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Upgrading Pomerium Enterprise

Review the upgrade guide below before upgrading to the latest version of Pomerium Enterprise.

caution

Before you upgrade: Set your Core and Enterprise instances to the same MINOR version number. For example, if your Core instance is on v0.22.1, Enterprise should be set to v0.22.0.

v0.28.0​

There are no breaking changes in v0.28.

v0.27.0​

Before you upgrade​

New​

The Enterprise Console now includes a “Report issue” feedback widget, which is loaded from a third-party service. If you don't want to include this third-party script on your Enterprise Console installation, you can disable the feedback widget using the command-line option --disable-feedback-widget, or by setting the environment variable DISABLE_FEEDBACK_WIDGET=true.

Changed​

The --disable-validation configuration option is newly deprecated. If you are currently using it, please update your configuration to either use:

We will remove the --disable-validation option in a future release.

v0.25.0​

Before you upgrade​

Breaking​

Base64-encoded Certificates​
  • Previously, the certificates key supported base64-encoded certificates as a value (this option was not documented). We've removed support for base64-encoded certificates for this setting and now require that you only use the certificate file location. To avoid issues between versions, please update these values accordingly.

Note: The certificates key is distinct from the certificate key. The certificate key setting still supports base64-encoded certificates; the certificates list does not.

Remove Debug Option​

We've removed support for the Debug setting, which changed the format of logs from JSON to a pretty-print format. If you prefer to review logs in a pretty-print format, you can use a command-line processing tool like jq.

New​

Authentication Flows​

In v0.21, we modified the Core authentication flow to support the Hosted Authenticate service. However, this flow posed some limitations for self-hosted deployments (see #4819 for more details). In v0.25, we’ve updated the Core authentication flow so that it’s more versatile: Deployments configured to use the Hosted Authenticate service will use the newer authentication flow introduced in v0.21, while self-hosted deployments will use the older flow.

0.24.0​

Before you upgrade​

Breaking​

  • The deprecated set_authorization_header has been removed. If you relied on this setting to pass ID tokens to upstream applications, please update your instance to use Set Request Headers before upgrading.

0.23.0​

Before you upgrade​

Breaking​

  • When using set_request_headers, to prevent a ‘$’ character from being treated as the start of a variable substitution, you may need to replace it with ‘$$’.

0.22.0​

Before you upgrade​

New​

Hosted Authenticate Service​
  • Hosted Authenticate Service will now be used by default to handle single-sign-on. Pomerium hosts this service as a convenience to its users; no identity provider configuration or authenticate service url needs to be specified if the hosted authenticate service is used. Self-hosted authenticate service is still available for users who want to configure their own identity provider and authenticate service URL.
Wildcard From Routes​
  • Wildcard From Routes is a Beta support feature that allows you to define a wildcard route that points matching external routes to a single destination.
Better Memory Performance​
  • Internal RDS changes reduce memory consumption, offering a more consistent and linear memory performance, especially for environments with rapid configuration changes.

Fixes​

v0.22.0 includes changes to device credential user references and external data source links in the Console.

Changed​

v0.22.0 adds additional DNS Lookup Families and now requires a name when creating a Namespace.

0.21.0​

Before you upgrade​

Breaking​

Re-enroll devices​

The devices (beta) data model had an internal change that is not forward compatible. Please re-register your enrolled devices and update their device IDs. You may need to update your existing policies as well.

Auto TLS​

  • You can autogenerate TLS certificates to secure communication between the Enterprise Console and the Databroker services with the --derive-tls=domains configuration setting. The derive-tls setting derives your CA from your shared_secret and generates TLS certificates to protect the Databroker gRPC endpoint.

Client TLS renegotiation​

  • You can renegotiate server-initiated TLS for upstream clusters with the new tls_upstream_allow_renegotiation configuration setting.

Fixes​

  • v0.21.0 includes various fixes to the Enterprise Console's UI, builds, gRPC calls, and more.

0.20.0​

Before You Upgrade​

Groups & directory sync are managed from external data sources​

IdP directory sync has been moved to be part of the External Data Sources integration, in order to provide unification with other external data sources, consolidate job scheduling and monitoring. Setting the below options in Pomerium config file would now result in an error. In Pomerium Enterprise Console, please navigate to Settings > Identity Provider and configure directory sync there.

idp_enterprise

  • idp_service_account: use IdP provider specific options in the UI.
  • idp_refresh_directory_timeout: use Polling Min Delay.
  • idp_refresh_directory_interval: replaced by Polling Max Delay.
  • idp_qps: not required, IdP providers adjust their qps rate.

Pomerium Core would only perform user authentication and session refresh with the IdP provider, and would not try to synchronize user details and groups, which is now part of External Data Sources. Please review your identity provider's docs for instructions specific to your IdP (e.g. Identity Providers -> Google -> Directory Sync (Enterprise)).

0.19.0​

No changes required to upgrade​

  • This release has no breaking changes. Review the v19 Changelog for more information.

0.18.0​

Before You Upgrade​

  • When using external-data the Databroker backend for Pomerium should be switched from Redis to Postgres.

0.17.0​

Before You Upgrade​

  • The new license-key option is required for starting Pomerium Enterprise. Please contact your account team if you have not been issued one yet.

0.16.0​

Before You Upgrade​

  • The signing-key has been replaced with authenticate-service-url. Instead of manually setting the signing key in the Enterprise Console to match the Authenticate Service, we specify the trusted URL of the Authenticate Service to pull the signing key from.

    The signing-key key will continue to work for existing configurations, but device enrollment will not work until it is replaced by authenticate-service-url.

0.15.0​

Before You Upgrade​

  • signing-key is now a required option to improve request security from Pomerium Core. The value should match the one set in Pomerium Core. See the signing key reference page for more information on generating a key.
  • audience is now a required option to improve request security from Pomerium Core. The value should match the Enterprise Console's external URL hostname, as defined in the from field in the Routes entry (not including the protocol).

Helm Installations​

  • As of v0.15.0, All Helm charts have been consolidated to a single repository. Remove the pomerium-enterprise repo and upgrade from pomerium:

    helm repo remove pomerium-enterprise
    helm upgrade --install pomerium-console pomerium/pomerium-console --values=pomerium-console-values.yaml

  • As noted above, signing-key must be shared between Pomerium and Enterprise. See the Update Pomerium section of Install Pomerium Enterprise in Helm for more information.