Nginx 1.4.0 stable version has been released on April 24th 2013, incorporating many new features developed in the 1.3.x branch :
- support for proxying of WebSocket connections,
- OCSP stapling,
- SPDY module,
- gunzip filter,
- and more… See the full Changelog for more details.
As a consequence, Dotdeb’s packages of Nginx 1.4.0 are now available for both Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” (amd64/i386) with the following changes :
- (Wheezy only) SPDY support has been enabled in
nginx-extras
andnginx-full
. - (Wheezy only) the
nginx-passenger
flavor has been removed. You should use unicorn or uwsgi-plugin-rack-ruby* instead. nginx-extras
now supports HTTP Gunzip.- Naxsi has been upgraded to 0.50.
chunkin-nginx-module
(useless now) andnginx-upload-module
(incompatible with 3.1.8+) are no longer supported.- The headers-more, echo, lua, Push stream, Pinba and Passenger modules got minor upgrades.
As usual, if you want to know which module has been included in each Nginx flavor, you just have to look at this document.