# Which version to use?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-version-to-use/179245>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [November 20, 2009, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-version-to-use/179245 "2009-11-20T11:38:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jean-Baptiste\_Q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@Jean-Baptiste\_Q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-Baptiste_Q)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-version-to-use/179245/1 "2009-11-20T11:38:55Z")

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Thanks for providing this great piece of software: nginx.

I’m successfully running 0.6.35 at my site with the [1]syslog patch.  
Today I noticed there was several major new versions, 0.7.x and 0.8.x  
and searched for a list of major changes with no luck. I’m sticking  
to 0.6.x as this is the major version provided by Debian and Ubuntu on  
stable dists, but I’m looking to upgrade.

Where can I find a summary of major changes in the 0.7 and 0.8 series?  
Can you point me to a brief comparison between 0.6 and 0.7/0.8?

## Thanks in advance,

Jean-Baptiste Q.

[1] [http://wiki.nginx.org/File:Syslog\_0.6.35\_sh\_is\_not\_bash.patch](http://wiki.nginx.org/File:Syslog_0.6.35_sh_is_not_bash.patch)

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**Author:** ![Jean-Baptiste\_Q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@Jean-Baptiste\_Q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-Baptiste_Q)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 12:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-version-to-use/179245/2 "2009-11-23T12:02:27Z")

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Hi Igor,

I’m with Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev in Toulouse, France right  
now, they think you are just too lazy to write the nginx news in  
english 🙂

This is exactly what I was looking for: [http://sysoev.ru/](http://sysoev.ru/) but it’s in  
russian!

Google Translate gives some hints:

```
    http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsysoev.ru%2F&sl=ru&tl=en

```

I will learn russian just because of Igor 🙂

```
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```

–  
Jean-Baptiste Q.

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**Author:** ![Jean-Baptiste\_Q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@Jean-Baptiste\_Q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-Baptiste_Q)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-version-to-use/179245/3 "2009-11-23T13:39:38Z")

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:29:34AM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Q. wrote:

> Thanks for providing this great piece of software: nginx.
> 
> I’m successfully running 0.6.35 at my site with the [1]syslog patch.  
> Today I noticed there was several major new versions, 0.7.x and 0.8.x  
> and searched for a list of major changes with no luck. I’m sticking  
> to 0.6.x as this is the major version provided by Debian and Ubuntu on  
> stable dists, but I’m looking to upgrade.
> 
> Where can I find a summary of major changes in the 0.7 and 0.8 series?  
> Can you point me to a brief comparison between 0.6 and 0.7/0.8?

New 0.8 features:

```
*) caching of proxied and FastCGI servers;
*) file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux;
*) named captures in regular expressions;
*) listening on unix sockets;
*) SSL CRL;

```

New 0.7 features:

```
*) caching of proxied and FastCGI servers;
*) "try_files" directive;
*) the "location" and "server_name" directives support captures
   in regular expressions;
*) XLST and image filters;
*) a preliminary IPv6 support;
*) nginx/Windows.

```

–  
Igor S.

> **[Igor Sysoev](http://sysoev.ru/en/)**

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**Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-version-to-use/179245/4 "2009-12-19T15:25:20Z")

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On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:39 +0300, Igor S. wrote:

> > Where can I find a summary of major changes in the 0.7 and 0.8 series?  
> > Can you point me to a brief comparison between 0.6 and 0.7/0.8?

Jean-Baptiste, you can also have a look to the announcements Igor is  
posting on each new release.

> New 0.8 features:
> 
> ```
> *) caching of proxied and FastCGI servers;
> *) file AIO support on FreeBSD and Linux;
> *) named captures in regular expressions;
> *) listening on unix sockets;
> *) SSL CRL;
> 
> ```

## -----------^ Igor backported this one to v0.7 since 0.7.64. So it should appear on both list 🙂

Brice F.  
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