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
| 2026-05-22 | nginx-1.30.2 stable and nginx-1.31.1 mainline versions have been released, with a fix for buffer overflow vulnerability in the ngx_http_rewrite_module (CVE-2026-9256). |
| 2026-05-19 | njs-0.9.9 version has been released, with a fix for heap buffer overflow vulnerability in js_fetch_proxy (CVE-2026-8711), featuring js_access, r.readRequestText() and friends, r.readRequestForm(), and jsVarNames(). |
| 2026-05-13 | nginx-1.30.1 stable and nginx-1.31.0 mainline versions have been released, with fixes for HTTP/2 request injection vulnerability in the ngx_http_proxy_module (CVE-2026-42926), buffer overflow vulnerability in the ngx_http_rewrite_module (CVE-2026-42945), buffer overread vulnerabilities in the ngx_http_scgi_module and ngx_http_uwsgi_module (CVE-2026-42946), buffer overread vulnerability in the ngx_http_charset_module (CVE-2026-42934), address spoofing vulnerability in HTTP/3 (CVE-2026-40460), and use-after-free vulnerability in OCSP requests to resolver (CVE-2026-40701). Additionally, nginx-1.31.0 mainline version features support for HTTP forward proxy. |
| 2026-04-23 |
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 | |