# Which Problems Are Solved
Opaque tokens now use authenticated encryption.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- Upgrade zitadel/oidc to v3.47
- Copy crypto implementation for refresh and session tokens (internal to
zitadel)
- Added config that allows validating old tokens for gradual roll-out
# Additional Changes
- Set NX cache for `integration-test-build` to `false`, working on a
seperate fix.
# Additional Context
- closes#11315
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Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: muhlemmer <[email protected]>
# Which Problems Are Solved
In the "new" structured logging, request details were added in different
middlewares, such as request, instance and user IDs. This meant the the
upstream request logging middleware did not have access to metadata that
got added later, resulting in incomplete logs. Furthermore it was not
possible to correlate an API error response to log output.
# How the Problems Are Solved
A mutable request details object is added to the context early on. When
the api authz function run, the instance and user IDs are added to this
object as they become available. Every logline emitted after this
(time-wise) will then all contain these details under the `request` log
group.
<details>
<summary>example output in JSON</summary>
```json
{
"time": "2026-03-13T19:21:20.890428806Z",
"level": "INFO",
"source": {
"function": "github.com/zitadel/zitadel/internal/api/grpc/server/connect_middleware.LogHandler.func1.1",
"file": "/workspaces/zitadel/internal/api/grpc/server/connect_middleware/log_interceptor.go",
"line": 34
},
"msg": "request served",
"request": {
"id": "d6q67c04vtjmi77cbbpg",
"instance_host": "localhost:8080",
"instance_id": "362349751439458307",
"user_id": "362349751440048131"
},
"TraceID": "a9e0fee3522224f3583bbdcda737f4b4",
"SpanID": "a563056eee36920a",
"stream": "request",
"version": "2026-03-13T19:20:59Z",
"protocol": "connect",
"service": "zitadel.user.v2.UserService",
"http_method": "POST",
"path": "/zitadel.user.v2.UserService/ListUsers",
"code": "code_0",
"duration": 12254350
}
```
</details>
Request IDs are now also returned with a response header or metadata.
Depending on the protocol:
- HTTP calls always return the request ID as header, regardless of
status
- gRPC calls always return the request ID as header, even if there was
an error
- connect RPC calls returns the request ID as header on success, trailer
in case of error. This is because header must be set on the response
object, which is nil in case of error. When there is an error, metadata
can be added which are then sent as trailers.
# Additional Changes
- Use the existing call duration middleware for both request ID and
logging for a consistent request start timestamp in all layers.
- Upgrade sloggcp for some fixes (notably TraceID)
- Modify the NoCache middleware so it uses `SetHeaders` instead of
`SendHeaders`. The latter prevented any other handler from setting
headers, including the new request ID middleware.
# Additional Context
Follow up on demo of:
- https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/11159
- https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/11435
- backport to v4
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Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: muhlemmer <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Marco A. <[email protected]>
# Which Problems Are Solved
Panics may cause a service discruption by unexpectedly closing an
request's connection. Or in the case of gRPC completely killing the
service.
Allthough panics are still individual bugs that need to be solved, this
PR makes sure a panic is gracefully handled and an understandable error
is returned to the client.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- Recover in the middleware interceptors for the 3 API protocols (HTTP,
gRPC, connect).
- HTTP middleware uses formatted responses for:
- OIDC errors (JSON formatted response)
- UI (error page rendering)
- SCIM
- Upon recovery an alert level log is printed (ERROR+4 for stdlib log
handlers)
# Additional Context
- internal observation
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Co-authored-by: Livio Spring <[email protected]>
# Which Problems Are Solved
The current back-channel logout notification still used a single
projection handler for handling terminating sessions and notifying the
necessary clients. This can lead to back pressure and delayed
notifications.
# How the Problems Are Solved
The handler now only creates a job in the (river) worker queue to handle
the notification.
The worker will then search for all necessary clients to be informed and
create a job for each.
These jobs will then be picked up by the (same) worker(s) again, which
will create, sign and send the logout token to the client. If one
notification fails, this one job will be retired, but others can still
be processed in parallel and ore not affected.
Each successful job will still create an event on the session stating
the successful notification of the client.
The existing `OIDC.DefaultBackChannelLogoutLifetime` configuration has
been deprecated in favor of making it part of the new
`OIDC.BackChannelLogout` config.
# Additional Changes
None
# Additional Context
- feature check is still executed and will be removed seperately for
easier review: https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/11277
- closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/9279
- requires backport to v4.x
# Which Problems Are Solved
Zitadel did not provide easy correlation between errors, logs, traces
and metrics. The configuration for those instrumentations was also not
consistent, with some supporting different exporters then others.
Implementation and parsing of config was also spaghettified over
multiple packages, with awkward parsing and inconsistent naming of
options.
# How the Problems Are Solved
All telemetry is now merged under the name "instrumentation". Why?
1. We thought it was a good idea in the past to call the milestone
exporter `Telemtry` in the runtime config. Calling this `TelemetryV2`
looks weird.
2. Not everything is a meter and not everything is sent (tele...).
3. It's also
[defined](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/instrumentation/) as
such by the OTEL documentation.
## New features
- Adds structured, context based logging with trace-ID awareness
- Static log fields are added to the context, such as service and
request path
- Static log fields are injected in each logline emitted by the
application
- Structured logs can also be send to an otel exporter
- Structured logs can be printed to StdErr in text and JSON format
- Error sinks make sure every error is logged at the correct level:
- Warnings for client side errors (HTTP 400 range, Invalid request etc)
- Error for server side errors (Internal server errors)
- Metrics can now also be send to a OTEL collector. (previously they
could only be scraped from `/debug/metrics` with prometheus)
## Exporters
This change adds all the exporters supported by OTEL upstream and some
google specific exporters for our cloud deployment.
- StdOut / StdErr: all instrumentations
- OTEL gRPC / HTTP: all instrumentations
- Google: all instrumentations except logging
- Prometheus (pull-based): only metrics
The exception is profiling, which only supports the google exporting due
to lack of support by OTEL upstream.
## Configuration and structure
- All instrumentation is moved into the new `backend/v3/instrumentation`
package. It reuses configuration types, so both code and runtime
configuration are easier to understand.
- The `internal/telemetry` packages are removed.
- Instrumentation is started with a single function and a proper
shutdown function is now provided.
- Legacy configuration is still parsed from the runtime config, as long
as the new configuration is disabled. This allows backporting this
feature to v4 without breaking existing configurations.
# Additional Changes
- Devcontainer: set `$PATH` variable so installed go binaries can be run
individually, without NX.
- NX: install GCI tool to fix imports
# Additional Context
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/8408
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/6664
- Backport to v4
# Which Problems Are Solved
The event execution system currently uses a projection handler that
subscribes to and processes all events for all instances. This creates a
high static cost because the system over-fetches event data, handling
many events that are not needed by most instances. This inefficiency is
also reflected in high "rows returned" metrics in the database.
# How the Problems Are Solved
Eliminate the use of a project handler. Instead, events for which
"execution targets" are defined, are directly pushed to the queue by the
eventstore. A Router is populated in the Instance object in the authz
middleware.
- By joining the execution targets to the instance, no additional
queries are needed anymore.
- As part of the instance object, execution targets are now cached as
well.
- Events are queued within the same transaction, giving transactional
guarantees on delivery.
- Uses the "insert many fast` variant of River. Multiple jobs are queued
in a single round-trip to the database.
- Fix compatibility with PostgreSQL 15
# Additional Changes
- The signing key was stored as plain-text in the river job payload in
the DB. This violated our [Secrets
Storage](https://zitadel.com/docs/concepts/architecture/secrets#secrets-storage)
principle. This change removed the field and only uses the encrypted
version of the signing key.
- Fixed the target ordering from descending to ascending.
- Some minor linter warnings on the use of `io.WriteString()`.
# Additional Context
- Introduced in https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/9249
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/10553
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/9832
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/10372
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/10492
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Co-authored-by: Stefan Benz <[email protected]>
# Which Problems Are Solved
Stabilize the usage of webkeys.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- Remove all legacy signing key code from the OIDC API
- Remove the webkey feature flag from proto
- Remove the webkey feature flag from console
- Cleanup documentation
# Additional Changes
- Resolved some canonical header linter errors in OIDC
- Use the constant for `projections.lock` in the saml package.
# Additional Context
- Closes#10029
- After #10105
- After #10061
# Which Problems Are Solved
Currently if a user signs in using an IdP, once they sign out of
Zitadel, the corresponding IdP session is not terminated. This can be
the desired behavior. In some cases, e.g. when using a shared computer
it results in a potential security risk, since a follower user might be
able to sign in as the previous using the still open IdP session.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- Admins can enabled a federated logout option on SAML IdPs through the
Admin and Management APIs.
- During the termination of a login V1 session using OIDC end_session
endpoint, Zitadel will check if an IdP was used to authenticate that
session.
- In case there was a SAML IdP used with Federated Logout enabled, it
will intercept the logout process, store the information into the shared
cache and redirect to the federated logout endpoint in the V1 login.
- The V1 login federated logout endpoint checks every request on an
existing cache entry. On success it will create a SAML logout request
for the used IdP and either redirect or POST to the configured SLO
endpoint. The cache entry is updated with a `redirected` state.
- A SLO endpoint is added to the `/idp` handlers, which will handle the
SAML logout responses. At the moment it will check again for an existing
federated logout entry (with state `redirected`) in the cache. On
success, the user is redirected to the initially provided
`post_logout_redirect_uri` from the end_session request.
# Additional Changes
None
# Additional Context
- This PR merges the https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/9841 and
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/9854 to main, additionally
updating the docs on Entra ID SAML.
- closes#9228
- backport to 3.x
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Co-authored-by: Silvan <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Zach Hirschtritt <[email protected]>
# Which Problems Are Solved
When using implicit flow through the session API and a login UI on a
custom domain (proxy), the tokens were signed by the API domain of the
instance, rather than the public (proxy) domain.
The SAML response had the same issue. Additionally, the saml library had
an issue and lost the issuer context. This prevented also a successful
login through the hosted login UI.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- The issuer of the SAML and Auth request is persisted to provide the
information when signing the responses and tokens.
- The SAML library is updated to the latest version.
# Additional Changes
None
# Additional Context
None
# Which Problems Are Solved
It was possible to set a diffent algorithm for the legacy signer. This
is not supported howerver and breaks the token endpoint.
# How the Problems Are Solved
Remove the OIDC.SigningKeyAlgorithm config option and hard-code RS256
for the legacy signer.
# Additional Changes
- none
# Additional Context
Only RS256 is supported by the legacy signer. It was mentioned in the
comment of the config not to use it and use the webkeys resource
instead.
- closes#9121
# Which Problems Are Solved
Currently ZITADEL supports RP-initiated logout for clients. Back-channel
logout ensures that user sessions are terminated across all connected
applications, even if the user closes their browser or loses
connectivity providing a more secure alternative for certain use cases.
# How the Problems Are Solved
If the feature is activated and the client used for the authentication
has a back_channel_logout_uri configured, a
`session_logout.back_channel` will be registered. Once a user terminates
their session, a (notification) handler will send a SET (form POST) to
the registered uri containing a logout_token (with the user's ID and
session ID).
- A new feature "back_channel_logout" is added on system and instance
level
- A `back_channel_logout_uri` can be managed on OIDC applications
- Added a `session_logout` aggregate to register and inform about sent
`back_channel` notifications
- Added a `SecurityEventToken` channel and `Form`message type in the
notification handlers
- Added `TriggeredAtOrigin` fields to `HumanSignedOut` and
`TerminateSession` events for notification handling
- Exported various functions and types in the `oidc` package to be able
to reuse for token signing in the back_channel notifier.
- To prevent that current existing session termination events will be
handled, a setup step is added to set the `current_states` for the
`projections.notifications_back_channel_logout` to the current position
- [x] requires https://github.com/zitadel/oidc/pull/671
# Additional Changes
- Updated all OTEL dependencies to v1.29.0, since OIDC already updated
some of them to that version.
- Single Session Termination feature is correctly checked (fixed feature
mapping)
# Additional Context
- closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/8467
- TODO:
- Documentation
- UI to be done: https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/8469
---------
Co-authored-by: Hidde Wieringa <[email protected]>
# Which Problems Are Solved
Use web keys, managed by the `resources/v3alpha/web_keys` API, for OIDC
token signing and verification,
as well as serving the public web keys on the jwks / keys endpoint.
Response header on the keys endpoint now allows caching of the response.
This is now "safe" to do since keys can be created ahead of time and
caches have sufficient time to pickup the change before keys get
enabled.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- The web key format is used in the `getSignerOnce` function in the
`api/oidc` package.
- The public key cache is changed to get and store web keys.
- The jwks / keys endpoint returns the combined set of valid "legacy"
public keys and all available web keys.
- Cache-Control max-age default to 5 minutes and is configured in
`defaults.yaml`.
When the web keys feature is enabled, fallback mechanisms are in place
to obtain and convert "legacy" `query.PublicKey` as web keys when
needed. This allows transitioning to the feature without invalidating
existing tokens. A small performance overhead may be noticed on the keys
endpoint, because 2 queries need to be run sequentially. This will
disappear once the feature is stable and the legacy code gets cleaned
up.
# Additional Changes
- Extend legacy key lifetimes so that tests can be run on an existing
database with more than 6 hours apart.
- Discovery endpoint returns all supported algorithms when the Web Key
feature is enabled.
# Additional Context
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/8031
- Part of https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/7809
- After https://github.com/zitadel/oidc/pull/637
- After https://github.com/zitadel/oidc/pull/638
# Which Problems Are Solved
ZITADEL currently selects the instance context based on a HTTP header
(see https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/8279#issue-2399959845 and
checks it against the list of instance domains. Let's call it instance
or API domain.
For any context based URL (e.g. OAuth, OIDC, SAML endpoints, links in
emails, ...) the requested domain (instance domain) will be used. Let's
call it the public domain.
In cases of proxied setups, all exposed domains (public domains) require
the domain to be managed as instance domain.
This can either be done using the "ExternalDomain" in the runtime config
or via system API, which requires a validation through CustomerPortal on
zitadel.cloud.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- Two new headers / header list are added:
- `InstanceHostHeaders`: an ordered list (first sent wins), which will
be used to match the instance.
(For backward compatibility: the `HTTP1HostHeader`, `HTTP2HostHeader`
and `forwarded`, `x-forwarded-for`, `x-forwarded-host` are checked
afterwards as well)
- `PublicHostHeaders`: an ordered list (first sent wins), which will be
used as public host / domain. This will be checked against a list of
trusted domains on the instance.
- The middleware intercepts all requests to the API and passes a
`DomainCtx` object with the hosts and protocol into the context
(previously only a computed `origin` was passed)
- HTTP / GRPC server do not longer try to match the headers to instances
themself, but use the passed `http.DomainContext` in their interceptors.
- The `RequestedHost` and `RequestedDomain` from authz.Instance are
removed in favor of the `http.DomainContext`
- When authenticating to or signing out from Console UI, the current
`http.DomainContext(ctx).Origin` (already checked by instance
interceptor for validity) is used to compute and dynamically add a
`redirect_uri` and `post_logout_redirect_uri`.
- Gateway passes all configured host headers (previously only did
`x-zitadel-*`)
- Admin API allows to manage trusted domain
# Additional Changes
None
# Additional Context
- part of #8279
- open topics:
- "single-instance" mode
- Console UI
* implement code exchange
* port tokenexchange to v2 tokens
* implement refresh token
* implement client credentials
* implement jwt profile
* implement device token
* cleanup unused code
* fix current unit tests
* add user agent unit test
* unit test domain package
* need refresh token as argument
* test commands create oidc session
* test commands device auth
* fix device auth build error
* implicit for oidc session API
* implement authorize callback handler for legacy implicit mode
* upgrade oidc module to working draft
* add missing auth methods and time
* handle all errors in defer
* do not fail auth request on error
the oauth2 Go client automagically retries on any error. If we fail the auth request on the first error, the next attempt will always fail with the Errors.AuthRequest.NoCode, because the auth request state is already set to failed.
The original error is then already lost and the oauth2 library does not return the original error.
Therefore we should not fail the auth request.
Might be worth discussing and perhaps send a bug report to Oauth2?
* fix code flow tests by explicitly setting code exchanged
* fix unit tests in command package
* return allowed scope from client credential client
* add device auth done reducer
* carry nonce thru session into ID token
* fix token exchange integration tests
* allow project role scope prefix in client credentials client
* gci formatting
* do not return refresh token in client credentials and jwt profile
* check org scope
* solve linting issue on authorize callback error
* end session based on v2 session ID
* use preferred language and user agent ID for v2 access tokens
* pin oidc v3.23.2
* add integration test for jwt profile and client credentials with org scopes
* refresh token v1 to v2
* add user token v2 audit event
* add activity trigger
* cleanup and set panics for unused methods
* use the encrypted code for v1 auth request get by code
* add missing event translation
* fix pipeline errors (hopefully)
* fix another test
* revert pointer usage of preferred language
* solve browser info panic in device auth
* remove duplicate entries in AMRToAuthMethodTypes to prevent future `mfa` claim
* revoke v1 refresh token to prevent reuse
* fix terminate oidc session
* always return a new refresh toke in refresh token grant
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* feat(api): feature API proto definitions
* update proto based on discussion with @livio-a
* cleanup old feature flag stuff
* authz instance queries
* align defaults
* projection definitions
* define commands and event reducers
* implement system and instance setter APIs
* api getter implementation
* unit test repository package
* command unit tests
* unit test Get queries
* grpc converter unit tests
* migrate the V1 features
* migrate oidc to dynamic features
* projection unit test
* fix instance by host
* fix instance by id data type in sql
* fix linting errors
* add system projection test
* fix behavior inversion
* resolve proto file comments
* rename SystemDefaultLoginInstanceEventType to SystemLoginDefaultOrgEventType so it's consistent with the instance level event
* use write models and conditional set events
* system features integration tests
* instance features integration tests
* error on empty request
* documentation entry
* typo in feature.proto
* fix start unit tests
* solve linting error on key case switch
* remove system defaults after discussion with @eliobischof
* fix system feature projection
* resolve comments in defaults.yaml
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* fix(oidc): ignore public key expiry for ID Token hints
This splits the key sets used for access token and ID token hints.
ID Token hints should be able to be verified by with public keys that are already expired.
However, we do not want to change this behavior for Access Tokens,
where an error for an expired public key is still returned.
The public key cache is modified to purge public keys based on last use,
instead of expiry.
The cache is shared between both verifiers.
* resolve review comments
* pin oidc 3.11
* feat: return 404 or 409 if org reg disallowed
* fix: system limit permissions
* feat: add iam limits api
* feat: disallow public org registrations on default instance
* add integration test
* test: integration
* fix test
* docs: describe public org registrations
* avoid updating docs deps
* fix system limits integration test
* silence integration tests
* fix linting
* ignore strange linter complaints
* review
* improve reset properties naming
* redefine the api
* use restrictions aggregate
* test query
* simplify and test projection
* test commands
* fix unit tests
* move integration test
* support restrictions on default instance
* also test GetRestrictions
* self review
* lint
* abstract away resource owner
* fix tests
* configure supported languages
* fix allowed languages
* fix tests
* default lang must not be restricted
* preferred language must be allowed
* change preferred languages
* check languages everywhere
* lint
* test command side
* lint
* add integration test
* add integration test
* restrict supported ui locales
* lint
* lint
* cleanup
* lint
* allow undefined preferred language
* fix integration tests
* update main
* fix env var
* ignore linter
* ignore linter
* improve integration test config
* reduce cognitive complexity
* compile
* check for duplicates
* remove useless restriction checks
* review
* revert restriction renaming
* fix language restrictions
* lint
* generate
* allow custom texts for supported langs for now
* fix tests
* cleanup
* cleanup
* cleanup
* lint
* unsupported preferred lang is allowed
* fix integration test
* finish reverting to old property name
* finish reverting to old property name
* load languages
* refactor(i18n): centralize translators and fs
* lint
* amplify no validations on preferred languages
* fix integration test
* lint
* fix resetting allowed languages
* test unchanged restrictions
* fix: add https status to activity log
* create prerelease
* create RC
* pass info from gateway to grpc server
* fix: update releaserc to create RC version
* cleanup
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* get key by id and cache them
* userinfo from events for v2 tokens
* improve keyset caching
* concurrent token and client checks
* client and project in single query
* logging and otel
* drop owner_removed column on apps and authN tables
* userinfo and project roles in go routines
* get oidc user info from projections and add actions
* add avatar URL
* some cleanup
* pull oidc work branch
* remove storage from server
* add config flag for experimental introspection
* legacy introspection flag
* drop owner_removed column on user projections
* drop owner_removed column on useer_metadata
* query userinfo unit test
* query introspection client test
* add user_grants to the userinfo query
* handle PAT scopes
* bring triggers back
* test instance keys query
* add userinfo unit tests
* unit test keys
* go mod tidy
* solve some bugs
* fix missing preferred login name
* do not run triggers in go routines, they seem to deadlock
* initialize the trigger handlers late with a sync.OnceValue
* Revert "do not run triggers in go routines, they seem to deadlock"
This reverts commit 2a03da2127b7dc74552ec25d4772282a82cc1cba.
* add missing translations
* chore: update go version for linting
* pin oidc version
* parse a global time location for query test
* fix linter complains
* upgrade go lint
* fix more linting issues
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Co-authored-by: Stefan Benz <[email protected]>
* feat(oidc): use the new oidc server interface
* rename from provider to server
* pin logging and oidc packages
* use oidc introspection fix branch
* add overloaded methods with tracing
* cleanup unused code
* include latest oidc fixes
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Co-authored-by: Livio Spring <[email protected]>
This pr upgrades oidc to v3 . Function signature changes have been migrated as well. Specifically there are more client calls that take a context now. Where feasable a context is added to those calls. Where a context is not (easily) available context.TODO() is used as a reminder for when it does.
Related to #6619
This PR adds support for the OIDC end_session_endpoint for V2 tokens. Sending an id_token_hint as parameter will directly terminate the underlying (SSO) session and all its tokens. Without this param, the user will be redirected to the Login UI, where he will able to choose if to logout.
This PR starts the OIDC implementation for the API V2 including the Implicit and Code Flow.
Co-authored-by: Livio Spring <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Tim Möhlmann <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Benz <[email protected]>
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