unsupported threaded environment, but now they complicate code:
*) perl_clone() requires at least duplicating nginx stash;
*) the multiplicity requires to re-evalute all precompiled subroutines
and nginx stash in new interpreter context.
*) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
*) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
$r->has_request_body method.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
line for the PUT method.
*) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
directive with variables and the first index name was without
variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Feature: now is possible to do several redirection using the
"error_page" directive.
*) Bugfix: the "dav_access" directive did not support three parameters.
*) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not changes the
"Content-Type" header line after the "X-Accel-Redirect" was used;
the bug had appeared in 0.3.58.
*) Feature: the "dav_access" directive.
*) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "-d", "!-d", "-e", "!-e",
"-x", and "!-x" operators.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if a request returned a
redirect and some sent to client header lines were logged in the
access log.
*) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
*) Feature: the "block" SSI command.
*) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.
*) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
was relative to a server prefix.
*) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.
*) Bugfix: the $r->headers_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
returns all "Cookie" header lines.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
"client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
upstream.
*) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.50.
*) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.
*) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
"memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.
*) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
form.
*) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.
*) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
first request to a backend only.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.53.
*) Change: the "proxy_redirect_errors" and "fastcgi_redirect_errors"
directives was renamed to the "proxy_intercept_errors" and
"fastcgi_intercept_errors" directives.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_charset_module supports the recoding from the
single byte encodings to the UTF-8 encoding and back.
*) Feature: the "X-Accel-Charset" response header line is supported in
proxy and FastCGI mode.
*) Bugfix: the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the SSI
command was removed only if the command also has the "$" symbol.
*) Bugfix: the "<!--" string might be added on some conditions in the
SSI after inclusion.
*) Bugfix: if the "Content-Length: 0" header line was in response, then
in nonbuffered proxying mode the client connection was not closed.
*) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
"proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
start of the rewritten redirect.
*) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
in 0.3.42.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
*) Feature: the "wait" parameter in the "include" SSI command.
*) Feature: the Ukrainian and Byelorussian characters were added to
koi-win conversion table.
*) Bugfix: in the SSI.
*) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
proxy.
*) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
then once.
*) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
$sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
$sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
were not written to access log.
*) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
"Cache-Control" response header line.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the MKCOL method.
*) Feature: the "create_full_put_path" directive.
*) Feature: the "$limit_rate" variable.
*) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
"alert" to "warn".
*) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.
*) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
not logged.
*) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.
*) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.38.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
*) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
method.
*) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
*) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
once a second only.
Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
Thanks to ForJest.
*) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
login and password to pass authorization server.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Feature: the "limit_except" directive.
*) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "!~", "!~*", "-f", and
"!-f" operators.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body
method.
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_addition_filter_module.
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass" and "fastcgi_pass" directives may be used
inside the "if" block.
*) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
"fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives.
*) Feature: the "$request_completion" variable.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_method
and $r->remote_addr.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the "elif" command.
*) Bugfix: the "\/" string in the expression of the "if" command of the
ngx_http_ssi_module was treated incorrectly.
*) Bugfix: in the regular expressions in the "if" command of the
ngx_http_ssi_module.
*) Bugfix: if the relative path was specified in the
"client_body_temp_path", "proxy_temp_path", "fastcgi_temp_path", and
"perl_modules" directives, then the directory was used relatively to
a current path but not to a server prefix.
*) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
"fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.
*) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.
*) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.
*) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
form.
*) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.
*) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
bug.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
various addresses inside one server, then server names like
"*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
in 0.3.18.
*) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
not transferred.
*) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.
*) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.
*) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.
*) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
terminated prematurely.
Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.
*) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
header line.
*) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
completion of a request.
*) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
directive was transferred to a client.
*) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
"variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.
*) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
"log_format" directive.
*) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.
*) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
time.
*) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.
*) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
autoconfiguration directive.
*) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
then the requests with the body was not transferred.
*) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.
*) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
not transferred to a client.
*) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.
*) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
location.
*) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
had appeared in 0.3.18.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
$r->unescape methods.
*) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
canceled.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.18.
*) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
*) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
*) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
*) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
names.
*) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
"*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.
*) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
"server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.
*) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
directives were canceled.
*) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.
*) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
only without the URI part.
*) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
ngx_http_map_module.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.
*) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.
*) Change: now on Linux configure checks the presence of epoll and
sendfile64() in kernel.
*) Feature: the "map" directive supports domain names in the
".domain.tld" form.
*) Bugfix: the timeouts were not used in SSL handshake; the bug had
appeared in 0.2.4.
*) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Bugfix: when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
directive the port 80 was used by default.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
*) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
directives.
*) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
*) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
*) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
Pentium 4.
*) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
Thanks to Rob Mueller.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
had appeared in 0.3.13.
*) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
*) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
/dev/poll methods.
*) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
*) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
*) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
*) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
"satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
and is not built by default.
*) Change: the "$time_gmt" variable name was changed to "$time_local".
*) Change: the "proxy_header_buffer_size" and
"fastcgi_header_buffer_size" directives was renamed to the
"proxy_buffer_size" and "fastcgi_buffer_size" directives.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_memcached_module.
*) Feature: the "proxy_buffering" directive.
*) Bugfix: the changes in accept mutex handling when the "rtsig" method
was used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.0.
*) Bugfix: if the client sent the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header
line, then nginx returns the 411 error.
*) Bugfix: if the "auth_basic" directive was inherited from the http
level, then the realm in the "WWW-Authenticate" header line was
without the "Basic realm" text.
*) Bugfix: if the "combined" format was explicitly specified in the
"access_log" directive, then the empty lines was written to the log;
the bug had appeared in 0.3.8.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not run on the sparc platform under any OS except
Solaris.
*) Bugfix: now it is not necessary to place space between the quoted
string and closing bracket in the "if" directive.
*) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
ngx_http_rewrite_module.
*) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
"$body_bytes_sent".
*) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.
*) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.
*) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.
*) Feature: the "post_action" directive.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.
*) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.
*) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
characters.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.
*) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
chunked response was encoded incorrectly.
*) 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.
