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Nginx

A high-performance web server and reverse proxy that serves a large share of the world's busiest websites.

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  • Latest 1.31.8Oct 2026
  • Supported 2 versions
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At a glance

Type
Web & app server
Developer
F5 (NGINX)
First release
4 Oct 2004
Release cadence
Stable branch yearly (even minor numbers); mainline updates in between
Role
Web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, cache
Architecture
Event-driven, asynchronous
Written in
C
Protocols
HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 (QUIC), TCP/UDP streams
Commercial edition
NGINX Plus
License
BSD 2-Clause
Website
nginx.org

Newest release

Nginx 1.31

Released 13 May 2026 · latest update 1.31.8

Support status

1.31 Supported

No end date announced

1.30 Supported

No end date announced

1.29 End of life

Ended 13 May 2026 · 6 months ago

Release history

VersionReleasedLatestEnd of lifeStatus
1.3113 May 20261.31.8Not announcedSupported
1.3014 Apr 20261.30.6Not announcedSupported
1.2924 Jun 20251.29.813 May 2026End of life
1.2823 Apr 20251.28.314 Apr 2026End of life
1.2728 May 20241.27.524 Jun 2025End of life
1.2623 Apr 20241.26.323 Apr 2025End of life
1.2523 May 20231.25.529 May 2024End of life
1.2411 Apr 20231.24.023 Apr 2024End of life
1.2321 Jun 20221.23.423 May 2023End of life
1.2224 May 20221.22.111 Apr 2023End of life
1.2125 May 20211.21.621 Jun 2022End of life
1.2020 Apr 20211.20.224 May 2022End of life
1.1926 May 20201.19.1025 May 2021End of life
1.1821 Apr 20201.18.020 Apr 2021End of life
1.1721 May 20191.17.1026 May 2020End of life
1.1623 Apr 20191.16.120 Apr 2020End of life
1.155 Jun 20181.15.1221 May 2019End of life
1.1417 Apr 20181.14.223 Apr 2019End of life
1.1325 Apr 20171.13.125 Jun 2018End of life
1.1212 Apr 20171.12.217 Apr 2018End of life
1.1124 May 20161.11.1325 Apr 2017End of life
1.1026 Apr 20161.10.312 Apr 2017End of life
1.928 Apr 20151.9.1524 May 2016End of life
1.821 Apr 20151.8.126 Apr 2016End of life
1.724 Apr 20141.7.1228 Apr 2015End of life
1.624 Apr 20141.6.321 Apr 2015End of life
1.57 May 20131.5.1324 Apr 2014End of life
1.424 Apr 20131.4.724 Apr 2014End of life
1.315 May 20121.3.167 May 2013End of life
1.223 Apr 20121.2.924 Apr 2013End of life
1.11 Aug 20111.1.1915 May 2012End of life
1.012 Apr 20111.0.1523 Apr 2012End of life

Release data: endoflife.date and vendor announcements, checked 13 Nov 2026. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.

Support timeline

The 12 most recent releases, from release day to the end of support.

  • Active support
  • Today
1.31
1.30
1.29
1.28
1.27
1.26
1.25
1.24
1.23
1.22
1.21
1.20

History

Igor Sysoev started Nginx (pronounced “engine-x”) in 2002 at Rambler, a large Russian web portal, to handle more than 10,000 simultaneous connections. That was the “C10k problem” that process-per-connection servers struggled with. The first public release came in 2004, and its event-driven design with low memory use made it popular as a front-end proxy in front of Apache, PHP-FPM and application servers.

NGINX, Inc. was founded in 2011 and sold to F5 in 2019. Odd minor versions are the mainline branch, and one even-numbered stable branch comes out every year. HTTP/3 support arrived in 2023. Nginx is now one of the most used web servers.

Milestones

  1. 2004Igor Sysoev releases Nginx to solve the C10k problem
  2. 2011Nginx 1.0 is released and NGINX, Inc. is founded
  3. 2013The commercial NGINX Plus launches
  4. 2019F5 Networks buys NGINX, Inc.
  5. 2023Nginx 1.25 adds HTTP/3 and QUIC
  6. 2024Developer Maxim Dounin forks the project as freenginx

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Frequently asked questions

What is the latest version of Nginx?

The newest Nginx release is Nginx 1.31, released on 13 May 2026. Its latest update is 1.31.8 (21 Oct 2026).

Which Nginx versions are still supported?

As of 13 Nov 2026, 2 versions are supported: Nginx 1.31; Nginx 1.30.

Is Nginx 1.29 still supported?

No. Nginx 1.29 reached end of life on 13 May 2026 and no longer gets free security updates. Upgrade to Nginx 1.31.

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