2.3.0 release notes

June 30, 2022

NGINX Instance Manager 2.3.0 release notes

Upgrade Paths

NGINX Instance Manager 2.3.0 supports upgrades from these previous versions:

• 2.0.0 - 2.2.0

If your NGINX Instance Manager version is older, you may need to upgrade to an intermediate version before upgrading to the target version.

What’s new

This release includes the following updates:

• Instance Manager provides information about your F5 WAF for NGINX installations

  You can configure NGINX Agent to report the following F5 WAF for NGINX installation information to NGINX Management Suite:

  • The current version of F5 WAF for NGINX
  • The current status of F5 WAF for NGINX (active or inactive)
  • The Attack Signatures package version
  • The Threat Campaigns package version

• View a summary of your instances' most important metrics for the last 24 hours

  This release adds a Metrics Summary page, from which you can view key system, network, HTTP request, and connection metrics at a glance for the last 24 hours. After logging in to Instance Manager, select an instance on the Instances Overview page, then select the Metrics Summary tab.

• Track the details for your NGINX Plus instances

  Easily track your NGINX Plus instances from the new NGINX Plus inventory list page. View the current count for all your NGINX Plus instances, as well as each instance’s hostname, UID, version, and the last time each instance was reported to Instance Manager. Select the Export button to export the list of NGINX Plus instances to a .csv file.

• Explore events in NGINX Instance Manager with the Events Catalogs API

  This release introduces a Catalogs API endpoint specifically for viewing NGINX Instance Manager events and corresponding information. You can access the endpoint at /analytics/catalogs/events.

• Support for provisioning users and user groups with SCIM

  Now, you can use SCIM to provision, update, or deprovision users and user groups for your Identity Provider to NGINX Instance Manager. SCIM, short for "System for Cross-domain Identity Management," is an open API for managing identities.

• Adds support for Ubuntu 22.04

  The NGINX Management Suite, which includes NGINX Instance Manager, now supports Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy).

  Refer to the Technical Specifications Guide for details.

Changes in default behavior

This release has the following changes in default behavior:

• New login screen

  Sometimes it’s the small things that count. Now, when logging in to NGINX Instance Manager, you’re treated to an attractive-looking login screen instead of a bland system prompt. 🤩

Resolved issues

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

• Post-install steps to load SELinux policy are in the wrong order (34276)

Known issues

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