Deprecating authentication extensions

[ankithkonda]

To continue providing secure authentication mechanisms for our customers, we plan to deprecate the support of externally developed authentication extensions in Octopus Server instances. If you are currently loading a custom authentication extension, please reach out to support@octopus.com.

Authentication providers are currently external dependencies for Octopus Server. We build and ship these out of band and allow customers to extend or implement their own flavours.

This has caused us some grief regarding engineering velocity; a small change becomes a painful exercise of updating versions on multiple projects. What should be a quick 1-hour fix turns into a week-long journey of multiple PRs.

To tackle this issue, we are consolidating authentication providers and other dependencies into Octopus Server. In future builds of Octopus Server at the end of 2023, all custom authentication mechanisms will stop working.

See our blog post for more information - https://octopus.com/blog/deprecating-authentication-extensions

If you have any issues, please reach out to support@octopus.com

[tothegills]

Release note: Octopus no longer supports custom authentication extensions. Read the blog for more details: https://octopus.com/blog/deprecating-authentication-extensions

[Octobob]

🎉 The fix for this issue has been released in:

Release stream	Release
2022.4	2022.4.209
2023.1+	all releases
2024.2	2024.2.5727
2024.3+	all releases