Nginx 1.6.0, for Wheezy and Squeeze

May 10, 2014 · Guillaume Plessis

Nginx 1.6.0 has been released on April 24th 2014 (exactly one year after 1.4.0), incorporating many new features/enhancements developed in the 1.5.x branch :

support for SPDY 3.1,
authentication via subrequests,
SSL session ticket support,
IPv6 support for DNS,
Proxy protocol support
and more… See the full Changelog and this blog post for more details.

As a consequence, packages of Nginx 1.6.0 are now available for both Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” and Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” (amd64/i386). Please note that :

Pagespeed has been updated to version 1.8.31.2,
ngx_http_auth_request is now enabled in every nginx flavor,
the error_log directive cannot be used with syslog anymore.

For more details about which modules are included in the different Nginx flavors, just have to look at this document.

I hope you’ll love these new packages and, if so, feel free to show your support.

vixns May 11, 2014
thx for ths build, you may add a warning, as error_log syslog is no longer supported.
- Guillaume Plessis May 11, 2014
  @vixns : thanks for the notice, I now mention it in the announcement.
JCG May 11, 2014
Thanks a lot for the new release!
Ovidiu May 11, 2014
not sure if this has anything to do with this particular package but after the update nginx failed to start. service nginx stop/start didn’t help, only after I did a killall -9 nginx followed by service nginx start did it finally work out…
JCG May 12, 2014
@ Ovidiu:
Hm, no problems at all with my systems. Update of Nginx was smooth and without any issues.
Steven De Groote May 13, 2014
Thanks again! Installed and running fine.
YEVES May 13, 2014
I’m getting a 502 Bad Gateway for every php files after upgrade from 1.4.7 to 1.6
I’m using PHP5-fpm
- YEVES May 13, 2014
  I reply myself : It was related to PHP’s upgrade.
  It’s explain in the note of this page : /2014/05/07/php-5-5-12-for-debian-wheezy/
Bastien May 14, 2014
With naxsi 0.53-1, great ! Thanks a lot
Chris West June 3, 2014
Where can I find the build instruction for the installation of nginx? I need to add more modules then the default can offer.
Please help.
dave June 9, 2014
hello, If I want to change nginx installation from nginx-full to nginx-extras, should I uninstall first or just install nginx-extras directly?
Thanks
- Guillaume Plessis June 9, 2014
  @dave : you can switch from any nginx flavor, the configuration is kept by nginx-common
  - dave June 10, 2014
    Thank you, Sir
GD June 11, 2014
Heya! Are you going to include ngx redis module in the future ? Thanks for all!
Oliver June 15, 2014
Is there any chance of having ngx_http_auth_digest included in a future version of nginx-extras?
- Guillaume Plessis June 16, 2014
  @Oliver : could you please fill in the feature request (https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-nginx/issues), I’ll take a look at it in the next releases.
Vidyut June 26, 2014
Hi,
Was wondering if there is an update planned soon. As per https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ngx-pagespeed-discuss/moY9tXF5TFc, ngx_pagespeed has a security upgrade released last week.
- Guillaume Plessis June 26, 2014
  @Vidyut : thanks for the notice, I’ll take a look at it this week-end.