8.4.0

8.4.0

New Features

• App context switch allows blocking or non-blocking calls for configuration. See PR #3106 for details and issue #3082 for details. If you are not using the ConfigurationManager as a singleton and not using the blocking option, you may need to call ShutdownBackgroundTask() to stop the background task to avoid leaking Tasks.
• IdentityModel now enables symmetric and asymmetric keys to be created publicly with JWK. See #3094 for details.
• IdentityModel now allows specifying the HTTP protocol version and version policy. See #2808 for details.

Repair items

• Add request count and duration telemetry for configuration requests. See #3022 for details.
• KeyID should be present in exception messages and is no longer PII. See #3104 for details.

Fundamentals

• Fix spelling issues in xml comments. See #3117 for details.
• Fix comment coverage in PR builds. See #3079 for details.

Work related to redesign of IdentityModel's token validation logic #2711

• See #3056. #3100, #3017, and #3111.
• Add internal virtual on TokenHandler. See #3084 for details.

• @prochnowc made their first contribution in #2809