*) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports "$apr1",
"{PLAIN}", and "{SSHA}" password encryption methods.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.

*) Feature: the "geoip_org" directive and $geoip_org variable.
Thanks to Alexander Uskov, Arnaud Granal, and Denis F. Latypoff.

*) Feature: ngx_http_geo_module and ngx_http_geoip_module support IPv4
addresses mapped to IPv6 addresses.

*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in a worker process during
testing IPv4 address mapped to IPv6 address, if access or deny rules
were defined only for IPv6; the bug had appeared in 0.8.22.

*) Bugfix: a cached reponse may be broken if proxy/fastcgi/scgi/
uwsgi_cache_bypass and proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_no_cache directive
values were different; the bug had appeared in 0.8.46.

*) Change: now the "split_clients" directive uses MurmurHash2 algorithm
because of better distribution.
Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.

*) Change: now long strings starting with zero are not considered as
false values.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.

*) Change: now nginx uses a default listen backlog value 511 on Linux.

*) Feature: the $upstream_... variables may be used in the SSI and perl
modules.

*) Bugfix: now nginx limits better disk cache size.
Thanks to Oleg Mamontov.

*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur while parsing incorrect
IPv4 address; the bug had appeared in 0.9.3.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.

*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.6 without --with-debug
option.

*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris 9 and earlier; the bug
had appeared in 0.9.3.
Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen.

*) Bugfix: $request_time variable had invalid values if subrequests
were used; the bug had appeared in 0.8.47.
Thanks to Igor A. Valcov.

    *) 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 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.

    *) 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.

    *) Feature: nginx/Windows supports IPv6 in a "listen" directive of the
       HTTP module.

    *) Bugfix: in ngx_http_image_filter_module.

    *) Feature: the ngx_http_image_filter_module.

    *) Feature: the "proxy_ignore_headers" and "fastcgi_ignore_headers"
       directives.

    *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process, if an
       "open_file_cache_errors off" directive was used; the bug had
       appeared in 0.7.53.

    *) Bugfix: the "port_in_redirect off" directive did not work; the bug
       had appeared in 0.7.39.

    *) Bugfix: improve handling of "select" method errors.

    *) Bugfix: of "select() failed (10022: ...)" error in nginx/Windows.

    *) Bugfix: in error text descriptions in nginx/Windows; the bug had
       appeared in 0.7.53.