Released this week was Nginx 1.29.7 as the newest mainline version of this HTTP(S) web server. Releasing alongside Nginx 1.28.3 stable, it fixed buffer overflow vulnerabilities and some other vulnerabilities. Making Nginx 1.29.7 more exciting though is that it landed Multipath TCP support.

[1]Multipath TCP "MPTCP" is the TCP extension that allows for a single data connection to leverage multiple network paths simultaneously for better performance with higher throughput and the ability to seamlessly handover across connections.

Multipath TCP for the Nginx server should help wiith servers at the edge, heterogeneous network environments in the data center, and more. Nginx 1.29.7 also upgrades the default proxy HTTP version to HTTP/1.1 with Keep-Alive enabled. Nginx also added support for cookie-based session persistence that previously was only found in Nginx Plus.

More details on this week's Nginx 1.29.7 release via the [2]Nginx blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Multipath+TCP

[2] https://blog.nginx.org/blog/nginx-oss-1-29-6-and-1-29-7-open-sourced-session-persistence-multipath-tcp-and-more