The Ory Changelog

Ory Hydra

Ory Hydra JWK In-Memory Cache

Ory Hydra Enterprise License adds support for in-memory caching of JSON Web Keys (JWKs) to reduce database queries and improve response latency. The cache is...

October 20, 2025

Ory Kratos

Courier Messages Endpoint and Pagination Behavior

Ory Kratos removes the X-Total-Count HTTP response header from the /admin/courier/messages endpoint. This change eliminates an expensive linear database scan...

October 19, 2025

Ory Network

Account Experience 2.0 General Availability

Ory launches Account Experience 2.0 as the default user interface for new projects. The previous interface is now identified as the “legacy Hosted UI” in the...

October 18, 2025

Ory Network

SCIM and custom domain support in the onboarding portal

Ory now supports SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) server configuration directly in the onboarding portal. This feature introduces a new...

August 29, 2025

Ory Network

URL-encoded path components

Ory fixed an issue where URL-encoded characters in path components caused routing errors. Previously, using a URL-encoded value for a path parameter, such as...

August 28, 2025

Ory Network

Prevent setting new password to the current password

Ory now rejects attempts to set a new password identical to the current password. The admin API is unchanged and continues to allow any password for import...

August 25, 2025

Ory Network

Improvements to OAuth2 hooks

This fix is now live in Ory Network.

August 4, 2025

Ory Network

Account recovery via SMS

Ory now supports sending account recovery codes via SMS, in addition to email. This allows users who only have a phone number associated with their account...

August 1, 2025

Ory Network

SAML Credential Management and OIDC Account Linking

This release introduces new management capabilities for SAML credentials and resolves an issue with OIDC account linking:

July 29, 2025

Ory Network

Support for external identifiers

Ory now supports assigning an external_id to identities. This feature enables systems to use domain-specific identifiers such as customer_id or employee_id...

July 28, 2025