At least Sun Studio 12 has problems with bit-fields exposed by nginx code
(caught by test suite). They seems to be fixed in Sun Studio 12.1. As a
workaround use "-fast -xalias_level=any" for older versions, it resolves
the problem.
*) 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.
*) 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 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 "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.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
$r->unescape methods.
*) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
canceled.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.18.
*) Feature: the "path" and "alias" directives support the variables.
*) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive again checks the URI part.
*) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_map_module.
*) Feature: the "types_hash_max_size" and "types_hash_bucket_size"
directives.
*) Feature: the "ssi_value_length" directive.
*) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_core" directive.
*) Workaround: the connection number in logs was always 1 if nginx was
built by the icc 8.1 or 9.0 compilers with optimization for
Pentium 4.
*) Bugfix: the "config timefmt" SSI command set incorrect time format.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not close connection to IMAP/POP3 backend for the
SSL connections; the bug had appeared in 0.3.13.
Thanks to Rob Mueller.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault may occurred in at SSL shutdown; the bug
had appeared in 0.3.13.
*) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy supports STARTTLS and STLS.
*) Bugfix: the IMAP/POP3 proxy did not work with the select, poll, and
/dev/poll methods.
*) Bugfix: in SSI handling.
*) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
*) Bugfix: the "auth_basic" directive did not disable the
authorization; the bug had appeared in 0.3.11.
*) Security: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_realip_module and the
"satisfy_any on" directive was used, then access and authorization
directives did not work. The ngx_http_realip_module was not built
and is not built by default.
*) Change: the "$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.