Author: Hannah Ouellette
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Meet With Us: NGINX Gateway Fabric & NGINX Ingress Controller Community Calls
Connection, collaboration, and trust are the lifeblood of healthy community culture. NGINX Gateway Fabric and NGINX Ingress Controller were (and are) developed with open source community as a priority. From code contributions to critical comments, community participation has shaped the present and future of NGINX open source projects, and the future of technology. Today, I’m excited to highlight two recurring opportunities to engage directly…
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NGINX OSS 1.29.6 and 1.29.7: Open-sourced Session Persistence, Multipath TCP and More
NGINX 1.29.6 and 1.29.7 introduce significant updates and mark the first in a planned series to add capabilities to NGINX Open Source formerly limited to NGINX Plus. With updates to core runtime behavior and network support, these releases ensure that NGINX can continue to meet the needs of modern applications and AI workloads. Highlights of these releases include: Together, these changes expand what operators can do with NGINX Open Source while simplifying configurations for optimizing performance to proxied services. …
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Understanding Gateway API Split Architecture: Control Plane vs. Data Plane
Gateway API is quickly becoming the standard for managing ingress traffic in Kubernetes environments. One of its key architectural decisions is the clear separation between the control plane and the data plane, which are deployed independently. This split is not just a technical detail, it has significant implications for how teams operate, scale, and secure…
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What’s New in F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.3.0
We’re pleased to announce F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric (NGF) 2.3.0, and we’re shipping it a little early, right before the holidays, for one compelling reason: to meet strong community demand for a Kubernetes Gateway API conformance-focused release. With this release, NGF is now one of only five generally available Gateway API implementations, as shown in the community’s official Gateway Controller Implementation Status. After…
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What’s New in F5 NGINX Ingress Controller 5.3.0
F5 NGINX Ingress Controller 5.3.0 arrives at a pivotal moment. With the Kubernetes community announcing at KubeCon North America 2025 that the community-maintained ingress-nginx project will be retired in March 2026, users everywhere are rethinking their ingress strategies. For those looking for a familiar, production-grade open source replacement, F5 NGINX Ingress Controller offers a solution maintained by the NGINX team. This release focuses on improving existing capabilities, delivering key customer-requested features,…
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What’s New in NGINX Open Source 1.29.3 and 1.29.4
The latest NGINX open source updates arrive as a pair. NGINX 1.29.3 delivers new capabilities around TLS observability, header management, and TLS handshake efficiency. NGINX 1.29.4 adds new privacy enhancements and improved security. Across the two releases, we’re focused on: Together, these updates make it easier for operators, security teams, and developers to maintain secure, efficient, and predictable infrastructure at scale. HTTP/2 to Upstream Support …
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Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) support in NGINX
TL; DR: Not all Linux distros can run NGINX with PQC support. Read this article to learn which ones do, and how to do it yourself. At DEF CON 33, Konstantinos Karagiannis argued that usable quantum capabilities could arrive much sooner than many expect. Regardless of the exact date, agencies such as NIST, NSA, and…
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The Ingress NGINX Alternative: Open Source NGINX Ingress Controller for the Long Term
The Kubernetes community announced that Ingress NGINX will be retired in March 2026. After that, there won’t be any more updates, bugfixes, or security patches. This decision came after years of the project being maintained by just 1-2 developers working nights and weekends, plus some serious security issues earlier this year (IngressNightmare CVE-2025-1974) that made…
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NGINX Amplify will shut down on January 31, 2026
We’re announcing the retirement of NGINX Amplify, our free-to-use NGINX monitoring service. If you currently use Amplify to monitor your NGINX instances, please read on for timeline details, why we’re making this change, and how to move to the NGINX One Console. Why we’re retiring Amplify Key benefits of transitioning to NGINX One Timeline Gaps…