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WSO2 Identity and Access Management team is pleased to announce the release of Identity Server 6.0.0

What's new in WSO2 Identity Server 6.0.0

WSO2 Identity Server 6.0.0 is the latest WSO2 Identity Server release and is the successor of WSO2 Identity Server 5.11.0. It contains the following new features and enhancements:

Features

  • TypingDNA integration
  • MagicLink authentication
  • OAuth2 Device Authorization Flow
  • ELK based Analytics
  • Multi Attribute Login
  • Federated IDP Initiated OIDC Back-Channel Logout
  • Support for rotating symmetric encryption key

Improvements

  • Java 17 Runtime compatibility
  • PBKDF2 hashing support for user passwords
  • Enhance My account and the login portal to view or hide UI widgets based on tenant level account management configuration preferences
  • Remove the dependency on cookies for OIDC flows when extending the IdP session
  • Auto Login after self registration

Beta Features

  • The React based console
  • Qualify session cookies for tenant path

All of the new features and bug fixes shipped with this release can be found below.

Deprecated Features

Following features and APIs have been deprecated from the product.

  • SCIM 1 inbound provisioning
    • Recommendation: Use SCIM 2.0 inbound provisioning APIs
  • SCIM 1 Outbound provisioning
    • Recommendation: Use SCIM 2.0 outbound provisioning
  • SOAP APIs
    • Recommendation: Use REST based APIs
  • Legacy DCR endpoint implementation (/identity/register)
    • Recommendation: Use /identity/oauth2/dcr/v1.1

For more information, refer to Deprecated Features.

Announcements

  • The following features currently available out-of-the-box in WSO2 Identity Server will be made available as connectors in the next release. These connectors will be available on demand:

    • Workflow engine
    • User managed access (UMA)

  • The on-prem WSO2 Identity Server Analytics solution (based on WSO2 Streaming Processor) will be deprecated with the next immediate WSO2 Identity Server release. In WSO2 IS 6.0.0, ELK-based analytics is introduced as the alternative analytics solution.

For more information, refer to Announcements.

Removed Features

Following features have been removed from the product.

  • Embedded LDAP
  • H2 Console
  • Carbon metrics
  • Yahoo authenticator

For more information, refer to Removed features

Download

You can download the WSO2 Identity Server 6.0.0 distribution from here.

Building the distribution from source

  1. Install Java SE Development Kit 11
  2. Install Apache Maven 3.x.x (https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi)
  3. Download the source from the release (https://github.com/wso2/product-is/releases/tag/v6.0.0)
  4. Unzip the source and run one of the below maven commands from product-is-6.0.0 directory,
    • mvn clean install (To build the binary and source distributions with the tests)
    • mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true (To build the binary and source distribution, without running any of
      the unit/integration tests)
  5. You can find the binary distribution in product-is-6.0.0/modules/distribution/target directory.

Documentation

Online documentation is available at https://is.docs.wso2.com/en/6.0.0

Contribute to WSO2 Identity Server

Mailing Lists

Join our mailing lists and correspond with the developers directly. We also encourage you to take part in discussions related to the product in the IAM Developer mailing list. If you have any questions regarding the product you can use our StackOverflow forum to raise them as well.

Reporting Issues

We encourage you to report issues, improvements, and feature requests regarding WSO2 Identity Server through our public WSO2 Identity Server GIT Issues.

Important: And please be advised that security issues must be reported to security@wso2.com, not as GitHub issues, in order to reach the proper audience. We strongly advise following the WSO2 Security Vulnerability Reporting Guidelines when reporting the security issues.


~ The WSO2 Identity and Access Management Team ~
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