Kong incident
OIDC tls_client_auth_ssl_verify field defaulted to `false` for new updates not explicitly setting the property
Affected components
Update timeline
- resolved Apr 09, 2026, 06:06 PM UTC
Customers running 3.13 and below who use the OIDC plugin with `tls_client_auth_ssl_verify` unset would have seen this value change to `false` if they updated the config after the rollback of new defaults following the 3.14 release. The rollback incorrectly flipped the oidc plugin tls_client_auth_ssl_verify to false as a default, which was not one of the items recently switched to default true and has instead been defaulted true for some time. We have rolled out a fix to prod to change this default back to true. Updates to the OIDC plugin should once again keep this value set to true if not specifically defined.
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