Basic Authentication Changelog

Changelog

Kong Gateway 3.8.x

• Fixed an issue where the realm field wasn’t recognized for older Kong Gateway versions (earlier than 3.6.x). #13042
• Added WWW-Authenticate headers to all 401 responses and realm option. #11833

Kong Gateway 3.6.x

• Added missing WWW-Authenticate headers to 401 responses. #11795

Kong Gateway 3.0.x

• The deprecated X-Credential-Username header has been removed.

Kong Gateway 2.7.x

• Starting with Kong Gateway 2.7.0.0, if keyring encryption is enabled and you are using basic authentication, the basicauth_credentials.password field will be encrypted.