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High-Risk Update: Kong Upgrade

This update enhances the platform’s reliability and logging accuracy by upgrading the gateway and standardizing key configurations. While improving overall service performance, it may temporarily impact application availability or customer access. Please monitor key workflows closely after deployment.

The following changes are included in this Next Identity platform infrastructure release.

Enhancements

Infrastructure

• Kong Gateway Upgrade: The platform gateway has been upgraded to Kong version 3.4.x, improving security, performance, and observability. Querystring parameters are now deprecated in favor of headers for better standardization.

Bug Fixes

Secure

• Authorization Tracking: The authorize endpoint now captures UUIDs for requests, enhancing traceability and security audit capabilities.

Unify

• Theme Customization: Fixed issues where brand icons and email colors were not displayed correctly on newly applied client themes across login, profile, and forgot password screens.