Nginx 1.8.1 for Windows

Nginx 1.8.1 for Windows – 32-bit and 64-bit builds – are now available for free download. As always, packages are built from the upstream stable 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 2016-01-26, the stable version of Nginx 1.8.1 was released at nginx.org. The upstream changelog is as follows:

Changes with nginx 1.8.1 26 Jan 2016

• ) Security: invalid pointer dereference might occur during DNS server response processing if the “resolver” directive was used, allowing an attacker who is able to forge UDP packets from the DNS server to cause segmentation fault in a worker process (CVE-2016-0742).
• ) Security: use-after-free condition might occur during CNAME response processing if the “resolver” directive was used, allowing an attacker who is able to trigger name resolution to cause segmentation fault in a worker process, or might have potential other impact (CVE-2016-0746).
• ) Security: CNAME resolution was insufficiently limited if the “resolver” directive was used, allowing an attacker who is able to trigger arbitrary name resolution to cause excessive resource consumption in worker processes (CVE-2016-0747).
• ) Bugfix: the “proxy_protocol” parameter of the “listen” directive did not work if not specified in the first “listen” directive for a listen socket.
• ) Bugfix: nginx might fail to start on some old Linux variants; the bug had appeared in 1.7.11.
• ) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the “try_files” and “alias” directives were used inside a location given by a regular expression; the bug had appeared in 1.7.1.
• ) Bugfix: the “try_files” directive inside a nested location given by a regular expression worked incorrectly if the “alias” directive was used in the outer location.
• ) Bugfix: “header already sent” alerts might appear in logs when using cache; the bug had appeared in 1.7.5.
• ) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if different ssl_session_cache settings were used in different virtual servers.
• ) Bugfix: the “expires” directive might not work when using variables.
• ) Bugfix: if nginx was built with the ngx_http_spdy_module it was possible to use the SPDY protocol even if the “spdy” parameter of the “listen” directive was not specified.

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

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