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 Kali?nik.
*) 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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