*) 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.
*) Feature: the "keepalive_disable" directive. *) Feature: the "map" directive supports variables as value of a defined variable. *) Feature: the "map" directive supports empty strings as value of the first parameter. *) Feature: the "map" directive supports expressions as the first parameter. *) Feature: nginx(8) manual page. Thanks to Sergey Osokin. *) Feature: Linux accept4() support. Thanks to Simon Liu. *) Workaround: elimination of Linux linker warning about "sys_errlist" and "sys_nerr"; the warning had appeared in 0.8.35. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process, if the "auth_basic" directive was used. Thanks to Michail Laletin. *) Bugfix: compatibility with ngx_http_eval_module; the bug had appeared in 0.8.42.
*) Change: the "rss" extension MIME type has been changed to
"application/rss+xml".
*) Change: now the "gzip_vary" directive turned on issues a
"Vary: Accept-Encoding" header line for uncompressed responses too.
*) Feature: now the "rewrite" directive does a redirect automatically
if the "https://" protocol is used.
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass" directive did not work with the HTTPS
protocol; the bug had appeared in 0.6.9.
*) The changes in the ngx_http_charset_module: the "default_charset"
directive is canceled; the "charset" directive sets the response
charset; the "source_charset" directive sets the source charset only.
*) Bugfix: the backend "WWW-Authenticate" header line did not
transferred while the 401 response code redirecting.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_proxy_module and ngx_http_fastcgi_module may
close a connection before anything was transferred to a client; bug
appeared in 0.1.38.
*) Workaround: the Linux glibc crypt_r() initialization bug.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssi_module did not support the relative URI in
the "include virtual" command.
*) Bugfix: if the backend response had the "Location" header line and
nginx should not rewrite this line, then the 500 code response body
was transferred; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Bugfix: some directives of the ngx_http_proxy_module and
ngx_http_fastcgi_module were not inherited from the server to the
location level; bug appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_ssl_module did not support the certificate
chain.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not show correctly the
long file names; bug appeared in 0.1.38.
*) Bugfixes in IMAP/POP3 proxy in interaction with a backend at the
login state.
*) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive is supported in in proxy and
FastCGI mode.
*) Feature: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" response header line is supported
in proxy and FastCGI mode.
*) Feature: the "break" directive.
*) Feature: the "log_not_found" directive.
*) Bugfix: the response status code was not changed when request was
redirected by the ""X-Accel-Redirect" header line.
*) Bugfix: the variables set by the "set" directive could not be used
in SSI.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred if the SSI page has more
than one remote subrequest.
*) Bugfix: nginx treated the backend response as invalid if the status
line in the header was transferred in two packets; bug appeared in
0.1.29.
*) Feature: the "ssi_types" directive.
*) Feature: the "autoindex_exact_size" directive.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the long file
names in UTF-8.
*) Feature: the IMAP/POP3 proxy.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports "include virtual" command.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the condition command like
'if expr="$NAME"' and "else" and "endif" commands. Only one nested
level is supported.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssi_module supports the DATE_LOCAL and
DATE_GMT variables and "config timefmt" command.
*) Feature: the "ssi_ignore_recycled_buffers" directive.
*) Bugfix: the "echo" command did not show the default value for the
empty QUERY_STRING variable.
*) Change: the ngx_http_proxy_module was rewritten.
*) Feature: the "proxy_redirect", "proxy_pass_request_headers",
"proxy_pass_request_body", and "proxy_method" directives.
*) Feature: the "proxy_set_header" directive. The "proxy_x_var" is
canceled and must be replaced with the proxy_set_header directive.
*) Change: the "proxy_preserve_host" is canceled and must be replaced
with the "proxy_set_header Host $host" and the "proxy_redirect off"
directives, the "proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port" directive
and the appropriate proxy_redirect directives.
*) Change: the "proxy_set_x_real_ip" is canceled and must be replaced
with the "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr" directive.
*) Change: the "proxy_add_x_forwarded_for" is canceled and must be
replaced with
the "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
directive.
*) Change: the "proxy_set_x_url" is canceled and must be replaced with
the "proxy_set_header X-URL http://$host:$server_port$request_uri"
directive.
*) Feature: the "fastcgi_param" directive.
*) Change: the "fastcgi_set_var" and "fastcgi_params" directive are
canceled and must be replaced with the fastcgi_param directives.
*) Feature: the "index" directive can use the variables.
*) Feature: the "index" directive can be used at http and server levels.
*) Change: the last index only in the "index" directive can be absolute.
*) Feature: the "rewrite" directive can use the variables.
*) Feature: the "internal" directive.
*) Feature: the CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_PORT, SERVER_ADDR,
SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_NAME,
REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, and REMOTE_USER variables.
*) Change: nginx now passes the invalid lines in a client request
headers or a backend response header.
*) Bugfix: if the backend did not transfer response for a long time and
the "send_timeout" was less than "proxy_read_timeout", then nginx
returned the 408 response.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend sent an
invalid line in response header; bug appeared in 0.1.26.
*) Bugfix: the segmentation fault may occurred in FastCGI fault
tolerance configuration.
*) Bugfix: the "expires" directive did not remove the previous
"Expires" and "Cache-Control" headers.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not take into account trailing dot in "Host"
header line.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_auth_module did not work under Linux.
*) Bugfix: the rewrite directive worked incorrectly, if the arguments
were in a request.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOS X.
*) Feature: the "blocked" parameter of the "invalid_referers" directive.
*) Change: the errors while handling the request header now logged at
"info" level. The server name and the "Host" and "Referer" header
lines also logged.
*) Change: the "Host" header line is also logged in error log.
*) Feature: the proxy_pass_unparsed_uri directive. The special handling
of the "://" symbols in URI, appeared in 0.1.11 version, now is
canceled.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on FreeBSD and Linux, if the
--without-ngx_http_auth_basic_module configuration parameter was
used.
*) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
at the info level.
*) Change: the host name is also logged in error log.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
and auth_basic_user_file directives.