Key Auth

Fixed an issue where external consumers could not be used with traditional Kong deployments, such as with KIC.

Fixed an issue where region was not permitted to be null for remote identity realms.

Fixed an issue where external consumers could not be used with traditional Kong deployments, such as with KIC.

Improved the error message which occurred when an anonymous consumer was configured but did not exist.

Fixed to retain order of query arguments when hiding the credentials.

Fix an issue of realm field not recognized for older kong versions (before 3.7)

Fix an issue of realm field not recognized for older kong versions (before 3.7)

Added WWW-Authenticate headers to all 401 responses in the Key Auth plugin.

Enhance error responses for authentication failures in the Admin API

Improved Plugin Documentation: Revised docs for the following plugins to include examples:

• CORS
• File Log
• HTTP Log
• JWT Signer
• Key Auth
• OpenID Connect
• Rate Limiting Advanced
• SAML
• StatsD

Improved Plugin Documentation: Key Auth

Updated the priority for some plugins.: key-auth changed from 1003 to 1250