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Nginx 1.6.0, for Wheezy and Squeeze

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.

Nginx 1.4.0, for Wheezy and Squeeze

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 and nginx-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) and nginx-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.