Issues

• Failed config apply (and failed rollback) is never retried — data plane serves the 503 stub for up to ~48 min after a transient nginx -t failure (2.6.7)

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#6021 · Filter by author KarimAboElAzm opened on Oct 3, 2026
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• ExteranlIP field update set/updated when setting Gateway spec addresses

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#6020 · Filter by author shaun-nx opened on Oct 2, 2026 · v2.8.0
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• Support snippets for TCP/UDP traffic

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#6003 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Sep 30, 2026 · v2.10.0

• Make PayloadProcessor failure behavior configurable (fail-open / fail-closed)

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5994 · Filter by author mkingst opened on Sep 28, 2026
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• Documentation for AccessPolicy

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5938 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Sep 16, 2026 · v2.8.0

• Add Functional Tests for AccessPolicy

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5937 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Sep 16, 2026 · v2.8.0
  

• Implement AccessPolicy NGINX Configuration Generation

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5936 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Sep 16, 2026 · v2.8.0
  

• Control plane logs "NGINX configuration was successfully updated" on no-op UpdateConfig (useClusterIP + EndpointSlice churn)

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  Bug

  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5874 · Filter by author SidharathBansal opened on Sep 8, 2026 · v2.8.0
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• [Bug] HTTPRoute reports ResolvedRefs=True while NGINX keeps 503 fallback upstream

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5869 · Filter by author freend opened on Sep 7, 2026 · v2.9.0
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• Support sessionPersistence field on the Gateway API Backend resource

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5860 · Filter by author salonichf5 opened on Sep 4, 2026
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• Gateway API Backend resource support

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5796 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Aug 28, 2026 · v2.9.0

• Avoid NGINX reload on TLS certificate/key rotation via variable certificate paths

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5795 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Aug 28, 2026 · v2.9.0

• Controller event processing blocks indefinitely when an NGINX Agent does not acknowledge a configuration update

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5774 · Filter by author trynocoding opened on Aug 26, 2026 · v2.8.0
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• Replace NJS HTTP matching with native predicate matching

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5738 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Aug 19, 2026 · v2.9.0

• Predicate Routing: Body-Based Routing and Request Attribute Extraction

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5737 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Aug 19, 2026 · v2.9.0

• MCP Agentic Observability (inherit from NGINX)

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5695 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Aug 11, 2026 · v2.9.0

• Active/Passive Health checks

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5694 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Aug 11, 2026 · v2.8.0

• Test topology-aware routing

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5691 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Aug 10, 2026 · v2.8.0

• Improve titles for NGF docs

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5665 · Filter by author mjang opened on Aug 5, 2026 · v2.8.0
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• Support Kubernetes Traffic Distribution / Topology Aware Routing

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5616 · Filter by author aslatter opened on Jul 21, 2026 · v2.8.0
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• Duplicate upstream servers in NGINX Plus state files (each endpoint added twice)

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5591 · Filter by author Wenkow opened on Jul 16, 2026 · v2.8.0
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• Update NGF Docs for new f5 metadata and better titles

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5254 · Filter by author bjee19 opened on May 6, 2026 · v2.8.0
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• Slow page loads under HTTP/1.1 when concurrent uploads are active — migrating from ingress-nginx to NGF v2.4.1/2.5.0

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5224 · Filter by author SJames-Magnet opened on May 1, 2026 · v2.8.0
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• Filtering nginx_http_requests_total by HTTPRoute

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5171 · Filter by author sjberman opened on Apr 22, 2026 · v2.8.0
  

• Support for cookie-based SessionPersistence

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  nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric#5087 · Filter by author williansvi opened on Apr 6, 2026 · v2.8.0
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