Right before the holidays Robie Basak filed a Main Inclusion Report for nginx in Ubuntu. What does this mean? This means that nginx will sit alongside Apache in 14.04 with full security updates over the life of the release.
This is excellent news for those of you using stacks that tend to use nginx; increasing our support of nginx has been something many Ubuntu Server users have been telling me they’d like to see and it’s good to see us make some progress in this area.
All this is possible due to Thomas Ward; who has been rocking nginx in Ubuntu for a while now. Without his tireless efforts this couldn’t have been possible! He’s also maintaining PPAs for stable and development releases of nginx for every Ubuntu release since 10.04. What an excellent contribution to the community!
On the Juju front we have some charms that allow you to dynamically swap between Apache and nginx. Over the course of the year we’d like to see more charms have an option to use nginx. If you are interested in working on that, let me know.
UPDATE: Note that the MIR has been filed, technically it is not in main yet, and it must go through that process, but we’re confident that there won’t be major issues in time for 14.04.
