Disagreement over security disclosures and bug-fixing priorities led to split.
  • A core developer of Nginx, the popular web server, has quit the project and started a fork called freenginx.
  • The developer cited disagreements with the new management at F5, which acquired Nginx Inc. in 2019, over security policies.
  • The dispute arose from the assigning of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) to bugs in the experimental HTTP/3 code.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/U4XRN

  • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    What’s considered as a release in the nginx world?

    Any minor update or just the major updates?

    Eg. 1.25.4 was recently released. 4 months prior was 1.25.3. 2 months prior to that it was 1.25.2. etc