<ChangeLog>
Changes with nginx 0.6.21 03 Dec 2007
*) 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.
Changes with nginx 0.6.20 28 Nov 2007
*) 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.
Changes with nginx 0.6.19 27 Nov 2007
*) Bugfix: the 0.6.18 version could not be built.
Changes with nginx 0.6.18 27 Nov 2007
*) Change: now the ngx_http_userid_module adds start time microseconds
to the cookie field contains a pid value.
*) Change: now the full request line instead of URI only is written to
error_log.
*) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_pass" directive.
*) Feature: the "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives.
*) Feature: now the directive "add_header last-modified ''" deletes a
"Last-Modified" response header line.
*) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full
throughput, even if limit value was very high.
</ChangeLog>
Approved by: portmgr (linimon)
<ChangeLog>
*) Feature: the "If-Range" request header line support.
Thanks to Alexander V. Inyukhin.
*) Bugfix: URL double escaping in a redirect of the "msie_refresh"
directive; bug appeared in 0.6.4.
*) Bugfix: the "autoindex" directive did not work with the "alias /"
directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
subrequests were used.
*) Bugfix: the big responses may be transferred truncated if SSL and
gzip were used.
*) Bugfix: the $status variable was equal to 0 if a proxied server
returned response in HTTP/0.9 version.
</ChangeLog>
<CommitLog>
*) 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.
</CommitLog>
<ChangeLog>
Changes with nginx 0.6.15 (22 Oct 2007)
*) 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.
Changes with nginx 0.6.14 (15 Oct 2007)
*) Change: now by default the "echo" SSI command uses entity encoding.
*) Feature: the "encoding" parameter in the "echo" SSI command.
*) Feature: the "access_log" directive may be used inside the
"limit_except" block.
*) Bugfix: if all upstream servers were failed, then all servers had
got weight the was equal one until servers became alive; bug
appeared in 0.6.6.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
$date_local and $date_gmt were used outside the
ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if debug
log was enabled.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: ngx_http_memcached_module did not set
$upstream_response_time.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop, if the
memcached was used.
*) Bugfix: nginx supported low case only "close" and "keep-alive"
values in the "Connection" request header line; bug appeared in
0.6.11.
*) Bugfix: sub_filter did not work with empty substitution.
*) Bugfix: in sub_filter parsing.
</ChangeLog>
Add three new knobs for imap, pop3, smtp mail modules.
Submitted by: Ilya Pizik aka polzun at scar dot jinr dot ru
<ChangeLog>
Changes with nginx 0.6.13 24 Sep 2007
*) Bugfix: nginx did not close directory file on HEAD request if
autoindex was used.
Thanks to Arkadiusz Patyk.
Changes with nginx 0.6.12 21 Sep 2007
*) Change: mail proxy was split on three modules: pop3, imap and smtp.
*) Feature: the --without-mail_pop3_module, --without-mail_imap_module,
and --without-mail_smtp_module configuration parameters.
*) Feature: the "smtp_greeting_delay" and "smtp_client_buffer"
directives of the ngx_mail_smtp_module.
*) Bugfix: the trailing wildcards did not work; bug appeared in 0.6.9.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not start on Solaris if the shared PCRE library
located in non-standard place was used.
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_hide_header" and "fastcgi_hide_header" directives
did not hide response header lines whose name was longer than 32
characters.
Thanks to Manlio Perillo.
</ChangeLog>
Remove needless configure option (--with-http_ssl_module)
for mail_ssl_module. Both modules use ssl-specific code
independently. (*)
(*) Found by: Anton Yuzhaninov aka citrin at citrin dot ru
<ChangeLog>
*) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest", and
"open_file_cache_errors" directives.
*) Bugfix: socket leak; bug appeared in 0.6.7.
*) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not
appended to the "Content-Type" header set by
$r->send_http_header().
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process if
/dev/poll method was used.
</ChangeLog>
Utilize %%ETCDIR%%.
<ChangeLog>
*) Feature: the "open_file_cache", "open_file_cache_retest",
and "open_file_cache_errors" directives.
*) Bugfix: socket leak; bug appeared in 0.6.7.
*) Bugfix: a charset set by the "charset" directive was not
appended to the "Content-Type" header set by
$r->send_http_header().
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process
if /dev/poll method was used.
</ChangeLog>
Utilize ETCDIR.
<ChangeLog>
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless
loop, if the HTTPS protocol was used; bug appeared
in 0.6.7.
*) Bugfix: if server listened on two addresses or ports
and trailing wildcard was used, then nginx did not
run.
*) Bugfix: the "ip_hash" directive might incorrectly mark
servers as down.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64; bug appeared
in 0.6.8.
</ChangeLog>
<ChangeLog>
*) Change: now nginx tries to set the "worker_priority",
"worker_rlimit_nofile", "worker_rlimit_core", and
"worker_rlimit_sigpending" without super-user privileges.
*) Change: now nginx escapes space and "%" in request to
a mail proxy authentication server.
*) Change: now nginx escapes "%" in $memcached_key variable.
*) Bugfix: nginx used path relative to configuration prefix
for non-absolute configuration file path specified in the
"-c" key; bug appeared in 0.6.6.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not work on FreeBSD/sparc64.
</ChangeLog>
Update patch for nginx.conf.
Rewrote pkg-plist as describe in FreeBSD Porter's Handbook,
section 7.3 for fix package installation. (*)
Problem found by: Denis Shaposhnikov dsh at vlink dot ru (*)
<ChangeLog>
*) 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.
</ChangeLog>
<ChangeLog>
*) 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.
</ChangeLog>
<ChangeLog>
*) Feature: $nginx_version variable.
Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh.
*) Feature: the mail proxy supports AUTHENTICATE in IMAP mode.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Feature: the mail proxy supports STARTTLS in SMTP mode.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: now nginx escapes space in $memcached_key variable.
*) Bugfix: nginx was incorrectly built by Sun Studio on
Solaris/amd64.
Thanks to Jiang Hong.
*) Bugfix: of minor potential bugs.
Thanks to Coverity's Scan.
</ChangeLog>
<ChangeLog>
*) 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.
</ChangeLog>
<ChangeLog>
*) Feature: the "proxy_store" and "fastcgi_store" directives.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process
if the "auth_http_header" directive was used.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in worker process if
the CRAM-MD5 authentication method was used, but it was not
enabled.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process
when the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass"
directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker process
if the eventport method was used.
*) Bugfix: the "proxy_ignore_client_abort" and
"fastcgi_ignore_client_abort" directives did not work; bug
appeared in 0.5.13.
</ChangeLog>
Fix rc script functionality for extra configtest_cmd command. (*)
<ChangeLog>
*) Bugfix: in SSI parsing.
*) Bugfix: if remote SSI subrequest was used, then posterior local file
subrequest might transferred to client in wrong order.
*) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions buffered in temporary files were
truncated.
*) Bugfix: the perl $$ variable value in ngx_http_perl_module was equal
to the master process identification number.
</ChangeLog>
Spotted by: Andrey Y. Ostanovsky <andrey at ostanovsky dot spb dot ru> (*)
Resolve conflict with stable version.
<ChangeLog>
*) Feature: the "server_name", "map", and "valid_referers"
directives supports the "www.example.*" wildcards.
</ChangeLog>
<ChangeLog>
*) Security: the "ssl_verify_client" directive did not work if request
was made using HTTP/0.9.
*) Bugfix: a part of response body may be passed uncompressed if gzip
was used; bug appeared in 0.5.23.
</ChangeLog>
<ChangeLog>
*) Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server
Name Indication TLS extension.
*) Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive.
Thanks to Nick S. Grechukh, OWOX project.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process
if two virtual servers should bind() to the overlapping
ports.
*) Bugfix: if nginx was built with ngx_http_perl_module
and perl supported threads, then during second
reconfiguration the error messages "panic: MUTEX_LOCK"
and "perl_parse() failed" were issued.
*) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass"
directive.
</ChangeLog>
<Changelog>
*) Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then
regex locations may be choosen not in that order as they
were specified.
*) Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop
on 64-bit platform, if the 33-rd or next in succession
backend has failed.
Thanks to Anton Povarov.
*) Bugfix: a bus error might occur on Solaris/sparc64 if the
PCRE library was used.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: in the HTTPS protocol in the "proxy_pass" directive.
</Changelog>
<ChangeLog>
*) Feature: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive.
*) Feature: the "$http_...", "$sent_http_...", and
"$upstream_http_..." variables may be changed using
the "set" directive.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in worker
process if the SSI command 'if expr="$var = /"'
was used.
*) Bugfix: trailing boundary of multipart range
response was transferred incorrectly.
Thanks to Evan Miller.
*) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Solaris/sparc64 if
it was built by Sun Studio.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not built
by Solaris make.
Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.
</ChangeLog>
Change knob IMAP_MODULE to MAIL_MODULE (1).
Keep compatibility for IMAP_MODULE, notice warning if usage.
Cosmetic fixes for package list (2).
(1) Anton Yuzhaninov (citrin at rambler-co dot ru)
(2) portlint -a
