Advanced Server Access release notes archive

To view the latest release notes, see Advanced Server Access release notes.

Device Tools

The binaries for device tools are compatible with both Okta Privileged Access and Advanced Server Access.

Release: 1.89.1

Deployment date: April 23, 2025

Release summary

Client

  • Updated MacFreeRDP to upstream FreeRDP version 3.14.1.

  • When the command sft fleet enroll --token-file <tokenfile> was run multiple times on the same client for the same team, the first attempt succeeded, but subsequent attempts resulted in an error.

Release: 1.88.0

Deployment date: February 19, 2025

Release summary

Client

  • Users can now set a timeout for how long the system waits for confirmation of a failed connection before terminating the process. This timeout activates when an SSH connection is initiated.
Gateway

  • Removed the unsupported Advanced Server Access gateway for Windows OS.

Server agent

Gateway

  • The SFT support bundles now include /etc/sudoers and /etc/sudoers.d/* files.

Client

Server Agent

  • Wscapi.dll files now load from the system directory with a valid signature.

Release: 1.87.1

Deployment date: November 20, 2024

Release summary

Gateway

  • sft-gatewayd.sample.yaml file had an invalid quote ( " ) in the ListenAddress parameter.

Client

Server agent

Gateway

  • Advanced Server Access now supports Ubuntu 24.04.

Release: 1.84.0

Deployment date: September 18, 2024

Release summary

This release concludes changes to the internal build system.

Release: 1.83.5

Deployment date: September 10, 2024

Release summary

This release includes changes to the internal build system.

Release: 1.83.4

Deployment date: August 28, 2024

Release summary

The follow releases are now in production.

Client

The Advanced Server Access client CLI failed to display the timeout message and exit if there was a timeout while waiting for the user to choose a user access method.

Release: 1.83.1

Deployment date: July 24, 2024

Release summary

This release includes updates specific to Okta Privileged Access.

Release: 1.82.0

Deployment date: June 20, 2024

Notification

FreeBSD is no longer supported in Okta Privileged Access.

Features and enhancements

Gateway In some instances, the Okta Privileged Access gateway processes failed to function correctly and restarted when the target server timed out.

Release: 1.81.1

Deployment date: June 05, 2024

Features and enhancements

Client When initiating an SSH session through the Connect button in a web browser, if an error occurs during resolution or credential retrieval, users are prompted with an error message in the terminal.

Release: 1.80.1

Deployment date: March 27, 2024

Announcements

Beginning in July 2024, Advanced Server Access will remove support for the following end-of-life operating systems:

  • Windows 2012

  • Windows 2012 R2

  • CentOS 7 and 8

Features and enhancements

  • Implemented security updates and enhancements.

  • OpenSSH on Windows has been updated to version 9.6p1.

  • Added support for Debian 12 (Bookworm) for Advanced Server Access server agent, client, URL Handler, and non-AD Joined user gateway.

Release: 1.79.2

Deployment date: February 28, 2024

Enhancements

Gateway RDP-enabled Gateway's RDP engine now supports legacy cryptographic algorithms (MD4, MD5, RC4) required for RDP licensing.
Client, Server agent, Gateway Amazon Linux 2023 in now supported in Advanced Server Access client and server agent.

Fixes

Client

Shift and control keys didn't work correctly when using MacFreeRDP.

Release: 1.78.1

Deployment date: February 07, 2024

Enhancements

Client

Linux command-line tool (sft) now automatically encrypts tokens in state.json using D-Bus SecretService if detected.

Platform

Release: 2024.02.0

Deployment date: February 07, 2024

Platform

You can now enable IP-session binding for web and client sessions within a team. If an IP change is detected, the client or web session is revoked.

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Release: 1.77.0

Deployment date: January 17, 2024

Notice

Client

  • Starting May 01 2024, the Advanced Server Access client will no longer support the following operating systems:

    • macOS 10

    • macOS 11
Client, Server Agent, Gateway

  • Starting May 01 2024, the Advanced Server Access client, server agent, and gateway will no longer support FreeBSD operating system.

Enhancement

Client

  • Secrets stored in state.json on Windows are now encrypted by default using the Windows Data Protection Application Programming Interface (DPAPI) before being written to disk.

  • Secrets stored in state.json on macOS are now encrypted by default using the Keychain before being written to disk.

To view older release notes, see Advanced Server Access release notes archive 2023 and earlier.