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
2096 some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
2097 directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
2101 Changes with nginx 0.3.44 04 May 2006
2103 *) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
2105 *) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
2106 koi-win conversion table.
2108 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2111 Changes with nginx 0.3.43 26 Apr 2006
2113 *) Bugfix: in the SSI.
2116 Changes with nginx 0.3.42 26 Apr 2006
2118 *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
2121 *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
2124 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
2125 $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
2126 $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
2127 were not written to access log.
2129 *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
2130 "Cache-Control" response header line.
2133 Changes with nginx 0.3.41 21 Apr 2006
2135 *) Feature: the -v switch.
2137 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has
2140 *) Bugfix: in FastCGI handling.
2142 *) Bugfix: if the perl modules path was not set using
2143 --with-perl_modules_path=PATH or the "perl_modules", then the
2144 segmentation fault was occurred.
2147 Changes with nginx 0.3.40 19 Apr 2006
2149 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
2151 *) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
2153 *) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
2156 Changes with nginx 0.3.39 17 Apr 2006
2158 *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
2159 level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
2162 *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
2164 *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
2165 expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
2168 *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
2169 the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
2170 directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2172 *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
2176 Changes with nginx 0.3.38 14 Apr 2006
2178 *) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
2180 *) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
2181 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
2183 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
2186 *) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
2188 *) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
2190 Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
2192 *) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
2193 rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
2196 *) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
2197 login and password to pass authorization server.
2198 Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
2201 Changes with nginx 0.3.37 07 Apr 2006
2203 *) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
2205 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
2208 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
2211 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2214 Changes with nginx 0.3.36 05 Apr 2006
2216 *) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
2218 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
2219 inside the "if" block.
2221 *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
2222 "fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
2224 *) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
2226 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
2227 and $r->remote_addr.
2229 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
2231 *) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
2232 ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
2234 *) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
2235 ngx_http_ssi_module.
2237 *) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
2238 "client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
2239 "perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
2240 a current path but not to a server prefix.
2243 Changes with nginx 0.3.35 22 Mar 2006
2245 *) Bugfix: the accept-filter and the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option were set
2246 for first "listen" directive only; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2248 *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_pass" directive without the URI part in a
2252 Changes with nginx 0.3.34 21 Mar 2006
2254 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive supports the variables.
2257 Changes with nginx 0.3.33 15 Mar 2006
2259 *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
2260 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
2262 *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
2263 configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
2265 *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
2268 Changes with nginx 0.3.32 11 Mar 2006
2270 *) Bugfix: the debug logging on startup and reconfiguration time was
2271 removed; the bug had appeared in 0.3.31.
2274 Changes with nginx 0.3.31 10 Mar 2006
2276 *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
2278 *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
2281 *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
2283 *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
2285 Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
2287 *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
2288 various addresses inside one server, then server names like
2289 "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
2292 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2293 and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
2296 *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
2299 Changes with nginx 0.3.30 22 Feb 2006
2301 *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
2304 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
2305 ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
2307 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
2308 used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
2311 Changes with nginx 0.3.29 20 Feb 2006
2313 *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
2314 many warnings before the response.
2316 *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
2317 the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.
2319 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
2320 header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.
2322 *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
2323 directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
2327 Changes with nginx 0.3.28 16 Feb 2006
2329 *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
2331 *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
2333 *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
2334 terminated prematurely.
2335 Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
2337 *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
2338 account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
2341 *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
2342 completion of a request.
2344 *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
2345 directive was transferred to a client.
2348 Changes with nginx 0.3.27 08 Feb 2006
2350 *) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
2351 "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2353 *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
2354 "log_format" directive.
2356 *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
2358 *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
2361 *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
2362 fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
2364 *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
2365 autoconfiguration directive.
2367 *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
2368 then the requests with the body was not transferred.
2371 Changes with nginx 0.3.26 03 Feb 2006
2373 *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
2374 "optimize_server_names".
2376 *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
2377 the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
2381 Changes with nginx 0.3.25 01 Feb 2006
2383 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
2384 reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
2388 Changes with nginx 0.3.24 01 Feb 2006
2390 *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
2392 *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
2393 not transferred to a client.
2395 *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
2397 *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
2400 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
2401 if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
2402 had appeared in 0.3.18.
2405 Changes with nginx 0.3.23 24 Jan 2006
2407 *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.
2409 *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
2412 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
2416 Changes with nginx 0.3.22 17 Jan 2006
2418 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
2419 $r->unescape methods.
2421 *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
2424 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
2425 values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
2429 Changes with nginx 0.3.21 16 Jan 2006
2431 *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module.
2433 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive allows the referreres without
2437 Changes with nginx 0.3.20 11 Jan 2006
2439 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2441 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_memcached_module did not support the keys in
2442 the "/usr?args" form.
2445 Changes with nginx 0.3.19 28 Dec 2005
2447 *) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
2449 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
2451 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2454 Changes with nginx 0.3.18 26 Dec 2005
2456 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
2459 *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
2460 "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
2462 *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
2463 "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
2465 *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
2466 directives were canceled.
2468 *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
2470 *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
2471 only without the URI part.
2473 *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
2474 ngx_http_map_module.
2476 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
2477 not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
2479 *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
2480 start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
2483 Changes with nginx 0.3.17 18 Dec 2005
2485 *) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
2486 sendfile64() in kernel.
2488 *) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
2491 *) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
2494 *) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
2496 *) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
2497 directive the port 80 was used by default.
2500 Changes with nginx 0.3.16 16 Dec 2005
2502 *) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
2504 *) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
2507 *) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
2509 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
2511 *) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
2512 built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
2515 *) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
2517 *) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
2518 SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
2519 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2521 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
2522 had appeared in 0.3.13.
2525 Changes with nginx 0.3.15 07 Dec 2005
2527 *) Feature: the new 444 code of the "return" directive to close
2530 *) Feature: the "so_keepalive" directive in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2532 *) Bugfix: if there are unclosed connection nginx now calls abort()
2533 only on gracefull quit and active "debug_points" directive.
2536 Changes with nginx 0.3.14 05 Dec 2005
2538 *) Bugfix: in the 304 response the body was transferred; the bug had
2542 Changes with nginx 0.3.13 05 Dec 2005
2544 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
2546 *) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
2549 *) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
2551 *) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
2552 request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
2554 *) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
2555 authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
2558 Changes with nginx 0.3.12 26 Nov 2005
2560 *) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
2561 "satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
2562 directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
2563 and is not built by default.
2565 *) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
2567 *) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
2568 "fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
2569 "proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
2571 *) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
2573 *) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
2575 *) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
2576 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2578 *) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
2579 line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
2581 *) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
2582 level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
2583 without the "Basic realm" text.
2585 *) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
2586 "access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
2587 the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2589 *) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
2592 *) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
2593 string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
2596 Changes with nginx 0.3.11 15 Nov 2005
2598 *) Bugfix: nginx did not pass the client request headers and body while
2599 proxying; the bug had appeared in 0.3.10.
2602 Changes with nginx 0.3.10 15 Nov 2005
2604 *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
2605 variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
2606 ngx_http_rewrite_module.
2608 *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
2611 *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
2613 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
2615 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
2617 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
2619 *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
2621 *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
2623 *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
2625 *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
2626 redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
2629 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
2631 *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
2632 chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
2635 Changes with nginx 0.3.9 10 Nov 2005
2637 *) Bugfix: nginx considered URI as unsafe if two any symbols was
2638 between two slashes; the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
2641 Changes with nginx 0.3.8 09 Nov 2005
2643 *) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
2644 "X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
2647 *) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
2648 "Authorization" header line as valid one.
2650 *) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
2651 ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2653 *) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
2654 ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
2656 *) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
2658 *) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
2660 *) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
2661 $bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
2662 $request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
2663 $upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
2664 $connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
2665 will be canceled soon.
2667 *) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
2668 empty string "" and string starting with "0".
2670 *) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
2671 connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
2673 *) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
2676 *) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
2677 and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
2678 then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
2681 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
2684 *) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
2685 several worker processes were used.
2687 *) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
2690 *) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
2691 gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
2692 did not transferred at all.
2695 Changes with nginx 0.3.7 27 Oct 2005
2697 *) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
2699 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
2700 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
2703 Changes with nginx 0.3.6 24 Oct 2005
2705 *) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
2706 authorization server.
2708 *) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
2710 *) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
2711 then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
2714 *) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
2715 the 80 port was always used.
2718 Changes with nginx 0.3.5 21 Oct 2005
2720 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the IMAP/POP3 login
2721 was changed by authorization server; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2723 *) Bugfix: the accept mutex did not work and all connections were
2724 handled by one process; the bug had appeared in 0.3.3.
2726 *) Bugfix: the timeout did not work if the "rtsig" method and the
2727 "timer_resolution" directive were used.
2730 Changes with nginx 0.3.4 19 Oct 2005
2732 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Linux 2.4+ and MacOS X; the bug
2733 had appeared in 0.3.3.
2736 Changes with nginx 0.3.3 19 Oct 2005
2738 *) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
2739 renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
2741 *) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
2744 *) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
2745 additional the gettimeofday() system call.
2747 *) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
2749 *) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
2750 directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
2753 *) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
2754 index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
2756 *) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
2758 *) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
2760 *) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
2761 just after the response header was transferred to a client.
2763 *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
2765 *) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
2767 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
2768 the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2770 *) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
2774 Changes with nginx 0.3.2 12 Oct 2005
2776 *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
2778 *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
2779 "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
2780 "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
2783 Changes with nginx 0.3.1 10 Oct 2005
2785 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred when the signal queue
2786 overflowed if the "rtsig" method was used; the bug had appeared in
2789 *) Change: correct handling of the "\\", "\"", "\'", and "\$" pairs in
2793 Changes with nginx 0.3.0 07 Oct 2005
2795 *) Change: the 10-days live time limit of worker process was
2796 eliminated. The limit was introduced because of millisecond timers
2800 Changes with nginx 0.2.6 05 Oct 2005
2802 *) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
2803 backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
2805 *) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
2806 now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
2808 *) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
2809 more flexible to change an error code.
2811 *) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
2812 in proxied subrequests.
2814 *) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
2815 found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
2818 *) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
2819 in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
2820 other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
2821 error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2824 Changes with nginx 0.2.5 04 Oct 2005
2826 *) Change: the duplicate value of the ngx_http_geo_module variable now
2827 causes the warning and changes old value.
2829 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "set" command.
2831 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "file" parameter in
2832 the "include" command.
2834 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the variable value
2835 substitutions in expressions of the "if" command.
2838 Changes with nginx 0.2.4 03 Oct 2005
2840 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "$var=text", "$var!=text",
2841 "$var=/text/", and "$var!=/text/" expressions in the "if" command.
2843 *) Bugfix: in proxying location without trailing slash; the bug had
2846 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the "rtsig" method
2847 was used; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
2850 Changes with nginx 0.2.3 30 Sep 2005
2852 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without the --with-debug option;
2853 the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
2856 Changes with nginx 0.2.2 30 Sep 2005
2858 *) Feature: the "config errmsg" command of the ngx_http_ssi_module.
2860 *) Change: the ngx_http_geo_module variables can be overridden by the
2863 *) Feature: the "ssl_protocols" and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers"
2864 directives of the ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
2866 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
2869 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now do not show the files
2872 *) Bugfix: if the SSL handshake failed then another connection may be
2874 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2876 *) Bugfix: the export versions of MSIE 5.x could not connect via HTTPS.
2879 Changes with nginx 0.2.1 23 Sep 2005
2881 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2882 error, then nginx may got caught in an endless loop; the bug had
2886 Changes with nginx 0.2.0 23 Sep 2005
2888 *) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
2889 not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
2890 the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
2891 The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
2892 suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
2893 back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
2896 *) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
2897 "connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
2898 of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
2900 *) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
2902 *) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
2904 *) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
2905 not run for subrequests.
2907 *) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
2910 *) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
2911 error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
2913 *) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
2914 Thanks to Rob Mueller.
2916 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2918 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
2920 *) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
2921 from the 304 responses.
2922 Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
2925 Changes with nginx 0.1.45 08 Sep 2005
2927 *) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
2928 ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
2930 *) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
2933 *) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
2936 Changes with nginx 0.1.44 06 Sep 2005
2938 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
2940 *) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
2942 *) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
2944 *) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
2945 of authorization use.
2948 Changes with nginx 0.1.43 30 Aug 2005
2950 *) Feature: the listen(2) backlog in the "listen" directive can be
2951 changed using the -HUP signal.
2953 *) Feature: the geo2nginx.pl script was added to contrib.
2955 *) Change: the FastCGI parameters with the empty values now are passed
2958 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred or the worker process may
2959 got caught in an endless loop if the proxied or FastCGI server sent
2960 the "Cache-Control" header line and the "expires" directive was
2961 used; in the proxied mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
2964 Changes with nginx 0.1.42 23 Aug 2005
2966 *) Bugfix: if the request URI had a zero length after the processing in
2967 the ngx_http_proxy_module, then the segmentation fault or bus error
2968 occurred in the ngx_http_proxy_module.
2970 *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not work inside the "if"
2971 block; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
2974 Changes with nginx 0.1.41 25 Jul 2005
2976 *) Bugfix: if the variable was used in the configuration file, then it
2977 can not be used in SSI.
2980 Changes with nginx 0.1.40 22 Jul 2005
2982 *) Bugfix: if a client sent too long header line, then the request
2983 information did not logged in the error log.
2985 *) Bugfix: the "Set-Cookie" header line was not transferred when the
2986 "X-Accel-Redirect" was used; the bug had appeared in 0.1.39.
2988 *) Bugfix: the "Content-Disposition" header line was not transferred
2989 when the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used.
2991 *) Bugfix: the master process did not close the listen socket on the
2994 *) Bugfix: after on-line upgrade on Linux and Solaris the process name
2995 became shorter in the "ps" command.
2998 Changes with nginx 0.1.39 14 Jul 2005
3000 *) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
3001 directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
3002 charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
3004 *) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
3005 transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
3007 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
3008 close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
3009 bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3011 *) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
3013 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
3014 the "include virtual" command.
3016 *) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
3017 nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
3018 was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3020 *) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
3021 ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
3022 location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3024 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
3027 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
3028 long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
3030 *) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
3034 Changes with nginx 0.1.38 08 Jul 2005
3036 *) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
3039 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
3040 in proxy and FastCGI mode.
3042 *) Feature: the "break" directive.
3044 *) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
3046 *) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
3047 redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
3049 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
3052 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
3053 than one remote subrequest.
3055 *) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
3056 line in the header was transferred in two packets; the bug had
3059 *) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
3061 *) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
3063 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
3066 *) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
3069 Changes with nginx 0.1.37 23 Jun 2005
3071 *) Change: now the "\n" is added to the end of the "nginx.pid" file.
3073 *) Bugfix: the responses may be transferred not completely, if many
3074 parts or the big parts were included by SSI.
3076 *) Bugfix: if all backends had returned the 404 reponse and the
3077 "http_404" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
3078 "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives was used, then nginx started to
3079 request all backends again.
3082 Changes with nginx 0.1.36 15 Jun 2005
3084 *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
3085 "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
3086 now returns the 400 error.
3088 *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
3090 *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
3091 parameters of the "listen" directive.
3093 *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
3095 *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
3097 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
3100 *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
3101 the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
3104 Changes with nginx 0.1.35 07 Jun 2005
3106 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
3108 *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
3110 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
3111 header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3113 *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
3114 not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
3115 occurred on the start.
3117 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
3118 bigger than the temporary file.
3120 *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
3121 "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
3125 Changes with nginx 0.1.34 26 May 2005
3127 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3128 big response part were include by SSI.
3130 *) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
3133 *) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
3135 *) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
3136 the client request header line passing.
3139 Changes with nginx 0.1.33 23 May 2005
3141 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
3142 the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3144 *) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
3145 level cause the bus fault on start up.
3147 *) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
3149 *) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
3150 directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
3153 Changes with nginx 0.1.32 19 May 2005
3155 *) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
3156 "rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
3158 *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
3161 *) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
3162 of regular expressions.
3164 *) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
3165 proxy and FastCGI mode.
3168 Changes with nginx 0.1.31 16 May 2005
3170 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3172 *) Bugfix: errors while processing FastCGI response by SSI.
3174 *) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
3176 *) Bugfix: the redirect with the 301 code was transferred without
3177 response body; the bug had appeared in 0.1.30.
3180 Changes with nginx 0.1.30 14 May 2005
3182 *) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
3185 *) Bugfix: the response encrypted by SSL may not transferred complete.
3187 *) Bugfix: if the length of the response part received at once from
3188 proxied or FastCGI server was equal to 500, then nginx returns the
3189 500 response code; in proxy mode the the bug had appeared in 0.1.29
3192 *) Bugfix: nginx did not consider the directives with 8 or 9 parameters
3195 *) Feature: the "return" directive can return the 204 response code.
3197 *) Feature: the "ignore_invalid_headers" directive.
3200 Changes with nginx 0.1.29 12 May 2005
3202 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
3204 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
3205 'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
3208 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
3209 DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
3211 *) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
3213 *) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
3214 empty QUERY_STRING variable.
3216 *) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
3218 *) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
3219 "proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
3221 *) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
3222 canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
3224 *) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
3225 with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
3226 directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
3227 and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
3229 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
3230 with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
3232 *) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
3234 the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
3237 *) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
3238 the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
3241 *) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
3243 *) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
3244 directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
3247 *) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
3249 *) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
3251 *) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
3253 *) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
3255 *) Feature: the "internal" directive.
3257 *) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
3258 SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
3259 REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
3261 *) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
3262 headers or a backend response header.
3264 *) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
3265 the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
3266 returned the 408 response.
3268 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
3269 invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
3271 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
3272 tolerance configuration.
3274 *) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
3275 "Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
3277 *) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
3280 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
3282 *) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
3285 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
3288 Changes with nginx 0.1.28 08 Apr 2005
3290 *) Bugfix: nginx hogs CPU while proxying the huge files.
3292 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.0 on Linux.
3295 Changes with nginx 0.1.27 28 Mar 2005
3297 *) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "valid_referers" directive.
3299 *) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
3300 "info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
3303 *) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
3305 *) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
3306 of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
3309 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
3310 --without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
3314 Changes with nginx 0.1.26 22 Mar 2005
3316 *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
3319 *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
3321 *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
3322 and auth_basic_user_file directives.
3325 Changes with nginx 0.1.25 19 Mar 2005
3327 *) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
3329 *) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
3330 kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
3332 *) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
3333 ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
3334 ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
3335 after request completion.
3337 *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
3340 *) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
3341 condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
3343 *) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
3344 text values were used in the "geo" directive.
3346 *) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
3347 directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
3348 will be removed soon.
3350 *) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
3352 *) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
3354 *) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
3356 *) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
3359 Changes with nginx 0.1.24 04 Mar 2005
3361 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
3362 and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
3364 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
3365 response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
3368 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
3371 *) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
3375 Changes with nginx 0.1.23 01 Mar 2005
3377 *) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
3378 ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
3379 var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
3382 *) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
3384 *) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
3385 "proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
3386 server name of the "server_name" directive.
3388 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
3389 amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
3391 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
3392 about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
3394 *) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
3395 the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
3398 Changes with nginx 0.1.22 22 Feb 2005
3400 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
3401 connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
3403 *) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
3404 Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
3407 Changes with nginx 0.1.21 22 Feb 2005
3409 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
3410 if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
3412 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
3413 the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
3415 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3418 Changes with nginx 0.1.20 17 Feb 2005
3420 *) Feature: the new "script_filename" and "remote_port" parameters of
3421 the fastcgi_params directive.
3423 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI stderr stream was handled incorrectly.
3426 Changes with nginx 0.1.19 16 Feb 2005
3428 *) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
3429 returned for the local requests.
3431 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
3433 *) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
3434 request body via SSL connections.
3437 Changes with nginx 0.1.18 09 Feb 2005
3439 *) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
3440 devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
3443 *) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
3446 *) Bugfix: in a redirect rewrite directive arguments were concatenated
3447 with URI by an "&" rather than an "?".
3449 *) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
3450 the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
3452 *) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
3454 *) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
3455 the segmentation fault.
3457 *) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
3460 *) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
3462 *) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
3463 to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
3464 configuration to the request.
3467 Changes with nginx 0.1.17 03 Feb 2005
3469 *) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
3470 Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
3471 the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
3472 locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
3474 *) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
3476 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
3478 *) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
3481 *) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
3482 small caps letters in extension.
3484 *) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
3485 location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
3486 static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
3488 *) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
3489 host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
3492 *) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
3495 Changes with nginx 0.1.16 25 Jan 2005
3497 *) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
3498 request the final chunk was issued.
3500 *) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
3501 keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
3503 *) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
3504 segmentation faults.
3506 *) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
3509 *) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
3510 options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
3512 *) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
3514 *) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
3515 the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
3518 Changes with nginx 0.1.15 19 Jan 2005
3520 *) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
3523 *) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
3524 different number of the captures and substitutions.
3526 *) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
3529 *) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
3530 arguments and in the original state.
3532 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
3533 to use the regular expressions in locations.
3535 *) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
3536 "Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
3539 *) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
3540 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
3541 or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
3542 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
3545 Changes with nginx 0.1.14 18 Jan 2005
3547 *) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
3548 --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
3549 --http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
3551 *) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
3552 request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
3553 default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
3555 *) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
3556 fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
3557 fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
3558 fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
3559 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
3560 fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
3561 fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
3563 *) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
3566 *) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
3567 proxy_pass directive.
3569 *) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
3572 *) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
3573 ngx_http_proxy_module.
3575 *) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
3576 Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
3579 Changes with nginx 0.1.13 21 Dec 2004
3581 *) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
3584 *) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
3587 *) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
3591 Changes with nginx 0.1.12 06 Dec 2004
3593 *) Feature: the %request_length log parameter.
3595 *) Bugfix: when using the /dev/poll, select and poll on the platforms,
3596 where these methods may do the false reports, there may be the long
3597 delay when the request was passed via the keep-alive connection. It
3598 may be at least on Solaris when using the /dev/poll.
3600 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive is ignored on Linux because Linux
3601 does not support the SO_SNDLOWAT option.
3604 Changes with nginx 0.1.11 02 Dec 2004
3606 *) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
3608 *) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
3609 transferred response.
3611 *) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
3612 Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
3614 *) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
3617 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
3618 broken symlink was in a directory.
3620 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
3623 *) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
3624 was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
3627 *) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
3628 when the /dev/poll method was used.
3630 *) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
3632 *) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
3634 *) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
3636 *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
3637 section in configuration.
3639 *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
3641 *) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
3645 Changes with nginx 0.1.10 26 Nov 2004
3647 *) Bugfix: if the request without arguments contains "//", "/./",
3648 "/../" or "%XX" then the lost character in the request line was
3649 lost; the bug had appeared in 0.1.9.
3651 *) Bugfix: the fix in 0.1.9 for the files bigger than 2G on Linux did
3655 Changes with nginx 0.1.9 25 Nov 2004
3657 *) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
3658 request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
3660 *) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
3663 *) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
3664 does not support sendfile64().
3666 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
3667 --with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
3671 Changes with nginx 0.1.8 20 Nov 2004
3673 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
3676 *) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
3678 *) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
3681 Changes with nginx 0.1.7 12 Nov 2004
3683 *) Bugfix: on FreeBSD the segmentation fault may occur if the size of
3684 the transferred file was changed; the bug had appeared in 0.1.5.
3687 Changes with nginx 0.1.6 11 Nov 2004
3689 *) Bugfix: some location directive combinations with the regular
3690 expressions caused the wrong configuration choose.
3693 Changes with nginx 0.1.5 11 Nov 2004
3695 *) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
3696 returned not enough data" alerts.
3698 *) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
3699 errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
3700 that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
3703 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
3706 *) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
3708 *) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
3710 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
3711 spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
3713 *) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
3715 *) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
3718 Changes with nginx 0.1.4 26 Oct 2004
3720 *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module.
3723 Changes with nginx 0.1.3 25 Oct 2004
3725 *) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
3727 *) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
3729 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3733 Changes with nginx 0.1.2 21 Oct 2004
3735 *) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
3736 options in configure.
3738 *) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
3740 *) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
3742 *) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
3743 reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3745 *) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
3748 *) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
3749 charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
3751 *) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
3753 *) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
3757 Changes with nginx 0.1.1 11 Oct 2004
3759 *) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
3761 *) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
3763 *) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
3764 support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
3766 *) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
3768 *) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
3770 *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
3773 *) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
3775 *) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
3776 used while the proxying.
3778 *) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
3780 *) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
3781 --with-poll_module parameter was required.
3784 Changes with nginx 0.1.0 04 Oct 2004
3786 *) The first public version.