nginx
nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. Originally written by Igor Sysoev and distributed under the 2-clause BSD License. Enterprise distributions, commercial support and training are available from F5, Inc.
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Latest News
| 2026-03-24 | nginx-1.28.3 stable and nginx-1.29.7 mainline versions have been released, with fixes for buffer overflow vulnerability in the ngx_http_dav_module (CVE-2026-27654), buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the ngx_http_mp4_module (CVE-2026-27784, CVE-2026-32647), mail session authentication vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-27651, CVE-2026-28753) and OCSP result bypass vulnerability in stream (CVE-2026-28755). Additionally, nginx-1.29.7 mainline version introduces support for Multipath TCP and upgrades the default HTTP version to HTTP/1.1 with keep-alive enabled. |
| 2026-03-10 | nginx-1.29.6 mainline version has been released, featuring sticky sessions support for upstreams. |
| 2026-03-03 |
njs-0.9.6
version has been
released,
featuring optional chaining,
nullish coalescing assignment ( |
| 2026-02-04 | nginx-1.28.2 stable and nginx-1.29.5 mainline versions have been released, with a fix for the SSL upstream injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-1642). |
Other NGINX Projects
| NGINX JavaScript (njs) extends nginx functionality with an ECMAScript-compatible interpreter for HTTP and Stream modules. Docs • Code | |
| NGINX Ingress Controller connects Kubernetes apps and services with rock solid request handling, auth, self-service CRDs, and easy debugging. Not to be confused with ingress-nginx, the separate Kubernetes community project. Docs • Code | |
| NGINX Gateway Fabric provides L4 and L7 routing capabilities in Kubernetes, implementing the Gateway API using NGINX as the data plane. Docs • Code | |