*) Security: nginx now checks URI got from a backend in
"X-Accel-Redirect" header line or in SSI file for the "/../" paths
and zeroes.
*) Change: nginx now does not treat the empty user name in the
"Authorization" header line as valid one.
*) Feature: the "ssl_session_timeout" directives of the
ngx_http_ssl_module and ngx_imap_ssl_module.
*) Feature: the "auth_http_header" directive of the
ngx_imap_auth_http_module.
*) Feature: the "add_header" directive.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_realip_module.
*) Feature: the new variables to use in the "log_format" directive:
$bytes_sent, $apache_bytes_sent, $status, $time_gmt, $uri,
$request_time, $request_length, $upstream_status,
$upstream_response_time, $gzip_ratio, $uid_got, $uid_set,
$connection, $pipe, and $msec. The parameters in the "%name" form
will be canceled soon.
*) Change: now the false variable values in the "if" directive are the
empty string "" and string starting with "0".
*) Bugfix: while using proxied or FastCGI-server nginx may leave
connections and temporary files with client requests in open state.
*) Bugfix: the worker processes did not flush the buffered logs on
graceful exit.
*) Bugfix: if the request URI was changes by the "rewrite" directive
and the request was proxied in location given by regular expression,
then the incorrect request was transferred to backend; the bug had
appeared in 0.2.6.
*) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
"Expires" header.
*) Bugfix: nginx may stop to accept requests if the "rtsig" method and
several worker processes were used.
*) Bugfix: the "\"" and "\'" escape symbols were incorrectly handled in
SSI commands.
*) Bugfix: if the response was ended just after the SSI command and
gzipping was used, then the response did not transferred complete or
did not transferred at all.
*) Feature: the "access_log" supports the "buffer=" parameter.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.3.2.
*) Change: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy do not send the empty login to
authorization server.
*) Feature: the "log_format" supports the variables in the $name form.
*) Bugfix: if at least in one server was no the "listen" directive,
then nginx did not listen on the 80 port; the bug had appeared in
0.3.3.
*) Bugfix: if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive, the
the 80 port was always used.
*) Change: the "bl" and "af" parameters of the "listen" directive was
renamed to the "backlog" and "accept_filter".
*) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
directive.
*) Change: the "$msec" log parameter does not require now the
additional the gettimeofday() system call.
*) Feature: the -t switch now tests the "listen" directives.
*) Bugfix: if the invalid address was specified in the "listen"
directive, then after the -HUP signal nginx left an open socket in
the CLOSED state.
*) Bugfix: the mime type may be incorrectly set to default value for
index file with variable in the name; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
*) Feature: the "timer_resolution" directive.
*) Feature: the millisecond "$upstream_response_time" log parameter.
*) Bugfix: a temporary file with client request body now is removed
just after the response header was transferred to a client.
*) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.6 compatibility.
*) Bugfix: the SSL certificate and key file paths could not be relative.
*) Bugfix: the "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directive did not work in
the ngx_imap_ssl_module.
*) Bugfix: the "ssl_protocols" directive allowed to specify the single
protocol only.
*) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.
*) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
"proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
"fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.
*) Change: while using load-balancing the time before the failed
backend retry was decreased from 60 to 10 seconds.
*) Change: the "proxy_pass_unparsed_uri" was canceled, the original URI
now passed, if the URI part is omitted in "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Feature: the "error_page" directive supports redirects and allows
more flexible to change an error code.
*) Change: the charset in the "Content-Type" header line now is ignored
in proxied subrequests.
*) Bugfix: if the URI was changed in the "if" block and request did not
found new configuration, then the ngx_http_rewrite_module rules ran
again.
*) Bugfix: if the "set" directive set the ngx_http_geo_module variable
in some configuration part, the this variable was not available in
other configuration parts and the "using uninitialized variable"
error was occurred; the bug had appeared in 0.2.2.
*) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
suffix.
*) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
"connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
*) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
*) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
*) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
not run for subrequests.
*) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
directives.
*) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
*) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
Thanks to Rob Mueller.
*) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
*) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
*) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
from the 304 responses.
Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
*) Change: the "ssl_engine" directive was canceled in the
ngx_http_ssl_module and now is introduced at global level.
*) Bugfix: the responses with SSI subrequests did not transferred via
SSL connection.
*) Various bug fixes in the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
*) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports SSL.
*) Feature: the "proxy_timeout" directive of the ngx_imap_proxy_module.
*) Feature: the "userid_mark" directive.
*) Feature: the $remote_user variable value is determined independently
of authorization use.
*) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
directive was canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
*) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; the
bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
*) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
the "include virtual" command.
*) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
was transferred; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
location level; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
chain.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
long file names; the bug had appeared in 0.1.38.
*) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
login state.
*) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
"Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
now returns the 400 error.
*) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.
*) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
parameters of the "listen" directive.
*) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.
*) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
in UTF-8.
*) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.
*) Feature: the "working_directory" directive.
*) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response
header was in several packets; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did
not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was
occurred on the start.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was
bigger than the temporary file.
*) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
"GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; the bug had appeared in
0.1.28.
*) Bugfix: the worker process may got caught in an endless loop if the
big response part were include by SSI.
*) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive were not available
in SSI.
*) Feature: the "autoindex_localtime" directive.
*) Bugfix: the empty value of the "proxy_set_header" directive forbids
the client request header line passing.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --without-pcre parameter;
the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Bugfix: 3, 4, 7, and 8 the "proxy_set_header" directives in one
level cause the bus fault on start up.
*) Bugfix: the HTTP protocol was specified in the HTTPS redirects.
*) Bugfix: if the "rewrite" directive used the captures inside the "if"
directive, then the 500 error code was returned.
*) Bugfix: the arguments were omitted in the redirects, issued by the
"rewrite" directive; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Feature: the "if" directive supports the captures in regular
expressions.
*) Feature: the "set" directive supports the variables and the captures
of regular expressions.
*) Feature: the "X-Accel-Redirect" response header line is supported in
proxy and FastCGI mode.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
level is supported.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
*) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
*) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
empty QUERY_STRING variable.
*) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
*) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
"proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
*) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" was
canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
*) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
*) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
*) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
replaced with
the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
directive.
*) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
directive.
*) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
*) Change: the "fastcgi_root", "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params"
directive are canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param
directives.
*) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
*) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
*) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
*) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
*) Feature: the "internal" directive.
*) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
*) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
headers or a backend response header.
*) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
returned the 408 response.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
invalid line in response header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.26.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
tolerance configuration.
*) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
"Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
header line.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
*) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
were in a request.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
*) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
at the info level.
*) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
and auth_basic_user_file directives.
*) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
*) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
*) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
after request completion.
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
expression.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
*) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
text values were used in the "geo" directive.
*) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
will be removed soon.
*) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
*) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
*) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
*) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module supports the QUERY_STRING
and DOCUMENT_URI variables.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module may some times return the 404
response for existent directory, if this directory was used in
"alias" directive.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module ran incorrectly for large
responses.
*) Bugfix: the lack of the "Referer" header line was always accounted
as valid referrer.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module and the ssi,
ssi_silent_errors, and ssi_min_file_chunk directives. The 'echo
var="HTTP_..." default=""' and 'echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"' commands are
supported.
*) Feature: the %request_time log parameter.
*) Feature: if the request has no the "Host" header line, then the
"proxy_preserve_host" directive set this header line to the first
server name of the "server_name" directive.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on platforms different from i386,
amd64, sparc, and ppc; the bug had appeared in 0.1.22.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module now shows the information not
about the symlink, but about file or directory it points to.
*) Bugfix: the %apache_length parameter logged the negative length of
the response header if the no response was transferred to a client.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect handled
connections statistics if the proxying or FastCGI server were used.
*) Bugfix: the installation paths were incorrectly quoted on Linux and
Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.1.21.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
*) Bugfix: now, if request contains the zero, then the 404 error is
returned for the local requests.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
*) Bugfix: the timeout may occur while reading of the the client
request body via SSL connections.
*) Workaround: the default values of the devpoll_events and the
devpoll_changes directives changed from 512 to 32 to be compatible
with Solaris 10.
*) Bugfix: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives were not
inherited.
*) Bugfix: in the redirect rewrite directive the arguments were
concatenated with URI by the "&" rather than the "?".
*) Bugfix: the lines without trailing ";" in the file being included by
the ngx_http_geo_module were silently ignored.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_stub_status_module.
*) Bugfix: the unknown log format in the access_log directive caused
the segmentation fault.
*) Feature: the new "document_root" parameter of the fastcgi_params
directive.
*) Feature: the fastcgi_redirect_errors directive.
*) Feature: the new "break" modifier of the "rewrite" directive allows
to stop the rewrite/location cycle and sets the current
configuration to the request.
*) Change: the ngx_http_rewrite_module was rewritten from the scratch.
Now it is possible to redirect, to return the error codes, to check
the variables and referrers. The directives can be used inside
locations. The redirect directive was canceled.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_geo_module.
*) Feature: the proxy_set_x_var and fastcgi_set_var directives.
*) Bugfix: the location configuration with "=" modifier may be used in
another location.
*) Bugfix: the correct content type was set only for requests that use
small caps letters in extension.
*) Bugfix: if the proxy_pass or fastcgi_pass directives were set in the
location, and access was denied, and the error was redirected to a
static page, then the segmentation fault occurred.
*) Bugfix: if in a proxied "Location" header was a relative URL, then a
host name and a slash were added to them; the bug had appeared in
0.1.14.
*) Bugfix: the system error message was not logged on Linux.
*) Bugfix: if the response were transferred by chunks, then on the HEAD
request the final chunk was issued.
*) Bugfix: the "Connection: keep-alive" header were issued, even if the
keepalive_timeout directive forbade the keep-alive use.
*) Bugfix: the errors in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module caused the
segmentation faults.
*) Bugfix: the compressed response encrypted by SSL may not transferred
complete.
*) Bugfix: the TCP-specific TCP_NODELAY, TCP_NOPSUH, and TCP_CORK
options, are not used for the unix domain sockets.
*) Feature: the rewrite directive supports the arguments rewriting.
*) Bugfix: the response code 400 was returned for the POST request with
the "Content-Length: 0" header; the bug had appeared in 0.1.14.
*) Bugfix: the error while the connecting to the FastCGI server caused
segmentation fault.
*) Bugfix: the correct handling of the regular expression, that has
different number of the captures and substitutions.
*) Feature: the location, that is passed to the FastCGI server, can be
regular expression.
*) Bugfix: the FastCGI's parameter REQUEST_URI is now passed with the
arguments and in the original state.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module module was required to be built
to use the regular expressions in locations.
*) Bugfix: the directive "proxy_preserve_host on" adds port 80 to the
"Host" headers, if upstream listen on port 80; the bug had appeared
in 0.1.14.
*) Bugfix: the same paths in autoconfiguration parameters
--http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH,
or --http-client-body-temp-path=PATH and
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH caused segmentation fault.
*) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
--http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
*) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
*) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
0.1.3.
*) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
proxy_pass directive.
*) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
string start.
*) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
ngx_http_proxy_module.
*) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
*) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
directives.
*) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
not work.
*) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
length.
*) Feature: the worker_priority directive.
*) Change: both tcp_nopush and tcp_nodelay directives affect the
transferred response.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not call initgroups().
Thanks to Andrew Sitnikov and Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Change: now the ngx_http_autoindex_module shows the file size in the
bytes.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module returned the 500 error if the
broken symlink was in a directory.
*) Bugfix: the files bigger than 4G could not be transferred using
sendfile.
*) Bugfix: if the backend was resolved to several backends and there
was an error while the response waiting then process may got caught
in an endless loop.
*) Bugfix: the worker process may exit with the "unknown cycle" message
when the /dev/poll method was used.
*) Bugfix: "close() channel failed" errors.
*) Bugfix: the autodetection of the "nobody" and "nogroup" groups.
*) Bugfix: the send_lowat directive did not work on Linux.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault occurred if there was no events
section in configuration.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD.
*) Bugfix: the double slashes in "://" in the URI were converted to
":/".
*) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
*) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
completely.
*) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
does not support sendfile64().
*) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
--with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
0.1.8.
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module if the long file names were
in the listing.
*) Feature: the "^~" modifier in the location directive.
*) Feature: the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive.
*) Bugfix: on Solaris and Linux there may be too many "recvmsg()
returned not enough data" alerts.
*) Bugfix: there were the "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument)"
errors on Solaris in proxy mode without sendfile. On other platforms
that do not support sendfile at all the process got caught in an
endless loop.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris in proxy mode and using
sendfile.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault on Solaris.
*) Bugfix: on-line upgrade did not work on Linux.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module module did not escape the
spaces, the quotes, and the percent signs in the directory listing.
*) Change: the decrease of the copy operations.
*) Feature: the userid_p3p directive.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
*) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
*) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
is not used.
*) Feature: the --user=USER, --group=GROUP, and --with-ld-opt=OPTIONS
options in configure.
*) Feature: the server_name directive supports *.domain.tld.
*) Bugfix: the portability improvements.
*) Bugfix: if configuration file was set in command line, the
reconfiguration was impossible; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
*) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
is not used.
*) Bugfix: with sendfile the response was not recoded according to the
charset module directives; the bug had appeared in 0.1.1.
*) Bugfix: very seldom bug in the kqueue processing.
*) Bugfix: the gzip module compressed the proxied responses that was
already compressed.
*) Feature: the gzip_types directive.
*) Feature: the tcp_nodelay directive.
*) Feature: the send_lowat directive is working not only on OSes that
support kqueue NOTE_LOWAT, but also on OSes that support SO_SNDLOWAT.
*) Feature: the setproctitle() emulation for Linux and Solaris.
*) Bugfix: the "Location" header rewrite bug fixed while the proxying.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_chunked_module module may get caught in an
endless loop.
*) Bugfix: the /dev/poll module bugs fixed.
*) Bugfix: the responses were corrupted when the temporary files were
used while the proxying.
*) Bugfix: the unescaped requests were passed to the backend.
*) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux 2.4 the
--with-poll_module parameter was required.
