2.6.0 release notes

November 17, 2022

NGINX Instance Manager 2.6.0 release notes

Upgrade Paths

NGINX Instance Manager 2.6.0 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:

Manage and deploy configurations to F5 WAF for NGINX Instances

This release introduces the following features to manage and deploy configurations to F5 WAF for NGINX instances:
- Create, upsert, and delete F5 WAF for NGINX security policies
- Manage F5 WAF for NGINX security configurations by using the NGINX Management Suite user interface or REST API
- Update Signatures and Threat Campaign packages
- Compile security configurations into a binary bundle that can be consumed by NGINX App Protect WAF instances
Adds support for RHEL 9

Instance Manager 2.6 supports RHEL 9. See the Technical Specifications Guide for details.
Support for using HashiCorp Vault for storing secrets

NGINX Management Suite now supports the use of Hashicorp Vault to store secrets such as SSL Certificates and Keys. Use of a new or existing Vault deployment is supported.
Graph and additional data are included in NGINX Plus usage tracking interface

On the NGINX Plus usage tracking page, the number of NGINX Plus instances used over time is available in a graph. You can also view the minimum, maximum, and average count of concurrent unique instances in a given time period.
Adds support for Oracle 8

Oracle 8 is now a supported distribution starting with Instance Manager 2.6. You can use the RedHat/CentOS distro to install the Oracle 8 package.

This release has the following changes in default behavior:

GET Roles API responses now include user and group associations

GET /roles and GET/roles/{roleName} API responses include any user(s) or group(s) associated with a role now.

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

Password error "option unknown" occurs when installing NGINX Instance Manager on Ubuntu with OpenSSL v1.1.0 (33055)
Instance Manager reports the F5 WAF for NGINX build number as the version (37510)

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