Nginx 1.9.0 for Windows

Nginx 1.9.0 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 2015-04-28, the mainline version of Nginx 1.9.0 was released at nginx.org. The upstream changelog is as follows:

Changes with nginx 1.9.0 28 Apr 2015

• ) Change: obsolete aio and rtsig event methods have been removed.
• ) Feature: the “zone” directive inside the “upstream” block.
• ) Feature: the stream module.
• ) Feature: byte ranges support in the ngx_http_memcached_module. Thanks to Martin Mlynář.
• ) Feature: shared memory can now be used on Windows versions with address space layout randomization. Thanks to Sergey Brester.
• ) Feature: the “error_log” directive can now be used on mail and server levels in mail proxy.
• ) Bugfix: the “proxy_protocol” parameter of the “listen” directive did not work if not specified in the first “listen” directive for a listen socket.

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

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