Release Notes for This Release

35.0

2024-06-25

35.0 is a major release with new features such as password management for Active Directory and Entra domains, and Carrier support for Podman.

After this release, we provide security and stability fixes for PrivX 35.x, 34.x, and 33.x. Older versions are not officially supported. We recommend you upgrade as soon as you can if you are running an unsupported version.

Supported upgrade paths to this release are:

Upgrade with downtime: 32.x, 33.x, 34.x
Zero-downtime upgrade: 34.x

Important Notes for This Release

Upgrade not supported with old PostgreSQL versions

You cannot upgrade to PrivX 35 if your PrivX deployment uses PostgreSQL version 10 or earlier. You must upgrade the PrivX database to PostgreSQL version 11.x or later before upgrading PrivX.

Note that PostgreSQL 11 has already reached EOL and PrivX support for it will be dropped soon, so we recommend upgrading to at least PostgreSQL 12.x or later.

Increased upgrade duration

Upgrading to this version may take somewhat longer, especially in environments with many hosts and principals.

Deprecation Warnings

CentOS/RHEL 7 support Ending

CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 will reach end of life on June 30, 2024. PrivX aims to end installation support for these platforms on the same timeline. Starting from PrivX 32, Rocky Linux 9 and RHEL 9 are officially supported. See Migrate from EOL Operating Systems.

PostgreSQL 11.x Support Ending

PostgreSQL 11.x has reached end of life since Nov. 2023 and official support for this version will be ended in a future release.

SHA-1-Certificate End of Support Imminent
Support for certificates signed with SHA-1 shall be dropped in future PrivX releases.

By default PrivX will not trust certificates with SHA-1 signatures unless they are self-signed. Re-enabling trust for such certificates requires setting the GODEBUG=x509sha1=1 environment variable for PrivX microservices and tools.

Practical attacks against SHA-1 have been demonstrated in 2017 and publicly trusted Certificate Authorities have not issued SHA-1 certificates since 2015.

API Endpoint GET /role-store/api/v1/roles Breaking Changes

Starting from PrivX version 36 the API endpoint GET /role-store/api/v1/roles will start using a default limit=50 and enforcing a maximum allowed limit=1000.

Due to these changes API clients can no longer rely on fetching all roles with one API call. The API clients are required to make multiple API calls with explicit limit and increasing offset until all roles - as indicated by the API response's count property - have been fetched.

New Features

[PX-6004] Password rotation for domain accounts
- Automatically rotate domain-account passwords according to custom password policies
- Allow PrivX users to access domain accounts without knowing the password
- Mechanisms for checking out domain-account passwords, can be enabled where necessary.
[PX-5494] PrivX Carrier supports Podman containerization
- Instead of Docker as root, you can run Carrier on Podman with an unprivileged account.
[PX-3439] Allow defining SSH host key via host tags
[PX-6797] Bookmark contexts are permission aware

Improvements

[PX-6772] Remove "serialize-ops" HSM feature from CloudHSM
[PX-6759] Contextual information written to SSH and RDP bastion logs to help error investigation
[PX-6532] Kerberos key and config files dropped from backup scripts
[PX-6347] Performance enhancement with MS Graph user directory
[PX-6740] Connection tags are made case-sensitive
[PX-6842] Upgrade script only kill nginx process bound to port 443

Bug Fixes

[PX-6314] Duplicate components sometimes appear in monitoring status page
[PX-6651] Disabling UEBA causes errors in log
[PX-6654] connection-manager: SQL query to connection_tags does not always return the correct count
[PX-6712] Timestamp properties are not properly validated
[PX-6747] role-store fails to return error while persist user info
[PX-6750] Customised backup directory name not accepted in restore.sh
[PX-6776] "Configuration-error 1" event not created when certificate about to expire
[PX-6811] User is not prompted for password when MaxAuthTries configured on ssh target host is reached
[PX-6838] Carrier browser does not fullscreen when it does not have public internet access

Known Issues

[PX-1517] Permission denied for AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand on AWS RedHat AMI
- Workaround: To correct SELinux context, copy the principals_command.sh to correct location:
```
# scp -i key.pem principals_command.sh user@target:/tmp/
# ssh -i key.pem user@target "sudo cp /tmp/principals_command.sh /etc/ssh/"
```
[PX-1711] RDP fails to connect to target in maintenance mode, need support for /admin flag
[PX-1835] Extender/Carrier/WebProxy configs are not migrated on upgrade
[PX-1875] Web proxy login does not work, if login page does requests to multiple domains
[PX-2947] No sound when viewing recorded rdp-mitm connection.
[PX-3086] PrivX role mapping to AD OU not working as expected.
[PX-3529] Default access group CA key is always copied on the host when running the deployment script via Extender
[PX-3887] RDP connection to Remote Desktop Server(RDS) Farm is not supported.
[PX-4218] RDP native clients do not work in Kubernetes environment when running under non-root account
[PX-4352] UI shows deleted local user after delete
[PX-4616] Upgrade may stop Carriers and Web Proxies from reconnecting.
- Workaround: Restart affected Carrier and Web-Proxy services.
[PX-4662] Pasting larger text amount in Carrier/Proxy host fails (limited to 16kB for now)
[PX-4689] PrivX Linux Agent leaving folders in /tmp
[PX-4809] Empty file(s) created when ICAP detects malicious uploads with SCP via SSH Bastion.
[PX-5558] PrivX does not support password change required option for user in auth flow via passkey.
[PX-6809] Local account password rotation does not support Windows server behind PrivX extenders
[PX-6893] Target Domain account password login may fail against Windows OpenSSH servers
[PX-6940] Target domain account login to Windows Tectia server does not work

Notable API Changes

New optional property target_domain has been added to the host principal object used in the host-store hosts API endpoints.
Password policy object in the secrets-manager API has changed:
- Allowed value range for property rotation_interval has changed, new minimum value is PT1H, new maximum value is PT8640H
- Allowed value range for property retry_interval has changed, new minimum value is PT10S, new maximum value is PT1H
- New required property max_concurrent_checkouts has been added, minimum value is 1, maximum value is 100
- New required property max_checkout_duration has been added, minimum value is PT30S, maximum value is PT8H
- New boolean property rotate_on_release has been added, default value is false
- New boolean property verify_after_rotation has been added, default value is false
- Property delete_version_after has been removed, secrets-manager will ignore it in POST/PUT requests
- Property fallback_to_previous has been removed, secrets-manager will ignore it in POST/PUT requests
New endpoints have been added to Authorizer API under /authorizer/api/v1/secrets path
New endpoints have been added to Secrets-manager API under /secrets-manager/api/v1/targetdomains path
New API permissions target-domains-view and target-domains-manage have been added