Kantega SSO Enterprise 6.6.x release notes
We are pleased to announce Kantega SSO Enterprise 6.6.
Note that changes introduced in Kantega SSO Enterprise 6.3 will trigger an update of config warning in the Configuration status page upon install. It will convert your settings for Disable Traditional Login and Disable Basic Auth to a new format.
Read the update notes for important information about this release if you’re updating from major versions 5.x or 4.x, and see the full changelog below.
Compatible applications
In general, the latest version of Kantega SSO Enterprise is compatible with the oldest version that has not been ended of life. See Atlassian’s End-of-life (EOL) policy to get an overview of versions and EOL dates.
Application | Compatible from Server version | Compatible from Data Center version |
---|---|---|
Bamboo | 7.2.1 | 8.0.1 |
Bitbucket | 7.6.0 | 7.6.0 |
Confluence | 7.10.0 | 7.10.0 |
Jira | 8.14.0 | 8.14.0 |
Changelog
Changes in 6.6.3
Feb 16, 2023 11:30 CET
Bug fixes, redirect rules improvement, security patch
Improvements
saml oidc Improvement to redirect rules: you can now choose to redirect the users that DO NOT have a certain group membership, as opposed to only redirect users with the group membership
saml oidc Fix a wider clickable area for the selects in Just-in-time provisioning
saml Added a switch to show or hide the SAML certificate expired warning flag
saml oidc AUDIT log the identity provider’s name and ID for the logged in user in a successful login event
Bug fixes
samloidc The redirect mode was missing from the Identity Provider overview page
user cleanup The
last logged in
attribute on users came asnull
for certain confluence users on the users API, leading to a match on users that were in fact not inactive.
Security
kerberos Tag RC4-HMAC encryption as deprecated in Kerberos setup wizard
Patch CVE-2022-25927 in transitive dependency to an npm json library. We are still awaiting a released patch for CVE-2022-25927 in the maven package org.json/json, but since we do not use the affected component this is not critical.
Changes in 6.6.2
Jan 30, 2023 12:00 CET
Bug fixes, cache improvements and dependency updates
Improvements
saml oidc Disable browser history on client secret input field in setup wizard. This way the browser doesn’t save the values to it can auto-suggest them later.
prevent traditional login Improve caching in lookup of resources used in every-request filters when Exception groups for Prevent Traditional Login is configured
google api connector Update in-app setup guide for Google Workspace API Connector (Cloud user sync)
Bug fixes
google api connectorFix improper pagination support in the group sync membership API which meant that only the group members in the last “page” were persisted. This likely affects all groups with more that 200 members.
saml The certificate expired warning leads to a broken URL.
Security
Added Software Bill of Materials for frontend resources. It can be found packaged with the jar bundle, under SBOM, acting as a bill for the packages javascript resources bundled with the app. The maven SBOM can be found in the release notes text in the given release in the Marketplace listing.
Patch dependencies. Update maven-dependency-check plugin to 8.0.1.
Changes in 6.6.1
Jan 16, 2023 17:30 CET
Bug fixes
Bug fix for User Cleanup config ui
Changes in 6.6.0
Dec 23, 2022 10:30 CET
Just-in-time into AD, improve performance user lookup , and other improvements
Features
SAML OIDC Just-in-time provisioning can create users in Active Directory
JIRA Publish BeforeUserAuthenticate event to help Atlassian cache handle logins over multiple servers Publishing BeforeUserAuthenticate event
Prevent Traditional Login Notify admin user if username/password was used to log into K-SSO admin and he is about to lock himself out with this user
Kerberos Improved user lookup to reduce the number of username searches during login
Improvments
SAML Support for SAML key storage in other filename than SHA256 thumbprint. Created guide on how to use CA signed SAML request keys: https://kantega-sso.atlassian.net/l/cp/0K81JBjR
SAML OIDC Allow username to be sent as login_hint to IdPs when redirect mode is set to Fallback
Remove cancel link during instant redirect. As before you may add
?noredirect
in URL to stop instant redirect.
Bug fixes
SAML OIDCKerberos Fix behaviour on Force login when using up instant redirect to IdP in combination with Kerberos login