Impact Score: 5/10
authentik: Release 2021.1.1-stable
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
authentik version/2021.1.1-stable. Source highlight: New versioning schema (year.month.release)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Add global email settings
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (5)
- sources/*: Add source to flow context, so source is logged during login
- outposts: Fix outpost not correctly updating on outpost modification
- outposts: Improve drift detection on kubernetes
- providers/saml: Fix metadata not being signed when signature is enabled
- policies: Improve error handling, ensure original stacktrace is preserved
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Headline Changes
- New versioning schema (year.month.release)
- Add global email settings
In previous versions, you had to configure email connection details per [Email Stage](../flow/stages/email/index.md). Now, you can (and should) configure global settings.
This is documented under the [docker-compose](../installation/docker-compose.md) and [Kubernetes](../installation/kubernetes.md) sections.
- New notification system
More info can be found under [Notifications](../events/notifications.md) and [Transports](../events/transports.md).
During the update, some default rules will be created. These rules notify you about policy exceptions, configuration errors and updates.
These notifications will be sent using a default transport, which uses the global email transport.
## Fixes
- sources/*: Add source to flow context, so source is logged during login
- outposts: Fix outpost not correctly updating on outpost modification
- outposts: Improve drift detection on kubernetes
- providers/saml: Fix metadata not being signed when signature is enabled
- policies: Improve error handling, ensure original stacktrace is preserved
See https://goauthentik.io/docs/releases/2021.1.1