Release 18.6.0

[fheinecke]

Identifier-first login enhancements

Teleport now automatically passes the username to the identifier provider when performing Identifier-first login with OIDC or SAML IdPs.

GitHub Actions Kubernetes Wizard

Teleport now ships with a new guided flow for setting up GitHub Actions workflows that connects to Teleport-protected Kubernetes clusters without secrets.

Other changes and improvements

• Fixed unspecified proxy address breaking moderated SFTP when mixing IPv4 and IPv6. #62296
• Added full configuration file for teleport-plugin-event-handler helm chart. #62280
• Added full environment variable configuration for event handler CLI. #62280
• Added support for extraArgs/extraEnv/extraLabels patterns for teleport-plugin-event-handler helm chart. #62266
• Fixed issue where AltGr key combinations did not work correctly in remote desktop sessions. #62198
• Added annotations support for teleport-plugin-event-handler helm chart. #62188
• Added a new global configuration section auth_connection_config allowing users to configure the backoff behavior for Proxy and Agent instances connecting to the Auth Service. #62139
• Fixed a potential SSRF vulnerability in the Azure join method implementation. #62406
• Support for v8 roles has been added to the Terraform provider. #62380
• Added support for selecting Kube agents as Managed Updates v2 canaries. Important: the default update group is corrected to "default" from "stable/cloud". #62211

[camscale]

As a new minor release, this should have the changes from https://goteleport.com/docs/upcoming-releases/ (with the tense changed) copied into the changelog.

[zmb3]

Give me 10 minutes to verify with Nick whether we're good to ship the GHA wizard.

[aadc-dev]

Give me 10 minutes to verify with Nick whether we're good to ship the GHA wizard.

Sure thing, just let me know once we are ready to merge and will proceed.

[nicholasmarais1158]

@aadc-dev Backport merged; #62446

Thanks for waiting. 🙌

[aadc-dev]

@nicholasmarais1158 @zmb3 @r0mant
Cool, updating branch with latest v18 and will repush.

@aadc-dev Backport merged; #62446

Thanks for waiting. 🙌

NP!
Pulling latest v18 to pick up this change.