Keycloak 1.1.Beta 1 Released: SAML, Clustering, Tomcat 7

November 5, 2014

billburke java, javaee, JAX-RS, jboss, Keycloak, oauth, openid connect, SAML, SSO Leave a comment

(Copied from Stian’s announcement) Pretty big feature release:
  • SAML 2.0 support.  Keycloak already supports OpenID Connect, but with this release we’re also introducing support for SAML 2.0.  We did this by pulling in and building on top of Picketlink’s SAML libraries.
  • Vastly improved clustering support.  We’ve also significantly improved our clustering support, for the server and application adapters. The server can now be configured to use an invalidation cache for realm meta-data and user profiles, while user-sessions can be stored in a distributed cache allowing for both increased scalability and availability. Application adapters can be configured for either sticky-session or stateless if sticky-sessions are not available. We’ve also added support for nodes to dynamically register with Keycloak to receive for example logout notifications.
  • Adapter multi-tenancy support.  Thanks to Juraci Paixão Kröhling we now have multi-tenancy support in application adapters. His contribution makes it easy to use more than one realm for a single application. It’s up to you to decide which realm is used for a request, but this could for example be depending on domain name or context-path. For anyone interested in this feature there’s a simple example that shows how to get started.
  • Tomcat 7 Adapter.  A while back Davide Ungari contributed a Tomcat 7 application adapter for Keycloak, but we haven’t had time to document, test and make it a supported adapter until now.
What’s next?
The next release of Keycloak should see the introduction of more application adapters, with support for JBoss BRMS, JBoss Fuse, UberFire, Hawt.io and Jetty.
For a complete list of all features and fixes for this release check out JIRA.
I’d like to especially thank all external contributors, please keep contributing! For everyone wanting to contribute Keycloak don’t hesitate, it’s easy to get started and we’re here to help if you need any pointers.

Keycloak 1.0 Final Released

September 10, 2014

billburke java, javaee, JAX-RS, jboss, Keycloak, oauth, openid connect, opensource, REST, security, SSO 1 Comment

After 1 year of hard work, the team is proud to release our first final 1.0 release of Keycloak.  We’ve stabilized our database schemas, improved performance, and refactored our SPIs and you should be good to go!  I don’t want to list all the features, but check out our project website at http://keycloak.org for more information.  You can find our download links there as well as screen cast tutorials on our documentation page.

What’s Next?

Keycloak 1.1 will be our integration release where we start bringing Keycloak to different protocols, projects, and environments.  Here’s a priority list of what we’re tackling

  • SAML 2.0 – by merging with Picketlink IDP
  • Uberfire/BRMS adapter
  • Fuse FSW adapter
  • EAP 6.x and Wildfly console integration
  • Tomcat 7 adapter
  • …More planned, but we’ll see how fast we can move before we announce anymore

In parallel, we hope to look into a few new features:

  • Internationalization
  • TOTP Improvements like allowing multiple token generators
  • IP Filtering

Keycloak 1.0 RC 1 Released

August 20, 2014

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Many bugs fixes and cleanup.  Not much for features although we did add a ton of tooltips to the admin console.  We’re getting very close to a final release and are still on schedule to release 2nd week on September.

See keycloak.org for links to download and documentation.

Keycloak Beta 4 Released

August 6, 2014

billburke java, JAX-RS, jboss, Keycloak, oauth, openid connect, REST, security, SSO, wildfly 2 Comments

After a summer of multiple vacations from various team members, we’re finally ready to release Keycloak 1.0 Beta 4.  There’s not a lot of new features in the release because we focused mainly on performance, creating new SPIs, refactoring code, improving usability, and lastly fixing bugs. 64 issues completed.  As usually go to the main keycloak.org page to find download links and to browse our documentation, release notes, or view our screencast tutorials.  Here are some of the highlights of the release:

  • Server side memory cache for all UI pages.
  • Cache-control settings for UI pages
  • Server side cache for all backend metadata: realms, applications, and users.
  • In-memory implementation for user sessions
  • New Federation SPI.  Gives you a lot of flexibility to federation external stores into Keycloak
  • Improved LDAP/Active Directory support
  • Token validation REST API
  • Support for HttpServletRequest.logout()
  • Lots and lots of bugs fixes and minor improvements

You should see a big performance increase with this release as everything is cachable in memory and the database can be fully bypassed.

1.0 Final is on the way!

What’s next for Keycloak?  This month we will be focusing on resolving the remaining issues logged in Jira, improving our test coverage, and updating our documentation and screencasts.  No new major features.  We’ll have a RC release around 3rd week of August, then our first Final release 2nd week of September!

 

Keycloak Beta 3 Released

June 19, 2014

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Mostly a bunch of bug fixes that we needed to push out for users.  We’re still pretty focused on performance and hope that Beta 4 will allow Keycloak to run in a cluster with some caching capabilities.  See keycloak.org for links on downloading, docs, and jira release notes.

Keycloak Beta-1 Released!

May 29, 2014

billburke java, JAX-RS, Keycloak, oauth, openid connect, opensource, REST, security, SSO 1 Comment

Keycloak Beta-1 has been released!  We’re edging closer to 1.0! Please visit the Keycloak website for links to documentation and downloads.  A lot of hard work the last few months by Stian, Marek, myself and other contributors to bring you loads of new features and improvements:

  • LDAP/Active Directory integration built on Picketlink.  Thanks Marek!
  • User Session management – can now view login IP address and which applications and oauth clients have open tokens.  Works with any type of app too.  Can view and manage sessions through user account pages or admin console
  • Audit log for important events.  Integration with admin console and ability to receive emails on certain events.
  • Account log viewable in user account management pages
  • Export database.  Allows you to export a full dump of keycloak database into an encrypted file.  Will help out tremendously to migrate between Keycloak versions.
  • Authentication SPI.  Allows you to plug in different mechanisms to retrieve and authenticate users.
  • Theme support for the admin console and any sent email.
  • Per-realm admin console.  You can now designate a user within a realm that is an admin of that realm.
  • Documented the Admin REST API finally.  (Docs still kinda suck here)
  • CORS support for Admin REST API
  • Improvements in Javascript adapter.  Including OpenID Connect session iframe style for single-sign out and support for Cordova.
  • Support for relative URLs when configuring admin console
  • Server configuration file
  • Social Only Logins
  • Installed application adapter
  • Expanded the number of example projects

What’s next? This is the last major feature release of Keycloak.  We will now be focusing on performance, clustering, security audits, testing, documentation, and usability for the next few releases.  We hope to release 1.0 Final sometime in July.

 

Keycloak Alpha 3 Released

March 12, 2014

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Another big feature release for Keycloak.  As usual, go to keycloak.org to find documentation and download links.  Here are the highlights of Alpha 3:

  • Minimal support for OpenID Connect.  Claims like email, full name, etc. can now be transmitted and viewed with IDToken passed after login.
  • Configurable allowed claims.  What identity claims are made in id and access tokens can be configured per application or oauth client within the admin console
  • Remote logout and session stats available from management console
  • Refresh token support
  • Not before revocation policy.  You can set it per realm, oauth client, or application.  Policies are pushed to applications that have an admin url
  • Fine grain admin console permissions and roles.  You can now specify which realms a master user is allowed to create, view, or edit.  An awesome side effect of this is that if you enable registration in the master admin realm and set a default global role of create only, keycloak can become a SaaS for SSO.
  • Installed Application feature to support non-browser applications that want to use Keycloak
  • You can now add social network links through account management

What’s next?

Our next release will be Beta-1 and will be our last big feature release.  One of the features we want to add is support for using an existing LDAP/Active Directory server.  We’re going to take a look at Picketlink IDM API for this.  We also need more fine grain support for importing and exporting various pieces of the keycloak database.  That’s minimally what we want to get in.  We’re looking at a May timeframe for this release as in April many of us will be busy with Red Hat Summit.

April talk on Keycloak

March 10, 2014

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I’ll be doing a talk on Keycloak April 17th at Devnation in San Francisco.  Devnation is running the same time as Red Hat summit and JUDCon.  I should be around earlier in the week too.  For those that suffer through all my “errs” and “uhms”, I’ll be giving away 2 copies of RESTful Java with JAX-RS 2.0.  Hopefully that’s enough of a bribe to come and listen!  If anybody wants to talk Resteasy or Keycloak earlier in the week, ping me on the keycloak-dev list.

Keycloak SSO Released – Alpha 1

January 23, 2014

billburke jboss, Keycloak, opensource, REST, security, SSO, wildfly 5 Comments

Keycloak is an SSO authentication server and appliance for securing web applications and RESTful web services.  After 7 months of hard work, the Keycloak team (Bill Burke, Stian Thorgersen, Gabriel Cardoso, Viliam Rockai, Alexandre Mendonca, and Bolesław Dawidowicz) is proud to announce our first release, Alpha-1!  There’s still a lot to do, but there’s a lot you of features you can try out.  Besides written documentation, we’ve put together a bunch of video screencasts that you can view to learn and experience the features of Keycloak.

These are some of the core feature of Keycloak:

  • SSO and Single Log Out for browser applications
  • Social Broker. Enable Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter social login with no code required.
  • Openshift Quick Start so you can deploy Keycloak on the cloud
  • Optional User Registration
  • Password and TOTP support (via Google Authenticator). Client cert auth coming soon.
  • Forgot password management
  • OAuth Bearer token auth for REST Services
  • Integrated Browser App to REST Service token propagation
  • OAuth Bearer token auth for REST Services
  • OAuth 2.0 Grant requests
  • CORS Support
  • CORS Web Origin management and validation
  • Completely centrally managed user and role mapping metadata. Minimal configuration at the application side
  • Admin Console for managing users, roles, role mappings, applications, user sessions, allowed CORS web origins, and OAuth clients.
  • Deployable as a WAR, appliance, or on Openshift.
  • Supports JBoss AS7, EAP 6.x, and Wildfly applications. Plans to support Node.js, RAILS, GRAILS, and other non-Java application

Go to the Keycloak website and follow the links to download, view documentation and videos, browse our source code, and submit bugs.

What’s Next?
As I said before, there’s still a lot to do, but here’s some things that will get in sooner rather than later:
  • Stan Silvert has written a Wildfly subsystem for Keycloak that didn’t get into the Alpha 1 release.  When we get this in, it will be super easy to secure web applications within a Wildfly environment.  You won’t have to crack open your WARs to add Keycloak configuration and enabling Keycloak security may be as easy as a doing a few clicks in the admin console.
  • Storage protection.  We’ll be adding support for more secure password hashing as well as storage encryption capabilities for the Keycloak database.  Its uber important to be able to have a 2nd level of defense for hacks.
  • Revocation policies. We need to be able to expire all tokens just in case somebody gets hacked and broadcast this information to deployed applications.
  • User session management.  This will allow you to view which users are logged in and give you the ability to log out one or more users.
  • Composite roles.  This will be the concept of a role group.  This will make it easier to change role mappings for a large set of users.

Thank You!

Finally, I want to give a huge thank you to everybody that helped make this release possible (Stian Thorgersen, Gabriel Cardoso, Viliam Rockai, Alexandre Mendonca, and Bolesław Dawidowicz).  Especially Stian for being such a great co-lead and Gabriel for doing such awesome design work.  This has been the best team I’ve been on since the good old JBoss Group days years and years ago, pre-aquisition when JBoss was young.