Discover the exciting new features in NGINX Plus Release 29 (R29), including support for the MQTT protocol, SAML authentication, and OpenTelemetry. Explore how NGINX Plus can serve as an all-in-one software web server, load balancer, reverse proxy, content cache, and API gateway for your web applications.
NGINX Unit Greets Autumn 2022 with New Features (a Statistics Engine!) and Exciting Plans
NGINX Unit 1.25.0 through 1.28.0 introduce a statistics engine for observability, more contexts for using variables, enhanced support for X-Forwarded-* headers, and new syntax for the 'share' option.
Make Your NGINX Config Even More Modular and Reusable with njs 0.7.7
NGINX JavaScript module (njs) 0.7.7 makes it easier than ever to customize your NGINX configuration, with local declaration of JavaScript code, context-dependent behavior control, and a new FileHandle object.
Announcing NGINX Plus R26
NGINX Plus R26 introduces faster JWT validation with JSON Web Key Set caching and hardened TLS handshakes for improved security. New NGINX JavaScript features include enhanced support for asynchronous functions and an implementation of the WebCrypto API.
Announcing NGINX Plus R25
NGINX Plus R25 introduces more sophisticated authentication use cases with JWT, JWS, and JWE; counts of individual HTTP status codes; dynamic certificate loading for mTLS with upstream servers; hardened security for HTTP request processing; and NGINX JavaScript enhancements.
Updates to NGINX Unit for Summer 2021
NGINX Unit 1.23.0 and 1.24.0 introduce support for the SNI extension to TLS, definition of OpenSSL configuration commands, MIME filtering and path restrictions for static content, and multiple Python scripts in one app. Also, you no longer need to modify Node.js apps to run them in Unit.
Announcing NGINX Plus R24
NGINX Plus R24 introduces support for encrypted JSON Web Tokens (JWE) and integration with F5 Device ID+. The NGINX JavaScript module reaches an important milestone with support for response filtering and use of HTTP-based authentication services for TCP/UDP connections.
Easy and Robust Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect and NGINX Ingress Controller
NGINX Ingress Controller now supports single sign-on with OpenID Connect. Release 1.10.0 also introduces new configuration queue metrics, annotations on log entries, better validation of annotations and secrets, support for NGINX App Protect user-defined signatures, and more.
Updates to NGINX Unit for Autumn 2020
Since our last update, the NGINX Unit team has released three versions, 1.19.0 through 1.21.0. New features include support for ASGI with Python, multi-threading with several languages (Java, Perl, Python, Ruby), regular expressions in routing conditions, and more.
Announcing NGINX Plus R23
NGINX Plus R23 introduces new features including health checks for backend gRPC servers, unprivileged installation, support for the OpenID Connect PKCE extension, finer-grained control over TLS connections, a new method of setting cookie flags, and NGINX JavaScript enhancements.
