Mainline Version 1.4.2.9 - 29 September 2013

• bundled the new Lua Resty Web Socket Library 0.01.
  • this Lua library implements both a nonblocking WebSocket server and a nonblocking WebSocket client based on Lua Nginx Module's cosocket API. thanks Hendrik Schumacher.
• bundled the new Lua Resty Lock Library 0.01.
  • this Lua library implements a simple nonblocking mutex lock API based on Lua Nginx Module's shared memory dictionaries. Mostly useful for eliminating "dog-pile effects" and etc. thanks Sri Rao for the suggestion.
• upgraded Lua Resty Redis Library to 0.16.
  • feature: added new redis commands bitcount, bitop, client, dump, hincrbyfloat, incrbyfloat, migrate, pexpire, pexpireat, psetex, pubsub, pttl, restore, and time. thanks alex-yam for the patch.
  • optimize: eliminated the table.insert() calls because they are slower than tb[#tb + 1] = val. thanks alex-yam for the patch. this gives 1.9% speed up for trivial set and get examples when LuaJIT 2.0.2 is used and 4.9% speed up when LuaJIT's v2.1 git branch is used.
  • refactor: avoided using Lua 5.1's module() function for defining our Lua modules because it has bad side effects.
  • docs: do not use 0 (i.e., unlimited) max idle time in the set_keepalive() call in the code sample.
  • docs: added code samples for the redis commands hmget and hmset. this has already become a FAQ.
  • docs: added the Redis Authentication section because it is already an FAQ.
  • docs: documented the options table argument for the connect() method.
  • docs: added a missing local keyword to the code sample. thanks Wendal Chen for the patch.
• upgraded Lua Resty Memcached Library to 0.12.
  • optimize: no longer use Lua tables and table.concat() to construct simple Memcached query strings. this gives 6.75% overall speed up for trivial set and get examples when LuaJIT 2.0.2 is used.
  • optimize: eliminated table.insert() because it is slower than tb[#tb + 1] = val.
  • refactor: avoided using Lua's module() function for defining our Lua modules because it has bad side effects.
  • docs: use limited (10 sec) max idel timeout for in-pool connections in the code sample.
• upgraded Lua Nginx Module to 0.9.0.
  • feature: added support for raw downstream cosocket via the ngx.req.socket(true) API, upon which http upgrading protocols like WebSocket can be implemented with pure Lua (see Lua Resty Web Socket Library). This API can also be used to bypass the Nginx output filters and emit raw HTTP response headers and/or HTTP response bodies. thanks Hendrik Schumacher and aviramc.
  • bugfix: memory invalid reads might happen when ngx.flush(true) was used: the "ctx" struct could get freed in the middle of processing and we should save the state explicitly on the C stack.
  • bugfix: the standard Lua coroutine API was not available in the context of init_by_lua* and threw out the "no request found" error. thanks Wolf Tivy for the report.
  • bugfix: massive compatibility fixes for the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. thanks Edwin Cleton for the report.
  • bugfix: Lua VM might run out of memory when lua_code_cache is off; now we always enforce a full Lua GC cycle right after unloading most of the loaded Lua modules when the Lua code cache is turned off.
  • change: raised the "lua_code_cache is off" warning to an alert.
• upgraded Nginx Devel Kit to 0.2.19.
  • bugfix: fixed warnings from the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. thanks Edwin Cleton for the report.

Stable Version 1.4.2.8 - 22 September 2013

• upgraded Lua Nginx Module to 0.8.10.
  • bugfix: we did not declare the "level" local variable of ngx_http_lua_ngx_log at the beginning of the code block. thanks Edwin Cleton for the report.
  • docs: documented more limitations in the current implementation.
  • docs: avoided using module() and also recommended the lua-releng tool to locate misuse of Lua globals. The following components are bundled in this release:
• LuaJIT-2.0.2
• array-var-nginx-module-0.03rc1
• auth-request-nginx-module-0.2
• drizzle-nginx-module-0.1.6
• echo-nginx-module-0.48
• encrypted-session-nginx-module-0.03
• form-input-nginx-module-0.07
• headers-more-nginx-module-0.22
• iconv-nginx-module-0.10
• lua-5.1.5
• lua-cjson-1.0.3
• lua-rds-parser-0.05
• lua-redis-parser-0.10
• lua-resty-dns-0.10
• lua-resty-memcached-0.11
• lua-resty-mysql-0.13
• lua-resty-redis-0.15
• lua-resty-string-0.08
• lua-resty-upload-0.08
• memc-nginx-module-0.13
• nginx-1.4.2
• ngx_coolkit-0.2rc1
• ngx_devel_kit-0.2.18
• ngx_lua-0.8.10
• ngx_postgres-1.0rc3
• rds-csv-nginx-module-0.05rc2
• rds-json-nginx-module-0.12rc10
• redis-nginx-module-0.3.6
• redis2-nginx-module-0.10
• set-misc-nginx-module-0.22
• srcache-nginx-module-0.22
• xss-nginx-module-0.03rc9

Mainline Version 1.4.2.7 - 15 September 2013

• upgraded Lua Nginx Module to 0.8.9.
  • bugfix: the Nginx core does not send a default status line for the 101 status code. now we construct one ourselves in this case.
  • bugfix: nil "pool" option values led to errors in tcpsock:connect().
  • bugfix: tcpsock:receive(0) could hang until new data arrived or the timeout error happened; now it always returns an empty string immediately. this new behaviour diverges from the LuaSocket library though.
  • bugfix: for SPDY requests, we (temporarily) disable the Lua API functions ngx.location.capture, ngx.location.capture_multi, and ngx.req.socket, which are known to have problems in SPDY mode. The SPDY compatibility issue will eventually get fixed in the near future.
  • refactor: removed our own ctx->headers_sent field because we should use Nginx core's r->header_sent instead.
• upgraded Echo Nginx Module to 0.48.
  • refactor: removed our own ctx->headers_sent field because we should use Nginx core's r->header_sent instead.
• bugfix: ./configure now always removes existing Makefile before trying to generate a new one.

Mainline Version 1.4.2.5 - 8 September 2013

• upgraded Set Misc Nginx Module to 0.22.
  • bugfix: we did not escape \0, \z, \b, and \t properly in set_quote_sql_str according to the MySQL quoting rules. thanks Siddon Tang for the report.
• upgraded Lua Nginx Module to 0.8.8.
  • feature: added new option "always_forward_body" to ngx.location.capture() and ngx.location.capture_multi(), which controls whether to always forward the parent request's request body to the subrequest (even when the subrequest is not of the POST or PUT request method). thanks Matthieu Tourne for the request.
  • feature: now timeout errors in tcpsock:receive() and tcpsock:receiveuntil() no longer automatically close the current cosocket object (for both upstream and downstream connections). thanks Aviram Cohen for the original patch.
  • bugfix: we did not escape \0, \z, \t, and \b properly in ngx.quote_sql_str(). thanks Siddon Tang for the report.
  • bugfix: Lua backtrace dumps upon uncaught Lua exceptions did not work with the standard Lua 5.1 interpreter when the backtrace was deeper than 22 levels.
  • change: now we just dump the top 22 levels in the backtrace for uncaught Lua exceptions for the sake of simplicity.
  • change: we now limit the number of nested coroutines in the backtrace dump for uncaught Lua exceptions by 5.
  • optimize: grouped the Lua string concatenation operations when constructing the backtrace string for uncaught Lua exceptions.

Mainline Version 1.4.2.3 - 2 September 2013

• upgraded Lua Nginx Module to 0.8.7.
  • feature: log_by_lua* now always runs before the standard ngx_http_log_module (for access logging). thanks Calin Don for the suggestion.
  • feature: added new API ngx.config.debug to indicate whether this is a debug build of Nginx (that is, being built by the ./configure option --with-debug).
  • bugfix: the global Lua state's _G table was cleared when lua_code_cache was off, which could confuse the setup in init_by_lua*. thanks Robert Andrew Ditthardt for the report.
  • bugfix: ngx.flush() triggered response header sending when the header was not sent yet. now it just returned the error string "nothing to flush" for this case. thanks linbo liao for the report.
  • bugfix: when a Lua line comment was used in the last line of the inlined Lua code chunk, a bogus Lua syntax error would be thrown.
  • bugfix: ngx.exit(204) could try to send the response header twice. Nginx 1.5.4 caught this issue.
  • bugfix: the error message for failures in loading inlined Lua code was misleading.
• upgraded Echo Nginx Module to 0.47.
  • bugfix: use of C global variables at configuration time could lead to issues when HUP reload failed in the middle.
  • bugfix: we might send the response header twice when an error happens. this issue is exposed by Nginx 1.5.4. thanks Markus Linnala for the report.
• upgraded Drizzle Nginx Module to 0.1.6.
  • bugfix: compilation error happened with nginx 1.5.3+ because Nginx changes the ngx_sock_ntop API.
  • docs: typo fixes from smallfish.
• upgraded Memc Nginx Module to 0.13.
  • bugfix: fixed compatibility issues with the new upstream C API in Nginx 1.5.3+. thanks Markus Linnala for the patch.
  • bugfix: use of C global variables at configuration time could cause issues when HUP reload failed in the middle.
  • docs: now we recommend Lua Resty Memcached Library instead when being used with Lua Nginx Module.
• applied the unix_socket_accept_over_read patch the Nginx core to fix a memory over-read issue when Nginx was accepting a unix domain socket.

Mainline Version 1.4.2.1 - 11 August 2013

• upgraded the Nginx core to 1.4.2.
  • see http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.4 for changes.
• upgraded Lua Resty DNS Library to 0.10.
  • feature: now we return all the answer records even when the DNS server returns a non-zero error code, in which case the error code and error string are now set as the "errcode" and "errstr" fields in the Lua table returned. thanks Matthieu Tourne for requesting this. See ChangeLog 1.4.1 for change log for OpenResty 1.4.1.x.