[nginx-announce] nginx-1.5.6

[Maxim Dounin]

Changes with nginx 1.5.6                                         01 Oct 2013

    *) Feature: the "fastcgi_buffering" directive.

    *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_protocols" and "proxy_ssl_ciphers"
       directives.
       Thanks to Piotr Sikora.

    *) Feature: optimization of SSL handshakes when using long certificate
       chains.

    *) Feature: the mail proxy supports SMTP pipelining.

    *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_auth_basic_module when using "$apr1$"
       password encryption method.
       Thanks to Markus Linnala.

    *) Bugfix: in MacOSX, Cygwin, and nginx/Windows incorrect location might
       be used to process a request if locations were given using characters
       in different cases.

    *) Bugfix: automatic redirect with appended trailing slash for proxied
       locations might not work.

    *) Bugfix: in the mail proxy server.

    *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module.


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Maxim Dounin
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