*) Feature: the $ssl_client_serial variable.

    *) Bugfix: in the "!-e" operator of the "if" directive.
       Thanks to Andrian Budanstov.

    *) Bugfix: while a client certificate verification nginx did not send
       to a client the required certificates information.

    *) Bugfix: the $document_root variable did not support the variables in
       the "root" directive.

    *) Feature: the "stub" parameter in the "include" SSI command.

    *) Feature: the "block" SSI command.

    *) Feature: the unicode2nginx script was added to contrib.

    *) Bugfix: if a "root" was specified by variable only, then the root
       was relative to a server prefix.

    *) Bugfix: if the request contained "//" or "/./" and escaped symbols
       after them, then the proxied request was sent unescaped.

    *) Bugfix: the $r->headers_in("Cookie") of the ngx_http_perl_module now
       returns all "Cookie" header lines.

    *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if
       "client_body_in_file_only on" was used and nginx switched to a next
       upstream.

    *) Bugfix: on some condition while reconfiguration character codes
       inside the "charset_map" may be treated invalid; the bug had
       appeared in 0.3.50.

    *) Feature: nginx now logs the subrequest information to the error log.

    *) Feature: the "proxy_next_upstream", "fastcgi_next_upstream", and
       "memcached_next_upstream" directives support the "off" parameter.

    *) Feature: the "debug_connection" directive supports the CIDR address
       form.

    *) Bugfix: if a response of proxied server or FastCGI server was
       converted from UTF-8 or back, then it may be transferred incomplete.

    *) Bugfix: the $upstream_response_time variable had the time of the
       first request to a backend only.

    *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on amd64 platform; the bug had
       appeared in 0.3.53.

    *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds the string to 204, 301, and
       302 responses.

    *) Feature: the "server" directive in the "upstream" context supports
       the "weight" parameter.

    *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports the "*" wildcard.

    *) Feature: nginx supports the request body size more than 2G.

    *) Bugfix: if a client was successfully authorized using "satisfy_any
       on", then anyway the message "access forbidden by rule" was written
       in the log.

    *) Bugfix: the "PUT" method may erroneously not create a file and
       return the 409 code.

    *) Bugfix: if the IMAP/POP3 backend returned an error, then nginx
       continued proxying anyway.

    *) 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.