Who is this article for?

Users who want to understand the latest updates and features in 5.2.0.

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The article outlines the new features and improvements in the Ideagen Hub 5.2.0 release, available from 15 December 2025.

1. Features

Login identifier

We're now formally separating the username and email address fields to provide more flexibility. This will be apparent in the User Import CSV as well as Create/Edit User UI.

For existing customers (provisioned before prior to release 5.2:

• You will continue use an email to sign in to Hub.

• You can update your email. Once this is updated, you will need to log in with your new email.

Single Sign-On (SSO) to Ideagen Luminate is based on email. If you change your email, this may result in a new account being created for Luminate Community, Help, and Support.

• Your External IDP configuration will require you to map the email User Pool attribute.

For new customers (provisioned after release 5.2):

• You will use a username to sign in to Hub.

• Once a username is defined, it cannot be changed.

• The username format is restricted based on what Cognito (Hub’s authentication provider) allows:

  • Minimum length of 1 characters. Maximum length of 128 characters.

  • No empty strings.

  • No whitespace characters (e.g. spaces, tabs, new lines, line breaks).

  • No control characters (e.g. non-printable ASCII characters like NULL, backspace, escape sequences, or formatting characters like direction marks).

• Email is still required as the contact address for the user rather than a unique identifier.

  • You can update your email. This does not affect your username. You still sign in using your username.

  • Email is not guaranteed to be unique.

  Single Sign-On (SSO) to Ideagen Luminate is based on email. If you change your email, this may result in a new account being created for Luminate Community, Help, and Support.

• Your External IDP configuration will require you to map both the email and preferred_username User Pool attribute:

  • email is still used for SSO to Ideagen Luminate

  • preferred_username should be the unique identifier you choose to represent the user in your organization

Welcome email

• Quick Start Guides updated to specific sections for User Resources and Admin Resources.

• User is prioritized over Admin as majority would be regular users.

• Wording update to reflect sign in method, i.e. email for existing customers and username for new customers.

• Update greeting to use first name only.

• User authentication type updates:

  • Tenant Administrator can now set the authentication type for an individual user via the Create/Edit User UI. Previously, you can only set this in the User Import CSV.

  • The default value for the authentication type will be Internal for authentication using a username/password.

  • Set authentication type to External to authentication via an External IDP.

Minor UI Updates

• Quick Actions have been renamed to Shortcuts.

• Background for the welcome banner has been updated with a new design.

2. Fixes

We have deployed the following fixes:

• Client ID for OIDC configuration can now accept the space character in between text (e.g. “Ideagen Engineering”).