Features

A drop-in repository that ships nginx mainline the day it lands — TLS 1.3, HTTP/3, Brotli & Zstd, GeoIP2 and ACME, prebuilt and maintained so you never compile again.

Always mainline

We track the newest nginx mainline release and publish it the moment it drops. No compiling, no waiting on your distro.

TLS 1.3, everywhere

OpenSSL 4 is statically linked, so TLS 1.3 and HTTP/3 work even on distributions whose system OpenSSL can't keep up.

Batteries included

Brotli, Zstandard, QUIC + HTTP/3, GeoIP2, ACME and a dozen more modules, prebuilt into the full and extras flavors.

Included modules

Everything from the Debian & Ubuntu official builds, plus these.

auth-pam

Basic authentication against the system PAM stack

cache-purge

Purge entries from proxy and FastCGI caches

dav-ext

Adds the missing WebDAV methods to nginx

echo

Shell-style echo, sleep, and subrequests in config

fancyindex

Styled directory listings with headers and sorting

headers-more

Set and clear arbitrary request and response headers

http-geoip2

Client geolocation from MaxMind GeoIP2 databases

http-ipdb

Client geolocation variables from ipip.net IPDB files

http-lua

Script request handling with LuaJIT

nchan

Pub/sub messaging over WebSocket and EventSource

ndk

Development kit required by other modules

nginx-acme

Automatic TLS certificates via the ACME protocol

ngx_brotli

Brotli compression for responses and static assets

ngx_http_addition_module

Add text before and after a response body via subrequests

ngx_http_auth_request_module

Authorize requests with a subrequest to an external service

ngx_http_dav_module

File management over WebDAV with PUT, DELETE, MKCOL, COPY and MOVE

ngx_http_flv_module

Pseudo-streaming for Flash Video (FLV) files

ngx_http_geoip_module

Client country, city and organization from legacy GeoIP databases

ngx_http_gunzip_module

Decompress gzipped responses for clients without gzip support

ngx_http_gzip_static_module

Serve precompressed .gz files instead of compressing on the fly

ngx_http_image_filter_module

Resize, crop and rotate JPEG, GIF, PNG and WebP responses

ngx_http_json_module

Extract values from a JSON document into nginx variables

ngx_http_mp4_module

Pseudo-streaming and seeking for MP4, M4V and M4A files

ngx_http_perl_module

Location and variable handlers written in embedded Perl

ngx_http_random_index_module

Serve a random file from a directory as its index page

ngx_http_realip_module

Restore the client address from a proxy header or PROXY protocol

ngx_http_secure_link_module

Check link authenticity and expiry with MD5 hashes

ngx_http_slice_module

Split large proxied responses into cacheable byte-range slices

ngx_http_ssl_module

HTTPS support with certificates, protocols, ciphers and sessions

ngx_http_stub_status_module

Basic connection and request counters on a status page

ngx_http_sub_module

Replace one string with another in response bodies

ngx_http_v2_module

Serve HTTP/2 over TLS with ALPN or over cleartext TCP

ngx_http_v3_module

Serve HTTP/3 over QUIC alongside HTTPS on the same port

ngx_http_xslt_module

Transform XML responses with XSLT stylesheets

ngx_mail_module

IMAP, POP3 and SMTP proxy with HTTP-backed authentication

ngx_stream_geoip_module

Client country and city variables for stream servers

ngx_stream_module

TCP and UDP proxying with TLS termination and SNI preread

rtmp

RTMP, HLS, and MPEG-DASH live streaming

subs-filter

Regex and string substitution on response bodies

uploadprogress

Track POST upload progress for progress bars

upstream-fair

Least-busy load balancing for upstreams

zstd-nginx-module

Zstandard response compression with dictionary support

Statically built with OpenSSL 4, so you can use TLS 1.3 even on distributions that don't ship it.

Build scripts and packaging live at u-sb/nginx-source.

Supported OS

Fully Supported OS

Debian 12 Bookworm (OldStable)Update through 2028-07 or later

Debian 13 Trixie (Stable)Update through 2030-07 or later

Debian 14 Forky (Testing) - experimentalUpdate through 2032-07 or later

Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy (LTS)Update through 2027-04 or later

Ubuntu 24.04 Noble (LTS)Update through 2029-04 or later

Ubuntu 25.10 QuestingUpdate through 2026-12 or later

Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute (LTS)Update through 2031-04 or later

Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking (Devel) - experimentalUpdate through 2027-12 or later

We support LTS and current releases of Debian and Ubuntu, as well as releases that are close to GA.

The ARM64 builds have a smaller audience, so please report any issues you hit.

Debian 13 Trixie onwards is compiled with PCRE2 and a newer version of the http_lua module; please report any issues.

Unsupported OS

Ubuntu 20.04 Focal (LTS)Last update 1.31.0-1nwtf+362 - this is the final update

Ubuntu 25.04 PluckyLast update 1.31.0-1nwtf+362

Debian 11 BullseyeLast update 1.31.0-1nwtf+362

We do not provide full, long-term support for legacy OS, but you can use them at your own risk. Unsupported OS do not always get the latest updates; support is on a reasonable-efforts basis and we may stop updating them at any time.

Releases tagged this is the final update will not receive further updates.

Removed OS

We no longer provide packages for these OS:

Debian 8 Jessie

Debian 9 Stretch

Debian 10 Buster

Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty

Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic

Ubuntu 19.04 Disco

Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan

Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy

Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute

Ubuntu 21.10 Impish

Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic

Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar

Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic

Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular