Okta Privileged Access release notes (Archive)

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Platform

Release: 2024.03.1

Deployment date: March 13, 2024

Enhancements

Platform The sft secrets describe and sft secrets describe-folder commands now display additional metadata information.

Device Tools

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

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 Okta Privileged Access client and server agent.

Fixes

Client

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

Device Tools

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

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.

Fixes

Server agent

Sometimes, users couldn't log in to non-vaulted accounts because of a deadlock in SSH sessions.

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.

Device Tools

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

Release: 1.77.0

Deployment date: January 18, 2024

Notice

Client

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

    • macOS 10

    • macOS 11
Client, Server Agent, Gateway

  • Starting May 01 2024, the Okta Privileged 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.

Device Tools

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

Release: 1.76.3

Deployment date: December 20, 2023

Fixes

Client Sometimes, when attempting to authenticate a client using the Connect button, the authentication token would expire, requiring re-enrollment. This issue was observed with regularly used clients.

Device Tools

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

Release: 1.76.2

Deployment date: December 06, 2023

Enhancements

Client The ScaleFT.exe file displayed an incorrect product version.

Platform

Release: 2023.11.1

Deployment date: November 29, 2023

Announcements

Okta Privileged Access is now generally available.

Device Tools

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

Release: 1.76.0

Deployment date: November 29, 2023

Enhancements

Client

When the macOS client updates the state.json file, it encrypts tokens with a key stored in the user's Keychain.