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Keycloak lifecycle guide

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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What is Keycloak?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementKeycloak is an open source software product to allow single sign-on with identity and access management aimed at modern applications and services. As of March 2018 this WildFly community project is under the stewardship of Red Hat who use it as the upstream project for their RH-SSO product.
 

The entire lifecycle of Keycloak

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Keycloak. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
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Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Keycloak (Keycloak)
 

What is the Keycloak release strategy?

Depending on the severity of a vulnerability the issue may be fixed in the current major.minor release of Keycloak, or for lower severity vulnerabilities or hardening in the following major.minor release. Refer to https://www.keycloak.org/downloads to find the latest release. If you are unable to regularly upgrade Keycloak it is encourage you to consider Red Hat Single Sign-On, which offers long term support of specific versions of Keycloak.

Facts and figures about Keycloak

Product
Keycloak
Vendor
Keycloak
Latest version
26.2.5
Number of releases
57
Number of versions
219
Number of unstable versions
30
Number of versions affected by CVE
185
Licence
Apache License 2.0
Last verification date
2025-06-16
 
 

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