# authentik version/2025.10.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** authentik (https://goauthentik.io)
- **Version:** version/2025.10.2
- **Released:** Nov 19, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/authentik/updates/version-2025.10.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
authentik version/2025.10.2. Source highlight: See https://docs.goauthentik.io/docs/releases/2025.10#fixed-in-2025102

## New Features
- brands: add more matching tests (cherry-pick #16185 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/17924
- website/docs: added Note about email_verified scope mapping is set to false by default (cherry-pick #17942 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/17961
- website/docs: Add instructions for installing RC versions (cherry-pick #18099 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/18193
- website/docs: add 2025.8.5 and 2025.10.2 release notes (cherry-pick #18268 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/18270

## Improvements
- core: improve app launch URL formatting (cherry-pick #18076 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/18087
- web/flows: improvements for hCaptcha (cherry-pick #16882 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/18128

## Bug Fixes
- tasks/schedules: fix rel obj not being associated or updated (cherry-pick #17934 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/17936
- website/docs: remove broken info box and fix sentence (cherry-pick #17963 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/17965
- ci: fix migrate-from-stable for old versions (#18019)
- website/release notes: fix broken urls (cherry-pick #18041 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/18044
- ci: attempt to fix integration tests using dind (cherry-pick #18066 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/18069
- events: fix timezone not set for log events (cherry-pick #18067 to version-2025.10) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/18071