Nginx 1.7.11 for Windows

Nginx 1.7.11 for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit builds) are now available for free download. As always, packages are built from the upstream mainline 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 2015-03-24, the mainline version of Nginx 1.7.11 was released at nginx.org. The upstream changelog is as follows:

Changes with nginx 1.7.11 24 Mar 2015

• ) Change: the “sendfile” parameter of the “aio” directive is deprecated; now nginx automatically uses AIO to pre-load data for sendfile if both “aio” and “sendfile” directives are used.
• ) Feature: experimental thread pools support.
• ) Feature: the “proxy_request_buffering”, “fastcgi_request_buffering”, “scgi_request_buffering”, and “uwsgi_request_buffering” directives.
• ) Feature: request body filters experimental API.
• ) Feature: client SSL certificates support in mail proxy. Thanks to Sven Peter, Franck Levionnois, and Filipe Da Silva.
• ) Feature: startup speedup when using the “hash … consistent” directive in the upstream block. Thanks to Wai Keen Woon.
• ) Feature: debug logging into a cyclic memory buffer.
• ) Bugfix: in hash table handling. Thanks to Chris West.
• ) Bugfix: in the “proxy_cache_revalidate” directive.
• ) Bugfix: SSL connections might hang if deferred accept or the “proxy_protocol” parameter of the “listen” directive were used. Thanks to James Hamlin.
• ) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable might contain a wrong value if the “image_filter” directive was used.
• ) Bugfix: in integer overflow handling. Thanks to Régis Leroy.
• ) Bugfix: it was not possible to enable SSLv3 with LibreSSL.
• ) Bugfix: the “ignoring stale global SSL error … called a function you should not call” alerts appeared in logs when using LibreSSL.
• ) Bugfix: certificates specified by the “ssl_client_certificate” and “ssl_trusted_certificate” directives were inadvertently used to automatically construct certificate chains.

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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 1.7.11 for Windows (32-bit & 64-bit versions) here.

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