Impact Score: 5/10
Keycloak 26.2.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Keycloak 26.2.1. Source highlight: Before upgrading refer to
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💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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<h2>Upgrading</h2>
<p>Before upgrading refer to <a href="file:/home/runner/work/keycloak-rel/keycloak-rel/target/web/docs/latest/upgrading/#migration-changes">the migration guide</a> for a complete list of changes.</p>
<h2>All resolved issues</h2>
<h3>Enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38956">#38956</a> Clarify upgrade instructions </li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/39057">#39057</a> Change the title for Grafana dashboards guide to plural <code>docs</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/39059">#39059</a> Document operator `Auto` update strategy when used with `podTemplate` </li>
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<h3>Bugs</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38458">#38458</a> [FGAP] [UI] Permission search doesn't execute correct consequent search request <code>admin/fine-grained-permissions</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38692">#38692</a> Test coverage for count menthods when filtering <code>admin/fine-grained-permissions</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38767">#38767</a> Make group required when selecting a specific group creating a premission <code>admin/ui</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38812">#38812</a> Test failures in CI in Chrome tests <code>ci</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38846">#38846</a> StatefulSet reconciliation infinitely looping <code>operator</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38913">#38913</a> [FGAP] AvailableRoleMappings do not consider all-clients permissions <code>admin/fine-grained-permissions</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38920">#38920</a> Downstream docs have duplicate ID on sampling <code>docs</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38925">#38925</a> Blocking issue with increasing JVM thread count after migrating from 26.0.8 to 26.1.4 <code>infinispan</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38929">#38929</a> Permission details sometimes don't show the name of the client <code>admin/fine-grained-permissions</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38930">#38930</a> [Docs] Broken link in ExternalLinksTest for importmap <code>docs</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38937">#38937</a> Liquibase checksum mismatch when upgrading from Keycloak ≤ 22.0.4 directly to 26.2.x <code>storage</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/38982">#38982</a> JpaRealmProvider getGroupByName return group duplicate due to change of comparison (like vs equal) <code>ldap</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/39015">#39015</a> Keycloak operator with update strategy to Auto: missing imagePullSecrets <code>operator</code></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/39096">#39096</a> Release note 26.2.0 has broken link <code>docs</code></li>
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