End Of Year Product Wrap Up 2024

Fabienne Bühler
Fabienne Bühler

CPO

As the snow falls outside here in Switzerland creating a winter wonderland, I am filled with pride looking at the past year’s milestones. Zitadel has grown in such exciting ways — the features that have been deployed, the product roadmap, the collaboration with our vibrant developer community, partnering with customers from every walk of life, and last but not the least, getting incredible support from our investors. Each person, team, GitHub comment to the pull requests, Discord discussion have shaped the path to where we stand today! A heartfelt thank-you to everyone involved. To say I am thrilled about our next growth phase in 2025 is an understatement!

As we near the last few weeks of 2024, I want to take a minute to reflect and review some of the milestones that made this year one of our best yet!

Before I get to it, I wanted to share our upcoming Discord event on the Back-Channel Logout feature. If you want to see how it can help you manage your user sessions throughout your identity infrastructure, register and join us in Discord on December 11th where Livio Spring, Engineer and Co-founder, Zitadel, will give a live demo.

Zitadel in 2024: Highlights

  • We are proud to announce our $9 Million Series A round of funding in collaboration with Nexus Ventures and Floodgate to advance Cloud-Native Identity Infrastructure.

  • We achieved our ISO 27001 certification further reinforcing our commitment to security through this internationally recognized standard that confirms our dedication to maintaining the highest levels of security for our customers' data.

  • Zitadel has grown to serve over 150 customers this year such as Klaviyo, Open Systems, Vector Solutions, and Kaspar&!

  • Zitadel’s Discord Community has grown by 93% in 2024 from 1,527 to 2,953 members

  • Zitadel’s Github Repository continues to make traction with a 57% increase to 9,100+ Github Stars and another 57% increase of individual contributors to 220+ collaborators across all the Zitadel repositories.

  • Continuing to be a remote-first team, we came together twice this year — in Italy and Switzerland — for team get-togethers and planning forward as we level up Zitadel’s future!

Zitadel in 2024: Product

Looking over the past year we released key features that helped customers across the board in the way they manage their identity infrastructure.

  • Performance Improvements: We prioritized stability and scalability enhancements in 2024 to set a solid foundation for our Self-Hosted and Cloud customers. With some of our customers deploying as many as 2.3 million tenants to manage their identity infrastructure, performance is key. These enhancements include latency, benchmark testing, and reliability on services such as token endpoint and new generation APIs like the improvedPerformance field.

  • Easier Integrations: This allows admins to set up an application in their framework and programming language of choice quickly. Zitadel simplifies the process for the admin’s deployment process of client applications by enabling the use of default settings!

  • Using external SAML IdPs: This enables admins to level up using external identity providers by defining the preferred nameID format and configuring user mapping in Zitadel based on attributes received from the external IdP. Learn more about building using external SAML IdPs.

  • Setting up Email Providers: This was accelerated greatly thanks to our open source community. This feature makes it easier to configure email delivery even faster within Zitadel through SMTP provider templates. These templates offer pre-defined settings for popular email service providers (ESPs) like Amazon SES, Mailgun, Mailjet, Postmark, Sendgrid, and a Generic SMTP option.

  • Managing OpenID Connect Signing Web Keys: This became much easier with Zitadel taking the lead to create keys without expiry for each instance. Now users can create, rotate, and disable signing Keys via API at your discretion as documented here.

  • Organizational Metadata: This allows developers to use the org’s metadata in the complement token flow in Actions as well as include a user’s organization metadata into tokens that can be read by receiving applications.

  • New Password Expiry: Policies came out in mid-2024 to aid organizations to require users to change their passwords on a routine basis. This feature can be used quickly through the Console UI at both instance and organization levels.

  • New Sample Apps: We prioritized building out sample apps in VueJS, PHP, and Java in the beginning of 2024 to make getting started with authentication and authorization easier with these specific examples and guides.

  • Back-Channel Logout: This is a feature that resides on the server-side and does not require the user agent to be involved. Through back-channel logout’s ability it has the user logged out from all clients in the event that the authenticated session gets terminated.

  • Four New Translations added to the Zitadel platform with Hungarian, Indonesian, Swedish, and the latest being Korean thanks to the recent addition from our community contributor Kim JeongHyeon!

  • New Translations added to Upcoming Typescript Login to include German, Spanish, Italian, and English. If you’re not seeing the language of your choice, please request or collaborate with us directly on our GitHub.

Zitadel in 2025: Vision

For 2025, we are focusing on three key areas to enhance the Dev and SecOps experience:

  • A Seamless Onboarding Journey: Our goal is to make your first integration with Zitadel as smooth as possible. We are working on intuitive APIs, comprehensive examples and SDKs, flexible user management tailored to your use case, and streamlined deployment and maintenance processes.

  • Enterprise-Grade Performance and Scalability: We are committed to making Zitadel a highly scalable and performant identity infrastructure. This includes linear scalability to meet your growing needs, easy upgrades for business continuity, and efficient user management with group administration and standardized provisioning/deprovisioning capabilities.

  • Proactive System Insights: We empower you with the tools to proactively monitor and manage your Zitadel environment. This includes seamless integration with your SOC/SIEM systems, real time system health insights, and user analytics to identify potential issues before they impact your customers.

Zitadel in 2025: Product

As we look to the future, we’ve got a wide range of exciting new features on the horizon!

  • Performance Improvements: This remains a top priority for the team as we continue to strengthen Zitadel’s core authentication capabilities, the platform’s existing & new API endpoints, and resource management across the board.

  • New Typescript Login including OIDC: This allows admins to enhance their Zitadel instance with a ready-to-deploy login that is highly customizable. Read the GitHub Product Roadmap Epic here.

  • User Schemas: This feature offers flexibility when managing user details from user- and admin- perspective by allowing to define the fields that are allowed to be managed by a user and the ones that are to be managed by admin. Stay informed through our GitHub Product Roadmap Epic.

  • Configurable Cache Options: This was the last beta feature of 2024 that enables speedy lookup of objects that are often needed by storing them in cache, like Redis. Take it for a spin before it becomes generally available in 2025 and share your feedback.

  • SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management): This is the standard for inbound user-provisioning so other systems can automatically provision and manage users within Zitadel. This allows creation, update, and deletion of users based on user data changes in the external system and streamlines user management across systems ensuring consistent user states. To dig deeper into this feature, read the GitHub Product Roadmap Epic here.

  • Actions v2: This feature will allow you to extend Zitadel with custom executions and triggers through API endpoints as you look to make the most out of your Zitadel instance. Check out the GitHub Product Roadmap Epic to find out more.

  • User Group Authorizations: Through this feature Zitadel expands past the managing users individually and now offers groups to enable authorizations as a wider scale for user management. To follow along on this feature delivery in 2025, review the GitHub Product Roadmap Epic.

Community & Feedback Opportunities

As always, we appreciate and welcome your feedback. It helps us shape our product roadmap and build a robust platform that caters to your needs:

  • If you are interested in a sneak peek at our User Schemas update, and would like to share your feedback, please email Jim@Zitadel.com

  • Please share your feedback and experiences with our Community team by scheduling some time here

  • If you are using Zitadel today, please add yourself to the Adopters list with a short description of your use case by opening a pull request and adding a section describing your usage of Zitadel.

  • If you are interested in contributing to Zitadel, please review our Contributing Guide to collaborate with us.

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