*) Feature: the "server_names" directive supports the ".domain.tld"
       names.

    *) Feature: the "server_names" directive uses the hash for the
       "*.domain.tld" names and more effective hash for usual names.

    *) Change: the "server_names_hash_max_size" and
       "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directives.

    *) Change: the "server_names_hash" and "server_names_hash_threshold"
       directives were canceled.

    *) Feature: the "valid_referers" directive uses the hash site names.

    *) Change: now the "valid_referers" directive checks the site names
       only without the URI part.

    *) Bugfix: some ".domain.tld" names incorrectly processed by the
       ngx_http_map_module.

    *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if configuration file did
       not exist; the bug had appeared in 0.3.12.

    *) Bugfix: on 64-bit platforms segmentation fault may occurred on
       start; the bug had appeared in 0.3.16.

    *) Change: the "valid_referers" directive and the "$invalid_referer"
       variable were moved to the new ngx_http_referer_module from the
       ngx_http_rewrite_module.

    *) Change: the "$apache_bytes_sent" variable name was changed to
       "$body_bytes_sent".

    *) Feature: the "$sent_http_..." variables.

    *) Feature: the "if" directive supports the "=" and "!=" operations.

    *) Feature: the "proxy_pass" directive supports the HTTPS protocol.

    *) Feature: the "proxy_set_body" directive.

    *) Feature: the "post_action" directive.

    *) Feature: the ngx_http_empty_gif_module.

    *) Feature: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive for Linux.

    *) Bugfix: the "rewrite" directive did not unescape URI part in
       redirect, now it is unescaped except the %00-%25 and %7F-%FF
       characters.

    *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built by the icc 9.0 compiler.

    *) Bugfix: if the SSI was enabled for zero size static file, then the
       chunked response was encoded incorrectly.

    *) Feature: the Sun Studio 10 C compiler support.

    *) Feature: the "proxy_upstream_max_fails",
       "proxy_upstream_fail_timeout", "fastcgi_upstream_max_fails", and
       "fastcgi_upstream_fail_timeout" directives.

    *) Change: if the request header has duplicate the "Host",
       "Connection", "Content-Length", or "Authorization" lines, then nginx
       now returns the 400 error.

    *) Change: the "post_accept_timeout" directive was canceled.

    *) Feature: the "default", "af=", "bl=", "deferred", and "bind"
       parameters of the "listen" directive.

    *) Feature: the FreeBSD accept filters support.

    *) Feature: the Linux TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT support.

    *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_autoindex_module did not support the file names
       in UTF-8.

    *) Bugfix: the new log file can be rotated by the -USR1 signal only if
       the reconfiguration by the -HUP signal was made twice.

    *) Change: the invalid client header lines are now ignored and logged
       at the info level.

    *) Change: the server name is also logged in error log.

    *) Feature: the ngx_http_auth_basic_module module and the auth_basic
       and auth_basic_user_file directives.