*) Feature: the "upstream" directive.

    *) Change: now the "\" escape symbol in the "\"" and "\'" pairs in the
       SSI command is always removed.

    *) Feature: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and
       "ssl_client_certificate" directives.

    *) Change: the $request_method variable now returns the main request
       method.

    *) Change: the ° symbol codes were changed in koi-win conversion
       table.

    *) Feature: the euro and N symbols were added to koi-win conversion
       table.

    *) Bugfix: if nginx distributed the requests among several backends and
       some backend failed, then requests intended for this backend was
       directed to one live backend only instead of being distributed among
       the rest.

    *) Feature: the "bind" option of the "listen" directive in IMAP/POP3
       proxy.

    *) Bugfix: if the same capture in the "rewrite" directive was used more
       then once.

    *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_content_type, $sent_http_content_length,
       $sent_http_last_modified, $sent_http_connection,
       $sent_http_keep_alive, and $sent_http_transfer_encoding variables
       were not written to access log.

    *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control returned value of the single
       "Cache-Control" response header line.

    *) Feature: the "uninitialized_variable_warn" directive; the logging
       level of the "uninitialized variable" message was lowered from
       "alert" to "warn".

    *) Feature: the "override_charset" directive.

    *) Change: now if the unknown variable is used in the "echo" and "if
       expr='$name'" SSI-commands, then the "unknown variable" message is
       not logged.

    *) Bugfix: the active connection counter increased on the exceeding of
       the connection limit specified by the "worker_connections"
       directive; the bug had appeared in 0.2.0.

    *) Bugfix: the limit rate might not work on some condition; the bug had
       appeared in 0.3.38.

    *) Feature: the "http_503" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream" or
       "fastcgi_next_upstream" directives.

    *) Bugfix: ngx_http_perl_module did not work with inlined in the
       configuration code, if it was not started with the "sub" word.

    *) Bugfix: in the "post_action" directive.

    *) Change: now nginx passes the malformed proxied backend responses.

    *) Feature: the "listen" directives support the address in the "*:port"
       form.

    *) Feature: the EVFILER_TIMER support in MacOSX 10.4.

    *) Workaround: for MacOSX 64-bit kernel kqueue millisecond timeout
       bug.
       Thanks to Andrei Nigmatulin.

    *) Bugfix: if there were several "listen" directives listening one
       various addresses inside one server, then server names like
       "*.domain.tld" worked for first address only; the bug had appeared
       in 0.3.18.

    *) Bugfix: if the HTTPS protocol was used in the "proxy_pass" directive
       and the request body was in temporarily file then the request was
       not transferred.

    *) Bugfix: perl 5.8.8 compatibility.

    *) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
       "crit".

    *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
       ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.

    *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
       used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.

    *) Feature: now nginx uses less memory, if PHP in FastCGI mode sends
       many warnings before the response.

    *) Bugfix: the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header line was issued in
       the 204 responses for the HTTP/1.1 requests.

    *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 502 response, if the complete response
       header lines were transferred in a separate FastCGI records.

    *) Bugfix: if the proxied URI was specified in the "post_action"
       directive, then it ran only after a successful completion of a
       request.

    *) Feature: the "restrict_host_names" directive was canceled.

    *) Feature: the --with-cpu-opt=ppc64 configuration parameter.

    *) Bugfix: on some condition the proxied connection with a client was
       terminated prematurely.
       Thanks to Vladimir Shutoff.

    *) Bugfix: the "X-Accel-Limit-Rate" header line was not taken into
       account if the request was redirected using the "X-Accel-Redirect"
       header line.

    *) Bugfix: the "post_action" directive ran only after a successful
       completion of a request.

    *) Bugfix: the proxied response body generated by the "post_action"
       directive was transferred to a client.

    *) 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.