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Changes with (http://nginx.org/ “Nginx”) 1.5.9
Below are the list of changes from the 1.5.8 release of NginX to version 1.5.9. This is provided as reference only and was obtained from: http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES
Changes with (<http://nginx.org/> "Nginx") 1.5.9 22 Jan 2014
*) Change: now nginx expects escaped URIs in "X-Accel-Redirect" headers.
*) Feature: the "ssl_buffer_size" directive.
*) Feature: the "limit_rate" directive can now be used to rate limit
responses sent in (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY> "SPDY") connections.
*) Feature: the "spdy_chunk_size" directive.
*) Feature: the "ssl_session_tickets" directive.
Thanks to Dirkjan Bussink.
*) Bugfix: the $ssl_session_id variable contained full session
serialized instead of just a session id.
Thanks to Ivan Ristić.
*) Bugfix: nginx incorrectly handled escaped "?" character in the
"include" (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes> "Server Side Includes") command.
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_dav_module did not unescape destination URI of
the COPY and MOVE methods.
*) Bugfix: resolver did not understand domain names with a trailing dot.
Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
*) Bugfix: alerts "zero size buf in output" might appear in logs while
proxying; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9.
*) Bugfix: a (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault> "Segmentation fault") might occur in a worker process if the
ngx_http_spdy_module was used.
*) Bugfix: proxied WebSocket connections might hang right after
handshake if the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used.
*) Bugfix: the "xclient" directive of the mail proxy module incorrectly
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