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Current release status

Current Upcoming
Production 2023.11.0 2023.11.1 Production release is scheduled to begin deployment on December 4
Preview 2023.11.0 2023.11.1 Preview release is scheduled to begin deployment on November 29

November 2023

2023.11.0: Monthly Preview release began deployment on November 8

* Features may not be available in all Okta Product SKUs.

Generally Available Features

Sign-In Widget, version 7.12.0

For details about this release, see the Sign-In Widget Release Notes.

For more information about the Widget, see the Okta Sign-In Widget Guide.

Improved Behavior Detection

Okta now stores additional information about successful requests. This ensures that more behaviors are recognized during subsequent sign-in events. See Behavior Detection and evaluation.

End-user setting for nicknaming factors

End users can now nickname their phone, WebAuthn, and Okta Verify factors. If they have enrolled multiple instances of a factor, giving nicknames helps them identify the factors quickly (for example, “My personal cellphone” or “My office MacBook TouchID”). See the End-User documentation. This is a self-service feature. To enable, see Manage Early Access and Beta features.

Read-only permission for admin role assignments

Super admins can now assign the Roles, resources, and admin assignments permission to their delegated admins. This permission gives admins a read-only view of the admin roles, resource sets, and admin assignments in the org. See About role permissions.

Operating system in the Okta Verify push challenge

The Okta Verify app now displays the correct operating system when the push challenge is initiated.

Custom email domain updates

The Custom email domain wizard now includes an optional Mail subdomain field. See Configure a custom domain.

Improved LDAP provisioning settings error message

During validation of LDAP provisioning settings, an incorrect syntax results in an error message. An LDAP search query isn't sent if there is an incorrect syntax.

Additional data to support debugging user authentication

When the user.authentication.auth_unconfigured_identifier event is triggered, the Okta username and email are added to the event. This helps orgs find who to communicate with about the changes.

Modified System Log event for Autonomous System Number (ASN) changes

When an admin is signed out of Okta because their ASN changed during their session, the System Log now displays a security.session.detect_client_roaming event instead of a user.session.context.change event.

OIN Manager notice

The integration estimated-verification-time notice has been updated in the OIN Manager.

Early Access Features

Granular permissions to manage directories

This feature enables you to assign permissions to view and manage directories as part of a customized admin role. Admins without universal application administrator permissions can handle directory-specific tasks.

Make email optional authenticator

This feature allows you to upgrade your org to Identity Engine without updating your email factor settings. If you already have an Identity Engine org, it gives you and your end users more control over the email authenticator. See Skip auto-enrolling email authenticator and Make email an optional authenticator.

New app settings permissions for custom admin roles

Super admins can now assign permissions for custom admin roles to manage all app settings, or only general app settings. This enables super admins to provide more granular permissions to the admins they create, resulting in better control over org security. See Application permissions.

Fixes

  • OKTA-566962

    Some text strings on the Global Session Policy page weren't translated.

  • OKTA-633313

    A user with a custom admin role couldn't create federated users due to misplaced permissions.

  • OKTA-633789

    When an Okta group name contained $, the push group feature either removed $ or caused the sAMAccountName to fail validation when populating the Active Directory group.

  • OKTA-637612

    In orgs with the Email as an Optional Authenticator feature enabled, some users could skip enrolling their email even when it was required by the policy.

  • OKTA-644131

    The Google Authenticator enrollment process didn't work properly during the password reset flow.

  • OKTA-645728

    Users who weren't eligible for self-service account recovery could view the Unlock Account page.

  • OKTA-649810

    The Add Resource dialog box sometimes displayed duplicate group names.

  • OKTA-653657

    Some text strings in the Sign-In Widget weren't translated.

  • OKTA-653756

    When many apps were added to routing rules through the API, system performance was degraded.

  • OKTA-657359

    When a partial set of AMRs was passed in an IdP-initiated flow, Okta redirected the user to the IdP instead of challenging for remaining factors.

  • OKTA-666396

    When the display language was set to Japanese, the Global Session Policy page displayed a translation error instead of the Everyone group name.

Okta Integration Network

App updates

  • The RFPIO app integration has been rebranded as Responsive. The app has a new logo and integration guide link.
  • The YardiOne Dashboard app integration has been rebranded as YardiOne. The app has a new logo and new integration guide links, as well as Just-In-Time (JIT) provisioning support for SAML integrations.

New Okta Verified app integrations

Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession

OAuth 2.0 Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession (DPoP) is a security feature that adds an extra layer of protection to OAuth 2.0 access tokens. It enables the client to demonstrate that it possesses a particular key or secret associated with the access token. OAuth 2.0 DPoP can help prevent certain attacks, such as token theft or token replay attacks, where an attacker intercepts a legitimate access token and uses it to gain unauthorized access to a protected resource. See Create OIDC app integrations.

Permission conditions for profile attributes

You can now apply conditions to the View users and their details and Edit users' profile attributes custom admin role permissions. Permission conditions help you limit the scope of a role by including or excluding admins' access to individual profile attributes. This gives you more granular control over your custom admin roles and helps meet your org’s unique security needs. See Permission conditions.

IME support for international characters

Admins can now use an Input Method Editor (IME) to type international characters into the Admin Console.

Content security policy enforcement on end-user pages

Content Security Policy is now enforced for end-user pages in orgs with custom domains. Content Security Policy headers help detect attacks such as cross-site scripting and data injection by ensuring browsers know what kind of actions the webpage can execute. Future iterations of the Content Security Policy enforcement for end-user pages will become stricter than this first release. This feature will be gradually made available to all orgs.

Okta ThreatInsight coverage on core Okta API endpoints

Okta ThreatInsight coverage is now available for core Okta API endpoints (OpenID Connect & OAuth 2.0, Okta Management, and MyAccount API). Based on heuristics and machine learning models, Okta ThreatInsight maintains an evolving list of IP addresses that consistently show malicious activity across Okta's customer base. Requests from these bad IP addresses can be blocked or elevated for further analysis when Okta ThreatInsight is enabled for an Okta org.

Previously, Okta ThreatInsight coverage only applied to Okta authentication endpoints (including enrollment and recovery endpoints). With this release, enhanced attack patterns are detected for authentication endpoints and limited attack patterns are also detected for non-authentication endpoints.

There are no changes to the existing Okta ThreatInsight configuration. You can still enable Okta ThreatInsight with log and block mode, log mode, and exempt network zones. A new Negative IP Reputation reason is available for high security.threat.detected events. See System Log events for Okta ThreatInsight.

Application Entitlement Policy

Administrators can now override attribute mapping when assigning apps to individuals or groups. Attributes can also be reverted to their default mappings. See Override application attribute mapping. This feature will be gradually made available to all orgs.

Assign admin roles to an app

Orgs can now assign admin roles to their custom API Service Integrations. Apps with assigned admin roles are constrained to the permissions and resources that are included in the role assignment. This helps ensure that apps only have access to the resources that are needed to perform their tasks, and improves orgs' overall security. See Work with the admin component.

Descriptive System Log events

When Okta identifies a security threat, the resulting security.threat.detected entry now provides a descriptive reason for the event. See System Log.

Improvements to the self-service registration experience

Earlier versions of the self-service registration (SSR) flow used a complicated array of templates to send activation emails to end users. The simplified SSR flow reduces this to only two email templates with customized welcome messages. If your application requires immediate verification of the end user’s email address, Okta uses the Registration - Activation template. This template includes a magic link for a smoother sign-in experience. If email verification isn't immediately required to sign in to the application, Okta uses the Registration - Email Verification template. This template includes a link for end users to complete email verification at any time after they successfully sign in to the application. See Customize email notifications and the Okta email (magic link/OTP) integration guide.

New App Drawer

The updated app settings panel on the Okta End-User Dashboard allows end users to see all app details in a single view without having to expand multiple sections. End users can quickly differentiate between SWA apps where they have set a username and password and SAML / OIDC apps that are admin-managed with no additional user settings. The updated app settings panel also provides accessibility improvements with better screen reader support and color contrast. See View the app settings page.

SSO apps dashboard widget

The new SSO apps widget displays the number of user sign-in events across each of your org’s apps over a selected period of time. You can use it to see which apps are used most frequently and to easily monitor the authentication activity across your org. See Monitor your apps.

Improvements to the self-service unlock process

Earlier versions of the self-service unlock (SSU) flow created unnecessary friction in the end user experience. The newly enhanced SSU feature introduces a seamless magic link experience in emails sent out to unlock accounts. Users no longer need to provide consent when using the same browser. In addition, after successfully unlocking their account, clicking the email magic link counts towards the application's assurance policy. After the assurance requirements are met, the user is signed directly in to the application. See Configure the email authenticator.

Toggle password visibility on the Okta Sign-In page

End users can now toggle visibility of their password on the Sign-In Widget, allowing them to check their password before they click Sign In. Note that passwords are visible for 30 seconds and then hidden automatically. See Authentication. See Enable delegated authentication.

Email failure events in the System Log

Admins can now view email delivery failure events in the System Log. This helps admins better monitor the email event activity in their org. See System Log.

Shareable Authentication Policies

Admins can now manage authentication policies using a centralized view. While authentication policies allowed admins the ability to make application access decisions using user, device, and other contextual information, managing these policies across hundreds of applications became challenging and error-prone. On the new Authentication Policies page, admins can create new policies, apply those policies to multiple applications, and assess what application access decisions are impacted by each policy. Two policy name changes are included in this release: app sign-on policy is renamed authentication policy, and Okta sign-on policy is renamed Global Session Policy. See Authentication policies.

Choose additional filters for Office 365 sign-on policy

Filters have been added to enable admins to distinguish between web browsers and Modern Authentication clients when creating an app sign-on policy. See Office 365 sign-on rules options.

Device Authorization grant type

Advancements in internet technology have seen an explosion of smart devices and the Internet of Things. Consumers need to sign in to applications that run on these devices, but the devices either lack support for a web browser or have limited ability for input, such as smart TVs, car consoles, and thermostats. As a result, users resort to insecure authentication solutions that are error-prone and time-consuming.

The Device Authorization grant feature is an OAuth 2.0 grant type that allows users to sign in to input-constrained devices and also to devices that lack web browsers. This feature enables users to use a secondary device, such as a laptop or mobile phone, to complete sign-in to applications that run on such devices. See Configure Device Authorization.

User Verification options for admins

In the Admin Console, admins can now configure whether end users are required to provide biometrics for device enrollment. See Enable Okta FastPass

Manage admin email notification subscriptions using API endpoints

Admins can manage email subscriptions using the Admin Email Subscription API endpoints.

  • Super admins can configure default subscription settings by admin type.

  • All admins can manage their own admin email notification subscriptions.

End-User Dashboard and Plugin redesign

The Okta End-User Dashboard and Okta Browser Plugin have been redesigned with a modern look and feel that includes new sidebar navigation, fuzzy search, and sections that replaces tabs.

Okta End-User Dashboard redesign

Okta End-User Dashboard redesign

Admins can enable this new design all at once or by groups. The new experience is 50% faster, more intuitive to use, and more responsive to smaller screens. Design changes also improve accessibility and app discovery for end users.

See Create sign-on policies with Okta Applications.

This feature will gradually be made available to all Preview orgs.

Workflows Templates available

Workflows Templates is now available, providing users with access to a searchable catalog of installable Flows that address many common use cases. See Get started with Workflows Templates.

LDAP password reset option

LDAP delegated authentication settings can now be configured to allow users to reset their passwords. This change reduces the time needed for password management and allows users to reset their passwords quickly and easily. See Enable delegated authentication.

LDAP admin password reset

For orgs integrated with LDAP, admins can now perform password resets for an active individual end user. See Reset a user password.

Incremental Imports for CSV

Incremental imports improve performance by importing only users who were created, updated, or deleted since your last import. See Manage your CSV directory integration. Note that this feature is being re-released having previously been released to Production in 2020.09.0.

Password changed notification email

To eliminate unnecessary email notifications, the Password changed notification email setting is no longer enabled by default on new preview orgs. See Password changed notification for end users.

Office 365 Silent Activation

Using Okta as the Identity Provider, Okta Office 365 Silent Activation allows for a seamless experience for your Microsoft Office 365 end users accessing Office 365 apps on domain joined shared Workstations or VDI environments. Once your end users have logged into a domain-joined Windows machine, no further activation steps are required. See Office 365 Silent Activation: New Implementations.

End-user Welcome emails localized

The ability to localize the Welcome email that Okta sends to new end users by referencing the users' default locale property is now Generally Available. See Configure general customization settings.

People page improvements

The People page has been improved so the people list can be filtered by user type. See Universal Directory custom user types known issues.

Mobile tab available for mobile-capable apps

The Mobile tab available in the Okta Admin Console for mobile-capable OIN apps allows you to publish mobile applications to an App Store and deploy them to your end users.

See Enable access to managed mobile apps

Provisioning page UI element change

Drop-down menus on the Provisioning page (General Settings) were standardized.

UI element change

Drop-down menus on the Provisioning page (General Settings) are standardized. See Provision applications.

Early Access features, auto-enroll

You can now opt to auto-enroll in all Early Access features, instead of having to enable them as they become available. For more information, see Manage Early Access features.

Connecting Apps to Okta using the LDAP Interface

The LDAP Interface allows you to authenticate legacy LDAP apps to Universal Directory in the cloud. With the LDAP Interface, authentication is done directly against Okta via LDAP, without the need for an on-premise LDAP server. In addition, the LDAP interface supports other LDAP functions like search. See Set up and manage the LDAP Interface.