*) Feature: now nginx supports EDH key exchange ciphers.
*) Feature: the "ssl_dhparam" directive.
*) Feature: the $ssl_client_cert variable.
Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
*) Bugfix: after changing URI via a "rewrite" directive nginx did not
search a new location; bug appeared in 0.7.1.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built without PCRE library; bug appeared
in 0.7.1.
*) Bugfix: when a request to a directory was redirected with the slash
added, nginx dropped a query string from the original request.
*) Change: now locations are searched in a tree.
*) Change: the "optimize_server_names" directive was canceled due to
the "server_name_in_redirect" directive introduction.
*) Change: some long deprecated directives are not supported anymore.
*) Change: the "none" parameter in the "ssl_session_cache" directive;
now this is default parameter.
Thanks to Rob Mueller.
*) Bugfix: worker processes might not catch reconfiguration and log
rotation signals.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on latest Fedora 9 Linux.
Thanks to Roxis.
*) Change: now if an "include" directive pattern does not match any
file, then nginx does not issue an error.
*) Feature: now the time in directives may be specified without spaces,
for example, "1h50m".
*) Bugfix: memory leaks if the "ssl_verify_client" directive was on.
Thanks to Chavelle Vincent.
*) Bugfix: the "sub_filter" directive might set text to change into
output.
*) Bugfix: the "error_page" directive did not take into account
arguments in redirected URI.
*) Bugfix: now nginx always opens files in binary mode under Cygwin.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OpenBSD; bug appeared in 0.6.15.
*) Change: now by default the rtsig method is not built on
Linux 2.6.18+.
*) Change: now a request method is not changed while redirection to a
named location via an "error_page" directive.
*) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives in SMTP
proxy.
*) Feature: the "post_action" directive supports named locations.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
static named locations.
*) Bugfix: browsers did not repeat SSL handshake if there is no valid
client certificate in first handshake.
Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
*) Bugfix: if response code 495-497 was redirected via an "error_page"
directive without code change, then nginx tried to allocate too many
memory.
*) Bugfix: memory leak in long-lived non buffered connections.
*) Bugfix: memory leak in resolver.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if a
request was redirected from proxy, FastCGI, or memcached location to
static named locations.
*) Bugfix: in the $proxy_host and $proxy_port variables caching.
Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
*) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive with variables used incorrectly the
same port as in another "proxy_pass" directive with the same host
name and without variables.
Thanks to Sergey Bochenkov.
*) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" on some
64-bit platforms while reconfiguration.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process, if empty
stub block was used second time in SSI.
*) Bugfix: in copying URI part contained escaped symbols into arguments.
*) Change: if variable values used in a "proxy_pass" directive contain
IP-addresses only, then a "resolver" directive is not mandatory.
resolver
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if a
"proxy_pass" directive with URI-part was used; bug appeared in
0.6.19.
*) Bugfix: if resolver was used on platform that does not support
kqueue, then nginx issued an alert "name is out of response".
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: if the $server_protocol was used in FastCGI parameters and a
request line length was near to the "client_header_buffer_size"
directive value, then nginx issued an alert "fastcgi: the request
record is too big".
*) Bugfix: if a plain text HTTP/0.9 version request was made to HTTPS
server, then nginx returned usual response.
*) Change: now the uname(2) is used on Linux instead of procfs.
Thanks to Ilya Novikov.
*) Bugfix: if the "?" character was in a "error_page" directive, then
it was escaped in a proxied request; bug appeared in 0.6.11.
*) Bugfix: compatibility with mget.
*) Feature: cygwin compatibility.
Thanks to Vladimir Kutakov.
*) Feature: the "merge_slashes" directive.
*) Feature: the "gzip_vary" directive.
*) Feature: the "server_tokens" directive.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not unescape URI in the "include" SSI command.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
reconfiguration if variable was used in the "charset" or
"source_charset" directives.
*) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like
"GET http://www.domain.com HTTP/1.0".
Thanks to James Oakley.
*) Bugfix: if request with request body was redirected using the
"error_page" directive, then nginx tried to read the request body
again; bug appeared in 0.6.7.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if no
server_name was explicitly defined for server processing request;
bug appeared in 0.6.7.
*) Change: now the paths specified in the "include",
"auth_basic_user_file", "perl_modules", "ssl_certificate",
"ssl_certificate_key", and "ssl_client_certificate" directives are
relative to directory of nginx configuration file nginx.conf, but no
to nginx prefix directory.
*) Change: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure was canceled.
*) Change: the special make target "upgrade1" was defined for online
upgrade of 0.1.x versions.
*) Feature: the "server_name" and "valid_referers" directives support
regular expressions.
*) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
the "backup" parameter.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the
$r->discard_request_body.
*) Feature: the "add_header Last-Modified ..." directive changes the
"Last-Modified" response header line.
*) Bugfix: if an response different than 200 was returned to an request
with body and connection went to the keep-alive state after the
request, then nginx returned 400 for the next request.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if invalid
address was set in the "auth_http" directive.
*) Bugfix: now nginx uses default listen backlog value 511 on all
platforms except FreeBSD.
Thanks to Jiang Hong.
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if an
"server" inside "upstream" block was marked as "down"; bug appeared
in 0.6.6.
*) Bugfix: now Solaris sendfilev() is not used to transfer the client
request body to FastCGI-server via the unix domain socket.
*) Feature: the --sysconfdir=PATH option in configure.
*) Feature: named locations.
*) Feature: the $args variable can be set with the "set" directive.
*) Feature: the $is_args variable.
*) Bugfix: fair big weight upstream balancer.
*) Bugfix: if a client has closed connection to mail proxy then nginx
might not close connection to backend.
*) Bugfix: if the same host without specified port was used as backend
for HTTP and HTTPS, then nginx used only one port - 80 or 443.
*) Bugfix: fix building on Solaris/amd64 by Sun Studio 11 and early
versions; bug appeared in 0.6.4.
*) Security: the "msie_refresh" directive allowed XSS.
*) Change: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives were
changed.
*) Feature: the "proxy_store_access" and "fastcgi_store_access"
directives.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if it was built by Sun
Studio.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Workaround: for Sun Studio 12.
Thanks to Jiang Hong.