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Why is the server package so behind?

I am on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, I had use "add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/development" to get nginx/1.3.12, how do I get in to the latest release?

Wiki says:

Stable release 1.4.0 / 24 April 2013

Preview release 1.3.16 / 16 April 2013

How do I get into the latest stable bandwagon?

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Use their official repository[1] for the latest stable releases

    deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ precise nginx
    deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ precise nginx

Those are updated very quickly. I haven't timed it but I'm yet to see an advisory before an update is available.

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/Install#Official_Debian.2FUbuntu_packa...

Still no raring package.

It seems I'm stuck with 1.2.6 for the time being.

Just for reference for others who might be interested:

I had to install this public key from ubuntu server:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys ABF5BD827BD9BF62

Had to remove nginx-full and nginx-common.

Then install nginx: apt-get install nginx

Even though I told the installer to keep the default config (which it did) but over-written /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf The only change I had to make was port number, since I am using varnish changed my port to 8080 for nginx. Restarted nginx.

  nginx version: nginx/1.4.1

Thanks for the help!

I had the same trouble, pretty seamless upgrade otherwise.

Another note: Packages provided by Ubuntu use /etc/nginx/sites-available/ and /etc/nginx/sites-available/ for storing site configs but the package directly from Nginx stores configs in /etc/nginx/conf.d/.

Thanks for pointing this out. I spent a little while trying to figure out why my configuration wasn't being recognized.

Not sure what the schedule looks like in general, but last night I waited ~10 minutes after the advisory watching the packages show up one by one. Still faster than any other source, of course.

I just build from source. Here's a sane guide from linode: http://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/installation/ubu...

BTW compiling a custom nginx take all of 1 minute, it's a very very fast build, not like apache or php.

I just wish it had a make test

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