The following version history is kept for historic purposes. To retrieve the current changes of each version, please refer to the change-log of the specific release versions on https://github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/releases.
- Introduces support for Go modules. The
v4
version will be backwards compatible withv3.x.y
.
- Starting from this release, we are adopting the policy to support the most 2 recent versions of Go currently available. By the time of this release, this is Go 1.15 and 1.16 (#28).
- Fixed a potential issue that could occur when the verification of
exp
,iat
ornbf
was not required and contained invalid contents, i.e. non-numeric/date. Thanks for @thaJeztah for making us aware of that and @giorgos-f3 for originally reporting it to the formtech fork (#40). - Added support for EdDSA / ED25519 (#36).
- Optimized allocations (#33).
- Import Path Change: See MIGRATION_GUIDE.md for tips on updating your code
- Changed the import path from
github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go
togithub.com/golang-jwt/jwt
- Changed the import path from
- Fixed type confusing issue between
string
and[]string
inVerifyAudience
(#12). This fixes CVE-2020-26160
- Added method
ParseUnverified
to allow users to split up the tasks of parsing and validation - HMAC signing method returns
ErrInvalidKeyType
instead ofErrInvalidKey
where appropriate - Added options to
request.ParseFromRequest
, which allows for an arbitrary list of modifiers to parsing behavior. Initial set includeWithClaims
andWithParser
. Existing usage of this function will continue to work as before. - Deprecated
ParseFromRequestWithClaims
to simplify API in the future.
- Improvements to
jwt
command line tool - Added
SkipClaimsValidation
option toParser
- Documentation updates
- Compatibility Breaking Changes: See MIGRATION_GUIDE.md for tips on updating your code
- Dropped support for
[]byte
keys when using RSA signing methods. This convenience feature could contribute to security vulnerabilities involving mismatched key types with signing methods. ParseFromRequest
has been moved torequest
subpackage and usage has changed- The
Claims
property onToken
is now typeClaims
instead ofmap[string]interface{}
. The default value is typeMapClaims
, which is an alias tomap[string]interface{}
. This makes it possible to use a custom type when decoding claims.
- Dropped support for
- Other Additions and Changes
- Added
Claims
interface type to allow users to decode the claims into a custom type - Added
ParseWithClaims
, which takes a third argument of typeClaims
. Use this function instead ofParse
if you have a custom type you'd like to decode into. - Dramatically improved the functionality and flexibility of
ParseFromRequest
, which is now in therequest
subpackage - Added
ParseFromRequestWithClaims
which is theFromRequest
equivalent ofParseWithClaims
- Added new interface type
Extractor
, which is used for extracting JWT strings from http requests. Used withParseFromRequest
andParseFromRequestWithClaims
. - Added several new, more specific, validation errors to error type bitmask
- Moved examples from README to executable example files
- Signing method registry is now thread safe
- Added new property to
ValidationError
, which contains the raw error returned by calls made by parse/verify (such as those returned by keyfunc or json parser)
- Added
This will likely be the last backwards compatible release before 3.0.0, excluding essential bug fixes.
- Added new option
-show
to thejwt
command that will just output the decoded token without verifying - Error text for expired tokens includes how long it's been expired
- Fixed incorrect error returned from
ParseRSAPublicKeyFromPEM
- Documentation updates
- Exposed inner error within ValidationError
- Fixed validation errors when using UseJSONNumber flag
- Added several unit tests
- Added support for signing method none. You shouldn't use this. The API tries to make this clear.
- Updated/fixed some documentation
- Added more helpful error message when trying to parse tokens that begin with
BEARER
- Added new type, Parser, to allow for configuration of various parsing parameters
- You can now specify a list of valid signing methods. Anything outside this set will be rejected.
- You can now opt to use the
json.Number
type instead offloat64
when parsing token JSON
- Added support for Travis CI
- Fixed some bugs with ECDSA parsing
- Added support for ECDSA signing methods
- Added support for RSA PSS signing methods (requires go v1.4)
- Gracefully handle a
nil
Keyfunc
being passed toParse
. Result will now be the parsed token and an error, instead of a panic.
Backwards compatible API change that was missed in 2.0.0.
- The
SignedString
method onToken
now takesinterface{}
instead of[]byte
There were two major reasons for breaking backwards compatibility with this update. The first was a refactor required to expand the width of the RSA and HMAC-SHA signing implementations. There will likely be no required code changes to support this change.
The second update, while unfortunately requiring a small change in integration, is required to open up this library to other signing methods. Not all keys used for all signing methods have a single standard on-disk representation. Requiring []byte
as the type for all keys proved too limiting. Additionally, this implementation allows for pre-parsed tokens to be reused, which might matter in an application that parses a high volume of tokens with a small set of keys. Backwards compatibilty has been maintained for passing []byte
to the RSA signing methods, but they will also accept *rsa.PublicKey
and *rsa.PrivateKey
.
It is likely the only integration change required here will be to change func(t *jwt.Token) ([]byte, error)
to func(t *jwt.Token) (interface{}, error)
when calling Parse
.
- Compatibility Breaking Changes
SigningMethodHS256
is now*SigningMethodHMAC
instead oftype struct
SigningMethodRS256
is now*SigningMethodRSA
instead oftype struct
KeyFunc
now returnsinterface{}
instead of[]byte
SigningMethod.Sign
now takesinterface{}
instead of[]byte
for the keySigningMethod.Verify
now takesinterface{}
instead of[]byte
for the key
- Renamed type
SigningMethodHS256
toSigningMethodHMAC
. Specific sizes are now just instances of this type.- Added public package global
SigningMethodHS256
- Added public package global
SigningMethodHS384
- Added public package global
SigningMethodHS512
- Added public package global
- Renamed type
SigningMethodRS256
toSigningMethodRSA
. Specific sizes are now just instances of this type.- Added public package global
SigningMethodRS256
- Added public package global
SigningMethodRS384
- Added public package global
SigningMethodRS512
- Added public package global
- Moved sample private key for HMAC tests from an inline value to a file on disk. Value is unchanged.
- Refactored the RSA implementation to be easier to read
- Exposed helper methods
ParseRSAPrivateKeyFromPEM
andParseRSAPublicKeyFromPEM
- Fixed bug in parsing public keys from certificates
- Added more tests around the parsing of keys for RS256
- Code refactoring in RS256 implementation. No functional changes
- Fixed panic if RS256 signing method was passed an invalid key
- First versioned release
- API stabilized
- Supports creating, signing, parsing, and validating JWT tokens
- Supports RS256 and HS256 signing methods