*) Bugfix: the $ssl_session_id variable contained full session
serialized instead of just a session id.
Thanks to Ivan Ristić.
*) Bugfix: client connections might be immediately closed if deferred
accept was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.15.
*) Bugfix: alerts "zero size buf in output" might appear in logs while
proxying; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
ngx_http_spdy_module was used.
*) Bugfix: proxied WebSocket connections might hang right after
handshake if the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used.
*) Bugfix: a timeout might occur while reading client request body in an
SSL connection using chunked transfer encoding.
*) Bugfix: memory leak in nginx/Windows.
*) Feature: $connections_active, $connections_reading, and $connections_writing variables in the ngx_http_stub_status_module. *) Feature: support of WebSocket connections in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module and ngx_http_scgi_module. *) Bugfix: in virtual servers handling with SNI. *) Bugfix: new sessions were not always stored if the "ssl_session_cache shared" directive was used and there was no free space in shared memory. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: multiple X-Forwarded-For headers were handled incorrectly. Thanks to Neal Poole for sponsoring this work. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. Thanks to Gernot Vormayr.
*) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind",
"memcached_bind", "scgi_bind", and "uwsgi_bind" directives.
*) 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: 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 "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had
appeared in 1.3.9.
*) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur if logging was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.10. *) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with IP addresses without port specified; the bug had appeared in 1.3.10. *) 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: parameter "default" of the "geo" directive did not set default value for IPv6 addresses.
*) Feature: OCSP stapling support. Thanks to Comodo, DigiCert and GlobalSign for sponsoring this work. *) Feature: the "ssl_trusted_certificate" directive. *) Feature: resolver now randomly rotates addresses returned from cache. Thanks to Anton Jouline. *) Bugfix: OpenSSL 0.9.7 compatibility.
*) 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: it is now possible to use the "ip_hash" directive to balance IPv6 clients. *) Feature: the $status variable can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process on shutdown if the "resolver" directive was used. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the ngx_http_mp4_module was used. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if conflicting wildcard server names were used. *) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally on a SIGBUS signal on ARM platform. *) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file number)" on HP-UX while reconfiguration.
*) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dot in URI path component, and does not allow URIs with ":$" in it. Thanks to Vladimir Kochetkov, Positive Research Center. *) Feature: the "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 support 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. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "image_filter" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.0. *) 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.
*) 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.
*) 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.
*) Security: content of previously freed memory might be sent to a client if backend returned specially crafted response. Thanks to Matthew Daley. *) Bugfix: in the embedded perl module if used from SSI. Thanks to Matthew Daley. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.