Log message:
Updated nginx stable to 1.4.0. Notable improvements regarding latest stable
version are:
. SPDY protocol support
. WebSocket connections
. OCSP Stapling
. gunzip module
. flood prevention through rejection codes
Full changelog:
Changes with nginx 1.4.0 24 Apr 2013
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module if the
--with-openssl option was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.16.
*) Bugfix: in a request body handling in the ngx_http_perl_module; the
bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
Changes with nginx 1.3.16 16 Apr 2013
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
subrequests were used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
*) Bugfix: the "tcp_nodelay" directive caused an error if a WebSocket
connection was proxied into a unix domain socket.
*) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_length variable has an incorrect value
"0" if buffering was not used.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
*) Bugfix: in the eventport and /dev/poll methods.
Changes with nginx 1.3.15 26 Mar 2013
*) Change: opening and closing a connection without sending any data in
it is no longer logged to access_log with error code 400.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_spdy_module.
Thanks to Automattic for sponsoring this work.
*) Feature: the "limit_req_status" and \
"limit_conn_status" directives.
Thanks to Nick Marden.
*) Feature: the "image_filter_interlace" directive.
Thanks to Ian Babrou.
*) Feature: $connections_waiting variable in the
ngx_http_stub_status_module.
*) Feature: the mail proxy module now supports IPv6 backends.
*) Bugfix: request body might be transmitted incorrectly when retrying a
request to the next upstream server; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
*) Bugfix: in the "client_body_in_file_only" directive; the bug had
appeared in 1.3.9.
*) Bugfix: responses might hang if subrequests were used and a DNS error
happened during subrequest processing.
Thanks to Lanshun Zhou.
*) Bugfix: in backend usage accounting.
Changes with nginx 1.3.14 05 Mar 2013
*) 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.
Changes with nginx 1.3.13 19 Feb 2013
*) Change: a compiler with name "cc" is now used by default.
*) Feature: support for proxying of WebSocket connections.
Thanks to Apcera and CloudBees for sponsoring this work.
*) Feature: the "auth_basic_user_file" directive supports \
"{SHA}"
password encryption method.
Thanks to Louis Opter.
Changes with nginx 1.3.12 05 Feb 2013
*) 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 Kali¨nik.
*) 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.
Changes with nginx 1.3.11 10 Jan 2013
*) 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.
Changes with nginx 1.3.10 25 Dec 2012
*) Change: domain names specified in configuration file are now resolved
to IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 ones.
*) Change: now if the "include" directive with mask is used on Unix
systems, included files are sorted in alphabetical order.
*) Change: the "add_header" directive adds headers to 201 responses.
*) Feature: the "geo" directive now supports IPv6 addresses in CIDR
notation.
*) Feature: the "flush" and "gzip" parameters of the \
"access_log"
directive.
*) Feature: variables support in the "auth_basic" directive.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module in
some cases.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
ngx_http_xslt_module was used.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX in some cases.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
*) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive with high rates might result in
truncated responses on 32-bit platforms.
Thanks to Alexey Antropov.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
"if" directive was used.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
*) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued with "413 \
Request Entity
Too Large" responses.
*) Bugfix: the "image_filter", \
"image_filter_jpeg_quality" and
"image_filter_sharpen" directives might be inherited incorrectly.
Thanks to Ian Babrou.
*) Bugfix: "crypt_r() failed" errors might appear if the \
"auth_basic"
directive was used on Linux.
*) Bugfix: in backup servers handling.
Thanks to Thomas Chen.
*) Bugfix: proxied HEAD requests might return incorrect response if the
"gzip" directive was used.
Changes with nginx 1.3.9 27 Nov 2012
*) Feature: support for chunked transfer encoding while reading client
request body.
*) Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not
only in the "log_format" directive.
*) Bugfix: cache manager and cache loader processes might not be able to
start if more than 512 listen sockets were used.
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module.
Changes with nginx 1.3.8 30 Oct 2012
*) Feature: the "optional_no_ca" parameter of the \
"ssl_verify_client"
directive.
Thanks to Mike Kazantsev and Eric O'Connor.
*) Feature: the $bytes_sent, $connection, and $connection_requests
variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive.
Thanks to Benjamin Grössing.
*) Feature: the "auto" parameter of the \
"worker_processes" directive.
*) Bugfix: "cache file ... has md5 collision" alert.
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module.
*) Bugfix: in the "ssl_stapling" directive.
Changes with nginx 1.3.7 02 Oct 2012
*) 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.
Changes with nginx 1.3.6 12 Sep 2012
*) Feature: the ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module.
*) Feature: the "memcached_gzip_flag" directive.
*) Feature: the "always" parameter of the "gzip_static" \
directive.
*) Bugfix: in the "limit_req" directive; the bug had appeared in \
1.1.14.
Thanks to Charles Chen.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by gcc 4.7 with -O2 optimization if
the --with-ipv6 option was used.
Changes with nginx 1.3.5 21 Aug 2012
*) Change: the ngx_http_mp4_module module no longer skips tracks in
formats other than H.264 and AAC.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
"map" directive was used with variables as values.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
"geo" directive was used with the "ranges" parameter \
but without the
"default" parameter; the bug had appeared in 0.8.43.
Thanks to Zhen Chen and Weibin Yao.
*) Bugfix: in the -p command-line parameter handling.
*) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server.
*) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
Thanks to Coverity.
*) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2005
Express.
Thanks to HAYASHI Kentaro.
Changes with nginx 1.3.4 31 Jul 2012
*) Change: the "ipv6only" parameter is now turned on by default for
listening IPv6 sockets.
*) Feature: the Clang compiler support.
*) Bugfix: extra listening sockets might be created.
Thanks to Roman Odaisky.
*) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might hog CPU if a worker process failed to
start.
Thanks to Ricardo Villalobos Guevara.
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_pass_header", "fastcgi_pass_header",
"scgi_pass_header", "uwsgi_pass_header", \
"proxy_hide_header",
"fastcgi_hide_header", "scgi_hide_header", and \
"uwsgi_hide_header"
directives might be inherited incorrectly.
Changes with nginx 1.3.3 10 Jul 2012
*) Feature: entity tags support and the "etag" directive.
*) Bugfix: trailing dot in a source value was not ignored if the "map"
directive was used with the "hostnames" parameter.
*) Bugfix: incorrect location might be used to process a request if a
URI was changed via a "rewrite" directive before an internal \
redirect
to a named location.
Changes with nginx 1.3.2 26 Jun 2012
*) 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 $status variable can now be used not only in the
"log_format" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process on
shutdown if the "resolver" directive was used.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
ngx_http_mp4_module was used.
*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
conflicting wildcard server names were used.
*) Bugfix: nginx might be terminated abnormally on a SIGBUS signal on
ARM platform.
*) Bugfix: an alert "sendmsg() failed (9: Bad file number)" on HP-UX
while reconfiguration.
Changes with nginx 1.3.1 05 Jun 2012
*) Security: now nginx/Windows ignores trailing dot in URI path
component, and does not allow URIs with ":$" 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 supports 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.
Changes with nginx 1.3.0 15 May 2012
*) 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.
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