# OpenResty 1.9.7.2 released **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [January 22, 2016, 6:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openresty-1-9-7-2-released/243887 "2016-01-22T06:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rafa_F)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 6:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openresty-1-9-7-2-released/243887/1 "2016-01-22T06:29:03Z")
Hi folks I am happy to announce the new formal release, 1.9.7.2, of the OpenResty web platform based on NGINX and Lua: ``` https://openresty.org/#Download ``` Both the (portable) source code distribution and the Win32 binary distribution are provided on this Download page. This version is an important milestone in OpenResty’s release history and we have the following 3 big features included in the bundle: 1. ngx\_lua’s new directives ssl\_certificate\_by\_lua\* directives that allow dynamic control of the downstream SSL/TLS handshake of NGINX with Lua. Nonblocking I/O operations on the Lua land like cosockets and “light threads” are also available in this context. This feature has been powering CloudFlare’s SSL gateway for more than a year now. Thanks CloudFlare for supporting this work. See the official documentation of these features for more details: [GitHub - openresty/lua-nginx-module: Embed the Power of Lua into NGINX HTTP servers](https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#ssl_certificate_by_lua_block) [https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-core/blob/master/lib/ngx/ssl.md#readme](https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-core/blob/master/lib/ngx/ssl.md#readme) [https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-core/blob/master/lib/ngx/ocsp.md#readme](https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-core/blob/master/lib/ngx/ocsp.md#readme) 1. ngx\_lua’s new ngx.semaphore API contributed by Kugou Inc., which allows very efficient “light thread” control flow synchronizations across the request and context boundaries (though still limited to a single NGINX worker process). This feature also plays an important role in their engineers’ C2000K experiment atop OpenResty. See the corresponding documentation for more details: [https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-core/blob/master/lib/ngx/semaphore.md#readme](https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-core/blob/master/lib/ngx/semaphore.md#readme) 1. ngx\_lua’s new balancer\_by\_lua\* directives that allow highly dynamic upstream peer selections and retries in pure Lua, making dynamic custom load balancers written in Lua possible. Such mechanism is based upon NGINX core’s upstream facility, which can work with existing nginx upstream C modules like ngx\_proxy and ngx\_fastcgi, out of the box. Thanks CloudFlare for supporting this work. See the corresponding documentation for more details: [GitHub - openresty/lua-nginx-module: Embed the Power of Lua into NGINX HTTP servers](https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#balancer_by_lua_block) [https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-core/blob/master/lib/ngx/balancer.md#readme](https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-core/blob/master/lib/ngx/balancer.md#readme) Special thanks go to all our contributors and users. Changes since the last (formal) release, 1.9.7.1: - feature: applied the ssl\_cert\_cb\_yield patch to the bundled version of the NGINX core to allow yielding in OpenSSL’s SSL\_CTX\_set\_cert\_cb() callbacks (needed by the ngx\_lua module’s ssl\_certificate\_by\_lua\* directives, for example). - bugfix: the “./configure” options “–with-dtrace-probes” and “–with-stream” did not work together and led to compilation failures. - upgraded the ngx\_lua module to 0.10.0. - upgraded the lua-resty-core library to 0.1.4. - upgraded LuaJIT to v2.1-20160108: [Tags · openresty/luajit2 · GitHub](https://github.com/openresty/luajit2/tags) The HTML version of the change log with lots of helpful hyper-links can be browsed here: ``` https://openresty.org/#ChangeLog1009007 ``` OpenResty (aka. ngx\_openresty) is a full-fledged web platform by bundling the standard Nginx core, Lua/LuaJIT, lots of 3rd-party Nginx modules and Lua libraries, as well as most of their external dependencies. See OpenResty’s homepage for details: ``` https://openresty.org/ ``` We have run extensive testing on our Amazon EC2 test cluster and ensured that all the components (including the Nginx core) play well together. The latest test report can always be found here: ``` https://qa.openresty.org ``` Enjoy! -agentzh