Changes with nginx 1.6.0                                         24 Apr 2014

    *) 1.6.x stable branch.
Changes with nginx 1.7.0                                         24 Apr 2014
Changes with nginx 1.7.1                                         27 May 2014

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

    *) Feature: the $ssl_client_fingerprint variable.

    *) Feature: the "error_log" and "access_log" directives now support
       logging to syslog.

    *) Feature: the mail proxy now logs client port on connect.

    *) Bugfix: memory leak if the "ssl_stapling" directive was used.
       Thanks to Filipe da Silva.

    *) Bugfix: the "alias" directive used inside a location given by a
       regular expression worked incorrectly if the "if" or "limit_except"
       directives were used.

    *) Bugfix: the "charset" directive did not set a charset to encoded
       backend responses.

    *) Bugfix: a "proxy_pass" directive without URI part might use original
       request after the $args variable was set.
       Thanks to Yichun Zhang.

    *) Bugfix: in the "none" parameter in the "smtp_auth" directive; the bug
       had appeared in 1.5.6.
       Thanks to Svyatoslav Nikolsky.

    *) Bugfix: if sub_filter and SSI were used together, then responses
       might be transferred incorrectly.

    *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the --with-file-aio option on
       Linux/aarch64.
Changes with nginx 1.7.2                                         17 Jun 2014

    *) Feature: the "hash" directive inside the "upstream" block.

    *) Feature: defragmentation of free shared memory blocks.
       Thanks to Wandenberg Peixoto and Yichun Zhang.

    *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
       default value of the "access_log" directive was used; the bug had
       appeared in 1.7.0.
       Thanks to Piotr Sikora.

    *) Bugfix: trailing slash was mistakenly removed from the last parameter
       of the "try_files" directive.

    *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on OS X in some cases.

    *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_spdy_module.
Changes with nginx 1.7.3                                         08 Jul 2014

    *) Feature: weak entity tags are now preserved on response
       modifications, and strong ones are changed to weak.

    *) Feature: cache revalidation now uses If-None-Match header if
       possible.

    *) Feature: the "ssl_password_file" directive.

    *) Bugfix: the If-None-Match request header line was ignored if there
       was no Last-Modified header in a response returned from cache.

    *) Bugfix: "peer closed connection in SSL handshake" messages were
       logged at "info" level instead of "error" while connecting to
       backends.

    *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module module in nginx/Windows.

    *) Bugfix: SPDY connections might be closed prematurely if caching was
       used.