Stable Release 1.2.3.8 - 8 October 2012

This release is essentially the same as the development version 1.2.3.7.

The following components are bundled:

• LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta10
• array-var-nginx-module-0.03rc1
• auth-request-nginx-module-0.2
• drizzle-nginx-module-0.1.4
• echo-nginx-module-0.41
• encrypted-session-nginx-module-0.02
• form-input-nginx-module-0.07rc5
• headers-more-nginx-module-0.18
• iconv-nginx-module-0.10rc7
• lua-5.1.5
• lua-cjson-1.0.3
• lua-rds-parser-0.05
• lua-redis-parser-0.10
• lua-resty-dns-0.08
• lua-resty-memcached-0.08
• lua-resty-mysql-0.10
• lua-resty-redis-0.14
• lua-resty-string-0.06
• lua-resty-upload-0.03
• memc-nginx-module-0.13rc3
• nginx-1.2.3
• ngx_coolkit-0.2rc1
• ngx_devel_kit-0.2.17
• ngx_lua-0.6.10
• ngx_postgres-1.0rc2
• rds-csv-nginx-module-0.05rc2
• rds-json-nginx-module-0.12rc10
• redis-nginx-module-0.3.6
• redis2-nginx-module-0.09
• set-misc-nginx-module-0.22rc8
• srcache-nginx-module-0.16
• xss-nginx-module-0.03rc9

Mainline Version 1.2.3.7 - 6 October 2012

• upgraded Lua Nginx Module to 0.6.10.
  • feature: now ngx.req.get_headers() returns a Lua table with keys in the all-lower-case form by default. thanks James Hurst and Matthieu Tourne for the feature request.
  • feature: now ngx.req.get_headers() adds an __index metamethod to the resulting Lua table by default, which will automatically normalize the lookup key by converting upper-case letters and underscores in case of a lookup miss. thanks James Hurst and Matthieu Tourne for suggesting this feature.
  • feature: now ngx.req.get_headers() accepts a second (optional) argument, raw, for controlling whether to return the original form of the header names (that is, the original letter-case).
  • feature: added public C API functions ngx_http_shared_dict_get and ngx_http_lua_find_zone to allow other Nginx C modules or a patched Nginx core to directly access the shared memory dictionaries created by Lua Nginx Module. thanks Piotr Sikora for requesting this feature.
  • bugfix: fixed a compilation warning in the TCP/stream cosocket codebase when using (at least) gcc 3.4.6 for MIPS. thanks Dirk Feytons for reporting this as GitHub issue #162.

Mainline Version 1.2.3.5 - 1 October 2012

• upgraded Lua Nginx Module to 0.6.8.
  • bugfix: ngx.re.gmatch might loop infinitely when the pattern matches an empty string. thanks Lance Li and xingxing for tracking this issue down.
  • bugfix: pattern matching an empty substring in ngx.re.gmatch did not match at the end of the subject string.
  • bugfix: ngx.re.gsub might enter infinite loops because it could not handle patterns matching empty strings properly.
  • bugfix: ngx.re.gsub incorrectly skipped matching altogether when the subject string was empty.

Mainline Version 1.2.3.3 - 26 September 2012

• upgraded Lua Nginx Module to 0.6.7.
  • feature: implemented the shdict:flush_expired(max_count?) method for flushing out and removing expired items up to max_count (or unlimited when max_count == 0). thanks Brian Akins for the patch.
  • optimize: tcpsock:send() now calls c->send() instead of ngx_output_chain(), which gives about 4% ~ 5% performance boost for a simple test case accessing Redis for several times.
  • optimize: we now skip processing in the default write event handler when the write event is not ready.
  • refactor: the I/O scheduler has been rewritten to keep track of the coroutine associated with each (non-blocking) I/O operation automatically, which paves a way to the upcoming ngx.thread API (aka the "lightweight thread" API).
  • refactor: now we use a new Nginx subrequest model that bypasses ngx_http_postpone_filter_module completely, which paves a way for arbitrary order of outputting among subrequests and their parents when the ngx.thread API lands in the near future.
  • bugfix: the "http finalize non-active request" alerts might happen when subrequests were used. thanks Lance Li for reporting this issue.
  • bugfix: reset the subrequest status code when the ngx_http_upstream request in the subrequest fails due to timeout errors or premature connection close and etc. this fix also requires the nonbuffered-upstream-truncation patch for the Nginx core to cancel a limitation in ngx_http_upstream.
  • bugfix: fixed the gcc error -Werror=strict-aliasing in the Lua/LuaJIT bytecode loader when -O2 or above is used. thanks jinglong for the patch.
  • bugfix: the main request might be prematurely terminated if a subrequest issued by ngx.location.capture (or its friends) was finalized with error codes.
  • bugfix: the Nginx built-in resolver might not be destroyed in time when it was used by ngx.socket.tcp and ngx.socket.udp.
  • bugfix: coroutine.status() returned suspended for normal coroutines.
  • bugfix: coroutine.resume() did not return an error immediately when operating on normal coroutines.
  • bugfix: when the entry coroutine was yielded by coroutine.yield() then after it was resumed automatically its status would still be suspended.
  • bugfix: the write event timer might not be removed in time in ngx.flush(true) when ngx_handle_write_event failed.
  • bugfix: always remove the read event timer during downstream cosocket finalization if it is not removed yet.
  • bugfix: ngx.flush(true) might not return immediately when it should.
  • bugfix: the resume_handler field of the subrequest ctx was not properly initialized.
  • feature: added new dtrace static probes http-lua-user-coroutine-yield and http-lua-entry-coroutine-yield.
  • docs: fixed the documentation for ngx.req.set_header and made it clear that the modified request headers will be inherited by the subrequests by default. thanks James Hurst for reporting this issue.
  • docs: documented the trick for doing background asynchronous jobs by using ngx.eof() + keepalive_timeout 0. thanks Lance Li for the suggestion.
• upgraded Lua Redis Parser Library to 0.10.
  • bugfix: Lua stack overflow would happen when too many Redis arguments were passed into the build_query method. thanks Guo Yin for reporting this issue.
• upgraded Lua Resty DNS Library to 0.08.
  • feature: added new method tcp_query to enforce pure TCP transportation for the DNS queries.
  • feature: added support for TCP retries when the UDP reply gets truncated.
  • feature: added support for PTR queries and records.
  • feature: added support for TXT queries and records.
  • feature: added support for NS queries and records.
  • bugfix: the udp resolver did not discard DNS replies with unmatched IDs for 128 times as originally designed.
• upgraded Lua Resty Redis Library to 0.14.
  • optimize: now we do the string concatenation for Redis queries on the Lua land instead of on the C land, which gives 6% ~ 7% over-all performance boost when using LuaJIT 2.0 beta10.
  • docs: fixed a typo in the sample code. thanks xingxing for reporting it.
• upgraded Lua Resty Memcached Library to 0.08.
  • feature: added new option key_transform to the new method to allow the user to override the default escaping and unescaping methods for Memcached keys. thanks Matthieu Tourne for the patch.
  • bugfix: now the new method will return a string describing the error as the second return value in case of failures.
  • docs: added more documentation for the set_keepalive method.
  • docs: documented that this library cannot be used in those contexts where the Lua Nginx Module cosocket API is unavailable.
  • docs: documented that storing the object instance into Lua module-level variables will result in failures for concurrent requests.
• upgraded Srcache Nginx Module to 0.16.
  • bugfix: srcache_fetch would use truncated responses from Memc Nginx Module or other upstream modules. this usually happened when the upstream read timer was expired or the upstream prematurely closed the connection. this fix also requires the nonbuffered-upsteram-truncation patch to cancel a limitation in the Nginx core. thanks Bryan Alger for reporting the issue.
  • bugfix: the main request response was not discarded by srcache_store when there was an error in the last minute (like a read-timeout error or premature connection close happens when ngx_http_upstream reads the upstream response body). this fix also requires the nonbuffered-upstream-truncation patch for the Nginx core to cancel a limitation in ngx_http_upstream.
  • bugfix: the main request might prematurely terminate if the srcache_store subrequest was finalized with error codes.
• upgraded Redis2 Nginx Module to 0.09.
  • bugfix: directives redis2_query, redis2_literal_raw_query, and redis2_raw_queries could not be inherited automatically by the location if blocks, resulting in the "no redis2 query specified or the query is empty" error. thanks Tomasz Prus for the patch.
• feature: updated the dtrace patch to add new static probe create-pool-done.
• feature: updated the dtrace patch to include new tapset functions ngx_indent, ngx_http_subreq_depth, and ngx_http_req_parent.
• bugfix: added the nonbuffered-upstream-truncation patch for the Nginx core to make ngx_http_upstream provide a way in the context of a subrequest to signal the parent of errors when upstream data truncation happens. thanks Bryan Alger for reporting this issue. (This is a temporary solution and I'll work on a new patch as per Maxim Dounin's suggestions.)
• bugfix: applied the channel-uninit-params patch for the Nginx core to fix Valgrind/Memcheck warnings about unitialized bytes in the parameters of sendmsg.
• feature: updated the allow_request_body_updating patch to define the HAVE_ALLOW_REQUEST_BODY_UPDATING_PATCH macro.

Mainline Version 1.2.3.1 - 22 August 2012

• upgraded the Nginx core to 1.2.3.
  • see http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.2 for changes.
• upgraded Lua Nginx Module to 0.6.2.
  • feature: (re)implemented the standard Lua coroutine API, which means that the user is now free to create and run their own coroutines within the boilerplate coroutine created automatically by Lua Nginx Module. thanks chaoslawful and jinglong for the design and implementation.
  • feature: added new dtrace static probes for the user coroutine mechanism: http-lua-coroutine-create and http-lua-coroutine-resume.
  • feature: added new dtrace static probes for the cosocket mechanism: http-lua-socket-tcp-send-start, http-lua-socket-tcp-receive-done, and http-lua-socket-tcp-setkeepalive-buf-unread.
  • bugfix: the send timeout timer for downstream output was not deleted in time in our write event handler, which might result in request abortion for long running requests. thanks Demiao Lin (ldmiao) for reporting this issue.
  • bugfix: tcpsock:send() might send garbage if it was not the first call: we did not properly initialize the chain writer ctx for every send() call. thanks Zhu Dejiang for reporting this issue.
  • bugfix: the ngx_http_lua_probe.h header file was not listed in the NGX_ADDON_DEPS list in the config file.
  • optimize: removed unnecessary code that was for the old coroutine abortion mechanism based on Lua exceptions. we no longer need that at all because we have switched to using coroutine yield to abort the current coroutine for ngx.exec, ngx.exit, ngx.redirect, and ngx.req.set_uri(uri, true).
• upgraded Lua Resty DNS Library to 0.06.
  • feature: added support for MX type resource records.
  • feature: unrecognized types of resource records will return their raw resource data (RDATA) as the rdata Lua table field.
• upgraded Lua Resty Redis Library to 0.13.
  • feature: added new method read_reply, mostly for using the Redis Pub/Sub API.
  • feature: added new class method add_commands to allow adding support for new Redis commands on-the-fly. thanks Praveen Saxena for requesting this feature.
  • docs: added a code sample for using the Redis transactions.
• upgraded Drizzle Nginx Module to 0.1.4.
  • bugfix: the open socket #N left in connection alerts would appear in the nginx error log file when the MySQL/Drizzle connection pool was used and the worker process was shutting down.
• upgraded Postgres Nginx Module to 1.0rc2.
  • bugfix: the open socket #N left in connection alerts would appear in the nginx error log file when the PostgreSQL connection pool was used and the worker process was shutting down.
  • bugfix: removed the useless http-cache related code from ngx_postgres_upstream_finalize_request to suppress clang warnings.
• added more dtrace static probes to the Nginx core: timer-add, timer-del, and timer-expire.
• added more systemtap tapset functions: ngx_chain_next, ngx_chain_writer_ctx_out, ngx_chain_dump, and ngx_iovec_dump.

See ChangeLog 1.2.1 for change log for OpenResty 1.2.1.x.