Month: April 2023

NGINX 1.24.0 stable with Brotli, TLS 1.3, OpenSSL 3.0.8, HTTP/2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Rocky, Oracle, Alma Linux EL7/EL8/EL9

NGINX 1.24.0 stable added to EL7, EL8, EL9 repositories. brotli compression module from Google, http2, ngx cache purge и ngx http geoip2 modules added or built-in. OpenSSL built dynamically using OpenSSL+QUIC 1.1.1r.

TLS 1.3 final works with Google Chrome 70+ and Mozilla Firefox 63+.

RHEL 8-9 / Alma Linux 8-9 / Rocky Linux 8-9 / CentOS 8-9 / Other EL8/EL9 repos are modular now.  To install nginx mainline, you need to enable the appropriate stream:

dnf module enable -y nginx:codeit-stable

We build OpenSSL+QUIC 3 separately since v1.23.4, installing it separately to /lib64 with .so.81.3 suffix to ensure it won’t interfere with your system libraries.

Apache httpd 2.4.57 with brotli support, TLS 1.3, OpenSSL 3.0.8 with http2, mod_http2 2.0.13 and ALPN for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8/9, CentOS 7, Alma Linux 8/9, Rocky Linux 8/9

Apache httpd 2.4.57-1 with brotli compression library from Google, TLS 1.3, http2 (HTTP/2) support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 7/8, Alma Linux 8/9, Rocky Linux 8/9 added to repository. mod_http2 2.0.13 and mod_ssl are built dynamically against OpenSSL 3.0.8.

We build OpenSSL+QUIC 3.0.8 separately since v2.4.56-2, installing it separately to /lib64 with .so.81.3 suffix to ensure it won’t interfere with your system libraries. You can safely delete openssl111* packages. On EL8 and EL9 please enable httpd module:

dnf module enable httpd:codeit

Since 2.4.33 we added brotli compression library. Since 2.4.35 release we start building Apache httpd against OpenSSL 1.1.1*. Since 2.4.37 release TLS 1.3 final version (not to be confused with any draft versions) is supported and enabled by default. Please note that TLS 1.3 final version is supported in Chrome 70+ and Mozilla Firefox 63+. brotli support is already included in base RPM file. All you need is to add filters like 

AddOutputFilterByType BROTLI_COMPRESS text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript