July 2023 Summaries

FusionAuth Cloud is now offering Unlimited Custom Domains, allowing users to associate another domain with their deployment without the hassle of certificate issuance and renewal. This feature was previously limited to four custom domains on High Availability hosting plans, but has been streamlined for self-service addition through the FusionAuth admin portal. With this change, customers can brand their login experience and have a more recognizable domain in the URL, while also enjoying a more flexible and scalable solution for managing multiple custom domains.

Tamás Deme and Grady Salzman, engineers at Contenda, discussed their use of FusionAuth for user management needs. They initially used a custom implementation but found it inadequate for scaling and chose FusionAuth due to its cost-effectiveness and "friendliness" - including robust support and flexible pricing strategies. The team uses FusionAuth's OAuth, user management, and social sign-on features, with Grady handling frontend integration and Tamás focusing on backend efforts. Contenda aims to democratize high-quality content creation for users and organizations, using FusionAuth to streamline their authentication process. By leveraging FusionAuth, the company has saved time and resources, allowing them to focus on their core mission.

FusionAuth version 1.46 was released on June 19, 2023, with a total of 26 issues, enhancements, and bug fixes included in the release. This update improves the OIDC discovery endpoint when multiple tenants are present, enhances the Device grant, and includes several security fixes to mitigate potential attacks. The release also introduces improvements to the OAuth2 Device grant, allowing users to bail out of the login flow and complete the grant later, and provides more flexibility for creating custom login flows. Additionally, the tenant ID can now be a prefix for the OIDC discovery endpoint in this release, improving compatibility with certain software. The update includes various other changes, such as easier monitoring and API access, and is recommended to be read carefully in the release notes. Users are advised to upgrade their self-hosted instances or proceed to the "Hosting" tab on their account dashboard for cloud deployments.