2.23.0 release notes

September 02, 2026

Upgrade paths

F5 NGINX Instance Manager 2.23.0 supports upgrades from these previous versions:

• 2.20.0–2.22.2

If your NGINX Instance Manager version is older, upgrade to an intermediate version first. Then upgrade to the target version.

What’s new

This release includes the following updates:

• Security monitoring for NGINX Gateway Fabric in NGINX Instance Manager

  NGINX Instance Manager now shows F5 WAF security events from NGINX Gateway Fabric deployments in the Security Dashboard, alongside F5 NGINX Ingress Controller events. NGINX Agent v3 included with NGINX Gateway Fabric exports these events directly to NGINX Instance Manager, without requiring changes to Gateway API resources. This integration provides visibility only. NGINX Instance Manager can’t manage NGINX Gateway Fabric instances, instance groups, or F5 WAF policy deployments.

  See View NGINX Gateway Fabric security events to get started.

• Deploy rootless using Docker Compose

  You can now deploy NGINX Instance Manager with a pre-built rootless Docker image, so you don’t need to build your own. All container processes run as a non-root user. This reduces the attack surface in production environments.

• Support for Ubuntu 26.04 added

  NGINX Instance Manager now supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon).

• Rocky Linux 10 support

  NGINX Instance Manager now includes native installation packages for Rocky Linux 10. Starting with version 2.21, Rocky Linux 10 used Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 compatibility packages. This release adds native Rocky Linux 10 packages that F5 builds, packages, and validates.

• New Usage Overview page to audit raw NGINX usage data

  NGINX Instance Manager 2.23.0 adds the Usage Overview page. This page gives you direct access to the raw, unaggregated usage records that NGINX Plus, NGINX Ingress Controller, and NGINX Gateway Fabric instances send. These records are separate from the usage reports that NGINX Instance Manager sends to F5. Filter, browse, and export records as a CSV file for offline audits and compliance reviews. You can set retention from 120 days up to 1 year. Records never include hostnames, IP addresses, or other personally identifiable information. This page works in both connected and disconnected deployments. For details, see View recent NGINX usage.

Resolved issues

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

• Auto-downloaded F5 WAF compiler v5.690.0 and later fails to compile policies (47651)

Known issues

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