Nginx is a HTTP server, caching reverse proxy or load balancer, but also proxies POP3, IMAP and SMTP. It's optimized for concurrency and low resource usage. Yet supports virtual hosts, IPv6, SSL/TLS with SNI, HTTP/1.1bis, SPDY, URL rewriting, Websockets and FLV/MP4 streaming, FastCGI / SCGI / uWSGI, has an embedded Perl runtime and WebDAV support.
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1.7.407 Aug 2014 06:32
security:
nginx 1.6.1 stable 1.7.4 mainline have been released, with a fix for the STARTTLS vulnerability (CVE-2014-3556).
Pipelined commands were not discarded after STARTTLS
command in SMTP proxy.
URI escaping now uses uppercase hexadecimal digits.
Now nginx can be build with BoringSSL and LibreSSL.
Requests might have hanged if resolver was used and a DNS server returned a malformed response.
Bugfix in the ngx_http_spdy_module.
Bugfix: the uri variable might contain garbage when returning errors with code 400.
Bugfix in error handling in the "proxy_store" directive and the ngx_http_dav_module.
Bugfix for segmentation faults if logging of errors to
syslog was used.
The geoip_latitude, geoip_longitude, geoip_dma_code, and
geoip_area_code variables weren't working reliable.
Bugfix for memory allocation error handling.