May 2019 Summaries

FusionAuth is a free, powerful customer identity access management platform that provides developers and administrators with an intuitive user interface to quickly integrate authorization and authentication. The platform has been recognized as highly scalable and comprehensive identity and access management software by CompareCamp, receiving the 2019 Great User Experience and Rising Star Awards. FusionAuth's capabilities have resonated with the market, resulting in over 80,000 downloads, and its CEO attributes the success to providing a secure and efficient platform that reduces costs and time to integrate authentication systems, substantially improving customer ROI.

FusionAuth is proud to be a sponsor of Boulder Startup Week (BSW), a ten-year-old event celebrating the intersection of technology, business, and entrepreneurship. At BSW, FusionAuth will share its expertise on Customer Identity and Access Management and provide a Nintendo Switch prize bundle as part of their activities. The company's solution offers flexible and secure registration, login, passwordless login, SSO, MFA, data search, social login, user management, and more, 100% free for unlimited users. Throughout the week, FusionAuth representatives will participate in various sessions, including a DevTools panel discussion on custom developer tools, an Ignite Boulder event, and Boomtown Demo Day.

FusionAuth has released Version 1.6 with several new features and minor fixes. The release includes support for SAML v2, which was a highly requested feature, although the team had reservations about its implementation due to security concerns. Other notable additions include lambdas, user-defined JavaScript functions that can be used to customize claims in JWT or SAML responses, an event log designed to assist developers with debugging integrations, and the ability to duplicate existing email templates. The release also includes a range of bug fixes and updates.