Nginx 1.5.7 for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit builds) are now available for free download. As always, packages are built from the upstream development branch. Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a high performance web server, caching proxy and a Layer 7 load balancing solution. Millions of web sites on the Internet use and benefit from Nginx because of its extreme performance, scalability, reliability, flexibility, and security.
On 2013-11-19, the development version of Nginx 1.5.7 was released at nginx.org. The upstream changelog is as follows:
Changes with nginx 1.5.7 19 Nov 2013
- ) Security: a character following an unescaped space in a request line was handled incorrectly (CVE-2013-4547); the bug had appeared in 0.8.41. Thanks to Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team.
- ) Change: a logging level of auth_basic errors about no user/password provided has been lowered from “error” to “info”.
- ) Feature: the “proxy_cache_revalidate”, “fastcgi_cache_revalidate”, “scgi_cache_revalidate”, and “uwsgi_cache_revalidate” directives.
- ) Feature: the “ssl_session_ticket_key” directive. Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
- ) Bugfix: the directive “add_header Cache-Control ”” added a “Cache-Control” response header line with an empty value.
- ) Bugfix: the “satisfy any” directive might return 403 error instead of 401 if auth_request and auth_basic directives were used. Thanks to Jan Marc Hoffmann.
- ) Bugfix: the “accept_filter” and “deferred” parameters of the “listen” directive were ignored for listen sockets created during binary upgrade. Thanks to Piotr Sikora.
- ) Bugfix: some data received from a backend with unbufferred proxy might not be sent to a client immediately if “gzip” or “gunzip” directives were used. Thanks to Yichun Zhang.
- ) Bugfix: in error handling in ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module.
- ) Bugfix: responses might hang if the ngx_http_spdy_module was used with the “auth_request” directive.
- ) Bugfix: memory leak in nginx/Windows.
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Maxim Dounin
These Windows install files are provided to support legacy users who still use the Cygwin based builds. Before nginx.org starting providing native Windows packages, these were the only way to run Nginx on Windows. Now, official native Windows builds are available and supported at nginx.org. Please use those if you are new to Nginx on Windows. Once again, they are fully supported and available for download at nginx.org.
Download Nginx 1.5.7 for Windows (32-bit & 64-bit versions) here.
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