v2.1.0

[Anipaleja]

nginx-defender v2.1.0

nginx-defender v2.1.0 continues the push toward a more capable, production ready WAF and threat detection platform. This release strengthens the core security architecture, improves operational visibility, and keeps the project aligned with its multi layer defense model: threat intelligence, behavioral analysis, adaptive mitigation, and firewall enforcement.

Highlights

• Expanded multi-layer security coverage across network, application, and ML-driven detection paths.
• Stronger authentication and authorization posture, including MFA and RBAC concepts documented in the security architecture.
• Improved observability with dashboard, metrics, and alerting support for faster incident response.
• Continued support for multiple firewall backends, including iptables, nftables, and pf.
• Benchmarking and performance validation remain part of the release process, with reproducible results documented in the repo.

Security and stability

• Hardened request handling and threat scoring paths.
• Better support for secure communication defaults, including TLS-focused configuration guidance.
• Ongoing work to reduce false positives while preserving fast blocking for clearly malicious traffic.

For operators and integrators

• Review your deployment configuration before upgrading, especially auth, firewall, and notification settings.
• If you embed nginx-defender as a library, check the examples and refactor notes in the repo for the current integration pattern.
• Existing users on v2.0.0 should be able to upgrade with minimal disruption, but production deployments should still be validated in staging first.

What's Changed

• Bump js-yaml from 3.14.1 to 3.14.2 in /bindings/nodejs in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in Bump js-yaml from 3.14.1 to 3.14.2 in /bindings/nodejs in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory #36
• Bump alpine from 3.22 to 3.23 by @dependabot[bot] in Bump alpine from 3.22 to 3.23 #39
• Bump axios from 1.12.2 to 1.13.5 in /bindings/nodejs in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in Bump axios from 1.12.2 to 1.13.5 in /bindings/nodejs in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory #40
• Bump the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory with 1 update by @dependabot[bot] in Bump the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory with 1 update #47
• Bump github.com/slack-go/slack from 0.12.3 to 0.21.0 by @dependabot[bot] in Bump github.com/slack-go/slack from 0.12.3 to 0.21.0 #57
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.14.0 to 0.50.0 by @dependabot[bot] in Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.14.0 to 0.50.0 #59
• Bump axios from 1.15.0 to 1.15.1 in /bindings/nodejs by @dependabot[bot] in Bump axios from 1.15.0 to 1.15.1 in /bindings/nodejs #60

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.1.0

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