Sort of. The announcement is obviously silly, and April-Fools-y, but the changes in nginx aren't--what it's really about is Unicode in general, not emojis specifically.
Are there any changes? ;)
There are no changes. We've always had unicode support. We had some fun and created several silly configs :)
(I work @ NGINX.)
Aww man you need to make these actually work! Would nginx accept a pull request? :D