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NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.6: F5 WAF for NGINX Comes to the Gateway API

calendar_today May 7, 2026 person Alessandro domain nginx

NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.6 marks our initial foray into implementing enterprise grade security capabilities into the Gateway API standard. This release brings F5 WAF for NGINX support to a Gateway API implementation, making NGINX Gateway Fabric one of the first Gateway API implementations to offer enterprise-grade WAF capabilities natively. Here’s what else is new: F5 WAF for NGINX Support What’s new?: NGINX Gateway Fabric now supports F5 WAF for NGINX.

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