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3be21ccbf0 docs(perf): v4.17.1 results and harness fixes (#12651)
Publishes the v4.17.1 benchmark sweep and the harness fixes the sweep
uncovered.

## Results

All 11 published targets ran for 30 minutes each against a fixed
7-container deployment (vCPU 6 / 6 Gi, psql v17.4, US1 client and
server), at 600 VUs except where noted. Latencies are
`http_req_duration` over the test phase.

| target | VUs | iter/s | p50 | p95 | p99 | failed requests |
|:---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---|
| machine_pat_login | 600 | 3452 | 24.53ms | 872ms | 1.00s | 29 /
6,335,633 (0.00%) |
| user_info | 600 | 3217 | 29.32ms | 943ms | 1.13s | 66 / 5,800,788
(0.00%) |
| introspect | 600 | 2297 | 46.49ms | 1.16s | 1.36s | 1,400 / 4,159,863
(0.03%) |
| machine_jwt_profile_grant | 600 | 1076 | 85.34ms | 2.57s | 2.93s | 97
/ 1,986,156 (0.00%) |
| machine_client_credentials_login | 600 | 834 | 56.78ms | 1.74s | 2.42s
| 1,789 / 3,073,497 (0.05%) |
| add_session | 600 | 767 | 95.25ms | 3.53s | 4.15s | 1 / 1,416,546
(0.00%) |
| oidc_session | 600 | 326 | 77.47ms | 3.41s | 4.43s | 3 / 1,767,162
(0.00%) |
| otp_session | 600 | 84 | 47.80ms | 13.83s | 20.22s | 182 / 466,756
(0.03%) |
| password_session | 600 | 68 | 408.63ms | 20.00s | 24.05s | 1 / 253,280
(0.00%) |
| human_password_login | 600 | 49 | 146.67ms | 4.08s | 1m0s | 9,227 /
683,256 (1.35%) |
| manipulate_user | **200** | 19 | 304.58ms | 10.23s | 38.43s | 225 /
171,987 (0.13%) |

Against the goals:

- **#8352 is met.** `machine_jwt_profile_grant` reached **1076/s**
against the 1000/s goal, with p50 at 85ms.
- **#4424 is not met.** `human_password_login` runs at **49/s** against
a 1200/s goal.

The sweep ran with `improvedPerformance` enabled (`PROJECT_GRANT`,
`PROJECT`, `USER_GRANT`, `ORG_DOMAIN_VERIFIED`), captured from the
instance before the first target rather than assumed; the full flag set
is on every page.

## What the observability rows show

The containers were never the constraint. ZITADEL CPU sat at 9–50%
(p50), memory at 6–7% (p50, peaking at 16%) of 6 GiB, and instance count
was flat at 7 with no container startups in any window. Database CPU was
at **86–98% median on nine of eleven targets**. Any "ZITADEL achieves
N/s" figure that omits which resource ran out is true and misleading, so
the pages say.

The query breakdown then shows what the CPU numbers cannot: **advisory
lock wait is the single largest category of database time across the
sweep (91,857 s accumulated)**, ahead of event reads (64,805 s), event
push (26,411 s) and projection reads (14,625 s). The three locks are the
projection handler lock (`handler/v2/handler.go`), the eventstore read
barrier (`repository/sql/query.go`) and the shared lock every push takes
(`eventstore/v3/push.go`).

That is what sets the `flowchart outcome` on each page, and it is not
uniform:

- **Scale** on the seven targets where a resource genuinely ran out —
database CPU at 92–98% with 0% lock share.
- **Potential issues** on `human_password_login`, `password_session`,
`otp_session` and `manipulate_user`, where 45–74% of the top query time
is lock wait. `password_session` runs at 51% database CPU and 50%
container CPU and still only manages 68 iter/s; adding vCPU there buys
nothing.

Autovacuum is cleared as a contributor: 93.9% median DB CPU in buckets
containing a vacuum against 93.1% without, within noise. The new v4.17
eventstore autovacuum is barely triggered — `events2` is not in the top
twenty vacuumed tables.

## Harness fixes

Defects found during the sweep, all of which corrupted published numbers
or aborted runs:

1. **Colliding check names.** `updateHuman`, `lockUser` and `deleteUser`
all registered checks as `update user is status ok`, two of them
asserting `status === 201` against endpoints returning 200. k6
aggregates checks by name, so this produced a permanent, fictional 28%
failure rate. Each check now has its own name and accepts 2xx.
2. **User-creation read-after-write race**, in three variants, each
found after the previous fix. The read-back resolved `undefined` when
the projection was behind, surfacing much later as `Cannot read property
'0' of undefined`; then an unguarded `res.json()` turned every request
timeout into a killed iteration; then a *partial* read — a valid user
object with `loginNames` not yet projected — passed an `if (user)` guard
and failed identically. `readUserAfterCreate()` now guards status and
body before parsing, requires the field rather than the object, and
retries with backoff, rejecting with the user id and username.
3. **Metric cardinality.** Id-bearing URLs produced 800k+ time series
against k6's suggested 100k, driving k6 to 6.8 GB and an OOM mid-run.
All 16 such call sites now set a grouped `name` tag.
4. **`password_session` wrote its CSV to `otp_session`'s filename** in
the Makefile, silently overwriting the previous target's output.

The read-back race is not only a harness defect: at 600 VUs it measures
real load-induced projection lag, exceeding 25 s for login-name
projection and 100 s for the user projection, against instant reads on
an unloaded instance.

## Stable v2 user API

Four calls in `benchmark/src/user.ts` still went to `/v2beta/users` —
update, lock, delete and the machine read-back. They date from the
original load-test bootstrap in April 2024 (#7635), when the user
service was still v2beta, and were never moved when it was promoted;
they surfaced in this diff only because the read-after-write fix rewrote
the surrounding functions. All four are now on stable v2.

`updateHuman` is the one that changed shape: `PUT /v2beta/users/{id}` is
`UpdateHumanUser`, whose stable-v2 counterpart `PUT
/v2/users/human/{id}` is deprecated in the proto, so it now calls `PATCH
/v2/users/{id}` (`UpdateUser`) and `manipulate_user` nests the profile
under `human`. Both RPCs land on `command.ChangeUserHuman`, so the
measured work is unchanged. `lockUser`, `deleteUser` and the
`createMachine` read-back move over unchanged in method and payload.

No published result is affected: per-endpoint latencies come from custom
Trends, and `run-bench.sh` drops the `name` system tag, so no artefact
ever recorded a v2beta URL. The remaining `/management/v1` and
`/admin/v1` calls are left alone — migrating those changes which API
surface is benchmarked and would need a re-run.

## Timestamps

Pages reported `Test start` as a bare `HH:MM`, so a run could not be
correlated against monitoring the next day. Pages now carry the full UTC
date and time and a `Test end` row, both derived from the first and last
per-second row of `output.json`. `_template.mdx` is updated to match.

## Post-mortem

`benchmark/postmortems/2026-08-27-503-burst.md` records two bursts of
HTTP 503 `Service error -27` — an HTML page from the Google frontend,
not a ZITADEL error — on `manipulate_user` and `human_password_login`,
six hours apart. **The investigation is open**, and the note is explicit
about what is established (no container startups; the two bursts have
opposite server-side signatures), what is provisionally ruled out
(restart, panic), and what is not yet known. It is included because both
affected pages report the 503s as a separate population from the ZITADEL
failures beside them, and that split needs its evidence somewhere.

It also records two defects found by accident in the collected logs,
unrelated to the 503s: `sql: transaction has already been committed or
rolled back` (232 occurrences under load) and a missing i18n key,
`"unable to get user by id" not found in language "en"`.

## Notes for review

- **`manipulate_user` ran at 200 VUs, not 600, and the page says so.**
Throughput saturates near 100 VUs; at 600 the same target produced 4,283
failed requests for identical throughput against 225 at 200 VUs. Its
failure mode is degradation over sustained single-org churn —
per-operation p50 climbs 1.7x–6x between the first and last five minutes
of a run — not a concurrency threshold.
- **Two `Observed errors` rows are hand-corrected** and deliberately
differ from the generated text, on `manipulate_user` and
`human_password_login`. Both cases are one generated number covering two
unrelated failure populations; each page says it was corrected and why.
- Org deletion failing with a 500 (`V3-C8l3V`) after heavy user churn is
already tracked as #8510 and was hit repeatedly during cleanup.
- **The run/publish tooling is no longer part of this PR.** It moved to
a private repository, along with the cloud collection scripts, because
deployment identity does not belong here. What remains is the published
pages, the post-mortem findings and the harness fixes.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-01 19:12:37 +00:00
8e442ed4bc fix(oidc): allow OrgRoleIDScope downscoping in token exchange (#12563)
# Which Problems Are Solved

- Token exchange rejects `urn:zitadel:iam:org:roles🆔{orgID}` when
that scope is not already present on the subject or actor token
(`invalid_scope`).
- A documented least-privilege pattern — exchanging a broad access token
for one whose roles claims are limited to a single organization — has
been broken since the v4.15.3 token-exchange hardening and was not
restored by #12312.
- A naive allow-any-`roles:id` exception would let a previously narrowed
token widen again (switch org filter, or drop the filter and get all
role orgs), including via an actor token's filter on actor-path
exchanges.
- A client-requested bare `urn:zitadel:iam:org:roles🆔` (empty org id)
is not a meaningful filter and should be rejected on exchange.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- Treats `OrgRoleIDScope` as a restriction filter with downscope-only
semantics via `applyOrgRoleIDScopeDownscoping(requested,
ceilingScopes)`:
- union / standard exchange passes the **subject** token scopes as the
ceiling (actor filters ignored)
- impersonation (scopeless `user_id` / `id_token` subject) passes the
**actor** token scopes as the ceiling
- ceiling unfiltered → any requested `roles:id` is allowed (broad →
narrow)
  - ceiling filtered → requested filters must be ⊆ that set
- ceiling filtered but request omits them → inherit the ceiling (omit
must not re-widen)
- Rejects a **client-requested** bare `urn:zitadel:iam:org:roles🆔` in
`validateTokenExchangeScopes` after normalize (before empty-request
fallback). Input tokens may still carry the bare prefix as a degenerate
ceiling; empty-request / omit inherit does not re-trigger the rejection.
- Keeps non-restriction scopes on the existing subject ∪ actor presence
checks.
- Adds unit coverage for downscope, further downscope, widen rejection,
omit-inherit, mixed subject/actor filters, empty-scope access/JWT
subjects, and bare-prefix request/ceiling cases.
- Adds an integration test for broad → `roles:id` filtered roles, plus a
second exchange that rejects widening to another org.
- Documents downscope-only and omit-inherit behavior in the reserved
scopes table and the token exchange guide.

# Additional Changes

- Updates the token-exchange guide Scope section to reflect that
authorization-related reserved scopes must already be present on input
tokens (aligned with the v4.15.3 hardening), rather than suggesting
scope can be freely extended.

# Additional Context

- Closes #12413
- Follow-up for PR #12312
- Related discussion in #11869 (recommended `roles:id` workaround; this
restores that path for token exchange without allowing filter widening)
- Behavior note for release notes: during token exchange, an existing
`urn:zitadel:iam:org:roles🆔*` filter on the subject is inherited when
omitted from the request, so role claims cannot re-widen.

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Co-authored-by: Cursor Agent <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Livio Spring <[email protected]>
2026-08-28 16:27:56 +02:00
6127b567e7 feat(oidc): provide actor information in userinfo actions (#12566)
# Which Problems Are Solved

Expose impersonating actor to `preAccessToken` and `preUserinfo`
actions.

# How the Problems Are Solved

Provide the `actor` information already present in the OIDC session
model of JWT token to the relevant actions. Both goja-based actions "v1"
and webhook based execution targets carry the actor information now.
Actor remains null in case of non-impersonated tokens. Actor may contain
nested actors to display a delegation chain of impersonators.

# Additional Changes

- dba6261c8ed0dfd00ffde6193910b1405b17432f: refactor `userinfoFlows` to
reduce complexity, add test coverage and solve a couple of potential
bugs.
- `getClientId` in actions was previously undocumented. Added to
documentation.
- A skill that reproduces manual testing using webhook.site or a local
sink.

# Additional Context

- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/12097

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Wim Van Laer <[email protected]>
2026-08-12 07:36:56 +00:00
318bfc36d7 feat: native app links for passkeys (#12580)
# Which Problems Are Solved

- Native iOS/Android passkeys need OS trust files on the ZITADEL domain;
without them, Associated Domains / App Links verification fails.
- Operators could not configure iOS Team ID + Bundle ID or Android
package name + SHA-256 fingerprints on OIDC apps.
- `/.well-known/apple-app-site-association` and
`/.well-known/assetlinks.json` were not served from application config.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- Add iOS/Android app-link fields on OIDC app create/update (Application
API v2 + Management), with validation.
- Persist and project those fields; query active app-link configs
instance-wide.
- Serve AASA (`webcredentials`) and Digital Asset Links
(`get_login_creds`) from well-known paths, with configurable
`Cache-Control` and fingerprint normalization at serve time.
- Console UI to edit the fields, with links to the well-known endpoints.
- Operator docs for configuration, endpoints, caching, and verification.

# Additional Changes

- Document on API fields that well-known responses may be HTTP-cached
and platform verifiers may delay propagation.
- Runtime config: `WellKnown.AppLinksCacheControlMaxAge` (default `5m`;
`0` → `no-store`).

# Additional Context

- Closes #12497
- Implemented and reviewed as stack:
  - #12531 API contract
  - #12532 storage wiring
  - #12536 well-known endpoints
  - #12537 console
  - #12547 docs

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <[email protected]>
2026-08-12 08:04:27 +02:00
2bd42e8fc4 fix(actions): allow adding raw metadata values via appendMetadataRaw (#12567)
# Which Problems Are Solved

Since #10666 (v4.1+, backported to v4.x), metadata values set through
actions v1 (`api.metadata.push` and `api.v1.user.appendMetadata`) are
always JSON-encoded via `json.Marshal`. This made the write path
consistent with the JSON-based read path, but removed the ability to
store raw (unencoded) metadata values:

- A scalar string is now always stored quoted (`"de"` instead of `de`).
- The previous byte-array convention (mapping a string to an integer
array in the script, handled by `mapBytesToByteArray` introduced in
#5526) now stores the literal integer-array text (e.g. `[100,101]`)
instead of the raw bytes.

Customers migrating from v3.x whose downstream systems base64-decode
metadata values from tokens and expect raw bytes have no way to produce
them anymore — changing the consuming system is not always possible.

Reverting the default is not an option either, as clients that adopted
actions v1 on v4.x now rely on the JSON encoding.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- Adds a new, opt-in function `api.v1.user.appendMetadataRaw(key,
value)` to the actions v1 login flows (external / internal
authentication post authentication and pre creation), next to the
existing `appendMetadata`.
- The value is stored as raw bytes without JSON encoding:
  - a string is stored as its plain UTF-8 bytes (`de`, not `"de"`)
- byte arrays (`Uint8Array` or a plain array of integers 0-255, the old
convention) are stored as-is, so existing v3 scripts using a
string-to-byte-array helper only need to switch the function name
  - other types (and empty values) throw an error
- The existing `appendMetadata` and `api.metadata.push` behavior remains
byte-for-byte unchanged.

# Additional Changes

- Documented `appendMetadataRaw` (and the JSON encoding behavior of
`appendMetadata`) in the external and internal authentication actions
docs.
- Added unit tests for the new function (through a real goja runtime)
and a test locking in the existing `appendMetadata` JSON-encoding
behavior.

# Additional Context

- Regression introduced as a side effect of #10666 (which fixed #10470);
the raw byte handling was originally introduced in #5526.
- Reported by a customer upgrading from v3.4.x to v4.16.x, whose
PostAuthentication action maps token payload claims into user metadata.
- Requires backport to v4.x.

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2026-08-11 15:44:15 +02:00
jmaretteandGitHub 9070b537d2 feat(oidc): add RFC 7592 dynamic client management (#12315)
# Which Problems Are Solved

#12313 lets clients register themselves as OIDC applications (RFC 7591),
but a dynamically registered client has no way to manage itself
afterwards:

- The registration response returns no `registration_access_token` and
no `registration_client_uri`, which RFC 7591 and 7592 clients (including
the MCP SDKs) expect in order to manage their own registration.
- There is no way to read back, update or delete a registration without
an operator acting on the client's behalf through the Console or the
Management API. A client that needs to rotate a redirect URI has to ask
a human.

# How the Problems Are Solved

Implement the [OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Management Protocol
(RFC 7592)](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7592): `GET`, `PUT`
and `DELETE` on `/oauth/v2/register/{client_id}`, wired through the same
`op.WithSetRouter` hook as the registration endpoint.

## Control plane: the same security settings, no new switch

The management endpoints are gated on the
`DynamicClientRegistrationSettings.enabled` introduced in #12313. No new
setting, no feature flag: a client that may register may manage what it
registered. When registration is disabled the endpoints answer `404`,
exactly as `POST /oauth/v2/register` does.

`allow_unauthenticated` selects the registration mode and does not apply
here, because the registration access token authorizes these endpoints
in both modes.

## Authorization: the registration access token, and nothing else

RFC 7592 §3 defines the credential as the registration access token
issued at registration and bound to a single client, not a user
credential. So a client manages only itself, proving it with the token
it was handed:

| | Registration (`POST`) | Management (`GET` / `PUT` / `DELETE`) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Credential | Access token, or none in open mode | Registration access
token |
| Permission | `project.app.register_dynamic` in token mode | None |

Neither `project.app.register_dynamic`, which governs who may *create*
clients, nor `project.app.write` applies to the management endpoints.
One authorization path per endpoint is easier to reason about than two,
and there is no user identity to check against in the first place.
Operators keep managing dynamically registered clients through the
Management API and the Console, like any other application; they cannot
obtain a client's registration access token, by design.

Status codes: a missing, malformed or non matching token is `401`; a
client that no longer exists is `404`. The token's `client_id` is
checked against the path before any lookup, so a token bound to another
client is rejected without touching the database.

## The token itself

- **Stored like a client secret.** Only its passwap hash is persisted,
through a new
`project.application.config.oidc.registration_token.changed` event; the
plain token leaves the server exactly once, in the response that issues
it.
- **Bound to its client and organization** through authenticated
encryption with the instance key, the same mechanism as refresh tokens.
The opaque token handed to the client encrypts
`client_id:org_id:secret`, so the endpoint recovers the binding before
checking the secret against the stored hash.
- **Verified in O(1)** against the hash on the projection, folded into
the client lookup the handler already does, with a strongly consistent
fallback to the eventstore so a token that was just rotated is accepted
before it is projected.
- **Rotated on update** (RFC 7592 §4.4) and invalidated implicitly when
the client is deleted. A read does not rotate it. Every update rotates,
including one that changes no metadata, so a client always gets a usable
token back.

## Reusing the existing persistence

A small refactor extracts the shared OIDC application creation and
update logic (`pushOIDCApplication` gains a variadic `extraEvents`, and
`oidcApplicationChangeEvent` is lifted out of `UpdateOIDCApplication`),
so the dynamic commands reuse it without the permission check. The
registration token event is pushed atomically with the application, so a
registered client is never left unmanageable.

# Additional Changes

- Setup step **74** adds the `registration_token` column to the
`apps7_oidc_configs` projection, with a reducer for the new event
modelled on the client secret. Applications are not part of the
relational storage projection, so there is no second write path to keep
in sync.
- The registration response (`POST`) now also carries
`registration_access_token` and `registration_client_uri`.
- Docs: a "Manage a registration" section in the dynamic client
registration guide covering the three operations, the authorization
model, token rotation and the new limitations, plus the management
endpoints on the OIDC endpoints page.
- Unit tests for the command layer (issue, verify, rotate, update,
delete), the projection reducer, and the token binding and response
mapping. An integration test covers the full lifecycle (register, read,
update with rotation, delete, read again with `404`), a token bound to
another client, and the endpoints not being served when registration is
disabled. None of the integration calls carries a user access token,
which pins down that the management endpoints require no permission of
their own.

# Additional Context

- Part of the MCP authorization effort in #9810. Follow-up to #12313
(RFC 7591), which is now merged; this branch has been rebased on `main`
and carries the settings and authorization model agreed there.
- **Open question for the review**: the authorization model above
(registration access token only, no operator path through these
endpoints) is the one I proposed when #12313 was reviewed, but it was
never explicitly confirmed. If you would rather have `project.app.write`
also grant access to a client in the operator's own organization, that
is a contained change in `authorizeClientManagement`.
- Rotation is eventually consistent: right after an update the previous
token may keep working for a brief moment until the rotation is
projected, while the new token works immediately through the eventstore
fallback. This matches how ZITADEL validates access tokens, where
revocation is likewise eventually consistent. It is documented in the
guide and asserted as such in the integration test.
- A database migration is introduced for the new projection column. No
proto change and no new feature flag.
- Verified locally: full build, `go vet` including `-tags integration`,
`golangci-lint` with 0 issues, and the unit suites for every touched
package. As before, I cannot run the integration suite here, so CI
remains the check on it.
2026-08-03 08:37:59 +00:00
jmaretteandGitHub f34cc45eac feat(oidc): add RFC 7591 dynamic client registration (#12313)
# Which Problems Are Solved

ZITADEL cannot currently be used as an OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server by
clients that need to register themselves at runtime:

- There is no [OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration (RFC
7591)](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7591) endpoint, and no
`registration_endpoint` is advertised in the discovery document.
- This blocks [Model Context Protocol
(MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) clients (Claude Desktop,
claude.ai, Cursor, the MCP SDKs), whose OAuth 2.1 authorization profile
expects an Authorization Server that supports dynamic client
registration. They self-register before any user context exists and only
then start the authorization code + PKCE flow.

# How the Problems Are Solved

## Control plane: instance security settings

No feature flag and no runtime config. A
`DynamicClientRegistrationSettings` message is nested under the instance
`SecuritySettings` in `settings/v2`, next to `embedded_iframe` and
`enable_impersonation`:

| `enabled` | `allow_unauthenticated` | Behaviour |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `false` (default) | — | `POST /oauth/v2/register` returns `404`,
`registration_endpoint` absent from discovery |
| `true` | `false` (default) | Token-gated registration, client homed in
the token's organization |
| `true` | `true` | Open registration for MCP hosts, client homed in the
instance default organization |

Both values are carried on `authz.Instance` and loaded with the
instance, exactly like `EnableImpersonation`, so the discovery document
and the endpoint read them per request without an extra query.
`allow_unauthenticated` implies `enabled` in both implementations, so a
single setting closes the endpoint.

Adding the two columns bumps the projection table to
`projections.security_policies3`, following what the impersonation
setting did for `security_policies2`.

## Authorization: a dedicated permission, not `project.app.write`

- New org-scoped permission **`project.app.register_dynamic`**, granted
by default to `ORG_OWNER`, `IAM_OWNER` and `IAM_ORG_MANAGER` — in both
`InternalAuthZ` and `SystemAuthZ`, mirroring where `project.app.write`
already lives.
- New built-in role **`ORG_DYNAMIC_CLIENT_REGISTRAR`** carrying only
that permission, so a service user can self-register clients without
gaining write access to the organization's existing applications.
- Open mode (`allow_unauthenticated = true`) requires no token and no
permission: that is the MCP self-register path.
- A valid token whose user lacks the permission is answered with **`403
insufficient_scope`** (RFC 6750 §3.1) rather than `401 invalid_token`,
so a caller can tell "your token is bad" from "your token may not do
this". `verifyAccessToken` also reports invalid tokens as permission
denied, so the authorization failure is marked explicitly to keep the
two apart.

The check runs once, at the endpoint, right after the token is verified
and before any state is created, so it also gates the auto-provisioning
of the organization's DCR project. The permission itself lives in the
command layer next to the others
(`Commands.CheckPermissionRegisterDynamicClient`). As the OIDC endpoints
are not behind the authorization interceptor, the caller identity is
derived from the verified token, the way token exchange does for the
impersonating actor.

## Registration itself

- **Registered clients are ordinary OIDC applications.** The endpoint
reuses the existing application-creation events
(`NewApplicationAddedEvent` and `NewOIDCConfigAddedEvent`), so the whole
token, authorization and introspection flow keeps working unchanged.
They are stored in a dedicated, auto-provisioned project named `ZITADEL
DCR` per organization (name lookup), so they do not pollute the
`IAMProject` or other projects.
- Input is validated with the existing `GetOIDCV1Compliance` rules;
`private_key_jwt` and `jwks`/`jwks_uri` are rejected with
`invalid_client_metadata`.
- **Endpoint wiring without forking the library.** `NewServer` calls
`op.RegisterServer` instead of `op.RegisterLegacyServer`, so the new
route can be added through the same `op.WithSetRouter` hook as the
authorize callback. `op.RegisterLegacyServer` appends a middleware after
the caller options, which chi forbids once a route has been registered;
`op.NewIssuerInterceptor` reproduces the issuer middleware it would
otherwise add. The `/oauth/v2` routing prefix is unchanged.

# Additional Changes

- **`application_type` inference for custom-scheme redirects** (last
commit, isolated). `application_type` is an OpenID Connect member; RFC
7591 does not define it, so clients that only implement RFC 7591 omit
it. Native MCP hosts doing so register custom-scheme redirect URIs,
which ZITADEL reserves for native applications, and the OIDC default of
`web` rejected them with `invalid_redirect_uri`. Inference is limited to
custom schemes and to an absent `application_type`, so every request
accepted today keeps its current application type and auth method — an
`http` loopback redirect still yields a web application. Happy to drop
this commit if you would rather keep it out of this PR.
- **Docs**: a Dynamic Client Registration integration guide, a
`registration_endpoint` section on the OpenID Connect endpoints page,
and the new role in the administrators table (plus its description in
the Console translations).

# Additional Context

- Part of #9810. This is **Phase 1 (DCR)**; #12315 adds RFC 7592 and
#12316 adds CIMD, both stacked on this branch and rebased once this
lands.
- Implements the control-plane and authorization model requested in the
review of this PR, itself a refinement of the direction in
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/9810#issuecomment-4891176997.
- **Out of scope (deliberately)**: RFC 7592, CIMD, persisting free-form
metadata (`logo_uri`, `contacts`, and similar), and `private_key_jwt` /
`jwks_uri` (rejected cleanly). No new event types.
- Follow-ups explicitly left out, per the review: DCR client lifecycle
and richer audit, consent and custom scopes, JWT / `aud` (RFC 8707), and
RFC 8414 AS metadata (currently absent from both ZITADEL and
`zitadel/oidc`).
2026-07-30 14:43:47 +00:00
f4f43f5248 docs: fix broken GitHub code-reference blocks after fumadocs migration (#12213)
# Which Problems Are Solved

Pages in `apps/docs` that embed source from GitHub via the Docusaurus
convention

````
```js reference

https://github.com/zitadel/actions/blob/main/examples/org_metadata_claim.js
```
````

stopped working after the migration from Docusaurus to fumadocs. The old
`docusaurus-theme-github-codeblock` plugin used to fetch the file and
render it; fumadocs has no support for that meta, so the page rendered
the raw URL as plain code-block text. Visible at
`/docs/apis/actions/code-examples` and 16 other pages.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- Converted every ```` ```<lang> reference\n<URL>\n``` ```` block (46
total across 17 `.mdx` files) to the native fumadocs JSX form:
`<GithubCodeBlock url="<URL>" />`. The existing `<details>`/`<summary>`
collapsibles around blocks are kept — they're an authoring choice, not
part of the rendering bug.
- Updated `apps/docs/components/github-code-block.tsx` to render via
`DynamicCodeBlock` from `fumadocs-ui/components/dynamic-codeblock`
(proper shiki highlighting) instead of raw `CodeBlock` + `Pre` (which
produced unhighlighted output). Also fixed language detection so a URL
hash like `#L10-L20` no longer pollutes the language token.
- Registered `GithubCodeBlock` globally in
`apps/docs/mdx-components.tsx`, matching how every other shared
component (`APIPage`, `Callout`, `Tab/Tabs`, `Step/Steps`, `Admonition`,
`TerminologyUpdate`) is exposed. MDX files no longer need a local
`import`.

# Additional Changes

- Normalized the two MDX files that were already using the JSX form
(`examples/secure-api/python-django.mdx`,
`examples/secure-api/java-spring.mdx`): removed their now-redundant
local `import { GithubCodeBlock }` and rewrote 9 long-form
`<GithubCodeBlock url="..."></GithubCodeBlock>` tags to self-closing for
consistency.

# Additional Context

Verified locally with `pnpm --filter @zitadel/docs dev`:

- `/docs/apis/actions/code-examples` — 20 shiki-highlighted code blocks
rendered inside the `<details>` collapsibles (was 0).
- `/docs/apis/openidoauth/claims` — line-range hashes (`#L9-L11`)
honored.
- `/docs/examples/login/flutter` — mixed languages (xml/dart/html)
detected and highlighted.
- `/docs/guides/integrate/external-audit-log` — edge case of fenced
reference indented inside a numbered list also converted and rendered.

Greps:
- `^[ \t]*\`\`\`[a-zA-Z0-9]+ reference` in `apps/docs/content/**/*.mdx`
→ 0 matches.
- `<GithubCodeBlock url="` in `apps/docs/content/**/*.mdx` → 55 matches.
- `from '@/components/github-code-block'` in
`apps/docs/content/**/*.mdx` → 0 matches.

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2026-05-28 11:02:44 -07:00
a2bf528ca0 feat(domain): introduce error slugs (#12030)
# Which Problems Are Solved

As part of https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/11917 we want to
introduce error slugs so (API) clients can rely on stable,
machine-readable errors and act accordingly.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- Added a `NewSlug` helper function in the domain package.
- Added `ErrorDetails` to the `ZitadelError`
- Added an `zitadel.error.v2.ErrorDetail` proto message
- Updated the connectRPC error interceptor to map new slug based errors
to the new `ErrorDetail`
- Defined some common slugs and error functions like internal errors
- Defined (session) specific slugs used in the `DeleteSession` and
`CheckUser` functions and replaced old implementations
- Updated integration tests to check specific errors if the relation
database feature is enabled
- Updated doc and guideline to reflect the latest changes and decisions
- Updated DeleteSession endpoint API to list possible slugs

# Additional Changes

None

# Additional Context

- closes #11957

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2026-04-13 09:47:04 +02:00
SilvanandGitHub 4bc899d052 docs: Improve README for local development and standardize tab usage (#11865)
## Problem statement

- `<Tabs>` were not rendered in docs
- Missing steps in README for local dev

## How it was solved

- Enhance the README to better describe local development setup and
clean up formatting.
- Standardize the use of tabs across various components for consistency.

## Additional info

To not cause merge conflicts with
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/11729 changes in
`/self-hosting/manage/configure/configure.mdx` were skipped
2026-03-23 14:39:07 +00:00
8ad1d28086 docs: improve API introduction page DX (#11749)
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# Which Problems Are Solved

The `/apis/introduction` page did not give developers clear guidance on
which API version to use. v1 and v2 were presented as equal choices, the
v2 resource list was incomplete, the API path prefix block was
misleading, and several links used inconsistent relative paths.

- No clear recommendation to use v2 for new integrations
- v1 APIs not labelled as legacy
- "APIs v2" section only listed 3 of 15 available v2 services
- Path prefix block only listed 5 of 15 v2 gRPC service paths, with no
distinction between REST and gRPC/Connect access patterns
- `/ui/` path listed as a single entry — the Management Console
(`/ui/console/`) and hosted Login UI (`/ui/login/`) were not
distinguished
- Relative links (`../guides/...`, `./assets/assets`) inconsistent with
the rest of the page
- Auth disclaimer paragraph was confusing; "Custom" section heading was
unclear

# How the Problems Are Solved

- **v2-first framing**: Added a clear directive — "Use the v2 APIs for
all new integrations" — and renamed the old section to "Legacy v1 APIs"
- **Complete v2 resource list**: All 15 v2 services now listed with
one-line descriptions (User, Session, Org, Instance, Project,
Application, IDP, Group, Settings, Feature, Authorization, Action,
WebKey, OIDC, SAML)
- **Full path prefix list**: All 15 v2 gRPC service paths listed; split
into `# REST (HTTP/JSON transcoding): /v2/` and `# gRPC + Connect
protocol (binary or JSON via connectRPC):`
- **`/ui/` paths clarified**: Split into `/ui/console/` (Management
Console) and `/ui/login/` (Hosted Login UI) with inline comments
- **Fixed relative links**: `../guides/...` → `/guides/...`;
`./assets/assets` → `/apis/assets/assets`
- **Section copy improvements**: Auth disclaimer removed; "Custom"
renamed to "Session-based and custom login" with clear bullet list; v1
API card descriptions updated with v2 pointers; Assets card, System card
title fix
- **Client libraries section**: Replaced noisy "API definitions" section
with cleaner "Client libraries & schemas"

# Additional Context

All changes are in `apps/docs/content/apis/introduction.mdx`,
`apps/docs/content/apis/v2.mdx`, and
`apps/docs/content/apis/migration_v1_to_v2.mdx`.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]>
2026-03-04 18:11:07 +00:00
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369b468720 chore: consistent naming for object ids (#11604)
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# Which Problems Are Solved
As part of the consistent naming effort, this PR focuses on Resource
ID's.

# How the Problems Are Solved
Renamed generic Resource ID to matching Object + ID such as

- Organization ID
- User ID
- Application ID
- Identity Provider ID
- Instance ID
- Project ID

# Additional Changes
None

# Additional Context
- Closes #11306

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2026-02-19 06:21:01 +00:00
b23346f6ca chore: consistent naming for organization domain (#11356)
# Which Problems Are Solved

As part of the consistent naming effort, this PR focuses on
"Organization domain".

# How the Problems Are Solved

- All terms referring referring to Organization Domains where changed to
be Organization Domain

# Additional Changes

None

# Additional Context

- closes [#11283](https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/11283)

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2026-02-18 14:46:21 +00:00
Wim Van LaerandGitHub 699ed17918 chore: rename configuration to settings (#11568)
# Which Problems Are Solved

naming inconsistencies: Configuration <-> Settings

# How the Problems Are Solved


# Additional Changes


# Additional Context

- Closes #11282
2026-02-18 14:25:42 +01:00
93a4ed8857 chore: rename authorization to role assignment (#11588)
# Which Problems Are Solved

As part of the naming consistency initiative, the terms Authorization,
User grants, internal authorization and other similar terms that are
used in the context of assigning project roles to users are replaced by
Role Assignments in the UI, API docs, and documentation.

# How the Problems Are Solved

By replacing the following terms with Role Assignments in API docs,
Console UI, and guides.

- Authorization
- internal authorization
- external authorization
- User Grant
- Roles and Authorizations

By adding a note in the API docs to make it clear that Authorization
within the context of Authorization Service API refers to role
assignments, not to OAuth authorization as it is still used in the APIs.

By updating some screenshots in documentation / guides to show "Role
Assignments" instead of "Authorizations" in the UI.

# Additional Changes

N/A

# Additional Context

- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/11289

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2026-02-17 13:14:57 +01:00
b5d7518ad1 docs: remove old pages and make sure overview pages are used (#11592)
Summary
- refreshed multiple concept, guide, SDK example, policy, and
troubleshooting pages to match the latest structure
- synchronized `apps/docs/lib/sidebar-data.ts` and
`apps/docs/redirects.json` with the new layout so navigation and URL
rewrites stay consistent

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2026-02-13 19:50:54 -03:00
Marco A.andGitHub 382aec2d61 chore: Service Account Naming Consistency (#11557)
# Which Problems Are Solved

Inconsistent naming of service account, found in the following
variations:

  - Machine User
  - machine user
  - Service User
  - Machine Account
  - Technical Account
  - User: Type Machine

# How the Problems Are Solved

Attentive search and replace.

Localizations have been translated using Copilot

# Additional Changes

Some unused methods have been removed from the Go code.

# Additional Context

- Closes #11285
2026-02-13 12:31:43 +01:00
Wim Van LaerandGitHub 9b064d8b74 docs: fixed some typos, formatting, grammar (#11540)
# Which Problems Are Solved

- Typos
- Punctuation
- Markdown table formatting
- ...

(A bunch of issues my editor gave)

# How the Problems Are Solved


# Additional Changes


# Additional Context
2026-02-13 07:45:17 +01:00
cc7a6145f1 chore: rename manager/member to administrator (#11542)
# Which Problems Are Solved

As part of the naming consistency initiative, the terms `Manager`,
`Member` and other similar terms that are used in the context of an
administrator are replaced by `Administrator` in the UI and
documentation.

# How the Problems Are Solved

By replacing the following terms with Administrator / Administrator
Roles in docs, Console UI, and guides.

- Manager
- Add Manager
- Add a Manager
- Administrator (used as a person type)
- Membership
- Member grants

# Additional Changes
minor grammatical edits in the docs

# Additional Context
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/11291

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Co-authored-by: Marco A. <[email protected]>
2026-02-11 17:43:06 +01:00
5a2181bcec chore: rename IAM to instance (#11351)
# Which Problems Are Solved

In many cases IAM was used where instance was meant. 

# How the Problems Are Solved

- Rename wrong usage of IAM to instance all over the code base.
- Add an agents.md which explains the terms used in Zitadel's
architecture.

# Additional Context

- closes #11280

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Co-authored-by: Marco A. <[email protected]>
2026-02-10 20:25:39 +01:00
1f0d54a978 chore(docs): User (Human) naming consistency (#11512)
# Which Problems Are Solved

Naming inconsistencies - User (Human)

# How the Problems Are Solved

Most of the occurrences have not been changed. `User (Human)` was mostly
changed when talking about code objects and where I felt it was
necessary to distinguish them from machine users.

When both human and machine user occurrences were found, the machine
user has been changed to service account (see
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/11285)

# Additional Context

- Closes #11284

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Co-authored-by: Wim Van Laer <[email protected]>
2026-02-06 09:46:24 +00:00
Livio SpringandGitHub 21723df541 chore: naming inconsistency project grants (#11488)
# Which Problems Are Solved

As part of the consistent naming effort, this PR focuses on "Project
Grants".

# How the Problems Are Solved

All terms referring to a project being granted to another organization
for self-management were changed to "Project Grant" or "project grant".

# Additional Changes

None

# Additional Context

- closes #11287
2026-02-06 09:29:05 +00:00
b99271755b chore: renamed one time password to OTP (#11447)
# Which Problems Are Solved

naming consistency for TOTP/OTP

# How the Problems Are Solved


# Additional Changes


# Additional Context

- Closes #11299 
- Closes #11302 
- Closes #11304

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Co-authored-by: Florian Forster <[email protected]>
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2026-02-04 10:20:47 +01:00
Wim Van LaerandGitHub 61d4060df3 chore: naming inconsistency application (#11431) 2026-02-04 07:20:07 +00:00
04c58c5b3f chore(ci): improving CI reliability when caching (#11501)
This fixes a case where potentially some static files get not properly
treated as inputs in the hash for nx cache calculation.

Also it fixes a problem where the assets.mdx get sorted randomly each
generation.

Factors in some overlap from
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/11447

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2026-02-04 07:02:52 +00:00
09cf7cf0ae feat(oauth/oidc): move token exchange from beta to GA (#11475)
# Which Problems Are Solved

This PR marks the OAuth2 Token Exchange as general available (GA).

# How the Problems Are Solved

- API:
- deprecated the feature toggle (to prevent breaking changes) in v2beta
and v2 API
- removed all related event logic and updated the projection interation
  - removed the toggle usage for token exchange
  - removed related translations
- Management Console:
  - removed the feature toggle and its translations
- Docs:
  - removed all beta labels and feature toggle notes

# Additional Changes

- removed unused `Errors.WebKey.FeatureDisabled` translations

# Additional Context

- closes #11114

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Co-authored-by: Marco A. <[email protected]>
2026-02-02 09:47:56 +00:00
d8ea041c56 docs: introduce versioned docs and migrate to fuma (#11166)
## Todos for release

- [x] Configure Env in docs project on vercel
- [x] Configure Root Path in the docs project on vercel
- [ ] Remove old CSP https://github.com/zitadel/website/pull/1592

## What we did

This pull request migrates the project documentation from the old
`docs/` directory to the new `apps/docs/` directory, introduces a new
documentation system built with Next.js and Fumadocs, and updates all
relevant references, configuration files, and documentation to reflect
this change. It also adds new configuration and ignore files for the new
documentation app, updates CI and linting to exclude the new docs from
certain checks, and revises the contributing guidelines accordingly.

**Documentation System Migration and New Docs App**

* Migrated all documentation from `docs/` to `apps/docs/`, and updated
all references in `README.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`, and other files to
point to the new location.
[[1]](diffhunk://#diff-eca12c0a30e25b4b46522ebf89465a03ba72a03f540796c979137931d8f92055L585-L640)
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* Added a new Next.js/Fumadocs-based documentation app under
`apps/docs/`, including core app files, layouts, routing, search API,
and a comprehensive `README.md` with development and contribution
instructions.
[[1]](diffhunk://#diff-5a1b07344a2c1b4d3f37b23ff1388b62cd9f57dea3c1cd23d8a0412b7602b132R1-R74)
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[apps/docs/app/[[...slug]]/layout.tsxR1-R81](diffhunk://#diff-59e08acde4e805b7aeccef1dcf98f1d71dfc550777e6b9402085cee0e9fa4e0aR1-R81),
[apps/docs/app/[[...slug]]/page.tsxR1-R79](diffhunk://#diff-e5df3f80d0fa01e12d63d81f29c57a9d14e846c78fd3beabb2ef768e38fd9580R1-R79),
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**Configuration and Tooling Updates**

* Updated `.github/workflows/codeql.yml`, `.golangci.yaml`, and
`.github/dependabot.yml` to properly handle the new docs app: excluded
`apps/docs` from certain checks, added npm dependency updates for the
docs app, and excluded generated content.
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* Updated `.devcontainer/devcontainer.json` to use the latest Go 1.25.3
version for consistency.

**Licensing and Miscellaneous**

* Added `apps/docs/` to the list of licensed directories in
`LICENSING.md`.

These changes ensure the documentation is now maintained in a modern,
scalable system and all project tooling is updated to support the new
structure.

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Co-authored-by: Federico Coppede <[email protected]>
2026-01-29 08:38:36 -08:00