Announcing NGINX Plus R26
Announcing NGINX Plus R26 p.indent { margin-left: 20px; } We’re happy to announce the availability of NGINX Plus Release 26 (R26). Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one software web server, load balancer, reverse proxy, content cache, and API gateway. New and enhanced features in NGINX Plus R26 include: Faster JWT validation with JSON Web Key Set caching – Continuing the series of enhancements to JSON Web Tokens (JWT) support added over the last few releases, we introduce in‑memory caching of JSON Web Key Sets (JWKS), which substantially reduces overhead for JWT validation. Hardened TLS handshakes – NGINX Plus rejects the TLS handshake if the client proposes a communication protocol via ALPN that doesn’t match the NGINX configuration context for the session being established (for example proposes IMAP to a virtual server in the http{} context). Enhancements to the NGINX [ more… ]