Changes with Unit 1.32.1 26 Mar 2024
*) Bugfix: NJS variables in templates may have incorrect values due to
improper caching.
*) Bugfix: Wasm application process hangs after receiving restart signal
from the control.
Changes with Unit 1.32.0 27 Feb 2024
*) Feature: WebAssembly Components using WASI interfaces defined in
wasi:http/proxy@0.2.0.
*) Feature: conditional access logging.
*) Feature: NJS variables access.
*) Feature: $request_id variable contains a string that is formed using
random data and can be used as a unique request identifier.
*) Feature: options to set control socket permissions.
*) Feature: Ruby arrays in response headers, improving compatibility
with Rack v3.0.
*) Feature: Python bytearray response bodies for ASGI applications.
*) Bugfix: router could crash while sending large files. Thanks to
rustedsword.
*) Bugfix: serving static files from a network filesystem could lead to
error.
*) Bugfix: "uidmap" and "gidmap" isolation options validation.
*) Bugfix: abstract UNIX socket name could be corrupted during
configuration validation. Thanks to Alejandro Colomar.
*) Bugfix: HTTP header field value encoding could be misinterpreted in
Python module.
*) Bugfix: Node.js http.createServer() accepts and ignores the "options"
argument, improving compatibility with strapi applications, among
others.
*) Bugfix: ServerRequest.flushHeaders() implemented in Node.js module to
make it compatible with Next.js.
*) Bugfix: ServerRequest.httpVersion variable format in Node.js module.
*) Bugfix: Node.js module handles standard library imports prefixed with
"node:", making it possible to run newer Nuxt applications, among
others.
*) Bugfix: Node.js tarball location changed to avoid build/install
errors.
*) Bugfix: Go module sets environment variables necessary for building
on macOS/arm64 systems.
Changes with Unit 1.31.1 19 Oct 2023
*) Feature: allow to set the HTTP response status in Wasm module.
*) Feature: allow uploads larger than 4GiB in Wasm module.
*) Bugfix: application process could crash while rewriting URLs with
query strings.
*) Bugfix: requests larger than about 64MiB could cause error in Wasm
module.
*) Bugfix: when using many headers in Java module some of them could be
corrupted due to memory realocation issue.
*) Bugfix: ServerRequest.destroy() implemented in Node.js module to make
it compatible with some frameworks that might use it.
*) Bugfix: chunk argument of ServerResponse.write() can now be a
Uint8Array to improve compatibility with Node.js 15.0.0 and above.
*) Bugfix: Node.JS unit-http NPM module now has appropriate default
paths for macOS/arm64 systems.
*) Bugfix: build on musl libc with clang.
Changes with Unit 1.31.0 31 Aug 2023
*) Change: if building with njs, version 0.8.0 or later is now required.
*) Feature: technology preview of WebAssembly application module.
*) Feature: "response_headers" option to manage headers in the action
and fallback.
*) Feature: HTTP response header variables.
*) Feature: ASGI lifespan state support. Thanks to synodriver.
*) Bugfix: ensure that $uri variable is not cached.
*) Bugfix: deprecated options were unavailable.
*) Bugfix: ASGI applications inaccessible over IPv6.
Changes with Unit 1.30.0 10 May 2023
*) Change: remove Unix domain listen sockets upon reconfiguration.
*) Feature: basic URI rewrite support.
*) Feature: NJS loadable modules support.
*) Feature: per-application logging.
*) Feature: conditional logging of route selection.
*) Feature: support the keys API on the request objects in NJS.
*) Feature: default values for 'make install' pathnames such as prefix;
this allows to './configure && make && sudo make install'.
*) Feature: "server_version" setting to omit the version token from
"Server" header field.
*) Bugfix: request header field values could be corrupted in some cases;
the bug had appeared in 1.29.0.
*) Bugfix: PHP error handling (added missing 403 and 404 errors).
*) Bugfix: Perl applications crash on second responder call.
Changes with Unit 1.29.1 28 Feb 2023
*) Bugfix: stop creating world-writeable directories.
*) Bugfix: memory leak related to NJS.
*) Bugfix: path parsing in PHP applications.
*) Bugfix: enabled UTF-8 for Python config by default to avoid
applications failing in some cases.
*) Bugfix: using asyncio.get_running_loop() instead of
asyncio.get_event_loop() when it's available to prevent errors in
some Python ASGI applications.
*) Bugfix: applications that make use of various low level APIs such as
pthreads could fail to work correctly.
*) Bugfix: websocket endianness detection for obscure operating systems.
Changes with Unit 1.29.0 15 Dec 2022
*) Change: removed $uri auto-append for "share" when loading
configuration.
*) Change: prefer system crypto policy instead of hardcoding a default.
*) Feature: njs support with the basic syntax of JS template literals.
*) Feature: support per-application cgroups on Linux.
*) Feature: the $request_time variable contains the request processing
time.
*) Feature: "prefix" option in Python applications to set WSGI
"SCRIPT_NAME" and ASGI root-path variables.
*) Feature: compatibility with Python 3.11.
*) Feature: compatibility with OpenSSL 3.
*) Feature: compatibility with PHP 8.2.
*) Feature: compatibility with Node.js 19.0.
*) Feature: Ruby Rack v3 support.
*) Bugfix: fix error in connection statistics when using proxy.
*) Bugfix: fix HTTP cookie parsing when the value contains an equals
sign.
*) Bugfix: PHP directory URLs without a trailing '/' would give a 503
error (fixed with a 301 re-direct).
*) Bugfix: missing error checks in the C API.
*) Bugfix: report the regex status in configure summary.
Changes with Unit 1.28.0 13 Sep 2022
*) Change: increased the applications' startup timeout.
*) Change: disallowed abstract Unix domain socket syntax in non-Linux
systems.
*) Feature: basic statistics API.
*) Feature: customizable access log format.
*) Feature: more HTTP variables support.
*) Feature: forwarded header to replace client address and protocol.
*) Feature: ability to get dynamic variables.
*) Feature: support for abstract Unix sockets.
*) Feature: support for Unix sockets in address matching.
*) Feature: the $dollar variable translates to a literal "$" during
variable substitution.
*) Bugfix: router process could crash if index file didn't contain an
extension.
*) Bugfix: force SCRIPT_NAME in Ruby to always be an empty string.
*) Bugfix: when isolated PID numbers reach the prototype process host
PID, the prototype crashed.
*) Bugfix: the Ruby application process could crash on SIGTERM.
*) Bugfix: the Ruby application process could crash on SIGINT.
*) Bugfix: mutex leak in the C API.
Changes with Unit 1.27.0 02 Jun 2022
*) Feature: ability to specify a custom index file name when serving
static files.
*) Feature: variables support in the "location" option of the "return"
action.
*) Feature: support empty strings in the "location" option of the
"return" action.
*) Feature: added a new variable, $request_uri, that includes both the
path and the query parts as per RFC 3986, sections 3-4.
*) Feature: Ruby Rack environment parameter "SCRIPT_NAME" support.
*) Feature: compatibility with GCC 12.
*) Bugfix: Ruby Sinatra applications don't work without custom logging.
*) Bugfix: the controller process could crash when a chain of more than
four certificates was uploaded.
*) Bugfix: some Perl applications failed to process the request body,
notably with Plack.
*) Bugfix: some Spring Boot applications failed to start, notably with
Grails.
*) Bugfix: incorrect Python protocol auto detection (ASGI or WSGI) for
native callable object, notably with Falcon.
*) Bugfix: ECMAScript modules did not work with the recent Node.js
versions.
Changes with Unit 1.26.1 02 Dec 2021
*) Bugfix: occasionally, the Unit daemon was unable to fully terminate;
the bug had appeared in 1.26.0.
*) Bugfix: a prototype process could crash on an application process
exit; the bug had appeared in 1.26.0.
*) Bugfix: the router process crashed on reconfiguration if "access_log"
was configured without listeners.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in the PHP module if chdir() or
fastcgi_finish_request() was called in the OPcache preloading script.
*) Bugfix: fatal errors on DragonFly BSD; the bug had appeared in
1.26.0.
Changes with Unit 1.26.0 18 Nov 2021
*) Change: the "share" option now specifies the entire path to the files
it serves, rather than a document root directory to be prepended to
the request URI.
*) Feature: automatic adjustment of existing configurations to the new
"share" behavior when updating from previous versions.
*) Feature: variables support in the "share" option.
*) Feature: multiple paths in the "share" option.
*) Feature: variables support in the "chroot" option.
*) Feature: PHP opcache is shared between application processes.
*) Feature: request routing by the query string.
*) Bugfix: the router and app processes could crash when the requests
limit was reached by asynchronous or multithreaded apps.
*) Bugfix: established WebSocket connections could stop reading frames
from the client after the corresponding listener had been
reconfigured.
*) Bugfix: fixed building with glibc 2.34, notably Fedora 35.
Changes with Unit 1.25.0 19 Aug 2021
*) Feature: client IP address replacement from a specified HTTP header
field.
*) Feature: TLS sessions cache.
*) Feature: TLS session tickets.
*) Feature: application restart control.
*) Feature: process and thread lifecycle hooks in Ruby.
*) Bugfix: the router process could crash on TLS connection open when
multiple listeners with TLS certificates were configured; the bug had
appeared in 1.23.0.
*) Bugfix: TLS connections were rejected for configurations with
multiple certificate bundles in a listener if the client did not use
SNI.
*) Bugfix: the router process could crash with frequent multithreaded
application reconfiguration.
*) Bugfix: compatibility issues with some Python ASGI apps, notably
based on the Starlette framework.
*) Bugfix: a descriptor and memory leak occurred in the router process
when an app process stopped or crashed.
*) Bugfix: the controller or router process could crash if the
configuration contained a full-form IPv6 in a listener address.
*) Bugfix: the router process crashed when a request was passed to an
empty "routes" or "upstreams" using a variable "pass" option.
*) Bugfix: the router process crashed while matching a request to an
empty array of source or destination address patterns.
Changes with Unit 1.24.0 27 May 2021
*) Change: PHP added to the default MIME type list.
*) Feature: arbitrary configuration of TLS connections via OpenSSL
commands.
*) Feature: the ability to limit static file serving by MIME types.
*) Feature: support for chrooting, rejecting symlinks, and rejecting
mount point traversal on a per-request basis when serving static
files.
*) Feature: a loader for automatically overriding the "http" and
"websocket" modules in Node.js.
*) Feature: multiple "targets" in Python applications.
*) Feature: compatibility with Ruby 3.0.
*) Bugfix: the router process could crash while closing a TLS
connection.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might have occurred in the PHP module if
fastcgi_finish_request() was used with the "auto_globals_jit" option
enabled.
Changes with Unit 1.23.0 25 Mar 2021
*) Feature: support for multiple certificate bundles on a listener via
the Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension.
*) Feature: "--mandir" ./configure option to specify the directory for
man page installation.
*) Bugfix: the router process could crash on premature TLS connection
close; the bug had appeared in 1.17.0.
*) Bugfix: a connection leak occurred on premature TLS connection close;
the bug had appeared in 1.6.
*) Bugfix: a descriptor and memory leak occurred in the router process
when processing small WebSocket frames from a client; the bug had
appeared in 1.19.0.
*) Bugfix: a descriptor leak occurred in the router process when
removing or reconfiguring an application; the bug had appeared in
1.19.0.
*) Bugfix: persistent storage of certificates might've not worked with
some filesystems in Linux, and all uploaded certificate bundles were
forgotten after restart.
*) Bugfix: the controller process could crash while requesting
information about a certificate with a non-DNS SAN entry.
*) Bugfix: the controller process could crash on manipulations with a
certificate containing a SAN and no standard name attributes in
subject or issuer.
*) Bugfix: the Ruby module didn't respect the user locale for defaults
in the Encoding class.
*) Bugfix: the PHP 5 module failed to build with thread safety enabled;
the bug had appeared in 1.22.0.
Changes with Unit 1.22.0 04 Feb 2021
*) Feature: the ServerRequest and ServerResponse objects of Node.js
module are now compliant with Stream API.
*) Feature: support for specifying multiple directories in the "path"
option of Python apps.
*) Bugfix: a memory leak occurred in the router process when serving
files larger than 128K; the bug had appeared in 1.13.0.
*) Bugfix: apps could stop processing new requests under high load; the
bug had appeared in 1.19.0.
*) Bugfix: app processes could terminate unexpectedly under high load;
the bug had appeared in 1.19.0.
*) Bugfix: invalid HTTP responses were generated for some unusual status
codes.
*) Bugfix: the PHP_AUTH_USER, PHP_AUTH_PW, and PHP_AUTH_DIGEST server
variables were missing in the PHP module.
*) Bugfix: the router process could crash with multithreaded apps under
high load.
*) Bugfix: Ruby apps with multithreading configured could crash on start
under load.
*) Bugfix: mount points weren't unmounted when the "mount" namespace
isolation was used; the bug had appeared in 1.21.0.
*) Bugfix: the router process could crash while removing or
reconfiguring an app that used WebSocket.
*) Bugfix: a memory leak occurring in the router process when removing
or reconfiguring an application; the bug had appeared in 1.19.0.
Changes with Unit 1.21.0 19 Nov 2020
*) Change: procfs is mounted by default for all languages when "rootfs"
isolation is used.
*) Change: any characters valid according to RFC 7230 are now allowed in
HTTP header field names.
*) Change: HTTP header fields with underscores ("_") are now discarded
from requests by default.
*) Feature: optional multithreaded request processing for Java, Python,
Perl, and Ruby apps.
*) Feature: regular expressions in route matching patterns.
*) Feature: compatibility with Python 3.9.
*) Feature: the Python module now supports ASGI 2.0 legacy applications.
*) Feature: the "protocol" option in Python applications aids choice
between ASGI and WSGI.
*) Feature: the fastcgi_finish_request() PHP function that finalizes
request processing and continues code execution without holding onto
the client connection.
*) Feature: the "discard_unsafe_fields" HTTP option that enables
discarding request header fields with irregular (but still valid)
characters in the field name.
*) Feature: the "procfs" and "tmpfs" automount isolation options to
disable automatic mounting of eponymous filesystems.
*) Bugfix: the router process could crash when running Go applications
under high load; the bug had appeared in 1.19.0.
*) Bugfix: some language dependencies could remain mounted after using
"rootfs" isolation.
*) Bugfix: various compatibility issues in Java applications.
*) Bugfix: the Java module built with the musl C library couldn't run
applications that use "rootfs" isolation.
Changes with Unit 1.20.0 08 Oct 2020
*) Change: the PHP module is now initialized before chrooting; this
enables loading all extensions from the host system.
*) Change: AVIF and APNG image formats added to the default MIME type
list.
*) Change: functional tests migrated to the pytest framework.
*) Feature: the Python module now fully supports applications that use
the ASGI 3.0 server interface.
*) Feature: the Python module now has a built-in WebSocket server
implementation for applications, compatible with the HTTP & WebSocket
ASGI Message Format 2.1 specification.
*) Feature: automatic mounting of an isolated "/tmp" file system into
chrooted application environments.
*) Feature: the $host variable contains a normalized "Host" request
value.
*) Feature: the "callable" option sets Python application callable
names.
*) Feature: compatibility with PHP 8 RC 1. Thanks to Remi Collet.
*) Feature: the "automount" option in the "isolation" object allows to
turn off the automatic mounting of language module dependencies.
*) Bugfix: "pass"-ing requests to upstreams from a route was broken; the
bug had appeared in 1.19.0. Thanks to 洪志道 (Hong Zhi Dao) for
discovering and fixing it.
*) Bugfix: the router process could crash during reconfiguration.
*) Bugfix: a memory leak occurring in the router process; the bug had
appeared in 1.18.0.
*) Bugfix: the "!" (non-empty) pattern was matched incorrectly; the bug
had appeared in 1.19.0.
*) Bugfix: fixed building on platforms without sendfile() support,
notably NetBSD; the bug had appeared in 1.16.0.
Changes with Unit 1.19.0 13 Aug 2020
*) Feature: reworked IPC between the router process and the applications
to lower latencies, increase performance, and improve scalability.
*) Feature: support for an arbitrary number of wildcards in route
matching patterns.
*) Feature: chunked transfer encoding in proxy responses.
*) Feature: basic variables support in the "pass" option.
*) Feature: compatibility with PHP 8 Beta 1. Thanks to Remi Collet.
*) Bugfix: the router process could crash while passing requests to an
application under high load.
*) Bugfix: a number of language modules failed to build on some systems;
the bug had appeared in 1.18.0.
*) Bugfix: time in error log messages from PHP applications could lag.
*) Bugfix: reconfiguration requests could hang if an application had
failed to start; the bug had appeared in 1.18.0.
*) Bugfix: memory leak during reconfiguration.
*) Bugfix: the daemon didn't start without language modules; the bug had
appeared in 1.18.0.
*) Bugfix: the router process could crash at exit.
*) Bugfix: Node.js applications could crash at exit.
*) Bugfix: the Ruby module could be linked against a wrong library
version.
Changes with Unit 1.18.0 28 May 2020
*) Feature: the "rootfs" isolation option for changing root filesystem
for an application.
*) Feature: multiple "targets" in PHP applications.
*) Feature: support for percent-encoding in the "uri" and "arguments"
matching options and in the "pass" option.
Changes with Unit 1.17.0 16 Apr 2020
*) Feature: a "return" action with optional "location" for immediate
responses and external redirection.
*) Feature: fractional weights support for upstream servers.
*) Bugfix: accidental 502 "Bad Gateway" errors might have occurred in
applications under high load.
*) Bugfix: memory leak in the router; the bug had appeared in 1.13.0.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault might have occurred in the router process
when reaching open connections limit.
*) Bugfix: "close() failed (9: Bad file descriptor)" alerts might have
appeared in the log while processing large request bodies; the bug
had appeared in 1.16.0.
*) Bugfix: existing application processes didn't reopen the log file.
*) Bugfix: incompatibility with some Node.js applications.
*) Bugfix: broken build on DragonFly BSD; the bug had appeared in
1.16.0.
Changes with Unit 1.16.0 12 Mar 2020
*) Feature: basic load-balancing support with round-robin.
*) Feature: a "fallback" option that performs an alternative action if a
request can't be served from the "share" directory.
*) Feature: reduced memory consumption by dumping large request bodies
to disk.
*) Feature: stripping UTF-8 BOM and JavaScript-style comments from
uploaded JSON.
*) Bugfix: negative address matching in router might work improperly in
combination with non-negative patterns.
*) Bugfix: Java Spring applications failed to run; the bug had appeared
in 1.10.0.
*) Bugfix: PHP 7.4 was broken if it was built with thread safety
enabled.
*) Bugfix: compatibility issues with some Python applications.
Changes with Unit 1.15.0 06 Feb 2020
*) Change: extensions of dynamically requested PHP scripts were
restricted to ".php".
*) Feature: compatibility with Ruby 2.7.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault might have occurred in the router process
with multiple application processes under load; the bug had appeared
in 1.14.0.
*) Bugfix: receiving request body over TLS connection might have
stalled.
Changes with Unit 1.14.0 26 Dec 2019
*) Change: the Go package import name changed to "unit.nginx.org/go".
*) Change: Go package now links to libunit instead of including library
sources.
*) Feature: ability to change user and group for isolated applications
when Unit daemon runs as an unprivileged user.
*) Feature: request routing by source and destination addresses and
ports.
*) Bugfix: memory bloat on large responses.
Changes with Unit 1.13.0 14 Nov 2019
*) Feature: basic support for HTTP reverse proxying.
*) Feature: compatibility with Python 3.8.
*) Bugfix: memory leak in Python application processes when the close
handler was used.
*) Bugfix: threads in Python applications might not work correctly.
*) Bugfix: Ruby on Rails applications might not work on Ruby 2.6.
*) Bugfix: backtraces for uncaught exceptions in Python 3 might be
logged with significant delays.
*) Bugfix: explicit setting a namespaces isolation option to false might
have enabled it.
Changes with Unit 1.12.0 03 Oct 2019
*) Feature: compatibility with PHP 7.4.
*) Bugfix: descriptors leak on process creation; the bug had appeared in
1.11.0.
*) Bugfix: TLS connection might be closed prematurely while sending
response.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault might have occurred if an irregular file
was requested.
Changes with Unit 1.11.0 19 Sep 2019
*) Feature: basic support for serving static files.
*) Feature: isolation of application processes with Linux namespaces.
*) Feature: built-in WebSocket server implementation for Java Servlet
Containers.
*) Feature: direct addressing of API configuration options containing
slashes "/" using URI encoding (%2F).
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault might have occurred in Go applications
under high load.
*) Bugfix: WebSocket support was broken if Unit was built with some
linkers other than GNU ld (e.g. gold or LLD).
Changes with Unit 1.10.0 22 Aug 2019
*) Change: matching of cookies in routes made case sensitive.
*) Change: decreased log level of common errors when clients close
connections.
*) Change: removed the Perl module's "--include=" ./configure option.
*) Feature: built-in WebSocket server implementation for Node.js module.
*) Feature: splitting PATH_INFO from request URI in PHP module.
*) Feature: request routing by scheme (HTTP or HTTPS).
*) Feature: support for multipart requests body in Java module.
*) Feature: improved API compatibility with Node.js 11.10 or later.
*) Bugfix: reconfiguration failed if "listeners" or "applications"
objects were missing.
*) Bugfix: applying a large configuration might have failed.
Changes with Unit 1.9.0 30 May 2019
*) Feature: request routing by arguments, headers, and cookies.
*) Feature: route matching patterns allow a wildcard in the middle.
*) Feature: POST operation for appending elements to arrays in
configuration.
*) Feature: support for changing credentials using CAP_SETUID and
CAP_SETGID capabilities on Linux without running main process as
privileged user.
*) Bugfix: memory leak in the router process might have happened when a
client prematurely closed the connection.
*) Bugfix: applying a large configuration might have failed.
*) Bugfix: PUT and DELETE operations on array elements in configuration
did not work.
*) Bugfix: request schema in applications did not reflect TLS
connections.
*) Bugfix: restored compatibility with Node.js applications that use
ServerResponse._implicitHeader() function; the bug had appeared in
1.7.
*) Bugfix: various compatibility issues with Node.js applications.
Changes with Unit 1.8.0 01 Mar 2019
*) Change: now three numbers are always used for versioning: major,
minor, and patch versions.
*) Change: now QUERY_STRING is always defined even if the request does
not include the query component.
*) Feature: basic internal request routing by Host, URI, and method.
*) Feature: experimental support for Java Servlet Containers.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault might have occurred in the router process.
*) Bugfix: various potential memory leaks.
*) Bugfix: TLS connections might have stalled.
*) Bugfix: some Perl applications might have failed to send the response
body.
*) Bugfix: some compilers with specific flags might have produced
non-functioning builds; the bug had appeared in 1.5.
*) Bugfix: Node.js package had wrong version number when installed from
sources.
Changes with Unit 1.7.1 07 Feb 2019
*) Security: a heap memory buffer overflow might have been caused in the
router process by a specially crafted request, potentially resulting
in a segmentation fault or other unspecified behavior
(CVE-2019-7401).
*) Bugfix: install of Go module failed without prior building of Unit
daemon; the bug had appeared in 1.7.
Changes with Unit 1.7 20 Dec 2018
*) Change: now rpath is set in Ruby module only if the library was not
found in default search paths; this allows to meet packaging
restrictions on some systems.
*) Bugfix: "disable_functions" and "disable_classes" PHP options set via
Control API did not work.
*) Bugfix: Promises on request data in Node.js were not triggered.
*) Bugfix: various compatibility issues with Node.js applications.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in Node.js module if
application tried to read request body after request.end() was
called.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in Node.js module if
application attempted to send header twice.
*) Bugfix: names of response header fields in Node.js module were
erroneously treated as case-sensitive.
*) Bugfix: uncatched exceptions in Node.js were not logged.
*) Bugfix: global install of Node.js module from sources was broken on
some systems; the bug had appeared in 1.6.
*) Bugfix: traceback for exceptions during initialization of Python
applications might not be logged.
*) Bugfix: PHP module build failed if PHP interpreter was built with
thread safety enabled.
Changes with Unit 1.6 15 Nov 2018
*) Change: "make install" now installs Node.js module as well if it was
configured.
*) Feature: "--local" ./configure option to install Node.js module
locally.
*) Bugfix: Node.js module might have crashed due to broken reference
counting.
*) Bugfix: asynchronous operations in Node.js might not have worked.
*) Bugfix: various compatibility issues with Node.js applications.
*) Bugfix: "freed pointer is out of pool" alerts might have appeared in
log.
*) Bugfix: module discovery did not work on 64-bit big-endian systems
like IBM/S390x.
Changes with Unit 1.5 25 Oct 2018
*) Change: the "type" of application object for Go was changed to
"external".
*) Feature: initial version of Node.js package with basic HTTP
request-response support.
*) Feature: compatibility with LibreSSL.
*) Feature: --libdir and --incdir ./configure options to install libunit
headers and static library.
*) Bugfix: connection might be closed prematurely while sending
response; the bug had appeared in 1.3.
*) Bugfix: application processes might have stopped handling requests,
producing "last message send failed: Resource temporarily
unavailable" alerts in log; the bug had appeared in 1.4.
*) Bugfix: Go applications did not work when Unit was built with musl C
library.
Changes with Unit 1.4 20 Sep 2018
*) Change: the control API maps the configuration object only at
"/config/".
*) Feature: TLS support for client connections.
*) Feature: TLS certificates storage control API.
*) Feature: Unit library (libunit) to streamline language module
integration.
*) Feature: "408 Request Timeout" responses while closing HTTP
keep-alive connections.
*) Feature: improvements in OpenBSD support. Thanks to David Carlier.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might have occurred after
reconfiguration.
*) Bugfix: building on systems with non-default locale might be broken.
*) Bugfix: "header_read_timeout" might not work properly.
*) Bugfix: header fields values with non-ASCII bytes might be handled
incorrectly in Python 3 module.
Changes with Unit 1.3 13 Jul 2018
*) Change: UTF-8 characters are now allowed in request header field
values.
*) Feature: configuration of the request body size limit.
*) Feature: configuration of various HTTP connection timeouts.
*) Feature: Ruby module now automatically uses Bundler where possible.
*) Feature: http.Flusher interface in Go module.
*) Bugfix: various issues in HTTP connection errors handling.
*) Bugfix: requests with body data might be handled incorrectly in PHP
module.
*) Bugfix: individual PHP configuration options specified via control
API were reset to previous values after the first request in
application process.
Changes with Unit 1.2 07 Jun 2018
*) Feature: configuration of environment variables for application
processes.
*) Feature: customization of php.ini path.
*) Feature: setting of individual PHP configuration options.
*) Feature: configuration of execution arguments for Go applications.
*) Bugfix: keep-alive connections might hang after reconfiguration.
Changes with Unit 1.1 26 Apr 2018
*) Bugfix: Python applications that use the write() callable did not
work.
*) Bugfix: virtual environments created with Python 3.3 or above might
not have worked.
*) Bugfix: the request.Read() function in Go applications did not
produce EOF when the whole body was read.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might have occurred while access log
reopening.
*) Bugfix: in parsing of IPv6 control socket addresses.
*) Bugfix: loading of application modules was broken on OpenBSD.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might have occurred when there were two
modules with the same type and version; the bug had appeared in 1.0.
*) Bugfix: alerts "freed pointer points to non-freeble page" might have
appeared in log on 32-bit platforms.
Changes with Unit 1.0 12 Apr 2018
*) Change: configuration object moved into "/config/" path.
*) Feature: basic access logging.
*) Bugfix: 503 error occurred if Go application did not write response
header or body.
*) Bugfix: Ruby applications that use encoding conversions might not
have worked.
*) Bugfix: various stability issues.
Changes with Unit 0.7 22 Mar 2018
*) Feature: Ruby application module.
*) Bugfix: in discovering modules.
*) Bugfix: various race conditions on reconfiguration and during
shutting down.
*) Bugfix: tabs and trailing spaces were not allowed in header fields
values.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in Python module if
start_response() was called outside of WSGI callable.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might have occurred in PHP module if
there was an error while initialization.
Changes with Unit 0.6 09 Feb 2018
*) Bugfix: the main process died when the "type" application option
contained version; the bug had appeared in 0.5.
Changes with Unit 0.5 08 Feb 2018
*) Change: the "workers" application option was removed, the "processes"
application option should be used instead.
*) Feature: the "processes" application option with prefork and dynamic
process management support.
*) Feature: Perl application module.
*) Bugfix: in reading client request body; the bug had appeared in 0.3.
*) Bugfix: some Python applications might not have worked due to missing
"wsgi.errors" environ variable.
*) Bugfix: HTTP chunked responses might be encoded incorrectly on 32-bit
platforms.
*) Bugfix: infinite looping in HTTP parser.
*) Bugfix: segmentation fault in router.
Changes with Unit 0.4 15 Jan 2018
*) Feature: compatibility with DragonFly BSD.
*) Feature: "configure php --lib-static" option.
*) Bugfix: HTTP request body was not passed to application; the bug had
appeared in 0.3.
*) Bugfix: HTTP large header buffers allocation and deallocation fixed;
the bug had appeared in 0.3.
*) Bugfix: some PHP applications might not have worked with relative
"root" path.
Changes with Unit 0.3 28 Dec 2017
*) Change: the Go package name changed to "nginx/unit".
*) Change: in the "limits.timeout" application option: application start
time and time in queue now are not accounted.
*) Feature: the "limits.requests" application option.
*) Feature: application request processing latency optimization.
*) Feature: HTTP keep-alive connections support.
*) Feature: the "home" Python virtual environment configuration option.
*) Feature: Python atexit hook support.
*) Feature: various Go package improvements.
*) Bugfix: various crashes fixed.
Changes with Unit 0.2 19 Oct 2017
*) Feature: configuration persistence.
*) Feature: improved handling of configuration errors.
*) Feature: application "timeout" property.
*) Bugfix: POST request for PHP were handled incorrectly.
*) Bugfix: the router exited abnormally if all listeners had been
deleted.
*) Bugfix: the router crashed under load.
*) Bugfix: memory leak in the router.
Changes with Unit 0.1 06 Sep 2017
*) First public release.
