26.5.0
Highlights
This release features new capabilities for users and administrators of Keycloak. The highlights of this release are:
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Workflows to automate administrative tasks and process within a realm.
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JWT Authorization Grants, our recommended alternative to external to internal token exchange.
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Guide for using Keycloak as an authorization server for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
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Authenticating clients with Kubernetes service account tokens to avoid static client secrets.
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OpenTelemetry support for metrics and logging, combining all observability information in this popular standard.
Read on to learn more about each new feature. If you are upgrading from a previous release, review also the changes listed in the upgrading guide.