After a year of development, a new stable branch of the highly productive HTTP-server and multi-protocol proxy Servers nginx 1.26.0 has been published, incorporating changes accumulated in the main branch 1.25.X. Moving forward, all changes in the stable branch 1.26 will focus on the elimination of serious errors and vulnerabilities. The main branch of Nginx 1.27 will soon be formed to continue the development of new capabilities. For ordinary users without the task of ensuring compatibility with third-party modules, it is recommended to use the main branch, which forms the basis for the releases of the commercial product Nginx Plus every three months.
According to a report from Netcraft, under the control of NGINX, approximately 243 million sites are active, down from 289 million a year ago. Nginx is utilized on 18.15% of all active sites, earning it the second spot in popularity within this category. When considering all NGINX sites, it maintains its leadership with a 22.31% market share. Apache holds 20.17%, Cloudflare has 11.24%, and OpenResty (Nginx and Luajit platform) accounts for 7.93%.
Among the million most visited sites globally, Nginx holds a share of 20.63%, with Cloudflare at 22.59% and Apache HTTPD at 20.09%. Data from w3Techs shows that Nginx is used on 34.3% of the most visited sites, compared to 34.5% a year ago. Meanwhile, Apache’s share has decreased from 32.2% to 30.1%, and Microsoft IIS has decreased from 5.6% to 4.8%. Node.js and LiteSpeed have seen increases in their shares.
One of the most notable improvements made during the formation of the main branch 1.25.x is the addition of the ngx_http_v3 module with experimental support for