CHANGELOG.md

Boundary CHANGELOG

Canonical reference for changes, improvements, and bugfixes for Boundary.

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New and Improved

• Target aliases have been added: You can now create an alias for a target. In most situations where you would use a target id, you can now instead use the alias value. Crate an alias with boundary aliases create target -value example.boundary -destination-id ttcp_1234567890 and connect to a target using an alias using boundary connect example.boundary

Added dependency

• postgres citext dependency added to enable aliases to be globally unique in a case insensitive way.

0.15.3

Bug Fixes

• Fix a nil pointer error in the client cache daemon when a refresh was forced performing a boundary search. (PR)
• workers: Workers connecting over high latency connections, or to controllers with high latency between the controller and the database, could time out and throw errors that may not have been recoverable if it was during initial registration (PR)
• Resolved an issue introduced in 0.14 where, after successfully deleting an AWS S3 Storage Bucket with credential rotation enabled, Boundary could not delete the associated IAM Access Key resource

New and Improved

• templating: A new templating function coalesce can be used to match a template against multiple possible values, returning the first non-empty value. As an example, this can be used in a credential library to allow a username value that might be comprised of a name or login name depending on the auth method, e.g. {{ coalesce .Account.Name .Account.LoginName}} (PR))

0.15.2 (2024/03/11)

Bug Fixes

• Go version bump 1.21.8 to address (CVE-2024-24783, CVE-2023-45290, CVE-2023-45289, CVE-2024-24785, CVE-2024-24784)

• Protobuf Go update to address CVE-2024-24786

0.15.1 (2024/02/28)

Bug Fixes

• cli: Update proxy listener to not close when the number of connections left for the session is zero. The listener will refuse new connections when the number of connections left is zero but existing connections will be active. This fixes a CLI client issue where sessions with max connection count configured were closed when the number of connections left hit 0. (Issue, (PR))
• Fix issue where the websocket connection was throwing closing errors during the session teardown. (PR)

New and Improved

• feat: support added for tracking and reporting monthly active users for the purpose of billing. It adds a new API endpoint, /v1/billing:monthly-active-users and new cli command, boundary billing monthly-active-users that can be used to view the monthly active user counts.

0.15.0 (2024/01/30)

Deprecations/Changes

• Per the note in Boundary 0.13.0, the previous kms worker method has been removed. Since 0.13.0, unless the use_deprecated_kms_auth_method value was set on the worker config, the new kms mechanism was already being used; this is simply no longer an available option.
• Per the notes in Boundary 0.12.0 and 0.14.0, it is now an error if an address on a host or target contains a port. As of this release, this restriction also affects existing addresses (not just creation/updating via the API) so any existing addresses containing a port will not be able to be used as part of a target's session authorization call.
• The grant_scope_id field on roles is now deprecated in favor of the multiple grant scope support.
• Per the note in Boundary 0.13.1, the id field in grants has changed to ids which allows multiple ids to be included; existing grants submitted to Boundary will continue to work, but grants using "id" can no longer be added to or set on a role.
• All list endpoints except workers now return the first 1000 items instead of all items if no parameters are provided. The number of items returned can be configured through the new controller configuration value max_page_size. The Admin UI, CLI and api package automatically paginate results.

New and Improved

• Multiple grant scopes in roles: Roles now support multiple grant scopes, along with the special values this, children (global/org only) to apply to all direct children of a scope, and descendants (global only) to apply to all descendants of a scope. These use the new actions add-grant-scopes, set-grant-scopes, and remove-grant-scopes on roles. For now the grant_scope_id field on roles will continue to be able to be set, which will set a single grant scope, but this capability is now deprecated.
• Policies (Enterprise and HCP Boundary only): This release introduces Policies, a Boundary resource that represents a Governance Policy to enforce. The first implementation targets Storage Policies, which enables administrators to automate the process of retention and deletion of Session Recordings, ensuring that they're only retaining data that is explicitly required from a security/compliance perspective.
  • ui: Add full UI support for Storage Policies managing the lifecycle of Session Recordings. (PR)
• New generic commands read, update, and delete have been added. These allow operating on resources by directly specifying the ID of the resource as the next parameter (e.g. boundary update ttcp_1234567890). Subtypes do not need to be specified (e.g. that command is equivalent to boundary targets update tcp -id ttcp_1234567890), and any flags given after the ID are passed through to the type-specific subcommand. Once the ID has been entered, autocomplete is also supported. (PR)
• The key_id parameter within SSH Certificate Credential Libraries now accepts the use of templated parameters (PR)
• List endpoint pagination: All list endpoints except workers now support pagination.
  • api: All list endpoints except workers have added support for pagination. The api package automatically paginates until the end of the results. The new `WithListToken`` option can be used to request a list of updated and deleted resources relative to the last result received.
  • config: add new controller field max_page_size for controlling the default and max size of pages when paginating through results.
• New command search has been added allowing quick searching of targets or sessions. It utilizes a client side cache also added in this release. The client side cache starts itself automatically in the background when successfully executing any command that communicates with a Boundary controller. To disable the client cache from starting automatically set the BOUNDARY_SKIP_CACHE_DAEMON environment variable or pass the -skip-cache-daemon flag when running a command that may start it. Commands daemon start, daemon stop, daemon status, and daemon add-token were added to help manage the cache. The cache does not currently work with Boundary instances that require the use of client side certs.

0.14.3 (2023/12/12)

New and Improved

• Added the ability to enforce rate limits on the Controller API. This version enables rate limits by default. For details on the default rate limits, how to configure rate limits, and how to disable rate limiting see the noted PR. (PR)
• Add support for OIDC prompts. Using prompts, the Relying Party (RP) can customize the authentication and authorization flow to suit their specific needs and improve the user experience. [OIDC Authentication request] (https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#AuthRequest) server. (PR)

Bug Fixes

• Update go-kms-wrapping/extras/kms dependency to allow external wrappers without a key id to be used within a KMS config stanza. Note: this fix allows GCP KMS keys to be again with Boundary, which had stopped working in v0.13.0. (PR)

• Two Vault client settings were not being properly used when constructing a Vault client. (PR)

  The TLS Skip Verify setting was only being set if a CA Cert was also configured. This fix sets the TLS Skip Verify when configured regardless of other settings.

  The TLS Server Name setting was never being set. Bad programmers. This fix now sets it on the Vault client if the Vault Credential Store has been configured to use a value for this setting.

Security

• deps: Bump Go version to v1.21.5. This is to address multiple security vulnerabilities. Most notable for boundary is a fix in net/http to limit chunked data overhead. See https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/iLGK3x6yuN

0.14.2 (2023/11/2)

New and Improved

• Expose Valid Principals for Vault SSH Signed Certs: Allow users to add additional valid principals when creating a vault ssh signed cert credential library (PR).

Bug Fixes

• High CPU consumption: A background GRPC connection state check caused high CPU utilization. This was caused by a long running loop that was checking for GRPC connection state changes between a worker and an upstream connection address. The loop was not correctly waiting for GRPC connection state changes before running. The issue was fixed by correctly updating the state that determines when the loop in GRPC connection state check should run. (PR)
• LDAP auth methods: Fix encoding of mTLS client key which prevented Boundary from making mTLS connections to an LDAP server (Issue, PR).

0.14.1 (2023/10/17)

Security

• deps: Bump Go version to v1.21.3; gRPC to v1.58.3; golang.org/x/net to v0.17.0. This is to address a security vulnerability in the HTTP stack where a malicious HTTP/2 client which rapidly creates requests and immediately resets them can cause excessive server resource consumption.

0.14.0 (2023/10/10)

Deprecations/Changes

• Per the note in Boundary 0.12.0, the vault credential library subtype has now been removed in favor of vault-generic. For example, instead of boundary credential-libraries create vault, you must use boundary credential-libraries create vault-generic.
• Per the note in Boundary 0.12.0, errors returned from the cli when using the -format=json option will now only use the status_code field. The status field has been removed.
• Per the note in Boundary 0.12.0, targets require a default port value. Ports defined as part of a host address were ignored but allowed as part of a target definition; from 0.14.0 onwards, any port defined on a host address will now become an error.
• Targets: Per the note in Boundary 0.10.10, target Application Credentials has been renamed to Brokered Credentials. application-credential-source has been removed as a field. brokered-credential-source should be used instead. (PR, deprecated changelog).

New and Improved

• cli: Add support for specifying a command that will be executed on the remote host when using the boundary connect ssh subcommand. (Issue, PR).
• feat: add API support for additional LDAP auth method fields: maximum_page_size and dereference_aliases (PR).
• feat: add worker upstream connection status to ops health check (PR).
• feat: allow HCP cluster id to be sourced from file or env variable (PR).
• feat: add support for telemetry events via flag or Boundary configuration (requires observation events to be enabled). Deny filter now filters coordination worker status from observation events by default. (This behavior is overridden by any user specified allow or deny filters) (PR).
• ui: Add full UI support for LDAP auth method (PR)
• ui: Add new attribute fields to storage bucket to support the assume role service in AWS. (PR)

Bug Fixes

• LDAP auth methods: allow bind-dn and bind-password to be updated independently. (PR)
• targets: Fix address field not being populated if the number of targets on a list returns more than 10000 entries (PR)
• cli: Fix issue when using the authenticate command against a password auth method on Windows where the password would be swallowed when the login name is submitted (PR)
• worker: Fix an issue that could cause intermittent startup issues on slow systems (PR)
• cli: Remove websocket max message size. This fixes issues where large message sizes are sent to the client from a worker which resulted in the connection being terminated, as is the case with an scp download when using an SSH Target. (PR)

0.13.5 (2023/12/12) (Enterprise and HCP Boundary only)

Security

• deps: Bump Go version to v1.21.5. This is to address multiple security vulnerabilities. Most notable for boundary is a fix in net/http to limit chunked data overhead. See https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/iLGK3x6yuN

0.13.1 (2023/07/10)

New and Improved

• roles: In grants, the id field has been changed to ids (but id will still be accepted for now, up until 0.15.0). In the ids field, multiple IDs can now be specified in a grant, either via commas (text format) or array (JSON format). (PR).
• dev environment: When running boundary dev the initial LDAP auth-method with an ID of amldap_1234567890 is now in a public-active state, so it will be returned in the response from boundary auth-methods list

Deprecations/Changes

• Grants can now accept more than one ID per grant string (or entry in JSON) via the ids parameter. In 0.15.0 the ability to add new grants via the id parameter will be removed.

Bug Fixes

• PKI worker authentication: A worker authentication record can be stored more than once, if it matches the existing record for that worker auth key ID. Fixes an edge case where a worker attempted authorization and the controller successfully stored the worker auth record but went down before returning authorization details to the worker. (PR)
• LDAP managed groups: adding/setting/removing a principal to a role now works properly when it's an LDAP managed group. (PR and PR)

0.13.0 (2023/06/13)

New and Improved

• SSH Session Recordings (Enterprise and HCP Boundary only): SSH targets can now be configured to record sessions. Recordings are signed and stored in a Storage Bucket. Recordings can be played back in the admin UI.
  • Storage Buckets: This release introduces Storage Buckets, a Boundary resource that represents a bucket in an external object store. Storage Buckets can be defined at the global or org scope. When associated with an SSH target, the storage bucket is used to store session recordings. This release includes support for AWS S3 only.
  • BSR (Boundary Session Recording) file format: BSR is a new specification that defines a hierarchical directory structure of files and a binary file format. The contents of a BSR include all data transmitted between a user and a target during a single session, relevant session metadata and summary information. The BSR also includes checksum and signature files for cryptographically verifying BSR contents, and a set of KMS wrapped keys for use in BSR verification. The BSR format is intended to be extensible to support various protocols. With this release BSR supports the SSH protocol. It also supports converting an SSH channel recording into an asciicast format that is playable by asciinema.
  • To learn more about this new feature, refer to the documentation.
• KMS workers: KMS workers now have feature parity with PKI workers (they support multi-hop and Vault private access) and support separate KMSes for authenticating downstreams across different networks. See the worker configuration documentation for more information. (PR)
• roles: Perform additional validity checking on grants at submission time (PR)
• targets: The new default_client_port field allows specifying the default port to use on the client side when connecting to a target, unless overridden by the client via -listen-port (PR)
• cli/api/sdk: New LDAP auth method type added with support for create, read, update, delete, and list (see new cli ldap subcommands available on CRUDL operations for examples), as well as the ability to authenticate against it via the SDK, CLI, admin UI, and desktop client. (PR)
• ui: Display external names when listing dynamic hosts (PR)
• ui: Add support for LDAP authentication (PR)
• Dynamic Host Catalog: You can now view the AWS or Azure host name when listing hosts in CLI, admin console, and desktop client. (PR)
• Add configuration for license reporting (Enterprise only)

Deprecations/Changes

• With the introduction of the new KMS variant for worker registration (as described below), using the deprecated behavior requires opting-in. This is only recommended if compatibility with pre-0.13 workers using the KMS auth method is required. Requiring opting in removes some potentially confusing behavior for deciding when to use the old versus new mechanism. To opt in, add use_deprecated_kms_auth_method = true to the worker config block. Note that if a 0.13+ worker using KMS connects to a 0.13+ controller using KMS, the transition to the new method will happen automatically. To go back to the old method after that will require the worker to be deleted and re-added with the use_deprecated_kms_auth_method config field specified.

• When grants are added to roles additional validity checking is now performed. This extra validity checking is designed to reject grants that are not documented grant formats or are for combinations of IDs and types that cannot actually be used together. These previously would have been accepted without error but would never result in permissions being granted, causing confusion. As a result, attempting to write such grants into roles may now result in an error; the error message gives hints for resolution.

• WithAutomaticVersioning for auth tokens in Go SDK: this option was incorrectly being generated for auth token resources, which do not support versioning. This is technically a breaking change, but it was a no-op option anyways that there was no reason to be using. It has now been removed.

• Plugins: With the introduction of the storage plugin service, the Azure and AWS Host plugin repositories have been renamed to drop the host element of the repository name:

  • https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary-plugin-host-aws -> https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary-plugin-aws
  • https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary-plugin-host-azure -> https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary-plugin-azure

  Similarly the plugins/host package has been renamed to plugins/boundary (PR1, PR2, PR3, PR4).

• PostgreSQL 12 or greater is now required. PostgreSQL 11 is no longer supported.

Bug Fixes

• targets: authorize-session now works properly when using a target's name as the identifier and the target name contains one or more slashes (PR)
• resource listing: API requests to list a resource (targets, sessions, users, etc) now properly return all resources the callers has appropriate permission to list (PR)
• sessions: Fix a bug that contributed to slow response times when listing sessions that had a large number of connections (PR)
• ui: Fix client secret bug for OIDC authentication methods(PR)
• ui: Fix linking to a Host from the Host Set screen of a Dynamic Host Catalog (PR)

0.12.3 (2023/05/26)

Note: As this issue currently only affected HCP Boundary customers, there is no open-source release of 0.12.3; the same fixes will be in 0.13.0 OSS.

Bug Fixes

• workers: A bug in PKI worker auth rotation could mean that after a rotation the controller (or upstream worker) and downstream worker side could pick different certificate chains for authentication, with the only remedy being to re-authorize the workers. This has been fixed. If this bug was previously hit, in some specific cases updating only the worker to 0.12.3 will fix it; otherwise reauthorization will be necessary.

0.12.2 (2023/04/04)

Security

• Boundary now uses Go 1.19.8 to address CVE-2023-24536. See the Go announcement for more details.

0.12.1 (2023/03/13)

Bug Fixes

• cli: Fix fallback parsing of un-typed credentials for boundary connect. When using a vault credential library with no credential type set, boundary will perform a best effort attempt to parse any brokered credentials. If the credentials are successfully parsed, they can be used by the subprocess spawned when using the connect subcommands, i.e. ssh or psql. With the change to the vault credential library subtype, this fallback parsing would fail. Note that if the credential library has a credential type, by using -credential-type when creating the credential library, the credential was correctly parsed. This fallback parsing is now fixed, but in order to support older clients, credential libraries will need to be recreated with a credential type. PR
• ui: Fix credential library not saving correctly when trying to save it as a generic secrets type. (PR)
• sessions: Fix tofu token retrieval. (PR)

0.12.0 (2023/01/24)

Deprecations/Changes

• In Boundary 0.9.0, targets were updated to require a default port value. This had been the original intention; it was a mistake that it was optional. Unfortunately, due to a separate defect in the update verification logic for static hosts, it was possible for a host to be updated (but not created) with a port. This meant that targets could use ports attached to host addresses, which was not the intention and leads to confusing behavior across different installations. In this version, updating static hosts will no longer allow ports to be part of the address; when authorizing a session, any port on such a host will be ignored in favor of the default port on the target. In Boundary 0.14.0, this will become an error instead. As a consequence, it means that the fallback logic for targets that did not have a default port defined is no longer in service; all targets must now have a default port defined.
• With the introduction of vault-ssh-certificate credential libraries, the vault credential library subtype is being renamed to vault-generic to denote it as a credential library that can be used in a generalized way to issue credentials from vault. Existing credential libraries with the subtype of vault will be updated to vault-generic. The subtype of vault will still be accepted as a valid subtype in API requests to the credential libraries endpoints, but is deprecated. Instead vault-generic should be used. In addition the boundary credential-libraries create vault and boundary credential-libraries update vault subcommands will still function, but are deprecated. Instead boundary credential-libraries create vault-generic and boundary credential-libraries update vault-generic should be used. Also note that any credential library created using the subtype of vault, either via the API or via the deprecated subcommand, will have the subtype set to vault-generic. The deprecated subtype and subcommands will be removed in boundary 0.14.0, at which point vault-generic must be used.
• In Boundary 0.1.8 using the -format=json option with the cli would provide a status_code for successful API requests from the cli. However, in the case where an error was returned, the JSON would use status instead. This inconsistency has been fixed, with status_code being used in both cases. For error cases status will still be populated, but is deprecated and will be removed in 0.14.0.

New and Improved

• Direct Address Targets: You can now set an address directly on a target, bypassing the need for host catalogs, host sets and hosts. (PR)
• Custom Response Headers: Adds ability to set api and ui response headers based on status code. Includes default secure CSP and other headers. (PR)
• metrics: Adds accepted connections and closed connections counters to keep track downstream connections for worker and controller servers. (PR)
• Egress and Ingress worker filters: The target worker_filter field has been deprecated and replaced with egress and ingress worker filters. Egress worker filters determine which workers are used to access targets. Ingress worker filters (HCP Boundary only) determine which workers are used to connect with a client to initiate a session. (PR)
• Multi-Hop Sessions (HCP Boundary only): Multi-hop PKI workers can communicate with each other to serve 2 primary purposes: authentication and session proxying. This results in the ability to chain multiple workers together to access services hidden under layers of network security. Multi-hop workers can also establish a TCP session through multiple workers, with the ability to reverse proxy and establish a connection.
• Vault SSH certificate credential library: A new credential library that uses the vault ssh secret engine to generate ssh private key and certificates. The library can be used as an injected application credential source for targets that support credential injection. (PR)
• ui: Add support for managed groups in add-principals list. (PR)

Bug Fixes

• plugins: Ignore SIGHUP sent to parent process; some init systems, notably dumb-init, would pass them along to the child processes and cause the plugin to exit (PR)
• data warehouse: Fix bug that caused credential dimensions to not get associated with session facts (PR).
• sessions: Fix two authorizeSession race conditions in handleProxy. (PR)
• cli: When using -format=json the JSON was inconsistent in how it reported status codes. In successful cases it would use status_code, but in error cases it would use status. Now status_code is used in both cases. In error cases status is still populated, see the deprecations above for more details. (PR)
• database: Add job that automatically cleans up completed runs in the job_run table. (PR)
• core: Linux packages now have vendor label and set the default label to HashiCorp. This fix is implemented for any future releases, but will not be updated for historical releases.

0.11.2 (2022/12/09)

Security

• Boundary now uses Go 1.19.4 to address security vulnerability (CVE-2022-41717) See the Go announcement for more details.

0.11.1 (2022/11/30)

New and Improved

• Vault Parameter Templating: In vault credential libraries, the paths and any POST bodies can contain templated parameters using Go template syntax (similar to Consul-Template). The following template parameters are supported (note that account values are tied to the account associated with the token making the call):

  • {{ .User.Id }}: the user's ID
  • {{ .User.Name }}: the user's name (from the user resource)
  • {{ .User.FullName }}: the user's name (from the account corresponding to the primary auth method in the user's scope; this may not be populated or maybe different than the account name in the template)
  • {{ .User.Email }}: the user's email address (same caveat as FullName)
  • {{ .Account.Id }}: the account's ID
  • {{ .Account.Name }}: the account's name (from the account resource)
  • {{ .Account.LoginName }}: the account's login name (if used by that type of account)
  • {{ .Account.Subject }}: the account's subject (if used by that type of account)
  • {{ .Account.Email }}: the account's email (if used by that type of account)

  Additionally, there is currently a single function that strips the rest of a string after a specified substring; this is useful for pulling an user/account name from an email address. In the following example it uses the account email can be any other parameter:

  • {{ truncateFrom .Account.Email "@" }}: this would turn [email protected] into foo

• Per-scope key lifecycle management: You can now manage the lifecycles of both Key Encryption Keys (KEKs) and Data Encryption Keys (DEKs) using the new key rotation and key version destruction functionality. To learn more about this new feature, refer to the documentation.

  Upgrade notice: If the Database purpose DEK for a scope is destroyed, you must use the API to cancel any sessions that predate the upgrade. (PR)

• session: The amount of bytes received and transmitted over a session is now recorded and persisted. (PR)

Bug Fixes

• accounts: Deleted auth accounts would still show up as being associated with a User when reading the User (PR)
• sessions: Fix workers not being in random order when returned to clients at authorize-session time, which could allow one worker to bear the majority of sessions (PR)
• workers: In some error conditions when sending status to controllers, errors could be written to stdout along with a message that they could not successfully be evented instead of being written to the event log (PR)
• workers: Fixed a panic that can happen in certain situations (PR)
• sessions: Fixed a panic in a controller when a worker is deleted while sessions are ongoing (PR)
• sessions: Fixed a panic in a worker when a user with an active session is deleted (PR)
• sessions: Fixed a bug where reading a session after its associated project had been deleted would result in an error (PR)
• config: Fixed a bug where supplying multiple KMS blocks with the same purpose would silently ignore all but the last block (PR)

Deprecations/Changes

• In order to standardize on the templating format, templates in grants now are documented to use the new capitalization and format; however, the previous style will continue to work.

0.11.0 (2022/09/27)

Known Issues

• PKI workers in past versions did not store a prior encryption key, and a bug prior to 0.11.0 meant that auth rotations could happen more frequently than expected. This could cause some race issues around rotation time. However, there was another issue where a past worker authentication record could be looked up for some operations instead of the current one, made more likely by the too-frequent rotations. In 0.11.0 we attempt to ensure that the record that remains on upgrade is the most current one, but it is possible that the wrong one is chosen, leading to a failure for the worker to authenticate or for some operations to consistently fail. In this case, the worker will need to be deleted and re-authorized. We apologize for any issues this causes and this should be remedied going forward.

Bug Fixes

• scopes: Organizations could be prevented from being deleted if some resources remained (PR)
• workers: Authentication rotation could occur prior to the expected time (PR)
• workers: When looking up worker authentication records, an old record could be returned instead of the new one, leading to errors for encryption or decryption operations (PR)

New and Improved

• vault: (HCP Boundary only): Private Vault clusters can be used with HCP Boundary by using PKI workers deployed in the same network as a private cluster. Tags are used to control which PKI workers can manage private Vault requests by specifying a worker_filter attribute when configuring a Vault credential store.
• credentials: There is now a json credential type supported by static credential stores that allows submitting a generic JSON object to Boundary for use with credential brokering workflows (PR)
• ui: Add support for worker management (PR)
• ui: Add support for PKI worker registration (PR)
• ui: Add support for Static Credential Stores (PR)
• ui: Add support for Username & Password Credentials (PR)
• ui: Add support for Username & Key Pair Credentials (PR)
• ui (HCP Boundary only): SSH Target creation along with injected application credential support (PR)
• ui (HCP Boundary only): Update vault credential stores to support private vault access (PR)
• ui: Improve quick setup wizard onboarding guide resource names (PR)
• ui: Updates to host catalog and host set forms and “Learn More” links (PR)
• workers: Added the ability to read and reinitialize the Worker certificate authority (PR1, PR2)
• workers: Return the worker Boundary binary version on worker list and read (PR)
• workers: Addition of worker graceful shutdown, triggered by an initial SIGINT or SIGTERM (PR)
• workers: Retain one previous encryption/decryption key after authentication rotation (PR)

Deprecations/Changes

• In 0.5.0, the add-host-sets, remove-host-sets, and set-host-sets actions on targets were deprecated in favor of add-host-sources, remove-host-sources, and set-host-sources. Originally these actions and API calls were to be removed in 0.6, but this was delayed to give extra time for clients to switch over. This has now been fully switched over. A database migration will modify any grants in roles to have the new actions. This same changeover has been made for add-/remove-/set-credential-libraries to add-/remove-/set-credential-sources, although those actions would only be in grant strings in very rare circumstances as the -sources actions replaced the -libraries actions very quickly. (PR)

0.10.5 (2022/09/13)

Known Issues

• There is bug that prevents deleting an org in some circumstances. This can be worked around by first deleting all projects in the org, then deleting the org. This will be fixed in 0.11.0.

Bug Fixes

• grants: Properly resolve "only self" for permissions. When generating permissions from grants, if a single grant was limited only to a set of "self" actions and that was the last grant parsed (which would be semi-random depending on a number of factors), the overall set of permissions would be marked as only-self. This would result in the generated permissions being more limiting then they should be based on the grants. This only impacts the sessions list endpoint. It would result in users that have been granted access to list other user's sessions to be unable to see these sessions in the list results (PR).

0.10.4 (2022/09/13)

Known Issues

• There is bug that prevents deleting an org in some circumstances. This can be worked around by first deleting all projects in the org, then deleting the org. This will be fixed in 0.11.0.

New and Improved

• Controller-led worker authorization: This is a second authorization option for the workers using PKI-based authentication that was introduced in Boundary 0.10.0. In 0.10.0, the only mode available was "worker-led", in which a worker generates an authorization request which can be submitted to a controller to authorize the worker. With this new controller-led flow, a worker can be created via the controller API first and return a one-time-use authorization token. This token can then be made available to the worker at startup time via its configuration file, env var, or a file with the value. If the worker is not authorized and this token is provided, it will use the token to authorize itself to the controller and set up PKI-based authentication. (PR)
• Initial upstreams reloading on SIGHUP: Workers will now re-read the initial_upstreams value from the configuration file when given a SIGHUP. This allows a worker to reconnect to controllers if the full set of controllers has been changed over at the same time, without having to restart the worker. (PR)
• Database URL reloading on SIGHUP: Controllers will now re-read the database url value from the configuration file when given a SIGHUP. This is particularly useful for allowing database credentials to rotate and signaling the controller to use the new credentials without the need for a restart. (PR)
• Additional improvements to response time for listing sessions and targets (PR).

Bug Fixes

• aws host catalog: Fix an issue where the request to list hosts could timeout on a large number of hosts (Issue, PR)
• aws host catalog: Fix an issue where filters could become unreadable in the UI if only one filter was created and was set by the CLI or directly via the API (PR1, PR2)
• aws host catalog: Use provided region for IAM calls in addition to EC2 (Issue, PR)
• azure host catalog: Fix hosts not being found depending on the exact filter used because different filters return values with different casing (PR)
• sessions: Fix an issue where sessions could not have more than one connection (Issue, PR)
• workers: Fix repeating error in logs when connected to HCP Boundary about an unimplemented HcpbWorkers call (PR)
• workers: Fix a panic that could occur when workers:create:worker-led (e.g. via boundary workers create worker-led) was given an invalid token (PR)
• workers: Add the ability to set API-based worker tags via the CLI (PR)
• vault: Correctly handle Vault credential stores and libraries that are linked to an expired Vault token (Issue, PR)

0.10.3 (2022/08/30)

Known Issues

• There is bug that prevents deleting an org in some circumstances. This can be worked around by first deleting all projects in the org, then deleting the org. This will be fixed in 0.11.0.

Bug Fixes

• db: Fix an issue with migrations failing due to not updating the project_id value for the host plugin set (Issue, PR).

0.10.2 (2022/08/23)

Known Issues

• There is bug that prevents deleting an org in some circumstances. This can be worked around by first deleting all projects in the org, then deleting the org. This will be fixed in 0.11.0.

Security

• Fix security vulnerability CVE-2022-36130: Boundary up to 0.10.1 did not properly perform data integrity checks to ensure that host-set and credential-source resources being added to a target were associated with the same scope as the target. This could allow privilege escalation via allowing a user able to modify a target to provide connections to unintended hosts. [HCSEC-2022-17]

0.10.1 (2022/08/11)

Bug Fixes

• db: Fix an issue with migrations affecting clusters that contain credential libraries or static credentials. (Issue), (PR).
• managed groups: Fix an issue where the filter field is not sent by admin UI (PR).
• host sets: Fix an issue causing host sets to not display in UI when using the aws plugin (PR)
• plugins: Fixes regression from 0.9.0 causing a failure to start when using multiple KMS blocks of the same type (PR1, PR2)
• cli: Fixed errors related to URL detection when passing in -attr or -secret values that contained colons (PR)

0.10.0 (2022/08/10)

Known Issues

• Migration to this version may fail if the cluster contains credential libraries. This will be fixed shortly in 0.10.1.

New and Improved

• ssh Target Type With Credential Injection (HCP Boundary only): Boundary has gained a new ssh target type. Using this type, username/password or SSH private key credentials can be sourced from vault credential libraries or static credentials and injected into the SSH session between a client and end host. This allows users to securely SSH to remote hosts while never being in possession of a valid credential for that target host.
• SSH Private Key Credentials: There is now an ssh_private_key credential type that allows submitting a username/private key (and optional passphrase) to Boundary for use with credential injection or brokering workflows.
• boundary connect ssh Credential Brokering Enhancements: we have extended support into the boundary connect ssh helper for brokered credentials of ssh_private_key type; the command will automatically pass the credentials to the ssh process (PR).
• boundary authenticate, boundary accounts: Enables use of env:// and file:// syntax to specify location of a password (PR)

Bug Fixes

• cli: Correctly cleanup plugins after exiting boundary dev, boundary server and boundary database init (Issue, PR).
• boundary accounts change-password: Fixed being prompted for confirmation of the current password instead of the new one (PR)

Deprecations/Changes

• API Module: Changed the return types that reference interfaces into their expected typed definition. Type casting is only allowed against interface types, therefore to mitigate compiler errors please remove any type casting done against the return values. (Issue, PR)
• Targets: Rename Application credentials to Brokered credentials (PR).
• Host plugins: Plugin-type host catalogs/sets/hosts now use typed prefixes for any newly-created resources. Existing resources will not be affected. (PR)
• Credential stores: Static-type credential stores/credentials now use typed prefixes for any newly-created resources. Existing resources will not be affected. (PR)
• Change of behavior on -token flag in CLI: Passing a token this way can reveal the token to any user or service that can look at process information. This flag must now reference a file on disk or an env var. Direct usage of the BOUNDARY_TOKEN env var is also deprecated as it can show up in environment information; the env:// format now supported by the -token flag causes the Boundary process to read it instead of the shell so is safer. (PR)
• Change of behavior on -password flag in CLI: The same change made above for -token has also been applied to -password or, for supporting resource types, -current-password and -new-password. (PR)

0.9.1 (2022/07/06)

New and Improved

• azure host plugin: Support multiple MSI identities (PR)

Bug Fixes

• scheduler: Fix regression causing controller names of less than 10 characters to fail to register jobs (PR).
• sessions: Fix an additional case from the changes in the 0.8.x series that could result in sessions never moving from canceling state to terminated. (PR)
• The plugin execution_dir configuration parameter is now respected by kms plugins too (PR).

Deprecations/Changes

• sessions: The default connect limit for new sessions changed from 1 to unlimited (-1). Specific connection limits is an advanced feature of Boundary and this setting is more friendly for new users. (PR)

0.9.0 (2022/06/20)

Known Issues

• If a controller's defined name in a configuration file is less than 10 characters, errors may be seen on startup related to registration of jobs. This is a regression in this version and will be fixed in the next release.

New and Improved

• PKI Workers: This release introduces a new worker type pki which authenticates to Boundary using a new certificate-based method, allowing for worker deployment without using a shared KMS.
• Credentials: This release introduces a new credential store type static, which simply takes in a user-supplied credential and stores it (encrypted) directly in Boundary. Currently, the static credential store can hold credentials of type username_password. These credentials can act as credential sources for targets, similar to credential libraries from the vault credential store, and thus can be brokered to users at session authorization time. (PR)
• boundary connect Credential Brokering Integration: we have extended integration into the boundary connect helpers. A new sshpass style has been added to the ssh helper, when used, if the credential contains a username/password and sshpass is installed, the command will automatically pass the credentials to the ssh process. Additionally, the default ssh helper will now use the username of the brokered credential. (PR).
• controller: Improve response time for listing sessions. This also creates a new periodic job that will delete terminated sessions after 1 hour. See Deprecations/Changes for some additional details. (PR).
• event filtering: Change event filters to use lowercase and snake case for data elements like the rest of Boundary filters do.
• ui: Use include_terminated flag for listing sessions. (PR).
• ui: Add Quick Setup onboarding guide. (PR).

Bug Fixes

• The plugin execution_dir configuration parameter is now respected. (PR).
• ui: Fix Users page not updating fields correctly. (PR).

Deprecations/Changes

• Targets: Removes support for credential libraries with respect to Target resources. The library fields and actions were deprecated in Boundary 0.5.0, please use credential sources instead. See changelog referenced above for more details (PR).
• Credential Libraries: The user_password credential type has been renamed to username_password to remove any inconsistency over what the credential type is. All existing user_password typed credential libraries will be migrated to username_password (PR).
• controller: Change the default behavior of the session list endpoint to no longer include sessions in a terminated state and introduces a new query parameter/cli flag to include the terminated sessions. This also removes the connection information from the list response. (PR).
• Anonymous user permissions: In order to reduce the risk of accidental and unintended granting of permissions to anonymous users, the permissions system now only allows certain actions on certain resources to be assigned to the anonymous user; currently these are the same permissions as assigned in Boundary's default role permissions. If other use-cases arise this list can be expanded. See the documentation for more details.

0.8.1 (2022/05/13)

Bug Fixes

• controller: Do not shut down cluster listener when it receives an invalid packet (Issue, PR)
• session: update cancel_session() function to check for terminated state (Issue, PR)

0.8.0 (2022/05/03)

New and Improved

• metrics: Provide metrics for controllers and workers
• controller: Add health endpoint (PR)
• controller: Improve response time for listing sessions and targets. (PR)
• ui: Add support for worker filters in targets
• ui: Add manual refresh button in sessions list
• Audit events are no longer a WIP (PR).

Bug Fixes

• worker: create new error to prevent event.newError: missing error: invalid parameter and handle session cancel with no TOFU token (Issue, PR)
• controller: Reconcile DEKs with existing scopes (Issue, PR)
• controller: Fix for retrieving sessions that could result in incomplete results when there is a large number (10k+) of sessions. (PR)
• session: update session state trigger to prevent transitions to invalid states (Issue, PR)

0.7.6 (2022/03/15)

Bug Fixes

• sessions: Sessions and session connections have been refactored to better isolate transactions and prevent resource contention that caused deadlocks. (Issue, PR)
• scheduler: Fix bug that causes erroneous logs when racing controllers attempted to run jobs (Issue, PR).

0.7.5 (2022/02/17)

New and Improved

• cli: Update authentication examples to remove password flag and make subcommend selection a bit clearer (PR)
• Data Warehouse: Add addresses on plugin based hosts to the database warehouse. 3 new dimension tables have been added including wh_network_address_group (which is now referenced by wh_host_dimension), wh_network_address_dimension, and wh_network_address_group_membership. (PR)
• ui: Add support for dynamic host catalog. AWS and Azure plugin-based CRUD operations.

Bug Fixes

• targets: Specifying a plugin based host id when authorizing a session now works. (PR)
• targets: DNS names are now properly parsed when selecting an endpoint for authorizing a session. (PR)
• hosts: Static hosts now include the host sets they are in. (PR)

0.7.4 (2022/01/18)

Deprecations/Changes

• In newly-created scopes, if default role creation is not disabled, the roles will now contain a grant to allow listing targets. This will still be subject to listing visibility rules, so only targets the user is granted some action on (such as authorize-session) will be returned.

New and Improved

• config: The description field for workers now supports being set from environment variables or a file on disk (PR)
• config: The max_open_connections field for the database field in controllers now supports being set from environment variables or a file on disk (PR)
• config: The execution_dir field for plugins now supports being set from environment variables or a file on disk.(PR)
• config: Add support for reading worker controllers off of environment variables as well as files. (PR)
• config: The description field for controllers now supports being set from environment variables or a file on disk (PR)
• config: Add support for reading worker tags off of environment variables as well as files. (PR)
• config: Add support for go-sockaddr templates to Worker and Controller addresses. (PR)
• controllers/workers: Add client IP to inbound request information which is included in Boundary events (PR)
• host: Plugin-based host catalogs will now schedule updates for all of its host sets when its attributes are updated. (PR)
• scopes: Default roles in newly-created scopes now contain a grant to allow listing targets. (PR)
• plugins/aws: AWS plugin based hosts now include DNS names in addition to the IP addresses they already provide.

Bug Fixes

• session: Fix duplicate sessions and invalid session state transitions. (PR)

0.7.3 (2021/12/16)

Bug Fixes

• target: Fix permission bug which prevents the UI from being able to add and remove host sources on a target. (PR)
• credential: Fix panic during credential issue when a nil secret is received. This can occur when using the Vault KV backend which returns a nil secret and no error if the secret does not exist. (PR)

0.7.2 (2021/12/14)

Security

• Boundary now uses Go 1.17.5 to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2021-44716) where an attacker can cause unbounded memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests. See the Go announcement for more details. (PR)

0.7.1 (2021/11/18)

Bug Fixes

• db: Fix panic invoking the CLI on Windows. Some changes to how the binary is initialized resulted in running some functions on every startup that looked for some embedded files. However, Go's embed package does not use OS-specific path separators, so a mismatch between path separators caused a failure in the function. (PR)

0.7.0 (2021/11/17)

Deprecations/Changes

• tls: Boundary's support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on the API listener was broken. Rather than fix this, we are simply not supporting TLS 1.0/1.1 as they are insecure.

New and Improved

• Boundary now supports dynamic discovery of host resources using our (currently internal) new plugin system. See the documentation for configuration instructions. Currently, only Azure and AWS are supported, but more providers will be following in future releases.
• workers: The existing worker connection replay prevention logic has been enhanced to be more robust against attackers that have decryption access to the shared worker-auth KMS key (PR)

Bug Fixes

• tls: Support TLS 1.2 for more clients. This was broken for some clients due to a missing mandated cipher suite of the HTTP/2 (h2) specification that could result in no shared cipher suites between the Boundary API listener and those clients. (PR)
• vault: Fix credential store support when using Vault namespaces (Issue, PR)

0.6.2 (2021/09/27)

Deprecations/Changes

• permissions: Fix bug in Host Sets service that authenticated requests againist incorrect grant actions. This bug affects the SetHosts, AddHosts and RemoveHosts paths that do not have wildcard (*) action grants. If affected, please update grant actions as follows:
• • set-host-sets -> set-hosts
• • add-host-sets -> add-hosts
• • remove-host-sets -> remove-hosts (PR).
• Removes support for the auth-methods/<id>:authenticate:login action that was deprecated in Boundary 0.2.0, please use auth-methods/<id>:authenticate instead. (PR).
• Removes support for the credential field within auth-methods/<id>:authenticate action. This field was deprecated in Boundary 0.2.0, please use attributes instead. (PR).

0.6.1 (2021/09/14)

Bug Fixes

• grants: Fix issue where credential-store, credential-library, and managed-group would not be accepted as specific type values in grant strings. Also, fix authorized actions not showing credential-store values in project scope output. (PR)
• actions: Fix sessions collection actions not being visible when reading a scope (PR)
• credential stores: Fix credential stores not showing authorized collection actions (PR)

0.6.0 (2021/09/03)

New and Improved

• ui: Reflect user authorized actions in the UI: users now see only actionable items for which they have permissions granted.
• ui: Icons refreshed for a friendlier look and feel.

Bug Fixes

• controller: Fix issue with recursive listing across services when using the unauthenticated user (u_anon) with no token and the list was started in a scope where the user does not have permission (PR)
• grants: Fix grant format type=<type>;output_fields=<fields> with no action specified. In some code paths this format would trigger an error when validating even though it is correctly handled within the ACL code. (PR)
• targets: Fix panic when using boundary targets authorize-session (Issue, PR)

0.5.1 (2021/08/16)

New and Improved

• Data Warehouse: Add OIDC auth method and accounts to the database warehouse. Four new columns have been added to the wh_user_dimension table: auth_method_external_id, auth_account_external_id, auth_account_full_name, and auth_account_email. (PR)

Bug Fixes

• events: Fix panic when using the hclog-text event's format. (PR)
• oidc managed groups: Allow colons in selector paths (PR)

0.5.0 (2021/08/02)

Deprecations/Changes

• With respect to Target resources, two naming changes are taking place. Note that these are not affecting the resources themselves, only the fields on Target resources that map them to targets:
• • Credential Libraries: In Target definitions, the field referring to attached credential libraries is being renamed to the more abstract credential sources. In the future Boundary will gain the ability to internally store static credentials that are not generated or fetched dynamically, and the sources terminology better reflects that the IDs provided are a source of credentials, whether via dynamic generation or via the credentials themselves. This will allow a paradigm similar to principals with roles, where the principal IDs can be a users, groups, and managed groups, rather than having them split out, and should result in an easier user experience once those features roll out compared to having separate flags and fields. In this 0.5 release the Boundary CLI has gained parallel application-credential-source flags to the existing application-credential-library flags, as well as boundary targets add/remove/set-credential-sources commands that parallel boundary targets add/remove/set-credential-libraries commands. This parallelism extends to the API actions and the grants system. In 0.6, the library versions of these commands, flags, and actions will be removed.
• • Host Sets: Similarly, in Target definitions, the field referring to attached host sets is being renamed to the more abstract host sources. In the future Boundary will allow attaching some host types directly, and possibly other mechanisms for gathering hosts for targets, so the sources terminology better reflects that the IDs provided are a source of hosts, whether via sets or via the hosts themselves. Like with credential sources, in this 0.5 release the Boundary CLI and API have gained parallel API actions and fields, and the set versions of these will be removed in 0.6.

New and Improved

• OIDC Accounts: When performing a read on an oidc type account, the original token and userinfo claims are provided in the output. This can make it significantly easier to write filters to create managed groups. (PR)

• Controllers will now mark connections as closed in the database if the worker has not reported its status; this can be seen as the controller counterpart to the worker-side session cleanup functionality released in 0.4.0. As with the worker, the timeout for this behavior is 15s.

• Workers will shut down connections gracefully upon shutdown of the worker, both closing the connection and sending a request to mark the connection as closed in the database.

• Pressing CTRL-C (or sending a SIGINT) when Boundary is already shutting down due to a CTRL-C or interrupt will now cause Boundary to immediately shut down non-gracefully. This may leave various parts of the Boundary deployment (namely sessions or connections) in an inconsistent state.

• Events: Boundary has moved from writing hclog entries to emitting events. There are four types of Boundary events: error, system, observation and audit. All events are emitted as cloudevents and we support both a cloudevents-json format and custom Boundary cloudevents-text format.

  Notes:

  • There are still a few lingering hclog bits within Boundary. If you wish to only output json from Boundary logging/events then you should specify both "-log-format json" and "-event-format cloudevents-json" when starting Boundary.
  • Filtering events: hclog log levels have been replaced by optional sets of allow and deny event filters which are specified via configuration, or in the case of "boundary dev" there are new new cmd flags.
  • Observation events are MVP and contain a minimal set of observations about a request. Observations are aggregated for each request, so only one observation event will be emitted per request. We anticipate that a rich set of aggregate data about each request will be developed over time.
  • Audit events are a WIP and will only be emitted if they are both enabled and the env var BOUNDARY_DEVELOPER_ENABLE_EVENTS equals true. We anticipate many changes for audit events before they are generally available including what data is included and different options for redacting/encrypting that data.

  PRs: hclog json,text formats, log adapters, unneeded log deps, update eventlogger, convert from hclog to events, event filtering, cloudevents node, system events, convert errors to events, integrate events into servers, event pkg name, events using ctx, add eventer, and base event types

Bug Fixes

• config: Fix error when populating all kms purposes in separate blocks (as well as the error message) (Issue, PR)
• server: Fix panic on worker startup failure when the server was not also configured as a controller (PR)

New and Improved

• docker: Add support for muti-arch docker images (amd64/arm64) via Docker buildx

0.4.0 (2021/06/29)

New and Improved

• Credential Stores: This release introduces Credential Stores, with the first implementation targeting Vault. A credential store can be created that accepts a Vault periodic token (which it will keep refreshed) and connection information allowing it to make requests to Vault.
• Credential Libraries: This release introduces Credential Libraries, with the first implementation targeting Vault. Credential libraries describe how to make a request to fetch a credential from the credential store. The first credential library is the generic type that takes in a user-defined request body to send to Vault and thus can work for any type of Vault secrets engine. When a credential library is used to fetch a credential, if the credential contains a lease, Boundary will keep the credential refreshed, and revoke the credential when the session that requested it is finished.
• Credential Brokering: Credential libraries can be attached to targets; when a session is authorized against that target, a credential will be fetched from the library that is then relayed to the client. The client can then use this information to make a connection, allowing them to gain the benefit of dynamic credential generation from Vault, but without needing their own Vault login/token (see NOTE below).
• boundary connect Credential Brokering Integration: Additionally, we have started integration into the boundary connect helpers, starting in this release with the Postgres helper; if the credential contains a username/password and boundary connect postgres is the helper being used, the command will automatically pass the credentials to the psql process.
• The worker will now close any existing proxy connections it is handling when it cannot make a status request to the controller. The timeout for this behavior is currently 15 seconds.

NOTE: When using credential brokering, remember that if the user can connect directly to the end resource, they can use the brokered username and password via that direct connection to skip Boundary. This isn't any different from normal Boundary behavior (if a user can directly connect, they can bypass Boundary) but it's worth repeating.

Bug Fixes

• scheduler: removes a Postgres check constraint, on the length of the controller name, causing an error when the scheduler attempts to run jobs (Issue, PR).
• Docker: update entrypoint script to handle more Boundary subcommands for better UX

0.3.0 (2021/06/08)

Deprecations/Changes

• password account IDs: When the oidc auth method came out, accounts were given the prefix acctoidc. Unfortunately, accounts in the password method were using apw...oops. We're standardizing on acct and have updated the password method to generate new IDs with acctpw prefixes. Previously-generated prefixes will continue to work.

New and Improved

• oidc: The new Managed Groups feature allows groups of accounts to be created based on an authenticating user's JWT or User Info data. This data uses the same filtering syntax found elsewhere in Boundary to provide a rich way to specify the criteria for group membership. Once defined, authenticated users are added to or removed from these groups as appropriateds each time they authenticate. These groups are treated like other role principals and can be added to roles to provide grants to users.
• dev: Predictable IDs in boundary dev mode now extend to the accounts created in the default password and oidc auth methods.
• mlock: Add a Docker entrypoint script and modify Dockerfiles to handle mlock in a fashion similar to Vault (PR)

0.2.3 (2021/05/21)

Deprecations/Changes

• The behavior when cors_enabled is not specified for a listener is changing to be equivalent to a cors_allowed_origins value of *; that is, accept all origins. This allows Boundary, by default, to have the admin UI and desktop client work without further specification of origins by the operator. This is only affecting default behavior; if cors_enabled is explicitly set to true, the behavior will be the same as before. This had been changed in v0.2.1 due to a bug found in v0.2.0 that caused all origins to always be allowed, but fixing that bug exposed that the default behavior was difficult for users to configure to simply get up and running.
• If a cancel operation is run on a session already in a canceling or terminated state, a 200 and the session information will be returned instead of an error.

New and Improved

• sessions: Return a 200 and session information when canceling an already-canceled or terminated session (PR)

Bug Fixes

• cors: Change the default allowed origins when cors_enabled is not specified to be *. (PR)

0.2.2 (2021/05/17)

New and Improved

• Inline OIDC authentication flow: when the OIDC authentication flow succeeds, the third-party provider browser window is automatically closed and the user is returned to the admin UI.

Bug Fixes

• oidc: If provider returns an aud claim as a string or []string, Boundary will properly parse the claims JSON. (Issue, PR)
• sessions: Clean up connections that are dangling after a worker dies (is restarted, powered off, etc.) This fixes some cases where a session never goes to terminated state because connections are not properly marked closed. (Issue 1, Issue 2, PR)
• sessions: Add some missing API-level checks when session cancellation was requested. It's much easier than interpreting the domain-level check failures. (PR)
• authenticate: When authenticating with OIDC and json format output, the command will no longer print out a notice that it's opening your web browser (Issue, PR)

0.2.1 (2021/05/05)

Deprecations/Changes

• API delete actions now result in a 204 status code and no body when successful. This was not the case previously due to a technical limitation which has now been solved.
• When using a delete command within the CLI we now either show success or treat the 404 error the same as any other 404 error, that is, it results in a non-zero status code and an error message. This makes delete actions behave the same as other commands, all of which pass through errors to the CLI. Given -format json capability, it's relatively easy to perform a check to see whether an error was 404 or something else from within scripts, in conjunction with checking that the returned status code matches the API error status code (1).
• When outputting from the CLI in JSON format, the resource information under item or items (depending on the action) now exactly matches the JSON sent across the wire by the controller, as opposed to matching the Go SDK representation which could result in some extra fields being shown or fields having Go-specific types. This includes delete actions which previously would show an object indicating existence, but now show no item on success or the API's 404 error.
• Permissions in new scope default roles have been updated to include support for list, read:self, and delete:self on auth-token resources. This allows a user to list and manage their own authentication tokens. (As is the case with other resources, list will still be limited to returning tokens on which the user has authorization to perform actions, so granting this capability does not automatically give user the ability to list other users' authentication tokens.)

New and Improved

• permissions: Improving upon the work put into 0.2.0 to limit the fields that are returned when listing as the anonymous user, grants now support a new output_fields section. This takes in a comma-delimited (or in JSON format, array) set of values that correspond to the JSON fields returned from an API call (for listing, this will be applied to each resource under the items field). If specified for a given ID or resource type (and scoped to specific actions, if included), only the given values will be returned in the output. If no output_fields are specified, the defaults are used. For authenticated users this defaults to all fields; for u_anon this defaults to the fields useful for navigating to and authenticating to the system. In either case, this is overridable. See the permissions documentation for more information on why and when to use this. This currently only applies to top-level fields in the response.

• cli/api/sdk: Add support to request additional OIDC claims scope values from the OIDC provider when making an authentication request. (PR).

  By default, Boundary only requests the "openid" claims scope value. Many providers, like Okta and Auth0 for example, will not return the standard claims of email and name when you request the default claims scope (openid).

  Boundary uses the standard email and name claims to populate an OIDC account's Email and FullName attributes. If you'd like these account attributes populated, you'll need to reference your OIDC provider's documentation to learn which claims scopes are required to have these claims returned during the authentication process.

  Boundary now provides a new OIDC auth method parameter claims_scopes which allows you to add multiple additional claims scope values to an OIDC auth method configuration.

  For information on claims scope values see: Scope Claims in the OIDC specification

• cli: Match JSON format output with the across-the-wire API JSON format (PR)

• api: Return 204 instead of an empty object on successful delete operations (PR)

• actions: The new no-op action allows a grant to be given to a principals without conveying any actionable result. Since resources do not appear in list results if the principal has no actions granted on that resource, this can be used to allow principals to see values in list results without also giving read or other capabilities on the resources. The default scope permissions have been updated to convey no-op,list instead of read,list. (PR)

• cli/api/sdk: User resources have new attributes for:

  • Primary Account ID
  • Login Name
  • Full Name
  • Email

  These new user attributes correspond to attributes from the user's primary auth method account. These attributes will be empty when the user has no account in the primary auth method for their scope, or there is no designated primary auth method for their scope.

• cli: Support for reading and deleting the user's own token via the new read:self and delete:self actions on auth tokens. If no token ID is provided, the stored token's ID will be used (after prompting), or "self" can be set as the value of the -id parameter to trigger this behavior without prompting. (PR)

• cli: New logout command deletes the current token in Boundary and forgets it from the local system credential store, respecting -token-name (PR)

• config: The name field for workers and controllers now supports being set from environment variables or a file on disk (PR)

Bug Fixes

• cors: Fix allowing all origins by default (PR)
• cli: It is now an error to run boundary database migrate on an uninitalized db. Use boundary database init instead. (PR)
• cli: Correctly honor the -format flag when running boundary database init (PR)

0.2.0 (2021/04/14)

Known Issues

• By default, CORS support will allow all origins. This is due to a bug in how the set of allowed origins was processed, in conjunction with changes to CORS behavior to automatically include the origin of the Desktop Client. This will be fixed in 0.2.1. In the meantime, this can be worked around by either explicitly disabing CORS with cors_enabled = false in the listener config block with purpose api; or setting a cors_allowed_origins field to have values other than serve://boundary (including values that do not map to any real origin).

Deprecations/Changes

• The auth-methods/<id>:authenticate:login action is deprecated and will be removed in a few releases. (Yes, this was meant to deprecate the authenticate action; apologies for going back on this!) To better support future auth methods, and especially the potential for plugins, rather than defining custom actions on the URL path the authenticate action will consume both a map of parameters but also a command parameter that specifies the type of command. This allows workflows that require multiple steps, such as OIDC, to not require custom subactions. Additionally, the credentials map in the authenticate action has been renamed attributes to better match other types of resources. credentials will still work for now but will be removed in a few releases. Finally, in the Go SDK, the Authenticate function now requires a command value to be passed in.
• Related to the above change, the output of an API auth-methods/<id>:authenticate call will return the given command value and a map of attributes that depend on the given command. On the SDK side, the output of the Authenticate function returns a map, from which a concrete type can be easily umarshaled (see the updated authenticate password command for an example).
• Anonymous scope/auth method listing: When listing auth methods and scopes without authentication (that is, as the anonymous user u_anon), only information necessary for navigation to an auth method and authenticating to the auth method is now output. Granting u_anon list access to other resource types will not currently filter any information out.

New and Improved

• cli/api/sdk: New OIDC auth method type added with support for create, read, update, delete, and list (see new cli oidc subcommands available on CRUDL operations for examples), as well as the ability to authenticate against it via the SDK, CLI, admin UI, and desktop client. (PR)
• server: When performing recursive listing, list action is no longer required to be granted to the calling user. Instead, the given scope acts as the root point (so only results under that scope will be shown), and list grant is evaluated per-scope. (PR)
• database init: If the database is already initialized, return 0 as the exit code. This matches how the database migrate command works. (PR)

Bug Fixes

• server: Roles for auto generated scopes are now generated at database init. (PR)
• cli: Don't panic on certain commands when outputting in json format (Issue, PR)

0.1.8 (2021/03/10)

Known Issues

These are specific known issues in the release that we feel are impactful enough to call out in this changelog. The full set of open issues is on GitHub.

• cli: When authenticating, changing a password, or a couple of other specific actions on the CLI, if the output format is specified as json, the command will panic (after the API call executes). This is due to a preexisting bug that was exposed by the JSON changes described in the changes section below. Although most of our CLI-level tests operate on json-format output, because our CLI-level tests use the token helper during execution, the authentication test was using the normal table output since the output was ignored anyways. As a result, our CLI tests did not catch this panic. Our apologies, and we will fix this in the next release.
• Initially Created Scopes: Starting in 0.1.6, When initial scopes are created when executing boundary database init, the associated admin roles aren't created. The intended behavior is to have a role which granted the auto created admin the grant "id=*;type=*;actions=*" for each auto generated scope. To set your data to the intended state you can add a role for the admin user in the generated scopes. An outline of the steps to do this can be found in this gist. This will be fixed in the next release.

Changes/Deprecations

• sdk (Go API library): A few functions have changed places. Notably, instead of ResponseMap() and ResponseBody(), resources simply expose Response(). This higher-level response object contains the map and body, and also exposes StatusCode() in place of indivdidual resources. (PR)
• cli: In json output format, a resource item is now an object under the top-level key item; a list of resource items is now an list of objects under the top-level key items. This preserves the top level for putting in other useful information later on (and the HTTP status code is included now). (PR)
• cli: In json output format, errors are now serialized as a JSON object with an error key instead of outputting normal text (PR)
• cli: All errors, including API errors, are now written to stderr. Previously in the default table format, API errors would be written to stdout. (PR)
• cli: Error return codes have been standardized across CLI commands. An error code of 1 indicates an error generated from the actual controller API; an error code of 2 is an error encountered due to the CLI command's logic; and an error code of 3 indicates an error that was caused due to user input to the command. (There is some nuance sometimes whether an error is really due to user input or not, but we attempt to be consistent.) (PR)

New and Improved

• list filtering: Listing now supports filtering results before being returned to the user. The filtering takes place server side and uses boolean expressions against the JSON representation of returned items. See the documentation for more details. (PR 1) (PR 2) (PR 3)
• server: Officially support reloading TLS parameters on SIGHUP. (This likely worked before but wasn't fully tested.) (PR)
• server: On SIGHUP, worker tags will be re-parsed and new values used (PR)
• server: In addition to the existing tls_min_version listener configuration value, tls_max_version is now supported. This should generally be left blank but can be useful for situations where e.g. a load balancer has broken TLS 1.3 support, or does not support TLS 1.3 and flags it as a disallowed value.

0.1.7 (2021/02/16)

Note: This release fixes an upgrade issue affecting users on Postgres 11 upgrading to 0.1.5 or 0.1.6 and makes a modification to the boundary dev environment. It is otherwise identical to 0.1.6; see the entry for that version for more details.

Changes/Deprecations

• boundary dev now uses Postgres 11 by default, rather than Postgres 12.

Bug Fixes

• server: Fix an issue with migrations affecting Postgres 11 (PR)

0.1.6 (2021/02/12)

Changes/Deprecations

• authentication: The auth-methods/<id>:authenticate action is deprecated and will be removed in a few releases. Instead, each auth method will define its own action or actions that are valid. This is necessary to support multi-step authentication schemes in upcoming releases. For the password auth method, the new action is auth-methods/<id>:authenticate:login.
• permissions: Update some errors to make them more descriptive, and disallow permissions in some forms where they will never take effect, preventing possible confusion (existing grants already saved to the database will not be affected as this is only filtered when grants are added/set on a role):
  • id=<some_id>;actions=<some_actions> where one of the actions is create or list. By definition this format operates only on individual resources so create and list will never work
  • type=<some_type>;actions=<some_actions> where one of the actions is not create or list. This format operates only on collections so assigning more actions this way will never work
• CORS: CORS is now turned on by default when running with boundary server with a cors_allowed_origins value of serve://boundary. You can disable it with cors_enabled = false, or if you want to change parameters, set cors_enabled = true and the other related configuration values.

New and Improved

• server: When running single-server mode and controllers is not specified in the worker block, use public_cluster_addr if given (PR)
• server: public_cluster_addr in the controller block can now be specified as a file:// or env:// URL to read the value from a file or env var (PR)
• server: Add read action to default scope grant (PR)
• server: public_cluster_addr in the controller block can now be specified as a file:// or env:// URL to read the value from a file or env var (PR)
• sessions: Add read:self and cancel:self actions and enable them by default (in new project scopes) for all sessions. This allows a user to read or cancel any session that is associated with their user ID. read and cancel actions are still available that allow performing these actions on sessions that are associated with other users.

Bug Fixes

• api: Fix nil pointer panic that could occur when using TLS (Issue, PR)
• server: When shutting down a controller release the shared advisory lock with a non-canceled context. (Issue, PR)
• targets: If a worker filter references a key that doesn't exist, treat it as a non-match rather than an error (PR)

0.1.5 (2021/01/29)

NOTE: This version requires a database migration via the new boundary database migrate command.

Security

• Boundary now uses Go's new execabs package for execution of binaries in boundary connect. This is for defense-in-depth rather than a specific issue. See the Go blog post for more details. (PR)

Changes/Deprecations

• controller/worker: Require names to be all lowercase. This removes ambiguity or accidental mismatching when using upcoming filtering features.
• api/cli: Due to visibility changes on collection listing, a list will not include any resources if the user only has list as an authorized action. As a result scope list, which is used by the UI to populate the login scope dropdown, will be empty if the role granting the u_anon user list privileges is not updated to also contain a read action

New and Improved

• targets: You can now specify a Boolean-expression filter against worker tags to control which workers are allowed to handle any given target's sessions (PR)
• api/cli: On listing/reading, return a list of actions the user is authorized to perform on the identified resources or their associated collections (PR)
• api/cli: Most resource types now support recursive listing, allowing listing to occur down a scope tree (PR)
• cli: Add a database migrate command which updates a database's schema to the version supported by the boundary binary (PR).

Bug Fixes

• controller/db: Correctly check if db init previously completed successfully when starting a controller or when running database init (Issue) (PR)
• cli: When output-curl-string is used with update or add-/remove-/set- commands and automatic versioning is being used (that is, no -version flag is given), it will now display the final call instead of the GET that fetches the current version (Issue) (PR)
• db: Fix panic in database init when controller config block is missing (Issue) (PR)

0.1.4 (2021/01/05)

New and Improved

• controller: Improved error handling in iam repo (PR)
• controller: Improved error handling in db (PR)

Bug Fixes

• servers: Fix erronious global unicast check that disallowed valid addresses from being assigned (PR)
• cli: Fix (hopefully) panic some users experience depending on their Linux setup when running the binary (Issue) (PR)

0.1.3 (2020/12/18)

Changes/Deprecations

• controller: Switch the session connection limit for dev mode and the initial target when doing database initialization to -1. This makes it easier for people to start understanding Boundary while not hitting issues related to some programs/protocols needing multiple connections as they may not be easy for new users to understand. (PR)

New and Improved

• controller, worker, cli: When the client quits before the session time is over, but in a manner where the TOFU token will be locked, attempt canceling the session rather than leaving it open to time out (PR)
• controller: Improved error handling in hosts, host catalog and host set (PR)
• controller: Relax account login name constraints to allow dash as valid character (Issue) (PR)
• cli/connect/http: Pass endpoint address through to allow setting TLS server name directly in most cases (PR)
• cli/connect/kube: New kube subcommand for boundary connect that makes it easy to route kubectl commands through Boundary, including when using kubectl proxy (PR)
• cli/server: Add some extra checks around valid/invalid combinations of addresses to avoid hard-to-understand runtime issues (PR)

Bug Fixes

• cli: Ensure errors print to stderr when token is not found (Issue) (PR)
• controller: Fix grant IDs being lowercased when being read back (and when being used for permission evaluation) (Issue) (PR)

0.1.2 (2020/11/17)

New and Improved

• docker: Official Docker image for hashicorp/boundary (PR)
• controller: Add ability to set public address for cluster purposes (Issue) (PR)
• ui: Improve scope awareness and navigation, including IAM for global scope (PR)
• ui: Add dark mode toggle (Issue) (PR)
• ui: Add scope grants to roles (PR)
• ui: Add IAM resources to global scope (PR)

Bug Fixes

• controller, worker: Fix IPv4-only check so 0.0.0.0 specified without a port only listens on IPv4 (PR)
• ui: Fix grant string corruption on updates (Issue) (PR)
• controller, cli: Fix mutual exclusivity bug with using -authz-token on boundary connect (PR)

0.1.1 (2020/10/22)

Changes/Deprecations

Note: in addition to changes marked below in this section, be aware that currently names of resources are case-sensitive, but in a future update they will become case-preserving but case-insensitive for comparisons (e.g. if using them to access targets).

• cli: There are two changes to token storage handling:
  • Specifying none for the -token-name parameter has been deprecated in favor of specifying none for the new -keyring-type parameter.
  • pass is now the default keyring type on non-Windows/non-macOS platforms. See the CLI docs page for more information.

New and Improved

• cli: New -keyring-type option and pass keyring type for token storage (Issue) (PR)
• connect: Allow using -target-name in conjunction with either -target-scope-id or -target-scope-name to connect to targets, rather than the target's ID (PR)
• controller: Allow API/Cluster listeners to be Unix domain sockets (Issue) (PR)
• ui: Allow creating and assigning a host to a host set directly from the host set view (Issue) (PR)

Bug Fixes

• cli: Fix database init when locale isn't English (Issue) (PR)
• cli: Fix hyphenation in help output for resources with compound names (Issue) (PR)
• controller: Allow connecting to Postgres when using remote Docker in dev mode (Issue (PR)
• controller, worker: Fix listening on IPv6 addresses (Issue) (PR)
• worker: Fix setting controller address for worker in dev mode (Issue) (PR)

0.1.0 (2020/10/14)

v0.1.0 is the first release of Boundary. As a result there are no changes, improvements, or bugfixes from past versions.