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PingCentral 2.3 (April 2025)

FIPS-compliant mode now available

New PASS-7036

Administrators can now enable PingCentral to run in FIPS-compliant mode, which guarantees that all cryptographic algorithms and protocols meet the U.S. federal standard for security compliance.

To enable this option, access the <PingCentral_install>/conf/application.properties file and set the pingcentral.fips.enabled property value to true. Learn more in Configuring PingCentral to run in FIPS-compliant mode.

PingCentral is currently running FIPS 140-3. Learn more about this version in FIPS 140-3.

Spring Security upgrade

Improved PASS-7022

Spring Security has been upgraded from version 5.3.31 to 5.3.39 to prevent future false-positive scan alerts. You can find more information in CVE-2024-38816: Path traversal vulnerability in functional web frameworks in the Spring documentation.

d3-color upgrade

Improved PASS-7031

The d3-color package has been upgraded from version 1.4.1 to 3.1.0, where the security vulnerability was fixed.

Promotion approval requests enhanced

Improved PASS-7033

Those who approve promotions can now determine if a promotion approval request is for a new or existing application by viewing the newly added detail on the Promotion Approvals page. Last Promoted or Last Updated now displays next to the date and timestamp that indicates when the application was last promoted or updated.

Updated scripts

Improved PASS-7037

All PingCentral scripts have been updated to be DevOps-friendly.

JDK 21 support added

New PASS-7038

Support was added for Java Development Kit (JDK) 21 using language level 11.