We're proud to announce Topicus KeyHub 19.2, in which we added a new dashboard for auditing accounts. We also added a new workflow for reviewing audits. Dynamic account provisioning has seen many improvements regarding performance, metrics and logging information. As usual, a large number of smaller changes and bug fixes are included.
For users of our virtual appliance the following steps will be automated, however if you run Topicus KeyHub as a self-hosted docker deployment, the update to 19.2 requires some additional actions.
An additional secret must be added as property in the env-file, as it is required for the solution to TKH-1888. This secret is best generated using a strong secret generator, such as the password generator in the Topicus KeyHub vault. The exact value does not matter, but it must be URL safe (the passwords generated by the vault are URL safe). The secret is:
ENCRYPTION_SECRET={secret here}TKH-1050 TKH-2000 A completely new account dashboard was added for auditors. This dashboard displays all accounts with status information. Detailed information for accounts can be acquired by clicking on an account.
TKH-1351 TKH-1752 TKH-1952 TKH-1999 It is now possible to require that audits on a group be reviewed by members of a different group. This allows the audits of groups to be performed decentralized by the group's managers, while maintaining centralized control. Additionally, an auditor can now request a group to be audited immediately, rather than waiting for the next periodic audit.
Significant improvements were made to the account provisioning subsystems of Topicus KeyHub. These improvements greatly increase the reliability, performance and aid in troubleshooting potential problems.
TKH-1333 Detailed logs are now kept for every full synchronization of a linked system. These logs can be viewed directly from Topicus KeyHub. It is also possible to manually trigger a full synchronization for a system.TKH-1499 The OpenMetrics endpoint now contains detailed metrics of all interactions with linked systems, reporting the number of calls, the duration of those calls and counts on errors.TKH-1935 A sophisticated caching layer was added to all provisioning implementations, greatly reducing the number of calls needed for synchronization.TKH-1984 TKH-1985 Updates on provisioned accounts are now only performed when needed, containing only the changed values, rather than overwriting all values on every synchronization.TKH-1989 A bug was fixed in Azure provisioning when using username prefixes.TKH-1988 We've put a lot of effort in expanding our OpenAPI definition. All available endpoints are documented now with comprehensive examples of payloads and descriptions of the available query parameters. The OpenAPI definition is now also validated during our build process to prevent regressions in the future.
The following smaller improvements and bug fixes were made:
TKH-1342 The best practice guide now describes importing the OVA in vSphere.TKH-1479 The groups auditor dashboard now allows exporting the displayed groups to CSV.TKH-1577 A cluster can now be configured to automatically disable nodes that are not part of the quorum.TKH-1605 The Selenium test stack has been upgraded to Selenium 4.TKH-1767 OIDC directories can now send a login_hint parameter on login to help pre-select the authenticating user.TKH-1794 An error was fixed in the calculation of the padding of keys used for social recovery which would cause the recovery to fail for 1 out of 256 keys.TKH-1800 Viewing log files in the appliance manager now only displays the last 5mb. Compressed files can also be viewed this way.TKH-1846 A section about the audit log was added to the manual.TKH-1860 It is now possible to display a maintenance message to all users on all pages.TKH-1888 Encrypted fields (other than vault records) in the database are now encrypted using a key bound to a single installation.TKH-1895 OpenSAML and Pac4j were upgraded to the next major versions: 4.1 and 5.2 respectively.TKH-1922 The docker containers used for tests were upgraded to the latest, Selenium 4 based, versions.TKH-1930 Support for OAuth1 has been removed.TKH-1943 SaltStack no longer logs the content of changes to most managed files to prevent leaking sensitive information to the logs.TKH-1947 It is now possible to get a warning about expired vault records 2 or 3 months in advance, in addition to the existing options of 2 weeks, 1 month or 6 months.TKH-1953 A potential deadlock was fixed that could cause the appliance manager to get stuck during Salt calls.TKH-1960 Disabled accounts are now correctly added to the counts on the groups auditor dashboard.TKH-1961 The running dots animation in the appliance manager has been replaced by a more efficient CSS only implementation.TKH-1962 TKH-2003 The Java runtime has been upgraded to Java 17.TKH-1968 The execution service in the appliance manager can now handle multiple tasks in serial, queuing subsequent scheduled tasks.TKH-1969 The query to collect groups overdue for an audit was fixed to account for some corner cases.TKH-1971 The message displayed when adding managers via the breaking glass protocol has been improved.TKH-1973 Many small fixes were made in the manual.TKH-1976 E-mails to group managers are no longer sent to KeyHub administrators when a single manager of a group tries to send an e-mail to themselves.TKH-1979 Additional audit log entries were added for some authentication stages.TKH-1983 The URLs for vault records were changed in a previous release. The browser extension now uses the new scheme to open records.TKH-1990 An audit log entry was added when a user changes his/her SSH public key.TKH-1991 Password synchronization is automatically enabled when Topicus KeyHub detects that the directory password is equal to the password used for KeyHub.TKH-1993 The messages displayed to users for 2FA have been adjusted to account for hardware TOTP tokens.TKH-1995 Audit log entries for authentication stages now contain the IP address of the user.TKH-2005 A potential error was fixed when requesting updates to group memberships when authorized by a different group.