= OIDC and SAML adapter changes for WildFly and JBoss EAP
OIDC adapter for the WildFly and JBoss EAP, which was deprecated in previous versions, is removed in this release. It is being replaced by the Elytron OIDC adapter,
which is included in WildFly. The SAML adapter ZIP download for WildFly/EAP is removed as it is being replaced by the Galleon feature pack.
See the link:{adapterguide_link}[{adapterguide_name}] for the details.
Keycloak has new client profiles `fapi-2-security-profile` and `fapi-2-message-signing`, which ensure Keycloak enforces compliance with
the latest FAPI 2 draft specifications when communicating with your clients. Thanks to https://github.com/tnorimat[Takashi Norimatsu] for the contribution.
However, passkeys operations success depends on the user's environment. Make sure which operations can succeed in https://passkeys.dev/device-support/[the environment].
Thanks to https://github.com/tnorimat[Takashi Norimatsu] for the contribution and thanks to https://github.com/thomasdarimont[Thomas Darimont] for the help with the
ideas and testing of this feature.
= WebAuthn improvements
WebAuthn policy now includes a new field: `Extra Origins`. It provides better interoperability with non-Web platforms (for example, native mobile applications).
Thanks to https://github.com/akunzai[Charley Wu] for the contribution.
Keycloak has switched to RESTEasy Reactive. Applications using `quarkus-resteasy-reactive` should still benefit from a better startup time, runtime performance, and memory footprint, even though not using reactive style/semantics. SPI's that depend directly on JAX-RS API should be compatible with this change. SPI's that depend on RESTEasy Classic including `ResteasyClientBuilder` will not be compatible and will require update, this will also be true for other implementation of the JAX-RS API like Jersey.
In previous versions, introspection endpoint automatically returned most claims, which were available in the access token. Now there is new
switch `Add to token introspection` on most of protocol mappers. This addition allows more flexibility as introspection endpoint can return different
claims than access token. This is first step towards "Lightweight access tokens" support as access tokens can omit lots of the claims, which would be still returned
by the introspection endpoint. When migrating from previous versions, the introspection endpoint should return same claims, which are returned from access token,
so the behavior should be effectively the same by default after the migration. Thanks to https://github.com/skabano[Shigeyuki Kabano] for the contribution.
= Feature flag for OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant flow
The OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant flow now includes a feature flag, so you can easily disable this feature. This feature is still enabled by default.
Thanks to https://github.com/thomasdarimont[Thomas Darimont] for the contribution.
= Group scalability improvements
Performance around searching of groups is improved for the use-cases with many groups and subgroups. There are improvements, which allow
paginated lookup of subgroups. Thanks to https://github.com/alice-wondered[Alice] for the contribution.
= User profile improvements
Declarative user profile is still a preview feature in this release, but we are working hard on promoting it to a supported feature. Feedback is welcome.
If you find any issues or have any improvements in mind, you are welcome to create https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/new/choose[Github issue],
ideally with the label `area/user-profile`. It is also recommended to check the link:{upgradingguide_link}[{upgradingguide_name}] with the migration changes for this
release for some additional informations related to the migration.
= Password policy for specify Maximum authentication time
Keycloak supports new password policy, which allows to specify the maximum age of an authentication with which a password may be changed by user without re-authentication.
When this password policy is set to 0, the user will be required to re-authenticate to change the password in the Account Console or by other means.
You can also specify a lower or higher value than the default value of 5 minutes. Thanks to https://github.com/thomasdarimont[Thomas Darimont] for the contribution.