Okta Advanced Server Access Release Notes
Okta Advanced Server Access GA
Latest version: | 1.50.4 |
Deployment date: | 12-17-2020 |
Release Summary
Okta Advanced Server Access 1.50.4 is now available. This release includes bug fixes.
Fixes
Server tools
- Attempting to apply a Unix user ID (UID) change and a user deletion operation to the same user simultaneously sometimes caused the agent to crash.
Version: | 1.50.3 |
Deployment date: | 11-17-2020 |
Release Summary
Okta Advanced Server Access 1.50.3 is now available. This release includes bug fixes.
Fixes
Server tools
- Users who were members of non-existent local Unix groups sometimes caused the agent to crash.
- When the agent was freshly installed on Windows, the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) broker failed to start.
Version: | 1.50.1 |
Deployment date: | 11-16-2020 |
Release Summary
Okta Advanced Server Access 1.50.1 is now available. This release includes bug fixes, enhancements, and early access features.
Fixes
Client tools
- Enabling Client Trust Forwarding broke agent forwarding during non-interactive sessions.
Enhancements
Client tools
- Reducing the frequency that the host key cache is cleared improved parallel client performance.
Early Access Features
Client tools
- Shared primary user group identifiers (GIDs) are now supported.
Version: | 1.49.2 |
Deployment date: | 11-9-2020 |
Release Summary
Okta Advanced Server Access 1.49.2 is now available. This release includes early access features.
Early Access Features
Gateways
You can now install and use Advanced Server Access gateways. See Install an Advanced Server Access gateway.
Session capture
You can now enable session capture on a project to log all session data on a gateway. See Enable session capture on a project.

Version: | 1.45.4 |
Deployment date: | 7-10-2020 |
Fixes
Client tools
- When using client trust forwarding, a panic could occur, causing the client to crash. (OKTA-312023)

Version: | 1.45.3 |
Deployment date: | 6-16-2020 |
Fixes
Client tools
- When used on a client not enrolled in any teams, the output from the 'sft resolve -q' command wasn't quiet.
- When running numerous 'sft' commands in parallel, it was possible to corrupt the internal 'known_hosts' file, which led to subsequent connection errors. (OKTA-292731)
- The SecureCRT ssh client couldn't connect to servers when using the 'ProxyCommand' option. (OKTA-259170)
Server tools
- Remote desktop protocol sessions weren't closed when a user was deactivated or deleted. (OKTA-294736)

Version: | 1.44.6 |
Deployment date: | 4-20-2020 |
Fixes
Server tools
- The Linux agent had an issue where some user group memberships were not correctly added.

Version: | 1.44.4 |
Deployment date: | 4-15-2020 |
Features
- Enhanced user and group attributes are now available. For more information, see Advanced Server Access user and group attributes.

Version: | 1.44.2 |
Deployment date: | 3-24-2020 |
Enhancements
Client tools
- The macOS client now supports Royal TSX for RDP.
- The title bar of the Windows RDP client now displays the destination hostname.
- ssh_config now supports true and false for Boolean SSH configurations, in addition to yes and no.
Server tools
- The unix client can update customer user attributes, including shell, home directory, and account comment.
- The RSA certificate ID part of SSH logs is now parsed.
Fixes
Client tools
- The macOS client had a pathing issue in sft list-servers-rjson
- When multiple login attempts were made concurrently from the command line, the system didn't wait for the first to complete.
Server tools
- When sudo entitlements were renamed on unix, there was an issue.
- Improved error handling when loading TLS certificates.
- File permissions on sshd_config were sometimes altered when changing the file.

Version: | 1.41.0 |
Deployment date: | 11-13-201 9 |
Enhancements
Server tools
- Reduced event hook logging.
Fixes
Server tools
- When migrating a server to a different project, there were sometimes user sync issues.