v2.5.0

[2.5.0] - September 10, 2021

Fixed

• Fix open redirect vulnerability

Changed

• Rename default branch to main

v2.4.0

2.4.0 - March 5, 2021

Added

• Optionally use signed cookies to prevent remember token timing attacks. Big thank you for @gingerlime!

v2.3.1

Fixed

• Support for accessing Rails 6.x primary_key_type in generator.
• Fix password reset URLs when using a custom model
• Fix flaky test that relied on too specific time delta
• Revert case sensitivity for email uniqueness
• Bump nokogiri and actionview dependencies to address security vulnerabilities

v2.3.0

2.3.0 - August 14, 2020

Fixed

• Delete cookie correctly when a callable object is set as the custom domain
  setting.
• Strip as parameter when signing in through the back door.
• Remove broken autoload for deprecated password strategies.

Changed

• Deliver password reset email inline rather than in the background.
• Remove unnecessary unsafe interpolation in erb templates.

v2.2.1

Fixed

• Prevent user enumeration by timing attacks. Trying to log in with an
  unrecognized email address will now take the same amount of time as for a user
  that does exist in the system.

v2.2.0

Added

• Add an Argon2 password strategy

Fixed

• Use strings instead of classes on guard classes, avoids Rails deprecation
  warning.
• Use find_by style for finders, improves neo4j support
• Provide explicit case sensitivity option for email uniqueness, avoid Rails
  deprecation warning.

v2.1.0

Added

• Add a parent_controller configuration option to specify the controller that
  Clearance's BaseController will inherit from. Defaults to a value of
  ApplicationController.
• Use the configured primary_key_type from the Active Record settings of the
  project including Clearance, if it is set, while generating migrations. For
  example, a setting of :uuid in a Rails app using Clearance will cause the
  clearance-generated migrations to use this for the users table id type.

Fixed

• Delete cookies correctly when a custom domain setting is being used.
• Do not set the authorization cookie on requests which did not exercise the
  authorization code. Reduces the chances of leaving an auth cookie in a
  publicly cacheable page that didn't require authorization to access.

Changed

• Update the email_validator gem to a newer version embrace the more relaxed
  email validation options which it now defaults to.
• When a password reset request is submitted without an email address, a flash
  alert is now provided. Previously this continued silently as though it had
  worked. We still proceed that way when there is an invalid (but present)
  value, so as not to reveal existent vs. non-existent emails in the database.

Removed

• Remove an unused route to passwords#create nested under users.
• No longer include the (rarely used in practice) application layout as part of
  the views installer; but continue to provide some stock sign-in/out and flash
  partial code in the gem installation README output.

Deprecated

• Remove the existing deprecation notice around the rotate_csrf_on_sign_in
  setting, and make that setting default to true.

v2.0.0

Added

• Add support for Rails version 6
• Allow cookie_domain to be configured with a lambda for custom configuration
• Add ability to configure BCrypt computational cost of hash calculation.
• Add same_site configuration option for increased CSRF protection.

Fixed

• Fix issue where invalid params could raise NoMethodError when updating and
  resetting passwords.
• The backdoor auth mechanism now supports scenarios where Rails.env has been
  configured via env variables other than RAILS_ENV (RACK_ENV for example).

Removed

• Removed support for Ruby versions older than 2.4
• Removed support for Rails versions older than 5.0
• Removed all deprecated code from Clearance 1.x

Changed

• Flash messages now use flash[:alert] rather than flash[:notice] as they
  were used as errors more often than notices.

v1.17.0

Changed

• Update the HttpOnly cookie setting for the remember token to default to
  true, which prevents the value from being available to JavaScript.
• Add configuration option to allow the auth backdoor to work in specified
  environments (defaults to test, development, ci).

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v1.16.2

Fixed

• Added missing translation keys
• Fix issue where a cookie value could be set more than once when interacting
  with the httponly option

Changed

• Remove Rails as a dependency so that clearance does not trigger a cascade of
  requirements as rails pulls in every framework. Instead, depend on just the
  frameworks relevant to Clearance.
• Prevent Clearance::BackDoor from being used outside the "test" environment.

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