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
| 2026-10-14 | nginx-1.30.6 stable and nginx-1.31.7 mainline versions have been released, with fixes for buffer overflow vulnerability when using alias with rewrite (CVE-2026-15176), buffer overflow vulnerability when evaluating string expressions with variables (CVE-2026-93479), request body injection vulnerability in HTTP/3 (CVE-2026-95101), session forgery vulnerability when using TLS session ticket key rotation (CVE-2026-97629), and use-after-free vulnerability when using ngx_http_ssi_module with AIO (CVE-2026-97205). |
| 2026-10-14 | njs-1.0.2 version has been released, with fixes for memory exhaustion vulnerability when parsing malformed XML (CVE-2026-101025), and inconsistent XML attribute values affecting signed XML validation (CVE-2026-101019). |
| 2026-09-15 | nginx-1.30.5 stable and nginx-1.31.6 mainline versions have been released, with fixes for buffer overflow vulnerability when using ngx_http_v3_module (CVE-2026-90439). |
| 2026-09-02 | nginx-1.31.5 mainline version has been released, featuring control API, predicate locations, and the ngx_http_json_module module. |
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 | |