diff --git a/images/nginx/Makefile b/images/nginx/Makefile
index 19528e00d..7cb6a5ca3 100644
--- a/images/nginx/Makefile
+++ b/images/nginx/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 # 0.0.0 shouldn't clobber any released builds
-TAG ?= 0.62
+TAG ?= 0.63
 REGISTRY ?= quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller
 ARCH ?= $(shell go env GOARCH)
 DOCKER ?= docker
diff --git a/images/nginx/rc.yaml b/images/nginx/rc.yaml
index 692170439..cbf6e6c6b 100644
--- a/images/nginx/rc.yaml
+++ b/images/nginx/rc.yaml
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ metadata:
 spec:
   type: NodePort
   ports:
-  - port: 80
-    protocol: TCP
-    name: http
-  - port: 443
-    protocol: TCP
-    name: https
+    - port: 80
+      protocol: TCP
+      name: http
+    - port: 443
+      protocol: TCP
+      name: https
   selector:
     app.kubernetes.io/name: ingress-nginx
     app.kubernetes.io/part-of: ingress-nginx
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ spec:
         app.kubernetes.io/part-of: ingress-nginx
     spec:
       containers:
-      - name: nginx
-        image: quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller/nginx:0.56
-        ports:
-        - containerPort: 80
-        - containerPort: 443
+        - name: nginx
+          image: quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller/nginx:0.63
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 80
+            - containerPort: 443
diff --git a/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh b/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh
index 8e6cdbe8a..1e54027be 100755
--- a/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh
+++ b/images/nginx/rootfs/build.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
-export NGINX_VERSION=1.15.3
+export NGINX_VERSION=1.15.4
 export NDK_VERSION=0.3.1rc1
 export SETMISC_VERSION=0.32
 export STICKY_SESSIONS_VERSION=08a395c66e42
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ clean-install \
   authbind \
   dumb-init \
   gdb \
+  valgrind \
   || exit 1
 
 if [[ ${ARCH} == "x86_64" ]]; then
@@ -144,7 +145,7 @@ mkdir --verbose -p "$BUILD_PATH"
 cd "$BUILD_PATH"
 
 # download, verify and extract the source files
-get_src 9391fb91c3e2ebd040a4e3ac2b2f0893deb6232edc30a8e16fcc9c3fa9d6be85 \
+get_src 3324776c800d974ceae8797ab9102ca26a8c3656f5c6fb3f31f2cb1e719458e7 \
         "http://nginx.org/download/nginx-$NGINX_VERSION.tar.gz"
 
 get_src 49f50d4cd62b166bc1aaf712febec5e028d9f187cedbc27a610dfd01bdde2d36 \
@@ -457,7 +458,8 @@ WITH_FLAGS="--with-debug \
   --with-stream_ssl_module \
   --with-stream_ssl_preread_module \
   --with-threads \
-  --with-http_secure_link_module"
+  --with-http_secure_link_module \
+  --with-http_gunzip_module"
 
 if [[ ${ARCH} != "armv7l" || ${ARCH} != "aarch64" ]]; then
   WITH_FLAGS+=" --with-file-aio"
@@ -595,7 +597,8 @@ for dir in "${writeDirs[@]}"; do
   chown -R www-data.www-data ${dir};
 done
 
-chmod 755 /etc/authbind/byuid/33
-chown www-data /etc/authbind/byuid/33
-chmod 755 /etc/authbind/byport/*
-chown www-data /etc/authbind/byport/*
+for value in {1..1023};do
+  touch /etc/authbind/byport/$value
+  chown www-data /etc/authbind/byport/$value
+  chmod 755 /etc/authbind/byport/$value
+done
diff --git a/images/nginx/rootfs/etc/authbind/byport/443 b/images/nginx/rootfs/etc/authbind/byport/443
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/images/nginx/rootfs/etc/authbind/byport/80 b/images/nginx/rootfs/etc/authbind/byport/80
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/images/nginx/rootfs/etc/authbind/byuid/33 b/images/nginx/rootfs/etc/authbind/byuid/33
deleted file mode 100644
index a6b2542c7..000000000
--- a/images/nginx/rootfs/etc/authbind/byuid/33
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-0.0.0.0:1-1023
-0.0.0.0:1-1023
-::0:1-1023
-::0:1-1023