nginx-1.2.7

Tue Feb 12 13:57:27 UTC 2013

Changes with nginx 1.2.7 12 Feb 2013
 *) 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.
 *) 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 Kališnik.
 *) 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.
 *) 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: 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 "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive.
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Maxim Dounin
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