[keycloak-user] Merry Christmas from the Keycloak team

[Travis De Silva]

Congratulations and thank you to the entire KeyCloak team. This is a great
project and wishing it gets better and better over the course of next year.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Stian Thorgersen <stian at redhat.com> wrote:

> 2014 was the year of Keycloak! At least that was the case for us on the
> Keycloak team. In January we released the very first alpha of the project.
> The first stable release wasn’t out until September, but in return we added
> a lot more features as well as reaching a very high level of stability for
> a 1.0.
>
> Since then we’ve delivered a number of security and bug fixes for 1.0,
> while continuing to bake in new exiting features for 1.1. We’re planning to
> do a stable release of 1.1 early in the New Year, which will bring SAML 2,
> much improved clustering and a number of new application adapters.
>
> Not only have we managed to provide a feature rich and easy to use open
> source security solution, but we’ve also managed to build an awesome
> community around the project. We’ve had over 5000 downloads, over 2500
> commits from 32 contributors and our developer and user mailing lists are
> very active. Keycloak is already in use in production on a number of
> projects, in fact some has even used it in production since our first alpha
> release!
>
> Our road-map for 2015 is not written in stone, but expect at least some of
> the following features to be delivered in 2015:
>
>   * Custom user profiles – this will let you configure the attributes for
> a user profile, which should be visible on the registration screen and
> account management, as well as specify validation
>   * Identity Brokering – we’re adding support to authenticate with
> external Identity Providers via OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0 and Kerberos
>   * Two-Factor Authentication – currently we only support Google
> Authenticator or FreeOTP applications for two-factor authentication, but we
> plan to make it possible to add your own and provide some more out of the
> box
>   * Client Accounts – these will be special user accounts directly linked
> to a client, allowing a client to access services as itself not just
> on-behalf of users
>   * Client Certificates – support authentication of clients with
> certificates
>   * Client Types – at the moment we have applications and oauth clients,
> the main difference being oauth clients require users to grant permissions
> to roles. To simplify the admin console we plan to introduce a single
> unified view for clients and also introduce new types such as devices
>   * Internationalization – internationalization support for login and
> account management pages
>   * SMS – enable SMS to recover passwords, as a 2nd factor authentication
> mechanism and to be notified about events like login failures
>   * OpenID Connect Dynamic Registration –  allows clients to dynamically
> register with Keycloak. We’ll also look at passing the OpenID Connect
> Interop testing
>   * Mapping of users and tokens – custom mapping of user profiles from
> external identity stores and tokens from external Identity Providers
>
> We also have ideas for some bigger features, but we’ll leave those as a
> surprise for 2015!
>
> Finally, I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
>
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