These are the highlights of new features or additions to existing features in v5.0.x and 5.1.x. For the complete list of all changes see this JIRA Release Notes.

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TLS

We continue to improve our TLS (HTTPS) features and support. Noteworthy in 5.2.x is:

Dynamic TLS record size tuning.
Add forward secrecy support with DHE.
Add ssl_pre_handshake hook for better plugin access to SSL handling.
Improved session cache, for better performance and scalability.
New configuration for OpenSSL session cache, proxy.config.ssl.session_cache.auto_clear.

Minor Changes

Developer Changes