nginx

nginx 1.31.8

NGINX is the world's most popular Web Server, high performance Load Balancer, Reverse Proxy, API Gateway and Content Cache.

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  • Updated Oct 21, 2026
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NGINX is the world's most popular Web Server, high performance Load Balancer, Reverse Proxy, API Gateway and Content Cache.

What's new in 1.31.8

*) Change in internal API: now the JSON parser reports strings with
escape sequences as separate events, and the
ngx_json_unescape_string() function decodes a string into a separate
buffer.
*) Change: now the path specified in the "working_directory" directive
is relative to nginx prefix directory, but not to the current
directory.
*) Bugfix: worker processes exited on start or during reconfiguration if
an invalid directory was specified in the "working_directory"
directive.
*) Bugfix: worker processes might be terminated abnormally on a SIGBUS
signal when using HTTP/3 on platforms with strict alignment
requirements.
Thanks to Daewoo Choi.
*) Bugfix: "recv() failed (5: Input/output error)" alerts might appear
in logs when closing SSL connections if kernel TLS was used with
OpenSSL 3.2.0 or newer.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris if the --with-control-api
option was used.

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Technical details

Publishernginx
Version1.31.8
Release date2026-10-21
LicenseBSD-2-Clause
Installer typezip
Architecturex64
Package IDnginxinc.nginx

Links & install command

Install nginx from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=nginxinc.nginx -e

Older versions

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