[ANN] ngx_openresty mainline version 1.4.3.1 released

["Yichun Zhang (agentzh)" <agentzh@...>]

Hello folks!

I am pleased to announce that the new mainline version of
ngx_openresty, 1.4.3.1, is now released:

    http://openresty.org/#Download

Special thanks go to all the contributors for making this happen!

Below is the complete change log for this release, as compared to the
last (mainline) release, 1.4.2.9:

 *   upgraded the Nginx core to 1.4.3.

     *   see the changes here: <http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.4>

 *   upgraded LuaNginxModule to 0.9.1.

     *   feature: added the new configuration directive
         "lua_use_default_type" for controlling whether to send out a
         default "Content-Type" response header (as defined by the
         default_type directive). default on. thanks aviramc for the
         patch.

     *   feature: now the raw request cosocket returned by
         ngx.req.socket(true) no longer requires the request body to
         be read already, which means that one can use this cosocket
         to read the raw request body data as well. thanks aviramc
         for the original patch.

     *   bugfix: when there were no existing "Cache-Control" response
         headers, "ngx.header.cache_control = nil" would
         (incorrectly) create a new "Cache-Control" header with an
         empty value. thanks jinglong for the patch.

     *   bugfix: the original letter-case of the header name was lost
         when creating the "Cache-Control" response header via the
         ngx.header.HEADER API.

     *   bugfix: ngx.req.set_header("Host", value) would overwrite
         the value of $host with bad values. thanks aviramc for the
         patch.

     *   bugfix: use of ngx.exit() to abort pending subrequests in
         other "light threads" might lead to segfault or request hang
         when HTTP 1.0 full buffering is in effect.

     *   bugfix: removing a request header might lead to memory
         corruptions. thanks Bjørnar Ness for the report.

     *   bugfix: reading ngx.status might get different values than
         $status. thanks Kevin Burke for the report.

     *   bugfix: downstream write events might interfere with
         upstream cosockets that are slow to write to. thanks Aviram
         Cohen for the report.

     *   bugfix: the bookkeeping state for already-freed user threads
         might be incorrectly used by newly-created threads that were
         completely different, which could lead to bad results.
         thanks Sam Lawrence for the report.

     *   bugfix: calling ngx.thread.wait() on a user thread object
         that is already waited (i.e., already dead) would hang
         forever. thanks Sam Lawrence for the report.

     *   bugfix: the alert "zero size buf" could be logged when
         assigning an empty Lua string ("") to "ngx.arg[1]" in
         body_filter_by_lua*.

     *   bugfix: subrequests initiated by ngx.location.capture* could
         trigger unnecessary response header sending actions in the
         subrequest because our capturing output header filter did
         not set "r->header_sent".

     *   bugfix: the Lua error message for the case that ngx.sleep()
         was used in log_by_lua* was not friendly. thanks Jiale Zhi
         for the report.

     *   bugfix: now ngx.req.socket(true) returns proper error when
         there is some other "light thread" reading the request body.

     *   bugfix: header_filter_by_lua*, body_filter_by_lua*, and
         ngx.location.capture* might not work properly with multiple
         "http {}" blocks in "nginx.conf". thanks flygoast for the
         report.

     *   optimize: made ngx.re.match and ngx.re.gmatch faster for
         LuaJIT 2.x when there is no submatch captures.

     *   optimize: pre-allocate space for the Lua tables in various
         places.

     *   doc: fixed the context for the lua_package_path and
         lua_package_cpath directives. thanks duhoobo for the report.

 *   upgraded HeadersMoreNginxModule to 0.23.

     *   bugfix: removing request headers via
         more_clear_input_headers might lead to memory corruptions.

     *   bugfix: more_set_input_headers might overwrite the value of
         the $host variable with bad values.

     *   bugfix: more_set_headers and more_clear_headers might not
         work when multiple "http {}" blocks were used in
         "nginx.conf".

     *   bugfix: eliminated use of C global variables during
         configuration phase because it might lead to issues when HUP
         reload failed.

 *   upgraded SrcacheNginxModule to 0.23.

     *   bugfix: this module might not work properly with multiple
         "http {}" blocks in "nginx.conf".

     *   bugfix: we might (incorrectly) return 500 in our output
         filters.

     *   bugfix: we did not set "r->header_sent" when we want to
         discard the header in our header filter.

 *   upgraded RdsJsonNginxModule to 0.12.

     *   bugfix: in case of multiple "http {}" blocks in
         "nginx.conf", our output filters might be disabled even when
         this module is configured properly.

     *   bugix: we did not check the "NULL" pointer returned by an
         Nginx array element allocation.

 *   upgraded RdsCsvNginxModule to 0.05.

     *   optimize: we now only register our output filters when this
         module is indeed used (the only exception is when multiple
         "http {}" blocks are used).

 *   upgraded XssNginxModule to 0.04.

     *   optimize: we now only register our output filters when this
         module is indeed used (the only exception is when multiple
         "http {}" blocks are used).

 *   upgraded EchoNginxModule to 0.49.

     *   bugfix: echo_before_body and echo_after_body might now work
         properly when multiple "http {}" blocks were used in
         "nginx.conf".

 *   upgraded LuaRestyRedisLibrary to 0.17.

     *   optimize: added an optional argument "n" to init_pipeline()
         as a hint for the number of pipelined commands.

     *   optimize: use LuaJIT 2.1's new table.new() primitive to
         pre-allocate space for Lua tables.

 *   upgraded LuaRestyUploadLibrary to 0.09.

     *   bugfix: removed use of the module() function to prevent bad
         side-effects.

     *   optimize: Removed use of lua tables and table.concat() for
         simple one-line Lua string concatenations.

 *   upgraded LuaRestyMySQLLibrary to 0.14.

     *   bugfix: avoided using Lua 5.1's module() function for
         defining our Lua modules because it has bad side effects.

     *   optimize: added an optional new argument "nrows" to the
         query() and read_result() methods, which can speed up things
         a bit.

     *   optimize: use LuaJIT v2.1's new table.new() API to optimize
         Lua table allocations. when table.new is missing, just fall
         back to the good old "{}" constructor. this gives 12%
         overall speed-up for a typical result set with 500 rows when
         LuaJIT 2.1 is used.

     *   optimize: eliminated use of table.insert() because it is
         slower than "tb[#tb + 1] = val".

     *   optimize: switched over to the multi-argument form of
         string.char().

     *   optimize: no longer use Lua tables and table.concat() to
         construct simple query strings.

 *   upgraded LuaRestyWebSocketLibrary to 0.02.

     *   optimize: use LuaJIT 2.1's table.new() to preallocate space
         for Lua tables, eliminating the overhead of Lua table
         rehash.

 *   feature: applied the proxy_host_port_vars patch to the Nginx
     core to make $proxy_host and $proxy_port accessible for dynamic
     languages like Lua and Perl.

 *   bugfix: applied the gzip_flush_bug patch to the Nginx core to
     fix request hang caused by the ngx_gzip and ngx_gunzip modules
     when using ngx.flush(true), for example. Thanks Maxim Dounin for
     the review.

 *   bugfix: applied the cache_lock_hang_in_subreq patch to the Nginx
     core to fix the request hang when using proxy_cache_lock in
     subrequests and the cache lock timeout happens.

 *   bugfix: backported Maxim Dounin's patch to fix an issue in the
     ngx_gzip module: it did not clear "r->connection->buffered" when
     the pending data was already flushed out. this could hang
     LuaNginxModule's ngx.flush(true) call, for example.

The HTML version of the change log with lots of helpful hyper-links
can be browsed here:

    http://openresty.org/#ChangeLog1004003

OpenResty (aka. ngx_openresty) is a full-fledged web application
server by bundling the standard Nginx core, lots of 3rd-party Nginx
modules and Lua libraries, as well as most of their external
dependencies. See OpenResty's homepage for details:

    http://openresty.org/

We have run extensive testing on our Amazon EC2 test cluster and
ensured that all the components (including the Nginx core) play well
together. The latest test report can always be found here:

    http://qa.openresty.org

Enjoy!
-agentzh