Wydania

This release adds support for external password validation and notifications, enforces password checks at login, and improves bulk user upload capabilities.

New features

• External password validation and notification API
  • An API endpoint for validating passwords against external policies and sending notifications when needed.
• Password checks on every login
  • Password validation is performed on each login attempt to ensure compliance with current policies.
• Bulk user upload with password hash support
  • You can now upload users in bulk and include password hashes where required.

Bulk upload limits

• Without a password (no password field provided): 1,000 users per request
• With a plaintext password: 100 users per request
• With a password hash: 1,000 users per request

Bugs fixed

• Users not found on PostgreSQL
  • Fixed an issue where user lookups could fail when the application used PostgreSQL as the database.

• Support Telia SMS gateway.
• Possible to configure SMS gateways (Gateway API, Smstools and Telia SMS Gateway) in the environment in the Control Clients Settings tap.
• Support to use the user’s phone_number and email claims for MFA/two-factor if there is not phone or email user identifiers defined on the user.
• Can register two-factor app with a phone user identifier configured. Before only supporting the email and username user identifiers.
• General Nuget package update including PgKeyValueDB v1.4.0.
• Developer support for Visual Studio Code.

• Add Swagger/Open API V2 in Conrtol API on api/swagger/v2/swagger.json and online on https://control.foxids.com/api/swagger/v2/swagger.json where the variables in the path is changed to {tenant_name}/{track_name} to follow the Swagger/Open API standard.
• Swagger/Open API V1 is still available in Conrtol API on api/swagger/v1/swagger.json and online on https://control.foxids.com/api/swagger/v1/swagger.json with the old variable format [tenant_name]/[track_name].
• Swagger UI is part of the Control API on api/swagger and available online on https://control.foxids.com/api/swagger.
• Swagger Open API version updated to 3.0.4.
• Improve validation of AllowUpPartyNames and AllowUpParties in Conrtol API.
• Improve token request error handling.

Bugs fixed:

• Conrtol API enums in ExternalConnectType?, ClaimTransformTasks? and PartyTypes? miss nullable declaration in Swagger document.

Small breaking API change

• Breaking change of how to handle secret updates in client transforms external API claims and extended UI API.
  • You receive the secret in both the Secret and SecretLoaded attribute. The secret is shortened to the first 3 characters of the secret suffixed with ..., if the secret is longer then 20 characters.
  • To not change the secret on update return the received secret / shortened secret in both the Secret and SecretLoaded attribute.
  • To change the secret on update set the new secret in the Secret attribute and return the received secret / shortened secret in the SecretLoaded attribute.
  • To deleted the secret on update return an empty Secret attribute and the received secret / shortened secret in the SecretLoaded attribute.

Bugs fixed:

• Token request with basic auth client credentials require client_id, should be optional.

• Run first-level claim transform after session create / update in Login and External Login authentication methods.
• Possible to collapse Extended UI configuration in Control Client.

Bugs fixed:

• Unable to decrypt SAML 2.0 authn response with secondary certificate because of incorrect exception handling.

• Support multiple dynamic elements of type; custom, test and html in the same page.
• Dynamic custom element set autocomplete="off".
• Show link to go back to login page on set password pages.
• New claim transforms created in the Control Client default replace the claim instead of adding.
• Default delete used sequences and improve the go back in browser error messages.

With this release it is possible to extend the login UI flow with custom login dialogs build with dynamic elements. The extended UIs have full support for culture / multi language.

• Support extended UI where you can customise and add pages to the login flow.
• New dynamic elements; customisable field and text and HTML elements.
• Support dynamic elements with custom text and translations.
• Support custom text and translations defined in a environment. The custom texts are auto created.
• Show the default text translations in Control Client.
• Only support text translations for languages defined in the embedded translations.
• Validate all request and response values in external connect API calls.
• Deprecate ErrorDescription in external connect API calls. Use instead ErrorMessage.

• Support OpenSearch 3.0
• Remove old obsolete OpenSearch indexes.
• Docker images support both linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 (new).
• Seed data protector key data to avoid creating two keys in some deployment sceneries.

Bugs fixed:

• Cosmos DB nullable object must have a value bug when calling Failing Login Locks.
• Users and tenants filter query do not return data in CosmosDB.

• Supports one-time passwords via email and SMS with the option to disable password login.
• Supports creating users without a password and requesting the user to set a password with email or SMS confirmation at first login.
• Support to upload many users per API call.
• Seed tool to upload many users from a CSV file.
• Change reset password to be called set password and show less information.
• One-time password counter masseurs for sending email and SMS.
• Two-factor with email and SMS show less information.
• Improve emails and SMS texts.
• API page size increase to 500.

Linux releases are configured to be deployed with a reverse proxy like e.g., Nginx or Apache. The FoxIDs websites is default configured for incoming traffic on port 80. Read the request domain in the X-Forwarded-For header and read the schema in the X-Forwarded-Proto header. Log are default written to the /var/log/ folder.
The Linux releases found in FoxIDs-x.x.x-linux-x64.tar.gz is self-contained and you do not have to install the .NET runtime.

Deployment descriptions:

• Host ASP.NET Core on Linux with Nginx https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/linux-nginx

• QuickStart: Deploy a .NET Core on Linux application to Elastic Beanstalk - AWS Elastic Beanstalk https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/dotnet-linux-quickstart.html