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NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.7: Gateway API 1.6 conformance, external authentication, and fewer snippets

calendar_today September 2, 2026 person Alessandro domain nginx

NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.7 is a significant release, targeting Gateway API conformance, data plane improvements, and workflow enhancements. TCPRoute and UDPRoute graduate to v1 with Gateway API 1.6, TLS listeners gain Terminate mode, and a new HTTPExternalAuthFilter calls out to an authorization proxy without an NGINX snippet. Seven more NGINX settings move out of snippets […]

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