Release 1.6.0-rc1

Release 1.6.0-rc1

Remove Ubuntu 18.04 from supported versions.
Update NGINX version to 1.24.0.
Update Passenger version to 6.0.22.
Update all build dependencies and NGINX modules to latest available versions.
Add support for JWT tokens via https://github.com/TeslaGov/ngx-http-auth-jwt-module.
Remove https://github.com/masterzen/nginx-upload-progress-module NGINX module until new release is available that works with NGINX 1.24.0.

Operating Systems

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 22.04

NGINX version

1.24.0

Build Dependencies

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake version 1.16.5
https://www.openssl.org/source version 1.1.1s (20.04)
https://www.openssl.org/source version 3.0.14 (Ubuntu 22.04)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre version 8.45
https://github.com/madler/zlib version 1.3.1
https://github.com/libgd/libgd version 2.3.3
https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb version 1.10.0

Packaged Build Dependencies

https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity version 3.0.12
https://github.com/openresty/luajit2 version 2.1-20240626
https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-core version 0.1.28
https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-lrucache version 0.13

NGINX modules

https://github.com/phusion/passenger version 6.0.22
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity-nginx version 1.0.3
https://github.com/openresty/headers-more-nginx-module version 0.37
https://github.com/sto/ngx_http_auth_pam_module version 1.5.5
https://github.com/nginx-modules/ngx_cache_purge version 2.5.3
https://github.com/arut/nginx-dav-ext-module version 3.0.0
https://github.com/vision5/ngx_devel_kit version 0.3.3
https://github.com/openresty/echo-nginx-module version 0.63
https://github.com/aperezdc/ngx-fancyindex version 0.5.2
https://github.com/slact/nchan version 1.3.6
https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module version 0.10.26
https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module version 1.2.2
https://github.com/masterzen/nginx-upload-progress-module not available
https://github.com/itoffshore/nginx-upstream-fair version 0.1.3
https://github.com/yaoweibin/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module version 0.6.4
https://github.com/leev/ngx_http_geoip2_module version 3.4
https://github.com/matsumotory/ngx_mruby version 2.6.0
https://github.com/TeslaGov/ngx-http-auth-jwt-module version 2.1.0