Important Update Effective February 1, 2024!
Due to recent changes in Jira and Confluence, we've made the tough decision to discontinue the OpenID Connect (OIDC)/OAuth app and no longer provide new versions for the newest Jira/Confluence releases as of January 31, 2024.
This is due to some necessary components no longer shipping with Jira/Confluence, which would require some extensive rewrites of the OIDC App.
Important Update! This app will be discontinued soon!
Due to recent changes in Jira, which no longer ships with some components required for our Read Receipts app to run, we've made the tough decision to discontinue the app, as of Februar 5, 2025.
Important Update! This app will be discontinued soon!
We've made the tough business decision to discontinue the app, as of January 11, 2025.
SAML2 vs. OpenID Connect
SAML2 and OpenID Connect are very similar authentication protocols. If you are free to choose the protocol, please consider the following points:
- SAML2 does not require a backchannel between your identity provider and your Atlassian application. OpenID Connect needs to be able to connect to your identity provider. Thus, in a scenario where your identity provider and your Atlassian application cannot talk directly to each other, go with SAML2. Since OpenID Connect uses a backchannel to transmit data, it can be considered more secure than SAML2 since it uses the user's browser.
- SAML2 supports Single Log Out. This means when logging out, you are automatically logged out from your identity provider and any other application where you are logged in with the account. For OpenID Connect, we only support it from the client, i.e. when you log out at some other service, we will not get notified about it.
- Our initial release of OpenID Connect was beta. Since SAML SSO plugin version 6.3 OpenID Connect as authentication protocol is production ready.
- We are comfortable with the existing identity providers to work, however, there could be identity providers that require some modifications.
If you have questions left, please contact us at https://www.resolution.de/go/support or book a free support ticket via https://www.resolution.de/go/calendly.