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Announcing NGINX Plus R22 We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 22 (R22) is now available. Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one software load balancer, content cache, web server, and API gateway. The primary focus of the release is monitoring and authentication, for enhanced granularity and resilience of your applications at scale. New features in NGINX Plus R22 include: Enhancements to client certificate authentication – Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) verification adds a layer of security to check for revoked certificates with mutual TLS. OpenID Connect support for multiple IdPs – In NGINX Plus R15, we introduced OpenID Connect (OIDC) integration to enable our customers to add single sign‑on (SSO) to their applications. With NGINX Plus R22, you can easily integrate with multiple OIDC identity providers (IdPs). More metrics on the live activity monitoring dashboard – The [ more… ]

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… ]

Introducing NGINX App Protect: Advanced F5 Application Security for NGINX Plus Companies going through digital transformation have clear business imperatives. They include improving the customer experience with modern business applications, adopting agile practices to outpace competitors in the market, and leveraging market advantages to drive new revenue streams. Supporting these efforts are new application architectures that increase development efficiency and incorporate containers, microservices, and APIs. For modern applications, agility and time to market are key. Security is often a secondary consideration, or is neglected entirely. Why? Security controls for traditional applications don’t always map well to business requirements. For example, the kind of sophisticated web application firewalls (WAFs) that are traditionally configured and operated by SecOps teams are not generally well suited for agile applications deployed by the DevOps teams supporting specific lines of businesss. The result can be inadequate [ more… ]

Ensuring Application Availability with F5 DNS Load Balancer Cloud Service and NGINX Plus Application downtime is a big deal, costing Fortune 1000 companies between $1.25 billion and $2.5 billion annually according to an IDC report. An outage can impact customer confidence and bring your business to a standstill. To reduce downtime and mitigate its costs, you can start by removing points of failure from your existing infrastructure with a modern, scalable application platform like NGINX’s. You can further optimize performance and improve the availability of their applications by employing DNS. This post focuses on how NGINX Plus and the F5 DNS Load Balancer Cloud Service work together to increase your application’s availability. How Can DNS Minimize Downtime? DNS is fundamental to every request made on the Internet. It makes the first – and hence most critical – decision about every request: how to route it to [ more… ]