Nginx 1.0.12 for Windows

By Kevin Worthington Published: 6 February 2012

Nginx for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Nginx 1.0.12 for Windows are now available for free download. Each were built on Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit for the respective versions of Nginx) using Cygwin.

These versions are from the upstream stable branch. Nginx for Windows packages are provided as is, without any guarantees or warranties. Use at your own risk. Please read on below for more details.

These builds are built in support of legacy users who still use Cygwin based builds. Official native Windows builds are available and supported at nginx.org.

This particular version has several bugfixes and features.

Here is the changelog:

Changes with nginx 1.0.12 06 Feb 2012

) Feature: the “TLSv1.1” and “TLSv1.2” parameters of the “ssl_protocols” directive.
) Feature: the “if” SSI command supports captures in regular expressions.
) Bugfix: the “if” SSI command did not work inside the “block” command.
) Bugfix: in AIO error handling on FreeBSD.
) Bugfix: in the OpenSSL library initialization.
) Bugfix: the “worker_cpu_affinity” directive might not work.
) Bugfix: the “limit_conn_log_level” and “limit_req_log_level” directives might not work.
) Bugfix: the “read_ahead” directive might not work combined with “try_files” and “open_file_cache”.
) Bugfix: the “proxy_cache_use_stale” directive with “error” parameter did not return answer from cache if there were no live upstreams.
) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if small time was used in the “inactive” parameter of the “proxy_cache_path” directive.
) Bugfix: responses from cache might hang.
) Bugfix: in error handling while connecting to a backend. Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
) Bugfix: in the “epoll” event method. Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control variable might contain a wrong value if the “expires” directive was used. Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
) Bugfix: the “limit_rate” directive did not allow to use full throughput, even if limit value was very high.
) Bugfix: the “sendfile_max_chunk” directive did not work, if the “limit_rate” directive was used.
) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in 1.0.11.
) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_scgi_module.
) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.

Download Nginx 1.0.12 for Windows (32-bit & 64-bit versions) here.

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