*) Change: now if the "include" directive with mask is used on Unix
systems, included files are sorted in alphabetical order.
*) Change: the "add_header" directive adds headers to 201 responses.
*) Feature: the "geo" directive now supports IPv6 addresses in CIDR
notation.
*) Feature: the "flush" and "gzip" parameters of the "access_log"
directive.
*) Feature: variables support in the "auth_basic" directive.
*) Feature: the $pipe, $request_length, $time_iso8601, and $time_local
variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive.
Thanks to Kiril Kalchev.
*) Feature: IPv6 support in the ngx_http_geoip_module.
Thanks to Gregor Kališnik.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module in
some cases.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
ngx_http_xslt_module was used.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX in some cases.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
*) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive with high rates might result in
truncated responses on 32-bit platforms.
Thanks to Alexey Antropov.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
"if" directive was used.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
*) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued with "413 Request Entity
Too Large" responses.
*) Bugfix: the "image_filter", "image_filter_jpeg_quality" and
"image_filter_sharpen" directives might be inherited incorrectly.
Thanks to Ian Babrou.
*) Bugfix: "crypt_r() failed" errors might appear if the "auth_basic"
directive was used on Linux.
*) Bugfix: in backup servers handling.
Thanks to Thomas Chen.
*) Bugfix: proxied HEAD requests might return incorrect response if the
"gzip" directive was used.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during
reconfiguration if the "keepalive" directive was specified more than
once in a single upstream block.
*) Bugfix: in the "proxy_method" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
resolver was used with the poll method.
*) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU during SSL handshake with a backend if
the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used.
*) Bugfix: the "[crit] SSL_write() failed (SSL:)" error.
*) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
*) Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. *) Bugfix: cache manager and cache loader processes might not be able to start if more than 512 listen sockets were used. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module.
*) Feature: the "optional_no_ca" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client"
directive.
Thanks to Mike Kazantsev and Eric O'Connor.
*) Feature: the $bytes_sent, $connection, and $connection_requests
variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive.
Thanks to Benjamin Grössing.
*) Feature: resolver now randomly rotates addresses returned from cache.
Thanks to Anton Jouline.
*) Feature: the "auto" parameter of the "worker_processes" directive.
*) Bugfix: "cache file ... has md5 collision" alert.
*) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.7 compatibility.
*) Bugfix: in the "limit_req" directive; the bug had appeared in 1.1.14. Thanks to Charles Chen. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.7 with -O2 optimization if the --with-ipv6 option was used. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "map" directive was used with variables as values. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "geo" directive was used with the "ranges" parameter but without the "default" parameter; the bug had appeared in 0.8.43. Thanks to Zhen Chen and Weibin Yao. *) Bugfix: in the -p command-line parameter handling. *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server. *) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs. Thanks to Coverity. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2005 Express. Thanks to HAYASHI Kentaro.
*) Feature: the Clang compiler support. *) Bugfix: extra listening sockets might be created. Thanks to Roman Odaisky. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might hog CPU if a worker process failed to start. Thanks to Ricardo Villalobos Guevara. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass_header", "fastcgi_pass_header", "scgi_pass_header", "uwsgi_pass_header", "proxy_hide_header", "fastcgi_hide_header", "scgi_hide_header", and "uwsgi_hide_header" directives might be inherited incorrectly. *) Bugfix: trailing dot in a source value was not ignored if the "map" directive was used with the "hostnames" parameter. *) Bugfix: incorrect location might be used to process a request if a URI was changed via a "rewrite" directive before an internal redirect to a named location.
*) Change: the "single" parameter of the "keepalive" directive is now ignored. *) Change: SSL compression is now disabled when using all versions of OpenSSL, including ones prior to 1.0.0. *) Feature: the "proxy_pass", "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", "uwsgi_pass" directives, and the "server" directive inside the "upstream" block, now support IPv6 addresses. *) Feature: the "resolver" directive now supports IPv6 addresses and an optional port specification. *) Feature: the "least_conn" directive inside the "upstream" block. *) Feature: it is now possible to specify a weight for servers while using the "ip_hash" directive. *) Feature: it is now possible to use the "ip_hash" directive to balance IPv6 clients. *) Feature: the $status variable can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with ngx_cpp_test_module; the bug had appeared in 1.1.12. *) Bugfix: access to variables from SSI and embedded perl module might not work after reconfiguration. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module. Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji. *) Bugfix: memory leak if $geoip_org variable was used. Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cookie_domain" and "proxy_cookie_path" directives. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process on shutdown if the "resolver" directive was used. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the ngx_http_mp4_module was used. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if conflicting wildcard server names were used. *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally on a SIGBUS signal on ARM platform. *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file number)" on HP-UX while reconfiguration.
*) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dot in URI path component, and does not allow URIs with ":$" in it. Thanks to Vladimir Kochetkov, Positive Research Center. *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive now supports IPv6 addresses and the "unix:" parameter. *) Feature: the "set_real_ip_from" directive and the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive now support IPv6 addresses. *) Feature: the "real_ip_recursive", "geoip_proxy", and "geoip_proxy_recursive" directives. *) Feature: the "proxy_recursive" parameter of the "geo" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "resolver" directive was used. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or "uwsgi_pass" directives were used and backend returned incorrect response. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "rewrite" directive was used and new request arguments in a replacement used variables. *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU if the open file resource limit was reached. *) Bugfix: nginx might loop infinitely over backends if the "proxy_next_upstream" directive with the "http_404" parameter was used and there were backup servers specified in an upstream block. *) Bugfix: adding the "down" parameter of the "server" directive might cause unneeded client redistribution among backend servers if the "ip_hash" directive was used. *) Bugfix: socket leak. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_fastcgi_module.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "try_files" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.19. *) Bugfix: response might be truncated if there were more than IOV_MAX buffers used. *) Bugfix: in the "crop" parameter of the "image_filter" directive. Thanks to Maxim Bublis.
*) Security: specially crafted mp4 file might allow to overwrite memory locations in a worker process if the ngx_http_mp4_module was used, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2012-2089). Thanks to Matthew Daley. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might be terminated abnormally. Thanks to Vincent Lee. *) Bugfix: nginx hogged CPU if all servers in an upstream were marked as "backup". *) Bugfix: the "allow" and "deny" directives might be inherited incorrectly if they were used with IPv6 addresses. *) Bugfix: the "modern_browser" and "ancient_browser" directives might be inherited incorrectly. *) Bugfix: timeouts might be handled incorrectly on Solaris/SPARC. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
*) Change: keepalive connections are no longer disabled for Safari by default. *) Feature: the $connection_requests variable. *) Feature: $tcpinfo_rtt, $tcpinfo_rttvar, $tcpinfo_snd_cwnd and $tcpinfo_rcv_space variables. *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive now works on FreeBSD. *) Feature: the "xslt_param" and "xslt_string_param" directives. Thanks to Samuel Behan. *) Bugfix: in configure tests. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Debian GNU/Hurd.