*) Change: the "variables_hash_max_size" and
       "variables_hash_bucket_size" directives.

    *) Feature: the $body_bytes_sent variable can be used not only in the
       "log_format" directive.

    *) Feature: the $ssl_protocol and $ssl_cipher variables.

    *) Feature: the cache line size detection for widespread CPUs at start
       time.

    *) Feature: now the "accept_mutex" directive is supported using
       fcntl(2) on platforms different from i386, amd64, sparc64, and ppc.

    *) Feature: the "lock_file" directive and the --with-lock-path=PATH
       autoconfiguration directive.

    *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
       then the requests with the body was not transferred.

    *) Change: the "optimize_host_names" directive was renamed to the
       "optimize_server_names".

    *) Bugfix: if in the "proxy_pass" directive was no the URI part, then
       the main request URI was transferred to a backend while proxying the
       SSI subrequest.

    *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred on start or while
       reconfiguration if there was invalid configuration; the bug had
       appeared in 0.3.24.

    *) Workaround: for bug in FreeBSD kqueue.

    *) Bugfix: now a response generated by the "post_action" directive is
       not transferred to a client.

    *) Bugfix: the memory leaks were occurring if many log files were used.

    *) Bugfix: the first "proxy_redirect" directive was working inside one
       location.

    *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on start
       if the many names were used in the "server_name" directives; the bug
       had appeared in 0.3.18.

    *) Feature: the "optimize_host_names" directive.

    *) Bugfix: in using of the variables in the "path" and "alias"
       directives.

    *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module was incorrectly built on Linux and
       Solaris.