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The majority of nginx distributions will not get any major bumps during the lifetime of the distros they're in. Whether that's because the distro itself has pol

The majority of nginx distributions will not get any major bumps during the lifetime of the distros they're in. Whether that's because the distro itself has policies against that (Debian, Ubuntu) or because the distro version expires before nginx' stable release does (most of the ones with a higher update frequency, ie. Fedora) so by the time the version expires, they can just go to the next stable version on the release after. This is pretty much only a risk if your distro is completely rolling release and even those in my experience at least offer an "lts" package of some sort. So that's not a problem. Besides the majority of nginx setups don't rely on too fancy things; most of the stuff that gets changed in updates that affect config files are the fancier nginx modules.

lmm 3y ago
> The majority of nginx distributions will not get any major bumps during the lifetime of the distros they're in. Whether that's because the distro itself has policies against that (Debian, Ubuntu) or because the distro version expires before nginx' stable release does (most of the ones with a higher update frequency, ie. Fedora) so by the time the version expires, they can just go to the next stable version on the release after. If you're following that approach then having auto updates enabled is kind of irrelevant/meaningless; at some point you're going to be running a very old (and unsupported) version of your distro with all that that implies.