Nginx 1.9.2 for Windows

Nginx 1.9.2 for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit builds) are now available for free download. As always, packages are built from the upstream mainline branch. Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a high performance web server, caching proxy and a Layer 7 load balancing solution. Millions of web sites on the Internet use and benefit from Nginx because of its extreme performance, scalability, reliability, flexibility, and security.

On 2015-06-16, the mainline version of Nginx 1.9.2 was released at nginx.org. The upstream changelog is as follows:

Changes with nginx 1.9.2 16 June 2015

• ) Feature: the “backlog” parameter of the “listen” directives of the mail proxy and stream modules.
• ) Feature: the “allow” and “deny” directives in the stream module.
• ) Feature: the “proxy_bind” directive in the stream module.
• ) Feature: the “proxy_protocol” directive in the stream module.
• ) Feature: the -T switch.
• ) Feature: the REQUEST_SCHEME parameter added to the fastcgi.conf, fastcgi_params, scgi_params, and uwsgi_params standard configuration files.
• ) Bugfix: the “reuseport” parameter of the “listen” directive of the stream module did not work.
• ) Bugfix: OCSP stapling might return an expired OCSP response in some cases.

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Maxim Dounin

These Windows install files are provided to support legacy users who still use the Cygwin based builds. Before nginx.org starting providing native Windows packages, these were the only way to run Nginx on Windows. Now, official native Windows builds are available and supported at nginx.org. Please use those if you are new to Nginx on Windows. Once again, they are fully supported and available for download at nginx.org.

Download Nginx 1.9.2 for Windows (32-bit & 64-bit versions) here.

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