Category: Nginx

A new stable version of Nginx, numbered 1.0.8, has been released two weeks ago. It brings bug fixes and a new mp4 module. Take a look at the full list of changes before upgrading.

Here are the changes on the Dotdeb side :

• the Http Headers More module has been included in nginx-extras,
• the Http Chunkin module has been included in nginx-extras,
• nginx-light now supports the Http Stub Status module,
• the HTTP Push module is still present in the nginx-extras package but it may be removed in future releases because of stability issues.

Nginx 1.0.8 is available :

• for both Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny”
• for both amd64 and i386 architectures

Packages of Nginx 1.0.6 for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny” are now available in amd64 and i386 flavours.

This release brings faster cache loader, better https, lingering close compatibility and 9 bugfixes . Please take a look at the list of changes for more details.

Please note that :

• the Passenger module has been updated to version 3.0.8.
• the  Secure Download module is deprecated. It has been removed from nginx-extras. Use the HttpSecureLink module instead.
• the syslog patch is now under review. It could be included in future packages.

After MySQL and Redis, it’s Nginx’ turn : version 1.0.2 has been released on May 10., bringing some minor changes and bugfixes.

Its packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny” in amd64 and i386 flavours.

Nginx 1.0.0 has been delared stable and has been released three days ago :

nginx development was started about 9 years ago. The first public version 0.1.0 has been released on October 4, 2004. Now W3Techs reports that 6.8% of the top 1 million sites on the web (according to Alexa) use nginx. And 46.9% of top Russian sites use nginx.

Netcraft reports similar 6.52% nginx share of the million busiest sites in April 2011.

The packages of Nginx 1.0.0 are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” in amd64 and i386 flavours. I hope you’ll enjoy them.

Dotdeb has always wanted to help you to build robust and featureful LAMP stacks. As of Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, some useful tools are now supported and actively maintained on Dotdeb :

• PHP 5.3 and its new FPM flavour
• the Xhprof, PHPredis and Pinba extensions
• the Pinba MySQL storage engine
• the Redis key-value store

It is now time for me to introduce the long-awaited Nginx…

Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance Web server that relies on an asynchronous event-driven approach to handle HTTP requests. It behaves well under heavy load, even better than Apache (threaded or forked). Nginx can work with PHP through FPM or FastCGI (respectively packaged as php5-fpm and php5-cgi).

All the (many) features of Nginx are configured during its building process and it is unable to load additionnal modules without rebuilding. This design leads to very good performances and a little footprint on the system.

Don’t hesitate to visit the Nginx website for more information…

I’m proud to announce that Dotdeb now maintains Nginx in its stable version (0.8.54). As in the official Debian builds, three distinct packages are available, depending on which modules you need :

• nginx-light
• nginx-full
• nginx-extras

Don’t hesitate to thank me if you enjoy it 🙂