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• The header_rewrite plugin no longer requires the Boost libraries. We also support variable expansion in the set-redirect operator.
• The stats_over_http plugin will now emit JSON numbers.
• The background_fetch plugin can now be controlled per remap-rule. In addition, you can now also control the behavior based on content types.

New plugins:

• The mySQL remap plugin now actually builds, as part of experimental. This is technically not a new plugin, but it would not build before.

Jira: TS-2119, TS-3068, TS-3071, TS-2682, TS-2683, TS-2955, 

Plugin APIs

The following additions were made to the plugin APIs:

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