This reduces the number of moving parts in ABI compatibility checks.
Additionally, it also allows to use OpenSSL in FIPS mode while still
using md5 for non-security tasks.
The auto/module script is extended to understand ngx_module_link=DYNAMIC.
When set, it links the module as a shared object rather than statically
into nginx binary. The module can later be loaded using the "load_module"
directive.
New auto/module parameter ngx_module_order allows to define module loading
order in complex cases. By default the order is set based on ngx_module_type.
3rd party modules can be compiled dynamically using the --add-dynamic-module
configure option, which will preset ngx_module_link to "DYNAMIC" before
calling the module config script.
Win32 support is rudimentary, and only works when using MinGW gcc (which
is able to handle exports/imports automatically).
In collaboration with Ruslan Ermilov.
*) Change: now the ngx_http_charset_module works for subrequests, if
the response has no "Content-Type" header line.
*) Bugfix: if the "proxy_pass" directive has no URI part, then the
"proxy_redirect default" directive add the unnecessary slash in
start of the rewritten redirect.
*) Bugfix: the internal redirect always transform client's HTTP method
to GET, now the transformation is made for the "X-Accel-Redirect"
redirects only and if the method is not HEAD; the bug had appeared
in 0.3.42.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be built, if the perl was
built with the threads support; the bug had appeared in 0.3.46.
*) The pid-file names used during online upgrade was changed and now is
not required a manual rename operation. The old master process adds
the ".oldbin" suffix to its pid-file and executes a new binary file.
The new master process creates usual pid-file without the ".newbin"
suffix. If the master process exits, then old master process renames
back its pid-file with the ".oldbin" suffix to the pid-file without
suffix.
*) Change: the "worker_connections" directive, new name of the
"connections" directive; now the directive specifies maximum number
of connections, but not maximum socket descriptor number.
*) Feature: SSL supports the session cache inside one worker process.
*) Feature: the "satisfy_any" directive.
*) Change: the ngx_http_access_module and ngx_http_auth_basic_module do
not run for subrequests.
*) Feature: the "worker_rlimit_nofile" and "worker_rlimit_sigpending"
directives.
*) Bugfix: if all backend using in load-balancing failed after one
error, then nginx did not try do connect to them during 60 seconds.
*) Bugfix: in IMAP/POP3 command argument parsing.
Thanks to Rob Mueller.
*) Bugfix: errors while using SSL in IMAP/POP3 proxy.
*) Bugfix: errors while using SSI and gzipping.
*) Bugfix: the "Expires" and "Cache-Control" header lines were omitted
from the 304 responses.
Thanks to Alexandr Kukushkin.
*) Bugfix: nginx did run on Linux parisc.
*) Feature: nginx now does not start under FreeBSD if the sysctl
kern.ipc.somaxconn value is too big.
*) Bugfix: if a request was internally redirected by the
ngx_http_index_module module to the ngx_http_proxy_module or
ngx_http_fastcgi_module modules, then the index file was not closed
after request completion.
*) Feature: the "proxy_pass" can be used in location with regular
expression.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_rewrite_filter_module module supports the
condition like "if ($HTTP_USER_AGENT ~ MSIE)".
*) Bugfix: nginx started too slow if the large number of addresses and
text values were used in the "geo" directive.
*) Change: a variable name must be declared as "$name" in the "geo"
directive. The previous variant without "$" is still supported, but
will be removed soon.
*) Feature: the "%{VARIABLE}v" logging parameter.
*) Feature: the "set $name value" directive.
*) Bugfix: gcc 4.0 compatibility.
*) Feature: the --with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS autoconfiguration directive.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_stub_status_module showed incorrect statistics
if "rtsig" method was used or if several worker process ran on SMP.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc compiler on Linux or if
the zlib-1.2.x library was building from sources.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 2.0.
*) Feature: the autoconfiguration directives:
--http-client-body-temp-path=PATH, --http-proxy-temp-path=PATH, and
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=PATH
*) Change: the directory name for the temporary files with the client
request body is specified by directive client_body_temp_path, by
default it is <prefix>/client_body_temp.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_fastcgi_module and the directives:
fastcgi_pass, fastcgi_root, fastcgi_index, fastcgi_params,
fastcgi_connect_timeout, fastcgi_send_timeout, fastcgi_read_timeout,
fastcgi_send_lowat, fastcgi_header_buffer_size, fastcgi_buffers,
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size, fastcgi_temp_path,
fastcgi_max_temp_file_size, fastcgi_temp_file_write_size,
fastcgi_next_upstream, and fastcgi_x_powered_by.
*) Bugfix: the "[alert] zero size buf" error; the bug had appeared in
0.1.3.
*) Change: the URI must be specified after the host name in the
proxy_pass directive.
*) Change: the %3F symbol in the URI was considered as the argument
string start.
*) Feature: the unix domain sockets support in the
ngx_http_proxy_module.
*) Feature: the ssl_engine and ssl_ciphers directives.
Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov for SSL-accelerator.
*) Feature: the server_names_hash and server_names_hash_threshold
directives.
*) Bugfix: the *.domain.tld names in the "server_name" directive did
not work.
*) Bugfix: the %request_length log parameter logged the incorrect
length.
*) Bugfix: the proxied request was sent without arguments if the
request contains "//", "/./", "/../" or "%XX".
*) Bugfix: the large compressed responses may be transferred not
completely.
*) Bugfix: the files bigger than 2G was not transferred on Linux that
does not support sendfile64().
*) Bugfix: while the build configuration on Linux the
--with-poll_module parameter was required; the bug had appeared in
0.1.8.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_autoindex_module and the autoindex directive.
*) Feature: the proxy_set_x_url directive.
*) Bugfix: proxy module may get caught in an endless loop when sendfile
is not used.
