Announcing NGINX Plus R14 We’re pleased to announce that NGINX Plus R14 is now available to our NGINX Plus subscribers. NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one load balancer, content cache, and web server. NGINX Plus R14 is based on the open source NGINX software and previous NGINX Plus releases. The new release also includes authentication and clustering enhancements, additional features, bug fixes, and our award-winning 24-hour support. With NGINX Plus R14, you can enforce access controls using JSON web tokens (JWT). With new support for nested JWT claims, NGINX Plus can allow or grant access based on group membership information nested inside a JWT. Native JWT authentication support, first introduced in NGINX Plus R10, enables NGINX Plus to be used as an authentication gateway for your APIs and applications. Additional NGINX Plus R14 features include: Extended clustering support (technology preview) – [ more… ]