3.1.X RELEASE

THE LATEST RELEASE

3.1.4 was published on 14.02.2020

DOCUMENTATION OF THE RELEASE

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IMPORTANT NOTE ON OPENJDK

Unity requires Java VM to be installed (JRE). Minimum supported version is 8. Unity is also tested on Java 11, which become supported since release 3.0 and becomes a default platform from release 3.2.

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE RELEASE

There are two distribution formats:

  • tar.gz bundle which can be unpacked and this way installed in a single directory,
  • rpm which can be installed system-wide in the Linux standard locations.

The rpm is build and tested on Centos 7, noarch. It should work flawlessly also on SL7 and recent Fedora distributions. We may build packages for other distributions in future, however the tar.gz format should be fully portable and is our primary distribution form.

We found couple of issues related to the initial versions of migration (especially the in place DB-based migration) from Unity 2 to 3. Those issues were fixed in version 3.1.1. This post provides more details if you are affected. What is more initial versions of new editors added in Console (authenticators, services and IdPs) caused couple of unintentional changes to the original configuration. Those issues were fixed in 3.1.2 version.

3.1.X RELEASE SERIES

Status

Unity 3.1.X provides is mostly a bugfix release on top of huge 3.0.0 release, however it provides also two new, important features.

Selective database dump/restore

So far Unity allowed to export an (almost) complete database contents to JSON and subsequently import it. This worked fine before 3.0 release, as after importing the data into running server, it was softly re-initialized. During the re-initialization, by default, Unity was setting up all file-configured settings: endpoints, authenticators, realms and more. In effect any of those settings imported from the JSON dump were overwritten immediately after import, leaving only directory schema and members. This situation was typically a good one, as endpoints & friends were anyway managed in configuration files, which could be copied separately when needed.

With changes introduced in Unity 3, this mechanism stopped to be practical: Unity by default is not overwriting DB-stored configuration from config files anymore, because of complete system control in Admin Console.

In Unity 3.1.0 this problem was addressed by introducing new capabilities in JSON dump export. It is possible to export only a directory alone, or directory together with basic system settings (including services, authenticators, …). What’s more it is possible to transfer only system basic setup without directory, or even only directory schema (groups tree, attribute types, classes) without members.

 

Multi-group bulk query

A new operation was added to the Admin REST API. It allows for retrieving – with a single query – members with attributes from multiple groups. Groups can be enumerated, or all groups under a given parent can be fetched.

Querying multiple groups was possible before by requesting all groups of interest one by one with separate queries. While the old approach was working, the new one is superior in case of speed. In our tests, using MySQL backend installed locally, and setup with 5000 queried groups, 50.000 memberships in those groups and 150.000 dynamic attributes in total the time difference between serial queries on Unity 3.0 and a single call to new API in 3.1 was around 1000 times in favor of the new API. On smaller data sets this will be for sure smaller, but for large deployments this API endpoint can become a critical element.

DETAILED LIST OF CHANGES

New features:
  • UY-932 Section line should be bolder than grids header line
  • UY-934 Missing SAML Identity Types mapping when creating an IdP
  • UY-994 Update Github oauth authenticator
Bugs fixed:
  • UY-980 Error when trying to create authentication flow without 2nd factor authenticator
  • UY-981 Error when trying to edit web endpoint without configured authn screen logo in console
  • UY-982 Default style should cut too long IdP names on authN screen
  • UY-983 Expand of groups in console fails with filter
New features:
Bugs fixed:
  • UY-971 Custom theme based images are reset when editing endpoint in console
  • UY-972 Authentication screen crashes when unresolveable file is used as logo
  • UY-973 Incomplete captions in OAuth IdP editor
  • UY-975 Some OAuth tokens created in 2.8 are not parsed in 3.x
  • UY-976 UI issues around credential requirements management in Console
  • UY-979 Certificates used in migrated DB are not available
New features:
  • UY-930 Call to action button should have proper background color in dialogs
  • UY-931 Wider description fields across all forms in console UI
  • UY-933 Standardize width of grids inside sections across all console UI forms
  • UY-937 Show redirect URL on OAuth authenticator screen
  • UY-944 AuditEvents – improve DB search time, fix entity name attribute assignment
  • UY-952 Support encrypted subject ID in SAML logout requests
  • UY-965 Support loading jars from local extra directory
Bugs fixed:
  • UY-954 After migration to 3 output profile of IdP endpoints is misconfigured
  • UY-955 Translation profile editor disallows dynamic identitites for mapIdentity
  • UY-956 Edit of OAuth IdP endpoint in console resets options set by the properties file
  • UY-957 Idp engine does not support embedded translation profile
  • UY-958 Edit of OAuth authenticator config in console looses some settings
  • UY-959 Fix typos in console manual
  • UY-963 SAML idp importers configuration is lost when editing IDP in console
  • UY-964 Some options of SAML authenticator lost when editing it in console
  • UY-966 Missing AuditEvents on entity creation
  • UY-967 Editing of web endpoint in console resets some of the generic authN settings
  • UY-968 Some options of LDAP authenticator lost when editing it in console
  • UY-969 Userinfo block not available in Home UI service editor in console
New features:
  • UY-950 Embed included translation profile in admin console
Bugs fixed:
  • UY-947 NPE on IdPs view after DB migration from 2.8
  • UY-948 Dump creation hangs in 3.1.0
  • UY-949 During upgrade to 3.0.0 or 3.1.0 custom translation profile of OAuth authenticator is lost
New features:
  • UY-916 Selective DB dump creation and loading
  • UY-929 Bulk query over REST API of multiple groups
Bugs fixed:
  • UY-922 memory control of SCrypt hashing
  • UY-923 Support Linkedin oauth v2 API with multiple user profile endpoints
  • UY-936 Update default OAuth integrations
  • UY-938 Only direct attributes used in few internal APIs
  • UY-939 OAuth AS should return error when openid scope requested and oidc not enabled
  • UY-940 HTTPS server hangs after some time
  • UY-941 No way to add initial group attribute statement in console
  • UY-943 Can not save in Console Admin/Upman service with configured authentication screen logo
  • UY-945 Missing checkboxes in entities list in directory browser
  • UY-946 Subsequent multi-entity removal broken

OLDER REVISIONS

Here you can download previous versions from the series and read their documentation:

RELEASE 3.1.2:     DOWNLOAD     DOCUMENTATION

RELEASE 3.1.1:     DOWNLOAD     DOCUMENTATION

RELEASE 3.1.0:     DOWNLOAD     DOCUMENTATION