[nginx-announce] nginx-1.7.8

[Kevin Worthington]

Hello Nginx users,

Now available: Nginx 1.7.8 for Windows http://goo.gl/lTlKVG (32-bit and
64-bit versions)

These versions are to support legacy users who are already using Cygwin
based builds of Nginx. Officially supported native Windows binaries are at
nginx.org.

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Kevin
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Changes with nginx 1.7.8                                         02 Dec
> 2014
>
>     *) Change: now the "If-Modified-Since", "If-Range", etc. client request
>        header lines are passed to a backend while caching if nginx knows in
>        advance that the response will not be cached (e.g., when using
>        proxy_cache_min_uses).
>
>     *) Change: now after proxy_cache_lock_timeout nginx sends a request to
> a
>        backend with caching disabled; the new directives
>        "proxy_cache_lock_age", "fastcgi_cache_lock_age",
>        "scgi_cache_lock_age", and "uwsgi_cache_lock_age" specify a time
>        after which the lock will be released and another attempt to cache a
>        response will be made.
>
>     *) Change: the "log_format" directive can now be used only at http
>        level.
>
>     *) Feature: the "proxy_ssl_certificate", "proxy_ssl_certificate_key",
>        "proxy_ssl_password_file", "uwsgi_ssl_certificate",
>        "uwsgi_ssl_certificate_key", and "uwsgi_ssl_password_file"
>        directives.
>        Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
>
>     *) Feature: it is now possible to switch to a named location using
>        "X-Accel-Redirect".
>        Thanks to Toshikuni Fukaya.
>
>     *) Feature: now the "tcp_nodelay" directive works with SPDY
> connections.
>
>     *) Feature: new directives in vim syntax highliting scripts.
>        Thanks to Peter Wu.
>
>     *) Bugfix: nginx ignored the "s-maxage" value in the "Cache-Control"
>        backend response header line.
>        Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
>
>     *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module.
>        Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
>
>     *) Bugfix: in the "ssl_password_file" directive when using OpenSSL
>        0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, 1.0.1j.
>
>     *) Bugfix: alerts "header already sent" appeared in logs if the
>        "post_action" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.5.4.
>
>     *) Bugfix: alerts "the http output chain is empty" might appear in logs
>        if the "postpone_output 0" directive was used with SSI includes.
>
>     *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_cache_lock" directive with SSI subrequests.
>        Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
>
>
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> Maxim Dounin
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>
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