*) 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.

    *) 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.

    *) 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.

    *) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->args and
       $r->unescape methods.

    *) Feature: the method $r->query_string of ngx_http_perl_module was
       canceled.

    *) Bugfix: segmentation fault was occurred if the "none" or "blocked"
       values was specified in the "valid_referers" directive; the bug had
       appeared in 0.3.18.