NATS
v2.15.2Networking & MessagingOct 26, 2026
A maintenance release with a Go security update and correctness fixes across authentication, certificate handling, JetStream snapshots, leafnode ACLs, and MQTT OCSP behavior. The fixes also address queue subscription weights and connection authentication behavior.
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securityThe
Gosecurity update to1.27. 3 The release updates
Goto1., which contains mitigations for CVE-2026-111943 by distrusting eMudhra intermediate certificates.27. 3
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securityLeafnode connection ACL enforcement
Applies if you use leafnode connections.
ACLs on leafnode connections no longer override allow/deny lists to implicitly allow
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All 5 other recorded changesfixes 5
fixes (5)
- - Allowed connection types are now correctly respected in auth callout setups
- - Fixed a potential queue sub weight amplification in the sublist
- - OCSP responses are now correctly bound to the certificate serial number
- - Restored v1 stream snapshots now correctly guard against excessive subject lengths, subject counts or block counts
- - OCSP verification for MQTT connections now correctly obeys the
ocsp_peeroption in themqttblock
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