Introducing NGINX 1.18 and 1.19 Today we release NGINX 1.19, the latest version of NGINX Open Source, the most popular web server on the Internet. This release signals the launch of the NGINX 1.19 development branch, following the release of the NGINX 1.18 stable branch last month. In this blog we discuss the NGINX versioning scheme, look back at what happened during the NGINX 1.17 development cycle, and look forward to what is in store with NGINX 1.19. NGINX Versioning Explained At NGINX, we maintain two branches in the NGINX Open Source code repository, named mainline and stable: Mainline is the active development branch where the latest features and bug fixes get added. It is denoted by an odd number in the second part of the version number, for example 1.19.0. Stable receives fixes for high‑severity bugs, but is not updated with new features. It is [ more… ]