Changelog

This changelog lists all of the information for F5 WAF for NGINX releases in 2026.

For older releases, check the changelogs for previous years: 2025, 2024, 2023.

F5 WAF for NGINX 5.11

Released January 13th, 2026.

New features

  • Added support for the Brotli data compression algorithm

Important notes

  • Upgrade Go compiler to 1.24.11

Resolved issues

  • 13340 - F5 WAF for NGINX leaked sockets and terminated on-going requests during graceful reload of NGINX (SIGHUP)
  • 12728 - Fixing a scenario under memory pressure, causing NGINX to return HTTP 503 and log SECURITY_WAF_BYPASS

Packages

Distribution name NGINX Open Source (5.11) NGINX Plus (5.11) NGINX Plus (5.11)
Alpine 3.22 app-protect-module-oss-1.29.3+5.575.0-r1.apk app-protect-module-plus-36+5.575.0-r1.apk app-protect-36.5.575.0-r1.apk
Amazon Linux 2023 app-protect-module-oss-1.29.3+5.575.0-1.amzn2023.ngx.x86_64.rpm app-protect-module-plus-36+5.575.0-1.amzn2023.ngx.x86_64.rpm app-protect-36+5.575.0-1.amzn2023.ngx.x86_64.rpm
Debian 11 app-protect-module-oss_1.29.3+5.575.0-1~bullseye_amd64.deb app-protect-module-plus_36+5.575.0–1~bullseye_amd64.deb app-protect_36+5.575.0-1~bullseye_amd64.deb
Debian 12 app-protect-module-oss_1.29.3+5.575.0-1~bookworm_amd64.deb app-protect-module-plus_36+5.575.0–1~bookworm_amd64.deb app-protect_36+5.575.0-1~bookworm_amd64.deb
Oracle Linux 8.1 app-protect-module-oss-1.29.3+5.575.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm app-protect-module-plus-36+5.575.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm app-protect-36+5.575.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm
Ubuntu 22.04 app-protect-module-oss_1.29.3+5.575.0-1~jammy_amd64.deb app-protect-module-plus_36+5.575.0–1~jammy_amd64.deb app-protect_36+5.575.0-1~jammy_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 24.04 app-protect-module-oss_1.29.3+5.575.0-1~noble_amd64.deb app-protect-module-plus_36+5.575.0–1~noble_amd64.deb app-protect_36+5.575.0-1~noble_amd64.deb
RHEL 8 and Rocky Linux 8 app-protect-module-oss-1.29.3+5.575.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm app-protect-module-plus-36+5.575.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm app-protect-36+5.575.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm
RHEL 9 and Rocky Linux 9 app-protect-module-oss-1.29.3+5.575.0-1.el9.ngx.x86_64.rpm app-protect-module-plus-36+5.575.0-1.el9.ngx.x86_64.rpm app-protect-36+5.575.0-1.el9.ngx.x86_64.rpm