February 2026 monthly summary for kubernetes/ingress-nginx. Key accomplishment: SSL Passthrough for Specific Hosts enabled, allowing TLS to pass through to back-end services for selected hosts without termination at the ingress controller. This enhances security and flexibility for HTTP-only hosts and aligns with end-to-end encryption requirements. No major bugs reported this month. Primary improvements include security posture, traffic routing flexibility, and reduced operational overhead.

January 2026: Shored up reliability of the ingress-nginx controller against host clock drift. Implemented a robust fix in the synchronization path by updating the lastSync calculation to correctly handle cases where the host clock jumps forward, preventing missed synchronization events and erroneous state skips. This change reduces routing instability during time skew events and improves consistency of ingress processing.