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About this Release

What's new in this release

WSO2 Identity Server version 5.4.0  is the successor to version 5.3.0 . It contains the following new features and enhancements:

  • SCIM 2 Inbound Provisioning Support ( RFC 7643 and RFC 7644 )

  • Dynamic Client Registration Management Support ( RFC 7592 )

  • Service Provider wise Token Expiration: Now an application owner can decide the token (access token and refresh token) expiration time for each service provider.

  • Support for self-contained access tokens: This will allow users to generate access tokens as self-contained, self-signed JWT tokens with user claims.

  • Support for OIDC Request Object. ( http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#RequestObject )

  • Service Provider wise SAML Encryption Algorithm configuration.

This release includes functional improvements, and fixes to the product. The complete list of improvements and bug fixes available with the release can be found at following locations:

WUM updates

This section lists out the features that were updated or introduced newly to WSO2 IS 5.4.0 via WUM updates.

Updated or newly introduced featuresThe date of the update
Self sign up for tenant usersEffective from the 15th of January 2018
Support to configure SAML 2.0 Web SSO to send query parameters that can be dynamically updated with each SAML request.Effective from the 21st of February 2018

Support to configure signing and digest algorithms for passive sts ws-federation single sign-on

Effective from the 31st of May 2019

What has changed in this release

This release includes a feature/functionality that was deprecated (might be removed in a future release) or removed. 

Deprecated/Removed features and functionalities

  • OpenID 2.0 is removed from this release.
  • OAuth 1.0a was deprecated in IS 5.3.0 and is removed from IS 5.4.0.
  • Access Token Partitioning is deprecated in IS 5.3.0 and is removed from IS 5.4.0.

Fixed and known issues

Compatible versions

For information on the Carbon platform version and Carbon Kernel version of WSO2 IS 5.4.0, see the Release Matrix.

All WSO2 products that are based on a specific Carbon Kernel version are expected to be compatible with each other. If you come across any compatibility issue, contact team WSO2.