NGINX Community Blog

Category: Announcement

  • Meet With Us: NGINX Gateway Fabric & NGINX Ingress Controller Community Calls 

    Meet With Us: NGINX Gateway Fabric & NGINX Ingress Controller Community Calls 

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    Hannah Ouellette
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    Connection, collaboration, and trust are the lifeblood of healthy community culture. NGINX Gateway Fabric and NGINX Ingress Controller were (and are) developed with open source community as a priority. From code contributions to critical comments, community participation has shaped the present and future of NGINX open source projects, and the future of technology.   Today, I’m excited to highlight two recurring opportunities to engage directly…

  • NGINX Ingress Controller 5.5: Security, Performance, and Easier Migration

    NGINX Ingress Controller 5.5: Security, Performance, and Easier Migration

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    Micheál Kingston
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    NGINX Ingress Controller 5.5 is a focused, community-driven release. It brings new capabilities, expanded Kubernetes Ingress support, a significant startup performance improvement at scale, and more annotations to ease migrations from ingress-nginx. Here’s what’s new. External Authentication for Ingress and VirtualServer What’s new?: External Authentication is now supported for both Ingress and VirtualServer resources. Based…

  • Strengthening the NGINX Community

    Strengthening the NGINX Community

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    Marko Sluga
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    NGINX is at the heart of a significant portion of the modern internet. Trusted at scale for more than two decades, it helps deliver the traffic for over one third of the internet today. NGINX is the quiet workhorse behind a huge slice of the traffic you served, fetched, and clicked through today. A project…

  • Keep-alive to upstreams is now default in NGINX 1.29.7

    Keep-alive to upstreams is now default in NGINX 1.29.7

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    Nick Shadrin
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    Before version 1.29.7, NGINX used HTTP/1.0 by default for connecting to HTTP upstream servers. This older version of the protocol does not have the capability of HTTP persistent connections, commonly known as “keep-alive.” Keep-alive reduces the number of handshakes, reduces latency, and reduces time to first byte for most regular web applications. In order to…

  • Introducing kubernetes.nginx.org: A Community Hub for NGINX on Kubernetes, Including a New Ingress-NGINX Migration Tool

    Introducing kubernetes.nginx.org: A Community Hub for NGINX on Kubernetes, Including a New Ingress-NGINX Migration Tool

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    Alessandro Fael Garcia
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    Today, we’re excited to announce kubernetes.nginx.org, a new community hub for everything NGINX networking on Kubernetes, along with a brand-new Kubernetes community Ingress-NGINX Migration Tool designed to make moving from the Kubernetes community Ingress-NGINX controller to the NGINX Ingress Controller as smooth as possible. Why a Community Hub? Whether you’re running NGINX Ingress Controller, exploring…

  • NGINX Amplify will shut down on January 31, 2026

    NGINX Amplify will shut down on January 31, 2026

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    Ruthvik Reddy SL
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    We’re announcing the retirement of NGINX Amplify, our free-to-use NGINX monitoring service. If you currently use Amplify to monitor your NGINX instances, please read on for timeline details, why we’re making this change, and how to move to the NGINX One Console. Why we’re retiring Amplify Key benefits of transitioning to NGINX One Timeline Gaps…