release of the main branch , within which the development of new features continues (in the parallel stable branch Only changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities are included.
In version 1.15.12, a crash (segmentation fault) of the worker process has been fixed, which could occur if variables were used in ssl_certificate or ssl_certificate_key directives and the revocation check mechanism was enabled. A week ago, version nginx 1.15.1 was also released, which modified the implementation of the ssl_stapling_file directive to open the file in binary mode on Windows systems.
Additionally, the first stable release of nginx 1.16 is expected soon, which will include only changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. The main development branch nginx 1.15 will be succeeded by the nginx 1.17 branch, which is planned to develop support for the protocol. .
Source: opennet.ru
