certificates/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.20.0] - 2022-05-26

Added

• Added Kubernetes auth method for Vault RAs.
• Added support for reporting provisioners to linkedca.
• Added support for certificate policies on authority level.
• Added a Dockerfile with a step-ca build with HSM support.
• A few new WithXX methods for instantiating authorities

Changed

• Context usage in HTTP APIs.
• Changed authentication for Vault RAs.
• Error message returned to client when authenticating with expired certificate.
• Strip padding from ACME CSRs.

Deprecated

• HTTP API handler types.

Fixed

• Fixed SSH revocation.
• CA client dial context for js/wasm target.
• Incomplete extraNames support in templates.
• SCEP GET request support.
• Large SCEP request handling.

[0.19.0] - 2022-04-19

Added

• Added support for certificate renewals after expiry using the claim allowRenewalAfterExpiry.
• Added support for extraNames in X.509 templates.
• Added armv5 builds.
• Added RA support using a Vault instance as the CA.
• Added WithX509SignerFunc authority option.
• Added a new /roots.pem endpoint to download the CA roots in PEM format.
• Added support for Azure Managed Identity tokens.
• Added support for automatic configuration of linked RAs.
• Added support for the --context flag. It's now possible to start the CA with step-ca --context=abc to use the configuration from context abc. When a context has been configured and no configuration file is provided on startup, the configuration for the current context is used.
• Added startup info logging and option to skip it (--quiet).
• Added support for renaming the CA (Common Name).

Changed

• Made SCEP CA URL paths dynamic.
• Support two latest versions of Go (1.17, 1.18).
• Upgrade go.step.sm/crypto to v0.16.1.
• Upgrade go.step.sm/linkedca to v0.15.0.

Deprecated

• Go 1.16 support.

Removed

Fixed

• Fixed admin credentials on RAs.
• Fixed ACME HTTP-01 challenges for IPv6 identifiers.
• Various improvements under the hood.

Security

[0.18.2] - 2022-03-01

Added

• Added subscriptionIDs and objectIDs filters to the Azure provisioner.
• NoSQL package allows filtering out database drivers using Go tags. For example, using the Go flag --tags=nobadger,nobbolt,nomysql will only compile step-ca with the pgx driver for PostgreSQL.

Changed

• IPv6 addresses are normalized as IP addresses instead of hostnames.
• More descriptive JWK decryption error message.
• Make the X5C leaf certificate available to the templates using {{ .AuthorizationCrt }}.

Fixed

• During provisioner add - validate provisioner configuration before storing to DB.

[0.18.1] - 2022-02-03

Added

• Support for ACME revocation.
• Replace hash function with an RSA SSH CA to "rsa-sha2-256".
• Support Nebula provisioners.
• Example Ansible configurations.
• Support PKCS#11 as a decrypter, as used by SCEP.

Changed

• Automatically create database directory on step ca init.
• Slightly improve errors reported when a template has invalid content.
• Error reporting in logs and to clients.

Fixed

• SCEP renewal using HTTPS on macOS.

[0.18.0] - 2021-11-17

Added

• Support for multiple certificate authority contexts.
• Support for generating extractable keys and certificates on a pkcs#11 module.

Changed

• Support two latest versions of Go (1.16, 1.17)

Deprecated

• go 1.15 support

[0.17.6] - 2021-10-20

Notes

• 0.17.5 failed in CI/CD

[0.17.5] - 2021-10-20

Added

• Support for Azure Key Vault as a KMS.
• Adapt pki package to support key managers.
• gocritic linter

Fixed

• gocritic warnings

[0.17.4] - 2021-09-28

Fixed

• Support host-only or user-only SSH CA.

[0.17.3] - 2021-09-24

Added

• go 1.17 to github action test matrix
• Support for CloudKMS RSA-PSS signers without using templates.
• Add flags to support individual passwords for the intermediate and SSH keys.
• Global support for group admins in the OIDC provisioner.

Changed

• Using go 1.17 for binaries

Fixed

• Upgrade go-jose.v2 to fix a bug in the JWK fingerprint of Ed25519 keys.

Security

• Use cosign to sign and upload signatures for multi-arch Docker container.
• Add debian checksum

[0.17.2] - 2021-08-30

Added

• Additional way to distinguish Azure IID and Azure OIDC tokens.

Security

• Sign over all goreleaser github artifacts using cosign

[0.17.1] - 2021-08-26

[0.17.0] - 2021-08-25

Added

• Add support for Linked CAs using protocol buffers and gRPC
• step-ca init adds support for
  • configuring a StepCAS RA
  • configuring a Linked CA
  • congifuring a step-ca using Helm

Changed

• Update badger driver to use v2 by default
• Update TLS cipher suites to include 1.3

Security

• Fix key version when SHA512WithRSA is used. There was a typo creating RSA keys with SHA256 digests instead of SHA512.