No. Only Apache is bundled. However, you can manually install Nginx alongside and proxy requests—but that defeats the purpose of XAMPP’s simplicity.

The control panel itself received UI polish: better service start/stop response times, clearer log output, and a much-requested "Auto-start modules" option.

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