Another release has taken place in the current mainline branch of the nginx web server. The 1.17 branch is under active development, while the current stable branch (1.16) is only bug fixes.
- Edit: The minimum supported version of zlib is 1.2.0.4. Thanks to Ilya Leoshkevich.
- Edit: $r->internal_redirect() method embedded pearl now expects an encoded URI.
- Addendum: you can now navigate to a named location using the $r->internal_redirect() method of the built-in perl.
- Bugfix: in error handling in embedded perl.
- Bugfix: a segmentation fault could occur at startup or during reconfiguration if the configuration used the value hash bucket size more than 64 kilobytes.
- Bugfix: When using the select, poll and /dev/poll connection processing methods, nginx could load the CPU during unbuffered proxying and when proxying WebSocket connections.
- Fix: in ngx_http_xslt_filter_module.
- Fix: in ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
Source: linux.org.ru