NGINX App Protect WAF 5.6

April 1st, 2025

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New features

• Added support for NGINX Plus R34
• You can now deploy NGINX App Protect WAF 5+ using a Helm chart

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Important notes

• Alpine 3.17 is no longer supported

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Resolved issues

• Upgraded the Go compiler to 1.23.7
• (12140) Changed the maximum memory of the XML processing engine to 8GB
• (12254) A modified YAML file referenced by a JSON policy file causes a reload error when running nginx -t
• (12296) “Violation Bad Unescape” is not enabled by default
• (12297) “Violation Encoding” is not enabled by default

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Supported packages

NGINX Open Source

Distribution name	Package file
Alpine 3.19	app-protect-module-oss-1.27.4+5.342.0-r1.apk
Amazon Linux 2023	app-protect-module-oss-1.27.4+5.342.0-1.amzn2023.ngx.x86_64.rpm
Debian 11	app-protect-module-oss_1.27.4+5.342.0-1~bullseye_amd64.deb
Debian 12	app-protect-module-oss_1.27.4+5.342.0-1~bookworm_amd64.deb
Oracle Linux 8.1	app-protect-module-oss-1.27.4+5.342.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm
Ubuntu 20.04	app-protect-module-oss_1.27.4+5.342.0-1~focal_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 22.04	app-protect-module-oss_1.27.4+5.342.0-1~jammy_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 24.04	app-protect-module-oss_1.27.4+5.342.0-1~noble_amd64.deb
RHEL 8 and Rocky Linux 8	app-protect-module-oss-1.27.4+5.342.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm
RHEL 9	app-protect-module-oss-1.27.4+5.342.0-1.el9.ngx.x86_64.rpm

NGINX Plus

Distribution name	Package file
Alpine 3.19	app-protect-module-plus-34+5.342.0-r1.apk
Amazon Linux 2023	app-protect-module-plus-34+5.342.0-1.amzn2023.ngx.x86_64.rpm
Debian 11	app-protect-module-plus_34+5.342.0-1~bullseye_amd64.deb
Debian 12	app-protect-module-plus_34+5.342.0-1~bookworm_amd64.deb
Oracle Linux 8.1	app-protect-module-plus-34+5.342.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm
Ubuntu 20.04	app-protect-module-plus_34+5.342.0-1~focal_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 22.04	app-protect-module-plus_34+5.342.0-1~jammy_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 24.04	app-protect-module-plus_34+5.342.0-1~noble_amd64.deb
RHEL 8 and Rocky Linux 8	app-protect-module-plus-34+5.342.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm
RHEL 9	app-protect-module-plus-34+5.342.0-1.el9.ngx.x86_64.rpm

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