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It's pretty glaring that nginx still doesn't have production-ready HTTP3 support despite being a semi-commercial product backed by a multi billion dollar corporation. F5 is asleep at the wheel.

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Out of curiosity have F5 added any new modules since they acquired Nginx?

https://nginx.org/en/CHANGES

acquisition finished in 2019

there are quite a lot of features, but it's hard to say what constitutes a new module. (well, there's "Feature: the ngx_stream_set_module." so maybe yes?)

One would probably have to go through git logs [1] so I guess I should do that after getting some food in the belly to answer my own question. It's a big log. Interesting side note, appears all commits from Maxim stopped in January 2024. Must be all F5 now.

[1] - https://github.com/nginx/nginx

Here's some background:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/nginx...

Ah yes, I vaguely recall the drama. Thankyou.

16 commits from F5 from 2020 to 2025, nothing before that. Looks like they are bugfixes and enhancements. Perhaps someone else created the ngx_stream_set_module module prior to the acquisition.

Are there any viable nginx alternatives that support HTTP3 and are mature for prod workflows?

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