NGINX App Protect WAF Release 2.1

October 28, 2020

New Features

• Bot Signatures & Bot Origin Validation Support
• EPEL Repository Dependency Removal from RHEL

Supported Packages

App Protect

Debian

• app-protect_22+3.216.0-1~stretch_amd64.deb

Ubuntu

• app-protect_22+3.216.0-1~bionic_amd64.deb

CentOS / RHEL

• app-protect-22+3.216.0-1.el7.ngx.x86_64.rpm

Resolved Issues

• 2357 Fixed - Decoding of unpadded base64 encoded strings fails as invalid base64 encoding.
• 2354 Fixed - Positional parameter detected as illegal URL with open-api-files reference.
• 2319 Fixed - Users permissions for users other than nginx.
• 2297 Fixed - Set-Cookie header discarded on 302 response code.
• 2296 Fixed - Large number of configured locations in nginx.conf result in long startup and reload times.
• 2163 Fixed - app-protect-compiler RPM requires epel-release.
• 2155 Fixed - No support for IPv6 remote logging syslog destination address.