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Supported Gateway Topologies
hybrid db-less traditional
Supported Konnect Deployments
hybrid cloud-gateways serverless
Compatible Protocols
grpc grpcs http https
Minimum Version
Kong Gateway - 3.1

3.8.0.0

Release date 2024/09/11

Deprecation

  • Standardized Redis configuration across plugins. The Redis configuration now follows a common schema shared with other plugins.

3.6.0.0

Release date 2024/02/12

Breaking Change

  • adjust the priority of the SAML plugin to 1010 to correct the integration between the SAML plugin and other consumer-based plugins

Bugfix

  • support for consumer group scoping by using pdk kong.client.authenticate function

3.5.0.4

Release date 2024/05/20

Bugfix

  • support for consumer group scoping by using pdk kong.client.authenticate function

3.5.0.2

Release date 2023/12/21

Breaking Change

  • adjust the priority of the SAML plugin to 1010 to correct the integration between the SAML plugin and other consumer-based plugins

3.5.0.0

Release date 2023/11/08

Bugfix

  • When the redis session storage is incorrectly configured, users now receive a 500 error instead of being redirected endlessly

  • Reduce severity of ‘session was not found’ messages to ‘info’

3.4.3.5

Release date 2024/03/21

Bugfix

  • support for consumer group scoping by using pdk kong.client.authenticate function

3.4.3.1

Release date 2023/12/15

Breaking Change

  • adjust the priority of the SAML plugin to 1010 to correct the integration between the SAML plugin and other consumer-based plugins

3.4.1.1

Release date 2023/10/12

Bugfix

  • Reduce severity of ‘session was not found’ messages to ‘info’

3.4.1.0

Release date 2023/09/28

Bugfix

  • When the redis session storage is incorrectly configured, users now receive a 500 error instead of being redirected endlessly

3.3.1.1

Release date 2023/10/12

Bugfix

  • When the redis session storage is incorrectly configured, users now receive a 500 error instead of being redirected endlessly

3.2.2.5

Release date 2023/10/12

Bugfix

  • Users will now receive a 500 error instead of being endlessly redirected when the Redis session storage is incorrectly configured.

3.2.2.0

Release date 2023/03/22

Bugfix

  • The SAML plugin now works on read-only file systems.

  • The SAML plugin can now handle the field session_auth_ttl (removed since 3.2.0.0).

3.2.1.0

Release date 2023/02/28

Feature

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where the session_cookie_httponly parameter would always be set to true, even if it was configured as false.

3.1.0.0

Release date 2022/12/06

Feature

  • Provides SAML v2.0 authentication and authorization between a service provider (Kong Gateway) and an identity provider (IdP).

  • The anonymous field can now be configured as the username of the consumer. This field allows you to configure a string to use as an “anonymous” consumer if authentication fails.

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