Keycloak Stateless Mode & Celebrating Keycloak 26.7

[Alexander Schwartz]

Hello Keycloak community,

Starting with Keycloak 26.7, the stateless feature is available as a preview. It fundamentally simplifies how Keycloak handles volatile data — authentication sessions, action tokens, and brute-force counters move from embedded or external Infinispan caches to the database. 

This enables how you can deploy Keycloak across Kubernetes clusters and datacenters. We want your feedback to make this fully supported in a future release: https://www.keycloak.org/2026/07/multi-cluster-v2-and-stateless-mode

Join us on July 21 (tomorrow!) to learn more about this and other features of the release, and ask live questions!

https://www.meetup.com/keycloak-hour-of-code/events/315720057/

Best,

Alexander

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Alexander Schwartz, RHCE

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Principal Software Engineer, Keycloak Maintainer

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