How to install freenginx-ech (aarch64)
Encrypted Client Hello key management for NGINX
Install
sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm sudo yum -y install yum-utils sudo yum-config-manager --enable getpagespeed-freenginx-mainline sudo yum -y install freenginx-ech
Description
Key generation and rotation for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH, RFC 9849). nginx reads ECH keys while parsing its configuration, so a new key only takes effect on reload, and a client that picked up an older ECHConfigList from a cached HTTPS DNS record still needs the key it encrypted to. nginx handles that by accepting several ssl_ech_file directives: the first is advertised in retry-configs, the rest stay loaded for decryption only. This package ships nginx-ech-keygen, which maintains that rolling set under /etc/nginx/ech and regenerates the include listing them, plus a systemd timer that rotates on a schedule. The timer is not enabled on install and nothing happens until you configure it. Set ECH_PUBLIC_NAME in /etc/sysconfig/nginx-ech-rotate, run "nginx-ech-keygen --init", publish the value it prints in the HTTPS record for your ECH-enabled names, then "systemctl enable --now nginx-ech-rotate.timer". ECH only helps if the HTTPS record is served from a DNS-only zone and clients resolve over DoH. See https://nginx-extras.getpagespeed.com/ech/
Architecture
Optimized for aarch64 (ARM64) architecture. It can be used on AWS Graviton instances, as well as Raspberry Pi 4 and newer.
RPMs
| Package | Size | Built | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| freenginx-ech-1.31.4-68.amzn2023.gps.aarch64 | 21 KiB | 2026-09-09 |
Danila Vershinin - SELinux: support "quic_bpf on;" (QUIC connection migration) behind a new · default-off boolean. The stock policy grants httpd_t nothing on the bpf · class, so enabling quic_bpf made nginx refuse to start with "failed to · create BPF map (13: Permission denied)". nginx-gps policy module 1.1 adds · the empirically-captured allows (bpf map/prog permissions plus the bpf, · perfmon and net_admin capability checks), all gated behind the boolean · nginx_quic_bpf, off by default: nothing changes for any install until · "setsebool -P nginx_quic_bpf 1". Verified on Rocky Linux 10 enforcing: · start, reload, binary upgrade and HTTP/3 traffic all clean with zero AVCs; · with the boolean off, behavior is exactly as before. |
| freenginx-ech-1.31.4-67.amzn2023.gps.aarch64 | 20 KiB | 2026-09-08 |
Danila Vershinin - gps-license module 1.9.1: fix CLOSE-WAIT connection leak. Every identity · probe request and every hard-enforcement 503 left one worker connection · un-finalized (CLOSE-WAIT) until worker_connections exhausted - a 1/min · monitoring probe could take a server down in about a day (reported by an · Ultra subscriber with a clean 20-probes = +20 CLOSE-WAIT repro). Both · paths now finalize the request; hard 503s appear in access_log, probe · requests remain unlogged. Regression-tested (integration + EL9 e2e with · the reporter's exact ss check) and E2E-proven against production. |
| freenginx-ech-1.31.4-66.amzn2023.gps.aarch64 | 19 KiB | 2026-09-04 |
Danila Vershinin - gps-license 1.9.0 tarball refresh: fix Linux compilation of the module's · unit-test harness (POSIX feature-test macro, test path buffer); shipped · module code unchanged. Supersedes the partially-published Release 65 · (x86_64-only, cancelled mid-build) so all architectures converge on the · E2E-proven build (verified against production: beacon machine identity · row landed in repo_license_usage) |
| freenginx-ech-1.31.4-64.amzn2023.gps.aarch64 | 18 KiB | 2026-09-02 |
Danila Vershinin - nginx-ech: new subpackage for ECH (RFC 9849) key generation and rotation, · at parity with nginx-mod-ech (shared nginx-ech-keygen implementation) · - assert ECH is live at build time: a bogus ssl_ech_file must fail the · configuration test instead of degrading to a silent no-op |
| freenginx-ech-1.31.3-64.amzn2023.gps.aarch64 | 18 KiB | 2026-08-27 |
Danila Vershinin - nginx-ech: new subpackage for ECH (RFC 9849) key generation and rotation, · at parity with nginx-mod-ech (shared nginx-ech-keygen implementation) · - assert ECH is live at build time: a bogus ssl_ech_file must fail the · configuration test instead of degrading to a silent no-op |