Improvements:

• Remove use of API_TOKEN prefix
• Added origin validation as part of CSRF check

Features

• SAML: Added support for changing SSL fingerprint during metadata refresh
• SAML: Added support for HTTP (not only HTTPS) in metadata URL

Fixes

• Kerberos: Fixed logging and improved exception handling for AD server DNS lookup

Also, the following third party libraries were updated:

• commons-io 1.4 to 2.4
• commons-fileupload 1.2.1 to 1.4
• guava 19.0 to 30.0-jre
• jetty 9.4.7.v20170914 to 9.4.34.v20201102
• jackson-databind 2.9.8 to 2.9.10.6
• jackson-module-parameter-names 2.9.8 to 2.9.10
• jackson-datatype-jdk8 2.9.8 to 2.9.10
• jackson-datatype-jsr310 2.9.8 to 2.9.10
• jackson-module-jaxb-annotations 2.9.8 to 2.9.10
• opensaml-saml-impl 3.4.2 to 3.4.5
• slf4j-api 1.7.5 to 1.7.30

Features

• Support for Identity Providers requiring POST binding of SAML Request

Fixes

• X509 Certificates for SAML does not display correctly
• Header Authentication does not work for REST
• API Tokens does not work if there exists an inactive user in Internal Directory and an active user in Active Directory with the same username

Fixes

• OIDC: aud (Audience) claim in id_token only accepts string value and not array

New features

• OIDC: Rewritten library for OIDC
• OIDC: Configure scopes used in OIDC request
• OIDC: Support for domain hint for Azure AD and hosted domain for Google

Improvements

• OIDC: Better feedback when something goes wrong

Fixes

• API token authentication can now receive a request with session cookie without account lockout.
• Hosted Domain is not added to the SAML authentication URL in a two-step login flow.

Fixes

• API Tokens: Valid token requests counted as failed password attempts. Prefix old tokens with API_TOKEN_ to make use of the new functionality.

New features

• SAML: Hosted domain (hd) support for suggesting domain to the identity provider.

Fixes

• API Tokens: Storage format not compatible with the Atlassian backup mechanism.
• API Tokens: Failed token requests counted as failed password attempts. Prefix old tokens with API_TOKEN_ to make use of the new functionality.

New features

• API tokens: Ability to restrict requests based on IP addresses, and user permissions can be set based on group memberships.
• Kerberos: Possibility to enable SSO for user avatar URLs.
• SAML: Support for login hint when using 2-step login.

Fixes

• OIDC: Redirect based on user directory does not save selected user directories.

Improvements

• Name change of IP restriction modes to prevent confusion with IP lists.
• Improved SAML test page debug info.
• More robust test login incognito mode detection.

New features

• SAML/OIDC: Redirect based on username now respects all configured lookup attributes when using redirect by user directory or redirect by selected groups.
• SAML/OIDC: Possibility to require SAML/OIDC response to contain at least one group to allow Just-in-Time provisioning to create users.

Fixes

• Active Directory test does not support multi-domain.
• Broken Just-in-Time provisioning link on the Group memberships page.

Improvements

• Changed wording from whitelist/blacklist to unblocked list/blacked list.

Okta has changed the attributes and pagination in their user APIs.

If you use the API Connector features to synchronize Okta users and experience that you are only able to sync 200 users but have a larger user base, you are most likely hit by this change and should upgrade to version 4.2.2 of Kantega SSO.

• New feature OIDC/SAML: Group creation and synchronization of all incoming group claims as an alternative to managed groups
• SAML fix: Error on test page when incoming SAML response is incomplete

• SAML/OIDC fix: Only instant redirect logins working in Fisheye/Crucible
• SAML/OIDC improvement: Regular expressions in username transformation will now also try original username if no match is found
• Cloud User Sync performance improvements when adding synced users to local groups
• Internal technical improvements

Fix regression introduced in 4.1.12, where basic auth REST requests would give 401 response code when Kerberos is enabled

• Feat: Rate limit delay for Okta API Connector. Avoid creating too many API requests within a short timeframe.
• Improvement: Update Keycloak setup guides

• Feat: Ability to edit client id, secret and discovery url for OIDC integrations
• Feat: Customizable text elements on login screen
• Fix: Cross-site scripting vulnerability when using instant redirect to identity provider

• Feat: Support managed groups and single logout for OpenID Connect providers
• Fix: OpenID Connect setup wizard: Better handling of URL in metadata step
• Fix: General Crowd user directory integration improvements
• Allow anonymous access to LDAP servers
• SAML/OIDC Fix regression from 4.1.7 where exisiting SAML/OIDC IdPs did not work

• Feat: Show warning when conflicting redirect rules are configured.
• Fix: First regex transformation was always applied event though multiple regular expression rules are configured.

• SAML: Fix test page incorrectly showing managed groups to be removed
• OIDC: Integration with Github working with a better guide

• API tokens: new switch to enable/disable
• API tokens bugfix: Delete token not working when using PostgreSQL database
• OIDC improvment: User lookup via sub now working
• Cloud user provisioning: Switch to enable/disable sync of security enabled groups from Azure AD
• General improvements and bugfixes

• Feature: User synchronization with SCIM - https://kantega-sso.atlassian.net/l/c/UBv0hhC6
• Feature: Authenticate clients with API tokens - https://kantega-sso.atlassian.net/l/c/J01QdQLU
• Fix: Broken links in SAML/OIDC configuration pages
• Fix: Cloud user provisioning allowing &-character in group names
• Fix: Bamboo Git SSH connections failing with PEMException after generating IDP signing certificates in KSSO: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamkb/bamboo-git-ssh-connections-failing-with-pemexception-968679809.html

• Fix: Kantega SSO configuration does not show up in blank environments.

• Fix:Allow SAML test to be run without incognito mode
• Fix: Eliminate log warnings related to Crowd updates / notifications being run on LDAP directories

- Fix Batch pagination regression for Cloud User sync with Azure AD, introduced in 3.7.0. Memberships for large groups were not properly retrieved. The bug only affects 3.7.0 with the Azure AD connector.

• Cloud User Sync: Performance and robustness enhancements.
• Cloud User Sync configuration change: "Include members of the following groups (discard other groups)" option has been removed. It should be remapped to the new group inclusion filter automatically.
• SAML: Configure custom landing page for Single logout.
• Fix: Cloud User Sync for GSuite now correctly syncs memberships assigned using the user's non-primary e-mail. Previously, affected users would fail to show up the respective groups.

• Cloud User Sync: Support for specific group and membership selection added
• Cloud User Sync: Added regular expression support for specific user, group and membership selection
• Cloud User Sync fix: Warning when JSON file has not been uploaded
• Fix SAML/Kerberos: Update memberships on every login not working for Crowd remote directory

• More robust disabling of username/password fields when "Disable Traditional login" is turned on.
• Username/password login is now disallowed when "Disable Traditional login" is turned on, even though BasicAuth login is allowed.

• Feat: Allow wildcard (*) in user sync group filters
• Fix: Various UI improvements

• Kerberos: introduced ?nokerberosSession URL parameter to avoid Kerberos for the whole web session, and ?kerberosSession to again do Kerberos challenge
• SAML: Manual redirect is enabled when creating new Identity Provider
• SAML: Minor changes to setup wizards

• Feat: Show requested url as link on SAML error pages
• Feat: Show more setup details on SAML test result page
• Fix: SAML links and redirection sliders is not allways shown on login pages.
• Misc UI improvements.

• Fix: First time login for user in AD with local groups and default group memberships

• SAML: add ability to configure username placeholder text in SAML login form
• Cloud User Synchronization: Add ability to filter on guests users only

• SAML Fix: Avoid group sync issues during login when user is found in user directory of type Jira Crowd
• Kerberos: Expose SPN details in ticket client failures page

• Kerberos: Support for enabling logging of client failures to log, details about this: https://docs.kantega.no/display/KantegaSSOEnterprise/Audit+and+Diagnostics+logging

• Kerberos: Better test page feedback when SPN differs in letter casing from keytab to ticket
• Kerberos: Better error handling and reporting on Active Directory test page

• Feature: Allow users to be created / updated into crowd user directories when they log in with SAML
• Fix: Just-in-time provisioning must be able to handle setups where no writable user directory exist.
• Fix: Forced SSO Urls does not work with instant redirection mode
• Fix: Exception occurring when Fallback redirect mode is removed
• Fix: Kerberos challenge sent and fails when no user agent information is available. This has caused noise in application logs.

• Cloud user provisioning: Fix incorrect password notification for a non-sso user when Cloud User Directory was ordered higher and the user was not in this directory

• SAML: Let Just-in-time provisioning write to any writable, internal directory
• Cloud user provisioning: Avoid that password from the Internal directory could be used when the same username was found in Cloud directory and this had higher priority.
• New onboarding flow for SAML & Kerberos.

• SAML: New group based redirect to IDP rule.
• SAML: Improved GUI for setting up redirect rules page.
• User provisioning: New user filter keeping all group memberships

• Bugfix: Kerberos test page would in some cases claim an IP was blacklisted when it wasn't.
• Revert change related to user lookup, to once more allow fallback. Needed in envs where users are in an LDAP directory with a baseDN that doesn't match Kerberos REALM.
• Switched to spring-scanner internally.

• Feature: Default Groups from LDAP/AD on each login (for both SAML & Kerberos)
• Feature: Better AzureAD managed groups support. Recognizing http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/groups as SAML group claims.
• Refactoring: More robust username lookup in LDAP/AD

We have restructured our documentation pages and all of the setup guide links are now given news and persistent urls

• Feat: Extend Just-in-time provisioning to also activate and update user records
• Fix: Compatibility with Java 11

• Fixed regression introduced by the 3.5.16 fix for AD FS / destination URLs containing the tilde character.
• Misc internal code changes.

• Fix support for ~ (tilde) symbol in return URLs for ADFS SAML
• Improved GSuite User Provisioning guide
• Cursor focus on username field when manually cancelling SAML login

Multiple BouncyCastle dependencies with different versions caused NoSuchFieldError when setting up SAML idps. This version fix these dependency problems.

• Bugfix related to group sync using Delegated LDAPs
• Updated OneLogin SAML integration manual
• Minor UI improvments for JIT provisioning

• Feat: Configuration option to require SAML group claims for Just-in-time user creation.
• Feat: Configurable option for allowing BasicAuth requests to pass when traditional username / password login is disabled
• Fix: Repair failing back-links from test result page

• Feature: Editable list of user agent strings where Kerberos should not trigger
• Improvement: Invalidate old css and javascript resources on new releases
• Improvement: Better usability in navigating menus and links in application
• Improvement: Redesign of SAML redirect modes page

• Feat: Customize text shown to users when SAML authentication fails.
• Feat: Ability to set up cloud user provisioning to only synchronize users (not groups and memberships).
• Update: AzureAD and GSuite setup guidesFix: Kerberos for REST does not work with GoEdit
• Fix: LDAP err 49 in user lookup with AD LDS with non-standard username attribute
• Fix: Nullpointer exception in Active Directory test page

• Feat: Ability to disable BasicAuth server-side
• Feat: SAML - Import metadata by url
• Feat: Extract users through the AzureAD batch API
• Fix: When setting up Okta cloud user provisioning, the input field for domains are restricted with a too limited value range (only allowing domains ending with okta.com and okta-preview.com)
• Fix: Fecru - SAML authentication always redirects users to default home page, not the original resource.

• Fix support for managed groups also for encrypted SAML assertions
• Fix potential error during login on certain configurations

• Feat: Ability to disable traditional username / password login and enforce SSO as primary authentication.
• Fix: Adding cloud users to local groups fails.
• UI: Improve handling of custom SAML group and user attributes.

• Feat: Allow usernames from SAML response to be transformed with regex before lookup
• Ref: Refactor user directory, username attribute selection and transformation configuration pages

The cloud user provisioning feature for username transformations (introduced in v.3.5.0) failed when applied together with group filters.

• Feature: Username transformation for Cloud user provisioning: Ability to strip off domain part from username attribute.

• Improved LDAP user lookup performance by obeying User Directory flag for "Update group memberships when logging in"

• Fix: Update Azure AD user provisioning guide with Directory.read.all as necessary permission
• Fix: Missing login links in Jira Service Desk
• Fix: Avoid SSO redirects to Jira login pages

• Feat: Configurable auto redirect for relogins
• Fix: Correct user extractions from Azure AD. Replair error introduced in v. 3.4.18.

• Feat: Cloud user provisioning with custom group and user type filters.
• Fix: Improved kerberos for git support
• Fix: Double URL prefixing when opening attachments

• Feat: Google GSuite user provisioning connector can fetch users in several domains
• Fix: Dashboard freezing in Bamboo
• Fix: Disable automatic redirection when matching known domains
• Fix: Groups not extracted correctly from Azure AD user provisioning connector

• fix: Include target URL in idp links in login screens
• fix: Improve text in welcome message

• Fix redirects to documents with spaces in the url
• Some browser improvements (IE11)
• Fix certain incorrect SAML redirect targets when using the mode 'Redirect without showing login page'

• Feature: Encryption of SAML response messages
• Fix: Avoid redirect loops for remote page views
• Feature: UI and branding updates
• Feature: Provide welcome message on first setup

• SAML: New IdP setup guides Auth0, AuthAnvil, Bitium, Duo, Salesforce, WSO2, Keycloak & Ping Federate
• SAML: Links to improved and more detailed screenshot guides for Azure AD, GSuite, Okta, OneLogin & PingOne
• Kerberos: Support for not sending Kerberos challenge when receiving OAuth headers

• Feature: Enable forced SAML authentication on public pages
• Fix: Handle whitespace and other illegal URL characters in SAML target URLs.

Fix Kerberos IP whitelist regression introduced in version 3.4.6

• SAML: Both groups and roles in SAML response are now available for managed group setup
• SAML: Improved usability in setup wizard and test page
• Kerberos: Added functionality for regular expression transformation of usernames

• SAML: Added possibility for custom username attribute from SAML Response
• Kerberos: Added urls to Forced SSO: '/secure/BrowseProjects.jspa' (jira) and '/plugins/inlinetasks/mytasks.action' (confluence)
• Better backwards compatibility for checkbox elements
• Revised SAML setup menu for better understanding

• Java: Upgrade required Java from 1.7 to 1.8
• Feature: Kerberos - Regex support in IP blacklisting / whitelisting.
• UI: Make use of AUI toggle boxes, textual improvements and show license warnings on all add-on pages
• Fix: Repair error in auto fetching of values from AD during kerberos setup

• Default groups for SAML login.
• Configurable SAML redirect delay.
• Enable Kerberos REST protection for Bamboo.
• Fix for Kerberos blocking Confluence App in iOS.
• Improved SAML to allow simultanious logins in multiple tabs.
• General text and ui improvements

• Feature: Give all users access to public Confluence pages. Also when users are authenticated without sufficient group memberships.
• Feature: Provide a warning message on the kerberos test page when kerberos ticket and key tab file have different versions
• Feature: Kerberos usage counters and statistics for group lockout
• Bug: IIS-related error - Test page indicates local IP, even when its not.
• Refactoring: General text improvements

• Support for Kerberos Preemtive Authentization paths with URL parameters
• Minor look and feel and text improvments
• Improved Okta wizard description

Fixed: GSuite user synchronization pagination fault.

Fixed: Proper handling when authenticating inactive JIRA-users (with both SAML and Kerberos).

Fixed: Report key version number correctly in Active Directory server test UI.

Fixed: Support for following referrals in multi AD-domains when using other user principal than sAMAccountName.

• Fixed: SAML authentication failed for users in JIRA remote User Directory.
• Fixed: The “smart-commits” integration between JIRA and Bitbucket failed when Kerberos-authentication was enabled in the Bitbucket REST-api.

This release introduces the "Config Snapshots" feature. Admins can use this to create snapshots (zip files) containing the plugin's current configuration.

This is especially useful during testing and for maintaining SSO configurations when syncing between environments.

Update information about remote users when logging in

Gracefully handle other add-ons producing os_destination values with missing leading forward slash characters.

Connectors: User directories are now created with user attribute update permissions.

• Kerberos: Only attempt to generate AES-256 keys when unlimited cryptography is enabled in the JVM.
• Kerberos: JCE policy files have moved in recent Java versions, tests now take that into account.
• SAML: Fixed an issue where PEM formatted certificates were missing a trailing “-“
• SAML: Don’t interfere with username/password dialogs having an error message (such as CAPTCHA failure)

• New feature: Import keys from Active Directory
• Useful when the Kerberos service account is already configured, but the keytab file has somehow gotten out of sync with the AD account keys
• Sanitizing user provided redirect URLs

• SAML: Allow upload or pasting federation metadata XML also after the identity provider has been registered
• SAML testing: Improved error message when the response or assertion was signed with an unknown / unknown certificate
• SAML testing: When sending test notification emails, fail gracefully if mail server is down or misconfigured

New feature "Cloud connectors" allows syncing of users with groups and memberships from Azure, Google G-Suite and Okta.

See https://connectors.kantega.no for an introduction to the Cloud Connectors feature.

SAML:

• Accept importing federation metadata from Keycloak
• Allow customizing NameIDPolicy attributes
• Update instructions to use the new Azure Portal with Kantega SSO gallery app
• Make the?noautosso easier to use across applications

Kerberos:

• Allow appending instead of replacing keys when uploading a keytab
• Suggest enabling AES-128/AES-256 in account settings when ticket encryption type does not match keytab
• Suggest solutions when keytab version is older / newer than ticket
• Kerberos for REST: On the 401 Negotiate response, suppress any status changes from the application

SAML:

The "do not show the login page" redirect mode now allows manual login following a logout.

Kerberos:

• Suggested service account names should be no longer than 20 charactersFecru /
• Testing for admin permissions now handles Fecru's numeric UserKeys

Users can now be redirected based on what user directory they exist in.

Fixed an issue where the add-on failed to create or update when a delegated LDAP user directory was configured to use SSL.

• SAML: Detect out-of-sync signing keystore password
• SAML: Make keystore password an opt-in feature
• Kerberos: Detect setup wizard connecting to non-AD LDAP servers such as OpenLDAP

Allow saving a SAML identity provider as a draft which can then be resumed at a later point.

• New feature: Group memberships can now be managed via SAML group claims
• New feature: Optionally let users select an Identity Provider by clicking a link in the login UI
• New feature: Support validation of signatures from Identity Providers which do not include the X509Certificate used when signing the SAML response
• Fixed a problem where live updates of the UPM add-on caused classloading lookups to fail for the add-on.

• SAML test: Detect and warn when a non-standard Seraph authenticator is configured in the system
• SAML: New config page allows customizing the Issuer and RequestedAuthnContext elements in the AuthnRequest message.
• SAML: The default for new IDP registrations is changed to not send the RequestedAuthnContext element in AuthnRequests.

• When provisioning users, custom full name and email attribute may be used
• Fixes an issue where duplicate SPN would cause an error in the Kerberos setup wizard

A regression caused SAML login to be disabled in the UI when logging in following a manual log out.

• Redirect rules now support hard redirect. (Do not show the Application login page)
• Adding ?nosaml now bypasses SAML logon
• Fixed an issue where Azure AD joined computers users logged in with Microsoft Edge would get an X509 error

Matching the SAML attribute cn as an alias for Name / DisplayName.

• SAML: Added support for auto-redirect rules. Rules are managed inside each IDP.
• Preemptive authentication: Excluded paths are now matched case-insensitive.

• New: Support for SAML login with guided setup for identity providers such as AD FS, Azure AD, Google G-Suite, Okta, Ping and OneLogin.
• Add-on name changed to "Kantega Single Sign-on" to reflect the new SAML support.