# authentik version/2026.8.4 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** authentik (https://goauthentik.io)
- **Version:** version/2026.8.4
- **Released:** Oct 14, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/authentik/updates/version-2026.8.4/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
authentik version/2026.8.4. Source highlight: See https://docs.goauthentik.io/docs/releases/2026.8#fixed-in-202684

## Bug Fixes
- common/saml: Fix metadata to serve only the leaf of a PEM chain (#26273)
- endpoints: fix error during device lookup with one identifier missing (#26902)
- events: fix group membership changes with OSS audit middleware (#26477)
- lifecycle: fix AWS cloudformation template defaults (#26807)
- packages/ak-common/config: fix list values from env variables parsing (#26081)
- providers/proxy: fix startup reconcile not being atomic (#26344)