# authentik version/2026.5.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** authentik (https://goauthentik.io)
- **Version:** version/2026.5.0
- **Released:** May 22, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/authentik/updates/version-2026.5.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
authentik version/2026.5.0. Source highlight: See https://docs.goauthentik.io/docs/releases/2026.5

## New Features
- website/docs: release notes 2026.5: add section about package reduction (cherry-pick #22308 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22324
- enterprise/providers/scim: add support for interactive OAuth2 (cherry-pick #22072 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22337
- website/docs: Add invitation wizard docs (cherry-pick #22069 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22316
- providers/saml: Add sls to saml overview (cherry-pick #22183 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22368
- website/docs: add integrations to 2026.5 release notes (cherry-pick #22416 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22444
- website/docs: add global to values.yaml snippets and update version (cherry-pick #22524 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22531

## Bug Fixes
- website/docs: fix email link in CVE-2026-40166 (cherry-pick #22331 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22334
- website/docs: fix typos and style issues (cherry-pick #22141 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22189
- website/docs: 2026.5 release notes: fix performance improvements wording (cherry-pick #22307 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22309
- web: Fix issue where default user path is not preferred. (cherry-pick #22139 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22364
- root: fix gitignore binary paths (cherry-pick #22445 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22485
- enterprise/stages/mtls: attempt fix freezegun (cherry-pick #22474 to version-2026.5) by @authentik-automation[bot] in https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/22501