                   Kerberos Version 5, Release 1.22

                            Release Notes
                        The MIT Kerberos Team

Copyright and Other Notices
---------------------------

Copyright (C) 1985-2026 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and its contributors.  All rights reserved.

Please see the file named NOTICE for additional notices.

Documentation
-------------

Unified documentation for Kerberos V5 is available in both HTML and
PDF formats.  The table of contents of the HTML format documentation
is at doc/html/index.html, and the PDF format documentation is in the
doc/pdf directory.

Additionally, you may find copies of the HTML format documentation
online at

    https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-latest/doc/

for the most recent supported release, or at

    https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-devel/doc/

for the release under development.

More information about Kerberos may be found at

    https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/

and at the MIT Kerberos Consortium web site

    https://kerberos.org/

Building and Installing Kerberos 5
----------------------------------

Build documentation is in doc/html/build/index.html or
doc/pdf/build.pdf.

The installation guide is in doc/html/admin/install.html or
doc/pdf/install.pdf.

If you are attempting to build under Windows, please see the
src/windows/README file.

Reporting Bugs
--------------

Please report any problems/bugs/comments by sending email to
krb5-bugs@mit.edu.

You may view bug reports by visiting

https://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/

and using the "Guest Login" button.  Please note that the web
interface to our bug database is read-only for guests, and the primary
way to interact with our bug database is via email.

PAC transitions
---------------

Beginning with release 1.20, the KDC will include minimal PACs in
tickets instead of AD-SIGNEDPATH authdata.  S4U requests (protocol
transition and constrained delegation) must now contain valid PACs in
the incoming tickets.  Beginning with release 1.21, service ticket
PACs will contain a new KDC checksum buffer, to mitigate a hash
collision attack against the old KDC checksum.  If only some KDCs in a
realm have been upgraded across versions 1.20 or 1.21, the upgraded
KDCs will reject S4U requests containing tickets from non-upgraded
KDCs and vice versa.

Triple-DES and RC4 transitions
------------------------------

Beginning with the krb5-1.21 release, the KDC will not issue tickets
with triple-DES or RC4 session keys unless explicitly configured using
the new allow_des3 and allow_rc4 variables in [libdefaults].  To
facilitate the negotiation of session keys, the KDC will assume that
all services can handle aes256-sha1 session keys unless the service
principal has a session_enctypes string attribute.

Beginning with the krb5-1.19 release, a warning will be issued if
initial credentials are acquired using the des3-cbc-sha1 encryption
type.  Beginning with the krb5-1.21 release, a warning will also be
issued for the arcfour-hmac encryption type.  In future releases,
these encryption types will be disabled by default and eventually
removed.

Beginning with the krb5-1.18 release, all support for single-DES
encryption types has been removed.

Major changes in 1.22.2 (2026-01-29)
------------------------------------

This is a bug fix release.

* Fix a SPNEGO packet parsing bug which could cause GSS mechanism
  negotiation failure.

krb5-1.22.2 changes by ticket ID
--------------------------------

9183    Fix SPNEGO mechListMIC parsing
9188    Improve MSLSA ccache timestamp conversion
9189    Fix krb5 gss_acquire_cred() leak on some errors
9190    Make atomic ccache replacement work on Windows
9193    Fix uninitialized pointer dereference in libkrad
9194    Fix IAKERB realm discovery state machine logic

Major changes in 1.22.1 (2025-08-20)
------------------------------------

This is a bug fix release.

* Fix a vulnerability in GSS MIC verification [CVE-2025-57736].

krb5-1.22.1 changes by ticket ID
--------------------------------

9181    verify_mic_v3 broken in 1.22

Major changes in 1.22 (2025-08-05)
----------------------------------

User experience:

* The libdefaults configuration variable "request_timeout" can be set
  to limit the total timeout for KDC requests.  When making a KDC
  request, the client will now wait indefinitely (or until the request
  timeout has elapsed) on a KDC which accepts a TCP connection,
  without contacting any additional KDCs.  Clients will make fewer DNS
  queries in some configurations.

* The realm configuration variable "sitename" can be set to cause the
  client to query site-specific DNS records when making KDC requests.

Administrator experience:

* Principal aliases are supported in the DB2 and LMDB KDB modules and
  in the kadmin protocol.  (The LDAP KDB module has supported aliases
  since release 1.7.)

* UNIX domain sockets are supported for the Kerberos and kpasswd
  protocols.

* systemd socket activation is supported for krb5kdc and kadmind.

Developer experience:

* KDB modules can be be implemented in terms of other modules using
  the new krb5_db_load_module() function.

* The profile library supports the modification of empty profiles and
  the copying of modified profiles, making it possible to construct an
  in-memory profile and pass it to krb5_init_context_profile().

* GSS-API applications can pass the GSS_C_CHANNEL_BOUND flag to
  gss_init_sec_context() to request strict enforcement of channel
  bindings by the acceptor.

Protocol evolution:

* The PKINIT preauth module supports elliptic curve client
  certificates, ECDH key exchange, and the Microsoft paChecksum2
  field.

* The IAKERB implementation has been changed to comply with the most
  recent draft standard and to support realm discovery.

* Message-Authenticator is supported in the RADIUS implementation used
  by the OTP kdcpreauth module.

Code quality:

* Removed old-style function declarations, to accomodate compilers
  which have removed support for them.

* Added OSS-Fuzz to the project's continuous integration
  infrastructure.

* Rewrote the GSS per-message token parsing code for improved safety.

krb5-1.22 changes by ticket ID
------------------------------

7721    Primary KDC lookups happen sooner than necessary
7899    Client waits before moving on after KDC_ERR_SVC_UNAVAILABLE
8618    ksu doesn't exit nonzero
9094    Get arm64-windows builds working
9095    PKINIT ECDH support
9096    Enable PKINIT if at least one group is available
9100    Add ecdsa-with-sha512/256 to supportedCMSTypes
9105    Wait indefinitely on KDC TCP connections
9106    Add request_timeout configuration parameter
9108    Remove PKINIT RSA support
9110    profile library null dereference when modifying empty profile
9111    Correct PKINIT EC cert signature metadata
9112    Support PKCS11 EC client certs in PKINIT
9113    Improve PKCS11 error reporting in PKINIT
9114    Build fails with link-time optimization
9116    Improve error message for DES kadmin/history key
9118    profile write operation interactions with reloading
9119    Make profile_copy() work on dirty profiles
9120    profile final flag limitations
9121    Don't flush libkrb5 context profiles
9122    Add GSS flag to include KERB_AP_OPTIONS_CBT
9123    Correct IAKERB protocol implementation
9124    Support site-local KDC discovery via DNS
9126    Handle empty initial buffer in IAKERB initiator
9130    make krb5_get_default_config_files public
9131    Adjust removed cred detection in FILE ccache
9132    Change krb5_get_credentials() endtime behavior
9133    Add acceptor-side IAKERB realm discovery
9135    Replace Windows installer FilesInUse dialog text
9139    Block library unloading to avoid finalizer races
9141    Fix krb5_crypto_us_timeofday() microseconds check
9142    Generate and verify message MACs in libkrad
9143    Fix memory leak in PAC checksum verification
9144    Fix potential PAC processing crash
9145    Prevent late initialization of GSS error map
9146    Allow null keyblocks in IOV checksum functions
9147    Add numeric constants to krad.h and use them
9148    Fix krb5_ldap_list_policy() filtering loop
9149    Use getentropy() when available
9151    Add kadmind support for disabling listening
9152    Default kdc_tcp_listen to kdc_listen value
9153    Fix LDAP module leak on authentication error
9154    Components of the X509_user_identity string cannot contain ':'
9155    UNIX domain socket support
9156    Allow KDB module stacking
9157    Add support for systemd socket activation
9158    Set missing mask flags for kdb5_util operations
9159    Prevent overflow when calculating ulog block size
9160    Allow only one salt type per enctype in key data
9161    Improve ulog block resize efficiency
9162    Build PKINIT on Windows
9163    Add alias support
9164    Add database format documentation
9165    Display NetBIOS ticket addresses in klist
9166    Add PKINIT paChecksum2 from MS-PKCA v20230920
9167    Add initiator-side IAKERB realm discovery
9168    Fix IAKERB accept_sec_context null pointer crash
9169    Fix IAKERB error handling
9170    Avoid gss_inquire_attrs_for_mech() null outputs
9171    Fix getsockname() call in Windows localaddr
9172    Check lengths in xdr_krb5_key_data()
9173    Limit -keepold for self-service key changes
9179    Avoid large numbers of refresh_time cache entries

Acknowledgements
----------------

Past Sponsors of the MIT Kerberos Consortium:

    Apple
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Centrify Corporation
    Columbia University
    Cornell University
    The Department of Defense of the United States of America (DoD)
    Fidelity Investments
    Google
    Iowa State University
    MIT
    Michigan State University
    Microsoft
    MITRE Corporation
    Morgan-Stanley
    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
        of the United States of America (NASA)
    Network Appliance (NetApp)
    Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT)
    US Government Office of the National Coordinator for Health
        Information Technology (ONC)
    Oracle
    Pennsylvania State University
    Red Hat
    Stanford University
    TeamF1, Inc.
    The University of Alaska
    The University of Michigan
    The University of Pennsylvania

Past and present members of the Kerberos Team at MIT:

    Danilo Almeida
    Jeffrey Altman
    Justin Anderson
    Richard Basch
    Mitch Berger
    Jay Berkenbilt
    Andrew Boardman
    Bill Bryant
    Steve Buckley
    Joe Calzaretta
    John Carr
    Mark Colan
    Don Davis
    Sarah Day
    Alexandra Ellwood
    Carlos Garay
    Dan Geer
    Nancy Gilman
    Matt Hancher
    Thomas Hardjono
    Sam Hartman
    Paul Hill
    Marc Horowitz
    Eva Jacobus
    Miroslav Jurisic
    Barry Jaspan
    Benjamin Kaduk
    Geoffrey King
    Kevin Koch
    John Kohl
    HaoQi Li
    Jonathan Lin
    Peter Litwack
    Scott McGuire
    Steve Miller
    Kevin Mitchell
    Cliff Neuman
    Paul Park
    Ezra Peisach
    Chris Provenzano
    Ken Raeburn
    Jon Rochlis
    Jeff Schiller
    Jen Selby
    Robert Silk
    Bill Sommerfeld
    Jennifer Steiner
    Ralph Swick
    Brad Thompson
    Harry Tsai
    Zhanna Tsitkova
    Ted Ts'o
    Marshall Vale
    Taylor Yu

The following external contributors have provided code, patches, bug
reports, suggestions, and valuable resources:

    Ian Abbott
    Daniel Albers
    Brandon Allbery
    Russell Allbery
    Brian Almeida
    Michael B Allen
    Pooja Anil
    Jeffrey Arbuckle
    Heinz-Ado Arnolds
    Derek Atkins
    Mark Bannister
    David Bantz
    Alex Baule
    Nikhil Benesch
    David Benjamin
    Thomas Bernard
    Adam Bernstein
    Arlene Berry
    Jeff Blaine
    Toby Blake
    Radoslav Bodo
    Alexander Bokovoy
    Zoltan Borbely
    Sumit Bose
    Emmanuel Bouillon
    Isaac Boukris
    Ulf Bremer
    Pavel Březina
    Philip Brown
    Samuel Cabrero
    Michael Calmer
    Andrea Campi
    Julien Chaffraix
    Jacob Champion
    Puran Chand
    Ravi Channavajhala
    Srinivas Cheruku
    Leonardo Chiquitto
    Rachit Chokshi
    Seemant Choudhary
    Howard Chu
    Andrea Cirulli
    Christopher D. Clausen
    Kevin Coffman
    Gerald Combs
    Simon Cooper
    Sylvain Cortes
    Robert Crowston
    Ian Crowther
    Arran Cudbard-Bell
    Adam Dabrowski
    Jeff D'Angelo
    Nalin Dahyabhai
    Mark Davies
    Dennis Davis
    Rull Deef
    Alex Dehnert
    Misty De Meo
    Mark Deneen
    Günther Deschner
    John Devitofranceschi
    Marc Dionne
    Roland Dowdeswell
    Ken Dreyer
    Dorian Ducournau
    Francis Dupont
    Viktor Dukhovni
    Jason Edgecombe
    Mark Eichin
    Shawn M. Emery
    Douglas E. Engert
    Peter Eriksson
    Juha Erkkilä
    Gilles Espinasse
    Valery Fedorenko
    Sergey Fedorov
    Ronni Feldt
    Bill Fellows
    JC Ferguson
    Remi Ferrand
    Paul Fertser
    Fabiano Fidêncio
    Frank Filz
    William Fiveash
    Jacques Florent
    Oliver Freyermuth
    Ákos Frohner
    Sebastian Galiano
    Ilya Gladyshev
    Marcus Granado
    Dylan Gray
    Norm Green
    Scott Grizzard
    Helmut Grohne
    Steve Grubb
    Philip Guenther
    Feng Guo
    Timo Gurr
    Dominic Hargreaves
    Robbie Harwood
    John Hascall
    Jakob Haufe
    Matthieu Hautreux
    Jochen Hein
    Paul B. Henson
    Kihong Heo
    Jeff Hodges
    Christopher Hogan
    Love Hörnquist Åstrand
    Ken Hornstein
    Henry B. Hotz
    Luke Howard
    Jakub Hrozek
    Shumon Huque
    Jeffrey Hutzelman
    Sergey Ilinykh
    Wyllys Ingersoll
    Holger Isenberg
    Spencer Jackson
    Diogenes S. Jesus
    Mike Jetzer
    Pavel Jindra
    Brian Johannesmeyer
    Joel Johnson
    Lutz Justen
    Ganesh Kamath
    Alexander Karaivanov
    Anders Kaseorg
    Bar Katz
    Zentaro Kavanagh
    Mubashir Kazia
    W. Trevor King
    Steffen Kieß
    Patrik Kis
    Martin Kittel
    Thomas Klausner
    Tomasz Kłoczko
    Ivan Korytov
    Matthew Krupcale
    Mikkel Kruse
    Reinhard Kugler
    Harshawardhan Kulkarni
    Tomas Kuthan
    Pierre Labastie
    Andreas Ladanyi
    Yubi Lee
    Chris Leick
    Volker Lendecke
    Jan iankko Lieskovsky
    Todd Lipcon
    Oliver Loch
    Chris Long
    Kevin Longfellow
    Frank Lonigro
    Jon Looney
    Nuno Lopes
    Todd Lubin
    Ryan Lynch
    Glenn Machin
    Roland Mainz
    Sorin Manolache
    Robert Marshall
    Andrei Maslennikov
    Michael Mattioli
    Nathaniel McCallum
    Greg McClement
    Cameron Meadors
    Vipul Mehta
    Alexey Melnikov
    Ivan A. Melnikov
    Franklyn Mendez
    Stefan Metzmacher
    Mantas Mikulėnas
    Markus Moeller
    Kyle Moffett
    Jon Moore
    Paul Moore
    Keiichi Mori
    Michael Morony
    Robert Morris
    Sam Morris
    Zbysek Mraz
    Edward Murrell
    Bahaa Naamneh
    Joshua Neuheisel
    Nikos Nikoleris
    Demi Obenour
    Felipe Ortega
    Michael Osipov
    Andrej Ota
    Dmitry Ovsyannikov
    Dmitri Pal
    Javier Palacios
    Dilyan Palauzov
    Tom Parker
    Eric Pauly
    Leonard Peirce
    Ezra Peisach
    Alejandro Perez
    Zoran Pericic
    W. Michael Petullo
    Mark Phalan
    Ben Pope
    Sharwan Ram
    Brett Randall
    Jonathan Reams
    Jonathan Reed
    Robert Relyea
    Tony Reix
    Martin Rex
    Pat Riehecky
    Julien Rische
    Jason Rogers
    Matt Rogers
    Nate Rosenblum
    Solly Ross
    Mike Roszkowski
    Guillaume Rousse
    Joshua Schaeffer
    Alexander Scheel
    Jens Schleusener
    Ryan Schmidt
    Andreas Schneider
    Eli Schwartz
    Paul Seyfert
    Tom Shaw
    Jim Shi
    Jerry Shipman
    Peter Shoults
    Richard Silverman
    Cel Skeggs
    Simo Sorce
    Anthony Sottile
    Michael Spang
    Michael Ströder
    Bjørn Tore Sund
    Ondřej Surý
    Joseph Sutton
    Alexey Tikhonov
    Joe Travaglini
    Sergei Trofimovich
    Greg Troxel
    Fraser Tweedale
    Tim Uglow
    Rathor Vipin
    Denis Vlasenko
    Thomas Wagner
    Jorgen Wahlsten
    Stef Walter
    Max (Weijun) Wang
    John Washington
    Stef Walter
    Xi Wang
    Nehal J Wani
    Kevin Wasserman
    Margaret Wasserman
    Marcus Watts
    Andreas Wiese
    Simon Wilkinson
    Nicolas Williams
    Ross Wilper
    Augustin Wolf
    Garrett Wollman
    David Woodhouse
    Tsu-Phong Wu
    Xu Qiang
    Neng Xue
    Zhaomo Yang
    Tianjiao Yin
    Nickolai Zeldovich
    Bean Zhang
    ChenChen Zhou
    Hanz van Zijst
    Gertjan Zwartjes

The above is not an exhaustive list; many others have contributed in
various ways to the MIT Kerberos development effort over the years.
