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NGINX Plus Releases

NGINX Plus Release 18 (R18)

NGINX open source build 1.15.10, 9 April 2019

NGINX Plus R18 is a feature release:

  • Added support for dynamic SSL certificate loading, either from file or from key-value storage (for the latter case, prefix the variable with data:).
  • Added support for opaque session tokens as a browser cookie, refresh tokens to refresh expired ID tokens without user interaction, and a logout URL to OpenID Connect reference implementation.
  • Active health checks extended with additional logic of verifying arbitrary variables (the require parameter of the match directive).
  • Clustering enhancement: A single zone_sync configuration can now be used for all instances in a cluster with the help of wildcard support in the listen directive.
  • Port ranges can now be used in the listen directive.
  • Stream proxy: Added the ability to explicitly close existing connections to the particular upstream server after it is removed from the group due to health check failure, API call, or re-resolve action (the proxy_session_drop directive).
  • New variable, $upstream_bytes_sent, contains number of bytes sent to an upstream server.
  • New or updated dynamic modules:
    • Brotli (New): A general‑purpose, lossless data compression algorithm.
    • OpenTracing (New): Ability to instrument NGINX Plus with OpenTracing-compliant requests for a range of distributed tracing services, such as Datadog, Jaeger, and Zipkin.
    • Lua (Updated): A scripting language for NGINX Plus, updated to use LuaJIT 2.1.
    • NGINX JavaScript (Updated): A JavaScript module for NGINX Plus, updated to 0.3.0.

NGINX Plus R18 is supported on:

  • Alpine Linux 3.8, 3.9
  • Amazon Linux (2018.03+), Amazon Linux 2 LTS
  • CentOS 6.5+, 7.4+
  • Debian 8.0, 9.0
  • FreeBSD 11.2+, 12.0
  • Oracle Linux 6.5+, 7.4+
  • RHEL 6.5+, 7.4+, 8
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, 15
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 18.04, 18.10

Notes:

  • Amazon Linux 2017.09 is no longer supported, minimum supported version is now 2018.03
  • CentOS/Oracle/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 is no longer supported, minimum supported version is now 7.4
  • Debian 8.0 will be removed in NGINX Plus R19
  • Ubuntu 14.04 will be removed in NGINX Plus R19

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R18

NGINX Plus Release 17 (R17)

NGINX open source build 1.15.7, 11 December 2018

NGINX Plus R17 is a feature release:

  • Support for TLS 1.3 using TLSv1.3 parameter to ssl_protocols directive
  • Support for two‑stage rate limiting with the new delay= parameter; excessive requests are initially delayed and then ultimately rejected
  • Added support for the Ed25519 and Ed448 cryptographic algorithms to the JSON Web Token (JWT) module
  • Ability to fetch JSON Web Keys (JWK) directly from identity provider (IdP) when using OpenID Connect with the new auth_jwt_key_request directive
  • New proxy_socket_keepalive directive enables TCP keepalives between NGINX Plus and the proxied server
  • New keepalive_timeout directive controls how long an HTTP keepalive connection between NGINX Plus and the proxied server can be idle before being closed
  • New proxy_requests directive for the Stream module defines how many packets are sent from NGINX Plus to the proxied server before a new UDP “session” to that server is started
  • The Zone Synchronization module can now pass the server name using SNI when connecting to cluster nodes for server name verification, as enabled with new zone_sync_ssl_server_name directive
  • The NGINX JavaScript module has been updated:
    • Support for arguments objects
    • Support for non‑integer fractions
    • Support for additional time methods: console.time() and console.timeEnd()
    • Variables and functions can be redeclared
    • Integration with the NGINX Stream module for TCP/UDP applications has been refactored to use various return functions, including a send() method for modifying ingress traffic. Egress traffic is now available through a callback.

NGINX Plus R17 is supported on:

  • Alpine Linux 3.8, 3.9
  • Amazon Linux (2017.09), Amazon Linux 2 LTS
  • CentOS 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Debian 8.0, 9.0
  • FreeBSD 11.2+, 12.0
  • Oracle Linux 6.5+, 7.0+
  • RHEL 6.5+, 7.0+
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, 15
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 18.04, 18.10

Notes:

  • Alpine Linux 3.8 and 3.9 support are new in this release
  • FreeBSD 10.4 and 11.1 are removed in this release
  • FreeBSD 11.2 and 12.0 support are new in this release
  • CentOS/RHEL 7.3 will be removed with NGINX Plus R18
  • Ubuntu 14.04 will be removed with NGINX Plus R19
  • Ubuntu 18.10 support is new in this release

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R17

NGINX Plus Release 16 (R16)

NGINX open source build 1.15.2, 5 September 2018

NGINX Plus R16 is a feature release:

  • Support for rate limiting in a cluster using Zone Synchronization module
  • Support for key-value store in a cluster using Zone Synchronization module
  • Support for timeouts in Key-Value Store module
  • New random load‑balancing algorithm with Random with Two Choices variant, for which least_time or least_conn can be used to decide between the two choices
  • UDP load balancing (stream module) enhanced with support for multiple UDP packets from the client, enabling use of more complex UDP protocols such as OpenVPN, VoIP, and VDI
  • Support for the PROXY Protocol v2 (PPv2) header, and the ability to inspect custom TLV values in the header
  • Support for AWS PrivateLink, Amazon’s technology for creating secure tunnels into a VPC
  • Extension of the OpenID Connect reference implementation to support opaque session tokens
  • New $ssl_preread_protocol variable to distinguish between SSL/TLS and other protocols when forwarding traffic using a TCP (stream) proxy
  • New Encrypted Session dynamic module available
  • The NGINX JavaScript module has been updated:
    • There is now a single object (r) to access both request and response attributes associated with each HTTP request.
    • New language support: bytesFrom(), padStart(), padEnd(), getrandom(), getentropy(), and binary literals

NGINX Plus R16 is supported on:

  • Amazon Linux (2017.09), Amazon Linux 2 LTS
  • CentOS 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Debian 8.0, 9.0
  • FreeBSD 10.4+, 11.1+
  • Oracle Linux 6.5+, 7.0+
  • RHEL 6.5+, 7.0+
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 18.04

Notes:

  • Support for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) is no longer available.
  • Minimum supported FreeBSD versions have changed (10.4+, 11.1+).
  • Amazon Linux 2 (LTS) is updated to the GA version.
  • The Upstream Conf and Extended Status modules are superseded by the NGINX Plus API module and are no longer distributed in NGINX Plus. Please read our transition guide.
  • The NGINX New Relic plug‑in has been updated to use the new NGINX Plus API, but is no longer supported by NGINX, Inc.

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R16

NGINX Plus R16 Updates

These are bug‑fix releases for NGINX Plus R16.

NGINX Plus R16 P1
30 October 2018

  • Security Patch: When using HTTP/2 a client might cause excessive memory consumption (CVE-2018-16843) and CPU usage (CVE-2018-16844).
  • Security Patch: Processing of a specially crafted mp4 file with the ngx_http_mp4_module might result in worker process memory disclosure (CVE-2018-16845).

NGINX Plus Release 15 (R15)

NGINX open source build 1.13.10, 10 April 2018

NGINX Plus R15 is a feature release:

  • Support for proxying, load balancing, and SSL-termination of gRPC traffic
  • Support for HTTP/2 server push
  • Support for sticky learn session persistence in a cluster using new Zone Synchronization module, which synchronizes shared memory zones across a cluster of NGINX Plus instances
  • Support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authorization code flow, enabling integration with CA Single Sign-On (formerly SiteMinder), ForgeRock OpenAM, Keycloak, Okta, and other identity providers
  • Support for making subrequests using NGINX JavaScript module
  • Support for crypto libraries in NGINX JavaScript module with support for common hash functions MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256
  • Inheritance of the CAP_NET_RAW Linux capability so that transparent proxying does not require worker processes to have root privileges
  • New auth_jwt_leeway directive to compensate for clock skew between NGINX Plus and identity provider
  • Performance enhancements and bug fixes to NGINX WAF module
  • Updates to LDAP authentication reference implementation
  • New $upstream_queue_time variable to hold the amount of time a request spends in the upstream queue
  • New $ssl_preread_alpn_protocols variable to hold the Application Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) protocols presented by client
  • New Cookie-Flag dynamic module available

NGINX Plus R15 is supported on:

  • Amazon Linux (2017.09), Amazon Linux 2 LTS
  • CentOS 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Debian 8.0, 9.0
  • FreeBSD 10.3, 11.0
  • Oracle Linux 6.5+, 7.0+
  • RHEL 6.5+, 7.0+
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 17.10, 18.04

Notes:

  • Support for Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) is no longer available.
  • nginScript is now known as the NGINX JavaScript module.
  • The NGINX Plus API version has been incremented to 3. All previous versions of the NGINX Plus API are still supported.
  • This is the last release to support the previous dynamic (on-the-fly) reconfiguration and extended status APIs.

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R15

NGINX Plus R15 Updates

These are bug‑fix releases for NGINX Plus R15.

NGINX Plus R15 P2
30 October 2018

  • Security Patch: When using HTTP/2 a client might cause excessive memory consumption (CVE-2018-16843) and CPU usage (CVE-2018-16844).
  • Security Patch: Processing of a specially crafted mp4 file with the ngx_http_mp4_module might result in worker process memory disclosure (CVE-2018-16845).

NGINX Plus R15 P1
12 April 2018

  • Fixed issue that prevented loading of third‑party modules due to signature incompatibility.

NGINX Plus Release 14 (R14)

NGINX open source build 1.13.7, 12 December 2017

NGINX Plus R14 is a feature release:

  • Support for nested JSON Web Token (JWT) claims, array data, and longer key sizes (256‑, 384‑, and 512‑bit) for JWT signing algorithms, providing more flexibility and security when validating JWTs
  • Clustering support for the sticky_learn method of session persistence, as a technology preview of distribution of session state data in a cluster
  • Support for the key‑value store and NGINX Plus API in the stream context, making the same key‑value store features are available for TCP/UDP applications as for HTTP applications
  • New NGINX Plus dashboard utilizing the NGINX Plus API which was introduced in NGINX Plus R13
  • Improvements to NGINX JavaScript module, including the ability to manage JSON objects, read content from filesystems, and backtrace to errors and exceptions to further improve troubleshooting
  • Ability to encode client certificates in a HTTP header and send them to backend applications with the $ssl_client_escaped_cert variable
  • Enhanced DNS resolver that preserves the list of upstream IP addresses across a reload of the NGINX Plus configuration
  • Ability to drain upstream servers extended to file‑based configurations with the drain parameter to the upstream server directive

NGINX Plus R14 is supported on:

  • Amazon Linux (2016.09), Amazon Linux 2 (2017.12)
  • CentOS 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Debian 8.0, 9.0
  • FreeBSD 10.3, 11.0
  • Oracle Linux 6.5+, 7.0+
  • RHEL 6.5+, 7.0+
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 17.04, 17.10

Notes:

  • Support for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) is new in this release.
  • Support for Debian 7.0 is no longer available.
  • The previous Upstream Conf and Extended Status APIs were deprecated in NGINX Plus R13. They will continue to be shipped through NGINX Plus R15, but not in subsequent releases.

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R14

NGINX Plus R14 Updates

This is a bug‑fix release for NGINX Plus R14.

NGINX Plus R14 P1
25 January 2018

  • Live activity monitoring: Reinstated some missing tooltips for the dashboard.
  • NGINX Plus API: HTTP Basic Authentication now available for read‑write mode.

NGINX Plus Release 13 (R13)

NGINX open source build 1.13.4, 29 August 2017

NGINX Plus R13 is a feature release:

  • Ability to send duplicate all incoming traffic to a dedicated server (the mirror directive)
  • Improvements to NGINX JavaScript module, including the new interactive shell to facilitate development of NGINX JavaScript code
  • New NGINX Plus API that incorporates the functionality of the previous upstream_conf and (extended) status APIs; it includes a Swagger specification and adds support for key‑value stores
  • New build tool (download here) that creates installable packages of the many third‑party modules available for NGINX and NGINX Plus
  • Ability to gracefully shut down all live client connections when restarting NGINX Plus (the worker_shutdown_timeout directive)
  • Support for adding HTTP trailers (the add_trailer directive)
  • Improvement to session persistence: quicker establishment of sticky sessions between clients and upstream groups (the header parameter to the sticky learn directive)
  • Support for the third‑party HTTP Substitutions Filter module, distributed in NGINX Plus packages and available on the Dynamic Modules page

NGINX Plus R13 is supported on:

  • Amazon Linux 2016.09+
  • CentOS 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Debian 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
  • FreeBSD 10.3, 11.0
  • Oracle Linux 6.5+, 7.0+
  • RHEL 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 17.04 “Zesty”

Notes:

  • Support for version 5.10+ of CentOS, Oracle Linux, and RHEL; Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin); and Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) is no longer available.
  • Support for Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) is new in this release.
  • The sticky_cookie_insert directive (deprecated in NGINX Plus R2) has been removed.
  • The upstream_conf and (extended) status APIs are deprecated by the new NGINX Plus API and will be removed in a future release.

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R13

NGINX Plus Release 12 (R12)

NGINX open source build 1.11.10, 14 March 2017

NGINX Plus R12 is a feature release:

  • New config_sync package enables configuration to synchronized across an NGINX Plus cluster from a single master node.
  • Updates to the Extended Status module data set, including NGINX Plus version (nginx_build), usage statistics for shared memory zones (under the slabs/ subtree), and additional upstream fields (name, service)
  • New statistics displayed on live activity monitoring dashboard: NGINX Plus version, response time metrics, shared memory zones usage, and server names for upstreams
  • Support for the stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error extensions to the Cache-Control header, as defined by RFC 5861
  • Ability to bypass cache for byte range requests after a specified offset (the proxy_cache_max_range_offset directive)
  • Length of Vary and ETag cache headers increased to 128 bytes; note that the on‑disk cache format has changed, so cached content is invalidated after the upgrade and must be refreshed from the origin server
  • mandatory parameter to the health_check directive (HTTP and Stream) which requires servers newly added to an upstream group to pass the associated health check before receiving real traffic
  • “Zero config” UDP health check which does not require specifying a match block
  • Support in the Stream module for verification of client SSL certificates for TCP applications
  • SSL variables representing various details about client certificates and capabilities ($ssl_ciphers, $ssl_client_v_end, $ssl_client_v_start, $ssl_client_v_remain, and $ssl_curves)
  • The $ssl_client_verify variable includes the reason for failure
  • The $ssl_client_i_dn and ssl_client_s_dn variables comply with RFC 2253; legacy variants are available as $ssl_client_i_dn_legacy and $ssl_client_s_dn_legacy
  • Support for accessing arbitrary JWT fields as variables
  • Support for JSON escaping in access logs (the escape parameter to the log_format directive)
  • WebP support in the Image-Filter module.
  • Output from the nginx -T command excludes duplicated sections of configuration
  • Improvements to memory usage and performance, including upstream queue optimization

NGINX Plus R12 is supported on:

  • Amazon Linux 2016.09+
  • CentOS 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Debian 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
  • FreeBSD 10.3, 11.0
  • Oracle Linux 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • RHEL 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • SLES 12, 12 SP1
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 16.10

Support for Debian 9.0 (Stretch) is new in this release. FreeBSD 9 is no longer supported.

Note: NGINX Plus R12 is the last release to support Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and version 5.10+ of CentOS, Oracle Linux, and RHEL.

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R12

NGINX Plus R12 Updates

These are bug‑fix releases for NGINX Plus R12.

NGINX Plus R12 P3
29 June 2017

  • Content caching: fixed issue where a cache response could contain additional internal cache header data.

NGINX Plus R12 P2
30 March 2017

  • Live activity monitoring: fixed issue where response time metric was miscalculated under certain conditions.

NGINX Plus R12 P1
14 March 2017

  • Live activity monitoring: fixed issue that could cause the dashboard to hang for certain configurations.

NGINX Plus Release 11 (R11)

NGINX open source build 1.11.5, 25 October 2016

NGINX Plus R11 is a feature release:

  • Dynamic modules binary compatibility between NGINX Plus and the corresponding version of open source NGINX
  • Enhancements to the Stream module: custom logging with a number of additional variables, PROXY protocol support for incoming connections, support for obtaining real IP address and port from PROXY protocol header, and ability to extract the server name from SNI into a variable for purposes such as custom routing
  • Updates to the Extended Status module data set, including additional Stream metrics (sessions, discarded)
  • Cache manager support for iterative operations mode when deleting old cache files, reducing the disk load (see the manager_files, manager_threshold, and manager_sleep parameters of the proxy_cache_path directive)
  • Support for variables in the domain parameter to the sticky directive
  • New variable $upstream_bytes_received for both Stream and HTTP)

NGINX Plus R11 is supported on:

  • CentOS 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Debian 7.0, 8.0
  • FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1+, 11.0
  • Oracle Linux 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • RHEL 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • SLES 12, 12 SP1
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 16.10
  • Amazon Linux 2016.03+

Support for Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) and FreeBSD 11.0 is new in this release.

Note: NGINX Plus R11 does not include the nginx-plus-extras package. Any subscribers using this package must migrate to the nginx-plus package and then install the needed dynamic modules.

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R11

NGINX Plus Release 10 (R10)

NGINX open source build 1.11.3, 23 August 2016

NGINX Plus R10 is a feature release:

  • New dynamic module: ModSecurity (package name is nginx-plus-module-modsecurity) built on an early release of ModSecurity 3.0.
  • New dynamic module: nginScript (package name is nginx-plus-module-njs)
  • Support for client authentication using JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
  • Enhancements to the Stream module used for TCP/UDP load balancing (more NGINX variables, resolver support, map module, geo module, geoip module, and split_clients A/B testing support)
  • Support for dual‑stack RSA/ECC certificates by defining multiple ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key directives on the same virtual server
  • Support for IP Transparency and Direct Server Return (DSR) using the transparent parameter to the proxy_bind directive. DSR only supported for UDP load balancing.
  • Support for the IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT socket option where available, allowing for many more upstream connections (requires Linux kernel 4.2 or later)
  • HTTP/2 improvements: support for unbuffered upload,and various bug fixes
  • New NGINX variables: $request_id, $proxy_protocol_port, $realip_remote_port
  • Modules updated (both in nginx-plus-extras and as dynamic modules):
  • Headers-More module updated to version 0.31
  • Lua module updated to version 0.10.6
  • Phusion Passenger Open Source module updated to version 5.0.30
  • Set-Misc module updated to version 0.31

NGINX Plus R10 is supported on:

  • CentOS 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Debian 7.0, 8.0
  • FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1+
  • Oracle Linux 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • RHEL 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • SLES 12, 12 SP1
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS
  • Amazon Linux 2016.03+

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) is no longer supported.

Note: NGINX Plus R10 is the last release to include the nginx-plus-extras package. Any subscribers using this package should migrate to the nginx-plus package and then install the needed dynamic modules.

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R10

NGINX Plus Release 9 (R9)

NGINX open source build 1.9.13, 12 April 2016

NGINX Plus R9 is a feature release:

NGINX Plus R9 is supported on:

  • CentOS 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Debian 7.0, 8.0
  • FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1+
  • Oracle Linux 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • RHEL 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • SLES 12, 12 SP1
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 15.10, 16.04 LTS
  • Amazon Linux 2016.03+

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) is no longer supported.

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R9

NGINX Plus R9 Updates

These are bug‑fix releases for NGINX Plus R9.

NGINX Plus R9 P1
25 May 2016

  • Fixed potential segmentation fault when writing a client request body to a temporary file. A specially crafted request may cause an NGINX worker process to crash due to a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2016-4450).

NGINX Plus Release 8 (R8)

NGINX open source build 1.9.9, 19 January 2016

NGINX Plus R8 is a feature release:

  • OAuth Technology Preview, which performs OAuth 2.0 processing for proxied applications
  • Improved HTTP/2 implementation now included in the nginx-plus and nginx-plus-extras packages; the nginx-plus-http2 package is deprecated
  • Caching improvements, including support for caching HEAD requests and more effective caching of large files with the Cache Slice module
  • Changes to upstream groups made with the on‑the‑fly reconfiguration API can now be configured to persist across restarts and configuration reloads
  • Support for sending health check requests to a specified port (the port parameter to the health_check directive)
  • Enhancement to the Real IP module: the new $realip_remote_addr variable represents the original client IP address
  • Enhancement to syslog logging: the nohostname parameter disables logging of the hostname field, which is unnecessary when logging to a local syslog server
  • Updated live activity monitoring dashboard
  • In the nginx-plus-extras package:

NGINX Plus R8 is supported on:

  • CentOS 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0
  • Debian 7.0, 8.0
  • FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1+
  • Oracle Linux 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0
  • RHEL 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0
  • SLES 12, 12 SP1
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 15.04, 15.10
  • Amazon Linux

NGINX Plus R8 does not include the nginx-plus-lua package; customers previously using this package are advised to migrate to the nginx-plus-extras package.

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus R8

NGINX Plus R8 Updates

These are bug‑fix releases for NGINX Plus R8.

NGINX Plus R8 P3
24 February 2016

  • HTTP/2: Fixed handling of client_body_timeout directive

NGINX Plus R8 P2
11 February 2016

  • Logging: Fixed buffer over‑read while logging invalid request headers
  • HTTP/2: Various fixes

NGINX Plus R8 P1
26 January 2016

  • Resolver: Limit CNAME resolutions to prevent remote attackers from causing a denial of service (CVE-2016-0747)

NGINX Plus Release 7 (R7)

NGINX open source build 1.9.4, 15 September 2015

NGINX Plus R7 is a feature release:

  • Support for HTTP/2 in the new nginx-plus-http2 package (the nginx-plus and nginx-plus-extras packages continue to support SPDY)

    Note: Before installing the nginx-plus-http2 package, you must remove the spdy parameter on all listen directives in your configuration (replace it with the http2 and ssl parameters to enable support for HTTP/2). NGINX Plus fails to start if any listen directives have the spdy parameter.

  • Support for proxying NTLM requests

  • Enhancements to TCP load balancing and proxying:

  • More efficient distribution of connections across NGINX Plus worker processes (new reuseport parameter to the listen directive)

  • Thread pools for multithreaded reading and sending of files without blocking worker processes

  • Live activity monitoring dashboard redesigned to use tabs

  • Additional live activity monitoring metrics in the Status module (dataset version 6)

  • Additional arguments to playlist and fragment URIs in the HLS module (start, end, and offset)

  • New -T flag on nginx command to dump the configuration to standard output in a standardized format

  • New $upstream_connect_time variable to capture the connection time to upstream servers

  • sub_filter directive now supports variables in both the string being replaced and the replacement string; multiple sub_filter directives can appear at a configuration level

  • In the nginx-plus-extras package:

NGINX Plus R7 is supported on:

  • CentOS 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • Debian 7.0, 8.0
  • FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1+
  • Oracle Linux 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • RHEL 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0+
  • SLES 12
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 15.04

The following OS distributions are no longer supported: Debian 6.0, SLES 11 SP3, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn).

The nginx-plus-extras package has additional dependencies.

NGINX Plus R7 is the last release that includes the nginx-plus-lua package; customers using the package will have to migrate to the nginx-plus-extras package in NGINX Plus R8.

More information and important upgrade information for users of the Phusion Passenger Open Source module: Announcing NGINX Plus Release 7

NGINX Plus Release 6 (R6)

NGINX open source build 1.7.11, 14 April 2015

NGINX Plus R6 is a feature release:

  • TCP proxy enhancements (health checks, dynamic reconfiguration, SSL support, logging, status counters)
  • New Least-Time load‑balancing algorithm
  • Support for unbuffered upload (proxy_request_buffering directive)
  • Proxy SSL authentication support for HTTP and uwsgi
  • Proxy cache enhancements (variables in value of proxy_cache directive, new use_temp_path parameter to proxy_cache_path directive)
  • Mail proxy supports client SSL certificates
  • Enhancement to Autoindex module (new autoindex_format directive)
  • New live activity monitoring dashboard
  • In the nginx-plus-extras package:

NGINX Plus R6 is supported on:

  • CentOS 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0
  • Debian 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
  • FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1
  • Oracle Linux 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0
  • RHEL 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0
  • SLES 11 SP3, 12
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 14.10

The nginx-plus-extras package has additional dependencies.

More information: Announcing NGINX Plus Release 6 with Enhanced Load Balancing, High Availability, and Monitoring Features

NGINX Plus Release 5 (R5)

NGINX open source build 1.7.7, 2 December 2014

NGINX Plus R5 is a feature release:

  • Proxying and load balancing of raw TCP traffic (the Stream module)
  • Sticky session timeout now applies from the most recent request in the session
  • Upstream “draining” can be used to remove an upstream server without interrupting any user sessions (new drain parameter to the upstream_conf directive)
  • Improved control over request retries in the event of failure, based on number of tries and time; also available for FastCGI, memcached, SCGI, and uwsgi modules
  • Vary field in response header is correctly handled for caching (multiple variants of the same resource can be cached); note that the on‑disk cache format has changed, so upgrading to R5 invalidates cached content
  • Improved caching support for byte‑range requests
  • Control of upstream bandwidth (new proxy_limit_rate directive)
  • In the nginx-plus-extras package:
  • In the nginx-plus-lua package:
    • Lua module updated to version 0.9.13

NGINX Plus R5 is supported on:

  • CentOS 5.9, 6.5, 7.0
  • Debian 6.0, 7.0
  • FreeBSD 9.3, 10.0
  • Oracle Linux 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0
  • RHEL 5.9, 6.5, 7.0
  • SLES 11 SP3, 12
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 14.10

The nginx-plus-extras and nginx-plus-lua packages have additional dependencies.

More information: NGINX Plus R5 Released

NGINX Plus Release 4 (R4)

NGINX open source build 1.7.3, 24 July 2014

NGINX Plus R4 is a feature release:

  • Ability to verify backend SSL certificates
  • Support for SNI while working with SSL backends
  • Passphrases for SSL private keys can now be stored in an external file
  • New load‑balancing method based on user‑defined keys with optional consistency (hash directive)
  • New session affinity mechanism (sticky learn) based on server‑initiated sessions
  • Cache revalidation now uses If-None-Match header field when possible
  • Conditional logging for requests (new if parameter to the access_log directive)
  • Ability to retrieve a subset of the live activity monitoring data
  • MP4 module now supports the end argument in request URIs, which sets the end point of playback
  • In the nginx-plus-extras package:
  • In the nginx-plus-lua package:
    • Lua module updated to version 0.9.10

NGINX Plus R4 is supported on:

  • CentOS 5.9, 6.5, 7.0
  • Debian 6.0, 7.0
  • FreeBSD 9.2, 10.0
  • Oracle Linux 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0
  • RHEL 5.9, 6.5, 7.0
  • SLES 11 SP3
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS

The nginx-plus-extras and nginx-plus-lua packages have additional dependencies.

More information: NGINX Plus R4 Released

NGINX Plus Release 3 (R3)

NGINX open source build 1.5.12‑1, 2 April 2014

NGINX Plus R3 is a feature release:

  • Automatic re‑resolution of hostnames in upstream groups allows group members to be updated on‑the‑fly using DNS
  • New connection limits and an internal connection queue protect servers from connection overload and improve connection scheduling by NGINX Plus’ load balancing
  • Support for PROXY protocol
  • SPDY support updated to comply with draft 3.1
  • Additional controls over SSL have been added to control the use of session tickets and reduce time to first byte
  • Support for IPv6 DNS resolution

NGINX Plus R3 is supported on:

  • CentOS 5.9, 6.5
  • Debian 6.0, 7.0
  • FreeBSD 9.2, 10.0
  • Oracle Linux 5.10+, 6.5+, 7.0
  • RHEL 5.9, 6.5
  • SLES 11 SP3
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 12.10, 13.10, 14.04 LTS

The nginx-plus-extras and nginx-plus-lua packages have additional dependencies.

More information: NGINX Plus R3 Released

NGINX Plus Release 2 (R2)

NGINX open source build 1.5.7‑1, 12 December 2013

NGINX Plus R2 is a feature release:

  • Enhanced sticky routing support
  • Additional status metrics for virtual hosts and cache zones
  • Cache purge support (also available for FastCGI)
  • Support for cache revalidation
  • Support for authorization based on the result of a subrequest (new ngx_http_auth_request_module module)

NGINX Plus R2 Updates

Security Update to NGINX Plus Release R2NGINX open source build 1.5.7‑4, 21 March 2014

  • Fixes vulnerability in experimental SPDY implementation in open source build 1.5.7‑3 and earlier.

Functional Update to NGINX Plus R2NGINX open source build 1.5.7‑3, 5 March 2014

  • NGINX Plus now correctly applies the value set with the client_max_body_size directive when processing HTTP requests that contain chunk‑encoded body data.

Functional Update to NGINX Plus R2NGINX open source build 1.5.7‑2, 13 February 2014

  • Updates to MP4 and HLS streaming functionality
  • Fix for premature closing of connections when using SPDY with proxy cache
  • Updates to implementation of SPDY/2
  • Added status.html file for live activity monitoring, missing from some packages

NGINX Plus Initial Release (R1)

NGINX open source build 1.5.3‑1, 22 August 2013

NGINX Plus is the fully supported, commercial version of NGINX. It includes most NGINX open source modules and adds further features:

  • Application health checks
  • Live activity monitoring (implemented in the Extended Status module)
  • Advanced load balancing
  • On‑the‑fly reconfiguration of load‑balanced upstream groups
  • Extended logging capabilities
  • High availability setup
  • Adaptive media streaming