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How long does it usually take for things to go from trunk to release? This will be awesome when it's ready because I can keep my production stack really simple. All the existing solution for proxying sockets seemed way too complex, and I typically just run them on different IPs, but even that's annoying.

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The next dev release with websocket proxy support is scheduled for tomorrow [1].

[1] http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap

Any date/guess on a production release?

Nginx's development branch is generally considered production ready [1]. I trust the nginx core team not to introduce potentially problematic changes. As an example, the recent spdy integration [2] has lived in a parallel branch for over half a year.

The dev branch is officially upgraded to stable infrequently, maybe once a year.

[1] http://blog.bigdinosaur.org/nginx-dev-or-stable/

[2] http://nginx.org/patches/spdy/

Thanks, that's really helpful! I wouldn't have considered that. It still seems risky using a dev branch for my main web server, but I'll look into it.

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