Release Date : 2022-06-28

Base OSS Version : 1.21.6

Feature Release

  • API version 8:
  • JWT Authentication: error code can be customized with the error parameter of the [auth_jwt_require](<https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_auth_jwt_module.html#auth_jwt_require>) directive if any additional condition of JWT validation fails
  • HTTP health checks: the [keepalive_time](<https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_hc_module.html#health_check_keepalive_time>) parameter of the [health_check](<https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_hc_module.html#health_check>) directive that enables keepalive connections for health checks and specifies the time during which requests can be processed through one keepalive connection
  • The Prometheus-njs module now supports version [7](<https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_api_module.html#compatibility>) of the API, including /stream/limit_conns/, /http/limit_conns/, /http/limit_req/ data, and HTTP status code statistics for upstreams, server zones and location zones
  • kTLS is now also available on RHEL 9.0 and Ubuntu 22.04

NGINX Plus R27 is supported on:

  • Alpine Linux 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16
  • Amazon Linux 2 LTS
  • CentOS 7.4+
  • Debian 10, 11
  • FreeBSD 12.1+, 13
  • Oracle Linux 7.4+, 8.1+
  • RHEL 7.4+, 8.1+, 9.0+
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5, 15 SP2
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS

Notes:

  • Alpine Linux 3.16 is new in this release
  • RHEL 9.0+ is new in this release
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is new in this release
  • Debian 10 is deprecated
  • Alpine 3.12 is no longer supported
  • CentOS 8 is no longer supported
  • Power 8 architecture is no longer supported’