Release Notes

Security PF-35678

We’ve fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to retrieve the wrong file when using relative paths in symbolic links.

Fixed PF-35867

We’ve fixed a defect that caused refresh tokens to roll prematurely when making authorization requests to servers in different time zones.

Fixed PF-35920

We’ve fixed a defect that caused the incremental update package for PingFederate versions 12.0 and 12.1 to unnecessarily install the entire SDK directory.

Fixed PF-35166

We’ve fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to roll refresh tokens when Refresh Token Rolling Policy is disabled but Refresh Token Rolling Interval has a value.

Fixed PF-35737

We’ve fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to validate only the first OAuth client access token manager it found when Validate Against All Eligible Access Token Managers was checked, and the aud parameter was included in the request.

Fixed PF-35783

We’ve fixed a defect where PingFederate failed to return IPv4 addresses in a custom adapter request using the request.getRemoteAddr() method.

Fixed PF-35815

We’ve fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to present an error message when user tries to sign on again after a session expires due to inactivity.

Fixed PF-34523

We’ve fixed a defect that caused the OIDC administrative console login to fail when the node.group.id didn’t match a server’s node id.

Fixed PF-35744

We’ve fixed a defect where client in-use detection caused an IndexOutOfBoundsException when a custom solution is used for client storage.

Fixed PF-35753

We’ve fixed a defect that caused changes in ClientManagerDynamoDBImpl not to apply when performing a bulk import or using the configuration store API unless you restarted PingFederate.

Info PF-35838

The Davinci integration kit has been updated to version 1.2.

New PF-31859

Added support for the Australia region to the pf.pingone.admin.url.region property.

The Asia region is deprecated. We recommend using the Australia region instead.

Learn more in Configuring PingFederate properties.

Fixed PF-35609

Fixed a defect that caused the authentication API to allow a different user to proceed with the MUST_CHANGE_PASSWORD function than the user who initiated the flow.

Fixed PF-35423

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate not to release memory when using the admin API on the policy tree.

Fixed PF-35618

Fixed a defect that caused the authentication API to ignore credentials for password changes provided after user authentication.

Fixed PF-35430

Fixed a defect that caused a validation error in the authentication API when including the ui_locales parameter.

Fixed PF-35286

Fixed a defect that caused redundant user provisioner updates when the data source and PingFederate were in different time zones.

Fixed PF-35395

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to ignore the Bypass Authorization Approval setting when Bypass Authorization For Previously Approved Consents is enabled.

Fixed PF-35411

Fixed a defect that caused repeated looping in authentication policy involving a local Identity profile.

Fixed PF-35407

Fixed a defect with In Use detection when DynamoDB is used for OAuth client storage.

Fixed PF-35357

Fixed a defect where deleting an OIDC policy fails when using DynamoDB storage for a large number of OAuth clients.

Fixed PF-35111

Fixed a defect where extended properties retrieved by OGNL are not populated.

Fixed PF-35134

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to not process authentication policy rules for fragment nodes that do not contain an output contract.

Fixed PF-35142

Fixed a defect that caused LDAP data source connection pools to close when still in use after the LDAP data source is modified and replicating under heavy load.

Fixed PF-35195

Fixed a defect that caused errors in synchronization and accessing dynamic JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) keys when running a cluster that was a mix of PingFederate versions 12.0 and 12.0.1.

Fixed PF-35309

Fixed a defect that caused the alg parameter to fail to populate when EC dynamic keys are rotated on a lead cluster node and shared to the cluster.

Improved PF-35325

Upgraded the PingOne MFA Integration Kit to version 2.3.1.

Improved PF-35310

Upgraded the lightning LDAP library to version 1.5.22.

Improved PF-35184

Upgraded the Jetty library to version 9.4.54.v20240208.

Security PF-34720

Fixed a JSON injection vulnerability in REST datastores described in security advisory SECADV044.

Security PF-34896

Fixed a path traversal vulnerability in Runtime nodes described in security advisory SECADV044.

Security PF-35081

Fixed a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the OpenID Connect Policy Management Editor described in security advisory SECADV044.

Improved PF-34832

Added a feature to generate a warning message on the Runtime Notifications tab if you have enabled thread dumps, but you have not configured the ThreadDumpAppender and ThreadDumpLogger properties in the log4j2.xml file.

To learn more about configuring thread pool exhaustion events, see Configuring runtime notifications.

Improved PF-30913

Added a feature allowing you to generate random provisioner.node.id values.

To learn more about configuring provisioners, see Deploying provisioning failover.

Improved PF-34883

Added a feature allowing administrators to define custom KeyID values for static OAuth and OIDC keys and token signing keys.

Fixed an defect that caused PingFederate to not publish the alg parameter on the JWKS endpoint. This issue occurred for dynamically-generated EC signing keys on engine nodes.

To learn more about keys, see Keys for OAuth and OpenID Connect.

Fixed PF-34641

Fixed a defect where SAML requests using HTTP GET method with multiple signature-related parameters encoded in the RelayState parameter were causing errors in processing signature validation.

Fixed PF-34813

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to issue null pointer exception (NPE) errors when querying the token endpoint.

Fixed PF-34854

Fixed a defect that caused the certificate expiry warning notification icon to remain when there were no notifications to display.

Fixed PF-34409

Fixed a defect where changes made on the administrative console were not replicated to the engine during reencryption.

Fixed PF-34796

Fixed a defect that caused the JMX monitoring to fail to register archive files that are imported to PingFederate.

Fixed PF-34865

Fixed a defect that caused the content-type of a response from the well_known endpoint to change from JSON to HTML if a response is too large.

Fixed PF-34701

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to display an unlock your account page during self-service password reset to accounts that are not locked.

Fixed PF-34879

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to fail on startup when installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server with OS-levels FIPS enabled.

Fixed PF-34882

Fixed a defect that returned a 500 error with no details when an authentication policy fragment had a LOCAL_IDENTITY_MAPPING action with an invalid localIdentityRef ID.

Fixed PF-34839

Fixed a defect where PingFederate was unable to deobfuscate grant attributes of a certain length.

Fixed PF-34853

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to incorrectly return an Invalid Configuration error for a valid authentication policy.

Fixed PF-34523

We’ve fixed a defect that caused the OIDC administrative console login to fail when the node.group.id didn’t match a server’s node id.

Fixed PF-35111

We’ve fixed a defect that caused OGNL to fail to obtain the Extended Property value in authorization policies or fragments.

Fixed PF-35166

We’ve fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to roll refresh tokens when Refresh Token Rolling Policy is disabled but Refresh Token Rolling Interval has a value.

Fixed PF-35737

We’ve fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to validate only the first OAuth client access token manager it found when Validate Against All Eligible Access Token Managers was checked, and the aud parameter was included in the request.

Fixed PF-35783

We’ve fixed a defect where PingFederate failed to return IPv4 addresses in a custom adapter request using the request.getRemoteAddr() method.

Info PF-35838

The Davinci integration kit has been updated to version 1.2.

New PF-31859

Added support for the Australia region to the pf.pingone.admin.url.region property.

The Asia region is deprecated. We recommend using the Australia region instead.

To learn more, see Configuring PingFederate properties.

Fixed PF-35609

Fixed a defect that caused the authentication API to allow a different user to proceed with the MUST_CHANGE_PASSWORD function than the user who initiated the flow.

Note that in all cases, the target user’s password was required to complete the change password operation.

Fixed PF-35423

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate not to release memory when using the admin API on the policy tree.

Fixed PF-35618

Fixed a defect that caused the authentication API to ignore credentials for password changes provided after user authentication.

Fixed PF-35430

Fixed a defect that caused a validation error in the authentication API when including the ui_locales parameter.

Fixed PF-35286

Fixed a defect that caused redundant user provisioner updates when the datasource and PingFederate were in different time zones.

Fixed PF-35411

Fixed a defect that caused repeated looping in authentication policy involving a local Identity profile.

Fixed PF-35407

Fixed a defect with In Use detection when DynamoDB is used for OAuth client storage.

Fixed PF-35357

Fixed a defect where deleting an OIDC Policy fails when using DynamoDB storage for a large number of OAuth clients.

Fixed PF-35142

Fixed a defect that caused LDAP data source connection pools to close when still in use after the LDAP data source is modified and replicating under heavy load.

Fixed PF-35309

Fixed a defect that caused the alg parameter to fail to populate when EC dynamic keys are rotated on a lead cluster node and shared to the cluster.

Improved PF-35184

Upgraded the Jetty library to version 9.4.54.v20240208.

Improved PF-35310

Upgraded the lightning LDAP library to version 1.5.22.

Security PF-34720

Fixed a JSON injection vulnerability in REST datastores described in security advisory SECADV044.

Security PF-34896

Fixed a path traversal vulnerability in Runtime nodes described in security advisory SECADV044.

Security PF-35081

Fixed a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the OpenID Connect Policy Management Editor described in security advisory SECADV044.

Fixed PF-34641

Fixed a defect where SAML request using HTTP GET method with multiple signature-related parameters encoded in the RelayState parameter were causing errors in processing signature validation.

Fixed PF-34813

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to issue null pointer exception (NPE) errors when querying the token endpoint.

Fixed PF-34409

Fixed a defect where changes made on the administrative console were not replicated to the engine during reencryption.

Fixed PF-34796

Fixed a defect that caused the JMX monitoring to fail to register archive files that are imported to PingFederate.

Fixed PF-34865

Fixed a defect that caused the content-type of a response from the well_known endpoint to change from JSON to HTML if a response is too large.

Fixed PF-34879

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to fail on startup when installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server with OS-levels FIPS enabled.

Fixed PF-34839

Fixed a defect where PingFederate was unable to deobfuscate grant attributes of a certain length.

Fixed PF-34853

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to incorrectly return an "Invalid Configuration" error for a valid authentication policy.

Fixed PF-34837

Fixed an issue where nodes were not able to join a cluster when running with JDK8.

Security PF-34645

Fixed a potential security vulnerability described in security advisory SECADV040.

New PF-34440

PingFederate now supports using the Partitioned attribute to address third-party cookie issues with the iframe-based login widgets in Google Chrome.

Fixed PF-34322

Fixed an issue that was returning a 404 error if the /idp/startSLO.ping endpoint was hit while a virtual issuer was configured. You can now configure virtual issuers with a context path.

Fixed PF-34504

Clients that maintain a JWKS endpoint can now use private key JWT based authentication when requesting an access token.

Fixed PF-34606

Checking for existing but expired grants with DynamoDB no longer causes a null pointer exception error (NPE).

Fixed PF-34545

Fixed an issue preventing PingFederate from closing connections after receiving a 401 or 403 response from PingOne MFA.

Fixed PF-33466

You can now turn off server-side sorting for LDAP requests related to outbound provisioning, which can improve performance in some environments.

Configure this option using the ProvisionWithServerSort parameter in the com.pingidentity.common.util.ldap.LDAPUtil.xml file.

Fixed PF-34433

You can now copy and paste a policy contract below a selector node.

Fixed PF-34536

Fixed an issue where decryption of an encrypted SAML element could fail if a KeyName was specified.

Security PF-34646

Fixed a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the Initial Setup Wizard described in security advisory SECADV041.

Fixed PF-34077

We fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to check every certificate when loading certificate-related pages in the administrative interface, which slowed down performance.

Improved

Improved

Now PingFederate supports authentication to Azure SQL Managed Instance through Azure Active Directory without a username and password. For more information, see Configuring a JDBC connection.

Improved

We upgraded the Jetty library to 9.4.52.v20230823.

Fixed PF-33983

When using redirectless mode, now the one-time link (OTL) in password-reset email messages returns users to the authentication API application configured for the policy, rather than to PingFederate.

Fixed PF-34111

When a service provider (SP) authentication policy fails, PingFederate now renders the sp.sso.error.page.template.html page instead of the idp.sso.error.page.template.html page.

Fixed PF-34146

Fixed a defect where an OAuth client created with dynamic client registration (DCR) couldn’t be updated with DCR after it was modified with the administrative console.

Fixed PF-34163

Now PingFederate closes idle JDBC datastore connections until the minimum pool size is reached instead of closing and recreating all of them.

Fixed PF-34210

The id_token_jti property is no longer included in token endpoint responses.

Fixed PF-34216

Fixed an administrative API defect when a fragment rule had Default to Success disabled

Fixed PF-34225

Resolved an issue that caused PingFederate to send email notifications for licensing events even though they were disabled in the Runtime Notifications configuration.

Improved PF-33667

We introduced new settings in the cluster-config-replication.conf file to improve configuration retrieval reliability during engine startup. By setting publish.replication.data.on.startup to true, the administrative console automatically publishes the last replicated configuration upon startup, eliminating the need to initiate replication through the administrative UI or API after a console restart. Additionally, you can configure engines to fail startup if they cannot retrieve configuration data by setting require.replication.data.on.startup to true. This setting proves beneficial in DevOps deployments, where fresh engine nodes are frequently created without any initial configuration. For more information, see the publish.replication.data.on.startup and require.replication.data.on.startup property descriptions in Cluster management.

Fixed PF-31865

We upgraded the Jetty library, resolving CVE-2022-2047 and CVE-2022-2048.

Fixed PF-33056

Using submit and onSubmit as OAuth scope names in the administrative UI drop-down no longer causes front-end JavaScript errors.

Fixed PF-33156

Policy fragments with valid authentication sources no longer fail with an Invalid Configuration error during runtime.

Fixed PF-33441

PingFederate, when configured with PingDirectory as an outbound provisioning data source, no longer sends redundant group updates in each provisioning cycle when the entry remains unchanged.

Fixed PF-33449

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV037.

Fixed PF-33450

We fixed an issue so that PingFederate as a Windows service now runs on Java 17. When updating to the latest maintenance release using an in-place update method (for example, from 11.3.0 to 11.3.x), in addition to the steps in Updating to the latest maintenance release, you must remove the existing PingFederate Windows service. After removal, re-install the PingFederate Windows Service to apply this fix.

Fixed PF-33519

When an OIDC identity provider (IdP) connection fails in an authentication policy, PingFederate now continues on to the fail path of the authentication policy.

Fixed PF-33722

We resolved an issue that incorrectly produced an administrative API validation error when the fragment mapping references context.RequestedUser as the mapping source.

Fixed PF-33863

PingFederate now processes authorization details within a rich authorization request (RAR) as a JSON Array in a JWT request. Additionally, PingFederate no longer supports authorization details sent as stringified JSON arrays.

Fixed PF-33881

Resolved a replication issue that, in rare cases, caused an engine node in a cluster to start without replication data from other nodes.

Fixed PF-33920

Resolved an issue that prevented user sessions from being revoked through the session management API when using persistent sessions.

Fixed PF-33935

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV037.

Fixed PF-33957

When utilizing the PingFederate administrative API to create or update a fragment that includes another fragment, the API will no longer produce a validation error when fragment mapping involves an input source type.

Fixed PF-34016

The message-template-end-user-password-change.html template now contains the USERNAME variable.

Fixed PF-34017

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV037.

Fixed PF-34051

We fixed a policy evaluation issue that occurred when ui_locales was present in an authentication request.

Fixed PF-34074

We updated the administrative UI to include certification serial number in the drop-down, thus preventing import errors for certifications sharing the same Subject DN and expiration date combination.

Fixed PF-34099

We fixed an attribute lookup error that occurred when different DynamoDB attributes shared an overlapping path.

New

Now you can configure access token managers to include the JSON web token (JWT) access_token claims nbf (not before) and iat (issued at). This enables stronger validations by receiving clients or protected resources that process that access_token. For more information, go to Configuring an access token management instance, and in the JSON web token data model section click the JSON token management tab.

New

To further improve reliability and robustness, now PingFederate executes retries rather than failover only. PingFederate initiates a single retry if a request fails and it appears the connection has become invalid. For more information, see the Retry Failed Operations field in Setting advanced LDAP options.

New

For authorization requests, parameters can now be referenced for incoming PAR requests (pushed authorization requests) inside authentication policies. This lets PingFederate process incoming requests independently of how it received them. For more information, see Pushed authorization requests endpoint.

New

To improve logging, PingFederate now uses a transactionId. For each transaction, this value won’t change between the initial request and the final response. This is especially useful for troubleshooting. For more information, see the transactionid field in Security audit logging.

New

Now you can configure HTML and mail templates with user details. With these details, you can personalize user facing pages and include messages, such as greetings by name, or email addresses that were used for a password recovery flow. The attributes are documented in the templates.

New

Previously, PingFederate produced notifications to inform administrators about expiring certificates. Now you can configure PingFederate to log upcoming expirations without producing notifications. For more information, see Configuring runtime notifications.

New

Two major SAML 2.0 messaging improvements align PingFederate closer to EU regulations:

New

Because proxy servers can require credentials for authentication purposes, now you can configure PingFederate with proxy server credentials so that connections can be easily established and secured. For more information, see Configuring forward proxy server settings.

New

Our continued effort to support Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL) now lets you use DynamoDB as a source for attribute lookups. The connector supports the DynamoDB query language so you can easily configure it. For more information, see Configuring an AWS DynamoDB datastore.

New

As regulations for APIs in the context of financial services tighten, it’s important to support highly secure API authentication and authorization methods. OAuth DPoP (Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession) is an extension to the OAuth framework and specifies how OAuth tokens are bound to clients. Clients must digitally prove the ownership of these tokens at runtime, which prevents unauthorized clients from misusing them. This extension is useful for any OAuth scenario, not only in financial environments. For more information, see Configuring authorization server settings.

New

For TLS connections, PingFederate can now log the TLS version that clients use. This gives you an easy way to identify clients that might need updates to use newer versions. For more information, see the tlsversion field in Security audit logging.

New

In the administrative console, now certificate selection menus show the distinguished name (DN) and expiration date for each certificate, rather than a serial number. This gives you easy access to relevant information.

New

A new JWT token processor enhances the token exchange capabilities so that you can leverage any configured issuer. Now PingFederate can validate and accept incoming tokens that were created by pre-configured issuers. For more information, see Configuring a JWT Token Processor 2.0 instance.

New

Complex authentication policies are sometimes challenging to manage. To simplify your work and add flexibility to policies, PingFederate provides several policy enhancements:

New

PingFederate now initiates outbound authorization requests using the PAR endpoint of the target authorization server if you expose it. This enhancement lets PingFederate use PAR inbound and outbound, which improves OAuth flow security. For more information, see the Pushed Authorization Request Endpoint field in Configuring OpenID Provider information.

New

In the context of OpenID session management, PingFederate now supports back-channel logout. PingFederate supports this feature whether it’s configured as an OpenID Connect provider (OP) or a relying party (RP). For more information, see the OpenID Connect Back-Channel Logout 1.0 specification.

New

Now PingFederate can include JWT header values x5t and typ in the ID tokens it issues. You can include the x5t header with static keys enabled, whereas you can configure the typ header to an appropriate value without a dependency on the types of keys. The x5t header adds another mechanism for verifying the validity of a received JWT. For information about the x5t and typ parameters, see the JSON web key (JWK) and JWT specifications, respectively, and steps 9 and 10 in Configuring policy and ID token settings.

New

The alg header is now supported in PingFederate’s JWKS endpoint. Any elliptic curve keys and all RSA-256 based keys expose this header. This feature lets clients verify that a received JWT has been signed by the advertised algorithm. For information about the alg parameter, see the JWK specification and JSON Web Keys endpoint.

New

With the client_secret_jwt authentication method, a client can choose to create a signed JWT when authenticating against PingFederate’s token endpoint, introspection endpoint, PAR endpoint, or CIBA endpoint instead of providing the client secret. This feature prevents potential client secret leakage because it’s not actively exchanged with any party. PingFederate also supports this feature when it acts as an RP. For more information, see client_secret_jwt in the Open ID Connect specification and Client authentication schemes.

New

PingFederate now revokes a chain of tokens if a refresh token is revoked or if a refresh token is reused. This includes derived authorization codes and access tokens. For more information, see the Refresh Token settings section of Configuring authorization server settings.

New

Now you can configure many properties as environment variables instead of setting them in properties files. This is especially important for container environments, which is common practice.

New

Several enhancements provide more details in PingFederate generated logs. These include the logging of JWT IDs (jti), hashed values of authorization codes, access tokens, and refresh tokens. Also, PingFederate now logs which system has locked out users after multiple, unsuccessful login attempts, so you’ll know if it was PingFederate or an LDAP server. PingFederate also adds more details to the administrative API logs, so now there are almost no differences between logs generated when using the administrative console or administrative API. For more information, see Administrator audit logging, Administrative API audit log, and Security audit logging.

New

Now you can manage OAuth clients in Amazon DynamoDB. With this update, you can use DynamoDB to manage OAuth clients, persistent grants, and persistent authorization sessions. For more information, see Configuring an Amazon DynamoDB for client storage.

New

PingFederate now supports Apache Velocity Engine 2.3. For more information, see Upgrading in the Apache Velocity Engine documentation.

New

Now you can include CSP policies for HTML templates without having to implement workarounds. For more information, see Customizable user-facing pages.

New

Now you can use Velocity templates with more tools, such as cookieTool.

New

PingFederate now supports Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance. For more information, see the Datastore integration table in System requirements, and for more information on how to configure a connection to Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance, see Configuring a JDBC connection.

New

PingFederate now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) client authentication for REST API datastores.

New

PingFederate now supports mTLS client authentication for LDAP datastores.

New

Now when you integrate an Entrust nShield hardware security module (HSM) with PingFederate, you can use Java 11.

New

We added the User Count Utility (UCU) as a bundled component. You can use the UCU to produce unique and active user counts in a PingFederate environment.

New

We upgraded the following third-party components:

Fixed PF-33168

We improved SP-Initiated SAML login session tracking. This security improvement can affect existing SAML SP connections that rely on multiple session states in a single transaction.

For more information about how your configuration can be affected, and the steps to resolve issues, see Solicited SAML Response Validation in the Ping Identity Support Portal.

Fixed PF-32427

Now when multiple entries match the LDAP PCV search filter, the following message appears in the log at DEBUG level: error code 4 - This search operation has sent the maximum of 1 entries to the client

Fixed PF-32783

Now multivalued request parameters work as expected in authorization requests for OIDC administrative console authentication.

Fixed PF-32914

Now you can use tracked parameters in the Attribute Sources and User Lookup LDAP search filter when using the administrative API.

Fixed PF-33059

Now all password entry fields in PingFederate templates have icons that let users show and hide the password they’re entering.

Fixed PF-33311

When a connection or OAuth client references a deleted extended property, PingFederate no longer throws a null pointer exception. Instead it ignores the extended property and logs an error.

Fixed PF-33151

Now PingFederate can use customized messages from external consent adapters in error responses.

Fixed PF-33487

When restrictToDefaultAccessTokenManager is enabled on an OAuth client, the client can only get access tokens when being validated by password credential validators that are mapped to the restricted access token manager.

Fixed PF-33598

When an OAuth client has Bypass Authorization Approval enabled, now that setting takes precedence over the prompt parameter in requests.

Fixed PF-33605

Updated the file permissions of legal documents.

Fixed PF-33610

The memoryoptions script no longer allocates excessive JVM heap on Windows systems.

Fixed PF-33622

For the Device Authorization grant type, if Check Activation Code is set to Before Authentication, then authorization detail is set in the input parameters map when IdpAuthenticationAdapterV2 in the SDK is invoked.

Fixed PF-33637

Now when PingFederate retrieves a binary attribute from a PingOne LDAP gateway datastore, it correctly converts the attribute value to the specified format (base64, SID, hex).

Fixed PF-33709

When more than one trusted CA matches the issuer DN of an OAuth client, now PingFederate only flags the trusted CA as in use if its certificate hasn’t expired and its subject DN matches the client’s configured issuer DN.

Fixed PF-33867

Removed a potential information disclosure vulnerability.

Fixed PF-33869

Now PingFederate allows Jetty to precompress resources such as images and CSS.

Fixed PF-30236

When a system-level issue causes a data source attribute lookup to fail during OAuth flows, if the <pf_install>/pingfederate/server/default/data/config-store/org.sourceid.saml20.domain.AttributeMapping.xml file’s AbortOnAttrLookupFailure attribute is set to true, now PingFederate returns a 500 error instead of a 400 error.

Fixed PF-32757

When you run the Usercount Utility’s aggregate command:

Fixed PF-32837

Now when the CPU load is 0, heartbeat pages display the value with digits instead of as “N/A”.

Fixed PF-32989

We resolved an issue that caused an unexpected carriage return in audit logs during SP-initiated single sign-on (SSO) if an identity provider responded with a non-success status.

Fixed PF-35737

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to validate only the first OAuth client access token manager it found when Validate Against All Eligible Access Token Managers was checked, and the aud parameter was included in the request.

Fixed PF-35784

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to send the wrong content-type value for form.autopost.template.html requests, which caused the page to render as JSON rather than the formatted form.

Security PF-34720

Fixed a JSON injection vulnerability in REST datastores described in security advisory SECADV044.

Security PF-34896

Fixed a path traversal vulnerability in Runtime nodes described in security advisory SECADV044.

Security PF-35081

Fixed a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the OpenID Connect Policy Management Editor described in security advisory SECADV044.

Fixed PF-33368

Fixed a defect that caused performance issues for PingFederate when third-party logging services were slow to consume logging events.

Fixed PF-34879

Fixed a defect that caused PingFederate to fail on startup when installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server with OS-levels FIPS enabled.

New PF-34640

Added the ConfigurePluginsOnStartup variable to the config-store file.

Default value of true creates and initializes plugins during startup. false prevents creation and initialization of plugins, which can reduce startup time.

Improved PF-34050

The administrator audit log file (admin.log) now logs any OGNL expression tests performed and the expression variables used with an event type of TEST_EXPRESSION.

For more information, see Administrator audit logging

Security PF-34646

Fixed a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the Initial Setup Wizard described in security advisory SECADV041.

Fixed PF-33466

You can now turn off server-side sorting using a configuration option.

Fixed PF-34146

Fixed a defect where an OAuth client created with dynamic client registration (DCR) couldn’t be updated with DCR after it was modified with the administrative console.

Fixed PF-34839

Fixed a defect where PingFederate was unable to deobfuscate grant attributes for a small group of users in OAuth flows.

Fixed PF-33449

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV037.

Fixed PF-34017

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV037.

Fixed PF-34051

We fixed a policy evaluation issue that occurred when ui_locales was present in an authentication request.

Fixed PF-33156

Policy fragments with valid authentication sources no longer fail with an Invalid Configuration error during runtime.

Fixed PF-33610

The memoryoptions utility no longer allocates excessive JVM heap on Windows systems.

Fixed PF-33622

For the device authorization grant type, if Check Activation Code is set to Before Authentication, now authorization detail is set in the input parameters map when IdpAuthenticationAdapterV2 in the SDK is invoked.

Fixed PF-33637

Now when PingFederate retrieves a binary attribute from a PingOne LDAP gateway datastore, it correctly converts the attribute value to the specified format (base64, SID, hex).

Fixed PF-33869

Now PingFederate allows Jetty to precompress resources such as images and CSS.

Fixed PF-33881

Resolved a replication issue that, in rare cases, caused an engine node in a cluster to start without replication data from other nodes.

Fixed PF-33920

Resolved an issue that prevented user sessions from being revoked through the session management API when using persistent sessions.

Fixed PF-32764

We’ve improved logging validation.

Fixed PF-32783

We fixed an issue where multi-value request parameters were not working as expected when using OIDC for console login.

Fixed PF-33093

We fixed an issue where PingFederate did not preserve changes to certain validation rules in the http-request-parameter-validation.xml file upon upgrade.

Fixed PF-33168

We improved SP-Initiated SAML login session tracking. This security improvement can affect existing SAML SP connections that rely on multiple session states in a single transaction.

For more information about how your configuration can be affected, and the steps to resolve issues, see Solicited SAML Response Validation in the Ping Identity Support Portal.

Fixed PF-33307

The one-time link (OTL) reset page now displays an error message when the link is expired.

Fixed PF-33342

We resolved an issue where an access token may not include the pi.sri claim after refresh. This issue only occurs when reuse of existing access grants is enabled.

Fixed PF-33484

In OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC) flows, external consent adapters can now retrieve attributes from the chained attributes map.

Fixed PF-33503

We fixed an LDAP issue where new access grant records were not created with new scopes when Reuse Existing Persistent Access Grants for Grant Types was enabled.

Fixed PF-33557

We resolved an issue where an ID token would not include the Authentication Context Class Reference (ACR) claim if an old client secret was used during the retention period.

Fixed PF-33607

We fixed an issue that affected cluster replication when PingFederate was deployed with AWS CloudHSM. When replication was initiated, engines generated a number of temporary key pairs, and the increased load on the HSM could trigger SSO errors.

Fixed PF-32971

We’ve fixed an issue where upstream data stores in the chain could not recognize the reference attribute for base distinguished name (DN) during lookup.

Fixed PF-33017

We’ve improved validation rules to ensure that only identity store provisioners that support groups require group attribute contract validation.

Fixed PF-33035

We’ve resolved a null pointer exception (NPE) error that occurred when attempting to set up Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) with client secret retention.

Fixed PF-33131

We’ve added additional logging to help debug unexpected errors in response handling.

Fixed PF-33158

We’ve resolved an issue that occurred when saving OpenID Connect (OIDC) policies with fragments configured.

Fixed PF-33173

We’ve fixed an issue related to LDAP filter validation that arose when accessing the IdP Connections page.

Fixed PF-33284

We’ve improved the process of cluster replication for PingFederate integrated with AWS CloudHSM by purging HSM key pair generation sessions.

Fixed PF-32748

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV035.

Fixed PF-33017

In order to reduce re-encryption and file scanning log verbosity, when a configuration is imported or replicated to a cluster, PingFederate no longer scans files in the etc directory.

New

Fixed PF-33037

We’ve added a warning to server logs if the ds-pwp-state-json attribute is not present in PingDirectory’s LDAP Response. This warning appears in the log every time a user interacts with the profile management page. Please enable this attribute to adhere to PingDirectory’s security configuration best practices. PingDirectory version 8.1 and later supports this attribute, and customers running older versions are encouraged to upgrade to a supported version as soon as possible.

Fixed PF-32790

When managing OAuth clients, we’ve resolved a defect where selecting the Require JWT Secured Authorization Response Mode text toggled the incorrect check box.

Fixed PF-32805

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV033.

Fixed PF-32890

When processing policy fragments, all adapters invoked in the fragment now correctly execute their respective post-processing step (if applicable) to inform the adapter of the end policy result.

Fixed PF-32965

Managing certificates within the Metadata Export flow no longer displays or saves an empty list of certificates, clearing out existing ones in the process. For more information, see Metadata export.

Fixed PF-32983

We’ve resolved a defect where cluster data replication could remove keys from engine node’s pf.jwk file instead of merging and retaining the keys.

New

New

PingFederate now supports OAuth 2.0 authorization server metadata. This allows OAuth clients to retrieve relevant endpoints and other details about features that PingFederate supports. The API response is like the OpenID Connect Discovery endpoints response but doesn’t include OpenID Connect relevant details. This lets you configure endpoints for your particular use case. See OAuth authorization server metadata endpoint.

New

For outbound provisioning, PingFederate now supports nested groups and nested search for PingDirectory. This lets you freely choose your favorite directory without needing to choose based on the support for nested groups. See nested group and nested search in Specifying a source location.

New

The AccessGrantManagerAccessor is now accessible in the PingFederate SDK. This lets developers query existing persistent grants at run time. See <pf_install>/pingfederate/sdk/doc/com/pingidentity/access/AccessGrantManagerAccessor.html in the SDK documentation.

New

Now you can configure PingFederate to keep users signed in after they change their password. This prevents users from having to sign on again, right after updating their password, improving the user experience. See the Require Re-authentication settings HTML Form Adapter advanced fields.

New

Now you can configure the PingFederate administrative API to accept either OAuth access_token or basic authentication. This is especially useful in cases where applications shouldn’t include administrator’s credentials in API requests. See pf.admin.api.authentication in Configuring PingFederate properties.

New

PingFederate now supports Google reCAPTCHA v3. reCAPTCHA v3 produces a score between 0.0 - 1.0 (risky to safe) that you can use in policies to require step-up authentication or other actions. By default, reCAPTCHA v3 doesn’t interrupt user journeys, which are in the control of application developers. See Managing CAPTCHA providers.

PingFederate also now provides an SDK that allows for integrations with custom CAPTCHA providers, which adds great flexibility to the CAPTCHA feature.

New

Instead of showing an active bell icon, the administrative console now displays a banner when cluster replication is required. The banner includes a link to the Cluster Management window for easy access. See Cluster management.

New

You can configure PingFederate to function as an OpenID Connect client and let administrators sign on to the administrative console using their PingOne credentials. PingFederate initiates an OpenID Connect flow that includes the claims parameter. You can also use this feature outside the PingOne environment, leveraging any authorization server that supports the claims parameter. This allows for a simpler, seamless login flow. See Request Parameters in Enabling OIDC-based authentication.

New

You can configure PingFederate to accept incoming parameters, such as iss, that are processed and included in an outgoing authorization request if configured to do so. This feature lets administrators sign on to PingFederate from PingOne. This feature also supports other OpenID Connect authorization servers that support incoming parameters. See Request Parameters in Enabling OIDC-based authentication.

New

The PingFederate distribution now includes the PingOne DaVinci integration kit. See PingOne DaVinci Adapter in Bundled adapters and authenticators.

New

PingFederate can now manage persistent user sessions in AWS DynamoDB. Persistent user sessions keep sessions active even after a restart of PingFederate. This feature reduces the interruption of user journeys. See Configuring an Amazon DynamoDB for persistent authentication sessions in Defining a datastore for persistent authentication sessions.

New

When defining policy rules, now attributes that were processed in an earlier step can be accessed further down in the policy tree. This feature enhances the management and usability of policies. See Configuring rules in authentication policies.

New

The data exposed by the heartbeat endpoint and JMX interface now include more details, such as the number of errors per data store. See Liveliness and responsiveness.

Improved

Updated the bundled PingOne MFA Adapter to the newest version, 2.0. See PingOne MFA Adapter in Bundled adapters and authenticators.

New

Gone are the days you had to edit the log4j2.xml file on multiple servers to enable or disable DEBUG messages in their server logs. Now you can toggle log settings in the administrative console or with the administrative API.

PingFederate provides a set of message categories, each targeting a specific scenario. For example, the XML Signatures category helps you troubleshoot XML signature issues. You can also add your own categories to suit your unique requirements.

New

When viewing lists of OAuth clients and Browser single sign-on (SSO)/security token service (STS) connections, you can now sort them by modification or creation time. The timestamps can also help you understand the history and the relationship between clients and connections.

New

If you integrate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudHSM, now you can choose between Java 8 and Java 11.

New

OAuth rich authorization requests (RAR) provide a standard way for OAuth client applications to specify fine-grained authorization requirements in their requests. For example, when initiating a money transfer, a personal banking application can pass all relevant information to the authorization server via the new parameter authorization_details. The authorization server supporting RAR processes the authorization_details parameter value accordingly and ultimately returns tokens to the application if the process completes successfully.

RAR is on track to become a requirement in Financial-grade API (FAPI) 2.0. With this new capability, you can confidently build your open banking solutions with PingFederate.

New

Now you can optionally define a sender name for each SMTP notification publisher instance.

PingFederate now supports XML Encryption 1.1.

Fixed PF-29355

For LDAP and database-related fields, PingFederate now sorts values alphabetically and in case-insensitive order.

Fixed PF-30514

We’ve added detailed comments to the log4j2.xml file to prevent misconfigurations that could lead to service hangs and production outages. For more information on logging, see Log4j 2 logging service and configuration.

Fixed PF-30514

We’ve added a configuration option to control whether SAML error responses include Cause. The new setting is IncludeErrorCauseInSamlResponse in config-store/org.sourceid.saml20.protocol.StatusResponseTypeUtil.xml. The default value is true.

Fixed PF-31149

The #HttpServletRequest and #HttpServletResponse variables are now available in SP STS message customization. For more information, see Message types and available variables.

Fixed PF-31531

We’ve resolved an issue where connections with multiple protocol types would only filter on a single protocol type.

Fixed PF-31717

When using OIDC for administrative console authentication, PingFederate no longer throws an NPE if private_key_jwt is used for client authentication method and the client.secret property is not set.

Fixed PF-31761

We’ve introduced a new separate stored value to track when refresh tokens should be reissued to OAuth clients, resolving a defect where rolling refresh tokens read the incorrect update timestamp to determine refresh token rolling criteria. For more information, see Configuring authorization server settings.

Fixed PF-31786

When adding clients to Active Directory (AD) or other LDAP stores, PingFederate now automatically escapes reserved characters from clientIDs.

Fixed PF-31791

We’ve improved detection around invalid Group distinguished names (DN) and added exceptions in the provisioner log. For more information on Group DN, see Specifying a source location.

Fixed PF-31806

We’ve updated the supported browsers list for the SameSite=None header attribute to filter out problematic clients with the SameSite cookie attribute bug: Safari version 12 and Embedded Apple Webkit Browser Safari 12 on macOS.

Fixed PF-31807

PingFederate’s administrative console now identifies expired user sessions on timeout and properly removes the session regardless of user interaction.

Fixed PF-31862

PingFederate now logs the policy and fragment name before fragment processing.

Fixed PF-31870

Resolved an issue where bulk import fails for identity provider (IdP) connections that fulfill Persistent Grant Extended Attributes.

Fixed PF-31957

PingFederate templates no longer allow double-submission.

Fixed PF-32001

PingFederate now recovers from initial connection failure when logging into the administrative console using external LDAP authentication.

Fixed PF-32028

You can now configure the IncludeUserInfoInResponses setting in the <install dir>/server/default/data/config-store/org.sourceid.saml20.domain.mgmt.impl.AuthnApiManagerImpl.xml file to hide user information from authentication API responses.

Fixed PF-32073

When an error occurs on policies containing fragments and configured to handle failures locally, PingFederate no longer redirects a user to the service provider (SP) error page on SP-initiated SSO.

Fixed PF-32081

We’ve resolved an issue around password requirements messaging during password management.

Fixed PF-32088

We’ve updated the description text on the import IdP/SP connection page to indicate that PingFederate only performs minimal validation for imported connections. We suggest using the administrative API for connection migration, which performs thorough validation.

Fixed PF-32090

In the case where a one-time link (OTL) for password reset expires or is reused, PingFederate now responds with the appropriate error message in the authentication API and logs the error response in the audit.log. For more information on OTL for password reset, see Configuring self-service account recovery.

Fixed PF-32234

We’ve resolved a defect that allowed scope and scope group names to be the same when saved through the administrative console. For more information on scopes, see Scopes and scope management.

Fixed PF-32254

We’ve decreased the maximum key length for saasGroupName, resolving a warning that occurred when creating SQL provisioning tables.

Fixed PF-32343

On sign-on pages, we’ve improved the accessibility of the 'Change Password' link, regardless of browser window size.

Fixed PF-32345

We’ve added a notification publisher accessor to the SDK, addressing an error where plugins utilizing a notification publisher could not invoke one of the notification publishers configured in PingFederate.

Fixed PF-32461

PingFederate now processes policy fragments independently from policies and other fragments.

Fixed PF-32574

We’ve resolved a defect where Local Identity Profile (LIP) registration via a third-party service and the authentication API would still require a password, despite previously registering with the third party.

Issue

PingFederate versions 11.1.4, 11.1.5, 11.2.1, and 11.2.2 contain version 3.0.2 of the PingID password credential validator (PCV). That version of the PCV has known issues that you should review before upgrading. For more information, see Known issues in PingID RADIUS PCV 3.0.2.

Issue

Security PF-34720

Fixed a JSON injection vulnerability in REST datastores described in security advisory SECADV044.

Security PF-34896

Fixed a path traversal vulnerability in Runtime nodes described in security advisory SECADV044.

Security PF-35081

Fixed a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the OpenID Connect Policy Management Editor described in security advisory SECADV044.

Fixed PF-33368

Fixed a defect that caused performance issues for PingFederate when third-party logging services were slow to consume logging events.

Fixed PF-33466

You can now turn off server-side sorting for LDAP requests related to outbound provisioning, which can improve performance in some environments.

Configure this option using the ProvisionWithServerSort parameter in the com.pingidentity.common.util.ldap.LDAPUtil.xml file.

Fixed PF-34146

Fixed a defect where an OAuth client created with dynamic client registration (DCR) couldn’t be updated with DCR after it was modified with the administrative console.

Security PF-34646

Fixed a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the Initial Setup Wizard described in security advisory SECADV041.

Fixed PF-33449

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV037.

Fixed PF-33637

Now when PingFederate retrieves a binary attribute from a PingOne LDAP gateway datastore, it correctly converts the attribute value to the specified format (base64, SID, hex).

Fixed PF-34017

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV037.

Fixed PF-32764

We’ve improved logging validation.

Fixed PF-33359

We’ve improved the error messaging around the Resource Owner (RO) Password Credentials flow.

Fixed PF-33549

The Requested Authentication Context Selector no longer throws a Null Pointer Exception (NPE) during callback.

Fixed PF-33017

In order to reduce re-encryption and file scanning log verbosity, when a configuration is imported or replicated to a cluster, PingFederate no longer scans files in the etc directory.

New

Fixed PF-33037

We’ve added a warning to server logs if the ds-pwp-state-json attribute is not present in PingDirectory’s LDAP Response. This warning appears in the log every time a user interacts with the profile management page. Please enable this attribute to adhere to PingDirectory’s security configuration best practices. PingDirectory version 8.1 and later supports this attribute, and customers running older versions are encouraged to upgrade to a supported version as soon as possible.

Fixed PF-32790

When managing OAuth clients, we’ve resolved a defect where selecting the Require JWT Secured Authorization Response Mode text toggled the incorrect check box.

Fixed PF-32805

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV033.

Fixed PF-32890

When processing policy fragments, all adapters invoked in the fragment now correctly execute their respective post-processing step (if applicable) to inform the adapter of the end policy result.

Fixed PF-32965

Managing certificates within the Metadata Export flow no longer displays or saves an empty list of certificates, clearing out existing ones in the process. For more information, see Metadata export.

Fixed PF-32983

We’ve resolved a defect where cluster data replication could remove keys from engine node’s pf.jwk file instead of merging and retaining the keys.

Fixed PF-32395

We’ve improved PingFederate’s custom revocation checker, ensuring that when the server returns stapled Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responses, PingFederate invokes the checker. Previously, PingFederate used the default revocation checker to validate these responses, which could cause single sign-on (SSO) failures with BCFIPS mode enabled. For more information, see Configuring certificate revocation.

Fixed PF-32398

We’ve improved notifications to signal to administrators that in the event of a replication failure or any changes to cluster configuration require replication. For more information, see Cluster management.

Fixed PF-32553

During PingFederate dependency error detection, OGNL expressions in adapter-to-adapter mappings no longer raise a null pointer exception (NPE).

Fixed PF-32556

We’ve updated the recommended security provider ordering for the Thales Luna Network hardware security module (HSM) to address an issue where temporary keys and sessions could accumulate on the HSM, eventually resulting in resource exhaustion. A limitation of the new ordering is that EC certificates can no longer operate as SSL server certificates. For details on the new order, see Integrating with Thales Luna Network HSM.

Fixed PF-31870

Resolved an issue where bulk import fails for identity provider (IdP) connections that fulfill Persistent Grant Extended Attributes.

Fixed PF-32001

PingFederate now recovers from initial connection failure when logging into the administrative console using external LDAP authentication.

Fixed PF-32028

You can now configure the setting IncludeUserInfoInResponses in the <install dir>/server/default/data/config-store/org.sourceid.saml20.domain.mgmt.impl.AuthnApiManagerImpl.xml file to hide user information from authentication API responses.

Fixed PF-32073

When an error occurs on policies containing fragments and configured to handle failures locally, PingFederate no longer redirects a user to the service provider (SP) error page on SP-initiated single sign-on (SSO).

Fixed PF-32199

The certificate path-building algorithm now uses PingFederate’s custom revocation checker. This fix resolves a bug where outbound TLS connections failed for servers that presented out-of-order certificate chains.

Fixed PF-32241

During user registration, PingFederate now sends all passwords to PingDirectory, resolving an issue where passwords consisting of only spaces would not properly register a PingDirectory password.

Fixed PF-32274

When reading the pingfederate-kerberos-realms.xml file, PingFederate no longer raises an error for configurations with no connection type in the Kerberos realm.

Info

Improved the administrative API to manage the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) inbound provisioning settings in identity provider (IdP) connections.

Info

Enhanced PingFederate message customization by adding the following FedHub-specific context variables:

Info

Revised the Cluster Management window to make it more obvious when changes to the configuration on the administrative node have not been replicated to the engine nodes.

Fixed PF-29706 PingDirectory

Improved the security around password expiration when using PingDirectory as a user store.

Fixed PF-31485

Issuance criteria in authentication policy contracts no longer cause the logs to indicate invalid XML errors. This issue did not cause runtime errors.

Fixed PF-31735

Resolved an issue that sometimes occurred when IPV6 addresses were specified in the HTTP Header for Client IP Addresses field on the Incoming Proxy Settings window.

Fixed PF-31753

PingFederate error descriptions no longer disclose details of java classes.

Fixed PF-31795

When PingFederate is using a custom MasterKeyEncryptor that relies on an SSL call to an external service, cluster replication no longer causes cascading failures because PingFederate is unable to open Java key store files.

Fixed PF-31851

When updating the client secret with the OAuth client management service, PingFederate now correctly creates the secondary secrets.

Fixed PF-31942

Now when PingFederate receives an OAuth authorization request with response_mode=pi.flow, password change and account recovery flows using an authentication policy work correctly.

New PingOne

We’ve added Kerberos authentication via PingOne and the PingOne LDAP Gateway Data Store. This new capability allows PingFederate in the cloud, without a direct connection to Active Directory, to complete Kerberos authentication for browser-based SSO requests and STS transactions through PingOne.

New

We’re proud to support JWT Secured Authorization Response Mode (JARM) in version 11.1. JARM allows authorization servers to transmit authorization responses in JSON web tokens (JWTs), providing digital signature and encryption, sender authentication, and audience restriction. As JARM becomes a requirement in FAPI 2, you can deploy open banking solutions confidently.

New

We’re also introducing support for JWT Response for OAuth Token Introspection, a draft specification on track to become one of the authorization server requirements in the FAPI 2 Advanced Profile. JWT-secured introspection responses provide stronger assurance to the introspection requesters, most relevant when the requester, such as a resource server, expects to receive verified claims from the authorization server.

New

Seamless client secret rotation no longer requires real-time coordination between PingFederate administrators and the application development teams. You can now configure PingFederate to retain previous secrets for a configurable period, during which the application teams can work on updating the client secrets in their apps. This enhancement drastically lowers the costs of securing applications that use client secrets for authentication. For more information, see "Client Secret Retention Period" in the topic Managing client configuration defaults.

New

In addition to template-driven user experience, the user authorization step from Device Authorization Grant supports API now. You can also decide whether PingFederate should check the device activation code before or after authentication. These new capabilities enable you to build applications with the desired user experience for input-constrained devices, such as smart TVs or telepresence equipment.

New

You can store OAuth persistent grants in Amazon DynamoDB, which allows you to take advantage of a NoSQL database where it matters most: delivering responsive experiences to globally distributed users and offering high availability at ease.

New

You can optionally enable direct revocation for self-contained access tokens (JWT access tokens). This flexibility provides a secure way to invalidate access tokens without revoking the underlying refresh tokens or persistent grants. For more information, see Configuring JSON token management and its description of the Enable Token Revocation check box.

New

PingFederate 11.1 centralizes alerts, such as the reminder to replicate configuration, under the new bell icon in the top menu. You can review important alerts from any configuration window.

New

Previously, if you wanted to update an authentication policy or a reusable policy fragment midstream, they had to reconfigure all downstream paths, which can take some effort. With PingFederate 11.1, you can copy a subtree of policy paths before removing a step (such as an IdP adapter), adding a new step (such as a selector or another IdP adapter), and then pasting the subtree back to the policy. This new capability applies to reusable policy fragments and between authentication policies and reusable policy fragments.

New

You can use the administrative API to move an individual policy to a specific location. This enhancement makes re-organizing policies by API requests easier and safer.

New

PingFederate engine nodes now capture common configuration replication issues in their server logs and send replication status back to the console node. The Cluster Management window provides live updates when you select Replicate Configuration in the Cluster Management window. If an error occurs, you can act on it immediately and recover from potential outages faster.

New

You can now associate authentication sessions with user identities passed through the new Passthrough Identity Provider (IdP) Adapter. By placing the Passthrough IdP Adapter downstream from an IdP connection in a policy tree, you can take advantage of additional capabilities associated with defining a user key. For example, you can use the user key to query or revoke a user’s authentication sessions.

New

The Kerberos Adapter and the Kerberos Token Processor now return the ObjectSID attribute value. Because ObjectSID uniquely identifies the user in Active Directory, leveraging it helps streamline the Attribute Source & Lookup configuration.

New

You can configure the Kerberos Adapter to fail when the service provider asks for re-authentication by including ForceAuthn=true (SAML 2.0) or prompt=login (OpenID Connect) in their authentication requests. For example, suppose user interactions are required when the partners ask for re-authentication. In that case, you can add the HTML Form Adapter to the Fail policy path of the Kerberos Adapter.

New

New

You can now leverage extended properties in Velocity templates when customizing template-driven end-user interactions. You can reference extended properties in the templates instead of creating multiple If/ElseIf/Else directives, significantly reducing the initial effort. New and updated experiences can be inherited from extended property values from the OAuth client records and Browser SSO connections, eliminating most of the maintenance costs. PingFederate also passes extended property values to authentication API applications. As a result, application developers who create and maintain end-user UX for customer identities will benefit from this new enhancement.

New

We’ve also improved inline documentation in our Velocity templates. Moving forward, we will maintain variable names and their definitions consistently to communicate changes, such as introducing new variables.

New

Both Java 11 and 8 environments are supported when integrating with Thales Luna Cloud Hardware Security Module (HSM) Services or Luna Network HSMs. For more information about Thales Luna HSM Client, see the Luna Cloud HSM Service Client Guide and Luna Network HSM Documentation Archive.

New

You can now add a secondary signing certificate to your connections. If configured, PingFederate includes it in both the metadata exports and the metadata URL responses. This flexibility allows you to notify your partners about upcoming changes more easily through metadata.

New

We improved the PingFederate administrative API to manage the following configurations:

New

Fixed PF-21198

Upgraded the H2 database engine to version 2.1.210.

Fixed PF-24501

The username no longer appears in the URL during change password flows.

Fixed PF-28932

Upgraded the Guava dependency to version 30.1.1.

Fixed PF-29368

If the administrative API was used to create an OAuth client that has the Client Certificate authentication type, and the client’s Issuer DN does not have a normalized DN value, the administrative console’s Client window no longer fails to show the Issuer DN as the default value. This issue didn’t affect runtime behavior.

Fixed PF-29761

When a user record in a datastore mistakenly has a future date for the last update time, PingFederate no longer uses that date as the value of attrib_last_timestamp in the channel_variable table. Instead, PingFederate sets the value to the maximum time stamp that is not in the future.

Fixed PF-29835

The JSON response from REST API data source lookups now retains number and Boolean data types instead of converting them to strings.

Fixed PF-30075

Resolved an issue that caused the NotYetConnectedException warning message to repeatedly appear in the server.log when using AWS_PING for dynamic cluster discovery.

Fixed PF-30146

If the OAuth client’s redirection URI contains a wild card in the authority part of the URI, and the redirect_uri parameter of the token request contains userinfo in the authority part, then PingFederate will no longer consider the redirection URI a match.

Fixed PF-30255

Resolved a potential security vulnerability.

Fixed PF-30495

In a specific case, when PingFederate logs an invalid assertion error, the error message no longer fails to include a remark about why the assertion or response is invalid.

Fixed PF-30558

When an OAuth client is performing a password reset through the authentication API, if PingFederate does not find any session attributes, now PingFederate logs an error state instead of a null pointer exception.

Fixed PF-30770

Resolved an issue that prevented PingFederate from correctly determining the authentication instant for the flow when the initial OIDC authorization request specifies a max_age, the flow falls through to legacy authentication source selection (policies are disabled or no policy applies), and the user chooses an upstream OIDC IdP connection.

Fixed PF-30806 PingOne MFA

PingFederate now includes all the templates for PingOne MFA 1.6.1.

Fixed PF-31054

When saving SAML token processors or generators, PingFederate now correctly handles dependency errors caused by misconfigured settings on the Protocol Settings window’s Federation Info tab.

Fixed PF-31145

Now PingFederate preserves the order of map type configurations under <pf_install>/pingfederate/server/default/data/config-store when performing a bulk export or a GET operation at the /configStore administrative API endpoint.

Fixed PF-31280

Now if you use the PingFederate administrative console in multiple tabs on one browser, it warns you that doing so might cause inconsistent behavior which could corrupt its configuration.

Fixed PF-31304

Resolved an issue that caused PingFederate to overwrite the scope.whitelist in the \data\config-store\org.sourceid.oauth20.domain.AuthzServerManagerImpl.xml file when you save the authorization server settings.

Fixed PF-31561

Now OAuth client MODIFY, CREATE, and DELETE event log entries in the admin.log include the client ID.

Fixed PF-31575

Now PingFederate honors the value of http.maxRequestBodySize in the run.properties file, which specifies the maximum HTTP request body size of any incoming request to PingFederate’s web services and administrative API.

Issue

Issue

For Java versions that don’t support TLSv1.3 (meaning versions earlier than 8u261), PingFederate fails on start up with a NoSuchAlgorithmException exception. To resolve this error, remove TLSv1.3 from the following settings in the run.properties file:

Issue

PingFederate’s TLS cipher suites can be customized by modifying com.pingidentity.crypto.SunJCEManager.xml (or a similarly-named file if BCFIPS or a hardware security module (HSM) is configured). After updating the file and replicating, all cluster nodes must be restarted for the change to take effect.

Issue

Issue

Issue

Issue

SLO is not supported when users are authenticated through a Composite Adapter instance that contains another instance of the Composite Adapter.

Issue

Passwords can be reset for Microsoft Active Directory user accounts without the permission to change password.

Issue

PingFederate does not support a case-sensitive naming convention for OAuth client ID values when client records are stored in a directory server. For example, after creating a client with an ID value of sampleClient, PingFederate does not allow the creation of another client with an ID value of SampleClient.

Although it’s possible to create clients using the same ID values with different casings when client records are stored in XML files, a database server, or custom storage, we recommend not doing so to avoid potential record migration issues.

Issue

Some browsers display a date-picker user interface for fields that have been designed for date-specific inputs. Some browsers do not. If one or more date-specific fields are defined on the registration page or the profile management page (or both), end users must enter the dates manually if their browsers do not display a date-picker user interface for those fields.

Issue

Issue

Issue

Issue

The RADIUS NAS-IP-Address is only included in Access-Request packets when the pf.bind.engine.address is set with an IPv4 address. IPv6 is not supported.

Info

Ping Identity commits to deliver the best experience for administrators and users. As we continue to improve our products, we encourage you to migrate off of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11. Starting with PingFederate 11.0, Internet Explorer 11 is no longer included in the PingFederate qualification process for administrators or users. For a list of supported browsers, see System requirements.

Info

As of PingFederate 10.2, these features have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Info

As Oracle ended its Premier Support for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition (ODSEE 11g) in December 2019, we no longer include ODSEE as part of the PingFederate qualification process (starting with PingFederate 10.2). We continue to qualify against Oracle Unified Directory (www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/unified-directory.html) and other supported directory servers. For a full list, see System requirements.

Info

Starting with PingFederate 10.2, monitoring and reporting through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been removed.

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Starting with PingFederate 10.1, roles and protocols are always enabled and no longer configurable through the administrative console and API.

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Starting with PingFederate 10.1, the S3_PING discovery protocol has been deprecated. Customers running on AWS infrastructure should instead use NATIVE_S3_PING.

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Starting with PingFederate 10.0, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux install script is no longer available. To install PingFederate 10.0 for Linux, you must download and extract the product distribution .zip file.

Security PF-34720

Fixed a JSON injection vulnerability in REST datastores described in security advisory SECADV044.

Security PF-34896

Fixed a path traversal vulnerability in Runtime nodes described in security advisory SECADV044.

Security PF-35081

Fixed a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the OpenID Connect Policy Management Editor described in security advisory SECADV044.

Fixed PF-33368

Fixed a defect that caused performance issues for PingFederate when third-party logging services were slow to consume logging events.

Fixed PF-34017

We’ve improved logging validation.

Fixed PF-33449

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV037.

Fixed PF-34017

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV037.

Fixed PF-33037

We’ve added a warning to server logs if the ds-pwp-state-json attribute is not present in PingDirectory’s LDAP Response. This warning appears in the log every time a user interacts with the profile management page. Please enable this attribute to adhere to PingDirectory’s security configuration best practices. PingDirectory version 8.1 and later supports this attribute, and customers running older versions are encouraged to upgrade to a supported version as soon as possible.

Fixed PF-32805

We’ve resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security advisory SECADV033.

Fixed PF-31735

Resolved an issue that sometimes occurred when IPV6 addresses were specified in the HTTP Header for Client IP Addresses field on the Incoming Proxy Settings window.

Fixed PF-32001

PingFederate now recovers from initial connection failure when logging into the administrative console using external LDAP authentication.

Fixed PF-32241

During user registration, PingFederate now sends all passwords to PingDirectory, resolving an issue where passwords consisting of only spaces would not properly register a PingDirectory password.

Fixed PF-31795

When PingFederate uses a custom MasterKeyEncryptor that relies on an SSL call to an external service, cluster replication no longer causes cascading failures because PingFederate cannot open Java key store files.

Fixed PF-31929

When using rule matching for fragment nodes, PingFederate no longer raises a NullPointerException (NPE) if a fragment fails.

Fixed PF-31966

Resolved an issue that caused PingFederate to generate a zero byte archive when it couldn’t read a file in the <pf_install>/pingfederate/server/default/data directory.

Fixed PF-31989

When using centralized and dynamically rotating keys for OAuth and OpenID Connect, PingFederate now prevents you from setting the JWT access token lifetime to be longer than the dynamic-rotation-period-in-days specified in <pf_install>/pingfederate/server/default/data/config-store/jwks-endpoint-configuration.xml.

Fixed PF30776

To resolve an issue in which PingFederate occasionally stopped responding after a restart, the UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java was updated to version 6.0.4.

Fixed PF-31303

PingFederate now supports TLS 1.3 for outbound connections when running on Java 8 versions 8u261 and newer.

Info PF-31169

Updated Spring Framework to version 5.3.18.

Info PingOne MFA

Updated the bundled PingOne MFA adapter to version 1.6.

Fixed PF-30804

Resolved an issue that caused LDAP connections to periodically fail during provisioning.

Fixed PF-30863

Bulk export no longer fails to include all XML OAuth clients in the response payload.

Fixed PF-31057

Resolved an issue that caused single sign-on from browsers on iOS to fail when an authentication policy terminates on Kerberos Adapter fallback that has an existing session.

Fixed PF-31064

When running PingFederate in nCipher mode, now the administrative API successfully generates elliptic curve (EC) keys when the optional signatureAlgorithm field is not provided.

Fixed PF-31112

PingFederate now supports TLS 1.3 for inbound connections when running on Java 8 versions 8u261 and newer.

Fixed PF-31123

Resolved an issue that prevented PingFederate from using the Symantec VIP Adapter.

Fixed PF-31146

Resolved an LDAP-related performance issue.

Fixed PF-31159

Resolved an issue where signature verification for certificate revocation lists could take more than 10 seconds on Windows. When LDAP-based authentication was enabled in the administrative console, this could prevent administrative users from signing on.

Improved

When PingFederate rotates a refresh token, if the client fails to get the new token, now PingFederate can accept the previous token for the short period that you specify with the Refresh Token Rolling Grace Period setting.

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Improved performance of the administrative console when a large number of OAuth clients are stored in LDAP or JDBC datastores.

Info PingOne

When configuring the URL of the PingOne home button in the PingFederate administrative console, now pf.pingone.admin.url.region in run.properties supports Canada as a region.

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PingFederate can be successfully integrated with AWS CloudHSM client version 3.4.4.

Security PF-30450

Resolved a potential security vulnerability that is described in security bulletin SECBL021.

Security PF-30536

Resolved a potential security vulnerability by updating Apache Log4j2 to version 2.17.1.

Fixed PF-30557 PingDirectory

Resolved an issue that allowed PingDirectory users to authenticate with expired passwords.

Fixed PF-30637

Resolved an issue that caused certificate revocation list (CRL) checks to return "issuer not found in trusted CAs store" even though the issuer certificate is present.

New PingOne

PingFederate in the cloud can now connect to on-premise directory servers through the PingOne LDAP Gateway. This new capability reduces the complexity of moving to the cloud, while maintaining connectivity to on-premise end-user data.

New PingOne

Administrators can now open the PingOne unified admin from any configuration window in the PingFederate administrative console. To activate the new Home icon, enter the PingOne region and the environment ID in the run.properties file.

New

PingFederate maintains a set of configuration encryption keys to encrypt sensitive configuration information provided by the administrators and decrypt them later as needed. While we continue recommending customers to protect their configuration encryption keys by AWS KMS or custom solutions based on the PingFederate SDK (the MasterKeyEncryptor interface), we are introducing two enhancements in this area.

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The new Secret Managers support allows customers to store certain credentials, such as data store credentials, in external secret management systems and have PingFederate retrieve them as needed. It helps customers comply with internal IT policies or meet and exceed their industry standards. Version 11 integrates out-of-the-box with CyberArk Credential Provider. Customers can also develop custom solutions based on the PingFederate SDK (the SecretManager interface), to connect to other secret management systems.

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Ping Identity remains a solid contributor to the financial-grade API initiatives from the OpenID Foundation. We’re proud that PingFederate is a certified implementation of various FAPI 1 Advanced Final profiles, including all profiles under Australia CDR and UK Open Banking and four profiles under Brazil Open Banking. Deploy Open Banking solutions with confidence and rest assured that we will continue to invest in OAuth, OpenID Connect, and FAPI specifications. For more information about OpenID certifications, visit https://openid.net/certification/#FAPI_OPs.

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When processing an OpenID Connect hybrid flow, in addition to issuing an ID token from the token endpoint, PingFederate may also return an ID token from the authorization endpoint, depending on the requested response type. Administrators now have the flexibility to separate these two ID token issuances and configure their fulfillment differently. These enhancements allow our customers to comply with the regulatory requirements and open standards set by the Australian CDR and FAPI specifications.

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PingFederate now supports encrypted request objects that OAuth clients send to its Authorization endpoint and the Pushed Authorization Requests (PAR) endpoint. As needed, administrators can make encrypted request objects mandatory. This new capability further secures the confidentiality of authentication request parameters.

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The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Issuer Identification draft specification intends to mitigate the scenario where mix-up attacks are a potential threat to all OAuth clients interacting with multiple authorization servers. As needed, administrators can enable this optional capability.

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In the context of OAuth client authentication, when processing private key JWTs from applications, PingFederate now ensures that the issuer (iss) claim value matches the client ID. This enhancement removes the need to use issuance criteria to enforce this validation requirement.

New

PingFederate 11 can now take the request parameters from the SAML 2.0 SP or the OpenID Connect relying party (OIDC RP) into account when building its OIDC authentication request to the third-party OpenID Provider (OP). This capability allows administrators to selectively configure the values in the outbound OIDC authentication requests if their use cases or the third-party OPs have the need to gather more information from the originating SP or RP.

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Administrators can optionally indicate that PingFederate should always return an array for an attribute value regardless of whether the attribute contains one or multiple values. This flexibility simplifies the logic required to consume attribute values from access tokens or ID tokens.

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We’re pleased to introduce a brand new initial setup experience, where administrators can finish their initial setup in as little as four steps, rapidly making our rock-solid capabilities available after starting PingFederate for the first time.

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Administrators can now focus solely on one policy without including other policies as part of the API request when managing an individual authentication policy through the administrative API. This simplification improves the API experience and eliminates the risk of making unexpected changes in other authentication policies.

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Monitoring the status of the console node is now more straightforward with the addition of the /pf/heartbeat.ping heartbeat endpoint to the administrative port. Like its runtime counterpart, the administrative heartbeat endpoint is also capable of returning additional information. If administrators want detailed information in the responses, set the pf.heartbeat.system.monitoring property to true in the run.properties file.

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Our upgrade tools now copy customized default templates from the previous installation to the new one. This improvement preserves the end-user experience and branding, making it easier to verify and move forward with version 11 and beyond.

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Previously, administrators could only define dynamic discovery settings to discover cluster membership in the server/default/conf/tcp.xml file. Version 11 provides a new configuration file for these settings, jgroups.properties in the bin directory. This new approach streamlines future upgrade experiences. For new installations, we recommend defining dynamic discovery settings in the jgroups.properties file. While upgraded environments will continue to look for dynamic discovery settings from the tcp.xml file, we recommend performing a one-time migration to ease the upgrade experiences in the future.

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For customer identities, in addition to email ownership verification by one-time link, administrators can now enable email ownership verification by one-time passcode (OTP). This new option offers a modern verification experience. It also helps customers who prefer not to send hyperlinks via email to their consumers.

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Administrators can optionally configure PingFederate to pass contextual information, such as the OAuth client ID or tracked HTTP parameters, from the sign-on requests to the authentication API applications. This allows developers to build applications that offer tailored experiences and satisfy branding requirements from their organizations based on contextual information from the sign-on requests.

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Administrators can now ensure Kerberos authentication remains functional for service tickets associated with older Kerberos service account passwords after updating the Domain/Realm Password field with a new password in PingFederate. This optional capability increases productivity because workforce identities are no longer required to restart their Windows sessions in order to authenticate via Kerberos.

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The Session Management API now includes IP address and User-Agent information in its responses. Clients with access to this API can learn more about their users and provide suitable offerings based on this new insight.

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Fixed PF-20709

Resolved an issue that sometimes caused a cluster’s dynamic OAuth/OpenID Connect keys to fail to synchronize when a node restarts.

Fixed PF-27519

Resolved an issue that prevented a PingFederate provisioner from using a group of GUIDs as the source to detect new and removed records.

Fixed PF-28074

Now PingFederate correctly applies customizations of response-header-runtime-config.xml to the favicon.ico URL.

Fixed PF-28842

Reduced the time it takes for PingFederate to retrieve OAuth clients from Oracle databases.

Fixed PF-29189

Unnecessary dependency error banners no longer appear in the administrative console when you use the administrative API to modify selectors or service provider adapters.

Fixed PF-29202

Now you can localize end user messages from the authentication API for registration failure scenarios.

Fixed PF-29294

Resolved an issue that stopped PingFederate from completing a device authorization flow when using IdP connection OAuth attribute mapping.

Fixed PF-29318

When a proxy is in front of PingFederate, the Multiple Sign-On Delay template now redirects to the correct port.

As a service provider (SP), when PingFederate can’t decrypt an assertion using the primary encryption certificate, it now logs the following message at the WARN level instead of the ERROR level: "XMLCipher::decryptElement called without a key and unable to resolve".

Fixed PF-29381

Resolved a potential security vulnerability caused by web server URI mishandling.

Fixed PF-29392

Introduced the ability to add response headers to the /pf-ws and /pf-scim endpoints.

Fixed PF-29470

Fixed the upgrade utility so that, in non-interactive mode, it retains cipher related settings that are different from the default settings in the source version. PingFederate changes to new default settings on upgrade only if the settings have not been changed from the defaults in the source install.

Fixed PF-29509

Resolved an issue that caused PingFederate to render the default forgot-password-error.html template instead of the custom template specified in the Password Reset Error Template field for the HTML Form Adapter.

Fixed PF-29668

Resolved an issue that prevented the use of partial matches for resource URIs with OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange and produced the error message: "Unable to find a token generation policy instance to issue a token".

Fixed PF-29795

Now, when administrators add an attribute to a data source lookup but do not use the attribute anywhere, such as for contract mapping or issuance criteria, the attribute persists in the administrative console and API.

Fixed PF-29847

The Microsoft Active Directory LDIF script for persistent grant storage now creates an index for the accessGrantGuid attribute.

Fixed PF-29870

Resolved the following notification publisher issues:

Fixed PF-30002

Now target resources that don’t start with http:// or https:// are also available for mapping and issuance criteria.

Fixed PF-30039

Now various endpoints return 400 Bad Request instead of 500 Internal Server Error when they receive requests with an invalid transport method. For example, calling the ACS endpoint with a GET instead of a POST now returns 400 Bad Request.

Fixed PF-30232

The administrative console no longer shows an error message when you try to create an instance of a custom IDP adapter that uses the class for filterable dropdown controls, ConnectionSelectionFieldDescriptor.

Fixed PF-30272

Reduced memory usage during certificate revocation list (CRL) parsing, which speeds up CRL retrieval and avoids memory exhaustion in the case of very large CRLs.

Issue

Issue

For Java versions that don’t support TLSv1.3 (meaning versions earlier than 8u261), PingFederate fails on start up with a NoSuchAlgorithmException exception. To resolve this error, remove TLSv1.3 from the following settings in the run.properties file:

Issue

PingFederate’s TLS cipher suites can be customized by modifying com.pingidentity.crypto.SunJCEManager.xml (or a similarly-named file if BCFIPS or a hardware security module (HSM) is configured). After updating the file and replicating, all cluster nodes must be restarted for the change to take effect.

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Updating Java version 8 to version 11 results in an error when PingFederate is already installed and running. To work around this issue, uninstall and reinstall the PingFederate Windows service by running the UninstallPingFederateService.bat and InstallPingFederateService.bat files located in <pf_install>/pingfederate/sbin/wrapper.

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SLO is not supported when users are authenticated through a Composite Adapter instance that contains another instance of the Composite Adapter.

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Passwords can be reset for Microsoft Active Directory user accounts without the permission to change password.

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Some browsers display a date-picker user interface for fields that have been designed for date-specific inputs. Some browsers do not. If one or more date-specific fields are defined on the registration page or the profile management page (or both), end users must enter the dates manually if their browsers do not display a date-picker user interface for those fields.

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Ping Identity commits to deliver the best experience for administrators and users. As we continue to improve our products, we encourage our customers to migrate off of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11. Starting with PingFederate 11.0, Internet Explorer 11 is no longer included in the PingFederate qualification process for administrators or users. For a list of supported browsers, see System requirements.

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As of PingFederate 10.2, these features have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

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As Oracle ended its Premier Support for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition (ODSEE 11g) in December 2019, we no longer include ODSEE as part of the PingFederate qualification process (starting with PingFederate 10.2). We continue to qualify against Oracle Unified Directory (www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/unified-directory.html) and other supported directory servers. For a full list, see System requirements.

Info

Starting with PingFederate 10.2, monitoring and reporting through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been removed.

Info

Starting with PingFederate 10.1, roles and protocols are always enabled and no longer configurable through the administrative console and API.

Info

Starting with PingFederate 10.1, the S3_PING discovery protocol has been deprecated. Customers running on AWS infrastructure should instead use NATIVE_S3_PING.

Info

Starting with PingFederate 10.0, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux install script is no longer available. To install PingFederate 10.0 for Linux, you must download and extract the product distribution .zip file.