About the Helix Authentication Service Administrator Guide

Helix Authentication Service enables you to integrate certain Perforce products with your organization's Identity Provider (IdP).

To get started, see:

What's new in 2022.1

2022.1	Support for Hansoft, Helix TeamHub, and Helix DAM. See Supported client applications and minimal versions. Implementation of a System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) for Helix Core user and group provisioning through your cloud service provider. Support for authentication through JSON web tokens. See Settings for JSON web token authentication. Support for Redis with client certificates. See REDIS_CERT_FILE. SVC_GROUP and SVC_USER added as settings for the process that runs Helix Authentication Service. If you are upgrading to 2022.1: rename `ecosystem.config.js` to `ecosystem.config.cjs` change the extension of the file referred to by Logging to be `.cjs` instead of `.js` change the extension of the file referred to by IDP_CONFIG_FILE to be `.cjs` instead of `.js` For a complete list of what's new in the product, see the 2022.1 release notes.
2021.2	See the 2021.2 release notes.
2021.1	Simplifies installation and configuration for package and install script users: no need to download and work with pm2 the `example.env` file provides a starting point for your `.env` file. See Configuring Helix Authentication Service. Adds support for using the identity provider's metadata as a file instead of URL. See SAML settings variables > `SAML_IDP_METADATA_FILE`
2020.2	Supports Installing as a Windows service , as well as running HAS as a Docker container (see Four ways to install HAS)