
NGINX Unit 1.16.0 Introduces New Yet Familiar Features
NGINX Unit 1.16.0 Introduces New Yet Familiar Features Like many of you, the NGINX Unit team has been hunkered down at home during the COVID‑19 pandemic. Nonetheless, we’ve been able to maintain our steady release cadence, introducing versions 1.15.0 and 1.16.0 in the past couple months. Let’s take a quick look at the new features we’ve added. Two of the features new with NGINX Unit 1.16.0 are familiar to fans of NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus: the fallback routing option is similar to the NGINX try_files directive, and the upstreams object introduces round‑robin load balancing of requests across a dedicated group of backend servers. The fallback Routing Option The first new feature enables you to define an alternative routing action for cases when a static file can’t be served for some reason. You can easily imagine ways to extend this logic beyond mere [ more… ]