Forum: NGINX nginx-1.2.7

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
http://nginx.com/support.html

Hello Nginx Users,

Now available: Nginx 1.2.7 For Windows http://goo.gl/q2kaJ (32-bit and
64-bit versions)

These versions are to support legacy users who are already using Cygwin
based builds of Nginx. Officially supported native Windows binaries are 
at
nginx.org.

Announcements are also available via my Twitter stream (
http://twitter.com/kworthington), if you prefer to receive updates
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Thank you,
Kevin
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Best regards,
Kevin
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