*) 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.

    *) 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.

    *) Feature: now the "error_page" directive may redirect the 301 and 302
       responses.

    *) Feature: the $geoip_city_continent_code, $geoip_latitude, and
       $geoip_longitude variables.
       Thanks to Arvind Sundararajan.

    *) Feature: now the ngx_http_image_filter_module deletes always EXIF
       and other application specific data if the data consume more than 5%
       of a JPEG file.

    *) Bugfix: nginx closed a connection if a cached response had an empty
       body.
       Thanks to Piotr Sikora.

    *) Bugfix: nginx might not be built by gcc 4.x if the -O2 or higher
       optimization option was used.
       Thanks to Maxim Dounin and Denis F. Latypoff.

    *) Bugfix: regular expressions in location were always tested in
       case-sensitive mode; the bug had appeared in 0.8.25.

    *) Bugfix: nginx cached a 304 response if there was the "If-None-Match"
       header line in a proxied request.
       Thanks to Tim Dettrick and David Kostal.

    *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows tried to delete a temporary file twice if the
       file should replace an already existent file.

    *) 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.

    *) Feature: now the "-V" switch shows TLS SNI support.

    *) Feature: the "listen" directive of the HTTP module supports unix
       domain sockets.
       Thanks to Hongli Lai.

    *) Feature: the "default_server" parameter of the "listen" directive.

    *) Feature: now a "default" parameter is not required to set listen
       socket options.

    *) Bugfix: nginx did not support dates in 2038 year on 32-bit platforms;

    *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.

    *) Feature: the "sendfile" parameter in the "aio" directive on FreeBSD.

    *) Bugfix: in try_files; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.

    *) Bugfix: in memcached; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.

    *) 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.

    *) Feature: the ngx_http_proxy_module preliminary cache support.

    *) Feature: the --with-pcre option in the configure.

    *) Feature: the "try_files" directive is now allowed on the server
       block level.

    *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive handled incorrectly a query string
       in a fallback parameter.

    *) Bugfix: the "try_files" directive might test incorrectly directories.

    *) Bugfix: if there is the single server for given address:port pair,
       then captures in regular expressions in a "server_name" directive
       did not work.

    *) Change: in memory allocation in the ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.

    *) Change: the default "gzip_buffers" directive values have been
       changed to 32 4k or 16 8k from 4 4k/8k.