Now "listen" directve has a new "quic" parameter which enables QUIC protocol
for the address. Further, to enable HTTP/3, a new directive "http3" is
introduced. The hq-interop protocol is enabled by "http3_hq" as before.
Now application protocol is chosen by ALPN.
Previously used "http3" parameter of "listen" is deprecated.
Multi headers are now using linked lists instead of arrays. Notably,
the following fields were changed: r->headers_in.cookies (renamed
to r->headers_in.cookie), r->headers_in.x_forwarded_for,
r->headers_out.cache_control, r->headers_out.link, u->headers_in.cache_control
u->headers_in.cookies (renamed to u->headers_in.set_cookie).
The r->headers_in.cookies and u->headers_in.cookies fields were renamed
to r->headers_in.cookie and u->headers_in.set_cookie to match header names.
The ngx_http_parse_multi_header_lines() and ngx_http_parse_set_cookie_lines()
functions were changed accordingly.
With this change, multi headers are now essentially equivalent to normal
headers, and following changes will further make them equivalent.
FastCGI responder is expected to receive CGI/1.1 environment variables
in the parameters (see section "6.2 Responder" of the FastCGI specification).
Obviously enough, there cannot be multiple environment variables with
the same name.
Further, CGI specification (RFC 3875, section "4.1.18. Protocol-Specific
Meta-Variables") explicitly requires to combine headers: "If multiple
header fields with the same field-name are received then the server MUST
rewrite them as a single value having the same semantics".
Similar to lingering_time, it limits total connection lifetime before
keepalive is switched off. The default is 1 hour, which is close to
the total maximum connection lifetime possible with default
keepalive_requests and keepalive_timeout.
The request processing is delayed by a timer. Since nginx updates
internal time once at the start of each event loop iteration, this
normally ensures constant time delay, adding a mitigation from
time-based attacks.
A notable exception to this is the case when there are no additional
events before the timer expires. To ensure constant-time processing
in this case as well, we trigger an additional event loop iteration
by posting a dummy event for the next event loop iteration.
Previously only one address was used by the listen directive handler even if
host name resolved to multiple addresses. Now a separate listening socket is
created for each address.
In mail and stream modules, no certificate provided is a fatal condition,
much like with the "ssl" and "starttls" directives.
In http, "listen ... ssl" can be used in a non-default server without
certificates as long as there is a certificate in the default one, so
missing certificate is only fatal for default servers.
Previously, only the upstream response body could be accessed with the
NGX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_IN_MEMORY feature. Now any response body from a subrequest
can be saved in a memory buffer. It is available as a single buffer in r->out
and the buffer size is configured by the subrequest_output_buffer_size
directive.
Upstream, proxy and fastcgi code used to handle the old-style feature is
removed.
The phase is added instead of the try_files phase. Unlike the old phase, the
new one supports registering multiple handlers. The try_files implementation is
moved to a separate ngx_http_try_files_module, which now registers a precontent
phase handler.
The current version of HTTP/1.1 standard allows relative references in
redirects (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.1.2).
Allow this form for redirects generated by nginx by introducing the new
directive absolute_redirect.
With this change it is now possible to load modules compiled without
the "--with-http_ssl_module" configure option into nginx binary compiled
with it, and vice versa (if a module doesn't use ssl-specific functions),
assuming both use the "--with-compat" option.
With this change it is now possible to load modules compiled without
the "--with-threads" configure option into nginx binary compiled with it,
and vice versa (if a module does not use thread-specific functions),
assuming both use the "--with-compat" option.
The IPV6_V6ONLY macro is now checked only while parsing appropriate flag
and when using the macro.
The ipv6only field in listen structures is always initialized to 1,
even if not supported on a given platform. This is expected to prevent
a module compiled without IPV6_V6ONLY from accidentally creating dual
sockets if loaded into main binary with proper IPV6_V6ONLY support.
The "aio_write" directive is introduced, which enables use of aio
for writing. Currently it is meaningful only with "aio threads".
Note that aio operations can be done by both event pipe and output
chain, so proper mapping between r->aio and p->aio is provided when
calling ngx_event_pipe() and in output filter.
In collaboration with Valentin Bartenev.
It can now be set to "off" conditionally, e.g. using the map
directive.
An empty value will disable the emission of the Server: header
and the signature in error messages generated by nginx.
Any other value is treated as "on", meaning that full nginx
version is emitted in the Server: header and error messages
generated by nginx.
When configured, an individual listen socket on a given address is
created for each worker process. This allows to reduce in-kernel lock
contention on configurations with high accept rates, resulting in better
performance. As of now it works on Linux and DragonFly BSD.
Note that on Linux incoming connection requests are currently tied up
to a specific listen socket, and if some sockets are closed, connection
requests will be reset, see https://lwn.net/Articles/542629/. With
nginx, this may happen if the number of worker processes is reduced.
There is no such problem on DragonFly BSD.
Based on previous work by Sepherosa Ziehau and Yingqi Lu.
Client address specified in the PROXY protocol header is now
saved in the $proxy_protocol_addr variable and can be used in
the realip module.
This is currently not implemented for mail.
Roman Arutyunyan
Sergey Kandaurov
Maxim Dounin
Ruslan Ermilov
Dmitry Volyntsev
Valentin Bartenev
Mathew Rodley