2.5.0 release notes

October 04, 2022

NGINX Instance Manager 2.5.0 release notes

Upgrade Paths

NGINX Instance Manager 2.5.0 supports upgrades from these previous versions:

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

This release includes the following updates:

Track NGINX Plus usage over time

When viewing your NGINX Plus instances in the Instance Manager web interface, you can set a date and time filter to review the NGINX Plus instance count for a specific period. Also, you can use the Instance Manager REST API to view the lowest, highest, and average number of NGINX Plus instances over time.
New helm charts for each release of Instance Manager

Each release of Instance Manager now includes a helm chart, which you can use to easily install Instance Manager on Kubernetes. You can download the helm charts from MyF5.

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

OIDC is not supported for helm chart deployments (33248)
Managed certificates may be overwritten if they have the same name on different datapath certificates (36240)
Scan overview page doesn’t scroll to show the full list of instances (36514)

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