Nginx 1.9.4 for Windows

Nginx 1.9.4 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 2015-08-18, the mainline version of Nginx 1.9.4 was released at nginx.org. The upstream changelog is as follows:

Changes with nginx 1.9.4 — 18 Aug 2015

• ) Change: the “proxy_downstream_buffer” and “proxy_upstream_buffer” directives of the stream module are replaced with the “proxy_buffer_size” directive.
• ) Feature: the “tcp_nodelay” directive in the stream module.
• ) Feature: multiple “sub_filter” directives can be used simultaneously.
• ) Feature: variables support in the search string of the “sub_filter” directive.
• ) Workaround: configuration testing might fail under Linux OpenVZ. Thanks to Gena Makhomed.
• ) Bugfix: old worker processes might hog CPU after reconfiguration with a large number of worker_connections.
• ) 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: in hash table initialization error handling.
• ) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with Visual Studio 2015.

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

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