We have released nghttp2 v1.29.0.

lib

NGHTTP2_REFUSED_STREAM is now used as an error code passed to nghttp2_on_stream_close_callback for streams which are closed by GOAWAY to indicate that they are safely retried.

build

SPDY related code was completely removed.

nghttpx

The commit which breaks load balancing among HTTP/2 backend in some situations has been reverted.

The default value of --api-max-request-body option has been increased to 32MiB.

The time to load the large number of backend options has been greatly improved.

The crash with --backend-http-proxy-uri option has been fixed.

We have released nghttp2 v1.28.0.

lib

nghttp2_error_callback2 callback function has been added. It is an extended version of the existing nghttp2_error_callback. The new callback takes a new parameter which indicates the error code. nghttp2_error_callback is now deprecated.

build

This release officially deprecates spdylay support. The next release, v1.29.0, will remove all SPDY related code.

nghttpx

Cookie based session affinity has been implemented. To use cookie based session affinity, specify affinity=cookie in backend option. affinity-cookie-name parameter must also be specified to specify a name of cookie. affinity-cookie-path and affinity-cookie-secure control a path and secure attributes of cookie respectively.

The bug that backend connection might be stalled on retry has been fixed.

The existing TLS related variables available to the access log are now exposed to mruby Env object. This release also adds new TLS related variables: $tls_client_fingerprint_sha256, $tls_client_fingerprint_sha1, $tls_client_subject_name, $tls_client_issuer_name, and $tls_client_serial. They are available to both mruby, and the access log.

We have released nghttp2 v1.27.0.

build

LazyHamster fixed accidental compiler flags concatenation for MSVC.

Mike Lothian sent us a patch to reduce libxml2 version requirement to 2.6.26.

libnghttp2_asio

Daniel Evers added libnghttp2_asio support for Windows / MinGW.

h2load

HTTP/2 header fields are now printed with --verbose option.

nghttpx

An HTTP non-final response is now sent to HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 client only.

We have released nghttp2 v1.26.0.

h2load

Soham Sinha added timing-based load-testing in h2load. This new method performs load-testing in terms of a given duration instead of a pre-defined number of requests. The new option --duration specifies how long the load-testing takes. For example, --duration=10 makes h2load perform load-testing against a server for 10 seconds. You can also specify a “warming-up” period with --warm-up-time. If --duration is used, -n option is ignored.

We have released nghttp2 v1.25.0.

Library

Anna Henningsen added nghttp2_rcbuf_is_static() API function which checks whether the underlying buffer is statically allocated or not to save extra allocation.

nghttpx

mruby has been updated to v1.3.0.

The bug that forwarded header field was not affected by proxy protocol was fixed.

We have released nghttp2 v1.24.0.

Documentation

We have received several patches to fix grammer and typos.

The broken out-of-tree build has been also fixed.

nghttp

We fixed the bug that HTTP Upgrade fails if HTTP response does not have reason-phrase.

nghttpx

The default minimum TLS version is now TLSv1.2. This is because the default cipher list only contains cipher suites which are compatible with it.

We have released nghttp2 v1.23.1.

This release fixes the bug which makes nghttpx crash in OCSP response verification with certain kind of OCSP response.

We have released nghttp2 v1.23.0.

libnghttp2

Previously, if libnghttp2 received an invalid header field, it is just ignored, and is treated like it was never happened. This release changes this behaviour, and now libnghttp2 treats an incoming invalid header field as error, and resets the stream with PROTOCOL_ERROR.

nghttp2_on_invalid_frame_callback is now called if validation of altsvc header field fails.

nghttpx

nghttpx now verifies that OCSP response received from a program specified by --fetch-ocsp-response-file. The validation can be turned off by using --no-verify-ocsp option. In this validation, it makes sure that the OCSP response is targeted to the expected certificate. This is important because we pass the file path to the external program (see --fetch-ocsp-response-file), and if the file is replaced because of renewal, and nghttpx has not reloaded its configuration, the certificate nghttpx has loaded and the one included in the file differ. Verifying the OCSP response detects this, and avoids to send wrong OCSP response.

The feature to select a certificate based on client’s supported group (curve) didn’t work as expected, but now it is fixed.

The certificate selection with SNI was broken, but now it is fixed.

--ocsp-startup option is added to postpone accepting incoming connections until the initial OCSP requests have finished.

When selecting backend based on a request path, now wildcard can be used. For example, if pattern is /foo/bar*, all request paths which have /foo/bar as prefix, and strictly longer than that match. * must match at least one character.

nghttp

-y option is added to suppress peer verification failure warning.

We have released nghttp2 v1.22.0.

libnghttp2

lstefani fixed the bug which results in memory leak because of missing free call on error in inflight_settings_new().

libnghttp2_asio

Matt Way added the functionality to specify a stream priority via session::submit().

integration

Use of xip.io is replaced with nip.io.

nghttp

nghttp now shows a warning if certificate verification fails.

nghttpx

${tls_sni} access log variable has been added.

All ${ssl_*} access log variables have been renamed as ${tls_*}. The old names still work for backward compatibility.

SNI based backend server selection has been added. To enable this feature, use sni-fwd parameter in frontend option. The requests received in that frontend address are forwarded based on server name sent via TLS SNI extension rather than HTTP Host header field.

signed_certificate_timestamp extension has been enabled with TLSv1.3.

Historically, nghttpx always stripped incoming X-Forwarded-Proto header field, and set its own one. In this release, 2 new options have been added to tweak this behaviour. --no-strip-incoming-x-forwarded-proto option prevents nghttpx from stripping the header field from a client. --no-add-x-forwarded-proto option prevents nghttpx from adding X-Forwarded-Proto value.

--single-process option has been added which make nghttpx run in a single process. Note that if neverlbeed is enabled, nghttpx still spawns the new process for it.

SSL_CTX_set_early_data_enabled is enabled for BoringSSL.

We have released nghttp2 v1.21.1.

The bug which causes libnghttp2_asio client to crash has been fixed.

The bug which causes nghttpx to respond to a client with 502 status code if it receives 204 status code from HTTP/1 backend has been fixed.