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NGINX Module Version Mismatch: When APT Lets It Through


by Danila Vershinin, October 1, 2026

An NGINX module built for 1.29.8 will not load into 1.31.5, and NGINX says so. The question is whether your package manager knew first. We reproduced a stale nginx-abi label letting APT install a mismatched pair, wedging dpkg and arming the next restart as an outage.

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zstd-nginx-module: Maintained, Tested and Packaged


by Danila Vershinin, September 2, 2026

The canonical Zstandard module for NGINX has had no release since 2023. We continue it: the streaming bugs that truncated large responses are fixed and regression-tested, and it ships as nginx-module-zstd on every distribution we build for.

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OpenSSL 4.0 for NGINX: Why We Ship 3.5 LTS Instead


by Danila Vershinin, August 30, 2026

OpenSSL 4.0 for NGINX drops out of support in May 2027. OpenSSL 3.5 LTS runs to April 2030 and already does post-quantum key exchange. Here is the arithmetic behind our choice, and the one 4.0 feature worth having.

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