*) Feature: the ngx_http_upstream_keepalive module. *) Feature: the "proxy_http_version" directive. *) Feature: the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive. *) Feature: the "worker_aio_requests" directive. *) Bugfix: if nginx was built --with-file-aio it could not be run on Linux kernel which did not support AIO. *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO error processing. Thanks to Hagai Avrahami. *) Bugfix: reduced memory consumption for long-lived requests. *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support 64-bit MP4 "co64" atom.
*) Feature: the module ngx_http_mp4_module. *) Bugfix: in Linux AIO combined with open_file_cache. *) Bugfix: open_file_cache did not update file info on retest if file was not atomically changed. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX 10.7.
*) Change: now nginx tests locations given by regular expressions, if
request was matched exactly by a location given by a prefix string.
The previous behavior has been introduced in 0.7.1.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_scgi_module.
Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
*) Feature: a text answer may be added to a "return" directive.
*) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores default file stream name.
Thanks to Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
Thanks to Roberto De Ioris.
*) Feature: a "fastcgi_param" directive with value starting with
"HTTP_" overrides a client request header line.
*) Bugfix: the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
header lines were passed to FastCGI-server while caching.
*) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket could not be changed during
reconfiguration.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_split_clients_module.
*) Feature: the "map" directive supports keys more than 255 characters.
*) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "private" and "no-store" values in the
"Cache-Control" backend response header line.
*) Bugfix: a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was not
used, if empty response has 200 status code.
*) Bugfix: if a proxied or FastCGI request was internally redirected to
another proxied or FastCGI location, then a segmentation fault might
occur in a worker process; the bug had appeared in 0.8.33.
Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
*) Bugfix: IMAP connections may hang until they timed out while talking
to Zimbra server.
Thanks to Alan Batie.
*) Change: now the "009" status code is written to an access log for
proxied HTTP/0.9 responses.
*) Feature: the "addition_types", "charset_types", "gzip_types",
"ssi_types", "sub_filter_types", and "xslt_types" directives support
an "*" parameter.
*) Feature: GCC 4.1+ built-in atomic operations usage.
Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
*) Feature: the --with-libatomic[=DIR] option in the configure.
Thanks to W-Mark Kubacki.
*) Bugfix: listen unix domain socket had limited access rights.
*) Bugfix: cached HTTP/0.9 responses were handled incorrectly.
*) Bugfix: regular expression named captures given by "?P<...>" did not
work in a "server_name" directive.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Change: now no message is written in an error log if a variable is
not found by $r->variable() method.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_degradation_module.
*) Feature: regular expression named captures.
*) Feature: now URI part is not required a "proxy_pass" directive if
variables are used.
*) Feature: now the "msie_padding" directive works for Chrome too.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process on low
memory condition; the bug had appeared in 0.8.18.
*) Bugfix: nginx sent gzipped responses to clients those do not support
gzip, if "gzip_static on" and "gzip_vary off"; the bug had appeared
in 0.8.16.
*) Change: directive "gzip_disable msie6" enables gzipping for
MSIE 6.0 SV1.
*) Feature: file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux.
*) Feature: the "directio_alignment" directive.
*) Change: minimum supported OpenSSL version is 0.9.7.
*) Change: the "ask" parameter of the "ssl_verify_client" directive was
changed to the "optional" parameter and now it checks a client
certificate if it was offered.
Thanks to Brice Figureau.
*) Feature: the $ssl_client_verify variable.
Thanks to Brice Figureau.
*) Feature: the "ssl_crl" directive.
Thanks to Brice Figureau.
*) Feature: the "proxy" parameter of the "geo" directive.
*) Feature: the "image_filter" directive supports variables for setting
size.
*) Bugfix: the $ssl_client_cert variable usage corrupted memory; the
bug had appeared in 0.7.7.
Thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev.
*) Bugfix: "proxy_pass_header" and "fastcgi_pass_header" directives did
not pass to a client the "X-Accel-Redirect", "X-Accel-Limit-Rate",
"X-Accel-Buffering", and "X-Accel-Charset" lines from backend
response header.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: in handling "Last-Modified" and "Accept-Ranges" backend
response header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.44.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error if subrequest returns an
empty response; the bug had appeared in 0.8.5.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_geoip_module.
*) Bugfix: XSLT filter may fail with message "not well formed XML
document" for valid XML document.
Thanks to Kuramoto Eiji.
*) Bugfix: now in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows locations given by
a regular expression are always tested in case insensitive mode;
*) Bugfix: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dots in URI.
Thanks to Hugo Leisink.
*) Bugfix: name of file specified in --conf-path was not honored during
installation; the bug had appeared in 0.6.6.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.