Brotli compression for NGINX and Apache httpd on Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu

nginx 1.30.0 stable version has been released, incorporating new features and bug fixes from the 1.29.x mainline branch — including Early Hints, HTTP/2 to backend and Encrypted ClientHello, sticky sessions support for upstreams, Multipath TCP support, the default proxy HTTP version set to HTTP/1.1 with keep-alive enabled, and more.

Nginx 1.30.0 Stable with HTTP/3 support added to EL7, EL8, EL9 and EL10 repositories.

Brotli compression module from Google, http2, ngx_cache_purge and ngx_http_geoip2 modules are built in. OpenSSL is built dynamically using official OpenSSL 4.0.0 with QUIC support.

Major changes:

– 1.30.x stable branch.

nginx 1.29.8 Mainline with HTTP/3 support featuring support for Multipath TCP and upgrading the default HTTP version to HTTP/1.1 with keep-alive enabled added to EL7, EL8, EL9, EL10 repositories. brotli compression module from Google, http2, ngx cache purge and ngx http geoip2 modules added or built-in. OpenSSL built dynamically using official OpenSSL 3.5.6 with QUIC support.

nginx-1.29.8 mainline version has been released featuring max_headers configuration.

    *) Feature: the "max_headers" directive.
       Thanks to Maxim Dounin.

    *) Feature: OpenSSL 4.0 compatibility.

    *) Feature: now the "include" directive inside the "geo" block supports wildcards.

    *) Bugfix: in processing of HTTP 103 (Early Hints) responses from a proxied backend.

    *) Bugfix: the $request_port and $is_request_port variables were not available in subrequests.

nginx 1.29.7 Mainline with HTTP/3 support featuring support for Multipath TCP and upgrading the default HTTP version to HTTP/1.1 with keep-alive enabled added to EL7, EL8, EL9, EL10 repositories. brotli compression module from Google, http2, ngx cache purge and ngx http geoip2 modules added or built-in. OpenSSL built dynamically using official OpenSSL 3.5.1 with QUIC support.

nginx-1.29.7 mainline version has been released, introducing two significant updates: support for Multipath TCP and upgrading the default HTTP version to HTTP/1.1 with keep-alive enabled. This release also includes a security fix for the buffer overflow vulnerability in the ngx_http_dav_module (CVE-2026-27654), security fixes for the buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the ngx_http_mp4_module (CVE-2026-27784, CVE-2026-32647), security fixes for the mail session authentication vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-27651, CVE-2026-28753), and a security fix for the OCSP result bypass vulnerability in stream (CVE-2026-28755).

    *) Security: a buffer overflow might occur while handling a COPY or MOVE request in a location with "alias", allowing an attacker to modify the source or destination path outside of the document root (CVE-2026-27654).
       Thanks to Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research.

    *) Security: processing of a specially crafted mp4 file by the ngx_http_mp4_module on 32-bit platforms might cause a worker process crash, or might have potential other impact (CVE-2026-27784).Thanks to Prabhav Srinath (sprabhav7).

    *) Security: processing of a specially crafted mp4 file by the ngx_http_mp4_module might cause a worker process crash, or might have potential other impact (CVE-2026-32647). Thanks to Xint Code and Pavel Kohout (Aisle Research).

    *) Security: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the CRAM-MD5 or APOP authentication methods were used and authentication retry was enabled (CVE-2026-27651). Thanks to Arkadi Vainbrand.

    *) Security: an attacker might use PTR DNS records to inject data in auth_http requests, as well as in the XCLIENT command in the backend SMTP connection (CVE-2026-28753). Thanks to Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada, Colin Warren, Xiao Liu (Yunnan University), Yuan Tan (UC Riverside), and Bird Liu (Lanzhou University).

    *) Security: SSL handshake might succeed despite OCSP rejecting a client certificate in the stream module (CVE-2026-28755). Thanks to Mufeed VH of Winfunc Research.

    *) Feature: the "multipath" parameter of the "listen" directive.

    *) Feature: the "local" parameter of the "keepalive" directive in the "upstream" block.

    *) Change: now the "keepalive" directive in the "upstream" block is enabled by default.

    *) Change: now ngx_http_proxy_module supports keepalive by default; the default value for "proxy_http_version" is "1.1"; the "Connection" proxy header is not sent by default anymore.

    *) Bugfix: an invalid HTTP/2 request might be sent after switching to the next upstream if buffered body was used in the ngx_http_grpc_module.

nginx 1.28.4 Stable with HTTP/3 support added to EL7, EL8, EL9, EL10 repositories. brotli compression module from Google, http2, ngx cache purge and ngx http geoip2 modules added or built-in. OpenSSL built dynamically using official OpenSSL 3.5.5 with QUIC support.

nginx-1.28.3 stable version release includes a security fix for the buffer overflow vulnerability in the ngx_http_dav_module (CVE-2026-27654), security fixes for the buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the ngx_http_mp4_module (CVE-2026-27784, CVE-2026-32647), security fixes for the mail session authentication vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-27651, CVE-2026-28753), and a security fix for the OCSP result bypass vulnerability in stream (CVE-2026-28755).

nginx 1.29.6 Mainline with HTTP/3 support featuring sticky sessions support for upstreams added to EL7, EL8, EL9, EL10 repositories. brotli compression module from Google, http2, ngx cache purge and ngx http geoip2 modules added or built-in. OpenSSL built dynamically using official OpenSSL 3.5.1 with QUIC support.

Our OpenSSL 3.5.X builds break compatibility with nginx 1.28.1 and earlier versions, as they are compiled against quictls project with their own APIs. Thus, to upgrade OpenSSL QUIC libs, please use nginx >= 1.29.0.

    *) Feature: session affinity support; the "sticky" directive in the "upstream" block of the "http" module; the "server" directive supports the "route" and "drain" parameters.

    *) Change: now nginx limits the size and rate of QUIC stateless reset packets.

    *) Bugfix: receiving a QUIC packet by a wrong worker process could cause the connection to terminate.

    *) Bugfix: "[crit] cache file ... contains invalid header" messages might appear in logs when sending a cached HTTP/2 response.

    *) Bugfix: proxying to scgi backends might not work when using chunked transfer encoding and the "scgi_request_buffering" directive. Thanks to Mufeed VH.

    *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.
       Thanks to Andrew Lacambra.

    *) Bugfix: nginx treated a comma as separator in the "Cookie" request header line when evaluating "$cookie_..." variables.

    *) Bugfix: in IMAP command literal argument parsing.

nginx 1.29.5 Mainline with HTTP/3 support added to EL7, EL8, EL9, EL10 repositories. brotli compression module from Google, http2, ngx cache purge and ngx http geoip2 modules added or built-in. OpenSSL built dynamically using official OpenSSL 3.5.1 with QUIC support.

Our OpenSSL 3.5.4 builds break compatibility with nginx 1.28.x and earlier versions, as they are compiled against quictls project with their own APIs. Thus, to upgrade OpenSSL QUIC libs, please use nginx >= 1.29.0.

*) Security: an attacker might inject plain text data in the                              response from an SSL backend (CVE-2026-1642).

*) Bugfix: use-after-free might occur after switching to the next gRPC or HTTP/2 backend.

*) Bugfix: an invalid HTTP/2 request might be sent after switching to the next upstream.

*) Bugfix: a response with multiple ranges might be larger than the
       source response.

*) Bugfix: fixed setting HTTP_HOST when proxying to FastCGI, SCGI, and    uwsgi backends.

*) Bugfix: fixed warning when compiling with MSVC 2022 x86.

*) Change: the logging level of the "ech_required" SSL error has been        lowered from "crit" to "info".

nginx 1.28.2 Stable with HTTP/3 support added to EL7, EL8, EL9, EL10 repositories. brotli compression module from Google, http2, ngx cache purge and ngx http geoip2 modules added or built-in. OpenSSL built dynamically using official OpenSSL 3.5.4 with QUIC support.

    *) Security: an attacker might inject plain text data in the response
       from an SSL backend (CVE-2026-1642).

    *) Bugfix: use-after-free might occur after switching to the next gRPC
       or HTTP/2 backend.

    *) Bugfix: fixed warning when compiling with MSVC 2022 x86.

nginx 1.28.1 Stable with HTTP/3 support added to EL7, EL8, EL9, EL10 repositories. brotli compression module from Google, http2, ngx cache purge and ngx http geoip2 modules added or built-in. OpenSSL built dynamically using official OpenSSL 3.5.4 with QUIC support.

*) Security: processing of a specially crafted login/password when using
   the "none" authentication method in the ngx_mail_smtp_module might
   cause worker process memory disclosure to the authentication server
   (CVE-2025-53859).

*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
   "try_files" directive and "proxy_pass" with a URI were used.

*) Bugfix: in handling "Host" and ":authority" header lines with equal
   values when using HTTP/2; the bug had appeared in 1.17.9.

*) Bugfix: in handling "Host" header lines with a port when using
   HTTP/3.

*) Bugfix: an XCLIENT command didn't use the xtext encoding.
   Thanks to Igor Morgenstern of Aisle Research.

*) Bugfix: in SSL certificate caching during reconfiguration.

*) Bugfix: in delta-seconds processing in the "Cache-Control" backend
   response header line.

*) Change: the native nginx/Windows binary release is now built using
   Windows SDK 10.

*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on NetBSD 10.0.

*) Bugfix: in HTTP/3.

nginx 1.29.4 Mainline with HTTP/3 support added to EL7, EL8, EL9, EL10 repositories. brotli compression module from Google, http2, ngx cache purge and ngx http geoip2 modules added or built-in. OpenSSL built dynamically using official OpenSSL 3.5.1 with QUIC support.

Our OpenSSL 3.5.4 builds break compatibility with nginx 1.28.x and earlier versions, as they are compiled against quictls project with their own APIs. Thus, to upgrade OpenSSL QUIC libs, please use nginx >= 1.29.0.

Configure: ensure we get the “built by …” line in nginx -V. by @ac000 in #905
Adding support for pcre 10.47 by @thierryba in #963
SSL: changed interface of ngx_ssl_set_client_hello_callback(). by @pluknet in #968
SSL: fixed build with BoringSSL, broken by 38a701d. by @pluknet in #972
HTTP/2: extended guard for NULL buffer and zero length. by @pluknet in #978
Validate host by @pluknet in #966
Proxy: fixed segfault in URI change (issue #983). by @pluknet in #1004
OpenSSL ECH integration by @sftcd in #840
Update community health files by @alessfg in #727
SSL: avoid warning when ECH is not configured and not supported. by @QirunGao in #1011
Disabled bare LF in chunked transfer encoding. by @pluknet in #1016
HTTP/2 to upstream by @hongzhidao in #771
Quic: fixed segfault on handshake failure by @jeniksv in #1022