Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released

#1

Post by conductor » Mon, Apr 23, 2012, 10:04 PM UTC

Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released
nginx.org

Re: Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released

#2

Post by AncientPC » Mon, Apr 23, 2012, 10:45 PM UTC

Changelog: http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.2

Differences between v1.1.19 and v1.2:

  Changes with nginx 1.2.0                                         23 Apr 2012

    *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
       "try_files" directive was used; the bug had appeared in 1.1.19.

    *) Bugfix: response might be truncated if there were more than IOV_MAX
       buffers used.

    *) Bugfix: in the "crop" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
       Thanks to Maxim Bublis.

Re: Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released

#3

Post by Jonanin » Mon, Apr 23, 2012, 10:46 PM UTC

I thought maybe the "1.2.0" version number meant some new features, but I checked the CHANGES file and it's just three bugfixes; they just have an odd version numbering scheme.

Re: Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released

#4

Post by mattparlane » Mon, Apr 23, 2012, 11:00 PM UTC

Jonanin wrote: post #3

I thought maybe the "1.2.0" version number meant some new features, but I checked the CHANGES file and it's just three bugfixes; they just have an odd version numbering scheme.

They use the (fairly common) scheme where odd-numbered point releases are development and even-numbered point releases are (declared) stable, so there is actually a lot in this. Check all the "Feature:" lines in the 1.1.x versions.

Re: Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released

#5

Post by moonboots » Mon, Apr 23, 2012, 11:37 PM UTC

In terms of diffs, nginx 1.2.0 adds only a few bugfixes to the 1.1.19 release. However, this release is significant in that it marks the 1.1.x dev branch to stable.

The main feature of the 1.1.x branch I've used is http/1.1 reverse proxying. Previously in 1.0, nginx spoke http/1.0 with reverse proxies. This upgrade allows nginx to make persistent connections with backend servers instead of creating new connections whenever it forward requests.

Re: Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released

#6

Post by patrickaljord » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 12:04 AM UTC

In case you're wondering like me, SPDY is planed for the next 1.3 version according to their trac milestone http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/milestone/1.3.0

Re: Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released

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Post by derefr » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 12:25 AM UTC

moonboots wrote: post #5

In terms of diffs, nginx 1.2.0 adds only a few bugfixes to the 1.1.19 release. However, this release is significant in that it marks the 1.1.x dev branch to stable. The main feature of the 1.1.x branch I've used is http/1.1 reverse proxying. Previously in 1.0, nginx spoke http/1.0 with reverse proxies. This upgrade allows nginx to make persistent connections with backend servers instead of creating new connections wh…

Interesting--does the above-mentioned feature mean that nginx can finally be put in front of a websocket server (e.g., socket.io)?

Re: Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released

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Post by AUmrysh » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 12:28 AM UTC

derefr wrote: post #7

moonboots wrote: post #5

In terms of diffs, nginx 1.2.0 adds only a few bugfixes to the 1.1.19 release. However, this release is significant in that it marks the 1.1.x dev branch to stable. The main feature of the 1.1.x branch I've used is http/1.1 reverse proxying. Previously in 1.0, nginx spoke http/1.0 with reverse proxies. This upgrade allows nginx to make persistent connections with backend servers instead of creating new connections wh…

Interesting--does the above-mentioned feature mean that nginx can finally be put in front of a websocket server (e.g., socket.io)?

I think it's capable of doing this, but I read that you have to disable the http proxy cache or something similar.

edit: that's for version 1.0.X though, not sure about 1.1

Re: Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released

#9

Post by cbsmith » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 12:45 AM UTC

Jonanin wrote: post #3

I thought maybe the "1.2.0" version number meant some new features, but I checked the CHANGES file and it's just three bugfixes; they just have an odd version numbering scheme.

Compared to the 1.0.x branch, there are a lot of new features.

Re: Nginx 1.2.0 (stable) released

#10

Post by pippy » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 1:24 AM UTC

derefr wrote: post #7

moonboots wrote: post #5

In terms of diffs, nginx 1.2.0 adds only a few bugfixes to the 1.1.19 release. However, this release is significant in that it marks the 1.1.x dev branch to stable. The main feature of the 1.1.x branch I've used is http/1.1 reverse proxying. Previously in 1.0, nginx spoke http/1.0 with reverse proxies. This upgrade allows nginx to make persistent connections with backend servers instead of creating new connections wh…

Interesting--does the above-mentioned feature mean that nginx can finally be put in front of a websocket server (e.g., socket.io)?

This is fantastic, I was just talking about this on HN a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=3865966&whence=thre...