Impact Score: 5/10
authentik: Release 2021.4.5
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
authentik version/2021.4.5. Source highlight: Configurable Policy engine mode
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Several new charts, new pages and quality-of-life improvements
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- core: fix text on error pages being hard to read
- outposts: only kill docker container if its running
- root: add middleware to properly report websocket connection to sentry
- root: don't use .error of structlog to not send to sentry
- stages/email: catch ValueError when global email settings are invalid
- stages/invitation: accept token from prompt_data
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 2021.4.5
- core: fix text on error pages being hard to read
- outposts: only kill docker container if its running
- root: add middleware to properly report websocket connection to sentry
- root: don't use .error of structlog to not send to sentry
- stages/email: catch ValueError when global email settings are invalid
- stages/invitation: accept token from prompt_data
- stages/invitation: fix token not being loaded correctly from query string
- web: fix text-colour for form help text
- web: ignore network errors for sentry
- web/admin: don't show docker certs as required
- web/flows: fix redirect loop when sentry is enabled on flow views
- web/flows: include ShadyDOM, always enable ShadyDOM for flow interface, improve compatibility with password
- web/flows/identification: fix phrasing account recovery
See https://goauthentik.io/docs/releases/2021.4#fixed-in-202145