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Announcing Password Rotation Policies: a feature you shouldn’t use

Typically, when we announce a feature, it’s a feature that we are excited about and want people to use. This feature is a little bit different and I thought it’d be interesting to explain what the feature is, why we don’t think you should use it (unless

Product

PropelAuth’s shadcn-style components

By default, PropelAuth provides hosted pages for authentication, meaning we provide pages like a Login UI, Signup UI, account pages, organization management pages, MCP consent screens, and more. These UIs can be customized via our dashboard or Terraform are incredibly helpful when you want to go back to building your

MCP

PropelAuth Integration MCP Server

We keep track of a lot of metrics at PropelAuth, but one of the most important metrics is time to integrate. How long does it take from when someone signs up to when they have finished integrating us into their product? Over the years, we’ve made a number of

Product

Audit Logs in PropelAuth

Your product just launched. Your first customers have been onboarded. Before you know it, the questions start coming in: Who updated our role configuration? Which users are actually logging in? Did that organization name change out of nowhere? The best way to answer these questions? Audit logs. With PropelAuth, audit

Enterprise SSO

Announcing OIDC Support

We're excited to announce that we now support OIDC connections for customers who log in using Enterprise SSO! What is OIDC? OIDC (OpenID Connect 2.0) is an authentication protocol built on top of the OAuth 2.0 framework. From a user perspective, it functions the same way

Product

Announcing: More Ways to Secure Your Signups

Getting more attention around your product feels great. Who doesn't love to see their user count skyrocket? Unfortunately, sometimes extra attention can also draw bad actors. That's why we're excited to announce that we've released 3 new ways you can keep unwanted

Product

Announcing PropelAuth BYO (self-hosted)

We’re incredibly excited to announce a new way to add authentication and authorization to your product: PropelAuth Bring-Your-Own (BYO). PropelAuth BYO is designed for folks that already have some authentication in place and are looking to enhance it instead of replacing it. You can keep your users table, password

Product

July 2025 Updates: Dark Mode, JumpCloud SCIM and more

When you think of July, what comes to mind? Nice summer weather, beaches, dark mode and expanded SCIM support in your favorite auth product? If you said all three of those things, we have some exciting updates for you. Dark Mode You can now enable Dark Mode for your hosted

Product

PropelAuth Updates: Account linking, async Python and more

We've had a couple of exciting releases over the past few weeks. We're excited to share, so let's dive in! Social Account Linking Within PropelAuth today, your users can log in via social providers like Google, Github, and LinkedIn. We've made a

Product

PropelAuth Updates: Audit log export, Dash support and more

Audit Log Export Now you can export your PropelAuth audit logs to S3 and DataDog! Just head over to the Integrations page, select your logging tool, and follow the steps under Add New Export Location. Storing your logs somewhere else? Let us know - we’re looking to add more

SSO

SSO vs SAML

Why single sign-on matters, what SAML actually is, and how to keep your customers happy (and secure) The TL;DR * Single sign-on (SSO) is the experience: one set of credentials, many SaaS applications. * SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is one of the protocols that make enterprise SSO possible. * Modern B2B

Product

Introducing Step-up MFA: Protect your users’ critical actions

Multi-factor authentication (MFA or 2FA) is an incredibly important security measure. Every PropelAuth project can already provide MFA to it’s users, allowing them to secure their login flows. However, login flows may not be the only thing that you want to protect. You may have other sensitive actions where

Product

March 2025 Updates

March has been a busy month here at PropelAuth, with a focus on making things easier - whether it’s improving initial integration experiences or saving time for your customer facing team members. Here are the highlights: User Management & Configuration Updates All of these updates can be found via

Next.js

Simplify Your Next.js Auth Setup with the PropelAuth CLI

Whenever we build client libraries for any framework, we start by setting three key design goals: 1. Is it easy to understand? 2. Does it leverage the framework’s features as effectively as possible? 3. Is it hard to make mistakes? (Which is a bit different than just being easy

Product

Announcing ui.propelauth.com

Today we’re announcing the beta launch of ui.propelauth.com - a full guide on how to build your own UIs on top of PropelAuth. Whether you’re looking to take control of the signup/login experience or move 2FA enablement from our hosted UIs into your application, we’

API Key Authentication

API Key Insights, Rate Limits, and more

We’re kicking off 2025 with some major upgrades to API keys! Our API Key feature allows your users and/or organizations to generate API Keys (this is also sometimes known as M2M auth or creating service accounts). This is commonly used for things like: * Creating a public facing API

Laravel

Announcing Laravel Support

PropelAuth now supports Laravel! Laravel is a popular open-source PHP web application framework designed to simplify and accelerate web development. It provides a robust set of tools and features to help developers build web applications with clean, maintainable, and scalable code. We love their philosophy around laying foundation - "

Product

CSV User Import

It’s easier than ever to onboard your users in PropelAuth with our new CSV import. Whther you’re doing a full migration, complete with password hashes and existing 2FA secrets, or you’re just looking to create a bunch of accounts quickly without writing any code, our CSV importer

Product

End-User Audit Logs

Give your customers full insight into their organization activity with our end-user audit logs. This option is great for your security-conscious customers who want to ensure they have as much oversight as possible around the administration of their organization. Organizations with this feature enabled will be able to see activity

Product

Email Template Updates

It's day 3 of our Launch Week and we are excited to share that our email templates have gotten a makeover! When it comes to authentication related emails, there are two things that need to be considered: aesthetics and deliverability. From an aesthetic perspective, the emails need to

Product

PropelAuth's Terraform Provider

Authentication is a critical part of your infrastructure. And just like other pieces of infrastructure, you’ll want an easy way to update, revert, and audit configuration changes. That’s why we are excited to share: PropelAuth’s Terraform provider is out of beta! You can write HCL like this:

Product

User Impersonation Approval Flows

Today, we’re announcing an upgrade to one of our most popular features: User Impersonation. As a quick refresher, User Impersonation makes it possible for your employees to start a session as one of your users. This makes things like debugging issues and running in-app sales demos simple. This brings

Python

PropelAuth Python v4 Release

Today, we are excited to release a new version of our base Python library, as well as releases of our framework-specific libraries for FastAPI, Flask, and Django Rest Framework. Let’s jump in to some of the larger changes! Better Typing Support (breaking change) If you’ve used our Python

Authentication

Limiting sign ups with PropelAuth

PropelAuth offers a variety of customization options when it comes to controlling who can access your product - everything from completely disabling public signups to specifically blocking users with specific email domains. Who Can Signup The majority of customization options for who can access your product are found in the

Remix

Remix Authentication

We are very excited to officially release the @propelauth/remix library - a library that makes it incredibly easy to add authentication, authorization, and multi-tenancy to your Remix apps. If you want to jump straight to the docs, you can do so here. Choosing a JS Framework When it comes