Impact Score: 5/10
authentik: Release 2021.4.3
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
authentik version/2021.4.3. Source highlight: Configurable Policy engine mode
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
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โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Several new charts, new pages and quality-of-life improvements
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- *: add model_name to TypeCreate API to distinguish between models sharing a component
- api: fix CSRF error when using POST/PATCH/PUT in API Browser
- api: make 401 messages clearer
- api: mount outposts under outposts/instances to match flows
- core: add parameter to output property mapping test result formatted
- core: add superuser_full_list to applications list, shows all applications when superuser
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Headline Changes
- Configurable Policy engine mode
In the past, all objects, which could have policies attached to them, required *all* policies to pass to consider an action successful.
You can now configure if *all* policies need to pass, or if *any* policy needs to pass.
This can now be configured for the following objects:
- Applications (access restrictions)
- Sources
- Flows
- Flow-stage bindings
For backwards compatibility, this is set to *all*, but new objects will default to *any*.
- Expiring Events
Previously, events would stay in the database forever, and had to eventually be cleaned up manually. This version add expiry to events with a default
timeout of 1 Year. This also applies to existing events, and their expiry will be set during the migration.
- New UI
While the UI mostly looks the same, under the hood a lot has changed. The Web UI is now a Single-page application based on rollup and lit-html. This has several consequences and new features, for example:
- You can now see a user's OAuth Access/Refresh tokens and the consents they've given
- You can now see a per-object changelog based on the model_create/update/delete events being created.
- A new API Browser is available under `https://authentink.company/api/v2beta/`
- Several new charts, new pages and quality-of-life improvements
- Credentials of objects are no longer shown while editing them
- Deprecated Group membership has been removed.
## Minor changes
- You can now specify the amount of processes started in docker-compose using the `WORKERS` environment variable.
## Fixed in 2021.4.3
- *: add model_name to TypeCreate API to distinguish between models sharing a component
- api: fix CSRF error when using POST/PATCH/PUT in API Browser
- api: make 401 messages clearer
- api: mount outposts under outposts/instances to match flows
- core: add parameter to output property mapping test result formatted
- core: add superuser_full_list to applications list, shows all applications when superuser
- core: fix Tokens being created with incorrect intent by default
- outposts: don't run outpost_controller when no service connection is set
- providers/oauth2: Set CORS Headers for token endpoint, check Origin header against redirect URLs
- root: auto-migrate on startup, lock database using pg_advisory_lock
- sources/oauth: add login with plex support
- sources/oauth: fix redirect loop for source with non-configurable URLs
- sources/oauth: save null instead of empty string for sources without configurable URLs
- web/admin: add ability to add users to a group whilst creating a group
- web/admin: fix default for codemirror
- web/admin: fix group member table order
- web/admin: fix non-matching provider type being selected when creating an OAuth Source
- web/admin: fix provider type resetting when changing provider type
- web/admin: fix undefined being shown when viewing application
- web/admin: improve default selection for property-mappings
See https://goauthentik.io/docs/releases/2021.4#fixed-in-202143