NGINX: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for NGINX from Red Hat

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-05-07

What is NGINX?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementNGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, NGINX can also function as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers.
 

The entire lifecycle of NGINX

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of NGINX. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
NGINX (Red Hat) release, version and end-of-life information
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Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product NGINX (Red Hat)
 

What is the NGINX release strategy?

Even minor version numbers are always "stable" versions for which only major bug fixes are provided. Odd minor version numbers are always "mainline" versions for which new features, updates and bug fixes are provided. Maintenance ends automatically when a new "stable" or "mainline" version begins.

Facts and figures about NGINX

Product
NGINX
Vendor
Red Hat
Latest version
1:1.24.0-3.module+el8.10.0+40144+38158758
Number of releases
9
Number of versions
31
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
0
Licence
BSD-2-Clause License
 
 

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