Release 2.8.0 is currently being prepared with the intention to deploy was deployed to the production platform on Monday 28th June having been deployed to the customer integration/pre-production platform on Monday 7th June. It is strongly recommended that merchants carry out regression testing and explore the new capabilities. Please refer to additional information provided below not included in previous communications regarding this release.
The workflow changes addressing error flows 1-7 and the persistent ID handling are described in the flow documentation. Please refer to the link below for more information.
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- Allow affiliations in uppercase: Where a SAML response from an IdP contains affiliations in uppercase, InAcademia will now allow affiliations returned from the IdP in uppercase, will no longer return the 'access denied: affiliation does not match' and will continue the validation of affiliations towards the merchant.
- Return transaction ID: id_token now contains a unique transaction identifier for the purposes of debugging.
- User consent screen translated to French.
- User consent screen now presents only the affiliation scope to be validated, not all scopes received.
- User consent: InAcademia privacy statement URL now opens in a new browser window.
- Further enhancements to internal logging and debugging capabilities.
References
The technical client implementation documentation: https://inacademia.org/oidc-implementation-for-inacademia/
Example client configuration for exiting client software: https://inacademia.org/client-rp-examples/
Implementation guidelines: https://inacademia.org/inacademia-implementation-guidelines/