There are two improvements:

  1. Support for request body filters;

  2. Receiving of request body is started only after
     the ngx_http_read_client_request_body() call.

The last one fixes the problem when the client_max_body_size value might not be
respected from the right location if the location was changed either during the
process of receiving body or after the whole body had been received.

RFC 7540 states that "A server can send a complete response prior to the client
sending an entire request if the response does not depend on any portion of the
request that has not been sent and received.  When this is true, a server MAY
request that the client abort transmission of a request without error by sending
a RST_STREAM with an error code of NO_ERROR after sending a complete response
(i.e., a frame with the END_STREAM flag)."

This should prevent a client from blocking on the stream window, since it isn't
maintained for closed streams.  Currently, quite big initial stream windows are
used, so such blocking is very unlikly, but that will be changed in the further
patches.

OpenSSL removed support for all 40 and 56 bit ciphers.

By default, requests with non-idempotent methods (POST, LOCK, PATCH)
are no longer retried in case of errors if a request was already sent
to a backend.  Previous behaviour can be restored by using
"proxy_next_upstream ... non_idempotent".

Much like normal connections, cached connections are now tested against
u->conf->next_upstream, and u->state->status is now always set.

This allows to disable additional tries even with upstream keepalive
by using "proxy_next_upstream off".