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# Which Problems Are Solved Two issues with the native app link well-known files reported after the v4.17.0 rollout: **1. `assetlinks.json` intermittently returned an empty `[]`** on ZITADEL Cloud without any configuration change, across all of a customer's environments, breaking native passkey verification. The configuration itself was stored correctly. The responses were served with `Cache-Control: public, max-age=<n>`. The `public` directive opts the response into shared caches: the CDN in front of ZITADEL Cloud is configured to cache only responses that explicitly set `public` or `s-maxage`. That cache is a fleet of independent edge nodes, each holding its own copy. A single momentarily inconsistent origin response (e.g. an empty file) gets pinned on the edge that captured it for the whole `max-age` and served to every client routed there, while other edges serve the correct file — producing the observed flip-flop. This is confirmed by the JWKS endpoint, which serves `max-age=<n>, must-revalidate` **without** `public`, has never been cached by the CDN, and has never shown this inconsistency. **2. Passkey creation failed on Google Pixel devices** while working on iOS and other Android devices. Google's [Credential Manager prerequisites](https://developer.android.com/identity/credential-manager/prerequisites) require the Digital Asset Links statement for passkeys to declare **both** `delegate_permission/common.handle_all_urls` and `delegate_permission/common.get_login_creds`; ZITADEL only served `get_login_creds`, and Pixel devices enforce the documented contract strictly. # How the Problems Are Solved - Drop `public` and mirror the JWKS endpoint: `Cache-Control: max-age=<n>, must-revalidate`. Clients (the Apple and Google verifiers, browsers) still cache the files for `max-age`; the origin stays the single source of truth. The load profile matches JWKS, which already serves every request from origin at far higher volume, so this does not introduce a thundering-herd risk. A test guard asserts `public` is never emitted. - Emit both required relations in `/.well-known/assetlinks.json`, matching Google's documented example. The additional relation only permits the app to handle links for the domain; it has no effect unless the app itself declares matching intent filters, and the entry is configured by the app owner. # Additional Changes None. `AppLinksCacheControlMaxAge` and its `0 → no-store` behaviour are unchanged. # Additional Context - Introduced with the native app links feature (#12580 / #12497). - Immediate relief for the caching issue was applied by invalidating the CDN cache for both paths; this change prevents recurrence. - To be cherry-picked to `v4.x` from `main` once merged. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <[email protected]>