Another release has taken place in the current mainline branch of the nginx web server. Active development is underway in branch 1.17, while only bug fixes are being introduced into the current stable branch (1.16).
- Change: The minimum supported version of zlib is 1.2.0.4. Thanks to Ilya Leoshkevich.
- Change: The method $r->internal_redirect() of built-in Perl now expects an encoded URI.
- Addition: Now, using the method $r->internal_redirect() of built-in Perl allows transitioning to a named location.
- Fix: In error handling in built-in Perl.
- Fix: A segmentation fault could occur at startup or during reconfiguration if the configuration used the value hash bucket size greater than 64 kilobytes.
- Fix: When using connection handling methods select, poll, and /dev/poll, nginx could overload the CPU during non-buffered proxying and when proxying WebSocket connections.
- Fix: In the ngx_http_xslt_filter_module.
- Fix: In the ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
Source: linux.org.ru
