Teleport Upcoming Releases

The Teleport team delivers a new major release roughly every 4 months.

Teleport

Version	Date
16.3.0	September 13, 2024
16.4.0	September 18, 2024
17.0.0	October 31, 2024

16.3.0

Out-of-band user creation

Cluster administrators will be able to configure Teleport's ssh_service to ensure that certain host users exist on the machine without the need to start an SSH session.

16.4.0

Machine ID for Terraform Cloud

Teleport will support secure joining via Terraform Cloud, allowing Machine ID workflows to run on Terraform Cloud without shared secrets.

SPIFFE Federation for Workload Identity

Teleport Workload Identity will support SPIFFE Federation, allowing trust relationships to be established between a Teleport cluster's trust domain and trust domains managed by other SPIFFE compatible platforms. Establishing a relationship between the trust domains enables workloads belonging to one trust domain to validate the identity of workloads in the other trust domain, and vice versa.

Multi-domain support for web applications

Teleport will support web application access where one application depends on another. For example, you may have a web application that depends on a backend API service, of which are separate apps protected by Teleport.

17.0.0

New Nav

Teleport 17 will include navigation updates to enhance usability and scalability of the web UI.

Modern Signature Algorithms

Teleport admins will have the option to use elliptic curve cryptography for the majority of user, host, and certificate authority key material. This includes Ed25519 SSH keys and ECDSA TLS keys, replacing the RSA keys used today.

AWS Identity Center integration

Teleport will integrate with AWS Identity Center to allow users to sync and manage AWS IC group and their members and allow them to request access to AWS IC permission sets.

Hardware Key support for Teleport Connect

Teleport's support for hardware-backed private keys will be extended to Teleport Connect.

Delayed from Teleport 16.3.0.

Nested Access Lists

Teleport admins and Access List owners will be able to add Access Lists as members in other Access Lists.

Delayed from Teleport 16.2.0.

Teleport Policy

Version	Date
1.24.0	September 9, 2024

1.24.0

New UI

Access Graph will include navigation updates to enhance the usability and scalability of the web UI.

Crown Jewels

Access Graph will allow marking the most critical resources as "Crown Jewels," providing enhanced traceability and auditing capabilities for them.

SSH Key Scanning

Access Graph will support scanning of SSH keys on servers and client machines to help detect unauthorized access paths.

Teleport Cloud

The key deliverables for Teleport Cloud in the next quarter:

Week of	Description
September 9, 2024	Teleport Policy 1.24.0 will begin rollout on Cloud.
September 16, 2024	Teleport 16.3 will begin rollout on Cloud.
September 16, 2024	Teleport 16.3 agents will begin rollout to eligible tenants.
September 30, 2024	Teleport 16.4 will begin rollout on Cloud.
September 30, 2024	Teleport 16.4 agents will begin rollout to eligible tenants.
December 2, 2024	Teleport 17.1 will begin rollout on Cloud.
December 2, 2024	Teleport 17.1 agents will begin rollout to eligible tenants.

Production readiness

Teleport follows semantic versioning for pre-releases and releases.

Pre-releases

Pre-releases of Teleport (versions with suffixes like -alpha, -beta, -rc) should not be run in production environments.

Pre-releases of Teleport are great for testing new features, breaking changes, and backwards incompatibility issues either in development or staging environments.

Major Releases

Major releases look like 16.0.0.

Major releases of Teleport contain many large new features and may contain breaking changes.

Due to the scope and quantity of changes in a major release, we encourage deploying to staging first to verify your usage pattern has not changed.

Minor Releases

Minor releases look like 16.X.0.

Minor releases of Teleport typically contain smaller features and improvements. Minor releases can typically be deployed directly to production.

Most customers upgrade to the next major version of Teleport during the first minor release, such as 16.1.0.

Patch Releases

Patch releases contain small bug fixes and can typically be deployed directly to production.