WSO2 Identity Server 5.3.0

WSO2 Identity Server : An Open Source Identity and Entitlement Management Server

WSO2 Identity Server v5.3.0 Released !

January 2017

WSO2 Identity Server team is pleased to announce the release of version 5.3.0 of the WSO2 Identity Server (IS).

WSO2 Identity Server is an open source Identity and Entitlement Management server. It supports a wide array of authentication protocols such as SAML 2.0 Web SSO, OAuth 2.0/1.0a, OpenID Connect and WS-Federation Passive. It supports role based authorization and fine grained authorization with XACML 2.0/3.0 while inbound/outbound provisioning is supported through SCIM and SPML.

WSO2 Identity Server is developed on top of the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon platform, an OSGi based framework that provides seamless modularity to your SOA solution via componentization.

All the major features have been developed as pluggable Carbon components.

You can download this distribution from http://wso2.com/products/identity-server/.

Online documentation is available at http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/IS530/WSO2+Identity+Server+Documentation.

How to Run

1. Extract the downloaded zip
2. Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
3. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
4. If you need to start the OSGi console with the server use the property -DosgiConsole when starting the server.

New Features In This Release

• Improved Identity Management Capabilities : Identity management features in WSO2 Identity Server 5.3.0, has been re-designed to provide strong out-of-the-box support for key identity management use cases, including password policies, login policies and account management policies.
• Password policies
• Password history validation (ability to keep track of user's old passwords). See Password History Validation.
• Password Patterns Configuration, See Password Patterns
• Login policies
• Google ReCaptcha support for single sign on. See Setting Up ReCaptcha.
• Account locking in single and multi-tenant environments. See User Account Locking and Account Disabling.
• Account management policies.
• Account suspension reminders and locking idle accounts. See User Account Suspension.
• Password and username recovery with challenge questions or notifications. We also support challenge questions internalization. See Password Recovery.
• Password reset via admin. For more information, See Forced Password Reset.
• Google ReCaptcha support for password recovery flow and self sign up. See Setting Up ReCaptcha.

• HTML support for email templates, template internalization and dynamic properties for email templates. See Customizing Automated Emails.
• Brute force attack prevention. See Mitigating Brute Force Attacks.
• Login session monitoring and termination: WSO2 IS now supports monitoring user sessions and authentication activities via alerts, and manual termination of user sessions for better security. See Terminating User Sessions.
• Rule based provisioning: WSO2 IS 5.3.0 has the ability to adopt provision flows based on rules. These rules can be based on entities related to an event such as user, idp, sp  as well as environmental factors like time and region.
• Prompt for missing predefined required attributes in the authentication flow: The user will be prompted to fill the missing attributes or claim values, in the event of  a missing mandatory claim  at the point of login. See Configuring Claims for a Service Provider.
• OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect Enhancements: Following OpenID Connect specifications were implemented to enrich the OpenID connect support in Identity Server.
• OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration. See OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration.
• Token Introspection. See Invoke the OAuth Introspection Endpoint.
• OpenID Connect Discovery support. See the OpenID Connect specification.
• OAuth 2.0 Form Post Response Mode. See the specification
• OAuth 2.0 client secret revocation and regeneration : See OAuth2 /OpenID connect configurations
• REST profile of XACML. With IS 5.3.0, we have added a REST layer on top of the Balana entitlement engine. See Entitlement with APIs.
• SAML 2.0 Enhancements: Identity server 5.3.0 added following specification support to its SAML feature list.
• SAML 2.0 Metadata Profile.
• SAML 2.0 Assertion Query/Request Profile  
• Security Analytics: WSO2 IS now detects and provides alerting capability for abnormal and suspicious login sessions. See Managing Alerts.

• SCIM 1.0 Enhancements : SCIM provisioning API improved to support attribute query.
• Engage access control policies in authentication flow : With WSO2 IS 5.3.0 it's possible to evaluate access control policies against an authenticated user in authentication flow.
• Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) for IS deployed on Linux servers : With this improvement we enable IS deployed on Linux servers to achieve IWA with external Kerberos/NTLM Servers. See Configure IWA on Linux
• Claim Management Improvement: With this release we relieve the user from the painstaking task of having map claims from one dialect to another indirectly by manipulating mapped attributes. From IS 5.3.0, users can easily map claims from two dialects directly without worrying about mapped attributes.
• Identity Management REST APIs : New RESTful interfaces to connect with account registration and recovery flows have been introduced with IS 5.3.0.

Known Issues

All the open issues pertaining to WSO2 Identity Server are reported at the following locations:

• IS Runtime
• IS Analytics

How You Can Contribute

Mailing Lists

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

• Developer list : dev@wso2.org | Subscribe | Mail Archive
• User forum : StackOverflow

Reporting Issues

We encourage you to report issues, documentation faults and feature requests regarding WSO2 Identity Server or in the Carbon base framework through the public WSO2 Identity Server JIRA or Carbon JIRA.

Support

We are committed to ensure your enterprise middleware deployment is completely supported from evaluation to production. Our unique approach ensures that all support leverages our open development methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the technology. For more details and to take advantage of this unique opportunity http://wso2.com/support/

For more information about WSO2 Identity Server, please see http://wso2.com/products/identity-server or visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank developer portal for additional resources.

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Identity Server.

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