*) Feature: now keepalive connections may be closed premature, if there are no free worker connections. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Feature: the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive. Thanks to Adam Bocim. *) Bugfix: a case when a backend in "fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", or "uwsgi_pass" directives is given by expression and refers to a defined upstream.
*) Feature: the "map" directive supports regular expressions as value of the first parameter. *) Feature: $time_iso8601 access_log variable. Thanks to Michael Lustfield.
*) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value -1 on Linux. Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin. *) Feature: the "utf8" parameter of "geoip_country" and "geoip_city" directives. Thanks to Denis F. Latypoff. *) Bugfix: in a default "proxy_redirect" directive if "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: an "error_page" directive did not work with nonstandard error codes; the bug had appeared in 0.8.53. Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the $hostname variable. *) Feature: 494 code for "Request Header Too Large" error.
*) Bugfix: if there was a single server for given IPv6 address:port pair, then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive did not work. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in 0.9.0.
*) Feature: the "If-Unmodified-Since" client request header line support. *) Workaround: fallback to accept() syscall if accept4() was not implemented; the issue had appeared in 0.9.0. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Cygwin; the issue had appeared in 0.9.0. *) Bugfix: for OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2010-4180. Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: "return CODE message" directives did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.9.0.
*) Feature: the "keepalive_disable" directive. *) Feature: the "map" directive supports variables as value of a defined variable. *) Feature: the "map" directive supports empty strings as value of the first parameter. *) Feature: the "map" directive supports expressions as the first parameter. *) Feature: nginx(8) manual page. Thanks to Sergey Osokin. *) Feature: Linux accept4() support. Thanks to Simon Liu. *) Workaround: elimination of Linux linker warning about "sys_errlist" and "sys_nerr"; the warning had appeared in 0.8.35. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the "auth_basic" directive was used. Thanks to Michail Laletin. *) Bugfix: compatibility with ngx_http_eval_module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.42.
*) Feature: now the "error_page" directive allows to change a status code in a redirect. *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "degradation" mask. *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if file AIO was used. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: if the first server had no "listen" directive and there was no explicit default server, then a next server with a "listen" directive became the default server; the bug had appeared in 0.8.21.
*) Bugfix: nginx used SSL mode for a listen socket if any listen option was set; the bug had appeared in 0.8.51.