Chapter 2. Release-specific changes
Review these changes carefully before upgrading.
2.1. RH SSO 7.6
The following changes have occurred from Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5 to Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.
2.1.1. Step-up authentication
Step-up authentication is a new feature. This feature provides the acr
client scope, which contains a protocol mapper that is supposed to add the acr
claim in the token. The acr
claim is not added automatically now as it was before this version, but it is added with the usage of this client scope and protocol mapper.
The client scope is added as a realm "default" client scope and hence will be added to all newly created clients. For performance reasons, the client scope is not automatically added to all existing clients during migration. The clients will not have an acr
claim by default after the migration. Consider these possible actions:
-
If you do not plan to use step-up authentication feature, but you rely on the
acr
claim in the token, you can disablestep_up_authentication
feature as described in the Server Installation and Configuration Guide. The claim will be added with the value1
in case of normal authentication and0
in case of SSO authentication. -
Add
acr
client scope to your clients manually by admin REST API or admin console. This is needed especially if you want to use step-up authentication. If you have a large number of clients in the realm and want to useacr
claim for all of them, you can trigger some SQL similar to this against your DB. However, remember to clear the cache or restart the server if Red Hat Single Sign-On is already started:
insert into CLIENT_SCOPE_CLIENT (CLIENT_ID, SCOPE_ID, DEFAULT_SCOPE) select CLIENT.ID as CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SCOPE.ID as SCOPE_ID, true as DEFAULT_SCOPE from CLIENT_SCOPE, CLIENT where CLIENT_SCOPE.REALM_ID='test' and CLIENT_SCOPE.NAME='acr' and CLIENT.REALM_ID='test' and CLIENT.PROTOCOL='openid-connect';
2.1.2. OpenID Connect Logout
Previous versions of Red Hat Single Sign-On had supported automatic logout of the user and redirecting to the application by opening logout endpoint URL such as http(s)://example-host/auth/realms/my-realm-name/protocol/openid-connect/logout?redirect_uri=encodedRedirectUri
. While that implementation was easy to use, it had potentially negative impact on performance and security. The new version has better support for logout based on the OpenID Connect RP-Initiated Logout specification. The parameter redirect_uri
is no longer supported; also, in the new version, the user needs to confirm the logout. It is possible to omit the confirmation and do automatic redirect to the application when you include parameter post_logout_redirect_uri
together with the parameter id_token_hint
with the ID Token used for login.
The existing deployments are affected in the following ways:
-
If your application directly uses links to logout endpoint with the
redirect_uri
parameter, you may be required to change this as described above. Consider either removing theredirect_uri
parameter entirely or replacing it with theid_token_hint
andpost_logout_redirect_uri
parameters. -
If you use java adapters and your application does logout by call
httpServletRequest.logout()
, you are not affected because this call uses the backchannel variant of the logout endpoint and that one was not changed. -
If you use the latest javascript adapter, you are also not affected. However if your application uses an older version of the JavaScript adapter, you are affected as this adapter uses the variant of the logout endpoint with the deprecated
redirect_uri
parameter. In this case, you may need to upgrade to the latest version of the JavaScript adapter. -
For the Node.js adapter, the same guideline applies as for the JavaScript adapter. You are encouraged to update to the latest version as the older version of the adapter uses the deprecated
redirect_uri
parameter. With the latest Node.js adapter, you are not affected as long as you use the logout based on the/logout
URL as described in the documentation or in the Node.js adapter example. However, in the case when your application directly uses the methodkeycloak.logoutUrl
, you can consider addingidTokenHint
as the second argument to this method. The possibility to addidTokenHint
as second argument was newly added in this version. TheidTokenHint
needs to be a valid ID Token that was obtained during the login. AddingidTokenHint
is optional, but if you omit it, your users will need to confirm the logout screen as described earlier. Also they will not be redirected back to the application after logout.
There is a backwards compatibility option, which allows your application to still use the old format of the redirect_uri
parameter.
You can enable this parameter by including the following configuration in the standalone-*.xml
file
<spi name="login-protocol"> <provider name="openid-connect" enabled="true"> <properties> <property name="legacy-logout-redirect-uri" value="true"/> </properties> </provider> </spi>
With this configuration, you can still use the format with the redirect_uri
parameter. Note the confirmation screen will be needed if the id_token_hint
is omitted.
The backwards compatibility switch will be removed in some future version. You are encouraged to update your clients as soon as possible as described above rather than rely on this switch.
2.1.3. Removal of the upload-scripts
feature
Previous versions of Red Hat Single Sign-On had supported managing JavaScript code through the management interfaces like the administrations console and REST API. Starting from this version this is no longer possible, and you should now deploy your scripts to the server in order to configure the following providers:
- OpenID Connect Script Mapper
- Script Authenticator (Authentication Execution)
- JavaScript Policies
More details about how to deploy scripts to the server are available in the documentation. Note that to use scripts, you are still required to enable the scripts
technology preview feature.
./standalone.sh -Dkeycloak.profile=preview
When deploying scripts, the server is going to automatically create their corresponding providers so that you can select them when configuring authentication flows, mappers, and authorization policies.
In general, the steps to update your realms are the following:
- Before upgrading, remove any script provider you are using.
- After the upgrade, deploy your scripts following the instructions in the documentation.
- Update your authentication flows, mappers, and the client authorization settings to use the providers created from the scripts deployed to the server.
2.1.4. Account console Patternfly upgrade
The Patternfly (PF) React libraries have been updated updated, @patternfly/react-core
from v3.153.3 to v4.147.0, @patternfly/react-icons
from v3.15.16 to v 4.11.8, and @patternfly/react-styles
from v3.7.14 to v4.11.8. Several minor UI updates were made to bring the account console into alignment with PF design standards.
Custom developed account UIs might not be compatible with these updates due to the breaking changes in PF. Most breaking changes should be resovlable by updating props on PF components.
Resources:
- [Patternfly docs](https://www.patternfly.org)
Components known to have breaking changes:
- Alert
-
action
prop changed toactionClose
- Expandable
-
renamed to
ExpandableSection
- Title
-
size attr now uses
TitleSizes
- DataListContent
-
noPadding
changed tohasNoPadding
- Grid, Stack, Level, Gallery
-
gutter
attr changed tohasGutter
- Modal
-
sizing control changed from, e.g.
isLarge
, to useModalVariant
, e.g.variant={ModalVariant.large}
- Select
-
ariaLabelTypeAhead
totypeAheadAriaLabel
-
isExpanded
toisOpen
-
ariaLabelledBy
toaria-labelledby
- DataListContent
-
noPadding
tohasNoPadding
2.1.5. Client Policies Migration : client-scopes
If you used a policy including client-scopes condition and edited JSON document directly, you will need to change the "scope" field name in a JSON document to "scopes".
2.1.6. Liquibase upgraded to version 4.6.2
Liquibase was updated from version 3.5.5 to 4.6.2, which includes, among other things, several bug fixes, and a new way of registering custom extensions using ServiceLoader
.
Closely follow the Upgrading Guide, specifically of backing up existing database before upgrade. While we did our best to test the consequences of the Liquibase upgrade, some installations could be using specific setup unknown to us.
2.1.7. Deprecated features in the Red Hat Single Sign-On Operator
With this release, we have deprecated podDisruptionBudget
field in the Keycloak CR of Red Hat Single Sign-On Operator. This optional field will be ignored when the Operator is deployed on OCP 4.12 and higher versions.
As a workaround, you can manually create the Pod Disruption Budget in your cluster, for example:
apiVersion: policy/v1 kind: PodDisruptionBudget metadata: labels: app: keycloak name: keycloak spec: maxUnavailable: 1 selector: matchLabels: component: keycloak
See also the Kubernetes Documentation.
2.1.8. Critical bug fix in the Red Hat Single Sign-On Operator
Due to a critical bug introduced in the previous versions of the Operator, Selector
field on the RH-SSO StatefulSet was misconfigured. The misconfiguration may break the upgrade process from 7.5 to 7.6, preventing a successful RH-SSO deployment.
With an Operator patch release we introduced a fix. Please note that as part of the fix the Operator may delete and recreate the RH-SSO StatefulSet during the upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6. For the fix to work properly, make sure you use the recreate
upgrade strategy. Refer to the related chapter of Server Installation and Configuration Guide.
2.1.9. Changes to probes when using the Red Hat Single Sign-On Operator 7.6.2
In order to align with changes in Red Hat Single Sign-On OpenShift images introduced in 7.6.2, the Operator now leverages the default liveness and readiness probes present in the image instead of using custom ones. For existing Red Hat Single Sign-On deployments, the Operator will try to update the probes automatically during the upgrade. However, if you have customized the probes by performing manual changes to the keycloak-probes
ConfigMap, the Operator will not update the probes to avoid overriding user modifications. In this situation, you have to update the probes manually (or delete the ConfigMap in order for the Operator to recreate it); otherwise the upgraded Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.2 deployment will appear as not ready.
2.1.10. Changes to probes when using the Red Hat Single Sign-On Operator 7.6.5
In order to allow running in a FIPS enabled environment, the probes authentication hash algorithm was changed. For template based installations that have the default timeout of 1 second for probes, and that also specify a CPU limit less than 1, this may result in ongoing probe failures. If these failures result in restarts, you should increase the probe timeouts either by changing your DeploymentConfig or by realigning to the newly released templates, which have greater timeout values that match what is used in the operator.
2.1.11. Not recommended to use step-up authentication with Account Console version 1
There is a limitation for Account Console V1 in relation to step-up authentication. The problem is that a user can authenticate to Account Console version 1 with a password and then add a TOTP credential to the user or remove the existing TOTP credential. This situation means that anyone, who managed to steal the password of the user, can bypass 2nd factor authentication of the user by adding another TOTP. This problem does not occur with Account console version 2 (as supported by Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.8). That version always enforces the user to authenticate with the credential of the corresponding level concerning the user to be added or removed.
The best mitigation is to avoid using Account Console version 1 when using step-up authentication. Account Console version 1 does work if the account theme is explicitly switched to the keycloak
theme.
2.1.12. The Admin send-verify-email API uses the same email verification template after upgrade to Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.10
PUT /admin/realms/{realm}/users/{id}/send-verify-email
In this release, the API will use the email-verification.ftl
template instead of executeActions.ftl
.
Before upgrading
Perform the following action(s): Verify Email
After upgrading
Confirm validity of e-mail address email@example.org.
If you have customized the executeActions.ftl
template to modify how users verify their email using this API, ensure that you transfer your modifications to the new template.
A new parameter called lifespan
will be introduced to allow overriding of the default lifespan value (12 hours).
If you prefer the previous behavior, use the execute-actions-email
API as follows.
PUT /admin/realms/{realm}/users/{id}/execute-actions-email ["VERIFY_EMAIL"]
2.2. RH SSO 7.5
The following changes have occurred from Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4 to Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5.
2.2.1. Upgrade to EAP 7.4
The Red Hat Single Sign-On server was upgraded to use EAP 7.4 as the underlying container. This change does not directly involve any specific Red Hat Single Sign-On server functionality, but a few changes relate to the migration.
2.2.1.1. Dependency updates
The dependencies were updated to the versions used by EAP 7.4 server. For example, the Infinispan component version is now 11.0.
2.2.1.2. Configuration changes
There are a few configuration changes in the standalone(-ha).xml and domain.xml files. You should follow the Section 3.1.2, “Upgrading the Red Hat Single Sign-On server” section to handle the migration of configuration files automatically.
2.2.1.3. SmallRye manual changes
Manual changes are required when standalone.xml contains references to SmallRye modules. These modules were removed from the underlying JBoss EAP distribution, and the server does not start if the configuration references them. The server configuration migration via migrate-standalone.cli
fails before any changes are made to the configuration.
To correct this problem, remove all the lines that refer to SmallRye modules. In the default configuration, you need to remove specifically the following lines:
<extension module="org.wildfly.extension.microprofile.config-smallrye"/> <extension module="org.wildfly.extension.microprofile.health-smallrye"/> <extension module="org.wildfly.extension.microprofile.metrics-smallrye"/>
<subsystem xmlns="urn:wildfly:microprofile-config-smallrye:1.0"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:wildfly:microprofile-health-smallrye:2.0" security-enabled="false" empty-liveness-checks-status="${env.MP_HEALTH_EMPTY_LIVENESS_CHECKS_STATUS:UP}" empty-readiness-checks-status="${env.MP_HEALTH_EMPTY_READINESS_CHECKS_STATUS:UP}"/> <subsystem xmlns="urn:wildfly:microprofile-metrics-smallrye:2.0" security-enabled="false" exposed-subsystems="*" prefix="${wildfly.metrics.prefix:wildfly}"/>
2.2.1.4. Cross-Datacenter replication changes
- You will need to upgrade RHDG server to version 8.x. The older version may still work, but it is not guaranteed as it is no longer tested.
-
We recommend that you use the
protocolVersion
property added to the remote-store element when configuring Infinispan caches. When connecting to the RHDG server 8.x, the recommended version of the hotrod protocol version is 2.9. The Infinispan library version differs among Red Hat Single Sign-On server and RHDG server. For more details, see the Cross-Datacenter documentation. -
We recommend that you use
remoteStoreSecurityEnabled
property under theconnectionsinfinispan
subsystem. For more details, see the Cross-Datacenter documentation.
2.2.2. UserModel Migration
The UserModel
includes certain fields, username
, email
, firstName
and lastName
, which are now converted to custom attributes. This change was made to prepare for adding more sophisticated user profiles to Red Hat Single Sign-On in an upcoming version.
If a database contains users with custom attributes of that exact name, these attributes will no longer be read from the database and may be deleted. Therefore, before upgrading to RH SSO 7.5, rename any custom attribute that matches one of these names.
This situation implies that the username
can now also be accessed and set by UserModel.getFirstAttribute(UserModel.USERNAME)
. Similar implications exist for other fields. Implementors of SPIs subclassing the UserModel
directly or indirectly should ensure that the behavior between setUsername
and setSingleAttribute(UserModel.USERNAME, …)
(and similar for the other fields) is consistent.
Users of the policy evaluation feature should adapt their policies if they use the number of attributes in their evaluations. Every user will now have four new attributes by default.
The public API of UserModel
did not change. No changes to frontend resources or SPIs accessing user data are necessary. Also, the database did not change yet.
2.2.3. Upgrade to PatternFly 4
The Red Hat Single Sign-On login theme components have been upgraded to PatternFly 4. The old PatternFly 3 runs simultaneously with the new one, so it’s possible to keep PF3 components.
However, some changes to the design of the login theme were performed. Please upgrade your custom login theme to the new version. An example with the necessary changes can be found in the examples/themes/theme/sunrise
directory. No additional setup is required.
2.2.4. New API for Instagram IdP
Instagram IdP now uses a new API. The old legacy API was deprecated. This change requires new API credentials. For details, please refer to the Server Administration Guide.
For users who use Instagram IdP to log into Instagram, those users need a different authentication method, such as a password. They can log in to manually update their Instagram social links or create a new account in Red Hat Single Sign-On. This restriction exists because Instagram user IDs in the previous API are incompatible with the new API. However the new API temporarily returns both new and old user IDs to allow migration. Red Hat Single Sign-On automatically migrates the ID once the user logs in.
2.2.5. Valid Request URIs for SSRF protection
If you use the OpenID Connect parameter request_uri
, your client needs to have Valid Request URIs
configured to protect against SSRF attacks
You can configure this feature through the Admin Console on the client details page, or through the admin REST API or client registration API. Valid Request URIs need to contain the list of Request URI values that are permitted for the particular client.
You could instead use wildcards or relative paths, such as the Valid Redirect URIs
option. However, we recommend using as specific value as possible for security purposes.
2.2.6. Read-only user attributes
Read-only user attributes are now available. Some of these user attributes are not to be edited by the user or administrator when updating users with the REST API or with the Red Hat Single Sign-On user interfaces. In particular, this change is important when you use any of the following:
- Custom user storage providers
- Custom authenticators
- Custom JavaScript authorization policies that establish authorization based on a user attribute
- X.509 authenticator with a custom attribute for mapping the X.509 certificate to the user identity
- Any other custom functionality where some of the user attributes are used as the metadata for storing authentication/authorization/identity context rather than simple user profile information.
For more details, see the Threat model mitigation chapter.
2.2.7. No user session needed after Docker authentication
No user session is created after successful authentication with the Docker protocol. For details, please refer to the Server Administration Guide.
2.2.8. Client Credentials Grant without default refresh token
For this Red Hat Single Sign-On version, the OAuth2 Client Credentials Grant endpoint does not issue refresh tokens by default. This behavior is aligned with the OAuth2 specification.
As a result, no user session is created on the Red Hat Single Sign-On server side after successful Client Credentials authentication. The result is improved performance and memory consumption. Clients that use Client Credentials Grant are encouraged to stop using refresh tokens and instead authenticate at every request with grant_type=client_credentials
instead of using refresh_token
as grant type.
In relation to this, Red Hat Single Sign-On supports revocation of access tokens in the OAuth2 Revocation Endpoint. Therefore, clients are allowed to revoke individual access tokens if needed.
For backwards compatibility, you could stay with the previous version’s behavior. With that approach, the refresh token is still issued after a successful authentication with the Client Credentials Grant and also the user session is created. For a particular client, you can enable the previous behavior in the Admin Console as follows:
Procedure
- Click Clients in the menu.
- Click the client you want to modify.
- Expand the OpenID Connect Compatibility Modes section.
- Toggle Use Refresh Tokens For Client Credentials Grant to ON.
- Click Save.
2.2.9. Non-standard token introspection endpoint removed
In previous versions, Red Hat Single Sign-On advertised two introspection endpoints: token_introspection_endpoint
and introspection_endpoint
. The latter is the one defined by RFC-8414. The former was deprecated and is now removed.
2.2.10. LDAP no-import fix
In the previous Red Hat Single Sign-On version, when the LDAP provider was configured with Import Users
OFF, it was possible to update the user even if some non-LDAP mapped attributes were changed. This situation resulted in confusing behavior. The attribute appeared to be updated, but it was not updated.
For example, if you had tried to update a user with the admin REST API and the user had some incorrect attribute changes, the update was possible. With the current version, the update is not possible and you are immediately informed about the reason.
2.3. RH SSO 7.4
The following changes have occurred from Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.3 to Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4.
2.3.1. Upgrade to EAP 7.3
The Red Hat Single Sign-On server was upgraded to use EAP 7.3 as the underlying container. This change does not directly involve any specific Red Hat Single Sign-On server functionality, but a few changes relate to the migration.
2.3.1.1. Dependency updates
The dependencies were updated to the versions used by EAP 7.3 server. For example, the Infinispan component version is now 9.3.1.Final.
2.3.1.2. Configuration changes
There are a few configuration changes in the standalone(-ha).xml and domain.xml files. Follow the Upgrading the Red Hat Single Sign-On server section to handle the migration of configuration files automatically.
2.3.1.3. Cross-Datacenter replication changes
You will need to upgrade RHDG to version 7.3. The older version may still work, but it is not tested so it is not guaranteed to work.
2.3.2. Authentication flows changes
We did some refactoring and improvements related to the authentication flows, which requires attention during migration.
2.3.2.1. REQUIRED and ALTERNATIVE executions not supported at same authentication flow
Previously, it was possible to have REQUIRED and ALTERNATIVE executions in the same authentication flow at the same level. There were some issues with this approach and we did the refactoring in the Authentication SPI, which means that this is no longer valid. If ALTERNATIVE and REQUIRED executions are configured at the same level, the ALTERNATIVE executions are considered disabled.
So when migrating to this version, your existing authentication flows will be migrated but retain the behavior of the previous version. If an authentication flow contains ALTERNATIVE executions at the same level as REQUIRED executions, the ALTERNATIVE executions are added to the separate REQUIRED subflow.
This strategy should ensure the same or similar behavior of the each authentication flow as in the previous version. However, you may review the configuration of your authentication flow and double check that it works as expected. This recommendation applies in particular for customized authentication flows with custom authenticator implementations.
2.3.2.2. OPTIONAL execution requirement removed
Regarding migration, the most important change is removing support for the OPTIONAL requirement from authentication executions and replacing it with the CONDITIONAL requirement, which allows more flexibility.
OPTIONAL authenticators configured in the previous version are replaced with the CONDITIONAL subflows. These subflows have the Condition - User Configured condition configured as first execution, and the previously OPTIONAL authenticator (for example OTP Form) as second execution. For the user, the behavior during authentication matches the behavior of the previous version.
2.3.2.3. SPI Changes
Some changes exist in the Java Authentication SPI and Credential Provider SPI.
The interface Authenticator is not changed, but you may be affected if you develop advanced authenticators that introduce some new credential types (subclasses of CredentialModel). Changes exist on the CredentialProvider interface and introduction of some new interfaces such as CredentialValidator.
Also, you may be affected if your authenticator supported the OPTIONAL execution requirement. It is recommended that you double check the latest authentication examples in the server development guide for more details.
2.3.2.4. Freemarker template changes
Changes exist in the freemarker templates. You may be affected if you have your own theme with custom freemarker templates for login forms or some account forms, especially for the forms related to OTP. We recommend that you review the changes in the Freemarker templates in this version and align your templates according to it.
2.3.3. Duplicated top level groups
This release fixes a problem which could create duplicated top level groups in the realm. Nevertheless the existence of previous duplicated groups makes the upgrade process fail. The Red Hat Single Sign-On server can be affected by this issue if it is using an H2, MariaDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL database. Before launching the upgrade, check if the server contains duplicated top level groups. For example, the following SQL query can be executed at database level to list them:
SELECT REALM_ID, NAME, COUNT(*) FROM KEYCLOAK_GROUP WHERE PARENT_GROUP is NULL GROUP BY REALM_ID, NAME HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;
Only one top level group can exist in each realm with the same name. Duplicates should be reviewed and deleted before the upgrade. The error in the upgrade contains the message Change Set META-INF/jpa-changelog-9.0.1.xml::9.0.1- KEYCLOAK-12579-add-not-null-constraint::keycloak failed.
2.3.4. User credentials changes
We added more flexibility around storing user credentials. Among other things, every user can have multiple credentials of the same type, such as multiple OTP credentials. Some changes exist in the database schema in relation to that, however the credentials from the previous version are updated to the new format. Users can still log in with the passwords or OTP credentials defined in the previous version.
2.3.5. New optional client scope
We have added a microprofile-jwt optional client scope to handle the claims defined in the MicroProfile/JWT Auth Specification. This new client scope defines protocol mappers to set the username of the authenticated user to the upn claim and to set the realm roles to the groups claim.
2.3.6. Improved handling of user locale
A number of improvements have been made to how the locale for the login page is selected, as well as when the locale is updated for a user. See the Server Administration Guide for more details.
2.3.7. Legacy promise in JavaScript adapter
You no longer need to set promiseType in the JavaScript adapter, and both are available at the same time. It is recommended to update applications to use native promise API (then and catch) as soon as possible, as the legacy API (success and error) will be removed at some point.
2.3.8. Deploying Scripts to the Server
Until now, administrators were allowed to upload scripts to the server through the Red Hat Single Sign-On Admin Console and the RESTful Admin API. This capability is now disabled. Users should deploy scripts directly to the server. For more details, review the JavaScript Providers.
2.3.9. Client Credentials in the JavaScript adapter
In the previous releases, developers were allowed to provide client credentials to the JavaScript adapter. For now on, this capability was removed, because client-side apps are not safe to keep secrets. Ability to propagate prompt=none to default IDP
We have added a switch in the OIDC identity provider configuration named Accepts prompt=none forward from client to identify IDPs that are able to handle forwarded requests that include the prompt=none query parameter.
Until now, when receiving an auth request with prompt=none, a realm would return a login_required error if the user is not authenticated in the realm without checking if the user has been authenticated by an IDP. From now on, if a default IDP can be determined for the auth request (either by the use of the kc_idp_hint query param or by setting up a default IDP for the realm) and if the Accepts prompt=none forward from client switch has been enabled for the IDP, the auth request is forwarded to the IDP to check if the user has been authenticated there.
It is important to note that this switch is only taken into account if a default IDP is specified, in which case we know where to forward the auth request without having to prompt the user to select an IDP. If a default IDP cannot be determined, we cannot assume which one will be used to fulfill the auth request so the request forwarding is not performed.
2.3.10. New Default Hostname provider
The request and fixed hostname providers have been replaced with a new default hostname provider. The request and fixed hostname providers are now deprecated and we recommend that you switch to the default hostname provider as soon as possible.
2.3.11. Deprecated or removed features
Certain features have a change in status.
2.3.11.1. Deprecated methods in token representation Java classes
In the year 2038, an int is no longer able to hold the value of seconds since 1970, as such we are working on updating these to long values. In token representation there is a further issue. An int will by default result in 0 in the JSON representation, while it should not be included.
See the JavaDocs Documentation for further details on exact methods that have been deprecated and replacement methods.
2.3.11.2. Uploading scripts
Upload of scripts through admin rest endpoints/console is deprecated. It will be removed at a future release.
2.3.12. Authorization Services Drools Policy
The Authorization Services Drools Policy has been removed.
2.4. RH-SSO 7.3
The following changes have occurred from RH-SSO 7.2 to RH-SSO 7.3.
2.4.1. Changes to authorization services
We added support for UMA 2.0. This version of the UMA specification introduced some important changes on how permissions are obtained from the server.
Here are the main changes introduced by UMA 2.0 support. See Authorization Services Guide for details.
- Authorization API was removed
- Prior to UMA 2.0 (UMA 1.0), client applications were using the Authorization API to obtain permissions from the server in the format of a RPT. The new version of UMA specification has removed the Authorization API which was also removed from Red Hat Single Sign-On. In UMA 2.0, RPTs can now be obtained from the token endpoint by using a specific grant type. See Authorization Services Guide for details.
- Entitlement API was removed
- With the introduction of UMA 2.0, we decided to leverage the token endpoint and UMA grant type to allow obtaining RPTs from Red Hat Single Sign-On and avoid having different APIs. The functionality provided by the Entitlement API was kept the same and is still possible to obtain permissions for a set of one or more resources and scopes or all permissions from the server in case no resource or scope is provided. See Authorization Services Guide for details.
- Changes to UMA Discovery Endpoint
- UMA Discovery document changed, see Authorization Services Guide for details.
- Changes to Red Hat Single Sign-On Authorization JavaScript adapter
The Red Hat Single Sign-On Authorization JavaScript adapter (keycloak-authz.js) changed in order to comply with the changes introduced by UMA 2.0 while keeping the same behavior as before. The main change is on how you invoke both
authorization
andentitlement
methods which now expect a specific object type representing an authorization request. This new object type provides more flexibility on how permissions can be obtained from the server by supporting the different parameters supported by the UMA grant type. See Authorization Services Guide for details.One of the main changes introduced by this release is that you are no longer required to exchange access tokens with RPTs in order to access resources protected by a resource server (when not using UMA). Depending on how the policy enforcer is configured on the resource server side, you can just send regular access tokens as a bearer token and permissions will still be enforced.
- Changes to Red Hat Single Sign-On Authorization Client Java API
-
When upgrading to the new version of Red Hat Single Sign-On Authorization Client Java API, you’ll notice that some representation classes were moved to a different package in
org.keycloak:keycloak-core
.
2.4.2. Client Templates changed to Client Scopes
We added support for Client Scopes, which requires some attention during migration.
- Client Templates changed to Client Scopes
- Client Templates were changed to Client Scopes. If you had any Client Templates, their protocol mappers and role scope mappings will be preserved.
- Spaces replaced in the names
-
Client templates with the space character in the name were renamed by replacing spaces with an underscore, because spaces are not allowed in the name of client scopes. For example, a client template
my template
will be changed to client scopemy_template
. - Linking Client Scopes to Clients
-
For clients which had the client template, the corresponding client scope is now added as
Default Client Scope
to the client. So protocol mappers and role scope mappings will be preserved on the client. - Realm Default Client Scopes not linked with existing clients
-
During the migration, the list of built-in client scopes is added to each realm as well as list of
Realm Default Client Scopes
. However, existing clients are NOT upgraded and new client scopes are NOT automatically added to them. Also all the protocol mappers and role scope mappings are kept on existing clients. In the new version, when you create a new client, it automatically has Realm Default Client Scopes attached to it and it does not have any protocol mappers attached to it. We did not change existing clients during migration as it would be impossible to properly detect customizations, which you will have for protocol mappers of the clients, for example. If you want to update existing clients (remove protocol mappers from them and link them with client scopes), you will need to do it manually. - Consents need to be confirmed again
- The client scopes change required the refactoring of consents. Consents now point to client scopes, not to roles or protocol mappers. Because of this change, the previously confirmed persistent consents by users are not valid anymore and users need to confirm the consent page again after the migration.
- Some configuration switches removed
-
The switch
Scope Param Required
was removed from Role Detail. The switchesConsent Required
andConsent Text
were removed from the Protocol Mapper details. Those switches were replaced by the Client Scope feature.
2.4.3. New default client scopes
We have added new realm default client scopes roles
and web-origins
. These client scopes contain protocol mappers to add the roles of the user and allowed web origins to the token. During migration, these client scopes should be automatically added to all the OpenID Connect clients as default client scopes. Hence no setup should be required after database migration is finished.
2.4.3.1. Protocol mapper SPI addition
Related to this, there is a small addition in the (unsupported) Protocol Mappers SPI. You can be affected only if you implemented a custom ProtocolMapper. There is a new getPriority()
method on the ProtocolMapper interface. The method has the default implementation set to return 0. If your protocol mapper implementation relies on the roles in the access token realmAccess
or resourceAccess
properties, you may need to increase the priority of your mapper.
2.4.3.2. Audience resolving
Audiences of all the clients, for which authenticated user has at least one client role in the token, are automatically added to the aud
claim in the access token now. On the other hand, an access token may not automatically contain the audience of the frontend client, for which it was issued. See the Server Administration Guide for more details.
2.4.4. Upgrade to EAP 7.2
The Red Hat Single Sign-On server was upgraded to use EAP 7.2 as the underlying container. This does not directly involve any specific Red Hat Single Sign-On server functionality, but there are few changes related to the migration, which worth mentioning.
- Dependency updates
- The dependencies were updated to the versions used by EAP 7.2 server. For example, Infinispan is now 9.3.1.Final.
- Configuration changes
-
There are few configuration changes in the
standalone(-ha).xml
anddomain.xml
files. You should follow the Section 3.1.2, “Upgrading the Red Hat Single Sign-On server” section to handle the migration of configuration files automatically. - Cross-Datacenter Replication changes
- You will need to upgrade RHDG server to version 7.3. The older version may still work, but it is not guaranteed as we don’t test it anymore.
-
There is a need to add
protocolVersion
property with the value2.6
to the configuration of theremote-store
element in the Red Hat Single Sign-On configuration. This is required as there is a need to downgrade the version of HotRod protocol to be compatible with the version used by RHDG 7.3.
2.4.5. Hostname configuration
In previous versions it was recommended to use a filter to specify permitted hostnames. It is now possible to set a fixed hostname which makes it easier to make sure the valid hostname is used and also allows internal applications to invoke Red Hat Single Sign-On through an alternative URL, for example an internal IP address. It is recommended that you switch to this approach in production.
2.4.6. JavaScript adapter promise
To use native JavaScript promise with the JavaScript adapter it is now required to set promiseType
to native
in the init options.
In the past if native promise was available a wrapper was returned that provided both the legacy Keycloak promise and the native promise. This was causing issues as the error handler was not always set prior to the native error event, which resulted in Uncaught (in promise)
error.
2.4.7. Microsoft Identity Provider updated to use the Microsoft Graph API
The Microsoft Identity Provider implementation in Red Hat Single Sign-On used to rely on the Live SDK endpoints for authorization and obtaining the user profile. From November 2018 onwards, Microsoft is removing support for the Live SDK API in favor of the new Microsoft Graph API. The Red Hat Single Sign-On identity provider has been updated to use the new endpoints so if this integration is in use make sure you upgrade to the latest Red Hat Single Sign-On version.
Legacy client applications registered under "Live SDK applications" won’t work with the Microsoft Graph endpoints due to changes in the id format of the applications. If you run into an error saying that the application identifier was not found in the directory, you will have to register the client application again in the Microsoft Application Registration portal to obtain a new application id.
2.4.8. Google Identity Provider updated to use Google Sign-in authentication system
The Google Identity Provider implementation in Red Hat Single Sign-On used to rely on the Google+ API endpoints endpoints for authorization and obtaining the user profile. From March 2019 onwards, Google is removing support for the Google+ API in favor of the new Google Sign-in authentication system. The Red Hat Single Sign-On identity provider has been updated to use the new endpoints so if this integration is in use make sure you upgrade to the latest Red Hat Single Sign-On version.
If you run into an error saying that the application identifier was not found in the directory, you will have to register the client application again in the Google API Console portal to obtain a new application id and secret.
It is possible that you will need to adjust custom mappers for non-standard claims that were provided by Google+ user information endpoint and are provided under different name by Google Sign-in API. Please consult Google documentation for the most up-to-date information on available claims.
2.4.9. LinkedIn Social Broker Updated to Version 2 of LinkedIn APIs
Accordingly with LinkedIn, all developers need to migrate to version 2.0 of their APIs and OAuth 2.0. As such, we have updated our LinkedIn Social Broker.
Existing deployments using this broker may start experiencing errors when fetching user’s profile using version 2 of LinkedIn APIs. This error may be related with the lack of permissions granted to the client application used to configure the broker which may not be authorized to access the Profile API or request specific OAuth2 scopes during the authentication process.
Even for newly created LinkedIn client applications, you need to make sure that the client is able to request the r_liteprofile
and r_emailaddress
OAuth2 scopes, at least, as well that the client application can fetch current member’s profile from the https://api.linkedin.com/v2/me
endpoint.
Due to these privacy restrictions imposed by LinkedIn in regards to access to member’s information and the limited set of claims returned by the current member’s Profile API, the LinkedIn Social Broker is now using the member’s email address as the default username. That means that the r_emailaddress
is always set when sending authorization requests during the authentication.
2.5. RH-SSO 7.2
The following changes have occurred from RH-SSO 7.1 to RH-SSO 7.2.
2.5.1. New password hashing algorithms
We have added two new password hashing algorithms (pbkdf2-sha256 and pbkdf2-sha512). New realms will use the pbkdf2-sha256 hashing algorithm with 27500 hashing iterations. Since pbkdf2-sha256 is slightly faster than pbkdf2 the iterations was increased to 27500 from 20000.
Existing realms are upgraded if the password policy contains the default value for the hashing algorithm (not specified) and iteration (20000). If you have changed the hashing iterations, you need to manually change to pbkdf2-sha256 if you’d like to use the more secure hashing algorithm.
2.5.2. ID Token requires scope=openid
In RH-SSO 7.0, the ID Token was returned regardless if scope=openid
query parameter was present or not in authorization request. This is incorrect according to the OpenID Connect specification.
In RH-SSO 7.1, we added this query parameter to adapters, but left the old behavior to accommodate migration.
In RH-SSO 7.2, this behavior has changed and the scope=openid
query parameter is now required to mark the request as an OpenID Connect request. If this query parameter is omitted the ID Token will not be generated.
2.5.3. Microsoft SQL Server requires extra dependency
Microsoft JDBC Driver 6.0 requires additional dependency added to the JDBC driver module. If you observe an NoClassDefFoundError
error when using Microsoft SQL Server please add the following dependency to your JDBC driver module.xml
file:
<module name="javax.xml.bind.api"/>
2.5.4. Added session_state parameter to OpenID Connect Authentication Response
The OpenID Connect Session Management specification requires that the parameter session_state
is present in the OpenID Connect Authentication Response.
In RH-SSO 7.1, we did not have this parameter, but now Red Hat Single Sign-On adds this parameter by default, as required by the specification.
However, some OpenID Connect / OAuth2 adapters, and especially older Red Hat Single Sign-On adapters (such as RH-SSO 7.1 and older), may have issues with this new parameter.
For example, the parameter will be always present in the browser URL after successful authentication to the client application. If you use RH-SSO 7.1 or a legacy OAuth2 / OpenID Connect adapter, it may be useful to disable adding the session_state
parameter to the authentication response. This can be done for the particular client in the Red Hat Single Sign-On admin console, in client details in the section with OpenID Connect Compatibility Modes
, described in Section 4.1, “Compatibility with older adapters”. There is the Exclude Session State From Authentication Response
switch, which can be turned on to prevent adding the session_state
parameter to the Authentication Response.
2.5.5. Microsoft Identity Provider updated to use the Microsoft Graph API
The Microsoft Identity Provider implementation in Red Hat Single Sign-On up to version 7.2.4 relies on the Live SDK endpoints for authorization and obtaining the user profile. From November 2018 onwards, Microsoft is removing support for the Live SDK API in favor of the new Microsoft Graph API. The Red Hat Single Sign-On identity provider has been updated to use the new endpoints so if this integration is in use make sure you upgrade to Red Hat Single Sign-On version 7.2.5 or later.
Legacy client applications registered under "Live SDK applications" won’t work with the Microsoft Graph endpoints due to changes in the id format of the applications. If you run into an error saying that the application identifier was not found in the directory, you will have to register the client application again in the Microsoft Application Registration portal to obtain a new application id.
2.5.6. Google Identity Provider updated to use Google Sign-in authentication system
The Google Identity Provider implementation in Red Hat Single Sign-On up to version 7.2.5 relies on the Google+ API endpoints endpoints for authorization and obtaining the user profile. From March 2019 onwards, Google is removing support for the Google+ API in favor of the new Google Sign-in authentication system. The Red Hat Single Sign-On identity provider has been updated to use the new endpoints so if this integration is in use make sure you upgrade to Red Hat Single Sign-On version 7.2.6 or later.
If you run into an error saying that the application identifier was not found in the directory, you will have to register the client application again in the Google API Console portal to obtain a new application id and secret.
It is possible that you will need to adjust custom mappers for non-standard claims that were provided by Google+ user information endpoint and are provided under different name by Google Sign-in API. Please consult Google documentation for the most up-to-date information on available claims.
2.5.7. LinkedIn Social Broker updated to Version 2 of LinkedIn APIs
Accordingly with LinkedIn, all developers need to migrate to version 2.0 of their APIs and OAuth 2.0. As such, we have updated our LinkedIn Social Broker so if this integration is in use make sure you upgrade to Red Hat Single Sign-On version 7.2.6 or later.
Existing deployments using this broker may start experiencing errors when fetching user’s profile using version 2 of LinkedIn APIs. This error may be related with the lack of permissions granted to the client application used to configure the broker which may not be authorized to access the Profile API or request specific OAuth2 scopes during the authentication process.
Even for newly created LinkedIn client applications, you need to make sure that the client is able to request the r_liteprofile
and r_emailaddress
OAuth2 scopes, at least, as well that the client application can fetch current member’s profile from the https://api.linkedin.com/v2/me
endpoint.
Due to these privacy restrictions imposed by LinkedIn in regards to access to member’s information and the limited set of claims returned by the current member’s Profile API, the LinkedIn Social Broker is now using the member’s email address as the default username. That means that the r_emailaddress
is always set when sending authorization requests during the authentication.
2.6. RH-SSO 7.1
The following changes have occurred from RH-SSO 7.0 to RH-SSO 7.1.
2.6.1. Realm keys
For RH-SSO 7.0, only one set of keys could be associated with a realm. This meant that when changing the keys, all current cookies and tokens would be invalidated and all users would have to re-authenticate. For RH-SSO 7.1, support for multiple keys for one realm has been added. At any given time, one set of keys is the active set used for creating signatures, but there can be multiple keys used to verify signatures. This means that old cookies and tokens can be verified, then refreshed with the new signatures, allowing users to remain authenticated when keys are changed. There are also some changes to how keys are managed through the Admin Console and Admin REST API; for more details see Realm Keys in the Server Administration Guide.
To allow seamless key rotation you must remove hard-coded keys from client adapters. The client adapters will automatically retrieve keys from the server as long as the realm key is not specified. Client adapters will also retrieve new keys automatically when keys are rotated.
2.6.2. Client redirect URI matching
For RH-SSO 7.0, query parameters are ignored when matching valid redirect URIs for a client. For RH-SSO 7.1, query parameters are no longer ignored. If you need to include query parameters in the redirect URI you must specify the query parameters in the valid redirect URI for the client (for example, https://hostname/app/login?foo=bar) or use a wildcard (for example, https://hostname/app/login/*). Fragments are also no longer permitted in Valid Redirect URIs (that is, https://hostname/app#fragment).
2.6.3. Automatically redirect to Identity Provider
For RH-SSO 7.1, identity providers cannot be set as the default authentication provider. To automatically redirect to an identity provider for RH-SSO 7.1, you must now configure the identity provider redirector. For more information see Default Identity Provider in the Server Administration Guide. If you previously had an identity provider with the default authentication provider option set, this value is automatically used as the value for the identity provider redirector when the server is upgraded to RH-SSO 7.1.
2.6.4. Admin REST API
For RH-SSO 7.0, paginated endpoints in the Admin REST API return all results if the maxResults query parameter was not specified. This could cause issues with a temporary high load and requests timing out when a large number of results were returned (for example, users). For RH-SSO 7.1, a maximum of 100 results are returned if a value for maxResults is not specified. You can return all results by specifying maxResults as -1.
2.6.5. Server configuration
For RH-SSO 7.0, server configuration is split between the keycloak-server.json file and the standalone/domain.xml or domain.xml file. For RH-SSO 7.1, the keycloak-server.json file has been removed and all server configuration is done through the standalone.xml or domain.xml file. The upgrading procedure for RH-SSO 7.1 automatically migrates the server configuration from the keycloak-server.json file to the standalone.xml or domain.xml file.
2.6.6. Key encryption algorithm in SAML assertions
For RH-SSO 7.1, keys in SAML assertions and documents are now encrypted using the RSA-OAEP encryption scheme. To use encrypted assertions, ensure your service providers support this encryption scheme. In the event that you have service providers that do not support RSA-OAEP, RH-SSO can be configured to use the legacy RSA-v1.5 encryption scheme by starting the server with the system property "keycloak.saml.key_trans.rsa_v1.5" set to true. If you do this, you should upgrade your service providers as soon as possible to be able to revert to the more secure RSA-OAEP encryption scheme.