No more static in nginx, what should I do?

Question

Nginx

After a hot hand in the form of reinstalling php from 5.3 to 5.6 on the server and yum update on 618 components, static from /public stopped being returned - everything is a 404 error. Everything except php and css, prescribed before, to set the correct content type.
The main problem is that the directive from the configuration has stopped working as before.

location / {
        try_files $uri $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
}

Solved by an ugly rule of the form

location ~ \.(gif|jpg|png|css|js|ttf|woff|html|htm|svg)$ {
        try_files $uri $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
}

How to return to a state in which I do not need to register all the statics?
UPD: With a little doubt, I see that the version of php-fpm has risen. From 5.5.39 to 5.6.31