NGINX 1.29.3 Mainline with Brotli, TLS 1.3, OpenSSL 3.5.4, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Rocky, Oracle, Alma Linux EL7/EL8/EL9/EL10

nginx 1.29.3 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.

SSL: support for compressed server certificates with BoringSSL. by @pluknet in #823
HTTP CONNECT infrastructure by @arut in #935
Upstream: reset local address in case of error. by @arut in #942
SSL: $ssl_sigalg, $ssl_client_sigalg. by @pluknet in #932, initial work by @willmafh in #554
Geo: the “volatile” parameter. by @dplotnikov-f5 in #943
Inheritance control for add_header and add_trailer. by @arut in #918
OCSP: fixed invalid type for the ‘ssl_ocsp’ directive. by @roman-f5 in #938
Fixed compilation warnings on Windows after c93a0c4. by @arut in #954
Modules compatibility: increased compat section size. by @arut in #952
nginx-1.29.3 changes by @arut in #953

NGINX 1.29.2 Mainline with Brotli, TLS 1.3, OpenSSL 3.5.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Rocky, Oracle, Alma Linux EL7/EL8/EL9/EL10

nginx 1.29.2 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 3.5.1 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.

Added a previously missed changes entry in 1.29.1 relnotes. by @pluknet in #844
Removed legacy charset directive from default config example. by @MohamedKarrab in #829
QUIC: fixed ssl_reject_handshake error handling. by @pluknet in #889
Updated link to xslscript. by @pluknet in #854
Fixed inaccurate index directive error report by @willmafh in #881
SNI: using ClientHello callback. by @pluknet in #562
AWS-LC support changes by @pluknet in #848
Upstream: overflow detection in Cache-Control delta-seconds. by @pluknet in #898
Mail: xtext encoding (RFC 3461) in XCLIENT LOGIN. by @pluknet in #893
SSL: fixed “key values mismatch” with object cache inheritance. by @pluknet in #740
nginx-1.29.2 changes by @pluknet in #919

ngtcp2 1.16.0, nghttp3 1.12.0 rpms released

ngtcp2 1.16.0, nghttp3 1.12.0 rpms released and added to all supported platforms.

All the libraries stack built with OpenSSL 3.5.1, including ngtcp2 (quic client name changed from qtlsclient to osslclient).

Delivery of ngtcp2 for EL9 delayed because of build errors, other platforms received packages on 24.09.2025.

NGINX 1.29.1 Mainline with Brotli, TLS 1.3, OpenSSL 3.5.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Rocky, Oracle, Alma Linux EL7/EL8/EL9/EL10

nginx 1.29.1 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 3.5.1 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.

  • CVE fix CVE-2025-53859 Buffer overread in the ngx_mail_smtp_module
  • PCRE license fix for win32 zip by @pluknet in #753
  • QUIC: adjusted OpenSSL 3.5 QUIC API feature test. by @pluknet in #749
  • OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER fix for OpenSSL 3.0 by @pluknet in #775
  • kqueue build fixes by @pluknet in #777
  • HTTP/3: limited prefixed integers encoded length. by @pluknet in #124
  • HTTP/3: fixed handling :authority and Host with port. by @arut in #772
  • HTTP/2: fixed flushing early hints. by @arut in #808
  • HTTP/2 fixes for “:authority” vs “Host” by @pluknet in #803
    Certificate compression by @pluknet in #788
  • Auth basic: fixed file descriptor leak on memory allocation error. by @pluknet in #833
  • smtp module fixes by @pluknet in #842
  • Changes 1.29.1 by @pluknet in #843