Note: This article was originally published in 2013. Some steps, commands, or software versions may have changed. Check the current NginX documentation for the latest information.

Changes with (http://nginx.org/ “Nginx”) 1.5.8

Below are the list of changes from the 1.5.7 release of NginX to version 1.5.8. This is provided as reference only and was obtained from: http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES  

Changes with nginx 1.5.8                                         17 Dec 2013

    *) Feature: IPv6 support in resolver.

    *) Feature: the "listen" directive supports the "fastopen" parameter.
       Thanks to Mathew Rodley.

    *) Feature: (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security> "Transport Layer Security") support in the ngx_http_uwsgi_module.
       Thanks to Roberto De Ioris.

    *) Feature: vim syntax highlighting scripts were added to contrib.
       Thanks to Evan Miller.

    *) Bugfix: a timeout might occur while reading client request body in an
       SSL connection using chunked transfer encoding.

    *) Bugfix: the "master_process" directive did not work correctly in
       nginx/Windows.

    *) Bugfix: the "setfib" parameter of the "listen" directive might not
       work.

    *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module.

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