2.12.0 release notes

July 20, 2023

NGINX Instance Manager 2.12.0 release notes

Upgrade Paths

NGINX Instance Manager 2.12.0 supports upgrades from these previous versions:

If your NGINX Instance Manager version is older, you may need to upgrade to an intermediate version before upgrading to the target version.

This release includes the following updates:

New support for license tokens for automatic entitlement updates, renewals, and Flexible Consumption Reporting

NGINX Management Suite now supports license tokens formatted as a JSON Web Token (JWT). With JWT licensing, you can automatically update entitlements during subscription renewals or amendments, and you can automate reporting for the Flexible Consumption Program (FCP). For more information, see the Add a License topic.

This release fixes the following issues. Use your browser’s search function to find the issue ID in the page.

Filtering Analytics data with values that have double backslashes (\\) causes failures (42105)
Unable to publish configurations referencing the log bundle for Security Monitor (42932)
Disk Usage in Metrics Summary shows incorrect data when multiple partitions exist on a system (42999)
When adding a Certs RBAC permission, the "Applies to" field may display as "nginx-repo" (43012)
Publication status of instance groups may be shown as ’not available' after restarting NGINX Management Suite (43016)
A JWT license for an expired subscription cannot be terminated from the web interface (43580)
On Kubernetes, uploading a JWT license for NGINX Management Suite results in the error "secret not found" (43655)

You can find information about known issues in the Known Issues topic.